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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What's up, straight

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Speaker 1: Fire Family, It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire for Thursday,

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Speaker 1: August five. We are recording this before Team USA takes

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Speaker 1: the court against Australia, so we will not be talking

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Speaker 1: about that game on this podcast. As you guys know,

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Speaker 1: I'm doing Undisputed all week, so the call time is

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Speaker 1: the recording and straight Fire. I don't think you guys mind.

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Speaker 1: I haven't heard anything negative about it. You guys did

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Speaker 1: like Eddie House a lot, Eddie house Keeping a real

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Speaker 1: I just he just sounds cool, you know. Um. I

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Speaker 1: like to think I sound cool, but I don't have

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Speaker 1: like that tough guy accent like Eddie House from the

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Speaker 1: Bay Area. At any rate, podcast has been on a roll,

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Speaker 1: by the way, Rob G told me Staggering, UM one

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Speaker 1: of our biggest podcasts in the last few weeks. No

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Speaker 1: no cap, as my son likes to say. And I

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Speaker 1: did squeeze in and no cap on Undisputed this week. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and the producers were cracking up. I guess they play games.

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Speaker 1: It's like a gamer term. Whatever. Um. The Simone Biles

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Speaker 1: algorithm on iTunes, but the numbers were staggering. So either

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Speaker 1: you guys like my Simone Biles take and you shared it,

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Speaker 1: or uh something happened, maybe a social media pushed it,

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Speaker 1: but uh, thank you for the resounding numbers. UM. Podcast

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Speaker 1: is rocking and rolling. Baby, We are rocking and rolling.

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Speaker 1: And you know the dog days of July and August

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Speaker 1: are usually tough, but you know, the podcast gods keep

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Speaker 1: on giving because you know, I'm playing pick up basketball yesterday, UM.

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Speaker 1: And then I checked my phone, you know, after we

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Speaker 1: suffer a loss, which brutal um, and it's robb G

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Speaker 1: and he's like, well, we got our topic for the podcast.

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Speaker 1: And I'm like sweet, but I don't even click on

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Speaker 1: it because you gotta make your shot. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: four guys shoot to stay on. Of course I made

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Speaker 1: mine and stayed um, because that's how I rule. And uh,

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Speaker 1: I check it later and it is our guy, everybody's

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Speaker 1: favorite person, Lebron James. Keep talking about my squad, our personnel, ages,

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Speaker 1: the way he plays, he stays injured or past our

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Speaker 1: prime in the league, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Do me one

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Speaker 1: favorite please, and I mean please keep that same narrative

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Speaker 1: energy when it begins. That's all I ask, thank you.

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Speaker 1: And he had the crown after King James. Listen, uh, folks,

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Speaker 1: we've never seen anything like this in sports. I mean

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Speaker 1: we probably would have if Michael Jordan played in the

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Speaker 1: social media era. And don't lie and say, oh, Jordan

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Speaker 1: would have never been on social media. Of course, Michael

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Speaker 1: Jordan would have been on social media. It's the easiest

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Speaker 1: way to build your brand. Jordan would have lived on here.

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady thriving on social media. Lee, Oh, now MESSI thriving.

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Speaker 1: I know you guys follow him on the Graham I

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Speaker 1: know you're seeing his vacation picks. I followed MESSI come on,

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Speaker 1: let's not to love. Lebron is dominant at social media

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Speaker 1: and I don't want to hear this. Oh it's lame.

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Speaker 1: It's factual. Lebron is stirring the pot, keeping the NBA

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Speaker 1: in the headlines. And folks, we barely touched on this.

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Speaker 1: And I tried to say it on Undisputed and and

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Speaker 1: Bussard was like, oh, the NBA is fine. The NBA

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Speaker 1: is not fine. Did you guys see the finals ratings?

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Speaker 1: They were awful? And don't tell me who cares about

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Speaker 1: the ratings? Do they matter? They matter to the salary cap.

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Speaker 1: TV deal equals salary cap. That's how it works. And

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Speaker 1: the more Lebron can stir the pot drop these bombs.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even even know how many. Rob

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Speaker 1: just good at this. And I mean, listen, I am

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Speaker 1: a Lebron fan, um I keep it a hundred on

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Speaker 1: on Lebron. I said he he had been passed by

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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant several years ago. You guys hated me for it,

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Speaker 1: You said I was a hater. The problem is the

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Speaker 1: best player on the planet. I say now, right now,

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Speaker 1: Luca Donte is the best player in the NBA. I've

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Speaker 1: Luka Donte. Just right now. If I'm starting a team

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Speaker 1: me Luka Donte. And I know the haters are gonna say, well, Jay,

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Speaker 1: he's never won a playoff series. Well you know, that's

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Speaker 1: a very basic response. I mean when his teammates are

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Speaker 1: the mass? We're not supposed to push that to seven?

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Speaker 1: all people are doing is making jokes about how old

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Speaker 1: Rob if you heard them. My personal favorite, which got

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Speaker 1: a good chuckle from uh LaVar Arrington, is that the

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Speaker 1: Lakers are gonna lead the league in cholesterol. Nothing crickets

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Speaker 1: from Rob. Enough. I also already seen that one. You

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Speaker 1: from Rob. Rob just not laughing on the purpose at

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Speaker 1: this team is a bunch of spare parts that nobody

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Speaker 1: LaVar Arrington again laughed at that. Again you're just not

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Speaker 1: um and Last Angeles and all that that's been played,

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Speaker 1: and the jarital jokes and um diapers and all that's funny.

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Speaker 1: Lebron is hearing them clearly. Um, he's watching the shows.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't follow me yet on social We'll see Curry

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Speaker 1: does follow me on Twitter. Not the Graham. I gotta

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Speaker 1: step up my grand being guys. But the reality is, Lebron,

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Speaker 1: it's a fact they're old. But at the same time

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Speaker 1: they got a damn good squad. I mean they're loaded.

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Speaker 1: We talked about it with Eddie Alse yesterday. In the

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Speaker 1: his agent leaked it to everybody. He had offers for

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Speaker 1: these guys are you? I mean, like, listen, thirty two

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Speaker 1: I'm just curious, Rob, I know this is gonna bore

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Speaker 1: a couple of people. Um, I am curious. Who do

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Speaker 1: you what do you think the starting lineup is? First

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Speaker 1: of all, why didn't you laugh at my Lakers old

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Speaker 1: Lakers starting lineup is on Opening Night? Well? I did

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Speaker 1: see the Jungle Cruise movie this week, and that's you know,

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Speaker 1: I thought that if you were to hit some lines

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Speaker 1: time out. Let me get our twenty second time out. Rob.

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Speaker 1: Did you it was Jungle Cruise free on Disney Plus?

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Speaker 1: Or did you have to pay the pay? Oh? My god,

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Speaker 1: why would you do that? Dude? I have a little kid.

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Speaker 1: She's watch when we go to the movies. You know,

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Speaker 1: for me, Ay continue, but you'll Lakers started. We'll gamble

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Speaker 1: away two thousand dollars on a team USA quarterfinal first half?

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Speaker 1: Uh good Lakers starting lineup M lebron A d Westbrook,

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Speaker 1: this playing basketball a little bit. It's not always about

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Speaker 1: get some kind of balance to your roster. And if

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Speaker 1: which I think they will, even if he plays most

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Speaker 1: that's one thing that Marcus All can do. So that

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Speaker 1: opens up the paint for Lebron and Westbrook. So looking

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Speaker 1: that is a old line up. Wayne Ellington check it

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Speaker 1: two and older. We we established it's out there that

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Speaker 1: probably too disrespectful to stay. I'd start none over Westbrook.

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Speaker 1: he seems to think, Hey, I was the m v

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Speaker 1: you know? Lebron has to realize being healthy in the

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Speaker 1: playoffs is all that matters. MVP awards come and go. Well,

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Speaker 1: the narrative. And that's gonna be a big thing this season. Two.

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Speaker 1: Is Lebron is right when he's saying that the narrative

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Speaker 1: going into this season is going to be look at

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Speaker 1: this geriatric Lakers squad. Look at thirty six year old

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Speaker 1: Lebron James giving you twenty three, eight and eight or

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Speaker 1: be the best team in the Western Conference record wise,

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Speaker 1: Like I don't think there's any real competition in the West.

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Speaker 1: they are. They are a very good team, but they

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Speaker 1: betterment of the team. Even though I am really good

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Speaker 1: at creating offense, Lebron's better. Even though I'm really good

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Speaker 1: at defending wing players, Kawhi Leonard is better, so I

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Speaker 1: have to do X, Y and Z instead. But is

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Speaker 1: that making them worse? It's making the team better? But yes,

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Speaker 1: it's it's you're you're you're you're putting your own skills

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Speaker 1: and talents subservient to somebody else. So yeah, it's a

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Speaker 1: worse version of yourself. It's just tough for me to

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Speaker 1: say worst when you're winning, Like, how are you at

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Speaker 1: the worst version of yourself? But you're winning and you're

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Speaker 1: like a starter and playing like thirty minutes, Like that's

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Speaker 1: just tough for me to add up. I understand sacrifice,

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Speaker 1: but when I hear worst, I think John Starks two

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Speaker 1: for nineteen in game seven, Like that's a bad fucking game. Okay, Um,

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Speaker 1: I just I don't see how Kevin Love or Chris

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Speaker 1: Bosh got worse? Hell, you could, you could say it's

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Speaker 1: Chris Bosh on television right now. If he doesn't go

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Speaker 1: to the heat and win championships with Lebron, I don't

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Speaker 1: think so. I don't think he goes from the Toronto

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Speaker 1: Raptors out in the second round to TV Kevin Love. Here,

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Speaker 1: here we go. This is great. I think you'll get

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Speaker 1: the answer. What's the defining moment of Kevin Love's career

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Speaker 1: so far? Him defending Steph Curry in the finals? Bingo,

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Speaker 1: what is the defining moment of Chris Bosh's career? Pretty much?

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Speaker 1: I think we'll have this one agreement. Um, well, for me,

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Speaker 1: it's the champagne after they won the championship. That that

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Speaker 1: was a good one, like a Raptor okay on the court,

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Speaker 1: on the courts. On the court, I think he grabbed

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Speaker 1: the rebound and kick he did get the rebound. So

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Speaker 1: those are two guys who were all stars, right, putting

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Speaker 1: up big stats and losing, and they go to a

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Speaker 1: winner and they sacrifice their game, make a huge play

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Speaker 1: and win a championship. So I took It's just tough

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Speaker 1: for me to say that like the worst and best

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Speaker 1: that I know. We're splitting hairs. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: people care about this discussion, but to me, it's moderately interested. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we got weight anyway. Anyway, let me hear what I mean.

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Speaker 1: Whatever I say to you, I say to him advice, Like,

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Speaker 1: there's nothing to controversial. But one thing that Chris has said,

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Speaker 1: he said it all week. He said it on Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio said an FS one is the Lakers have

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Speaker 1: a puncher's chance of winning the championship. I think that

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Speaker 1: they are the best team in the Western Conference. But

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Speaker 1: he's also made a point to say they're very old

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Speaker 1: and combustible. So it's like, so that you're not wrong

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Speaker 1: in either direction. Like, if they win, you were right

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Speaker 1: because you said that they're going to make the Western

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Speaker 1: Conference finals. If they don't do well, well I told

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Speaker 1: you they were old. I don't know Bruce Sarr and

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Speaker 1: I well, we are buddies and we talk frequently. We

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Speaker 1: had a good phone conversation this week about some industry stuff.

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Speaker 1: Brush is a good guy. I've known him for a while. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and anyone listening, it's not like we're ripping Chris. We're

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Speaker 1: not ripping Jayson because we're all friends. So it's not

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Speaker 1: like we can say anything that we don't already tell

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Speaker 1: each other. So relax. Fox Sports Radio has the best

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Speaker 1: sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our

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Speaker 1: Let me quickly wrap up by this with this, uh,

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Speaker 1: this Damian Lillard thing so quietly, Well maybe it's not

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Speaker 1: so quietly. Um, Damian Lillard's trainer just got a job.

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Speaker 1: Do you want to guess Rob what team he got

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Speaker 1: a job with? I would assume if they want to

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Speaker 1: keep him. The Portland Trailblazers gave him a job. Ding

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Speaker 1: ding Ding. He just got hired in Philadelphia. But that

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Speaker 1: to me is fascinating. I don't know, Like, I don't

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Speaker 1: really know this guy. Well, I'm trying. I've been digging around. Um,

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Speaker 1: he used to coach. His name is Phil Becker. He

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Speaker 1: used to coach at Weber State, and he is Damian

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Speaker 1: Lillard's a long time trainer. How does he end up

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Speaker 1: in Philadelphia? I know he's a consultant to the coaching staff.

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Speaker 1: He's been He's gonna be at summer League with them.

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Speaker 1: And this smells like the first step, does it not?

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Speaker 1: Remember the San Antonio Spurs when they added Kawhi Leonard

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Speaker 1: via the draft. They brought on like his high school

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Speaker 1: teammate as an assistant, and I think the guy got

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Speaker 1: a job with the Raptors. I'm spacing on his name now,

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Speaker 1: but basically, some of these guys they want their guy

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Speaker 1: in there. Rob Are the Sixers gonna trade Ben Simmons

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Speaker 1: for Dame? I mean, I think they would like to.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure Portland wouldn't do it, but I don't think

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Speaker 1: Portland's gonna have a choice. This is maybe where Henry

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Speaker 1: Abbott was going that Dame is gonna have to demand out.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna have to because Portland's gonna say, well, we'll

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Speaker 1: give you C. J. McCollum and Phil. He's like, now

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Speaker 1: we want Dame. We could have got James Harden for

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Speaker 1: Ben Simmons. Supposedly before last season, give us Dame, will

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Speaker 1: give you picks. We'll give you Simmons, will give you Maxie,

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Speaker 1: give us Day And now, Holy held it, East is

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Speaker 1: stacked because you could just rub Portland out of the

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Speaker 1: playoffs in the West and all of a sudden, I

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Speaker 1: think Damon Embiid does that put the Sixers second in

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Speaker 1: the in the East. Yeah, absolutely above Miami, above Milwaukee. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: because they would still have to Buias Harris. They would

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Speaker 1: still probably have Seth Curry. And when you have the

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Speaker 1: two best players or two of the three best players

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Speaker 1: and Seth in any series other than Brooklyn, I mean like,

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Speaker 1: if it's you can usually say who has the best players,

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Speaker 1: those teams are gonna win. And if you go to Milwaukee,

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Speaker 1: you could say, hey, maybe Honest is the best, but

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Speaker 1: then number two and three easily or Damon and embiid

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Speaker 1: so you go with that team? Yeah, um man, that'll

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Speaker 1: be fascinating. Now, Drew Holiday is a really good defender,

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Speaker 1: as we've seen. I don't know if he could lock

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Speaker 1: up Dame, but he could certainly contain him. Remember Trey

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Speaker 1: Young gave him forty eight in game one, So nobody

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Speaker 1: locks up anybody in a high pick and roll league. Um,

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Speaker 1: and beat Janice is fun? And then does it come

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Speaker 1: down or Tobias Harris first, Chris Middleton, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I mean bottom and listen, Miami, do not rule out Miami, man.

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Speaker 1: They defensively, they will be ready with uh Lowry Butler

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Speaker 1: and Bam so if Dave goes to the east Man,

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Speaker 1: that is spicy. Um And I love tampering season, don't you.

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Speaker 1: I mean the nick They've hired Royal Ivy to be

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Speaker 1: a special assistant. When they thought they can get Kevin

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Speaker 1: Durant's gut, the Lakers gave Cantavious Caldwell Pope eighteen million

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Speaker 1: dollars off from Detroit and then they introduced him at

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Speaker 1: the press conference. They said it was like bread raining

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Speaker 1: down from the heavens because they knew that was their

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Speaker 1: in to talk to Lebron James. And then they and

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Speaker 1: then they tripled to get one of the attendants. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's the best one. They tripled down on it. A

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Speaker 1: few years later, they signed Janice's little brother, who is

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Speaker 1: not good at basketball. He's a nice guy, but he's terrible.

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Speaker 1: They had him on the roster for two years just

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Speaker 1: in the hopes that Joan has became a free agent.

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Speaker 1: Slick gotta love it all right, So that'll that'll wrap

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Speaker 1: it up for today. Listen, Uh, the NBA free agency

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Speaker 1: has been crazy, No major huge moves, but enough funds

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Speaker 1: surrounding the Lakers that it's been It's been spicy. Um

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Speaker 1: Man Dame Dame would be interesting. We actually have football tonight.

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Speaker 1: You guys excited. I did not bet on Steelers. Come on,

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Speaker 1: I don't know who's gonna play. That didn't stop you

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Speaker 1: before from betting on things. No, I don't need to

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Speaker 1: fire on preseason game number one. All right, we'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you tomorrow.