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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. Hello everybody, it's

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Speaker 1: me Jason McIntyre. Straight Fire for Wednesday, June second, and

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Speaker 1: the month did not start too well for the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: So body, we have a podcast in store for you.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to my main man listening to straight Fire

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Speaker 1: all the time. Kevin Ryan tweeted to me last night

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Speaker 1: as the Lakers were down in the fourth, oh sorry

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Speaker 1: in the fourth to the Suns on Straight Fire, you

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Speaker 1: all but implicated the Suns were your best better the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: You have never been more right, Kevin. I called it. No,

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Speaker 1: I've come. It was obvious anybody with two eyes who

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Speaker 1: watched the Lakers knew that they were in deep, deep

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Speaker 1: due too without a d now. Um Cantavia was called, well,

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Speaker 1: Pope did play. Um I should remind everybody at this

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Speaker 1: point that Rob G did think the Lakers plus five

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Speaker 1: we're a good bet on yesterday's podcast. UM. I don't know, Rob,

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Speaker 1: I just I don't really know how to tackle this

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Speaker 1: were down I think thirty in the second quarter. Um

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Speaker 1: at that point, it's just basically texting friends. UM, how

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Speaker 1: do we get Dame Lillard on the Lakers as the

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Speaker 1: Lillard was hanging fifty some odd points on the Denver

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Speaker 1: Nuggets in double overtime. Lillard, by the way, ended with

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Speaker 1: the double nickel twelve three pointers. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: that game in the late fourth quarter and both overtimes

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Speaker 1: was better than anything the Lakers sons produced on Tuesday Night.

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Speaker 1: It was ugly, and it was extensive garbage time. I

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Speaker 1: did watch all of it in the fourth quarter. Why

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Speaker 1: because I bet Kyle Kuzma over eleven and a half points.

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Speaker 1: And yes, my name is Jason McIntyre, and sometimes I'm

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Speaker 1: a gambling degenerate. Kuzma, by the way, easily easily hit

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Speaker 1: that eleven and a half he had. Um. I think

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Speaker 1: Kuzma had seven in the first like quarter and change.

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Speaker 1: I was like, all right, rocking and rolling that he

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Speaker 1: garbage time and easily cashed early fourth quarter. That being said, guys,

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Speaker 1: I said on Monday Memorial Day that the Lakers could

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Speaker 1: doesn't play in Game six. I know they'll be at home.

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Speaker 1: I know we're gonna see a different Lebron. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: see Lakers fans with energy, although the seven thousand fans

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Speaker 1: But I don't know what Frank Vogel has up as sleeve.

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Speaker 1: I watched a lot of n B A uh. I

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Speaker 1: get an arguments online with Kendrick Perkins and we can

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Speaker 1: By the way, I did have a friend text me

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Speaker 1: congratulations on the Perkins incident. I'm like, well, was it

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Speaker 1: really an incident? Um, I'm just saying I had a

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Speaker 1: better week arguing with Kendrick Perkins, who. By the way,

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to get on this podcast. We'll see if

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Speaker 1: it happens. Then Dennis Shrewder did, by the way, Dennis

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Speaker 1: the Menace over nine in twenty six minutes in a

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Speaker 1: pivotal game five, Dennis the Menace seeking big money from

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Speaker 1: the Lakers over nine. Oh for nine, that's zero baskets

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Speaker 1: in twenty four minutes over nine. Rob. I don't I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know where to go with this

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Speaker 1: competitive and you know the Son's pulled away late in

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Speaker 1: one by ten or twelve, fine Lakers put up a fight.

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Speaker 1: There was no fight. Booker and Campaign had twenty nine

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Speaker 1: Like that wasn't fun. Lakers gave up. And I'm not

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Speaker 1: blaming Lebron. I'm sure a lot of guys are gonna

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Speaker 1: his legacy. If you think this is on Lebron, It's

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Speaker 1: difficult to have a sports conversation with you. Um, it

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Speaker 1: just is, because what do you want him to do?

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Speaker 1: He's delivering the ball on a platter to Wesley Matthews.

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Speaker 1: What is Wesley Matthews doing missing every shot he takes.

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Speaker 1: He's delivering the ball to Alex Caruso. What does Alex

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Speaker 1: Russo doing clanging every shot he takes? Like we have

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Speaker 1: to be real, folks. If KCP is injured and limited,

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Speaker 1: And now you're looking at, well, what do we have here?

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Speaker 1: Lebron is gonna be thirty seven. I know it was

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Speaker 1: the m v P or a contender with your kitchen

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Speaker 1: or whatever. Then he gets hurt. But I if you

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Speaker 1: The final four teams in the bubble. Okay, the Boston

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Speaker 1: The Celtics just got bounced in five by the Nets.

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Speaker 1: That was easy money. Tuesday night, the Miami Heat went

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Speaker 1: If you go look up, all those pollster quotes were exhausted,

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Speaker 1: This is a good Heat team. And I picked up

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Speaker 1: look for prices on the Blazers to win it, win

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Speaker 1: the series. I mean, the Nuggets have basically shot threes

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Speaker 1: law of averages is gonna even out. Monty Morris is

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Speaker 1: pretty clear this Lakers team, it just doesn't have anything

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Speaker 1: they medible game. Now, is there any chance the Lakers

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Speaker 1: interesting offseason where huh Don has shoot a really good

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Speaker 1: we are we keeping Harold? Like? What's going on? The

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Speaker 1: It look fine. Anthony David's gets hurt, the bottom falls out,

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Speaker 1: gonna be thirty seven in like eight months, sorry, six months?

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Speaker 1: And how much longer can we expect Lebron to do everything?

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Speaker 1: is bleak as hell. Rob g My two Doomsday to

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Speaker 1: when a team is down thirty points at halftime, you know,

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Speaker 1: they just didn't have enough. Not only did he not

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Speaker 1: you said, if they lose going away, fine, they're shorthanded.

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Speaker 1: Their whole team is built around two guys and one

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Speaker 1: of them is hurt. I get it, But to not

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Speaker 1: him to go two thousand and eighteen Lebron James, and

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Speaker 1: the number one seed? So Bookers the number two seed? Um,

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Speaker 1: I would say yes in the shooting guard hierarchy, and

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Speaker 1: I probably should have the scoring leaders in front of

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Speaker 1: me before I just pop off like this, but I

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Speaker 1: would say there's no doubt yes, if you're going shooting guard,

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Speaker 1: Harden's number one, Donovan Mitchell probably is number two? Um?

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Speaker 1: Who is what is Paul George? Technically? I always view

428
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Speaker 1: him as a small forward. I know he plays shooting

429
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Speaker 1: guard on their team, but I always had small Bradley Beal.

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Speaker 1: Is Bradley Beal is better? Okay? Alright, reluctantly, I'll give

431
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Speaker 1: you Beal. He's had a couple more in the playoff games.

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Speaker 1: Let's see what Booker doesn't in in game two a

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Speaker 1: series to assuming they got by the Lakers, Um, who

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Speaker 1: else a buddy healed? You know it would be a

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Speaker 1: tough one. I would say is Jalen Brown. Jalen Brown

436
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 1: awesome defender, high defender. He can shoot it, but he

437
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Speaker 1: doesn't create nearly as well as Devin Booker. Brown was

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Speaker 1: on threes Booker thirty four this season. It's weird. I

439
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:38,920
Speaker 1: heard an awesome saying that the NBA regular season highlights

440
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Speaker 1: your strengths and the NBA playoffs highlight your weaknesses. And Rob,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to revisit what we talked

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Speaker 1: about earlier, but I'm just looking at the roster of

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Speaker 1: the Lakers and in the regular season their strength, Lebron,

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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis, a deep roster. In the playoffs minus one star,

445
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they look awful and the roster

446
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:10,359
Speaker 1: looks pretty frigged terrible. Am I right? Like again, I

447
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,000
Speaker 1: don't want to be hyper rack reactive to a Game

448
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Speaker 1: five loss without Anthony Davis, but this Laker roster minus

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Speaker 1: one Anthony Davis or Lebron, and given Lebron, te safe

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Speaker 1: to assume that one. You know, two years ago, Lebron

451
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Speaker 1: was hurt, last year they had the big layoff, and

452
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Speaker 1: then this year both of them got hurt. So it's

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Speaker 1: safe to assume that there's a chance both of them

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Speaker 1: are hurt next year one or both. They need a

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Speaker 1: massive upgrade on this roster, do they not? Yeah, The

456
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Speaker 1: problem is I don't know how they do it. I mean,

457
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Speaker 1: I actually tweeted late during the game last night that

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Speaker 1: Dennis Shooter you brought him up earlier and how he

459
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Speaker 1: had a big donut in that game. He has the

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Speaker 1: Lakers in a really, really precarious position because is he's

461
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,160
Speaker 1: obviously proved in this series he's not worth a hundred

462
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Speaker 1: million dollars that he's looking for. Problem is, the Lakers

463
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Speaker 1: are kept out. All their money's tied up in their

464
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 1: two big guns and a bunch of other guys. They

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Speaker 1: don't have the means to replace him. So I don't

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Speaker 1: know who you can sign and trade Devin Dennis Shooter

467
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Speaker 1: for withe million dollars a year, Like, I don't know

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Speaker 1: how you can assume that you can lose him and

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Speaker 1: upgrade to that position. Because Alex s Cruder is not

470
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Speaker 1: a creator and Taylor Horton Tucker is still probably a

471
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Speaker 1: year or two away from being a solid player on

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Speaker 1: a on a good team. So and and again this

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00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: is probably speaking out of pocket. Um, I'm sure Lebron

474
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Speaker 1: would not like to hear this, but in the NFL

475
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,440
Speaker 1: we saw Tom Brady do something when they won the

476
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Hey man, I'm forty what is the I'm

477
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Speaker 1: restructuring my deal so we can get better and keep

478
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Speaker 1: every starter on offensive defense. I got a wife who's

479
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 1: made five million dollars, blah blah blah. I want a lot,

480
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Speaker 1: I want to win more. I'm going to sacrifice today

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Speaker 1: for a better tomorrow. I'm not saying Lebron should or

482
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Speaker 1: will do it. I'm asking you, is there a way?

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Speaker 1: And again, I don't you know. I know in the

484
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Speaker 1: NFL this happens all the time, restructuring deals. Does that

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Speaker 1: happen in the NBA? Could Lebron theoretically go to the

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Speaker 1: Lakers and say, hey, let's tear up my deal, give

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Speaker 1: me a new one that keeps me here longer, so

488
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Speaker 1: maybe my son can join me in three years. I

489
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Speaker 1: will take significantly less money. Is that even an option?

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Speaker 1: Or am I just talking completely out of my ass?

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Speaker 1: That is absolutely not an option. And he also signed

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Speaker 1: his extension I believe this past offseason, so he's locked

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Speaker 1: up through the right. He's making thirty nine this year,

494
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Speaker 1: forty one next year, forty one year after that. So,

495
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 1: unlike the NFL, the Laker uh NBA players can't restructure deals. Correct. Okay,

496
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 1: Kyle Kuzum was on the hook for thirteen million each

497
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 1: of the next three years. KCP, who also was scoreless

498
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Speaker 1: against the Sons of Game five, and he's been injured

499
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 1: and he's really had a rough season after being a

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Speaker 1: Bubble hero. He's on the hook for thirteen mill and

501
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 1: then fourteen mill montras Harold next year as a player option,

502
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Speaker 1: which he most definitely is picking up for nine point

503
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Speaker 1: seven mill. Lu all dang in the stretch extension on

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Speaker 1: the books for five millie next year. Um. Yeah, they

505
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Speaker 1: lose Wesley Matthews. Um, they could lose Caruso, they could

506
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Speaker 1: lose Markuis Morris. I mean the problem is, Rob, You've

507
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: really got to replace them with absolute home runs. You've

508
00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 1: got to go out and say, I'm gonna find a

509
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 1: guy like Ameron Payne who's gonna come in and kick

510
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 1: major ass for me. Now, you know, Campaign was a

511
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 1: really nice college player. Is there another Campaign out there?

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Speaker 1: You know? You you look around at like Brooklyn and

513
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 1: their front office. I mean, Rob, we've gushed about the

514
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 1: kid Claxton and his potential upfront. Well, Bruce Brown is

515
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: like the perfect role player. He is an awesome find,

516
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 1: awesome for the Brooklyn Nets. Uh, you know you've got

517
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Speaker 1: to go out and hit on these And you know

518
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 1: a guy like Robert Covington who has played like ass

519
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 1: for Portland this year. Um, I know he was decent

520
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 1: on Tuesday night, but he made a couple of big mistakes. Um,

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Speaker 1: can you get that guy is three and d H

522
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: do you even want to? Um? You really gotta like

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Speaker 1: Monty Moore is chipping in twenty eight points for the

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Speaker 1: Nuggets last night, bro, Like the Lakers would kill for

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Speaker 1: a twenty eight point game from anyone not named Lebron

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Speaker 1: A d or Dennis Shooter. Hell, at this point they

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Speaker 1: kill for twenty from Shooter. But that made that being said, Like,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what's his name, Rob low

529
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 1: looking guy who runs the Lakers, Rob Polinka. He needs

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Speaker 1: to deliver this offseason. If you're saying if if, if

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Speaker 1: what you're saying is accurate and the Lakers cannot simply

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00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 1: try to restructure deals to create cap room like Polinka's,

533
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 1: the pressure is gonna be on him this summer, like

534
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 1: big time. You know what I would again, I hate

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00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 1: to disagree with you, but coming into the season, we

536
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 1: thought this was a better team than the Bubble, which

537
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 1: ran through the playoffs and won the championship. People were

538
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 1: saying this would be better offensively, yeah, and that this

539
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 1: could be one of the better teams that Lebron has

540
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 1: ever had. Just the roster was stacked, and unfortunately all

541
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: the guys that they brought back and and Dennis Shrewder

542
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 1: has been a disappointment in the postseason. Anything. In the

543
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 1: regular season, he was fine, but we knew coming in

544
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,720
Speaker 1: that Mantrez Harrold couldn't play in the playoffs. Wes Matthews

545
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 1: is shooting the worst he's shot, and I think a

546
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 1: decade on the on the season and threes um Mark

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00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: Kis Morris shot I believe like from three in the

548
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: in the in the Bubble last season. Now he's shooting

549
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 1: I think thirty two. Alex CRUs has never been a shooter.

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00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: Kyle Kuzma has never been a shooter. Uh, Kyle Kuzma

551
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 1: has been a shooter, just not in any time. No,

552
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: he's never been a good shoot. He had his rookie

553
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 1: seasons thirty three and then the rest of his career

554
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 1: is like thirty and so the problem is that it's

555
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: not that they're not getting talent, that they haven't got

556
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 1: good players, it's just for whatever reason, when they get

557
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 1: to the Lakers, they completely forget how to shoot. Like,

558
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 1: I guess maybe we should rename the clutched sports tax too,

559
00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: you know, getting clutch boar players too. If you come

560
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 1: to the Lakers, you're shooting percentage drop five percent no

561
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 1: matter who you are because they cannot throw a p

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Speaker 1: in the ocean. Yeah, I mean, yeah, so depressing. It's

563
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 1: like it's over um And I guess you're right. I

564
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 1: do remember the Lakers saying that the Lakers had the

565
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: deepest roster in the league, and they do their deep

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Speaker 1: and versatile rob there is one minor thing. If Lebrono

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Speaker 1: a d'ar out, they're screwed. I mean you, I think

568
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 1: you were the one who said this on Monday, Like

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Speaker 1: you could say that about basically any team in the league.

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, Jyllen Brown is out. Celtics get swept

571
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 1: or gentleman, see gentleman m Kemba Walker missed the final

572
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: two games that you know, Celtics lose by fifteen each

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Speaker 1: of them. Um, any team missing a major star, and

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Speaker 1: you know I don't. You could make fun Anthony Davids

575
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 1: all you want. Charles Barkley, a D is a top

576
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: ten player in the NBA, no doubt, no doubt. So yeah,

577
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: without him, there's kind of a problem when you know

578
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 1: the other guy is a thirty six year old with

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00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 1: more tread on his tires than I think any other

580
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: player in NBA history. Like he's up there in games minutes,

581
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: playoff games, playoff minutes. It's insane. Fox Sports Radio has

582
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,560
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00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 1: to listen live. Any other thoughts on tonight's games drop.

586
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 1: I mean, I know we didn't have a lot of

587
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: time to it, but shout out to Dame Lillard, who

588
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:45,479
Speaker 1: put in one of the greatest playoff performances I've ever seen.

589
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: Even though they lost. Um, it's unfortunate they lost. I

590
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 1: think even CJ mccollin said after the game, we wasted

591
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 1: one of the great performances you'll ever see, And that

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00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 1: is accurate on CJ's part. And he scored the final

593
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Speaker 1: seven team points. He's you that I did, and you

594
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Speaker 1: know I had had to fund stat letting pull it

595
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 1: up again? Here, Okay, Dame Lillard in overtime and double

596
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 1: overtime seventeen points on six of eight, shooting all other

597
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: Blazers during that stretch two points on one of nineteen.

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Speaker 1: Oh gosh, now it's funny he scored their final seventeen.

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Speaker 1: I just want to turn back the clock for a

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Speaker 1: second to Lebron. I think yesterday or like this past

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Speaker 1: week was the anniversary of Lebron's forty eight against the

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00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:31,880
Speaker 1: Pistons when he was twenty two years old in a

603
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 1: playoff game that I remember watching because I was like,

604
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 1: this is incredible. Oh my gosh, what he's twenty two?

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00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:41,479
Speaker 1: How's he doing this? He scored I'm almost certain their

606
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 1: final twenty eight points against a team that have won

607
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:48,839
Speaker 1: the title two years prior, and he was twenty two

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00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 1: years old. Dave scored the final seventeen. People are going

609
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:55,360
Speaker 1: ape ship, which they should. I mean, he was incredible.

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Speaker 1: Just puts Lebron's performance against the Pistons in a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a sspective. Um Any thoughts on tonight's games?

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00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: Do the Hawks close it? Out against the next the Hawks,

613
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 1: by the way, talking some trash, Clint Cappella making I

614
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,240
Speaker 1: don't know that I love that. You haven't won anything, Atlanta.

615
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 1: Clint Cappella has won nothing. Clint Cappela actually gets reduced

616
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: to the bench in key moments when he was in Houston. UM,

617
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 1: I would win the series before talking to my running

618
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 1: my mouth. Eventually, Julius Randall is going to wake up.

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Speaker 1: Former Laker Julius Randall will wake up and score on

620
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 1: John Collins and DeAndre Hunter. I don't know that I

621
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 1: love the Hawks here. I've had a great read on

622
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,439
Speaker 1: this series. I don't have a great read on this game.

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Speaker 1: I would if you ask me, I guess I would

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Speaker 1: take the Hawks um, especially if they're getting points, but

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00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 1: I don't know if they are. UM Memphis Utah Utah

626
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 1: going home. You know, Memphis put up an interesting fight

627
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,439
Speaker 1: at home the last two games, and then they wilted late.

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Speaker 1: I have a feeling Utah puts it on him. I

629
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Speaker 1: don't think Sons Lakers game five ish, but I do

630
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Speaker 1: think Utah wins convincingly. I will be betting them sixers.

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Speaker 1: Whizz you said, no Joel embiid Or He's doubtful. Um,

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Speaker 1: I would look at oh, betting over Ben Simmons after

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Speaker 1: his what over six free throws? Everybody's making fun of

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Speaker 1: him Coast to coast the stars, and Ben Simmons is

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Speaker 1: a star. I know people don't like him. It's weird.

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Speaker 1: Top fifteen player in the league for me, no doubt

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Speaker 1: about it. Um, I think Ben Simmons has a big game.

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't shock me if he had like a thirty point

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Speaker 1: triple double thirty and like twelve and eleven or something.

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Speaker 1: And um, Clippers maths. I'm just too scared to talk

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Speaker 1: about because as the Lakers fail and the Clippers rally,

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Speaker 1: I kind of sort of get depressed. Clipper Darrow, you know, hey,

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Speaker 1: you got lucky. Um, I don't want to talk about

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Speaker 1: the Luca injury. I mean there's four games on tonight,

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Speaker 1: so there's a lot of action. UM, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: So Rob, what's your best bet? Just a week and

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Speaker 1: fade you after you picked the Lakers last night? Whatever, man,

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Speaker 1: let's get out of here again, like you, I don't

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Speaker 1: have the lines in front of me, but I really

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Speaker 1: really really like Washington. I'm not as bullish on the

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Speaker 1: Ben Simmons offensive explosion as you are. Um, I don't

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Speaker 1: think there's any way that Beale and Westbrook shoot as

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Speaker 1: poorly as they did in Game four. So I think

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Speaker 1: Washington gets this one and then gets trounced in game six.

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Speaker 1: Wow alright, Uh, let me get the line for you here.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's a little bit stunning that you would

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Speaker 1: like Washington. Philadelphia is incredible on the road, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: incredible at home, mediocre on the road. Um, if if

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Speaker 1: Ben Simmons doesn't miss a bunch of free throws, they

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Speaker 1: the series is over. Uh. Yeah, that's a surprise for me. Um.

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Speaker 1: I am seeing currently for tonight's games. Nick's your favored

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Speaker 1: by one and a half. I don't know if I

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Speaker 1: take the Hawks getting only one and a half, I

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Speaker 1: don't know if that's an enough. Um. Clippers are favored

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Speaker 1: by seven. That's a lot, but they have really taken

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Speaker 1: over the last five quarters. Jazz are nine and a half.

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Speaker 1: I will I hope to grab that before it hits

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Speaker 1: ten and then sixers or six and a half. I

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Speaker 1: like that. I think the sixers I like. I like

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Speaker 1: sixers there. Um, so four games tonight, Um, we're starting

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Speaker 1: to lose teams, guys, and Thursday is a big one.

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Speaker 1: Thursday is a big one, So get some sleep, get ready.

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Speaker 1: Playoffs are getting dicey, especially for Lakers fans. All right,

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Speaker 1: we'll talk to you tomorrow.