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Speaker 1: Welcome Rachel to What's Burning. We appreciate you guys, What's Burning?

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys for scheduling around my busy day to day.

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Speaker 1: Can we discuss your clothes? Yeah, she made that. Jesus

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Speaker 1: in hot. Yeah for real, hottest team in the NBA

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Speaker 1: right now Portland's Trailblazers um happy for chance and dame

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Speaker 1: playing at all NBA level. Rachel, What has impressed you

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Speaker 1: find it looks like at this age, but I just

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Speaker 1: know there's just a lot of noise in l A

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Speaker 1: around this team, and I don't know if they can

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Speaker 1: they can straighten it out. So on the Radar presented

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Speaker 1: you by Draft Kings, we have our odds on favorite

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Speaker 1: to win m v P this year. I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: through maybe the top eight uh. Luca plus four fifty.

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Speaker 1: Joannice is number two with plus six fifty. Jaw made

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Speaker 1: a nice jump. He's at plus seven fifty uh m

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Speaker 1: B plus eight hundred, Jason Tatum plus eight hundred, Katie

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Speaker 1: plus twelve hundred uh. Steph Curry is on their plus

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Speaker 1: two thousand games at plus um Zion snuck on their

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Speaker 1: um thoughts on m v P. Although you know we're

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Speaker 1: three or four games and it doesn't really mean anything

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Speaker 1: right now, but who on that list has really impressed you?

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Speaker 1: So far. Jack Uh, there's obvious to go with two guys,

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Speaker 1: John Mara and Jackson title. The way they're starting off,

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Speaker 1: I think those guys have a great chance of actually

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Speaker 1: winning this award, not just being up here. You know,

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Speaker 1: the early season picks, they really have a shot at

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Speaker 1: winning m VP right well, look right now, but the

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Speaker 1: odds Luca's up top and then Janice I flip those personally,

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Speaker 1: just because I don't know how many games the Mavericks

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Speaker 1: are gonna win, and as someone who's voted on a

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Speaker 1: lot of these awards, you do take that into account.

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Speaker 1: The Bucks, we know they're going to be right, if

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Speaker 1: not the top, around the top of the Eastern Conference.

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Speaker 1: And he's just Janice is thirty to cut you off,

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Speaker 1: thirty two and a half a game, twelve and a

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Speaker 1: half rebounds, five and a half with the number one

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Speaker 1: defense in the league, right, and that he is a

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Speaker 1: huge part of right. So I just I still got

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Speaker 1: to give it to him as a favorite going in

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Speaker 1: here and what that would mean in terms of the

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Speaker 1: history of the game having him win it for a

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Speaker 1: third time. But I just I think that Luca could

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Speaker 1: be right up there because when Sprounson left Luke is

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Speaker 1: gonna like pick up more numbers. I just don't know

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Speaker 1: how many wins. Doubts gonna get jaw Jaws on the mission.

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Speaker 1: I think Jaws on the mission to lead the league

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Speaker 1: and scoring their teams exciting. This is the new NBA.

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Speaker 1: These dudes celebrate their party. They dance after games, they

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Speaker 1: do selfies like, I love this new energy. Uh. They

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Speaker 1: got stars at their game in Memphis. They're dancing on

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Speaker 1: the court like. I love what. They've embraced him. He's

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Speaker 1: their leader. They've they've thrown the grindhouse mantra out. They

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Speaker 1: have their own I don't know what they're called now,

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Speaker 1: but whatever it's called, that needs to be dope. But

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Speaker 1: I love what he's doing, what this organization and team

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Speaker 1: is doing, and I would love to see him go

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Speaker 1: up there and grab that this year. But again it's

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Speaker 1: early and Steph Curry still around um Man and closing thoughts,

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Speaker 1: Adida's decides to terminate the Kanye West contract, along with

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Speaker 1: several other brands that have kind of left his side. Rachel,

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Speaker 1: what's your thoughts on this? They had to I'm wearing

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Speaker 1: these today because I'm in support of their decision. You

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Speaker 1: can't have someone saying that. And by the way, it's

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Speaker 1: not just these most recent comments. We're talking about this

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Speaker 1: before the show for a minute. The stuff he has

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Speaker 1: been saying over the past few years, as great as

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Speaker 1: an artist as he is, as much as he has

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Speaker 1: given us sort of you know over over this time.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry that stuff incites violence. We have seen a

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Speaker 1: one to one of violence coming from the things he said.

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Speaker 1: And when you are saying and doing things that physically

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Speaker 1: are hurting innocent people, there's sorry. The KKK hijacked this movement.

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Speaker 1: I think that was kind of the final step with

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Speaker 1: the people that were on the freeway this past week

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Speaker 1: and you know, throwing up the white power signs and

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Speaker 1: Kanye's right. Jack thoughts on the situation, It's just it's

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Speaker 1: it first, is this hard. It's hard to It hurts

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Speaker 1: your heart, especially as a black man, to see somebody

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Speaker 1: like Kanye, who we look up to, say so many

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Speaker 1: hurtful things, not just only to other to other races,

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Speaker 1: but to his own race, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: And for me, it just hurts the things he said

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Speaker 1: about George Floyd, you know what I mean, Because now

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Speaker 1: his daughter asked coming off from school, asking why people

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Speaker 1: bringing that up again? Right? And I went through a

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Speaker 1: tough time doing that whole you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: in the whole George Floyd stuff, to try to have

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Speaker 1: to relive it again, you know what I mean. So

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Speaker 1: I just think that it just it just hurt from

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Speaker 1: somebody we always we listened to and somebody would look

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Speaker 1: up to to say these things. And uh, you hate

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Speaker 1: to see the things happen to him, But you say,

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Speaker 1: stupid ship you get stud I'm hurt too from a

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Speaker 1: standpoint of what he's been able to mean for the

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Speaker 1: culture when he was on the right path, and what

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Speaker 1: he's been able to build for itself. If you think

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Speaker 1: of what what he's been able to build for himself

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Speaker 1: as far as music and fashion and culture, like he

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Speaker 1: was up there, he was icon status. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't mind the ignorant stuff he says, because to me,

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Speaker 1: that's freedom of speech, and you're not always going to

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Speaker 1: agree with what people say. I just obviously have a

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Speaker 1: problem with the hate, you know. And and and as

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Speaker 1: we were talking off Fair, he was saying a lot

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Speaker 1: of hateful stuff for a while. But you know, he

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Speaker 1: spoke on the Jewish slavery you can't say that. I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: you can't. You can just there's a lot of stuff

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Speaker 1: you can't say when it comes to hate. And like

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Speaker 1: the end, he's been you know, kind of stabbing at

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Speaker 1: all racist when it comes to that. But you know,

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Speaker 1: he spoke on the Jewish community and almost taunting him

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Speaker 1: like you can't, I can do this, you can't, and

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Speaker 1: you know, unfortunately just I mean, that's just something you

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Speaker 1: don't want to test. But again, and I overall, man,

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Speaker 1: I just pray for him, you know, because I know

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Speaker 1: he just needs some help, some hugs, some you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, he spoke on his mental health issues and

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Speaker 1: and and you know that probably needs to be addressed,

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Speaker 1: but you never want to use that an excuse. But

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Speaker 1: at the same time, man, I just you hate to

541
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Speaker 1: see it because he's a father too, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean, and you know his kids and he's gone,

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Speaker 1: you know, he's had a you know, a situation with

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Speaker 1: this girl, and whenever there's kids involved, it's just hard

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Speaker 1: because his kids are old enough now to hear and

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Speaker 1: you don't never want to hear nothing bad about your

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Speaker 1: mom or they all got phones. Though they all got phones,

548
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 1: they want to hear stuff. About your mom and dad

549
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 1: and when it when it comes to this negative stuff.

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Speaker 1: So you know, obviously planning for everybody involved, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean I just hope he you know, gets some

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Speaker 1: help that he needs and and and can get hisself together. Um.

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Speaker 1: Another sad situation of Brittany Grinder latest, Um, her appeal

554
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Speaker 1: was denied today. Yeah, right, was denied today. Um upheld

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Speaker 1: that they're giving her time served, so they say at

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Speaker 1: this point she still owes another eight years. Um. This

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00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 1: is just sick to me and and all over. They're

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Speaker 1: obviously trying to make any example but a little cartridge, Um, Jack,

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Speaker 1: anything you want to say to her, uh, in case

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Speaker 1: we can get that out to her on b G.

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Speaker 1: You know we love you, uh men you've always been cool.

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00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 1: We bought it to each other a couple a few times,

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Speaker 1: but you know, we ride for you. Um. We know

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00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 1: you've been doing wrong and anything we can do, we're

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Speaker 1: trying to do it. But you have our support and

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Speaker 1: hopefully we'll see you home soon. Right tel anythings support

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Speaker 1: for b Well, I mean it's every time I see

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Speaker 1: when she's up against I mean, my just heart drops.

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Speaker 1: It just seems it's barbaric. I mean, there's no other

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Speaker 1: word for what she's going through. I do have a

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Speaker 1: question for you, guys, and I don't know the answer,

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Speaker 1: so I'm just legitimately asking. She is one of the

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Speaker 1: faces of the w n B A right, if this

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Speaker 1: was one of the faces of the NBA who had

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Speaker 1: been in this position, what do you think would be

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Speaker 1: different in terms of what our government might do to

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Speaker 1: help her out or the common public opinion. I think

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Speaker 1: if it was a male star, he would be out

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Speaker 1: when talking about this right now, have been out. No,

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Speaker 1: we wouldn't be talking about that. And I think obviously

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Speaker 1: that's all guests, but it's a pretty solid guess. Like

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Speaker 1: if if one of our stars, and I'm even throwing

583
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Speaker 1: on his name, but if one of our bigger stars,

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Speaker 1: faces of the NBA happen to get caught with some

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Speaker 1: treat overseas and this kind of ship happened, I just

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00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 1: have a feeling that he wouldn't still be sitting there.

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Speaker 1: It just keeps every time I see it. I'm just like,

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Speaker 1: you know what this happened with and I don't know,

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Speaker 1: maybe it w I mean, with the relationship between Russia

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Speaker 1: and America right now is not good, and I think

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Speaker 1: if it was a male started NBA, we would not

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Speaker 1: be talking about this right now because we wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: in there. But anyway, b G, we're sending the prayers

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Speaker 1: out to you, your family, your loved ones, everyone involved

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00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,679
Speaker 1: in this situation. Keep your head up, um and you know,

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00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:46,360
Speaker 1: hopefully something will cry down to right. Hopefully cut someone

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00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 1: come down for the pipeline and uh, you know, get

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Speaker 1: you up out of there. But you, guys, thank you

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Speaker 1: for your time today. That's a rap. What's burning? You

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Speaker 1: can catch us on Showtime Basketball YouTube and on Twitter,

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Speaker 1: Instagram and TikTok Show Basketball before we go. I saw

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Speaker 1: the gleam in in in the smiling your face when

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Speaker 1: you were up and going to state. How good was

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00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 1: it to get back on the saddle. It was you

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00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 1: guys know you're up there recently, but even more so,

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00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 1: you guys are family to that organization. There's no better

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00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:17,879
Speaker 1: place to be on a night like that. Ring ceremony.

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Speaker 1: I'm all in for a ring ceremony. Ring ceremony anytime

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Speaker 1: in any sport. It's fantastic. And then you know you've

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00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,880
Speaker 1: got like first ballot Hall of famers everywhere you look there.

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00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 1: It is just so much fun and great to reconnect

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00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 1: and talk to those guys, and I'm excited about what

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00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,159
Speaker 1: they're gonna be this season. They're fun to watch. I

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00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 1: was happy for you because I just a couple of

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00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 1: times to camera caught you and you were just smiling.

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Speaker 1: She was back in her elements. I love this game,

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Speaker 1: you know that. Whenever anyway, man, We'll see you guys

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Speaker 1: next week. Jeez,