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Speaker 1: Welcome in while Driving the Grand episode four fifty six.

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Speaker 1: Demon's a Thursday on Thursday show. We were supposed to

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Speaker 1: get to Jaalen Brown, but sometimes I just can kind

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Speaker 1: of feel that I'm finishing with a flourish and I

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Speaker 1: didn't think we were gonna get any better than the

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Speaker 1: Draymond Green rant at the end, and so I just

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Speaker 1: I ended it. However, that so Jalen Brown, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: catch everybody up. Jalen Brown, the day after the season ends,

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Speaker 1: has a somewhat bizarre Twitch stream where he says a

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Speaker 1: lot of things. One of the things he said was

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Speaker 1: criticizing the officials got fine fifty Grand, but also said

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Speaker 1: like this was my favorite ear of my career, and

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Speaker 1: that then led to people being like, really, you guys

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Speaker 1: want a championship. In previously on Finals MVP, you one

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Speaker 1: Finals MVP. Then Tracy McGrady, who evidently has a real

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Speaker 1: relationship with Jalen Brown said on his podcast with Vince

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Speaker 1: Carter said, yeah, listen, Jalen's got problems with the organization,

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Speaker 1: and I was like, oh. Brad Stevens then asked about it.

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Speaker 1: Brad Stems like, no, no, We're all good. You know,

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Speaker 1: tried to debt it. Jalen then was like another Twitch stream,

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Speaker 1: initially said it was going to be on ig with

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Speaker 1: Kevin Garnett, then pivoted to later in the day on

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Speaker 1: Twitch where he said, you know, I hate that Brad

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Speaker 1: had to answer for this. I love Boston. If it's

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Speaker 1: up to me, I'll spend the rest of my career here,

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Speaker 1: or he said, another ten years here, and then he's

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Speaker 1: like and also, by the way, I want to make

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Speaker 1: something clear, I triple down on this is my favorite

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Speaker 1: year of my career and then explained why. He was like,

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Speaker 1: you know, they counted us out. I got to see

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Speaker 1: the young guys grow, got to see my brother, you know,

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Speaker 1: JT come back from injury. This is my favorite year

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Speaker 1: of my career. I you know, vacationed as a Celtics

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Speaker 1: fan this postseason because I picked him to win the title.

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Speaker 1: You Demanse are an actual Celtics fan. I think is

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Speaker 1: this accurate? It put demanse back on the first ever

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Speaker 1: jersey your daughter has worn? Is a Tatum jersey? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: like the first and all I saw the picture, I

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Speaker 1: didn't I assume that was the first. I mean, I'd

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Speaker 1: have gone, I'd have gone, mahomes. But it's fine. Uh

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Speaker 1: and so uh the m your thoughts as an actual

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Speaker 2: Get the guy out of the team, like he wow,

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Speaker 2: he's it being your favorite year you doubling down just

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Speaker 2: the things that he says and moving forward, I just

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Speaker 2: don't know what he's gonna say in the future.

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Speaker 3: Like I just and I wonder how Jason Tatum feels

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Speaker 3: about all this stuff. I wonder what their relationship is truly,

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Speaker 3: Like I imagine they got to like each other at

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Speaker 3: the very least, But I wonder how he feels about

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Speaker 3: everything that Jaylen Brown is saying. But uh, but yeah,

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Speaker 3: and this isn't like the first or second instance. Jalen

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Speaker 3: Brown has has said a few things throughout his career

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Speaker 3: that's just made me be like, why it's a little unnecessary.

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Speaker 3: So like, even as far as I'll even go back

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Speaker 3: to him, saying that Browny was wasn't a pro and

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Speaker 3: then he like doubled down. Even you could have even

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Speaker 3: said that you didn't say it. In that instance, you

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Speaker 3: got picked up on it. I get it, Like be

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Speaker 3: a man and say what you said.

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Speaker 1: But it's just like, listen, here's what I do think

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Speaker 1: I think he's maybe thought he's always been the best

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Speaker 1: I don't know Jalen Brown at all. This is just

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brown. He's just better than Jalen Brown. There's there

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Speaker 1: is almost nothing Jalen Brown can do that Tatum can't do,

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Speaker 1: and there are a few things Tatum can do that

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Speaker 1: there were folks pushing Jalen Brown for MVP. Wilbond, you know,

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Speaker 1: When I don't think he is, and I think that

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Speaker 1: It just feels like like I don't begrudge him that,

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Speaker 1: but it just feels like a he is handling this oddly,

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Speaker 1: And when you also the other one is whenever someone's

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Speaker 3: Was, I've thawed my head. Yeah, this is really how

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Speaker 1: My favorite scene, Yeah, the and so it was, so

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Speaker 1: I don't I The only tricky part is this demanse.

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Speaker 1: What if Yannis isn't available either because he gets traded

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Speaker 1: you get fair value for Jalen Brown without Yannis being

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Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know, and so I think we

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Speaker 1: All right, demonse, Let's go through the NBA mail bag

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Speaker 1: if we can.

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Speaker 3: Anthony says, what was the first moment slash game where

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Speaker 3: you thought Lebron had a real chance to be the goat?

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Speaker 1: Listen. I think this is probably the same for everyone

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Speaker 1: The greatest player of all time was the forty eight

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Speaker 1: and seven. That was the moment where it felt and

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Speaker 1: I really don't think here is the only downside Demonsee two.

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Speaker 1: Playing as long as Lebron is played, people feel like

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Speaker 1: Listen, I think it's the NBA's fault. If they thought

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Speaker 3: Next, uh Joey YouTube Nick, The NBA has not had

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Speaker 1: You're talking about this off the air the other day.

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Speaker 1: Who demands who would be your number one draft pick

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Speaker 3: Next American to win MVP would have to be for me.

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Speaker 3: I gotta go in. I gotta feel like I gotta go.

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Speaker 1: So go ahead.

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Speaker 3: You know what, maybe, hey, man, I don't know what

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Speaker 3: Tyler is Halliburn is gonna be looking like when he

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Speaker 1: I do think I I think Aunt's a good pick.

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Speaker 1: I think Tatum, you know, would be on the list.

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Speaker 1: But I just feel like Tatum probably Max is out

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Speaker 1: That and especially if they get Giannie, it probably actually

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Speaker 3: He got after Tyrese Halliburton or Tyrese Haliburton got hurt

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Speaker 1: Yes, I think my answer to Mon's and this speaks

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Speaker 3: you think that Isaiah Thomas is the most underrated sports

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Speaker 1: he depressed his own numbers in service of that as

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Speaker 1: They're about to win the championship. Kareem gets a kind

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Speaker 3: Uh I Goo says, you forgot tight end in your

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Speaker 1: There has to be a way where you have better

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Speaker 1: one in fifteen, which is like what the current onside

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Speaker 1: kick recovery rate is. All Right, we got to run.

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Speaker 1: Demonte's got to get to work. I do as well.

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Speaker 1: A big thank you to Blue Duck and the volume,

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Speaker 1: huge thank you to Boost and hard Rock bet enjoy

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Speaker 1: the games this weekend. Also, one programming note, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be doing some commentary on No Gamble, No Future this

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Speaker 1: weekend on poker go on YouTube if you guys want

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Speaker 1: to check that out in between NBA playoff games. So

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Speaker 1: you guys, if you're poker fan, you can check that

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Speaker 1: out there. All right, talk to you guys later. What's right,