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Speaker 3: Shout him, Hey shot him? Hey, shout him, Hey shot him. May.

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Speaker 3: It's funny because it's true. Shouta May. Shouta May. Fox

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Speaker 1: Welcome inside final hour tonight The Jason Smith Show with

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Speaker 1: My bes friend Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 3: GIDEO. Wait where Yeah, I saw your best friend was

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Speaker 3: Timothy Shellman. Shat he is?

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Speaker 1: Shout out Okay, but shout timmy shallow May is my

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Speaker 1: second best friend, my second best friend.

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Speaker 3: Shoutabay, shouta May. That's disrespectful.

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Speaker 1: Shout short side Harmon Harmon Harmon. That doesn't it doesn't

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Speaker 1: run Now you sound like Beavis shat.

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Speaker 3: Chat Harmon Harmon.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, man, oh, how about you just pull my carbon's

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Speaker 1: pants down and sew them on fire?

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Speaker 3: Ha ha yeah yeah yeah, harmon pants fire shut up.

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Speaker 3: Purple pants, purple purple purple pants d D. Yeah, that

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Speaker 3: don't work, okay, shanty, So it's pretty good.

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Speaker 4: That escalated quickly, immediately had my pants around my anchors.

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Speaker 3: Whoa, whoa, whoa paint whoa whoa.

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Speaker 1: I mean what you did. I know we're in safe harbor,

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Speaker 1: but wow, man, come on, you can't just say stuff

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Speaker 1: like that.

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Speaker 3: That's what you did. You set me on fire.

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Speaker 1: Nobody is nobody is safe from that.

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Speaker 3: You started it, jerk boy. Okay, I can have your

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Speaker 3: words played back to you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, you could say I started it, but you

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Speaker 1: know I if I lead you to water and you drink,

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Speaker 1: it's your decision to drink. Just so, all I did

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Speaker 1: was throw your words back at you, and now your

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Speaker 1: painton me is the bad guy, Jue. That's kind of

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Speaker 1: how it goes, man, that's kind how it goes. You

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Speaker 1: decide you'd i'd bring you there, You decide.

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Speaker 3: That's how it works, Ah, swinging neck breaker, your ass

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Speaker 3: shot him? Hey, Shota may shout him, hey shout himy.

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Speaker 1: So we're surviving past tonight with no NHL, no NBA

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Speaker 1: until tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Right, So one day is okay?

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 1: One day is all right. I mean Aaron Gordon, okay,

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Speaker 1: you have more time off that you need, but.

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Speaker 4: Uh so, hey he gave it the Oak College try

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Speaker 4: and then was mad, he did you know we need more.

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Speaker 3: Days off you?

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Speaker 1: Hey, listen, I am the first just Aaron Gordon who

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Speaker 1: says after you've heard on the promo all the time, saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: I wish we had more days off in between games.

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Speaker 1: If I'm Adam Silver, right, I mean he doesn't want

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Speaker 1: to do any things. He wants to do nothing. But

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Speaker 1: I say, you know, here's the thing. I can give

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Speaker 1: you guys all the days off you want. I can

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Speaker 1: give you guys all the day We could play sixty

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Speaker 1: five game games a year.

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Speaker 3: Everything be good. You guys got to give back some money?

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Speaker 1: Oh oh okay, well, because you know, with having less games,

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Speaker 1: the owners are going to make less money, so they

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Speaker 1: got to take less pup.

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Speaker 3: I could do that for you, but you got to

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Speaker 3: give some money back. Oh oh well, I don't know

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Speaker 3: about that. Oh okay, okay, No, it's bad math. Neither

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Speaker 3: side giving up that much. No, no, no.

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Speaker 4: Let's run out players twelve through fifteen and a couple

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Speaker 4: of G leaguers for the final ten fifteen games.

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Speaker 1: So while we are waiting, well again, we have the

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Speaker 1: night night off, the night we have we have. Look,

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Speaker 1: I got both my teams in the Eastern Conference Finals

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Speaker 1: in the NHL and the NBA. I'm dealing with that

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Speaker 1: sat stuff right now, dealing with a lot of stuff. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's okay, it's may. I got bigger I got bigger

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Speaker 1: fish to fry white now. Man, I got the Knicks

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Speaker 1: and the Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference Finals.

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Speaker 3: I got a lot of stuff happening. Man, I'm done.

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Speaker 1: I'm like when when bulldoor when they're on the mound,

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Speaker 1: going Okay, we need a live rooster, right take the

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Speaker 1: curse with the Hextra's glove. No one knows who to

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Speaker 1: get Jimmy and Millie for a for a wedding president.

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Speaker 1: We're dealing with a lot of stuff here. I'm dealing

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Speaker 3: I the Canes or the Knicks next show? Oh no,

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Speaker 3: come on, stop with that. Stop. The Panthers are pretty good,

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Speaker 3: That's what I mean. I think the Hurricanes have been

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be We're sweeping the Pacers, right, We're gonna

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Speaker 1: sweep the Pacers. Nix in foro mix in four and

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Speaker 1: unlike the Celtics series, we won't have to go from

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Speaker 1: Nixon four chance to Nixon five, chance to Nixon six

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Speaker 3: It's happening.

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Speaker 4: Well, sometimes you just gotta go with, well what you got.

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Speaker 4: I'm trying to find series odds for you. I'm waiting

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow night when Rick Carlisle starts, uh comp complaining about

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Speaker 3: I was Friday.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no, no, that's a that's a long lead

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Speaker 4: kind of story right there.

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Speaker 1: Okay, because I wanted to see if like that was actually,

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Speaker 4: Sure, well, you know, Michael Malone's gonna do some broadcasting.

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Speaker 3: Mike, Yeah, you know, that's pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: That's too bad. Yeah, I wish that would happen. So

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Speaker 3: a Nick sweep is about ten to one.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, ten to one, ten two to one,

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Speaker 1: nix in four ten two one, nix in But the

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Speaker 1: big NBA story that he does involve the Knicks and

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Speaker 1: following the Knicks victory over the Celtics in Game six,

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Speaker 1: and Knicks fans start throwing garbage at the guy, and

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Speaker 1: there's no place for that. Would be the first one

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Speaker 1: to tell you. I'm not going to say, well, Knicks fans, no,

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Speaker 1: on him. And this is like big bags of garbage.

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Speaker 1: big blue bags of garbage which are left on the

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Speaker 1: They leave stuff out and they then the garbage trucks

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Speaker 1: And it got to the point where it got the

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Speaker 1: with McAfee by giving him two tickets to Game four.

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Speaker 3: So it's great, you're gonna get to go see the

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Speaker 3: last Pacers game of the year.

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Speaker 1: So he's going, he's going, He's going game going to

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: And I don't want to say I don't want to

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Speaker 1: to throw guard. I mean, you shouldn't throw garbage. People

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Speaker 1: make Knicks fans look awful.

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Speaker 4: Did anybody make a video where they're throwing garbage at

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Speaker 3: Awful? I think you're gonna say Kicks fans of garbage.

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Speaker 3: That was your line for us, well too, Okay, so.

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Speaker 1: There's no place for that, And I'm being there's no

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Speaker 1: place for that. It makes Knicks fans look bad, it

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Speaker 1: makes all the fans look bad. There's no place for that.

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Speaker 1: But then I saw the interview he did and what

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Speaker 1: he talked about, you know, wearing the Pacers jersey into

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Speaker 1: throngs of Knicks fans. He said that he wrapped the

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Speaker 1: Pacers after the Knicks knocked out the Celtics and he

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Speaker 1: got a little too close to the enemy.

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Speaker 3: Quote.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I can go into the mob,

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Speaker 1: but I go close by and feel the energy. Get

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Speaker 1: ready for the series, make the series even better. When

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Speaker 1: the Pacers beat the Knicks, they got me. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: let me just say this. This is not again not

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Speaker 1: You should be able to wear a jersey anywhere you

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: I live in the real world. And if you're gonna

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Speaker 1: fans are emotional coming out of this and all the

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Speaker 1: stuff is going on, and if you're gonna go willingly

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Speaker 3: Man. I'm not saying you deserve it, not for a second.

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Speaker 1: But you have to make a smarter decision and go, Hey,

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Speaker 1: maybe wearing a PACER's jersey and getting in clothes with

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Speaker 1: thing to do, right, maybe unless I want to do

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Speaker 1: tickets to game four. But that's like because the guy

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Speaker 1: doesn't run away. He kind of walks away, like he's

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Speaker 1: almost like he's taunting them a little bit, like if

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Speaker 1: but he was there because he kind of wanted to be,

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Speaker 1: So I gotta say listen if that's you know, look,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to see a guy get hit with

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Speaker 1: garbage all of that. But at the same you know,

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Speaker 1: you have to understand that if you make a bad

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Speaker 1: decision like that, that can happen that is outside of

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Speaker 1: do you have to see it games where where guys

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Speaker 1: come out wearing the other team's jersey and they say

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Speaker 1: and sucker punches them, or their big brawls. It happens

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Speaker 1: all the time, right, So maybe make a smarter decision

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Speaker 1: then wearing a PACER's jersey walk around a bunch of

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Speaker 1: Knicks fans and unless you wanted to do that, and

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Speaker 1: if you want to do that, well, okay, Unfortunately.

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Speaker 3: This is what can happen.

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Speaker 1: Right, So I'm saying the guy, you got to make

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Speaker 1: a smarter decision that unless it's what he wanted, Unless

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Speaker 1: he wanted something like this, and get it. And look

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Speaker 1: now he is getting tickets and they again, not running

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Speaker 1: away from the fans and getting garbage thrown at him.

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Speaker 1: If someone threw garbage at me and there was a

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Speaker 1: there was a bunch of fans behind me and they

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Speaker 1: I could because I know I'm not safe in that situation.

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Speaker 3: But this is how this is how it unfolded.

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Speaker 1: So there's a little bit of dude, make a smarter decision,

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Speaker 1: if you know, in situations like this, unless it's what

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Speaker 1: This is now day three of Caitlin Clark Angel Rees

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Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark's foul of Angel Rees continues to gain headlines,

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Speaker 3: You gotta go back to the beginning. The deal the beginning,

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Speaker 1: The foul play involving Caitlyn Clark and Angel Reese was

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Speaker 1: Why did that happen? Why did all of this? Why

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Speaker 3: They didn't.

435
00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:30,000
Speaker 1: They pushed it out there and got lucky that there

436
00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:32,320
Speaker 1: was nothing else scheduled opposite it.

437
00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:36,080
Speaker 4: All right, Possibly waited for the I don't remember the sequencing.

438
00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:39,359
Speaker 4: Maybe they waited for the NBA to announce some scheduling,

439
00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:42,040
Speaker 4: but they don't really do that until the finals, So

440
00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:46,440
Speaker 4: they lucked out they were running unopposed, saved for the Preakness,

441
00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:50,320
Speaker 4: which was crazy because the favorite came back should have

442
00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:53,639
Speaker 4: been a disqualification. Doesn't matter, took down what was a

443
00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:56,320
Speaker 4: long shot that led most of the race, but that

444
00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:58,359
Speaker 4: was the only other thing going on big in the

445
00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:03,639
Speaker 4: sporting universe was a whole which has a very ardent

446
00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:09,760
Speaker 4: group of supporters subset, probably smaller than the WNBA fan base.

447
00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:12,080
Speaker 3: So you have this marquee matchup.

448
00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:16,440
Speaker 1: So yeah, all your questions before and certainly afterwards, Hell,

449
00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:18,520
Speaker 1: this is where you lean into it. It's like, yeah,

450
00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:21,919
Speaker 1: it's on, Like you're gonna give it a million sound bites,

451
00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:25,560
Speaker 1: like it's a prize fight, and instead you gave just

452
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Speaker 1: a quick now no comment.

453
00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:29,120
Speaker 3: It's like no, no, lean.

454
00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:31,840
Speaker 1: Into the moment. It's good for box office, it's good

455
00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:35,080
Speaker 1: for business. And in the end, this isn't going away

456
00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:37,920
Speaker 1: just because you know, comment this because guess what, You're

457
00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:39,600
Speaker 1: gonna play again and again.

458
00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:42,240
Speaker 3: There's gonna be almost five more times. The Yankees and

459
00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,240
Speaker 3: they're the Yankees and Red Sox. The WNBA played five

460
00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:45,880
Speaker 3: times this.

461
00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:49,479
Speaker 4: Year and all of them are going to be in

462
00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:54,800
Speaker 4: isolated television windows to grab the most audience. You can

463
00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:59,199
Speaker 4: so while they don't like the extra necessarily, and I

464
00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:04,400
Speaker 4: say that with an a wig, it's good for box office. Look,

465
00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:07,719
Speaker 4: folks can show show their ass by, you know, proving

466
00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,080
Speaker 4: that they haven't watched a bit of the game, because

467
00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:16,520
Speaker 4: beyond just that play, I was captivated right watching each possession.

468
00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:20,240
Speaker 4: There's a lot of physical play going on. Clark's going

469
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:23,520
Speaker 4: towards a triple double, and again, it's the dawning of

470
00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:25,760
Speaker 4: a new season. You want to see what's next.

471
00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:25,920
Speaker 3: Now.

472
00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:28,800
Speaker 4: Even as it became a burial, you had a bunch

473
00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:32,480
Speaker 4: of back and forth, a little extracurricular around the baskets,

474
00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:34,359
Speaker 4: like all right, this this is a powder keg that

475
00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:37,560
Speaker 4: could blow. And that's what we got in that flashpoint

476
00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:41,000
Speaker 4: moment there, because there were plenty of other other isolated things.

477
00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,359
Speaker 4: If folks want to go through that whole game, I

478
00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:46,520
Speaker 4: won't bore you by chronicling them all, but I'll start

479
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:48,879
Speaker 4: by just saying the part of that play that nobody

480
00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:51,560
Speaker 4: else talked about was Howard getting the forearm shiver in

481
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Speaker 4: the back.

482
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Speaker 3: Yes, that seems.

483
00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,840
Speaker 4: From all of this, right, so you know all of that.

484
00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:03,239
Speaker 4: There's so many storylines, But for Angel Reese, there's a

485
00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:06,679
Speaker 4: certain segment of media and fandom. She ain't gonna win

486
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,640
Speaker 4: no matter what she says or does. Right, She's been

487
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:12,120
Speaker 4: paying it as the villain to some and the hero

488
00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:14,600
Speaker 4: to others. It's all about you know, who's telling the

489
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:18,160
Speaker 4: story and point of view. And that's the brilliance of sports.

490
00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:19,359
Speaker 4: It's the brilliance of movies.

491
00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:19,720
Speaker 3: Right.

492
00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:23,800
Speaker 4: We love the anti hero Taylor Swift song I went

493
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:27,159
Speaker 4: went multi platinum, But you know, breaking Bad, all the

494
00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:30,200
Speaker 4: Sony Soprano, all these other characters that we love not

495
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:33,240
Speaker 4: necessarily good good guys, and you have to decide the

496
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,520
Speaker 4: shades of gray because Angel Reeson ain't all bad, and

497
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:40,200
Speaker 4: neither and Kitlin Clark ain't all good. She gets after it,

498
00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:44,520
Speaker 4: she's chirpy, she like all of those things. It's it,

499
00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:46,920
Speaker 4: but it's part of what competition is, and it's good

500
00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:49,679
Speaker 4: for the game. So when people start taking it in

501
00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,520
Speaker 4: these sideways directions. We didn't even get into some of

502
00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 4: these other commentators in the nonsense they're spewing today because

503
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:57,160
Speaker 4: they're not worth the error.

504
00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:00,600
Speaker 3: But it's it's just that that level of discussion.

505
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:04,120
Speaker 1: You know, if you're one of the participants, recognize this

506
00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:05,840
Speaker 1: is what the league is currently defined.

507
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 4: As a lot of these other players are great. A

508
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 4: lot of the history of the league where you've got

509
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:11,359
Speaker 4: a lot of great players that are.

510
00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 1: Still playing, Kelsey plumb uh and and Asia Wilson and

511
00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 1: go on down the line.

512
00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:18,399
Speaker 4: They're great players. Right now, this is box office on

513
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 4: a whole other level.

514
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,480
Speaker 1: So lean into it, because it's gonna work without you

515
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,000
Speaker 1: if you don't. Now, the other part of this living

516
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,119
Speaker 1: rent free is always fun is the rivalry aspect. Right,

517
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:31,959
Speaker 1: You've seen that a lot today. Hey, the rivalry between

518
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,240
Speaker 1: the two, it's great. The rivalry help you. Of course,

519
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:37,080
Speaker 1: rivalries help. Yeah, because that's my first day in sports. Oh,

520
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 1: rivalries help. Of course, rivalries help.

521
00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,360
Speaker 3: But no, no, no, you have to do that for nine minutes. Now.

522
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:47,360
Speaker 1: This is where the w NBA needs to have something

523
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:51,200
Speaker 1: ready in a big way, very very soon. Right because

524
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 1: now the other part of this, that's that that's that's

525
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:58,960
Speaker 1: unfortunately gotten attention past this is that there are reports

526
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 1: that potentially there or some hateful fan comments towards Angel

527
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,240
Speaker 1: Reese during the season open. There's some social media comments

528
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,360
Speaker 1: that this is what was said and directed towards her

529
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 1: from the game. And this is where we talked about

530
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:13,160
Speaker 1: the investigation that's going on as WNBA is looking into

531
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:13,800
Speaker 1: these comments.

532
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:14,560
Speaker 3: Now.

533
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,240
Speaker 1: Fever players talked about it today. They said they didn't

534
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 1: hear anything specific, but they understand the need for an investigation.

535
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:22,879
Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark put out a statement and she said, no

536
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,159
Speaker 1: place for that in our game, no place for that

537
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:25,959
Speaker 1: in society.

538
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 3: So here's the investigation going into this.

539
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 1: Whatever the outcome is, the w has to be ready

540
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,240
Speaker 1: with nipping this in the butt because you don't want

541
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:41,640
Speaker 1: a rivalry to break along racial lines to the point

542
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 1: where every time they play against each other, something that

543
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 1: comes up is inflamed racially, right, Because either you're gonna

544
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 1: find out that there were some fan comments that said

545
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 1: things to Angel Reese, which is, wow, this is going

546
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:55,919
Speaker 1: to make the Fever look really bad. And you already

547
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:59,920
Speaker 1: had last year some social media comments that was spotlight

548
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 1: about the Fever fans and it looks really really bad. Hey,

549
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 1: come on, we can't have the fans here, you know,

550
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 1: saying things. It's not it's not right in any any way.

551
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 1: We don't want it. Or the WNBA is going to

552
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,720
Speaker 1: find out that there is nothing and that maybe this

553
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:17,639
Speaker 1: was manufactured and then it's okay. Now here's something that

554
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 1: was said because people didn't like the fact the way

555
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 1: that Angel Reese was you know, got fouled by Caitlin Clark.

556
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 3: So now here's the racial aspect of it. The other way.

557
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:28,159
Speaker 1: Whatever is going to come out, it's gonna come out

558
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 1: one of these one of these things. Either the WA

559
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,119
Speaker 1: is gonna find stuff to be bad for the fever

560
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,120
Speaker 1: or the WA is not going to find so it's

561
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 1: gonna be bad for this relationship. The W has to

562
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 1: be ready with something to put this to bed because

563
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 1: the one thing, you know, what you want the rivalry.

564
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 1: Of course you do. Do you like the hate that

565
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,679
Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark gets? Yeah, I think on on on not

566
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:48,600
Speaker 1: every level you do, but some you'll put up with

567
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 1: it because it's attention to the league. But you don't

568
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 1: want this to break so objectively and objectively on racial lines.

569
00:26:57,359 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 1: You don't want that because that's something that will tear

570
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 1: the League of part tear fans.

571
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 3: Apart, and that's no good.

572
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 1: So the w's got a real issue on their hands

573
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:06,159
Speaker 1: because you got to you want to take care of

574
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:08,679
Speaker 1: this now because you don't want every time and everything

575
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,199
Speaker 1: that comes up between Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark to

576
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,679
Speaker 1: be along along racial lines. Now there's certain things you're

577
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 1: never gonna be able to stop on social media. And

578
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:17,639
Speaker 1: I get that, right, people are always gonna say what

579
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 1: they want to say, and okay, you shrug your shoulders.

580
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:23,960
Speaker 1: But stuff like this that is either there's documented or

581
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: it's manufact you can't have that, Like, that's not where

582
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: you want to go with this league where you have

583
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,119
Speaker 1: built a lot of goodwill. You've built a lot of eyeballs.

584
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 1: You matter, You're part of the every day of rundown

585
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 1: of sports on TV and the radio. You've made it, man,

586
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,360
Speaker 1: w you have made it. Yes, you're still figuring out

587
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: how to deal with success, because I've always say that's

588
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 1: the biggest thing.

589
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:46,440
Speaker 3: The Dub's got to show me. You can deal with success. Right.

590
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,439
Speaker 1: You dealt with not being successful for a while, Right,

591
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 1: you worried about keeping the league going and money from

592
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 1: the NBA. Now you're incredibly successful. You've made it be

593
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 1: able to deal with success. This is something they got

594
00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 1: to take care of. They got to have some hope there.

595
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 1: They're dealing with some kind of plan for whatever this

596
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 1: this investigation comes out, because that's where they got to

597
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,159
Speaker 1: come out with something strong. So this part of it

598
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 1: doesn't fester. I don't know if it's something as simple

599
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 1: as Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese appearing together and bearing

600
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,480
Speaker 1: the hatchet, so it's not so it doesn't become this

601
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 1: along racial lines, whatever it is. But they have to

602
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: have something ready so this is not the part of

603
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 1: the rivalry that takes hold, because it will take hold.

604
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:28,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, the unfortunate part of it is I mean, look,

605
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:32,399
Speaker 4: it's it's elemental. It's like one is black, one is white.

606
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:36,920
Speaker 4: That's not going away. So how people respond to it

607
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 4: is always going to be difficult to monitor. Certainly in stadium,

608
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:43,239
Speaker 4: all right, you got more security and you take all

609
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 4: those measures as you can. But the online, the commentary,

610
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 4: all of that. I don't know how much you can

611
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 4: adjudicate and look into that or you're going to suddenly

612
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 4: hire a bunch of staff, you know, to find out

613
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 4: if these guys are ticket holders or whatever. I mean,

614
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 4: there's a lot of measures, I guess and hoops you

615
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 4: can jump through to go through it. And the two

616
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 4: of them, obviously you have levels of condemnation of it

617
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:15,959
Speaker 4: in their statements. Uh, you know, abhorring the idea that

618
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 4: you have that element in the building. But I don't

619
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 4: know how much more you can do beyond that, right,

620
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 4: because they're still going to play physical basketball, and no

621
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 4: matter how much off the court, you know, shaking hands

622
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 4: and appearing in PSA s and whatever, you know, when

623
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 4: again out on the court, they're still going to be competitive.

624
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 4: It's still going to be a tough, physical game. And

625
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 4: I think that's the the other part to this is

626
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:42,960
Speaker 4: you know it is, and you bring it. It's a

627
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 4: physical game, and you bring in eyeballs of maybe folks

628
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 4: that haven't watched the women's game, uh, and they think

629
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 4: folks are being unduly attacked and and and get defensive

630
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 4: and a bit out of sorts and out of pocket

631
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 4: with it. Like with this, I hope it's a swift

632
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 4: investigation and they find, you know, one way or the

633
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 4: other how it is. But you know, it's always the

634
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 4: you know, proving the negative part is a difficult proposition.

635
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 4: But certainly for other Fever fan it's you know, at

636
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 4: their home games and certainly on the road, it's incumbent

637
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 4: upon them that the old if you see something, say

638
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 4: something to keep it safe for everybody and keep the

639
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 4: players safe and make sure that that environment stays raucous

640
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 4: and positive because they're riding a pretty good wave. It

641
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 4: would be a horrible thing if this were able to

642
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 4: tear part of it away and become a negative headline

643
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 4: that remains exit.

644
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,920
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645
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646
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Speaker 1: to find out what's trending in the wide world of

647
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Speaker 1: sports from a guy who's been called the Anthony Banda

648
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649
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Speaker 3: I think he just called me a loser, very eloquently,

650
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 3: not requiring a thought for something.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna say that, but you dropped the mic

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Speaker 1: with that punchline.

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Speaker 5: So I've seen the Dodger pitching this past week, and

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Speaker 5: you can lead a horse to water.

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Speaker 3: It's Steve Desager with watch Trending.

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Speaker 5: By the way, there was one WNBA game tonight, Seattle

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Speaker 5: a winner at Dallas seventy nine seventy one Neca Guomaka

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Speaker 5: twenty three points, eighteen rebounds. In the NBA, Oklahoma City

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Speaker 5: host Minnesota to start the Western Conference Finals on Tuesday night.

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Speaker 5: In the NHL, Florida is in the East Finals, starting

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Speaker 5: Tuesday against Carolina. The Philadelphia Eagles gave coach Nick Sirianni

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Speaker 5: a contract extension to baseball. Milwaukee headed Baltimore a seventh

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Speaker 5: straight loss, five to four with a run in the

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Speaker 5: bottom of the eighth. William Contreras went four for four

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Speaker 5: two RBIs, including the game winner. The Dodgers lost at

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Speaker 5: home again. Arizona beat him nine to five after a

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Speaker 5: seven nothing lead in the third. Sho hey Otani with

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Speaker 5: his seventeenth homer that leads the Majors, Mookie Betts with

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Speaker 5: two solo shots. Dodgers started the night first in the

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Speaker 5: NL West, a game over San Diego and San Francisco

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Speaker 5: Padres did not play. Giants lost at home three to

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Speaker 5: one to Kansas City in a game that was scoreless

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Speaker 5: after seven. Chris Bubich got the win for the Royals.

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Speaker 5: Five and two record lowered his EIRA eight to one point.

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Speaker 3: Four to seven.

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Speaker 5: Angels sent the A's to a six straight loss, four

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Speaker 5: to three. By the way, it was the Angels that

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Speaker 5: just swept a three game series at Dodger Stadium. Former

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Speaker 5: Dodger outfielder Yasio Puige was cut by his Korean League team.

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Speaker 5: The Braves activated pitcher Spencer Streider. He could start Tuesday,

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Speaker 5: Cleveland at Minnesota was suspended by rain after three at

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Speaker 5: ings twins, leading two to one. They hoped to continue

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Speaker 5: it on Tuesday, weather permitting, it was See had a

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Speaker 5: winning five to one at the White Sox, Julio Rodriguez

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Speaker 5: a grand slam in the eighth. The Mariners just swept

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Speaker 5: a three game set in San Diego. White Sox have

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Speaker 5: lost five in a row. Kyle Schwarber with a late

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Speaker 5: solo homer and a Philadelphia comeback win nine to three

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Speaker 5: at Colorado, sixteenth round tripper of the year for Schwarber,

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Speaker 5: Colorado's record eight and thirty nine, Philly twenty nine and eighteen,

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Speaker 5: the Mets twenty nine and nineteen. After losing at Boston

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Speaker 5: three to one save to Eroaldis Chapman, Red Sox manager

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Speaker 5: Alex Cora was out tonight attending his daughter's graduation at

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Speaker 5: Boston College. The Cubs wound up losing, even though Miguel

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Speaker 5: Amaya had a homer and five RBIs. Miami scored twice

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Speaker 5: in the bottom of the ninth to beat the Cobes

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Speaker 5: eight to seven. On FS one, Cincinnati won its fifth

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Speaker 5: straight games, seven to one at Pittsburgh. That game was

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Speaker 5: two to one after seven innings. Saint Louis and Houston

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Speaker 5: with victories.

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Speaker 3: Back to you, Thank you, Steve.

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Speaker 1: Though The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike

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Speaker 1: Harmon Live and the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next,

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Speaker 1: we'll go big game hunting the Western Conference Final set

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Speaker 1: to begin tomorrow night. Who's headed to the NBA Finals?

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Speaker 1: We make our picks and tell you next rid Here

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Speaker 1: Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Hi.

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Speaker 3: Netflix saved Elmo. Now I'm gonna get to go beyond

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Speaker 3: Stranger Things. You can see Elmo on a streaming service.

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Speaker 3: Elmo in the Upside Down. Let's Go.

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Speaker 4: Elmo finally takes how David Harbor.

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Speaker 1: Spoiler alert, Elmo's best friends with eleven Boy.

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Speaker 3: She's a lot older than when the series started. New

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Speaker 3: Cookie wants there, go ahead. Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: She said, it's your Cookie, Monsters.

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Speaker 2: That was contract Gulars.

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Speaker 3: It is for Caitlyn.

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Speaker 1: That's Caitlyn Clark to me, Oh, that'd be the cow

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Speaker 1: Albany bowls Wan.

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Speaker 3: Flagrant. No, I'm digging. They said, Netflix, save Sesame Street.

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Speaker 3: That's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: I'll get to watch like the Eat or Not, and

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Speaker 1: then I can go watch uh Netflix, I can.

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Speaker 3: I can watch Sesame Streets Never Gonna Die.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that says to advance for you. Though they saved it. No,

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Speaker 1: come on, they count to numbers. I know they don't

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Speaker 1: go higher.

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Speaker 2: Still don't know.

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Speaker 1: I just I just need to get to four because

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00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:22,359
Speaker 1: that's how many games gonna take. The Knicks to win

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00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 1: this series against Pacers. Nicks and four Nixon four.

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Speaker 3: Careful what you wish for? Uh? What do you careful?

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00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:29,839
Speaker 3: What I wish for? They're playing the Pacers so bad.

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Speaker 3: There's nothing you can do about that.

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00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,760
Speaker 4: I can't change the Wednesday is going to be absolute chaos.

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Speaker 1: Lord, for I wish, I wish I could change it

741
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:42,840
Speaker 1: and say, hey, you're gonna play the Nets instead, But

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Speaker 1: I can't do that.

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00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 3: We might get a triple bang. So tomorrow way win,

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Speaker 3: I mean the streets in New York. I mean, who knows?

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00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: Tomorrow will pick the Knicks and the Pacers here nix

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00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 1: and four. But right now we are set spoiler for

747
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 1: the Western com Difference Finals to start tomorrow, the Thunder

748
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 1: and the Wolves and you know what, Look, this is

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Speaker 1: the finals I picked last year and I was like, man,

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Speaker 1: I'm a year ahead, But okay, that's fine. These are

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00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 1: the two best young teams in the Western Conference. That

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00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,359
Speaker 1: the Thunder clearly with a regular season where they showed

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Speaker 1: they were the.

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00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 3: Best team in the NBA, and.

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Speaker 1: The t Wolves, as talented as they are, took it

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Speaker 1: a little bit to get it going with a couple

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00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 1: of big new pieces they had to incorporate and Julius

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00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 1: Randall and Dante DiVincenzo. And clearly we have seen Julius

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00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:31,359
Speaker 1: Randall find his way. He has been terrific for them,

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Speaker 1: and they really hit their stride at the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. I'm taking the Thunder and six for two reasons. One,

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00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 1: I like the Thunder defense a little bit better, but

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Speaker 1: that's kind of the second reason.

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Speaker 3: I like when you see.

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00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 1: Stuff like hey, Alex Caruso was gonna guard Jokic for

766
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 1: forty possessions, Like what are you insane?

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Speaker 3: Oh no, wait? That actually worked really great and he

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00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 3: was plus forty for.

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Speaker 1: The game coming off the bench because he was able

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00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 1: to help deny Jokich the ball and make Jokic get

771
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 1: the ball and places he's not really used to. Like,

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00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:05,880
Speaker 1: it's an incredible move to be able to make that happen.

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00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 1: Both teams are good defensively, right, but I'm really more

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00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: high on the Thunder defense, but mainly the two best

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00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 1: players in this series SGA and Ann Edwards. Right, I

776
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 1: am more confident that I'm going to get a consistently

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00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 1: great playoff over a full series from SGA than I

778
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 1: am about Ann Edwards, because Ann Edwards still as great

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00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 1: as he is, He's still gonna have one or two

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00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,360
Speaker 1: games where it's boy, really needed more from you in

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00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:39,799
Speaker 1: this game. Right. It was just last series where where

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00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 1: Chris Finch called out Edwards said, hey, he needed more

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00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 1: from you. Hey, do you agree with coach now? I

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00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 1: thought I played really well defensively, thought I played really well.

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00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:49,400
Speaker 1: I don't know, No, I disagree like he still has that.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he quite has the maturity, quite has

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00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 1: the full leadership. And there's gonna be one or two

788
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 1: games where he's going to need to give the Tea

789
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: Wolves a little bit more either because the Thunder We're

790
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 1: gonna do something to slow him down. He's not gonna

791
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 1: know how to get past it. Not gonna be able

792
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 1: to get past it, and he's gonna have a couple

793
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: of games like that, whereas I don't see that from

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00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: Shay Gildess Alexander. I see him having a more consistent,

795
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 1: full six to seven game series, and that's gonna be

796
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 1: the difference. I will take the team with the best

797
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 1: player that I think is gonna have the best series.

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Speaker 3: So give me Oklahoma City and sga ooh. See.

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Speaker 4: Before we started this playoff run, I had the t

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Speaker 4: Wolves going one, because if you do end up in

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00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 4: the finals, I want Julius Randall staring you in the

802
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 4: face twenty two or more points eight of his last

803
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 4: nine games, coupling that with between seven and ten rebounds,

804
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 4: most of those efforts, extra energy, the length of the

805
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 4: defense on the perimeter. Look, they split the season series.

806
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:51,240
Speaker 4: Uh Now, it's a question of which style of game

807
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 4: you get because the first two we got into the hundreds,

808
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 4: but we're into the you know, one thirteen, one, sixteen,

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00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:00,320
Speaker 4: those are the highs in those two games and the

810
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 4: other two games one thirty one twenty three and one

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Speaker 4: thirty one one twenty eight. Let's go absolute chaos, and I.

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00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 1: Will tell you that's how this is gonna be efficiated

813
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 1: because the NBA wants eyeballs and it's not gonna look

814
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:16,320
Speaker 1: you'll get eyeballs Knicks, Pacers, no matter what. The games

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00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: could be fifty to forty nine, it doesn't matter. People

816
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 1: are gonna watch, but they want points in this series.

817
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 1: So I think it's gonna be. It's gonna be both

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00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: teams are gonna be able up and down the floor

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00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 1: a little bit more. It's gonna be a little bit

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00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 1: more of an advantage for the Thunder and again defensively

821
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: when they can pick their spots. So I think this

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Speaker 1: will be. They know who they're sending to each series,

823
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 1: and and they know we're gonna send officials to this series.

824
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 1: We want to see a lot of points. Who want

825
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: to see a lot of offense. That's what people want

826
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Speaker 1: to see, what the Thunder and the te Wolves. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I enjoyed it earlier today. I forget whether it was

828
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: uh Rachel Nichols or who had it, but they put

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00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 1: up the giant grid of the officials faces, Like I

830
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 1: remember the book I got when I first got to Northwestern.

831
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,800
Speaker 1: Here's your actual Facebook, so you walk around the campus

832
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 1: and you might actually know who these I thought it

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00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:02,840
Speaker 1: was really odd because really all it was was a

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Speaker 1: picture and a name is like, yes, because I'm carrying

835
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Speaker 1: this and I'm gonna be able to stare people down

836
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:11,760
Speaker 1: as they walk past me on campus. This really isn't helping,

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Speaker 1: but it was.

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Speaker 3: That kind of thing.

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Speaker 4: Here's your one sheeter and your primer for the But

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Speaker 4: they should have had some stats, right, How did these

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00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 4: officials call the Knicks?

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00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 1: How did these officials call the Pacers? How do they

843
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: call the Western Conference series? How many times did they

844
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Speaker 1: send SGA to the free throw line?

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Speaker 3: All of these things.

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00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 4: I need to know, man, I need the ins and

847
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:37,880
Speaker 4: outs and the breakdowns. But excited to get to it

848
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:40,439
Speaker 4: tomorrow that we still have a couple of these top

849
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 4: squads still alive to try to make their history.

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00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,839
Speaker 1: All right, So I'm going thunder and six. You're going

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00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 1: you had the t Wolves from the beginning of the playoffs.

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00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so t Wolves and seven. SGA after they lose,

853
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:54,400
Speaker 4: gets his MVP trophy.

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00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 1: Oh, they give it to him, and they give it

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00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 1: to him the locker room after the last so they say, here,

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00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 1: you guys to go to the NBA Finals.

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Speaker 4: Congratulations, Hey, SGA, come over here. You got the consolation prize.

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Speaker 3: You want, comes in on horses and grab it. That's true.

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