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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up straight Fire? I am It's me Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: Straight Fire for Thursday, July the tenth. I'm back, baby.

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Speaker 2: I think it was about a week off. I've forgotten.

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Speaker 2: I mean, these summer days they just get so hazy.

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Speaker 3: But it's great to be.

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Speaker 2: Back on the pod. Had some time off due to

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Speaker 2: I guess the Women's FIFA Club World Cup, which is

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Speaker 2: the thing also and it was airing on FS one,

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Speaker 2: so the herb was off, so they gave me time off.

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Speaker 3: I got to go watch my son play.

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Speaker 2: Volleyball in Orlando and tie up a couple fun business things,

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Speaker 2: saw some family.

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Speaker 3: It was a really productive trip.

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Speaker 2: Didn't pay a ton of attention to social media though,

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Speaker 2: you know, I was on the Gram and I get

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Speaker 2: you know, I get back.

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Speaker 3: I'm starting to catch up on some stuff. I hit

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Speaker 3: Rob g. I was like, damn, you know.

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Speaker 2: I had a couple of buddies hit me up, Hey,

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Speaker 2: what are you starting your fantasy football breakdowns?

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Speaker 4: NFL gambling?

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Speaker 2: And I'm like, well, I think the embers of NBA

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Speaker 2: free agency are still out there. Although that new Netflix

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Speaker 2: show Quarterback Season two with Kirk Cousins. I read some

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Speaker 2: sad stuff on Kirk Kirk Cousins is sad. We'll talk

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Speaker 2: about that, and of course, you know Caitlin Park, I

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Speaker 2: will say this, so.

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Speaker 3: You guys know, a little over a year ago, my

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Speaker 3: son was like.

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Speaker 4: Dad, you got it.

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Speaker 2: You got to do a YouTube page. That's where my

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Speaker 2: friends at school say they saw you. And I was like, well,

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Speaker 2: that's sad, but I guess the reality. So I started

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Speaker 2: a YouTube page. I just post some takes from the herd,

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Speaker 2: takes from here, and then I'll do the inner video interviews.

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Speaker 2: And it's like a slow grow, you know, like I

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Speaker 2: had listened to mister Beast talked to Joe Rogan about

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Speaker 2: YouTube growth, and they took him like a long time

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Speaker 2: before he had one big hit. And then occasionally other

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Speaker 2: hits started to happen. So a lot of video views

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Speaker 2: aren't big. And we did one recently with Kitlin Clark.

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Speaker 2: It was about the Katetler Clark book with Christine Brennan,

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Speaker 2: and I posted it and guys, I don't know if

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Speaker 2: it was the YouTube algorithm, but it got swept up.

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Speaker 2: It has more views than any interview video, every every

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Speaker 2: video interview I've done combined and the followers just keep

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Speaker 2: coming in, keep coming in, And so I figured we

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Speaker 2: might as well start with Kateler Clark because I was

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Speaker 2: unaware of this. So obviously she was injured for a

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Speaker 2: while and missed some time. She was still named to

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Speaker 2: the All Star team, and she returned bizarrely Tuesday afternoon.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know there were one o'clock tip offs of

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Speaker 2: the WNBA. Maybe Rob can tell me what that's about.

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Speaker 2: But they played the plucky Golden State Vlkyrie who beat

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Speaker 2: them the last time, and the fever just totally no showed.

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Speaker 3: Maybe it was a body clock thing.

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Speaker 2: Kateler Clark did return to action and was not particularly great.

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Speaker 2: Four of twelve May, two of five threes, you know,

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Speaker 2: four baskets, four turnovers, whatever. They lost it badly. By

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Speaker 2: nineteen Clark is still in the struggle bus. But what's

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Speaker 2: interesting was right around the time of this game, they

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Speaker 2: released the news they be in the WNBA and the

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Speaker 2: will have Angelries on the cover of the video game

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Speaker 2: for the upcoming season for twenty twenty six, and everybody's

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Speaker 2: celebrating it.

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Speaker 3: Again. If you're not on Twitter.

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Speaker 2: You're missing this stuff, right, But I mean, really, you're

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Speaker 2: not missing anything, but the brush fire happens. I'll be honest,

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Speaker 2: I did not see it. Robbers are like, yeah, you know,

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Speaker 2: people were. It was not outraged, but there were pockets

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Speaker 2: say swinging down. There's no rivalry between these two. It's

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Speaker 2: But people want to make it a thing because Angel

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Speaker 2: got the college ring and Caitlin Clark didn't. But whatever,

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Speaker 2: here's what's interesting. My first thought when said, oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: I don't know that it's a huge deal. I mean,

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Speaker 2: Obviously their biggest age group is eighteen to twenty four,

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Speaker 2: playing to their base by putting Angel Reese, who obviously

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Speaker 2: Like a lot of guys are jacket Angel rees. So

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Speaker 2: this to me was not a huge surprise. And if

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Speaker 2: you look at the Caitlin Clark fans, I think they

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Speaker 2: skew a little older. I don't have any data to

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Speaker 2: the younger I don't don't think the young crowd is

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Speaker 2: as into Caitlin Clark as they are Angel Reese. Now, Rob,

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Speaker 2: is that a fair statement. I'm sure somebody's gonna suggestion

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Speaker 2: that's being so racist.

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Speaker 3: I can't believe.

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Speaker 2: Like, again, that's just reality. If you're a video game,

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Speaker 2: you gotta play to your base. I don't know, are

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Speaker 2: they gonna put Luca on the When was the last

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Speaker 2: time a white guy was on the cover of two K, Like,

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Speaker 2: you play to your base.

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Speaker 4: Right, Rob, Yeah, this is one of those situations where,

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Speaker 4: like you, when I first saw it, I was really

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Speaker 4: taken it back because I'm full disclosure, I am not

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Speaker 4: like a diehard WNBA fan. I'll watch it when it's

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Speaker 4: do know enough about WNBA basketball to tell you that

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Speaker 4: Angel Reese is not a top five players, not a

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Speaker 4: top ten players, not a top fifteen, Like you'd have

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Speaker 4: so just with that in mind, I'm like, Okay, well,

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Speaker 4: let me see who's been on the cover before, Like

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Speaker 4: maybe maybe this is not totally unheard of where you

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Speaker 4: have a to put it mildly, an unaccomplished professional player

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Speaker 4: And even still that feels like a stretch because up

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Speaker 4: until this point, all due respect to Angel Reese, she's

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Speaker 4: best known for the me bounds, which is a wild

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Speaker 3: By the way, what is what I totally missed that first?

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Speaker 3: Some random person online just started calling it me bounds.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like you miss a shody, you get your own rebounds.

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Speaker 4: They call it a me bound because that's where a

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Speaker 4: She's known for that. She's known for being an antagonizer

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Speaker 4: of Caitlin Clark and if you want to make an

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Speaker 4: NBA comparison, she's basically like the Draymond Green of the WNBA.

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Speaker 4: Draymond is a great player at what he does. He's

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Speaker 4: the WNBA, at this point right now, Angel Rees is

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Speaker 4: not much of an offensive threat. She can score when

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Speaker 4: she gets put backs, things like that, but she's a

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Speaker 4: and she's marketable. So I understand that point, but it

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Speaker 4: just feels weird that if you're not gonna pick somebody

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Speaker 4: not going to pick the current heavy heavy favorite favorite

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Speaker 4: why wouldn't you just say, Hey, low hanging fruit, here's

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Speaker 4: Caitlyn Clark. To your point, maybe it doesn't feed the

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Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on, rob did you just say the

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Speaker 3: favorite for MVP with.

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Speaker 4: Somebody to call here? Yes?

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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, So nobody would know her if they put

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Speaker 4: Do people know Sga he's on the cover of the

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Speaker 3: I mean, he was just the MVP.

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Speaker 3: The MVP of the Finals, like he.

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Speaker 4: So, I guess, I guess that's the confusion is the

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Speaker 4: look back at their covers and it's not an exact science,

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Speaker 4: it's either a legend like somebody who has done a

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Speaker 4: you've had Jason Tatum beyond the cover as shea you

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Speaker 4: just mentioned Devin Booker had that run in the finals.

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Speaker 4: To your point, Luka, Doncics had been on the cover

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Speaker 4: So like, they do a good job of capitalizing on

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Speaker 4: this kind of stuff for the most part. And with

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Speaker 4: Angel Reese, it just feels like a like a money grab,

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Speaker 4: like to your point, like, hey, we're gonna market to

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Speaker 4: our demographic, We're not looking to expand anything. She's very

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Speaker 4: huge social media following, and she's gonna be a good

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Speaker 4: partner when it comes to tweety stuff out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, probably TikTok. I'm sure she's big on. I can't

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Speaker 2: do the TikTok. I mean, are you do you even

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Speaker 2: have an account?

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Speaker 4: Rob n No, I do not. You know, a satisfy five

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the thing my kids are. It's just easy

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Speaker 2: But when the screen pops up, there's just so much

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Speaker 2: can't do this.

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Speaker 2: Let's pivot from Caitlin Clark real quick to this Quarterback

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Speaker 2: Season two. I'm not a I think I've talked about this.

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Speaker 2: I think the Falcons screwed him rob. I mean, there's

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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm one of the people in this situation. It's

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Speaker 4: Well that's just a I know it's not a correct reference,

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Speaker 4: but it's for the lay person like you. You wipe

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Speaker 4: waiting in the wings. But with Kirk Cousins, I understand

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Speaker 4: and then they took Kirk Cousin in the fourth round like that?

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Speaker 2: The fourth round isn't a big commitment, Okay, so it's

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Speaker 4: Okay, that's fair. That's fair. So here's a better question.

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Speaker 4: Do I feel any sympathy for Kirk Cousins, who has

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's made a lot of money.

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Speaker 4: Like, why would I feel bad for you?

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Speaker 2: Sure?

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Speaker 4: I feel misled as a football fan. It's thinking you

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Speaker 4: You're getting guarantee contract after guarantee contractor for guarantee contract.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of no, no, here, You're right, and listen, you

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Speaker 4: Uh, he's done nothing on the field to really justify

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Speaker 2: Has Philip Rivers been that much better in his career

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Speaker 4: I mean he wants some divisions, right, He won the

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Speaker 4: Kirk Cousins is a one playoff win. Okay, Kirk Cousins

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Speaker 3: Don't even delete that leader Derek Carr or Kirk.

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Speaker 2: I mean, okay that this will be tough, This will

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Speaker 4: Oh God, now I didn't get to he might be

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Speaker 4: before your time. Yeah, it's littally. I mean, all I

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Speaker 4: that went fifteen to one. Wasn't that him as the quarterback?

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Speaker 4: That was before Colpepers. It must have been conting.

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Speaker 4: Yes? He was?

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Speaker 3: Damn would I do that? Weren't you in diapers at

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, he was. Cunningham was a runner up

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Speaker 2: for MVP that year. Cuttingham has three playoff wins, six

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Speaker 4: That's two more than Kirk Cousins.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Wow, Cunningham was on the custs with the Super Bowl

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Speaker 2: in that ninety eight What happened to them in ninety eight?

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Speaker 4: That was the missed field goal, right, the more than

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Speaker 2: Lost to the Falcons thirty to twenty seven. I think

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Speaker 2: dumb dumb dump that, Jamal Anderson. Yeah, Jamal Anderson, that's right.

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Speaker 3: Oh in overtime woo. Yeah, that was that was a

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Speaker 2: The flankings were favored by eleven in that game and

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Speaker 3: Worthy of discussion or not really not yet.

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Speaker 4: I mean it's all building. You can feel like the

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Speaker 4: Micah Parsons contract, you know, sitting there, TJ. Watt, He've

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Speaker 4: been on this one for months. You applause to you

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Speaker 4: should considered trading TJ. Watt. And then flash forward to

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Speaker 4: there was speculation that they might trade TJ Watt if

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Speaker 4: they can't read the long term contract. So yeah, J

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Speaker 4: Max never wrong, He's just early, just early.

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Speaker 2: We could wrap up with just some NBA real quick

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Speaker 2: rob a lot of Laker fans. The chase for Bradley

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Speaker 2: Beal is gonna get like everybody's getting their ducks in

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Speaker 2: a row because it seems like the Sons cannot trade

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Speaker 2: the The Sons cannot trade bial They're gonna take their

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Speaker 3: That seems like what's gonna happen.

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Speaker 2: At that point, he almost becomes Russell Wilson ish start

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Speaker 2: to shoehorn an NFL metaphor. And but when Russell Wilson

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Speaker 3: So Bradley Beal, if he gets waves and stretched, could

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Speaker 2: And the Clippers moved off Norman Powell, though, that's a

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Speaker 2: Brill could slide right in next to James Harden and

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Speaker 2: being said, Rob, I know you're you've got your ear

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Speaker 2: a world where they could steal Bradley Beal from the

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Speaker 4: That's the million dollar question Because all the reporting by

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Speaker 4: Brian Wenthorse, Zach Lowe, pick your favorite person, they all

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Speaker 4: it feels like the Norm Powell trade was the precursor

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Speaker 4: inexact science. I don't know if that would really play out,

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Speaker 3: Would do with the Lakers who shooting guard for them.

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Speaker 4: I mean, James Marten is your point. You'd have to

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Speaker 4: I would think Chris Dunn might start like he did

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Speaker 4: Luca Austin and Lebron. So I don't see him going

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Speaker 4: to milwaukeeve though it's probably the best landing spot in

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Speaker 4: terms of stack collecting, would just be to go to

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Speaker 4: Milwaukee where there's no you know, nobody there. Minnesota. I

436
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Speaker 4: think it's easy for when to get shouts there, but

437
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Speaker 4: by all accounts, he wants to be in a warm

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Speaker 4: weather city. He wants to be there in La or Miami.

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Speaker 4: And then with the Norm Powell news, Miami's basically off

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Speaker 4: the list. So it's down to Lakers' Clippers. I still

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Speaker 4: think it's gonna be Clippers, but I'm not like stamp

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Speaker 4: it clippers yet.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I wouldn't.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you remember when he came on

445
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Speaker 2: the pod, but the trainer Drew Hanlon, Yes, he's Tatum's guy.

446
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Speaker 2: He was from I believe, Missouri and like him and

447
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Speaker 2: Bradley Beal had a connection way back. And I just

448
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Speaker 2: wonder if there's a world where the Celtics sneakily get involved,

449
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Speaker 2: move off in Perny Simons and somehow get Beeal in

450
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Speaker 2: there and Beal and Brown is not bad at all.

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Speaker 3: That that's probably top six in the East.

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Speaker 2: But just a quick thing on Bradley Bill because I

453
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Speaker 2: know a lot of people are like, why are you

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Speaker 2: talking about him he sucks. First of all, he does

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Speaker 2: not suck. Yes, he's only a three time All start

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Speaker 2: and made one All NBA team. But what really hurt him,

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Speaker 2: besides John Wall getting hurt in DC when they were

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Speaker 2: starting to do some things, was COVID.

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Speaker 3: That COVID year, he was having the best season of

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Speaker 3: his career.

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Speaker 2: They were awful, but he was averaging thirty a game,

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Speaker 2: and the following season averaged thirty one. But he never

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Speaker 2: got back to those levels that demanded a trade and

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Speaker 2: Phoenix was a train wreck. However, he does have a

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Speaker 2: little injury history in the last few years, obviously, but

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Speaker 2: this is a guy. Last season, Rob shot forty nine

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Speaker 2: percent from the field thirty eight percent from three seventeen

468
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Speaker 2: points per game on a dog water team with I

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Speaker 2: mean that never got their act together. I think you

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Speaker 2: can instantly bump up those numbers just by playing with

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Speaker 2: Luca and Lebron. And if you're telling me down the

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Speaker 2: stretch in a game, the Lakers can go DeAndre Ayd

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Speaker 2: and Lebron, Luca bal and Reeves. That's a pretty prolific offense.

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Speaker 2: Lucas setting it up Reeves and Beal shooting, Lebron setting

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Speaker 2: it up I mean, you just take your turn, your turn,

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Speaker 2: my turn.

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Speaker 3: Let me set it up.

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Speaker 2: Let's see what they do and manipulate the defense. I

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Speaker 2: don't know if we've talked a lot out. Did we

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Speaker 2: talk DeAndre aiding.

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Speaker 4: A lot on here?

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Speaker 2: No, because it was done after Okay, we could save

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Speaker 2: that for tomorrow. But this spiel thing, I'll be honest.

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Speaker 2: I think Beal swings things considerably in the West.

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Speaker 4: I agree people don't want to believe he's good.

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Speaker 3: Folks.

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Speaker 2: Again, at fifty one million or whatever he was making,

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Speaker 2: he ain't great. But if you have Bradley Beal for

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Speaker 2: four or five million, which is what he could make,

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Speaker 2: it fe us on the Lakers or Clippers. That's a

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Speaker 2: steal one of the best contracts in the league for

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Speaker 2: four or five mili at his production. So I think

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Speaker 2: if he goes to the Clippers, that's not good for

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Speaker 2: the Lakers. I would say the Clippers are higher than

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Speaker 2: the Lakers in the West. If he goes to the Lakers,

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Speaker 2: I put the Lakers right there with Denver, Houston and

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Speaker 2: okay See, and Lakers could even be the best team

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Speaker 2: in the West with that.

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Speaker 3: And I know Bill doesn't play a ton of defense.

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Speaker 3: I'm just gonna remind you, Bless, they got fifty wins

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Speaker 3: last year.

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Speaker 2: Now, Rob is, a spokesperson for Lakers Nation, might be

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Speaker 2: too bullish on the Lakers and their Bradley bial efforts.

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Speaker 4: I don't think they could be the first in the

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Speaker 4: West because I think that's a different animal. Like the

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Speaker 4: regular season, young legs is usually what gets it done.

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Speaker 4: That's why I think, Okay, see, the odds say that

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Speaker 4: they are the highest win totals since the Katie Steph Warriors.

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Speaker 4: Like that, that's what we're expecting from them from who

510
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Speaker 4: from Oka see, you know, because they have so many

511
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Speaker 4: young guys. The regular seamon on Tuesday in Charlotte, they're

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Speaker 4: still running and gun and versus a team like the

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Speaker 4: Lakers and the Clippers, we're like, hey, you know, we'll

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Speaker 4: we'll put like eighty percent seventy percent effort intoe what happens.

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Speaker 4: But as far as like how they would match up

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Speaker 4: with those teams, obviously, defensively, it'd be a big struggle

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Speaker 4: because none of those guys are Four of those five

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Speaker 4: guys are not great defenders. And that's even if you

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Speaker 4: count eight and as a good defender. So basically all

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Speaker 4: five of those guys are subbar defenders, but they would

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Speaker 4: be able to score with anybody. And to your point,

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Speaker 4: Bradley Beal at fifty one fifty three million with a

523
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Speaker 4: no trade clause is probably the worst contract in sports,

524
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Speaker 4: not just in the NBA, but arguably in sports. Barnutt

525
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Speaker 4: Bradley Beal at five million dollars on a flyer to

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Speaker 4: get an all star level player on a for basically

527
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Speaker 4: the vet minimum, almost just a shade over that, like,

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Speaker 4: are you kidding me? That's why we'll get to Andrea tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: DeAndre Ayden at thirty four million is like no, no, no,

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Speaker 4: I mean he's too much of a head case, he's inconsistent,

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Speaker 4: his motor's not there. No thank you. DeAndre Ayden at

532
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Speaker 4: eight million dollars with a player option, like are you

533
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Speaker 4: kidding me?

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Speaker 1: Give me that?

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Speaker 4: Exactly so again, Bradley Beal, depending where he goes, could

536
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Speaker 4: easily swing the balance of power to making a team

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Speaker 4: an Inner Circle contender, or depending where he goes, if

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Speaker 4: he goes to the East, I don't think he would

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Speaker 4: go to the East making them a heavy finals favorite

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Speaker 4: to come out of the East if he goes to Milwaukee.

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Speaker 2: So if he goes Lakers. Do you think he I

542
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Speaker 2: don't think he starts. I don't think you start him

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Speaker 2: with Luca Reeves and Lebron. I think you probably start

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Speaker 2: Ruly and Ayton, right, but closing is more important.

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Speaker 3: I don't really starting is over read.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And honestly they would never do this, But if

547
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Speaker 4: they hypothetically get got Beal, I would rather put Austin

548
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Speaker 4: at the bench than Beal. I mean though, but I

549
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Speaker 4: think he's just a more creative playmaker, like to get

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Speaker 4: another guys involved, so deals a score scorer, scorer, and

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Speaker 4: I don't know if that's what you want as a

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Speaker 4: guy leading your second unit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just they're not going to have problems creating offense.

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Speaker 2: Like say Lebron goes down for two weeks, you still

555
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Speaker 2: have Luca bal and Reeves. Last year it was just

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Speaker 2: Luca and Reeves, because you know a DFS, he's not creating.

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Speaker 2: I know people are gonna be like Bradley Bill, you're

558
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Speaker 2: out of your mind. I'm just telling you, guys, he's

559
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Speaker 2: still very good. This guy's only thirty two years old.

560
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Speaker 2: And remember Drew Holliday, and it was mostly for defense,

561
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Speaker 2: literally swung the balance of power when he went to

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Speaker 2: the Bucks like the Bucks needed one piece.

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Speaker 3: It was Drew Holliday.

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Speaker 2: I don't know Bradley Beal's a final piece, but I

565
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Speaker 2: do feel great about the Lakers that they're able to

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Speaker 2: get it.

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Speaker 3: All right, it's good to be back.

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Speaker 2: We are back tomorrow, obviously hosting The Herd today and tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Then Cow hurts back from a two week vacation. Man,

570
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Speaker 2: that guy travels like nobody's business.

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Speaker 3: All right, we'll talk to you.

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Speaker 1: That