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Speaker 1: It's time to place your bets. Let's talk to the pros.

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Speaker 1: Welcome in, everybody to betting pros. It's me Joey, p Joe, Pisa, Pia.

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Speaker 1: We got a great show for you today. The NBA

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Speaker 1: Finals is beginning and we're gonna walk you through it

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Speaker 1: with one of my favorite people. He is the host

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Speaker 1: of in This League podcast network. You can also find

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Speaker 1: his work at Line Star as well, hosting all their

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Speaker 1: podcasts and so much more. He's the one, the only

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Speaker 1: Scott Bogman. Bogman, Welcome to the show, my friend. I'm

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Speaker 1: ready to talk a little NBA with you.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Man, this has been an exciting playoffs and I know

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Speaker 3: people are talking about whatever team wins is gonna need

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Speaker 3: an asterisk.

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Speaker 2: I don't like that narrative at all.

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Speaker 3: I think that's dumb because of all the injuries, because

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Speaker 3: of you know, all the injuries, so but you know,

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Speaker 3: staying healthy is part of it. So I'm excited for

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Speaker 3: the Suns Bucks Finals. I think it's going to be

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Speaker 3: a great one.

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Speaker 1: And that's what we do have. We have the Phoenix

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Speaker 1: Suns and the Milwaukee Bucks. Here. We got Yannis hopefully

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Speaker 1: healthy enough to make a difference. We're going to get

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Speaker 1: into that and a whole lot of the other narratives.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I forget the asterisk because I think

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Speaker 1: that's always a cop out nonsense. You get there, you

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Speaker 1: get there, That's what it is. But I mean, these

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Speaker 1: are two teams right now. Yeah, I would say both

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Speaker 1: efficient offenses, good defenses, and at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: I mean, like, the teams that get to the finals

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Speaker 1: are the ones that play both ends of the court.

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Speaker 1: Did not every team does that? With Gwen gun nuj nudge,

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Speaker 1: we know that. So are you surprised at all that

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Speaker 1: this is how it ended up?

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Speaker 3: Not really? I mean specifically after the injuries. I mean,

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Speaker 3: you know, when Kuhi got hurt, I thought that the

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Speaker 3: Clipper series for the Suns was going to be a

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Speaker 3: tough one. But Kuhi got hurt, he wasn't able to

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Speaker 3: play that series. So I was not surprised that the

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Speaker 3: Suns buzzed past them the Bucks. I think a lot

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Speaker 3: of people were surprised that they got past the Nets.

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Speaker 3: I just think, really, you know, Harden getting banged up

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Speaker 3: and Irving going down in that series obviously hurt them

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Speaker 3: a ton, But I think that was just really a

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Speaker 3: lack of experience together with those guys before that. So

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Speaker 3: it's not surprising to me that the Bucks are playing

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Speaker 3: the Suns in the playoffs at this point.

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Speaker 2: I think I would have expected the Bucks a little.

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Speaker 3: Bit more than the Suns, you know, starting the playoffs,

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Speaker 3: but they've burned through the Lakers, and after they burned

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Speaker 3: through the Lakers, I knew they had a chance.

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Speaker 2: So it should be a really really exciting one.

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Speaker 1: I know everyone wanted to anoint the nets, you know,

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Speaker 1: and all of that, but I think you've been going

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Speaker 1: up a great point, which is basically, you know, it

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Speaker 1: does take kind of time for these things to gel together.

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Speaker 3: And we say that Chris Paul walks right into Phoenix

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Speaker 3: and takes him to the final.

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Speaker 2: Well, Tom Brady, I mean, that's kind of crazy, but.

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Speaker 1: More often than not it is the former. More often

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Speaker 1: that there's a little transition to help me back again

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving will be back, necessarily we'll figure that all out.

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Speaker 1: But now that we're looking at these two teams, what's

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Speaker 1: your assessment in terms of momentum Before we go breaking down,

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Speaker 1: we are we're going to talk about Game one. We're

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Speaker 1: going to go through Bogman's picks to win it all.

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk about the wagering prop best the MVP,

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Speaker 1: and a few other things too, including how many games

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Speaker 1: this series is going to go and how he thinks

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Speaker 1: into the finals, momentum, health, obviously both things kind of

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Speaker 1: loom large right now. Who do you think kind of,

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Speaker 3: I think the edge has to go to the Suns

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Speaker 3: because you know, Ga is doubtful to play Game one.

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Speaker 3: You know, they think he's going to come back in

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Speaker 3: But I think you have to give the momentum to

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: So I get that, but that is a big time

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Speaker 1: All right, some key numbers here from betting pros before

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Speaker 1: we jump into things here. Look, the Milwaukee Bucks have

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Speaker 1: lost only one home game this postseason, there's seven to one,

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Speaker 1: it seems like right now Phoenix is the favorite. But

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Speaker 1: let's go through this and kind of figure out where

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Speaker 1: we want to place our chips here when it comes

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Speaker 1: to the NBA Finals. And let's start here with Game one.

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Speaker 1: It is in Phoenix right now, the Phoenix Suns are

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Speaker 1: six and a half point favorites. In terms of the

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Speaker 1: spread the money line, you got plus two zero five

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Speaker 1: two nineteen and a half. So when it comes to

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Speaker 1: what do you think about the over under and the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like I'm gonna take the under on this.

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Speaker 3: And you know, I know you said these teams are

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Speaker 2: What is it two nineteen and.

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Speaker 3: This is also going to be a weird uh, you know,

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Speaker 3: I definitely wouldn't you know. I think the Suns are

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Speaker 3: money line. I think I would take the Suns minus

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Speaker 3: because the Suns were first and this is the second

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Speaker 3: That people are excited. There's a buzz in the air.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be great. So I think that I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: take the Suns minus is six and a half if

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Speaker 3: I'm betting on the game. But I think my favorite

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Speaker 3: there's gonna be a long series and I think this

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Speaker 1: The last time the Suns fans were this excited probably

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Speaker 3: The Bozeman was hitting big shots and not just a

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Speaker 1: Right, take a shots. Yeah, it's true. Now when we're

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Speaker 1: looking at the series total games, when you're looking over

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Speaker 1: on FanDuel for a sweep, you've got a plus six

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Speaker 1: Then you go to five games plus two forty six

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Speaker 1: see this probably going out? And look, maybe maybe there

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Speaker 3: No, I don't think it does. I think this is

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Speaker 3: I think that's where I would go with it. But

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Speaker 3: I think this is a long series even if GA

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Speaker 2: They are very efficient.

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Speaker 3: So Chuck, you know, Chuck is saying this a little

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Speaker 3: you know, contested series even if GA doesn't play at all.

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Speaker 3: So I would my pick would be six games.

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Speaker 1: All right, when you're looking ahead to the series spread

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Speaker 1: in terms of winning and losing, here the Bucks winning

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Speaker 1: by one and a half there on the money line

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Speaker 1: and the Suns minus one and a half plus one

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Speaker 3: Think I take the Sun this minus you know, the

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Speaker 1: That makes sense, all right, Well, if you think it's

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Speaker 1: who's the champion at the end of that series? Because

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Speaker 1: right now a consensus we're looking as Phoenix Suns minus

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Speaker 1: two hundred and Milwaukee Bucks plus one seventy five to

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Speaker 1: get in before the season series excuse me begins. So,

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, you know, when you come down to this,

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Speaker 1: it's clear that Phoenix is the favorite in this. We

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Speaker 1: we've kind of established that going in. But you know what,

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Speaker 1: the plus one seventy five is that enough to even

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Speaker 1: MVP and take a look at the numbers here. Chris

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Speaker 3: I think there's a multitude of guys that could get

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Speaker 2: I love Gabe for your buck.

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Speaker 1: That's actually that's right.

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Speaker 3: I like that GA plus six fifty is great, especially

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Speaker 1: All right, let's step into the pouch of shekels and

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Speaker 1: Is it a stay away because you think it's Booker?

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Speaker 3: Anything anything not Booker in this series is a sucker spat.

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Speaker 3: So it's uh, it's definitely Booker. I love Middleton and

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Speaker 1: This is what they do. They set these really good numbers.

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Speaker 3: That's what I would do. I don't think this is

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Speaker 1: All right. So, now that the NBA season is kind

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Speaker 2: So it's going to be very, very exciting next year.

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Speaker 1: Sons and four guy was certainly a character, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: We hope everybody enjoys the clothes to the NBA season

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Speaker 1: and hopefully we may we'll get some Giannis in there,

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Speaker 1: and that would be nice to see because it would

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Speaker 1: be a good story. And God knows, I'm a sucker

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Speaker 1: for a good story. So let's hope that he's healthy

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Speaker 1: enough to make an appearance or two at least and

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Speaker 1: make things interesting. Other than that, suns and six feels

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Speaker 1: about right to us here, so that'll do it for us.

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Speaker 1: But the story of the game goes on for Bogmin.

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Speaker 1: I'm Joey p We'll see you next time. Kids,