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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntire.

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Speaker 2: What is up, Straight firefam, It's me Jason McIntire, Straight

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Speaker 2: Fire for Monday, April fifteenth, the middle of the month. Already.

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Speaker 2: Goodness gracious, it feels like March Madness just ended last

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Speaker 2: last night. We begin Monday with a spirited NBA discussion.

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Speaker 2: I will talk a little bit about the Masters shortly.

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Speaker 2: It was a weird weekend, folks. So I don't know

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Speaker 2: about you guys, obviously your sports fans listen to this

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Speaker 2: podcast regularly. But NFL season for me, by like mid September,

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Speaker 2: I know what the entire season is gonna look like.

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Speaker 2: Week wise for me. You know, Monday this, Tuesday that,

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Speaker 2: and it's like structured in. Sunday's all NFL, and then

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Speaker 2: you know Monday nights NFL and Thursday nights mostly NFL.

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Speaker 2: There's some games you have to skip, you have to

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Speaker 2: actually hang out with the family sometimes, but the football

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Speaker 2: all season September through January is pretty much locked in.

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Speaker 2: Then there's a little bit of a malaise during the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: I hope malays is the right word, but February Super Bowl,

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Speaker 2: then there's a vacation, then there's March madness and after

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Speaker 2: wards madness. I don't know about you guys, but for me,

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Speaker 2: it is a bit of a respite. It is I'm

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Speaker 2: a power down on weekends. Sometimes I'm gonna sleep in.

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Speaker 2: I actually woke up early Saturday and played some hoops.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell that story in a second, but it starts

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Speaker 2: to like, you know, Saturday night was like, oh, well,

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Speaker 2: play a board game with the family. There's nothing sports

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Speaker 2: wise to watch. There just really is nothing. Now, I'm

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Speaker 2: not a huge golfer, so I will admit I basically

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Speaker 2: watched the final twenty minutes of The Masters, and it

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Speaker 2: was on while I was starting to break down my

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Speaker 2: NBA Playoffs stuff, so I wasn't like totally locked in.

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Speaker 2: Here's the reality. It was kind of a dull Masters, right.

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Speaker 2: You had Bryson Doucheham Swoll leading early, and then you

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Speaker 2: had Scotti Scheffler, who if he delivered a pizza to

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Speaker 2: I s he just I mean, he just looks like

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Speaker 2: Scheffler goes off final lead for the final two or

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Speaker 2: three days. I mean, it was just an unbelievable run.

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Speaker 2: I told you guys, I did like the pizza money

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Speaker 2: Master's pool I had. The two guys that were good

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Speaker 2: Those were the two guys I had made a run.

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Speaker 2: But you know, get some top ten money in one

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Speaker 2: big goose egg. But it was It just didn't have

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Speaker 2: the feel of college basketball Calcutta, NFL. It's just not

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Speaker 2: the same juice. But apparently Scotty Scheffler is like on

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Speaker 2: don't know. He's twenty seven, he's won the Masters twice,

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Speaker 2: He's made a ton of money. But overall it was

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Speaker 2: Master's pool that I invited some buddies to. I didn't

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Speaker 2: get one text from somebody, oh are you watching them? None?

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Speaker 2: And when I went online just to see what the

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Speaker 2: Vern Lunquist, obviously a legend, stepping down as an announcer

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Speaker 2: of the Masters. I think he stepped down a couple

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Speaker 2: of years ago from calling SEC games. As Jim Nance said,

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Speaker 2: the soundtrack of my supporting youth vern Lunk, was just amazing.

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Speaker 2: A huge fan. But overall I didn't watch none of

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Speaker 2: the Masters. Honestly, I watched more of the soccer team

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Speaker 2: I own in Lega MX Nick Cox, and we are

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Speaker 2: rolling folks. Oh my gosh, fifth in the table. Best

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Speaker 2: team we've had since I joined the ownership group. We

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Speaker 2: have a massive next two games. We've got some injuries,

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Speaker 2: but the postseason is interesting. Listen, if they make a

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Speaker 2: Now we got a host a playoff game. Obviously, we

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Speaker 2: have not done that since I got joined the ownership group.

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Speaker 2: Two playoff trips. Both were on the road, both we lost.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it was just one of those weekends. We

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Speaker 2: look into buying a ping pong table. I'm not even kidding.

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Speaker 2: So I'm like, we need a pool table. We'll put

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Speaker 2: But it's like, I love a good ping pong table.

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Speaker 2: Monday morning, the NBA playoffs are set. There were some

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Speaker 2: I mean, it shouldn't be a surprise. But the Denver

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Speaker 2: It broke well for the Dallas Mavericks, a team I've

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Speaker 2: Dallas at plus twenty two hundred. Ooh, that's nice. That's

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Speaker 2: long gone. But things broke really well for Dallas. I'll

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Speaker 2: It's gonna sound crazy. I think Jalen Brunson can take

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Speaker 2: Lakers and Lebron. James Lebron finished his twenty first regular

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Speaker 2: That's incredible. I don't. I don't. If you're a Lebron hater,

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Speaker 2: you can spin this that this was not an amazing

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Speaker 2: there's people who like Brandon Ingram, and there's people who

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Speaker 2: don't like the Lakers, folks. The Lakers blasted the Pelicans,

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Speaker 2: so they met four times this season. The Lakers won

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Speaker 2: a bad matchup for the Pels. It ain't good And

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Speaker 2: there are some subplots here. Remember Brandon Ingram used to

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Speaker 2: I am stunned that this game opened Lakers getting one.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I bet it instantly. Lakers.

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Speaker 2: They will meet on Tuesday night in Orlands seven thirty

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Speaker 2: Wednesday games in the play in Sixers, heat is interesting.

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Speaker 2: Sixers are getting hot here. Not great for the Knicks,

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Speaker 2: but we'll get back to that shortly. And the Heat.

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Speaker 2: I went three or four on futures. You guys know

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Speaker 2: my futures bets. I was over Rockets. We talked about it.

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Speaker 2: That hit. I was over Hawks. That was my whiff.

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Speaker 2: only remaining futures bet I have is no Miami Heat

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Speaker 2: will not make the playoffs. So if they lose to

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Speaker 2: the Sixers, and I think they probably go down Wednesday night,

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Speaker 2: then the Heat will face the Bulls or the Hawks

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Speaker 2: remember last year, the Heat nearly blew it in their

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Speaker 2: Lakers for a sec and the Pelicans the reason I

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Speaker 2: bet it instantly. It's not just the three or four

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Speaker 2: futures bets to win the West, and I went Suns, MAVs,

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Speaker 2: and Lakers. Those were my three to win the West

422
00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:17,119
Speaker 2: because I don't think the Nuggets get it done. And

423
00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,919
Speaker 2: I'm more than willing to eat Crow if Denver shows

424
00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:21,719
Speaker 2: out and goes back to the finals. The East. If

425
00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:24,320
Speaker 2: you're wondering why I'm burying them in the podcast, there's

426
00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:28,359
Speaker 2: really like no juice around the East here. Here's the matchup.

427
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Speaker 2: So the Celtics will face I don't know, probably Miami,

428
00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:35,000
Speaker 2: but maybe Chicago or Atlanta. Okay, Atlanta. Did I think

429
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Speaker 2: steel won maybe two games with Boston line definitely one

430
00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:42,199
Speaker 2: Trey Young games, some problems. And then the four or

431
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:45,840
Speaker 2: five matchup is Cleveland Orlando, which is just a bizarre matchup.

432
00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:51,800
Speaker 2: Cleveland is struggling, Orlando's kind of sort of legit, but again,

433
00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:55,680
Speaker 2: very little playoff experience. I think I'm gonna I think

434
00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:59,640
Speaker 2: everybody's kind of fading Cleveland with the Donovan Mitchell injury

435
00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:03,600
Speaker 2: and Mobley and Alan, It's just it's weird. Garland. I

436
00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:05,720
Speaker 2: think the Calves win that series. So I'll go Calves

437
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Speaker 2: over Orlando. Shout out to my Orlando people. I know

438
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Speaker 2: he got a lot of buddies in Orlando relatives and

439
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:15,920
Speaker 2: they're excited the Magic back. But I'm going Calves here.

440
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:20,359
Speaker 2: A Bucks Pacers is interesting. Okay, they've had some beef

441
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:24,840
Speaker 2: this year. Remember there was the game ball that were Yannis.

442
00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,720
Speaker 2: Yanna scored like a fifty seven million points in a

443
00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:32,440
Speaker 2: game and the Pacers tried to keep the game ball.

444
00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:35,680
Speaker 2: It was just some weird beef. I think they had

445
00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,760
Speaker 2: some kind of issue with Halliburton against me. It might

446
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,320
Speaker 2: have been Bobby Portis. There's been some scraps between these two.

447
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:45,439
Speaker 2: And here's the problem. Milwaukee better not come in puffing

448
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:47,800
Speaker 2: their chests out, thinking, okay, we got these guys. Because

449
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:49,720
Speaker 2: if yannas saying one hundred percent and we haven't seen

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Speaker 2: him since he went down with that injury, I don't

451
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Speaker 2: know that the Bucks are a lock.

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00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:55,080
Speaker 1: Now.

453
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Speaker 2: The Pacers don't play a lick of defense. But if

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Speaker 2: you said all right, Jay, be honest with me. Give

455
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Speaker 2: me the five best players in this series. Okay, I

456
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,880
Speaker 2: would go sure, I would go Giannis first. I would

457
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:13,679
Speaker 2: go Tyrese Halliburton second. You guys know I love Dame Lillard.

458
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 2: I where Sneakers want to play hoops Dame Lillard third,

459
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 2: and then I'm gonna go Siakam and Turner are four

460
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Speaker 2: or five. So the Bucks only have two of the

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Speaker 2: best five players in the series, and you don't see

462
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Speaker 2: that in any other first round series, especially with the

463
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Speaker 2: higher seats. So I think the Bucks are in trouble. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna bet it yet because we don't know

465
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Speaker 2: the status of Jannis. But if I was a real

466
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:38,520
Speaker 2: gambling man, I would just take the Pacers to win

467
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Speaker 2: the series outright, and then you've got the Knicks. That

468
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Speaker 2: That's why I like the Knicks to make the conference finals.

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Speaker 2: I think the Pacers can get by the Bucks, and

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Speaker 2: I think the Knicks win their series against the Sixers,

471
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Speaker 2: which is I know it can be risky and he

472
00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:53,359
Speaker 2: could go off, but I'm a trust Brunson guy. Gosh,

473
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,199
Speaker 2: Brunson had an amazing season. The real question is Brunson

474
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Speaker 2: first Team All NBA or second, because he's in the

475
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:01,480
Speaker 2: discussion for first, that's how good he was. I mean,

476
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 2: he had a historically great season with the Knicks, and

477
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Speaker 2: you guys don't have a Knicks fan, so I can't

478
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 2: believe they got the number two seed. If you told

479
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 2: me Julius Randall was barely gonna play and the Knicks

480
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 2: would get the number two seed, like what happened to

481
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:19,040
Speaker 2: the Sixers and the Bucks and like the Calves, everybody

482
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 2: implode and it's like, shout out to Jalen Bronson, what

483
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:27,879
Speaker 2: a guy. So again, without knowing play in situation, I

484
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Speaker 2: will go. I'll go MAVs Celtics in the finals. And

485
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,879
Speaker 2: I have been taking Boston throughout. You know, I'm a

486
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Speaker 2: Luca guy. If any MAVs people are listening that Forest

487
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Speaker 2: Green MAVs throwback, I think it's it just has MAVs

488
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Speaker 2: in like some sort of font on the front. It's

489
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 2: not cursive, but it's kind of curvy ish letters, those

490
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,159
Speaker 2: throwbacks from the eighties that Luka doncic Jersey. I've been

491
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Speaker 2: hunting for it for I have not been able to

492
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Speaker 2: find it. If you guys don't hook you boy up,

493
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 2: or at least throw me a link. So I'll go

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Speaker 2: mav Celtics in the finals, but very excited for the

495
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:09,119
Speaker 2: NBA playoffs. And I'll wrap up with this. I got

496
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 2: to bury it at the end. So what to play

497
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 2: pick up hoops for the first time in a while,

498
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:16,200
Speaker 2: you know, new season coming up. And there's a guy

499
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 2: whose son played at USC and he's a nice guy.

500
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,640
Speaker 2: I threw his valley oops back in the day. And

501
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 2: the dad comes to watch all the all our great

502
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:31,400
Speaker 2: Foxes games. So he plays pick up sometimes when he's old.

503
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:34,399
Speaker 2: He's like fifty five or some whatever he is, and

504
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:36,680
Speaker 2: he's always talking shit to us and loves to talk

505
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 2: shit to me, you know, because I'm whatever. And so

506
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:42,719
Speaker 2: we're facing on Saturday morning and it was just me

507
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 2: and three guys, and then we took a random you know,

508
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 2: we had to take a random guy because a lot

509
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:49,479
Speaker 2: of people out of town Coachella and blah blah, wedding season,

510
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 2: all this crap clubs, kids, sports. That's how old the

511
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:54,879
Speaker 2: guys I run with are. They're like, oh, I'm going

512
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 2: to Reno this weekend for basketball for volleyball with my daughter.

513
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 2: I was like Reno. So we were depleted and we

514
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 2: had like one of the worst guys in the jib

515
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 2: on our team. Just this guy who's small, can't really

516
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 2: do my He's admittedly not good. So I told the

517
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 2: guy the outsid, Hey, Tony, bro, set screens, they're not

518
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 2: gonna guard you. Come and screen the ball. Nobody's gonna

519
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 2: be on you. We'll get open threes. He's like, oh yeah, okay, okay,

520
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,159
Speaker 2: but he knows when he plays with us, he's gonna

521
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 2: get open shots and don't take all of them. That's

522
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 2: what they want. But set screens, talk on defense, don't

523
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 2: give up threes. Boom easy. Anyways, so this guy right

524
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 2: out of the gates starts talking talking trash to me

525
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 2: that the dad, and you know, I take it. I'm quiet,

526
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:34,960
Speaker 2: I don't say it. I'n't blayed in a while. I

527
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,400
Speaker 2: don't know how mnna do. And we did have one

528
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,639
Speaker 2: big time baller with us, one of my buddies, and

529
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 2: he hits his first three and I'm like, oh boy,

530
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 2: you guys are dead. You're done. And then I hit

531
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,200
Speaker 2: my first three and I was like, oh boy, one

532
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 2: of those, and then of course we win, and then

533
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 2: we win two more in a row, and it's like,

534
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:52,439
Speaker 2: I can't believe we're doing it with the squad. We

535
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 2: have no size. It was like, damn, I didn't know

536
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:56,720
Speaker 2: we were that good. Anyways, we're going up against this

537
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 2: twenty year old kid in the last one, and he's

538
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 2: he's tore our best guy, and our best we played

539
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,680
Speaker 2: four games. Come on, we're exhausted. This guy's first game

540
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 2: twenty years old, he was in the league against US,

541
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 2: who beat him in the title game. And this guy's

542
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 2: he's got handles. He played high school. I think he

543
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 2: got a nibble in like Juco, you know, white guy

544
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 2: probably six's one, but handles were insane. And the quickness.

545
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 2: I mean, he's just really good. He doesn't look like much,

546
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 2: but he's just a really good player. And so finally

547
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 2: I tell our guy, listen, let me guard him. I've

548
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 2: got some energy. I'll just try. I'll deny him the

549
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,320
Speaker 2: ball full court. So I do that, and then eventually

550
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 2: he gets it, and I'm like, you know, there's all

551
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 2: these people watching, probably forty people, and I don't look

552
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 2: up because I don't want. I know, some guys want

553
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 2: to record me and try to embarrass me if I

554
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 2: cooked whatever. I don't care. Listen, that's gonna happen, okay,

555
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 2: and this guy puts I mean, I'm talking like Kyrie

556
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 2: Irving series of moves like fifty dribbles on me and

557
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 2: I'm hanging. I'm hanging. I'm hanging. And then he just

558
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 2: gets an inch of space and bangs the jumper. I'm like,

559
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,720
Speaker 2: I put up, Like remember Caitlin Clark makes that three

560
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 2: and the girl, Hayley van Lift is just shoulder shrug

561
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 2: and I don't know, so I kind of did that

562
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 2: to the sideline. The guys are like, yeah, man, he's good.

563
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 2: But we're up one. I can't believe I'm actually telling

564
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 2: this story on the podcast. We're up one and there's

565
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 2: like forty five seconds left. There is a shot clock

566
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 2: and pick up in the final minute or whatever, so

567
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 2: I guess they missed a shot. The ball goes out

568
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 2: of bounds and get the ball back and they take

569
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 2: it up up. It's check it in up top and

570
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 2: I'm hugging up. I'm talking total ball denial of their

571
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 2: best player, this twenty year old. And the guy was

572
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 2: like afraid to throw the pass, and the young kids

573
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 2: like just put it in my hand up here, up here,

574
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 2: And I'm just telling you, I'm a hound, I'm like nowhere, nowhere,

575
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 2: and I over commit and the passer thinks he's got

576
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 2: his guy back door, and the guy was not going

577
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 2: back door and he throws it away and everybody's like, oh,

578
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 2: I forced this turnover. I was so geeked. I didn't

579
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 2: want to flex too much because we're only up one,

580
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 2: but it was, it was. It was a pretty cool moment.

581
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 2: And then we come down pick and roll me in

582
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 2: this our superstar and I hit like a mid range

583
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 2: shot put us up three win and at that point,

584
00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 2: I'm like, I gotta go to my son's birthday party.

585
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 2: I'm out, and we just left for victory. It's a

586
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 2: good feeling. Guys. Come on, I know you guys still

587
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 2: do sports. I'm sure there's people who watch the Masters

588
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 2: and are gonna go out on the golf course this

589
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 2: week and try to be Scottie Shuffler. Right, I'm sure

590
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 2: that's gonna MESSI had a couple insane goals this weekend,

591
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 2: and there's people who are gonna try to be like, oh,

592
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,959
Speaker 2: I'll do messy. That that's normal. That's me with hoops.

593
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 2: I just I just love it.

594
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Speaker 1: Guys.

595
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 2: NBA Playoffs, it's gonna be fire. Anyways, Monday show in

596
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 2: the books, Robgie's back tomorrow gallivanting Robb G. He like, listen,

597
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 2: this guy loves Vegas Man. Anyways, we'll talk. We'll talk

598
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 2: a little more tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Talk to you then