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Speaker 1: And we finally have a winner. You're Golden State Warriors. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: this week we're gonna wrap up the NBA Finals with

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Speaker 1: our very special guest, Emmy Award winning journalists for NBC

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Speaker 1: twelve in Phoenix, Arizona, Lena Washington. I'm Miles Gray and

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Speaker 1: I'm Jack O'Brien, and this is Miles and Jack. God

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Speaker 1: mad mat. That was really really good. That was like,

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Speaker 1: I feel like we merged as two souls and exactly

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Speaker 1: like delivered that imperfect for We did it. We made it.

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Speaker 1: We made it through the NBA Finals, We made it

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Speaker 1: through the NBA Playoffs. Um, it was. It was a joy.

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Speaker 1: My brain still has that like reflex now when we're

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Speaker 1: what what what playoff games are on? I know, uh,

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Speaker 1: Lena Washington, Lena Hello, Hello, Hello, How was your finals?

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Speaker 1: Because experience, First of all, thank you guys so much

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Speaker 1: for having me on. My final experience was still I

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Speaker 1: was still a little bit salty of course that you know,

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Speaker 1: we weren't seeing the Sun's make up make another run

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Speaker 1: here in Phoenix. But it's hard not to find entertainment

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Speaker 1: in the way Steph Curry plays the way Andrew Wiggins

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Speaker 1: and his storyline suddenly changed over the course of these playoffs,

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Speaker 1: and yes, exactly. Uh. And then of course I love

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Speaker 1: her dad being one of the greatest players ever. I mean,

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Speaker 1: first of all, I think for NBA fans, all NBA fans, right,

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Speaker 1: So I think it was cool that the Warriors kind

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Speaker 1: of came out of nowhere according to predictions from anyone

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Speaker 1: who was not Steph Curry as well as we'll talk

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Speaker 1: about he knew what was up. But I've seen a

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Speaker 1: And then we also love talking about on the show

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Speaker 1: like breaking new ground, feeling like you're seeing something for

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Speaker 1: the first time, and I don't know, we've seen the

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Speaker 1: Dubs win before, we've I feel like I've never seen

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Speaker 1: a team like I was famously saying Warriors and six

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Speaker 1: famously everybody knows that, and we will revise that there

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Speaker 1: were there were some people who were saying the Celtics

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Speaker 1: and six repeatedly over and over again, even up until

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Speaker 1: earth and just flying forward and just takes out some

428
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,240
Speaker 1: young fan. Um. And then they were fine, fortunately, But

429
00:25:56,359 --> 00:26:00,399
Speaker 1: it was just It's definitely how I would have been

430
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:06,920
Speaker 1: during a championship celebration. Oh yeah, yeah, best best case scenario.

431
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 1: I like how someone asked him to at the Once

432
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 1: he got to the parade, someone said, hey, what happened

433
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:18,200
Speaker 1: to your hat? And again he speaks in proper siemens terms.

434
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:26,480
Speaker 1: Are I lost her and I tried to recover her? Yeah? No,

435
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 1: I did actually take the boat in today because it

436
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,879
Speaker 1: was a perfect glassy day on the water. It's funny

437
00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 1: because I lost my championship hat in the wind, knock

438
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,479
Speaker 1: him done littering, and I tried to find her, but

439
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:43,400
Speaker 1: she's now and she's won with the ocean. Unfortunately, that's

440
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 1: why the captain's hat on, because I lost the chip

441
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,920
Speaker 1: the finals had. He looks actually kind of bummed out.

442
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:52,159
Speaker 1: He's like, that's why I got this captain's head on.

443
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 1: That's gonna hurt. He hurt. Yeah, And here I was

444
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:57,680
Speaker 1: a second ago being like, I feel like they would

445
00:26:57,720 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 1: just hand him a stack of new ones a second

446
00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 1: he got off. I keep believe he didn't just pull

447
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 1: another one out, yeah, or I like that. They're like,

448
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:05,920
Speaker 1: what do we tell you about mess around on that boat?

449
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 1: He said, if you wear it on the boat, you

450
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 1: to take it off of ware backwards and not gonna

451
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 1: get another one. And he's like, now I gotta wear

452
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 1: this giant's captain's hut. So um, there's the captain's hat.

453
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 1: Looked really good though, Yeah, it definitely yeah, it gave

454
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: him a new energy. I don't even think he was

455
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 1: anticipating to pull up in the captain's hat like that. So,

456
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:30,320
Speaker 1: I mean, there's some legendary championship celebrations. There's one about

457
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 1: the Celtics parting forty eight hours in a row, like

458
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 1: not knowing that two days had passed. I think that

459
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 1: was in the Bird era in the eighties. Um, there's

460
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 1: one where Metal World Peace uh like it showed up

461
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 1: somewhere two days after the title and still had his

462
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,119
Speaker 1: uniform on. I think that one of the closest we

463
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,439
Speaker 1: can get to like an official account is like ESPN

464
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 1: reported that after the Calbs won in Golden State, they

465
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:01,119
Speaker 1: stopped in Vegas, so they're playing landed at two am

466
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,639
Speaker 1: like the night after they won, which there is just

467
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,439
Speaker 1: like something I love about that that they're just like, yeah, no,

468
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 1: uh night, like hours no longer mean anything. Once you

469
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 1: win a championship, We're just going like all night and

470
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 1: the world will open up before us. And sure enough,

471
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:19,720
Speaker 1: like the videos from the club that they went to

472
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 1: when they landed at two am is packed and uh yeah,

473
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 1: and then they just went back to Cleveland where everybody

474
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: was waiting for them. That's the time. Just keep keep

475
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 1: your foot on the gas until the parade and then

476
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:35,120
Speaker 1: absolutely for the rest of the summer. Yeah, I mean,

477
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 1: how do you like burn off all that excess adrenaline

478
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 1: from having to win a championship too? You're like, I

479
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 1: could literally run through a wall. So because I don't

480
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 1: want to, injure my body will go to Vegas for

481
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 1: thirty six days straight. Uh, just so I can survive that.

482
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: But I mean, yeah, it is. It's also the time

483
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: to where you you remind yourself why you compete also

484
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 1: and maybe get a little petty, you know, your bag

485
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 1: a bit um. Draymond, my man, he saw you at

486
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: that shirt. You had this Boston Celtic shirt. The fans

487
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 1: are wearing the set. It's all about eighteen, basically in

488
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 1: their pursuit of their eighteen chip, their eighteenth banner, and

489
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 1: it's like a it's got eighteen squares except the last

490
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 1: one that's blank, meant to be like, and here's twenty

491
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:24,719
Speaker 1: twenty two our year. And then he wrote Warriors. No, nope,

492
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 1: you said, what did you say? Maybe in twenty three?

493
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:32,239
Speaker 1: Maybe in twenty three, you gotta love That's just kind

494
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 1: of a nice way to be, like, yeah, maybe next year, guys.

495
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: Like least he added that end. I'm sure he wasn't

496
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 1: being passive aggressive at all when he I would feel like, uh,

497
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 1: Draymond was on one too. I mean he stopped and

498
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: got some ice cream um danced with the the Jablwaukee.

499
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 1: He battled a Jabilwaukee on this on the parade. Yeah, okay,

500
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 1: it wasn't It wasn't embarrassed that he could moonlight as

501
00:29:56,640 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 1: a Jablwaukee. Yeah, although all those do you like five seven,

502
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 1: So it's a wild to be like, I think that

503
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 1: one's Draymond. He's literally following in shocks footsteps with the

504
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: broadcasting and then dancing with the jabberwocks right right right?

505
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 1: And will he be a dubstep DJ? Is he nice

506
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 1: on the ones and twos? Though? I'm sure we'll find

507
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:20,959
Speaker 1: out soon enough. At a Drey's night club near you? Right?

508
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: Oh wow, they rebrand the Dreys d R A Y

509
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 1: S rather yep. See there it is Brent Bolthouse. I'll

510
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 1: take a cut. Yeah, SB Entertainment hit up Lena Washington

511
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 1: cutter that check, thank you. But yeah, to your point

512
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 1: about the the pettiness, I mean we kind of already

513
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: mentioned it, the stuff like afterwards, Like I feel like

514
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 1: it's they're burning off that excess, like the thing that

515
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:50,720
Speaker 1: they kept motivating them through the finish line and like

516
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 1: people any like slight, any social media comment that like

517
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 1: was annoying them all year that they were using to

518
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 1: motivate them and annoy them all year, like those come out.

519
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 1: We talked about stuff saying what will they say now?

520
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 1: I just find it so funny when guys, you know,

521
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: and I don't, you know, this is what they're probably

522
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: going to say and expected to say, But there's this

523
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: idea that they don't listen to the outside noise. You know,

524
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: they're very insular all that stuff, but you can't tell

525
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 1: me they're not searching their name and handles or specific

526
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: you know, data and things like that. Too. Have this

527
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 1: type of motivation to be petty. I respect it, but

528
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 1: you know, I also respect the honesty of it all. Yeah,

529
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 1: and I think there's something where that petty comes out,

530
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: because again, like too, to really prepare yourself to be

531
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 1: focused to win the championship, you get there. I'd imagine

532
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 1: it's like if you use a pressure cooker, like you

533
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 1: just can't open it right after, like you have to

534
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: release the steam out of it first, And that's sort

535
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: of like what happens like after the series ends. It's like,

536
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: just so you know the amount of energy we had

537
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 1: to build up in this pot, watch it go for

538
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 1: like four days straight. They're like how much steam is

539
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 1: coming out of there, and it's like that's what they

540
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 1: were like, even you know, Steph said, we got to

541
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 1: bottle this up for next year, and there it is

542
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: there and now they release it. So yes, yeah, it's

543
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 1: wild to see. And I do feel like the reporters

544
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 1: know this at this point. They're like, hey, Clay Clay

545
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 1: over here, who are you mad at right now? Now

546
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: that you want a title? What would you like to

547
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 1: say to your haters and any bums you wanna talk

548
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 1: about real quick? Any Grizzlies players he'd like to give

549
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 1: a message to right now. I like, he said some

550
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 1: player here and he did that. He did that. I

551
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 1: don't know her, which is the ultimately Mariah Yeah, oh

552
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: I don't know her. Some some some gentlemen from the

553
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: Memphis Grizzlies. I believe some lost gentleman I don't know

554
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 1: man like that. That was like, that's fine that he

555
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 1: used that to motivate him. I I think it's like

556
00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 1: probably innocent enough. I do love Steff STEP's clapp ac

557
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 1: because it's at the media, um with their you know,

558
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 1: hot takes. They're like the people who were like stuff

559
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: still not top ten like afterwards, um, we we had people,

560
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: uh say, like, how many titles will Steph win in

561
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: new era? I think it's what they called in the

562
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: next four years. Um. And we got Perk with the

563
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 1: big zero around his eye. Um. I don't know who's

564
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 1: who's on the right there. I think that's Dominique Foxworth. Okay,

565
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: is it given the big zero around his eye? Um?

566
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 1: And then we got Steph at the championship given the

567
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: big zero around this side. I can't see it from

568
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 1: over here, folks. Yeah, now, like, actually did it better

569
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 1: than either Perk or Dominique Foxworth. It just gives you. Yeah,

570
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: it's just that extra It gives you an extra gear,

571
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 1: you know. And I can only imagine if if Michael

572
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: Jordan had Twitter what he where, he would have took

573
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,360
Speaker 1: that too, because I mean we had the last dance.

574
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:15,440
Speaker 1: I feel like he's given us enough and right, no exactly,

575
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 1: and I think that I took that personally. Is like

576
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 1: every it like rings throughout my head no matter what

577
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,879
Speaker 1: I watched. I was even watching Stranger Things recently, and

578
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 1: like there was like this moment where somebody's talking to

579
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: eleven of like, is there a memory that makes you

580
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 1: sad or angry? You can tap into to release this

581
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: piece and like, that's Michael Jordan's whole thing. It's not

582
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: Stranger Things, but yeah it is. It's just it's one

583
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 1: of the most potent fuel sources on the planet. It

584
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 1: seems like. Uh. And then finally Wiggins and pulled just

585
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 1: with their We're about to get a bag and yes,

586
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 1: I want no lies to tech it. They're they're not

587
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 1: we I think we talked about on TDZ a while back.

588
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 1: But Wiggins is one of my favorite NBA videos. Like

589
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,839
Speaker 1: what one of my favorite you know those fan interstitial

590
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:08,320
Speaker 1: videos where they're like, give a quiz to somebody. Uh,

591
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:11,720
Speaker 1: And it was back in the Timberwolves days. They were like, Okay,

592
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 1: which of these songs do you like better? And they

593
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:18,760
Speaker 1: played Exo Tour Life three and uh, he was like, okay,

594
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 1: I know, I know this one little lousy bird to

595
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,839
Speaker 1: like it. And then they played Michael Bolton's how Do

596
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 1: I Live Without You? Um, how Am I Gonna Live with?

597
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: I don't know the name of it, but his face

598
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 1: is transfixed to like a far off dimension and then

599
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,359
Speaker 1: he just like turns to cameras like I like this

600
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 1: one better, and it's you have to watch it. It's

601
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: but it is one of the great performances um and

602
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 1: I've loved him ever since then, so I was very excited.

603
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 1: But this, this new video of him celebrating a chip

604
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 1: with Jordan Pool might might be a close second to

605
00:35:55,600 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 1: that clip. Champagne goggles around his neck. Uh goggles this year. Yeah,

606
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 1: it looks sleek this year, those champagne goggles. And to

607
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 1: producer Jabari asked the important question that will probably say

608
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: for the off season, but is that bad going to

609
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:26,320
Speaker 1: come from Golden State for both of them? Because Golden

610
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 1: State already in the luxury text And yeah, that's a

611
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: lot of bags, that's a lot of baggage, a lot

612
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 1: of bags around there. But you know, obviously, like we

613
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 1: promised in our trailer, we won't be firing up the

614
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 1: trade machine, so it will not be But I could

615
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 1: just like pick up vibes on Golden State fans. For

616
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 1: Golden State fans are under appreciating Jordan's Pool, I think

617
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: because he's the latest and they have a championship run

618
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 1: with some of these other guys, and they are underappreciating

619
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 1: and underrating Jordan Pool. I think what would be my

620
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,839
Speaker 1: my take compared to it? And that's a hot take, man,

621
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 1: that you're saying they're underappreciating it. They're underappreciating Alright, look,

622
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 1: got to go up to the base here. You don't

623
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 1: want that slander coming out your mouth. All right, let's

624
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: take a quick break. We'll come back and it's time

625
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 1: for rapid fire lighting around splits decision, and we're back, Lena.

626
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:41,400
Speaker 1: It is time to enter the rapid fire zone. This

627
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 1: is what we're gonna We're gonna throw out some questions

628
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:45,360
Speaker 1: to you, and I don't want you to think because

629
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 1: as the second you answer, the next question will come out.

630
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:50,319
Speaker 1: And we just have to keep this moving. This is

631
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,360
Speaker 1: one of the fastest paced segments in I think all media,

632
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 1: to be honest. So have you ever seen lightning, Lena?

633
00:37:56,640 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 1: It's fast. It's about to strike. It is almost about

634
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: to be monsoon season here. Yeah, exactly, so quick answers.

635
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,439
Speaker 1: We're we're so focused on the questions we just wanted

636
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: to answer. We're gonna keep it moving, start firing, and

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Speaker 1: fire in and of itself is not fast, but when

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Speaker 1: you add the modifier rapid, it becomes pretty fast too.

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Speaker 1: And so we got two things that are pretty fast.

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Speaker 1: To summarize this, this segment because it's a fast one.

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Speaker 1: That is gonna you know, let's hold onto our butts everyone,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, It's gonna be a fast one. Start the clock.

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Speaker 1: Question one the Barkley era, seven seconds are less or

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Speaker 1: last year's final squad in a series? I said it

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs, and I think, just on paper, I

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Speaker 1: gotta take last season's teams simply by the numbers. So

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Speaker 1: there's in this case no nostalgia comes into play for you.

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Speaker 1: You're looking ruthlessly efficiently. I'm standing by my previous take,

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Speaker 1: which was, there's no denying that what we watched this

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Speaker 1: last season was probably the best Sons team that we

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Speaker 1: have watched. Yeah, maybe maybe in the calendar year, especially

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Speaker 1: you know from their arc obviously in the finals to this,

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Speaker 1: you know, untimely demise in the in the second round,

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Speaker 1: but still what they were able to do makes them

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Speaker 1: the best Sun's team out to both eras. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: as a Laker fan, I felt those was a forty

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Speaker 1: seven points that he put on us last game. Anyway, Uh,

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Speaker 1: rapid fire, rapid fire, rapid, keep it rapid. I mean,

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Speaker 1: because a lot of people thought that Barkley team was

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Speaker 1: gonna win it like heading in against Jordan's you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, and then get taken out by a singular

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Speaker 1: force of nature like Michael Jordan's, who's one of my

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Speaker 1: favorite players of all time. It's pretty good, Lena. If

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Speaker 1: you could travel back and attend to any single game

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Speaker 1: throughout NBA history, which would it be? Oh rapid? Probably

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Speaker 1: the Spurs Miami series, ray Al and shot Wow, that's

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Speaker 1: a that's a ground that tell me a little bit

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Speaker 1: about ray Alan, which you like, what do you want

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Speaker 1: to see something about rayl and specifically what was it? Uh,

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Speaker 1: It's just it was the moment I remember specifically where

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Speaker 1: I was in that space and time, and I wish

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Speaker 1: wish I was in Miami in that moment. It would

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Speaker 1: be cool to be there for that Champagne on Ready

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Speaker 1: to go. You know what? Ray is a word for

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Speaker 1: a single unit of light and light it travels quickly

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Speaker 1: like this like this game that we're playing u as

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Speaker 1: in Iverson check out so quick. Check out this crossover

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Speaker 1: to my next question. Also, Lena, let us know if

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Speaker 1: the speed is too much for you in this rappid

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Speaker 1: like to tweak it. We don't like to leave people behind,

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Speaker 1: are you well? Hold on this? Yeah? Okay, Oh rapid rapid.

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Speaker 1: You just had that really good point about how Alan

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Speaker 1: Iverson was fast and also good a crossovers and your

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Speaker 1: crossing over to your next question really good. I gotta say,

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Speaker 1: I think the rapid fire segways that you guys are

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Speaker 1: delivering is so so much. The questions that are being

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Speaker 1: fired rapidly. Well, get ready, your head is spinning. We're

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Speaker 1: firing rapid What's the funniest thing you've seen or experienced

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Speaker 1: while covering the league? Oh my god, I don't even know. Um, rapidly,

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Speaker 1: the rapids so tough? Uh, maybe just experiencing the ground

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Speaker 1: below me shaking during a Tea Pain concert during a

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Speaker 1: Summer League game in Sacramento. Um, when he was when

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Speaker 1: he was he was singing cyclones specifically. Again, I have

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Speaker 1: the video of this, and I was standing in the

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Speaker 1: crowd of people. It's probably was like um and they

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Speaker 1: had little concert series during their California Classic Summer League

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Speaker 1: thing in Sacramento. Really cool event, but yeah, it was

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Speaker 1: again lit the ground Bemois was literally moving with people

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Speaker 1: just enjoying Tea Pain on a summer day in Sacramento. Now,

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Speaker 1: what is it about Tea Paining? You think? I think

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Speaker 1: it's his music. Obviously he's got several bobs his personality. Um,

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Speaker 1: now he's going into the restaurant game. I hear, so

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Speaker 1: I probably would be visiting that. I mean, he's given

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Speaker 1: us anthem upon anthem from the strip club to the

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Speaker 1: birthday parties. You know, he's he's got songs for everybody.

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Speaker 1: Fun fact, because I just googled him, I'm from fifteen

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Speaker 1: days older than te Pain, all right, So now when

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Speaker 1: I see te Pain, like, what's up? Son? On fifteen

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Speaker 1: days older than you? Like on some elementary school types

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Speaker 1: as well. Tea Pain is definitely one of those artists

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Speaker 1: who I associated with a past era and I assumed

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Speaker 1: he was like a decade older than me. Um, and

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Speaker 1: he is in fact younger than me. He is your son.

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Speaker 1: But that's the thing about time, right, it's very relatively.

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Speaker 1: It's a flat circle, thank you, And even when we

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Speaker 1: perceive it to be moving fast, much like this rapid

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Speaker 1: fire segment, it's really about the person exactly. Time dialis

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Speaker 1: next question leading your Ultimate All Time Dune contests. You

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Speaker 1: get to pick any four players. Lebron Derrek Jones, Junior,

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Speaker 1: Dwight houred Um and Vince Carter. Day. Okay, now what

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Speaker 1: is it about Vince Carter? Oh god, what isn't it

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Speaker 1: about Vince Carter? The best dune contest of all time? Over? Yes,

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Speaker 1: but that's that's the best dune contest performance of all time? Jack,

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Speaker 1: that's I feel like that's all wek miles. Are you

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Speaker 1: joking right now on this comedic podcast? I might be.

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Speaker 1: Now I've never heard of this Vince Carter fellow, but

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna look up some of his own Wow. What

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Speaker 1: oh boy, he's cooking with gas. Huh. I should have

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Speaker 1: put Aaron Gordon in there so he could get another

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Speaker 1: chance that maybe winning, but also probably losing to Vince Carter. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think, yeah, maybe one of one of the all

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Speaker 1: time grades. Those are good picks, Dwight, is not one

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Speaker 1: that I would have picked. Jack, get this take out faster? What? No?

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Speaker 1: That's this is as fast as I go? Old, What

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Speaker 1: what is the dunk? But tell me the dunk that

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Speaker 1: I need to go watch by Dwight Howard in the

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Speaker 1: Dunk contest that's going to change my opinion. The Superman dunk.

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Speaker 1: That's the formative, definitive dunk but Superman, but does it change? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a great picture. M hmm, but did it I

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Speaker 1: remember again, me and my friend, we we we abandoned

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Speaker 1: going to our our Valentine's Day dance in high school,

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Speaker 1: like one of our first high school dances. So we

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Speaker 1: didn't miss Vince Carter in that dunk on. Absolutely, you

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Speaker 1: probably made the right decision. Oh man, My friend hasn't

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Speaker 1: heard the end of it even to this day. Our

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Speaker 1: homegirl from high school aways teases him about, like, you

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Speaker 1: know you stood me up at that dance, right, and

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Speaker 1: we're like, it was Vince Carter. You have to understand

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Speaker 1: we had never seen anything like that until that point.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, rapid, rapid, here we go. Next one, Lena,

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Speaker 1: this is the most rapid question I'm gonna ask. Eyebrows

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Speaker 1: were raised that, you know, back at the start of

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Speaker 1: the month when oddsmakers suddenly had Phoenix as the most

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Speaker 1: likely destination for one Kevin Durant. But seeing how things

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Speaker 1: are playing out, do you think there's actually a chance

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Speaker 1: that Katie winds up with the Suns? No, but I

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Speaker 1: would love to still entertain the possibility. Something something else

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Speaker 1: to talk about. Something exciting to talk about. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how they're going to do it, but if they

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Speaker 1: can get it done, and I don't know, the only

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Speaker 1: real feasible thing would be like a sign and trade

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Speaker 1: with Eton, right, so um, you know, I I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It's a very fun dialogue to engage in as a

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Speaker 1: substance to finally be a destination that people are entertaining

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Speaker 1: to live. It's great. It's a great city. Now, that's

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Speaker 1: a great basketball town. And just a follow up question,

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Speaker 1: what is it about Katie? What isn't it about Katie? Okay, No,

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Speaker 1: that's fine. Is he's good? Right? Yes? He? I probably

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Speaker 1: believe he. I believe he said. I quite enjoy how

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Speaker 1: he's been engaging with the fans on social media with

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Speaker 1: his with his Twitter fingers. But yeah, I mean his

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Speaker 1: talent is undeniable, and I think his personality, whether you

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Speaker 1: get it or don't, is something kind of refreshing in

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Speaker 1: the late fantastic Yeah, more on that later, you know,

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Speaker 1: we have to really keep this segment going. Sorry I

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Speaker 1: tout off like that. Finally, last question, where is Kyrie?

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Speaker 1: Which is like some sometimes people shortened Kyrie Irving's name

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Speaker 1: just to his first name something a lot of people

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Speaker 1: like used to with Jordan. They would be like just

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Speaker 1: Jordan's you know, Michael, where is Kyrie playing this fall

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Speaker 1: when the new NBA season starts, And if he's not playing,

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Speaker 1: where he could be. I don't know. There's been some

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Speaker 1: commentary whether they nailed it he'd be playing with the

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Speaker 1: with the nets or not. There's also other teams like Lakers, Clippers,

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Speaker 1: Nick's being thrown around. Yeah, I'm I'm not sure. I

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Speaker 1: think I'll have to light some stage and think about

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Speaker 1: that one. Uh, you know, kind of like the rapid

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Speaker 1: fire of a lighter lighting stage. Um, think about that

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Speaker 1: rapid fire question you just threw my way. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe he stays in Brooklyn with some of the personnel

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Speaker 1: changes that they've had, or we'll have Um, but I

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Speaker 1: think that's a great question. Where do you guys see

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Speaker 1: him playing? Kyrie? Ah Man, the guy they know is

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving? Yes, what is it about Kyrie? I had

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Speaker 1: a feeling you're going to ask that we've done a

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Speaker 1: whole a whole episode on Kyrie that was I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think rapid. I don't know. I think it's his speed.

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Speaker 1: Some of his ball handling, which feels exceptional. Something about that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean when I read the thing

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Speaker 1: about that the you know, the Lakers are always like

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Speaker 1: named in things like this. I'm like, really at this

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Speaker 1: point though, if if that's where we're going, I guess

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Speaker 1: I'll just I'll just watch another interesting season if that happened.

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Speaker 1: But I don't know, I honestly don't know. It feels

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Speaker 1: like part of it is seeming like this is to

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Speaker 1: maybe leverage something to stay with the Nets. But again,

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Speaker 1: we haven't fired up the trade machine to really begin

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Speaker 1: to permutation. We do know that, I mean, we can

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Speaker 1: pretty much like lock it in the Jayson Tatum will

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Speaker 1: be playing for the Lakers next year, so and then

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Speaker 1: it has been probably like just depending yeah, so I

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Speaker 1: don't know, it's like will there be enough shots to

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Speaker 1: go around for Kyrie? Just this is just me. I've

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Speaker 1: I've only been covering or researching based on Lakers, and

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Speaker 1: that's been our rapid fire segment. Thank you so much,

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Speaker 1: Lena Washington for participant. Quick on your feet. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how you were able to keep up with us.

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Speaker 1: I was really you were testing my agility with all

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Speaker 1: the questions being fired rapidly and segments so quickly, I

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Speaker 1: believe so all right, well we're setting records. Uh, Lena,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us on miles and

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