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Speaker 1: Welcome to The Favorites, the podcast from the Volume Podcast Network.

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Speaker 1: It's Thursday. That means it's time to enter the Thursday

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Speaker 1: Thunderdome Doom. On today's show, our special guests will compete

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Speaker 1: alongside my co host, my bff, my companion, professional sports

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Speaker 1: better Simon Hunter, in an epic test of wagers in

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Speaker 1: which That's quickly made this show the first universally beloved

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Speaker 1: media product since Here's Sometimes you want to go where

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Speaker 1: everybody knows your name. Hello Simon, Hello Chad. It's good

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Speaker 1: to be here, buddy. Good news for you. As you know,

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Speaker 1: my wife has taken very little interest in my career,

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Speaker 1: despite my ridiculous success as a premier executive, is the

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Speaker 1: ESPN author of seven books, as someone who was part

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Speaker 1: of the team that founded this company and then sold it,

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Speaker 1: as I remind everybody for two and forty million dollars,

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Speaker 1: does not care. But yesterday she was done listening to

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Speaker 1: a podcast when I happened to be downstairs, and she

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Speaker 1: looked at me and she goes, what's that funny podcast

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Speaker 1: you do? I heard one of the episodes you made

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Speaker 1: me listen to while we were driving, and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: the Favorites the Thunderdome. She goes, yeah, I could listen

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Speaker 1: to that, and then as she goes in to look

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Speaker 1: forward in Google, she goes to type in the podcast.

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Speaker 1: She goes, wait a second, what did you say it is?

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Speaker 1: Is it behind the Bets? I'm like, are you kidding me?

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Speaker 1: Behind the Bats the podcast that I started ESPN has

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Speaker 1: not been the name of this podcast for years. I

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Speaker 1: just gave you the name. But the good news is

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Speaker 1: all I take from this is she called it funny,

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Speaker 1: so we made it where this is us peaking right now?

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Speaker 1: We got some heat serious. I'll tell you what, Chad.

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Speaker 1: I've had people listen to the show The thunder Dome Edician.

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Speaker 1: They love it, so it's it's not surprising that she

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Speaker 1: would love the show. Well listen, speaking of heat, your

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Speaker 1: first challenger, I am super excited to get this guy

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Speaker 1: on because he has built social media empires from nothing

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Speaker 1: that I am completely in totally jealous of. Your first

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Speaker 1: challenger is an NBA expert, the host of the Buster

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Speaker 1: Show podcast, and the founder of Instagram's Hoops Nation. There

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Speaker 1: are no off days for this man. Welcome to the show. Buster, Sure,

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Speaker 1: how are you? Thank you so much for having me?

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Speaker 1: It is great to have you on the show. I

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Speaker 1: gotta know, before like we even get into it, explained

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Speaker 1: because what do you like? So I started when I

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Speaker 1: was third team. Fortunately I'm a little older than that

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Speaker 1: now I'm twenty. But I started blogging about fantasy basketball

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Speaker 1: when I was thirteen, originally on Facebook. Started to learn

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Speaker 1: fourteen or fifteen. Simultaneously started doing play by play broadcasting

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Speaker 1: for local high school sports. So started with j V

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Speaker 1: by the way. But kept doing that. When I was seventeen,

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Speaker 1: won best in the country for play by play broadcasting,

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Speaker 1: and then just kept on building out Hoops Nation, you know,

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Speaker 1: sort of in Lieuid saying that you know, you you

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Speaker 1: mentioned there no days offseas, you know, just consistency and

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Speaker 1: and other professional leagues just allowed that and also being

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Speaker 1: early on new platforms, you know, TikTok is a good example,

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Speaker 1: always fun, and just trying to create my dream media

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Speaker 1: from a different lens. Well, listen, you've created my dream

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Speaker 1: media outlet, and I feel like you would get along

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Speaker 1: great with our next contestant, because he too, is also

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Speaker 1: all about following his passion and doing it his own way.

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Speaker 1: He is out to avenge his April lost here in

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Speaker 1: the Thunderdome. He is also our first repeat victim. He's

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Speaker 1: former DJ boxing of Ficionado, currently falling in love with

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Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns, Philadelphia's finest Mr Raheem Palmer. How today

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Speaker 1: are you bringing your A game against it? I'm always

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Speaker 1: bringing my game. They just got lucky last time. Well,

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, I'm always rooting for Simon Hunter,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to tilt the game in his direction. I

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Speaker 1: want him to win desperately. He's my beff. Here's how

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Speaker 1: the game is played today. You'll answer two kinds of questions. First,

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Speaker 1: You must answer the trivia questions correctly and also convinced

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Speaker 1: sports betting, you can't get him. All right, let's begin

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Speaker 1: part on offensive versus offensive offenses exploded across the NBA

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Speaker 1: NBA offensive performances. I'll ask you about famously offensive NBA performances.

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Speaker 1: Simon After a two thou ten loss to the Celtics,

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Speaker 1: I'm giving it to you, not Mitchell. We're giving it

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Speaker 1: it right away. Raheem. Before a Pacers Celtics game held

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Speaker 1: present for him, True to his word. As the Celtics

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Speaker 1: teammate who became a dream teamer alongside Larry Bird. That's

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Speaker 1: trash talking buster. Here's your question. Latrelle Spreewell committed one

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Speaker 1: based on how the NBA playoffs have gone thus far,

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Speaker 1: film Simon You Can Go First. Literally right popped in

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Speaker 1: my mind was Shawshank Redemption and him crawling down that

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Speaker 1: And it just reminds me of the Knicks fans. They've

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Speaker 1: nobody thought that they could do it, Happy Gilmore is

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Speaker 1: nineties is the most classic mash up there can be. Therefore, Buster,

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Speaker 1: you win the prompt Nice job, buddy, that's your home?

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Speaker 1: Are you too good for your home? Part two Experience Matters.

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Speaker 1: Phil Nicholson won the PGA Championship last weekend, becoming the

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Speaker 1: their way to incredible athletic achievements. Buster olympian Derra Torres

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Speaker 1: it was in Beijing, Beijing, Raheem in nineteen picture Satchel

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Speaker 1: when Satchel Page pitched for them, the same city that

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. He's got potential and it never really

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Speaker 1: worked out where it's like he just never really had

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Speaker 1: a coach I optimize his skill set. So I would

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Speaker 1: love if Chip Kelly came back in NFL and had

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Speaker 1: like a team with Mariota, we d see that old

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Speaker 1: Oregon offense. So that definitely be my nomination. That is

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Speaker 1: really interesting too. It's so it's crazy that combinations you

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Speaker 1: guys are thinking of their you and rehieve they're so

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Speaker 1: Parallelster I'm going big, all right, he's a little past

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Speaker 1: his prime. I have been a supporter of said player

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Speaker 1: for a very long time. He is a national champion

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Speaker 1: collegiate player from the famous two thousand and three draft class.

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Speaker 1: Carmelo Anthony and his former Syracuse head coach that Combo

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Speaker 1: is the only Combo and Carmelo Anthony's entire career that

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Speaker 1: has won at the highest level, and they did it

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Speaker 1: an incredible fashion. Teams have been trying to get coach

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Speaker 1: It hasn't worked. If that were to happen, the energy

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Speaker 1: You know, in Round one with the prompts, I was

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Speaker 1: leaning towards Raheem when he talked about usual suspects and

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Speaker 1: the Bucks, which I loved, and then you came in

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Speaker 1: been loving the idea of Reggie Bush and Pete Carroll

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Speaker 1: and then you give me Mellow and Beheim. Mellow to

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Speaker 1: me one of the most interesting NBA careers because he

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Speaker 1: went from being the guy who everyone thinks is this

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Speaker 1: superstar score but can't win in Denver to being a

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Speaker 1: guy who was a score but was selfish and the

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Speaker 1: wrong player for the Knicks, to being a guy who

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Speaker 1: was beloved for how he did on the international stage,

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Speaker 1: to a guy who's out of the league and now

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Speaker 1: making his bones as sort of the savvy veteran with

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Speaker 1: the Portland's team that is always on the cusp. Such

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Speaker 1: a mere curial figure. The problem for me on that

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Speaker 1: one Beeheim seems like the big gist asshole in the world.

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Speaker 1: Like the way he talks to people, the way he

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Speaker 1: treats media, how dismissive he is. I just don't like him.

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Speaker 1: You're an idiot and really disloyal person. A few other

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Speaker 1: things I could add, but I'm not gonna go there.

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Speaker 1: I can't give it to you because it's a personal animus.

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Speaker 1: It's a great answer answer you definitely come in a

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Speaker 1: strong second. I'm giving it Raheim. So right now, this

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Speaker 1: is exciting because right now, going into the final round,

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Speaker 1: Raheem is at three, Buster is at three, Simon is

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Speaker 1: at three. This is fantastic. We have the potential for

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Speaker 1: a runoff. The topic is NBA most improved player. First,

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Speaker 1: close your eyes, hold up the number of fingers of

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Speaker 1: what you would like to risk in your final wager amount.

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Speaker 1: So just close your eyes and hold up your fingers

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Speaker 1: one to three. Got it okay. Julius Randall of the

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Speaker 1: New York Knicks was just named the NBA's Most Improved Player.

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Speaker 1: He's trying to become the fourth recipient of the award

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Speaker 1: to win an NBA championship during his career. Here are

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Speaker 1: the other three. The first was the aforementioned Boris Dia,

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Speaker 1: who won the award in two thousand six with the

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Speaker 1: Sons and won a title with the Spurs in two

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Speaker 1: thousand fourteen. The latest was Pascal Siakam, who won the

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Speaker 1: award and a title in two thousand nineteen. The third

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Speaker 1: was this player, this player, who won the award in

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Speaker 1: two thousand eleven. He became the first player in almost

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Speaker 1: thirty years to post a thirty point thirty rebound game,

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Speaker 1: and his fifty three game double double streak was the

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Speaker 1: longest since the A B A n B A merger.

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Speaker 1: He was not selected as an All Star that season,

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Speaker 1: despite leading the NBA and rebounds per game, but was

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Speaker 1: chosen by the commissioner as an injury replacement for Yemming.

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Speaker 1: A few season mons later, he'd be traded to an

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Speaker 1: Eastern Conference power, where he'd secure his first and only

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Speaker 1: championship and where he remains to this day. Who was

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Speaker 1: the two thousand eleven most improved player in the NBA.

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Speaker 1: It's a curious thing. Make a one man another man

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Speaker 1: sing buster you like? My first inclination was la Marcus

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Speaker 1: Aldridge because the guy get you know, but he hasn't

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Speaker 1: he hasn't won, but he's on the Spurs now. No,

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Speaker 1: I can't think of who it is. You have lost

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Speaker 1: two points, you are down to one point. Raheem, what

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Speaker 1: is your answer? Kevin Love? Come on, Kevin Love? Six points?

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Speaker 1: Has six points? Simon? What's your answer? I got it?

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Speaker 1: I got Kevin Love. I can't believe it. You got

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Speaker 1: your cars? Grand finale answer? Raheem and Simon both have

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Speaker 1: six points? Do you guys deserve this one? I have

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Speaker 1: nothing to say congratulations. That was a good question. I

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Speaker 1: was tricky because I was like, who the hell won

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Speaker 1: a championship and they're still on that team because it's

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Speaker 1: the East, and I was like, oh, hey, Kevin Love,

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Speaker 1: you've just been sitting there for like six years. Now, Well,

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Speaker 1: Matt Mitchell, we need a runoff. Do you want to

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Speaker 1: take over for the runoff? Sure it is with great

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Speaker 1: pleasure that I announced yet another Thunderdome Sudden death challenge

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Speaker 1: between Simon Hunter and Raheim Palmer. This one will concern

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Speaker 1: the NBA Draft and the New York Knickerbockers. NBA draft

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Speaker 1: was loaded with talent. Kobe Iverson, Marbury Ray Allen, Steve Nash,

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Speaker 1: Marcus Camby, even Jermaine O'Neill was taken all the way

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Speaker 1: at seventeen. Unfortunately, the New York Knicks, who had three

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Speaker 1: first round picks that year, chose shitty players. There are

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Speaker 1: three first round draft picks were John Wallace, Walter McCarty,

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Speaker 1: and Dante Jones. Who's who of mediocrity. I'm especially fond

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Speaker 1: of John Wallace as he's a native of my own Rochester,

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Speaker 1: New York, and was coached by Jeff Van Gundy, who

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Speaker 1: once coached at my high school, McCoy Jesuit, and referred

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Speaker 1: to it as his favorite year coaching in his entire career.

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Speaker 1: But I digress. The question is John Wallace, Walter McCarty

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Speaker 1: Dante Jones played for a combined eighteen NBA seasons in total.

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Speaker 1: Without going over, how many career starts did those three

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Speaker 1: NBA players have? This is real drama chat. The stakes

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Speaker 1: for Simon would be for the first time in the

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Speaker 1: illustrious history of the Thunderdome, he will have gotten the

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Speaker 1: correct answer in the grand finale after wagering all of

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Speaker 1: his points, putting him in position to actually win. Has

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Speaker 1: he won the thunder done before? Chad? No, incredible, Simon,

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Speaker 1: you go first. You guys just love stacking it against me.

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Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. I have no idea. I don't even remember

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Speaker 1: what the question was. That's how I was, just like,

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Speaker 1: what the hell is this talking about? Right now? I'll go, um,

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Speaker 1: a thousand, No, change that to a hundred because apparently

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Speaker 1: they're terrible. So I guess a hundred one hundred is

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Speaker 1: Simon Hunter's answer for career starts for him. I think

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Speaker 1: John willis, what do you play like? Seven years? Um,

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Speaker 1: Dante Jones and Water? I have no idea who um

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Speaker 1: water is. I'm gonna go around one. John Wall started games,

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Speaker 1: Dante Jones had a foot injury and started zero, and

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Speaker 1: Walter McCarty got traded to the Celtics, which he started

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Speaker 1: quite a number of games hundred and eight. In fact,

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Speaker 1: eight is one fifty three Raheean Palmer almost gets it

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Speaker 1: on the nose. Yes, listen, man, listen, I sat off

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Speaker 1: the top of the show. You're a University of Pennsylvania alumnus.

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Speaker 1: The ability to look at numbers and contextualize them that

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Speaker 1: is really important. You've figured out how to do it today.

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Speaker 1: You are the Thursday Thunderdome Champion. Simon. I'm sorry, Fuster,

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Speaker 1: thank you for playing well, well done. Before we sign off,

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Speaker 1: here's a word from our fearless leader, Action Network CEO,

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Speaker 1: Patrick King. You're Big Trouble gold Pelly, pieces of ship

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Speaker 1: favorite from the Volume Podcast Network. My thanks to our

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