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Speaker 2: and we did a full breakdown of the Friday Night action,

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Speaker 2: Saturday Night. Saturday Night starts with the skills. Competition is

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Speaker 2: going to be a different format this year. You've got

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Speaker 2: teams of three. You've got Team Jannis with Jannis and

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Speaker 1: And then you got the rookies.

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Speaker 2: We got Josh Giddy, you got Kay Cunningham and Scotty Barnes.

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Speaker 2: Is that right? That's right, Scotty Barnes, because he's in

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Speaker 2: like eighteen different events this weekend. All right, they gotta

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Speaker 1: Be a long events on buckets.

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Speaker 2: Let's start with Rahiim of the guys available, we've got

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Speaker 2: a wide disparity. You need to shop around for these

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Speaker 2: probably gonna get even better lines on these. We looked

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Speaker 2: at DraftKings and FanDuel, and we got a wide disparity here.

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Speaker 2: The rookies are minus one sixty at FanDuel, but they're

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Speaker 1: Who do you like in the skills competition?

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Speaker 3: The rookies feel like a mortal lot. When I look

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Speaker 1: I'm real mad. But Jalen Green is the favorite.

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Speaker 2: I mean he's gonna have the most airtime right like,

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Speaker 4: The fact that we gave someone a trophy and called

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Speaker 4: him a winner. Everyone won this year. Jalen Green is

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Speaker 1: He did this podcast.

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Speaker 2: Like I started out with Obi, I was with Raheem,

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Speaker 2: I've moved to Jta. I think I'll a JTA plus

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Speaker 2: also he's already said that he's going to do an

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Speaker 2: I think JTA will take this seriously, and I think

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Speaker 2: Green is going to do something with top Shot.

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Speaker 1: I like top Shot. I'm a top Shot user. This

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Speaker 2: Do not try and bring that kind of stuff in

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Speaker 1: But I will go ahead and.

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Speaker 2: Go that direction. The highlight of the n I obviously

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Speaker 1: It's a great field. This year we got Patty Mills

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Speaker 2: man raheem, Who do you like for the three point contest?

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Speaker 3: I'm really on Luke Canard. I love him plus six

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Speaker 3: all the time. I like the guys who make their

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Speaker 3: Luke Canard is a pure shooter. He's shooting forty three

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Speaker 3: If I'm not rolling with Luke Canard, I'm rolling with

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Speaker 3: Fred van Vliet. But I'm really on Luke Canard.

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Speaker 1: Brandon, are you we ana an agreement on this.

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Speaker 4: I like Luke Canard as well. I like Canard and

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Speaker 4: Desmond Bane. Both those guys are forty two percent three

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Speaker 4: for a long time. I have a problem with the

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Speaker 4: volume here. You can get Canard at plus six hundred

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Speaker 4: at FanDuel Baine plus six hunder at DraftKings play them both.

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Speaker 4: You basically get them at plus three hundred versus the

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Speaker 4: field for either Bayne or Canard to win. So those

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Speaker 4: are my two picks, Matthew, do you like here, I'm

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go ahead and I'm bet Fred VanVleet, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: bet Zach Levine, and I'm gonna bet Luke Canard.

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Speaker 1: I look at a.

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Speaker 2: This season, Fred van Vleet seventy percent, Zack Levine's at

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Speaker 2: So yet those three guys are the best in that area.

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Speaker 2: He's got like if Karl Anthony Towns does not hit

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Speaker 2: So I'm gonna go ahead and I will take those

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Speaker 2: Like you can see the headlines, you know, Luke Canard

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Speaker 2: all right on Sunday. It's the grand child of them all.

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Speaker 2: It's the All Star Game. It's the one day of

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Speaker 2: of town. Team Obron, have you favorite here? Minus six

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Speaker 2: because Lebron grabbed Jannis and Steph and Demarta, Rozen and Jokic.

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Speaker 2: They've got Jared Allen, Jimmy Butler, Lucas on the bench

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Speaker 1: He will not play in this game.

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Speaker 2: Joel Embiid, Jahn Morant, Jason Tatum, Andrew Wiggins, Trey Young,

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Speaker 2: and then Lamela Ball is a substitute for Durant. You

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Speaker 2: It's Team Lebron minus six total three nineteen and a half.

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Speaker 3: I'm looking towards Team Lebron in this matchup. There's no KD,

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Speaker 2: I was hoping that Vandal would let me parlay the

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be looking to do that over at Fandal.

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Speaker 2: Brandon, Team Lebron. You like the points of Katie, you

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Speaker 2: have the over, you like the under? What you like? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I like Team Lebron. I'm looking to bet this live

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Speaker 4: if I'm going to play it, because I don't necessarily

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Speaker 4: don't take the juice on the money line right now.

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Speaker 4: It's an all star game. Who knows what's going to happen.

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Speaker 4: It's not worth it, but we know this is going

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Speaker 4: to be probably a streaky game. Guys are gonna score

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Speaker 1: They'll go back and forth. I think there'll be.

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Speaker 4: A time we'll get a chance to get in on

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Speaker 1: If you look at that, who are the top players.

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Speaker 4: In the game? You got Lebron, Jannis Jokic, Steph and

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Speaker 4: If you list off who are the best players in

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Speaker 4: I just want to wait for my spot. I probably

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Speaker 4: press them to care enough to win the game at

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Speaker 2: I like the idea of waiting, and I have another

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to imagine the sharp coming in, but if

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Speaker 1: I would wait on this.

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Speaker 2: I'm kind of with Raheem on the under I think

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Speaker 2: this might be a pretty sluggish All Star Game just

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Speaker 2: high effort performance, even relative to other All Star Games.

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Speaker 2: So that kind of makes me lean towards the under

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Speaker 2: that we might see some bad shooting in this one.

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Speaker 1: So I'll go ahead, and I think it might play

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Speaker 1: the under at three nineteen.

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Speaker 2: And a half All Star MVP obviously like it's a

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Speaker 1: Rayim, what's your best play for All Star MVB. No.

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Speaker 3: I did like John Morant, but I just don't think

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Speaker 3: he has a good chance of winning, because the MVP

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Speaker 3: has to come from a winning team. So for me,

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Speaker 3: I'm personally gonna look towards Joel and be he has

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Speaker 3: But if you got to pick somebody from Team Lebron,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go to Mark de Rosen.

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Speaker 1: This is the Kobe Bryant MVP award.

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Speaker 3: Brandon calls him cost col Kobe, So, I mean, who's

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Speaker 3: He's gonna go out there and hit a bunch of

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Speaker 3: mid range jump shots. I just don't think Steph Curry

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Speaker 1: I like this a lot.

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Speaker 2: This is gonna be my play as dmart de Rosen.

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Speaker 2: I'm probably gonna bet Jaw and Damar. Jamar has been

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Speaker 2: on such a hot streak, like he's literally breaking records

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Speaker 2: from Wilt Chamberlain for consecutive games with thirty plus points

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Speaker 2: on fifty percent shooting. He's just like liquid fire right now.

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Speaker 2: His shot is so pure. The guys love him. Okay,

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Speaker 2: Damar's been around forever, He's a vet, and he's never

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Speaker 2: a give Damar his flowers opportunity for the players who

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Speaker 2: all love Damar. He's a really good dude, and I

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Speaker 2: think there's a good chance that Team Lebron feeds Damar

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Speaker 2: and gets him an opportunity to take this home. I

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Speaker 2: like Damar Derozen here as well. I also like Jaw

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Speaker 2: and Embid is an interesting one. I think that's like

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Speaker 2: an and that's a pretty good selection overall. I don't

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Speaker 2: like Yannis, I don't like Lebron, I don't like anybody

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Speaker 2: that's that doesn't need this for their accomplishments.

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Speaker 1: I would like a guy like Trey Young who's starting.

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Speaker 2: I just don't necessarily know that Trey's gonna be like,

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Speaker 2: I don't know how that dynamic is going to work.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if if Team Katie is going to

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Speaker 2: an interesting one to watch. Jaw's starting, and I do

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Speaker 2: kind of like if if Kad, if you take Jaw

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Speaker 2: good spot with long shot on the winner and you

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Speaker 2: get also bet it live once you kind of see

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Speaker 1: Brandon, what's your best play for All Star MVP?

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Speaker 4: And my favorite way to play MVP for All Star

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Speaker 4: game is somebody that's gonna be in the winning team

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Speaker 4: and somebody that is going to just try hard and

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Speaker 4: because they're just running the lane, racking up rebounds off

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Speaker 4: he's got better trophies on the mantle at this point.

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Speaker 4: But make sure you play at DraftKings plus seven to

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Speaker 4: fifty for Yannis there versus three eighty at Van Duel.

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't take him at three eighty, no, thank you,

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Speaker 4: plus seven to fifty. I like just Yannis just racking

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Speaker 1: Be honest.

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Speaker 4: We know he's gonna get those effort stats. And to me,

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Speaker 4: just gonna stick with you, honest. I don't want to

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Speaker 2: Okay, it's gonna wrap it up for our All Star

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