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Speaker 3: You want a NFL experience that this is the show

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Speaker 2: Ary Tet, has this team been exposed?

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Speaker 3: And Plexico Burress.

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Speaker 3: from the Fox Sports radio studios. Here's pro bowler LaVar

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Speaker 3: ary Tet and super Bowl Chimpi and Flexico Burress.

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Speaker 4: All right, welcome and to this show. This is up

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Speaker 4: on game It is pleurs. We're gonna carry you for

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Speaker 4: another hour, so hope y'all enjoy it. We're gonna talk

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Speaker 4: some NBA, but before we talk NBA, we gotta we

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Speaker 4: first before we transitioned over because it's it's a well,

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Speaker 4: it's just pretty interesting conversation and I'm curious to get

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Speaker 2: Feedback on this.

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Speaker 4: In particular Plexico Burst. Uh, the Chicago Bears there, there's

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Speaker 4: the ongoing conversations of the stadium and they're threatening to

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Speaker 4: take the stadium to Indiana as as a location and

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Speaker 4: a destination which is roughly a forty minute drive away

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Speaker 4: from Chicago, and these these conversations that are taking place.

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Speaker 2: The Chicago mayor.

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Speaker 4: Has come out and has voiced his opinion about the conversations.

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Speaker 4: UH lawmakers from Indiana have also said it have taken

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Speaker 4: serious consideration in a spot in northwest Indiana.

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Speaker 2: What's your take on this?

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Speaker 4: Should like, how do you feel about Like, I know

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Speaker 4: you played for the Giants, you played for the Jets too.

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Speaker 2: You've played for teams that.

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Speaker 4: Are located in a different state than the name on

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Speaker 2: Do you think this is a good.

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Speaker 4: Move for the Chicago Bears to be trying to move

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Speaker 4: into Indiana into a different state, Like, what what's.

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Speaker 2: Your opinion on it?

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Speaker 5: I think it's a terrible idea, I really do, because

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Speaker 5: I mean, it's Chicago, man, It's the Chicago Bears. It

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Speaker 5: goes back to Mike Dicka and Dick Buckets and Sweetness

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Speaker 2: And you know mc mahon.

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Speaker 5: I mean, come on, man, you're going to move the

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Speaker 5: Indiana just because you want to save money and build

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Speaker 5: from the city because when you say Chicago, the first

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Speaker 5: People leaving Chicago to drive the Indiana to go watch

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Speaker 5: But to take that away from the city and their

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Speaker 5: and then you have to say Chicago and I can't.

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Speaker 2: See the Chicago Bears playing in Indiana.

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Speaker 5: I just think that takes the way the aura of

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Speaker 5: I played there a few times, and I just think

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Speaker 5: I think is the great I think it's a great move.

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Speaker 5: But to take them out of Chicago, it just doesn't

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Speaker 2: I'll say this.

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Speaker 4: I know the taxes are significantly lower. There's that, so

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Speaker 4: I know they want property and land. I don't know

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Speaker 4: But they want to do mega They want to they

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Speaker 2: To just be for for football.

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Speaker 4: So when you have a privately funded project like this

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Speaker 2: Of the Super Bowl. We were there, you and I

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Speaker 5: So it's indoors. That's why it's hosted there. But they're

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Speaker 5: talking about the only way stadium. The only way that

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Speaker 5: That's why you're gonna move the stadium and to get

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Speaker 5: You know all these now you want to get there

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Speaker 4: But the Chicago Bears, just so we're clear, they do

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Speaker 4: not own Soldier Field. It's owned by Chicago. Chicago Chicago

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Speaker 4: It's just one of those places, one of those things

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Speaker 2: By playing there.

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Speaker 4: But times do change, and it sounds as though there's

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Speaker 2: Well I do know this.

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Speaker 4: That was twenty fourteen, By the way, the weather was

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Speaker 4: Third coldest Super Bowl on record. So there you have it.

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Speaker 4: That was the Super Bowl in New York without a dome.

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Speaker 4: see how that all plays out. This seems like they're

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Speaker 4: out of stalemate right now. Lawmakers are going after it

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Speaker 2: On the other side of the break.

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Speaker 4: I told y'all we're going to get to the NBA

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Speaker 4: All Star It drew its highest ratings in fifteen years,

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Speaker 4: and well there's a whole lot of tanking conversations going on,

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Speaker 4: and Adam Silver is not happy about what that is

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Speaker 4: and looks to be aggressive on trying to figure.

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Speaker 2: Out solutions for that. And then there's always Lebron talk. Right,

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Speaker 4: All Right, welcome back into the show. We're gonna hit

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Speaker 4: you out with a little bit of game. That's right,

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Speaker 4: It's Plexico Burr, LeVar Arrington taking you up to the top.

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Speaker 2: Of the hour.

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Speaker 4: It will be eleven here on the Pacific time obviously

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Speaker 4: that's two pm your time on the eastern.

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Speaker 2: Side of things.

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Speaker 4: Uh, let's jump into this, this whole basketball thing, and

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Speaker 4: and let's start off plex with with.

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Speaker 2: The tanking, the anti tanking. Uh.

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Speaker 4: You know, Adam Silver has come out and he's given

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Speaker 4: like some some proposal points of what he believes can

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Speaker 4: can lessen the idea of tanking. It's interesting. Mark Cuban

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Speaker 4: had some interesting things to say about it. BO, can

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Speaker 4: you give us read off what Mark Cuban had to

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Speaker 4: say about how it pertains to you.

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Speaker 2: Know, why tanking Actually, I believe maybe a.

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Speaker 4: Good thing for for a franchise to to to do

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Speaker 4: at times.

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Speaker 6: Well, I don't know if Cuban believes that tanking is good,

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Speaker 6: but he just argued, uh that what's worse for of

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Speaker 6: the affordable affordability and going to games. Correct, he did

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Speaker 6: say that the league should embrace tanking, which I think

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Speaker 6: is hilarious myself, but yeah, the he's arguing that affordability

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Speaker 6: is worse. He also had in baseball Ardie Moreno, the

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Speaker 6: It's affordability and going to games. So you're getting this

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Speaker 6: across leagues too.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 4: So me and Brady got into a heated discussion yesterday

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Speaker 4: this very topic, and I can't. I don't know how

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Speaker 4: to comprehend it. If it's not about the fans being first,

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Speaker 4: like obviously your bottom line in a consumer driven industry,

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Speaker 4: it has to be about making making it fan friendly.

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Speaker 4: If it's too if it's too expensive, if it if

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Speaker 4: it doesn't serve the family. Because if you think back,

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Speaker 4: if you go back to what America's past times are,

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Speaker 4: that very thing. You go there, you pack a lunch,

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Speaker 2: On a hill.

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Speaker 4: You didn't even sit in bleachers, you sit on the

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Speaker 4: it became so popular. But to me, I feel like

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Speaker 4: plex where we're at now, everything is so corporate, corporately driven.

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Speaker 4: Everything is driven by the bottom line being taken up

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Speaker 4: by the the sponsor dollars, the TV the TV deals.

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Speaker 2: And all of those things. And I almost.

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Speaker 4: Feel as though, even in the NFL, it almost seems

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Speaker 4: with the fan.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 4: I don't know how that has to do with tanking, obviously.

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Speaker 4: I think tanking you improve your experience. You know they

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Speaker 4: were able to get Luka Doncic off of tanking. You

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Speaker 4: know that if I could tank and get a Luka Doncic,

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Speaker 4: if I could tank and get a Lebron James, I

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Speaker 4: would do that.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I would try to do it.

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Speaker 4: I try to figure out how to do it because

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Speaker 4: in basketball, more more so in basketball than maybe other

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Speaker 4: team sports. You can impact an entire team, an entire franchise,

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Speaker 4: an entire city, an entire league with one player.

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Speaker 2: One player can do it. So what's your take on it?

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Speaker 5: You know what, man, we can start talk about tanking.

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Speaker 5: I don't really think that it has a lot to

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Speaker 5: do with the players that are playing on the court,

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Speaker 5: because if an organization or an NBA team wants a tank,

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Speaker 5: it comes from up top. It comes from ownership, the

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Speaker 5: coaches telling the players what we are trying, what we

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Speaker 2: And there's there's many.

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Speaker 5: Forms of it, and teams that trade away great players.

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Speaker 5: That's the form of tanking, because why are you trading

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Speaker 5: away some of the best players in the world during

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Speaker 5: their prime to say that, you know, we are trying

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Speaker 5: to rebuild our basketball team, but you already have one

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Speaker 5: of the best players in the world, which makes no.

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Speaker 2: Sense to me. That doesn't make sense.

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Speaker 5: It doesn't make any sense at all. It's a form

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Speaker 5: of tank. Trading away your franchise players.

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Speaker 4: Are sitting them down, yes, and there's the debate of

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Speaker 4: load management versus sitting them out as it's a.

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Speaker 5: Bunch of belgnely load management. I mean, come on, man,

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Speaker 5: let's be serious. That's exactly what's happening. That is what's

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Speaker 5: going on. And you know, the NBA and Adam Silver,

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Speaker 5: they're going to try to make some changes with withholding

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Speaker 5: the lottery into after the trade deadline is going to

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Speaker 5: make it to a conference finals or NBA finals. So

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Speaker 5: there are changes that are going to be made. But

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Speaker 5: there's different forms of taking not just the performance on

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Speaker 5: the floor, and it comes from the front office, the

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Speaker 5: owner and the coach relaanding this information to the team

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Speaker 5: of what they are trying to do. But going back

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Speaker 5: to the fans and afford the bill. Uh, you say

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Speaker 5: it's gotten away from the fans. It's easy because how

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Speaker 5: are they going to pay these salaries for these players

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Speaker 5: that are on the basketball court. So everything has to

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Speaker 5: go up. And now you know, I look at my guy,

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Speaker 5: Matt Ishpia and he's you know, his tenure as an

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Speaker 5: owner for the Phoenix Suns has been all about affordability

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Speaker 5: for the fans. He's he has a two dollar menu

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Speaker 5: one hundred dollars. You know, those are some of the

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Speaker 5: things that we're talking.

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Speaker 2: About this memory and are and today that's such a distant.

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Speaker 5: A two dollars you can get You can get a

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Speaker 5: hamburger and a hot dog and a soda for two

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Speaker 2: This is unheard of in.

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Speaker 4: A pop for two dollars anymore. No be able to

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Speaker 4: put twenty five fifty and uh and the pop machine

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Speaker 4: and get you get you a nice little soda.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's like three dollars.

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Speaker 5: That's like, to be honest, man, you can't you can't

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Speaker 5: afford to take a family afford to an NBA basketball

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Speaker 2: These days.

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Speaker 5: I mean, people are taking out second mortgages on their

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Speaker 2: That's insane.

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Speaker 5: Eighty ninety thousand dollars to go watch eight football games

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Speaker 5: look at the prices of going to these games now. Man,

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Speaker 5: it's absolutely and incredible of the prices to be able

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Speaker 5: get into a basketball game.

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Speaker 2: That's crazy for a child.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's just but you have to do

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Speaker 5: that because these salaries are so forty to fifty million

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Speaker 5: because you.

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Speaker 4: Mean, make your money because they getting the money off

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Speaker 4: of that TV. That TV is how they paying that

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Speaker 4: all that other stuff they trying to I mean, the

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Speaker 2: What you got perfect? Where are you thinking?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: First off, I'm just thinking back to like when I

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Speaker 7: at one point she was like, oh, you want to

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Speaker 7: me twenty bucks. I think, uh, I think we just

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Speaker 7: and it's like you've seen in places where they have

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Speaker 7: the big like big thing, and I think, what was it?

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Speaker 8: Uh?

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Speaker 7: Is it Mercedes Benz now in Atlanta. Yeah, where they've

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Speaker 7: obviously people buy more stuff when they can just do it.

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Speaker 7: It just we we kind of need the costcoification of

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Speaker 7: all this. You wanted to you LaVar A. You're asking

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Speaker 7: you know, three bucks these days, and the only answer

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Speaker 7: is Costco. Like people go to Costco plaques.

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Speaker 2: You got to have a membership to do to do

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Speaker 7: Sure, but I feel like we're paying if you're paying

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Speaker 6: I think plaques made a good point to talking about

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Speaker 6: like who decides to do the tanking right? Like this

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Speaker 6: all goes back to when everybody was complaining about players

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Speaker 6: sitting out of games in the NBA. Well, the players

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Speaker 6: weren't making that choice, right, Like, if your coach has

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Speaker 6: this big game, you guys would have told them, No,

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Speaker 6: that's not happening. Like players aren't making the choice to

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Speaker 6: it gets late at the sheep.

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Speaker 4: If they want to play, how does that play out? Well,

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Speaker 4: it's also want to play, you're not you're not sitting

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Speaker 4: me out? How does that play out?

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Speaker 7: It's also on the opposite side of tanking. It's the

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Speaker 7: other side of it. It's this idea of load management

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Speaker 7: that like we've got to be fresh because the only

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Speaker 7: as well. It's it's two sides the same coin.

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Speaker 2: It's just there.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly, But again, like you've now devaluated. But this

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Speaker 7: goes back to the core issue. You've devalued the product

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Speaker 7: of just going to a game and seeing your stars

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Speaker 7: play with the trying to optimize either getting the top

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Speaker 7: pick in the draft or optimize your chances of maybe

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Speaker 7: doing better in the playoffs. And by the way, why

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Speaker 7: Leonard Silov isn't healthy into the playoffs.

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Speaker 6: The league doesn't want to hear it, but like this

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Speaker 6: is the result of expanding the playoffs with the playing

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Speaker 6: and stuff. Is like you have to be so bad

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Speaker 6: to the point where like you can't risk even being

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Speaker 6: the ten seed anymore. So you've got to be sitting

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Speaker 6: your best players every night for the second have to

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Speaker 6: make sure you lose these games.

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Speaker 4: Well, Adam Silver doesn't want to see it and he

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Speaker 4: doesn't want to hear about it. And it'll be interesting

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Speaker 4: to see if the language in which he's putting out

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Speaker 4: there and talking about freezing people out on lottery picks

461
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Speaker 4: and different things like that we're losing skids at the

462
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Speaker 4: end of the year will not be rewarded with compensation

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Speaker 4: within the lottery. It'll be interesting to see how it

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Speaker 4: all plays out. Let's get an update from Isaac Low

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Speaker 4: and Cron and we'll continue the NBA talk. We're going

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Speaker 4: transition into All Star the All Star Game, but first.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk to Ilo and Ilo.

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Speaker 4: You only have plexing myself today, so ha ha, no

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Speaker 4: brotherly love moments.

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Speaker 2: There, no love it. Hey.

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Speaker 4: I I went to Costco and I got just give us,

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Speaker 4: just give us the update, Isaac Low and Grown.

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Speaker 3: I don't know plaques.

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Speaker 8: I sense, uh some what's the word, Oh jealousy there?

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Speaker 5: Oh okay, you hate throwing shade.

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Speaker 2: They ain't here to defend themselves.

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Speaker 8: You think it's beneath him. Oh, hang on something, hang on,

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Speaker 8: something just came up on my Twitter feed. At Cuff's

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Speaker 8: the legend, just posting and I, quote, help, I've been

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Speaker 8: silenced by at LeVar Arrington unquote.

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Speaker 4: Son and he ain't on today.

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Speaker 2: This was the whole reason m plaques.

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Speaker 8: I thought that was sort of I thought LeVar was

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Speaker 8: above that sort of sort of petty jealousy.

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Speaker 2: I'm surprised, I am. I'm kind of kind of disappointed.

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Speaker 2: I am Peddy.

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Speaker 8: We well, I guess we will have to talk about

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Speaker 8: the Winter Olympics. That are parlif Bok Saturday for Team

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Speaker 8: USA because in the freestyle Mixed Team Aerials finals, American

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Speaker 8: Christopher Lilis had to nail this back double full full full.

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Speaker 7: To win the gold medal for gold.

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Speaker 4: What less.

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Speaker 3: Stops, it seals, it delivers for Team USA.

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Speaker 8: What you're talking about, lilis anyway? American Mia American American

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Speaker 8: Mia Manganello won the bronze medal in women's mass start

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Speaker 8: speed skating. Jonis Klabo of Norway won the gold medal

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Speaker 8: in the men's fifty meters cross country skiing, giving him

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Speaker 8: six gold medals in six events, most gold medals for

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Speaker 8: an athlete in a single Winter Olympics, breaking the record

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Speaker 8: of American speed skater Eric Heiden, who won five gold

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Speaker 8: medals at the nineteen eighty Winter Games at Lake Placid.

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Speaker 8: Finally LeVar in plax with tomorrow's men's high hockey gold

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Speaker 8: medal game between the US and Canada facing off at

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Speaker 8: eight ten Eastern time in the morning. Canadian Province of

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Speaker 8: Ontario Premiere doug Ford announced yesterday that all bars and

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Speaker 8: restaurants in Ontario will be allowed to sell alcohol beginning

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Speaker 8: at six am Eastern Time on Sunday. So, guys, hamre,

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Speaker 8: I'll see all it. I'll see all it. Shoeless shows

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Speaker 8: in Sudbury.

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Speaker 3: Baby back to.

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Speaker 2: You, thank you, sir, mister, Yeah you ain't lying.

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Speaker 4: off of the air. All right, plex The ratings are

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Speaker 4: in nine point The audience peaked a nine point eight

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Speaker 4: million viewers between seven to seven to fifteen pm Eastern Time,

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Speaker 4: closing minutes of the USA Stripes victory over the Team World.

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Speaker 4: So obviously the competition of that the Team US playing

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Speaker 4: against the World team was a big deal. People enjoyed

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Speaker 4: watching that. The total reach more than forty six million

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Speaker 4: people in the US watched at least some or part

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Speaker 4: of the All Star weekend festivities. Do you give credit

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Speaker 4: to the format? Like the format has been being tinkered

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Speaker 4: with and changed.

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Speaker 2: Do you give the credit to.

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Speaker 4: Possibly the way they were scheduling in between the blocks

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Speaker 4: of Olympic sports. Dude, I mean, are all of them true?

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Speaker 4: There's also the idea of what they uh, what what

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Speaker 4: is it?

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Speaker 2: What am I?

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Speaker 4: What am I missing here? There's another there was an

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Speaker 4: another element connected to all of this. Oh, the amount

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Speaker 4: of platforms.

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Speaker 2: That's what it is.

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Speaker 4: The amount of platforms that that were showing the different

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Speaker 4: festivities and the I guess, the the plug ins, the buttons,

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Speaker 4: the marketing. There was a whole lot of it that

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Speaker 4: made it super easy, super simple to just click in

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Speaker 4: and see what was going on, whether it be a

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Speaker 4: streaming platform or whether it be regular terrestrial television.

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Speaker 2: What what was your take on.

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Speaker 4: This year's All Star And you'd have to assume that

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Speaker 4: that it was a success.

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Speaker 2: NBA standards. What what's your take on it?

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Speaker 5: You know, first of all, I want to commend the

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Speaker 5: players for, you know, taking the responsibility of their game,

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00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 5: because that's what it's all about. People haven't been tuned

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Speaker 5: into the NBA All Star Game because the lack of play,

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00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 5: the effort, the performance that these guys just go out

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Speaker 5: and play on the NBA All Star Sunday and they

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Speaker 5: took ownership of their sport by the way that they

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Speaker 5: played the game, and it shows us that they've been

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Speaker 5: listening and they've they've been hearing every everybody talking about

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Speaker 5: the NBA All Star Game and the way the game

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Speaker 5: is played. One hundred and fifty hundred and sixty points.

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Speaker 5: Nobody's playing any defense, nobody's you know, giving out any effort.

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Speaker 5: But you know, shout out to the to the to

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Speaker 5: the to the young men. You know ant Man, who

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Speaker 5: was the who was the MVP darreon Fox with the

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Speaker 5: walk off three pointer, and those guys actually went out

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Speaker 5: there and performed and competed and gave effort. I think

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Speaker 5: that that's what we want to see as fans, as viewers,

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Speaker 5: that these guys go out and take some ownership and

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Speaker 5: responsibility for their sport, their game, and that's.

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Speaker 2: All we want to see.

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Speaker 5: Make us feel like you care about your own performance

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Speaker 5: in your game, because.

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Speaker 2: They are You are the.

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Speaker 5: Guys that's taking it, that's taking the court and putting

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Speaker 5: this out there for everybody to see and to be

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Speaker 5: scrutinized and to be judged or or your performance.

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Speaker 2: All you have to do is just go out.

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Speaker 5: There and play basketball the way that we expect for

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Speaker 5: you to go out and perform and they did that.

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Speaker 5: And I think that's one of the main reasons why

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Speaker 5: this year's game was such more of a success, because

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Speaker 5: they've been hearing the rumblings of what everybody's been saying

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Speaker 5: about the NBA All Star Game, and they actually took

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Speaker 5: some ownership and went out there and gave us, you know,

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Speaker 5: a good basketball that we could watch and we could

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Speaker 5: be proud of.

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Speaker 2: That was. The dunk contest was trash. It was horrible.

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Speaker 4: I'm talking about the game itself. The dunk contest, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I know, it was horrid. I was just thinking about, like,

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Speaker 4: how how you know we were coming out into the league.

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Speaker 4: I think we had just gotten draft or we're heading

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Speaker 4: towards the draft. The years Carter did the dunk contest

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Speaker 4: in Oakland.

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Speaker 5: Yep, going into who's going into the draft? We was

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Speaker 5: going into the draft. I was there. I was there.

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Speaker 4: I went to that NBA All Star weekend and the

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Speaker 4: parties were phenomenal. The experience was phenomenal. Bruh, I met

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Speaker 4: That's where I met Redman and method Man for the

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Speaker 4: first time. I ran into KG. KG City was a

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Speaker 4: fan of me. I dang there. Had to pick my

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Speaker 4: face up off of the floor.

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Speaker 2: Like it was.

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Speaker 4: It was probably the first time that I saw so

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Speaker 4: many like celebrity He's all in like one place and

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Speaker 4: one time I hadn't hadn't seen.

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Speaker 2: Like I seen us. You know what I mean? I

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Speaker 2: knew us, but I hadn't seen like.

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Speaker 5: You know what's crazy about what said versus where it

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Speaker 5: is now? You actually had to run into people.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 5: You couldn't just pick up the phone and call somebody

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Speaker 5: or DM somebody and be like, hey man, what's up brother,

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Speaker 5: let's hang out. You actually had to You had to

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Speaker 5: run and put your boots on the ground and run

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Speaker 5: in to them in person.

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Speaker 2: That's what I was.

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Speaker 4: I'm I'm so ashamed of the outfits. I had a

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Speaker 4: red I remember one of my favorite outfits was a

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Speaker 4: red Vlord sweatsuit.

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Speaker 2: Oversized by the way oversized? Why the lore.

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Speaker 1: That was?

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Speaker 2: What that was? What we were.

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Speaker 4: That that that that real soft material looked like like

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Speaker 4: velvet or whatever.

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Speaker 2: Bro come on bad. That was very disturbed by the way.

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Speaker 4: I lebron James games to continue or not to continue?

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Speaker 4: That is the question. We'll talk about that as we close. James,

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Speaker 4: this show up on game Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 9: Oh what you bringing us back into some crunk music.

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Speaker 9: What we got here? How little I can play on

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Speaker 9: the air, bud trying to get.

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Speaker 2: Some Okay, sound like crunk ain't dead. Crunk ain't dead.

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00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:32,839
Speaker 2: Drunk ain't dead. All right, Welcome back here, y'all. It's

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Speaker 2: up on game.

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Speaker 4: It's Plexago Birds up Levoy aery to hope you guys

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Speaker 4: enjoyed the show. Immediately following our show, Jonas Knox will

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Speaker 4: be coming on to talk to sports. He's a good listen,

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Speaker 4: so make sure you stay down in and tuned. End

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Speaker 4: is here what he's got to say. Shouts out to

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Speaker 4: Tessa Jeneki Pennstater. She's wanted the gold medal medalists for

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Speaker 4: the hockey team. Good luck to the hockey the men's

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Speaker 4: hockey team in their match tomorrow versus Canada. Make sure

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Speaker 4: you tune in, even though it's early. Is all, get

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Speaker 4: out still support and be a part of it. Before

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Speaker 4: we get up out of here. Plex your boy, your main,

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Speaker 4: Mamma Jama. He's obviously going to continue to braun James.

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Speaker 4: You know, Tris did that to me one time and

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Speaker 4: was like lebron James and then I was like, what

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Speaker 4: are you talking about? And I turned around. Lebron James

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Speaker 4: was standing over top of me. I was standing up

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Speaker 4: to by the way. I mean we were in front

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Speaker 4: of a restaurant. He was, Yeah, this weird days. These days,

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Speaker 4: you gotta clarify. Anyway, he had some things to say.

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Speaker 4: He was getting to asked questions, is this, it, this

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Speaker 4: and that? During All Star weekend. Here's what Lebron had

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Speaker 4: to say.

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Speaker 10: I want to live when I know you guys know,

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Speaker 10: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I have no idea. I just want to just want

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Speaker 2: to live, that's all. I mean.

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Speaker 10: There's a lot of things that that I have on

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Speaker 10: the table that I can tap into if I would

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Speaker 10: like to, that being one of them. There's other ventures

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Speaker 10: as well that you know, continue to explore and see

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Speaker 10: what will engage me and motivate me, you know, post career.

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Speaker 10: But right now, I'm still locked in on what's going

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Speaker 10: on right now with our season and that's the that's

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Speaker 10: what my mind is.

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Speaker 4: Lebron is a goat. He he is a goat. He

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Speaker 4: doesn't have to be the goat, but he is a goat.

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Speaker 4: And people are going to miss Lebron when he's gone.

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Speaker 4: Bro Like like, you don't appreciate things until you don't

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Speaker 4: have it anymore. At some point, Lebron is going to

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Speaker 4: hang it up. He's going to have to end his

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Speaker 4: career and he's going to have to move on.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 4: People are going to miss that. The NBA is going

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Speaker 4: to miss that. The sports world is going to miss that.

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Speaker 4: What was your takeaway from it? Do you think this

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Speaker 4: was his last All Star game?

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Speaker 5: I can't say this last All Star game? But you know,

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Speaker 5: he's sending a little mixed messages and you know, and

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Speaker 5: he always into that press conference. I got some different

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Speaker 5: things on the table that I can tap into. I

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Speaker 5: just got to go back to last week with Cuffs.

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Speaker 5: You know, he said something last week that makes sense

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Speaker 5: to me. Returning to Cleveland for a farewell tour. It

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Speaker 5: makes sense, especially with the current rosters that they have,

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Speaker 5: adding James Harden to the to this team in the

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Speaker 5: Eastern Conference, it makes them, it makes them a contender.

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Speaker 5: But twenty one seasons, man, and I mean, he's not

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Speaker 5: shlowing that he's slowing down. He's averaging twenty two, you know,

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Speaker 5: seven and five. I mean twenty two points in the

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Speaker 5: NBA is as the gold standard of you know, he's

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Speaker 5: still an All Star and he will be going into

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Speaker 5: his twenty second season next year, but I don't think

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Speaker 5: it's his last un All Star game. I believe he's

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Speaker 5: going to come back for next year and he's gonna

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Speaker 5: make the All Star team.

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Speaker 2: I believe. I believe him.

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Speaker 5: He's going to announce it when he wants to walk

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Speaker 5: away from the game of basketball bad But as for

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Speaker 5: right now, he's still still putting people in the stands,

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Speaker 5: averaging twenty two points a game. He's still one of

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Speaker 5: the best players in the world, even at forty forty

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Speaker 5: one years old.

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Speaker 2: And like you said, people are I believe, the league.

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Speaker 5: And fans and we are going to miss him when

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Speaker 5: he decide to walk away from the game of basketball,

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Speaker 5: because like you said, he is a goat and he

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Speaker 5: is going to go down in history as being one

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Speaker 5: of the best basketball players that we have ever seen

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Speaker 5: ever to lace him up. But I believe that when

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Speaker 5: he does choose to retire, I don't think it's going

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Speaker 5: to be during the season. I believe that he's going

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Speaker 5: to announce it before the season so he gets his

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Speaker 5: farewell tour as he deserves, because he wants to let

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Speaker 5: everybody know, you know, prior to going into the season,

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Speaker 5: that this is going to be the last time that

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Speaker 5: you are going to see me in this arena, and

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Speaker 5: he goes on the road and plays basketball.

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Speaker 4: Hm hm, and you think it's going to take place

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Speaker 4: in Cleveland.

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Speaker 2: In Cleveland, it makes all the world. I mean, it

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Speaker 2: does make sense.

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Speaker 4: I mean he went back and got got done what

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Speaker 4: he needed to get done, winning championships. There after it

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Speaker 4: didn't go the way he wanted it the first time around.

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Speaker 4: Maybe you go back, you end it there. It makes sense.

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Speaker 4: It makes sense. I wonder will he do an announcement

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Speaker 4: to make sure that everybody knows that he's taking his

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Speaker 4: talents from LA back to Cleveland to finish it out

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Speaker 4: and then go from there.

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Speaker 2: Be be curious to see. But hey, man, I wish

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Speaker 2: him all the best. I wish him well.

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Speaker 4: He continues to drive uh the sport and continues to

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Speaker 4: be an ambassador of the game. And for whatever you

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Speaker 4: know people want to say, I mean, Lebron James be

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Speaker 4: bawling still right now with his old ass. So hey,

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Speaker 4: you got Jonas Knox coming up next. Hope you enjoyed

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Speaker 4: the show. Make sure you check out the podcast. This

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Speaker 4: is up on Game. It's Flexiko burds LeVar Arrington, this

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Speaker 4: is Fox Sports.

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Speaker 2: Reck