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Speaker 1: Guess what, folks, Team USA is playing. It turns out

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Speaker 2: Wells are still flying, and guys are still signing huge

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Speaker 2: extensions well into August, and we're discussing all of that

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Speaker 2: and more with New York Times writer and authored Soapandeb

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

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Speaker 4: Stop Curry from the Child again. Be honest, what you yes,

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Speaker 4: Yes it is.

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Speaker 1: We are back back again a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 4: Thoughts didn't sound like it to you guys you know

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Speaker 4: at home, didn't realize that we took a week.

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Speaker 1: Off, that those were episode earlier.

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Speaker 4: But we recorded the Steph Curry one two years ago. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: before the were just guessing at what was going to

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Speaker 1: Once we heard there was a development deal, We're like,

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Speaker 1: looked like. People really counted them out.

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Speaker 3: Huh.

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Speaker 1: They really do a boy egg on their face. But

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Speaker 1: we are thrilled to be joined today by our guests

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Speaker 1: Soap and Dad. Welcome, Soapan, Hey, thanks.

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Speaker 5: So much for having me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, appreciate it.

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Speaker 5: It's not a great intro.

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Speaker 3: You guys like wrought a lot of energy. I gotta

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Speaker 3: feel like I feel like I have to like raise

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Speaker 4: No, right now we rest on the We rest on

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Speaker 3: There's a key and Peel sketch where they I think

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Speaker 1: Silent and right exactly.

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Speaker 3: It's a very very funny sketch.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, you're a multiple time author and playwright

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Speaker 3: You know, I actually get that question quite a bit.

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Speaker 1: And okay, never mind, Then never mind. I don't want

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Speaker 4: No, it's not that so how goes It's interesting?

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Speaker 5: You know I think about this.

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Speaker 3: You know, I used to be a producer for a

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Speaker 3: I remember Brian asking him something like, so, how do

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Speaker 3: you do both? He's like, well, people are people do

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Speaker 3: it's it's like it's like asking me, like, how do

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Speaker 3: It's like it's just another thing that I don't view

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Speaker 5: Jack. I'll tell you a story from last season.

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Speaker 5: You ruined my childhood.

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Speaker 4: they're pollo.

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Speaker 3: You with with with Jalen Brunson as their top guy.

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Speaker 4: They got Paolo Michale, Bridges, Lan Brunton, Anthony Edwards, Halliburton, Hart,

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Speaker 4: It's just interesting to that awesome that Walker Kessler is

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Speaker 1: Yes, truly, truly. I don't know. I think they would

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Speaker 4: Yeah, i'd say high fifties.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Caliburton is is.

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Speaker 1: The truth chef the GM there, Yeah, for sure. But

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Speaker 4: Shah, we got to Vegas like win total over unders, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: a quick break. Oh yeah, we'll come back and we'll

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Speaker 1: Let's do it.

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Speaker 4: And we're back and FanDuel has told us how many

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh so we're starting in the Atlantic division this episode,

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Speaker 4: Last year they went fifty seven and twenty five. It

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Speaker 3: I mean I wouldn't go over that for sure. Okay,

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Speaker 3: I just think, you know, you're incorporating a guy like

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Speaker 5: And it's not that they lost Marcus.

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Speaker 3: So I could see them having some regular season lolls,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you were saying, you're predicting fifty four and a

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Speaker 1: I first said thirty three and a third because I

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Speaker 4: Fine. So the Celtics they have two and a half

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Speaker 4: I think they're probably assuming Harden is gone or at

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Speaker 4: I think Nurse is a great replacement. I think that

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Speaker 1: But forty nine and a half would I mean, do

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Speaker 1: slight under under Okay, okay, okay. And then if James

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Speaker 3: Mean losing Hearten. I mean, that's a twenty five and

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Speaker 4: You know, curious to him and he's out, He's gone.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, I don't know if a precedent of

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Speaker 3: you take him if you take him out, they lost Niang, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: that they they signed Patrick Beverley, I think they have

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and they were losing heart.

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Speaker 6: So now you're relying on Joel Embiid to hopefully, you know,

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Speaker 3: That's a really for me, I would be, that's a

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Speaker 3: lot of ground to make up. To me, I think

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Speaker 4: Think way under last season, or way under forty nine

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Speaker 5: A half way under forty nine.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like you think sub five hundred season for them,

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Speaker 3: wouldn't shock me if it was like forty three to

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Speaker 3: forty five, to be honest.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, But then again, I'm also.

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Speaker 3: Horrifically wrong on predictions in my career. So a good

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Speaker 3: and then do the exact opposite.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Generally speaking, Yeah, I think a lot of the optimism

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Speaker 4: Harden coming back is like, yeah, but he went to

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Speaker 4: that white party with them, and like they were all

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Speaker 4: hanging out and that seems cool, but going to party

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: A lot of these players.

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Speaker 5: You know, there's the business side.

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Speaker 3: And then there's the personal side. It's not like the

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Speaker 3: to blows on the streets anymore. Right, It's like it's

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Speaker 3: it's it's not that's not the game anymore.

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Speaker 5: These guys are.

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Speaker 5: They're not playing the game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean literally, I.

443
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Speaker 3: Think there was like the meme yesterday of Kevin Duran

444
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Speaker 3: Draymond Green showing up with the same outfit you know,

445
00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:34,640
Speaker 3: at a game and like and like so, and then

446
00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:37,160
Speaker 3: immediately so they they were spotted together at the at

447
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Speaker 3: the at the party, and then the reporting yesterday literally

448
00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:43,159
Speaker 3: James Harden reiterated his request for a drink. It's like,

449
00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:45,600
Speaker 3: it's like these guys are it's it's a totally different world,

450
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Speaker 3: you know.

451
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Speaker 4: Yeah, have we heard anything about on the dame front, Like,

452
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,320
Speaker 4: because I know the NBA like kind of pushed back

453
00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:54,800
Speaker 4: and was like, hey, you can't just say you will

454
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Speaker 4: only play for the heat. Is there any.

455
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Speaker 5: Nonsense that it also again has no light to stand on.

456
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Speaker 4: There's nothing, there's nothing they can do, and they could,

457
00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:06,440
Speaker 4: they could.

458
00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:09,879
Speaker 3: Send sternly awarded memos or whatever, but there's there's zero

459
00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:13,360
Speaker 3: the league. I mean, they can, I guess maybe intervene

460
00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,800
Speaker 3: if it's like like they did with the Chris Paul

461
00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,080
Speaker 3: trade with the Lakers, you know, but that that would

462
00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:19,560
Speaker 3: be a really stunning thing to do.

463
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Speaker 5: And I don't think they have a light to stand

464
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Speaker 5: on here.

465
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Speaker 4: Yeah, rust the trade, they can do that, everyone is uh.

466
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Speaker 4: I think in this case.

467
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Speaker 3: The Blazers were the ones who made the trade request public,

468
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Speaker 3: not not Dame. Dame's not violating any rules, so there

469
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Speaker 3: was you know.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think everyone, Like you know, I'm quietly hoping

471
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Speaker 4: like maybe we do harden for dam because possibility, But

472
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Speaker 4: it doesn't. It doesn't feel like that.

473
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Speaker 1: I mean, it looks what more likely that like the

474
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Speaker 1: Clippers seem like the team that would end up doing

475
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Speaker 1: some business, right yeah, but.

476
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Speaker 4: Like they have the same colors, so I don't know,

477
00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:52,520
Speaker 4: maybe maybe it could work.

478
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Speaker 1: Like what would you even what would you even like

479
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Speaker 1: to see from a from a deal with the Clippers

480
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Speaker 1: Covington At least you want to see him back.

481
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Speaker 4: Who with a with a oh, you're talking about parting

482
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:02,560
Speaker 4: going on?

483
00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,679
Speaker 1: Like yeah, yeah, if there's like what, how do you

484
00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:06,720
Speaker 1: make a meal out of that?

485
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 4: So I'm a little crazy. They have this one guy,

486
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:15,520
Speaker 4: Kawhi Leonard who Hi A lot of people cow high,

487
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,040
Speaker 4: A lot of people have given up on because of

488
00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:21,200
Speaker 4: his injury history. But I am encouraged by the fact

489
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,000
Speaker 4: that he was the best player in the playoffs for

490
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Speaker 4: a single game last year. So I don't know, I'm

491
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Speaker 4: I'm desperate. I would take anything whatever.

492
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Speaker 1: You don't take anything, man, man whoever? Like literally, man? Please?

493
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:38,320
Speaker 4: All right? So we've gone two unders. It feels like somebody,

494
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:39,800
Speaker 4: somebody's got to go over then.

495
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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, well the next team to look at the

496
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Speaker 1: New York Knickerbockers last year forty seven and thirty five.

497
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Speaker 1: This year, they're setting them right around forty four and

498
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Speaker 1: a half. Yeah, I'll be topping out. They signed Dante Vincenzo.

499
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Speaker 4: There, I mean, Vegas is under on basically everyone.

500
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm surprised the Kicks aren't getting more love.

501
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,680
Speaker 3: You assume that some of the young talent quickly gets better.

502
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:08,880
Speaker 3: You assume that brunts in matches brunts and Randall mash

503
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,960
Speaker 3: their production from last year. You assume you see some

504
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:16,439
Speaker 3: growth from like the Grimes of the World, even you know,

505
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 3: Dante's a solid signing for them. I don't see any

506
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Speaker 3: reason they take a step backwards. They leap at the

507
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Speaker 3: top of the East or anything like that. But you know,

508
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Speaker 3: I don't see any reason they go backwards either.

509
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think forty four. I feel like they they're

510
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Speaker 1: going to be in line with what they did last year,

511
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Speaker 1: at least seems like energetically that's all. It doesn't feel

512
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Speaker 1: like there's a a regression on the cards. But again, yeah,

513
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Speaker 1: I'm like a very casual Knicks fan and I always

514
00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:48,400
Speaker 1: will root for them passively, So I'm like, come on that. Yeah, yeah,

515
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:50,359
Speaker 1: it's it's because of Wu Tang, It's because of the

516
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:56,160
Speaker 1: North Face Jackets and Timberland Boots. Obviously New Jersey though

517
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Speaker 1: formerly New Jersey now Brooklyn. The Nets year forty five

518
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,480
Speaker 1: and thirty seven. They're projecting now thirty seven and a half.

519
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,160
Speaker 1: They resigned Cam Johnson, they got Lonnie Walker the fourth

520
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:11,680
Speaker 1: quarter god and Dennis Smith Junior as free agents. But again,

521
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Speaker 1: what I feel like they could do just about as

522
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 1: well as laste. I don't think they'd fall off too hard.

523
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,680
Speaker 1: But again, I'm this is me with my Rosie tinted

524
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Speaker 1: glasses on.

525
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Speaker 4: I mean, they had that one guy, Kevin Durant for

526
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Speaker 4: a lot of last season, and he's pretty good.

527
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Speaker 1: So that's a guy in the bucket hat from the

528
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Speaker 1: other night. Yes, yes, yes, yes.

529
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Speaker 4: Is their record after he left? That would be the

530
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Speaker 4: key thing for me to know, because I think that

531
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Speaker 4: I could see them having a small improvement over there,

532
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Speaker 4: like win percentage after Durant left. I don't. I don't

533
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:48,480
Speaker 4: see it being significant, So I don't I don't see

534
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:51,600
Speaker 4: them coming close to the last year's win total necessarily,

535
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Speaker 4: but the over under also doesn't have them coming close

536
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Speaker 4: to like they have. They're picking thirty seven and a half.

537
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Speaker 4: Last year they won forty, so I could see them

538
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Speaker 4: like righte it like thirty they were.

539
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 1: Just under five hundred without Katie Jabari is telling us.

540
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Speaker 4: I think that's about right.

541
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So we'll see any excitement for you when you

542
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 1: when you think about the nets so fain No, yeah,

543
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Speaker 1: I would.

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Speaker 3: You know, I like, look, Mickail Bridges had a great

545
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 3: you know, showed out when he got to the Nets.

546
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Speaker 3: I just I just think that they're they're just not

547
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:30,480
Speaker 3: isn't much else there. I like Claxton, you know, I like,

548
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:33,320
Speaker 3: you know, they have some young talent there, but I

549
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 3: think that they need know a they'be buyers of the deadline.

550
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 3: I could see them getting in the race of another star.

551
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Speaker 5: They have the pieces to go get another star. For

552
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Speaker 5: whatever reason.

553
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 3: Cam Thomas can't seem to get like a permanent role

554
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,119
Speaker 3: in the rotation. But you know, but if this is

555
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 3: the roster throughout most of the season, I mean, I

556
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:51,320
Speaker 3: don't even know if they make the playoffs. And I

557
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 3: like mcail Bridges, you know, and I think he's he's

558
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Speaker 3: a but I don't I don't know how much of

559
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:58,399
Speaker 3: a number one guy is uh at this point. But

560
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Speaker 3: I I'm you know, I just don't see I don't

561
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 3: I just don't see them, you know, making any sort

562
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 3: of splash. Thirty seven wins seems about right to me.

563
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:09,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like this next Oneay.

564
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 4: The way you're you're a description of why you're not

565
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,440
Speaker 4: excited for them about them just got me excited about them.

566
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 4: So I'm actually I'm on. I'm on for the Nets over.

567
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:19,640
Speaker 3: The Nets are a very likable team.

568
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, They're the exact kind of.

569
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 3: Team that you know, fun, They're gonna be fun to watch.

570
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 5: You know.

571
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:31,360
Speaker 3: Mickel Bridges is a really really likable, you know, fun

572
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,360
Speaker 3: guy to watch play, you know, Cam Thomas on any

573
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,040
Speaker 3: given Nike and like drop fifty. You know, just I

574
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,879
Speaker 3: don't know where that kind of kind of microwaved player.

575
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 3: I just I just don't know if it's sustainable over

576
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 3: eighty two games is a long season. It's a long time,

577
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:47,880
Speaker 3: you know, to to, you know, and then once players scout,

578
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,159
Speaker 3: once other teams scout, you out, et cetera. You know,

579
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:52,199
Speaker 3: it's just it's just a you know, I just think

580
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 3: it's hard sustain over full season.

581
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 4: Bridges like when he when he arrived and was suddenly

582
00:27:57,640 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 4: just like absolutely filling it up. It reminded me of

583
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 4: when Harden left okay See and went to Houston and

584
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:07,399
Speaker 4: suddenly it was like, oh, whoops, we missed, we missed

585
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,640
Speaker 4: this one. We we And I don't necessarily think he's

586
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 4: gonna like suddenly be top five offensive player in the league,

587
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 4: but it's it feels like there's still room for him

588
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 4: to keep going up. So it'll be interesting to say.

589
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 3: The only thing I'll say is he's turning twenty seven

590
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:24,120
Speaker 3: this month, Okay.

591
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 5: And I don't know.

592
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,400
Speaker 3: I think I don't know how much more there is.

593
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe he should just retire at that point. Yeah,

594
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 4: I think he's hang up. That's right.

595
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 3: I think we can coverage.

596
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 1: And I just want to like this next is our

597
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 1: last one head heading to Toronto last year perfectly even

598
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 1: down in Toronto forty one forty one, they're projected to

599
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 1: do thirty six and a half. Now, I really take

600
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 1: umbradge with this because Grady Dick is on this team. Yeah,

601
00:28:56,320 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 1: so I'm taking tho over and they're gonna go way go.

602
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 4: Wow, That's what I'm thinking. Because you don't see them

603
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 4: losing a single game, you said before we started.

604
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I said eighty two and oh baby, we

605
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 1: already know you've seen the neck on this kid. They're

606
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,959
Speaker 1: not losing a single game. Yea, Yeah, it looks like,

607
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: you know, the thirty six and a half probably seems

608
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 1: around there. But I really just for my own like

609
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 1: meme ability of the league, I want to see I

610
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,959
Speaker 1: want to see Grating Dick potentially turn into something not

611
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 1: just be the kid with the long neck and shiny suit.

612
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, purdle I guess I hadn't realized.

613
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 3: Uh.

614
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 4: Super producer Jabari was saying that Pardal is a big,

615
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 4: you know, advanced stats guy. People people who pay attention

616
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 4: to advanced stats really love him, so that that was

617
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 4: news to me. I'm sure all our listeners already knew that,

618
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 4: of course, of course, yeah.

619
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and they got you.

620
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 5: I mean they lost family yep.

621
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 3: Uh is heavily involved in trade rumors. Toronto is right

622
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 3: in that space where they need to make a decision

623
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 3: of whether they want to be contenders or if they

624
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 3: want to blow it up. Yeah, they have some pieces

625
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 3: where they could push the chips in for a star

626
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 3: if the one becomes available. But if one doesn't, what's

627
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,479
Speaker 3: that team going to do? And do you hold out

628
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 3: of Siakam? If that's the case, and I don't know that,

629
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 3: I would be very surprised if Pascal Siakam is a

630
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 3: is a raptor by march, I just don't ye that

631
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 3: makes sense.

632
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 1: It sounds like the sounds coming out of there sounds

633
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 1: like you're getting moved on. But where too? We shall see. Okay,

634
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: before we take a quick break, I just we should

635
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Speaker 1: just get a couple of our bold predictions and before

636
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Speaker 1: we wrap this scene up in our third act, so

637
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 1: you know, right before the season starts, Soapina, we'd like

638
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 1: to ask our guests just to give gives some just

639
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 1: wild bold predictions, just something really heavy. And I'm just

640
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 1: for example, you know right now, Scoot Henderson, he just

641
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 1: not only wants to go down as like the greatest

642
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 1: point guard to ever play, he wants to get into

643
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 1: the goat conversation. So we're like, oh, okay, that is

644
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: that's a bold amount of confidt inst from you, sir,

645
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 1: that we we like that here on this show. But

646
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: for you, what is your absolute boldest prediction, like, don't don't,

647
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 1: don't get into fact, just just articulate something from the

648
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: heavens for the upcoming NBA season goal bold?

649
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 3: Oh man, do you guys have one already?

650
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 1: This is for our guests. This is when we were

651
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: hosting No all.

652
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 4: Right, I'll tell you my my bold prediction for this

653
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 4: season is that Webma wins Defensive Player of the Year.

654
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 4: That's my big bold.

655
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 3: I was actually interesting. I was gonna go the opposite stinks.

656
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 3: I think I think I'm not saying he's gonna have

657
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 3: a horrible season or anything.

658
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, but the guy is young. M he you know,

659
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Speaker 5: my bold.

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Speaker 3: Predictions that women Yama is not Rookie of the Year.

661
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 4: Oh okay, And I'm not saying.

662
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Speaker 3: That he's not gonna he's not gonna fill up the

663
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Speaker 3: hype or whatever. Yeah, yeah, of course, I'm just saying,

664
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Speaker 3: you know, is still developing. He he's still a teenager,

665
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 3: you know, only kind of. You know, Lebron James is

666
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 3: the only player of the last like you know, thirty

667
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Speaker 3: years or whatever that you know, that has come in

668
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 3: and met that level of hype, right for a moment

669
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Speaker 3: he entered the league. And even then, you know, it's

670
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Speaker 3: not like Lebron's rookie year was without struggles, right, right,

671
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 3: And so like women Yama, who you know, obviously amazing talent,

672
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 3: all this stuff, and you know, I'm not taking anything

673
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 3: away from him, It just might take him a little

674
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Speaker 3: while to get acclimated to the current NBA and the

675
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Speaker 3: way it moves. And plus you're playing eighty two games,

676
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 3: the schedule, the physical grind, the emotional grind, just you

677
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 3: know much this might.

678
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Speaker 5: Take a little while.

679
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 3: He might not be ready to be you know crown, right,

680
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 3: that's that's games.

681
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 1: I'll let you know, No toe, I mean to that end,

682
00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:58,719
Speaker 1: so played.

683
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Speaker 4: For the Spurs and Pop Pop Gonna.

684
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Speaker 1: Yeah, which which rookies do you feel like I have

685
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 1: the best chance at Rookie the Year. Oh?

686
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 3: I love Scoots game, man, I really really like I

687
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 3: really like Scoots game.

688
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 7: You know, I just think that it's really really hard

689
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:25,479
Speaker 7: because NBA draft picks are getting so much kind of

690
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 7: like there's so much more polished entering the league in

691
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 7: some ways because they're you know, they're starting to play

692
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 7: much earlier.

693
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Speaker 3: And but like, you know, the Thompson Twins are really

694
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Speaker 3: interesting to me. But Scoots the guy, I just I

695
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 3: don't know, maybe I'm just buying into the hype a lot,

696
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 3: you know, just from the what I've been able to

697
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 3: watch see him play and whatnot, Scoot seems like the

698
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 3: guy that very seems very NBA ready. I don't mean,

699
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Speaker 3: I don't mean he's gonna like Field Dame Shoes right

700
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 3: away or anything, but it would not surprise me if

701
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Speaker 3: he had a really surprisingly good rookie year or anything.

702
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, my bold prediction the Twins win CO Rookie of

703
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: the Year, just like when they went Grand Hill and

704
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 1: Jason Kidd had to split it. Okay, there we go.

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Speaker 3: That's a good one. They awarded to the wrong twin backs.

706
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be, so they can't.

707
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Speaker 4: Make it and so the other one fills in and

708
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 4: then they do like the moment. Yeah, exactly, this is

709
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Speaker 4: doubt fire situation.

710
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Speaker 1: And like last Bolt prediction, soap, what off season moves,

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Speaker 1: Which off season moves will actually have the greatest impact

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Speaker 1: in your opinion?

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00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 3: Interesting question because there haven't been many big ones. Yeah,

714
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 3: I mean easily, and so to me, it's actually not

715
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Speaker 3: that hard. Quick to me, it's the Porzingis Smart one

716
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 3: for both sides because in Memphis, Marcus Smart needs to

717
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Speaker 3: play a big role. With Job out for the first

718
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:47,799
Speaker 3: quarter plus of a season. Yeah, right, that means he's

719
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 3: got to play a larger offensive role. And Marcus is

720
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 3: listen amazing, like it was so much fun to watch.

721
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 3: But when when Marcus kind of ran into trouble is

722
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Speaker 3: when he would have to do too much as an

723
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Speaker 3: offensive player. It wasn't just and so that that that

724
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 3: could be, you know, so that can be an issue

725
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Speaker 3: from Memphis going forward. And for this, you know, for Zingis,

726
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 3: you know, he it's a huge change to the way

727
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Speaker 3: the Celtics are going to be on both ends floor.

728
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:21,359
Speaker 3: You know, Porzingis gives them a rim protector that they

729
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 3: haven't really had as much of the last couple of years.

730
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Speaker 3: But to me, that's easily the most impactful move of

731
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Speaker 3: the season until Dame gets traded or until Harden gets traded. Yeah,

732
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Speaker 3: I mean, I can't even I don't even know what

733
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:36,919
Speaker 3: the other contenders are for impactfuls Oh yeah, that's I mean, yeah,

734
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Speaker 3: that that's probably Yeah, I guess I should probably, but

735
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:47,919
Speaker 3: like that was almost I'll saying that the Suns were

736
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 3: already like already kind of had a super team go

737
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Speaker 3: essentially replacing Chris Paul with.

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Speaker 5: And that's I want.

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Speaker 3: Although you know, uh, I don't see Chris Paul going

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00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:05,880
Speaker 3: to the Warriors as that big of a deal, not

741
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 3: because again, I just you know, if he's coming off

742
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Speaker 3: the bench or whatever, like if he's you know, I

743
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 3: don't know how a big of a role he's gonna

744
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 3: have there. I just don't see that being as impactful.

745
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 3: Like the Celtics flip their roster makeup, the poor thing

746
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 3: can still happen. So I'm gonna go with that one.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Well let's take a quick break and

748
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Speaker 1: we're gonna come back with the fastest question and answer

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Speaker 1: segment in sports podcasting history right after this, and we're

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Speaker 1: back here we are and so good to have. But

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Speaker 1: you have wandered into the fourth quarter of Matt Boosties,

752
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: which means it's time for the rapid fire segment. Okay,

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Speaker 1: the fastest question asked an answer segment in all of

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Speaker 1: sports podcasting history. We're gonna ad ask your question. You

755
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 1: just chest pass it right back. Don't even think, don't

756
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 1: and don't don't add a bunch of fancy stuff to

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Speaker 1: the answers right back. But if jack Rice started yammering

758
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 1: on and extending you, you have to cut us off

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00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,919
Speaker 1: and keep the segment going. It's actually your responsibility as

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Speaker 1: the guest to also keep the segment going in the

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Speaker 1: event that the hosts themselves are unable to do their duties.

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Speaker 4: You just chased a butterfly into the shootout of the

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Speaker 4: Okay corral, let me just put it there.

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Speaker 3: Oh thought that be the first question?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, wow.

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Speaker 4: I just like to give you that idea of like

768
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Speaker 4: where who you're running right now?

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Speaker 1: Which brother you're going after? Okay, all right, here we go.

770
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Speaker 1: I think we're ready to start the clock.

771
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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, it's so mean.

772
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well Jack, it's gotta know. Sometimes I'm starting because

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Speaker 1: I care, man, because I want.

774
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Speaker 4: All right, Miles just slapped the court Antoine Walker style

775
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:03,840
Speaker 4: and that got.

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Speaker 1: Blown by just spilled my whiskey and cigar all over

777
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Speaker 1: the floor. Okay, Uh do you want.

778
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 7: To go first?

779
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:10,759
Speaker 1: I go first?

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00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 4: Oh why don't you go first?

781
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: Miles? My good man, I will go first, Thank you, Jack, Jackathan?

782
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 4: Uh?

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00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 1: Yes, Soapan, first question. ESPN recently decided to rework their

784
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: entire NBA crew with Jeff Van Gundy, Mark Jackson. Mama,

785
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: there goes that man off of our screens. Uh, you know,

786
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,400
Speaker 1: like going after covering you know, fifteen NBA Finals alongside

787
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Speaker 1: Mike Green. Who is now your dream in game commentary team.

788
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: You can now put that team together? Who are they?

789
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Speaker 4: And you can't say Miles and I because yeah, that's

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00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:49,320
Speaker 4: contractually and so the league might have said no, stop

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00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 4: asking us.

792
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: Didn't get a cease and desist for asking.

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00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:54,319
Speaker 4: That is actually why you can't bring it up.

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00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry anyway, But for you, Soapan, who is your

795
00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:58,439
Speaker 1: dream commentary team?

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00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 3: Dream commentary team?

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00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:02,720
Speaker 5: This is the NBA Finals.

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00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 3: This is this, This is the top and this is

799
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Speaker 3: the top NBA crew just.

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00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,360
Speaker 1: A yeah, yeah, exactly, the highest of the high. It

801
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be realistic, but use your taste to

802
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: put together a fantastic crew of commentators.

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Speaker 3: Sure, Uh, Roy Wood Junior the Daily Show comedian, Yes,

804
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:28,720
Speaker 3: former guest on this and uh like like someone someone

805
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 3: that's like the total kind of totally opposite of him,

806
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:32,280
Speaker 3: like Bill Burr or something.

807
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 4: Like Dennis Miller.

808
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:38,280
Speaker 3: Roy someone that Roy would hate, right right, right, right

809
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 3: right comedians you know, like like someone that he would

810
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:41,840
Speaker 3: absolutely just despise.

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Speaker 4: They just one of the brothers getting rinsed by Roy wo.

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Speaker 1: Just for the passive aggressive to be.

813
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 3: Just see the angriest broadcast, angriest but most hilarious broadcast.

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Speaker 4: All right, right right, Roy Wood Jr. Absolutely needs needs

815
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Speaker 4: a shot in the booth. Yeah, we said dis the

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Speaker 4: Mara would be a good answer there. I want I

817
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Speaker 4: want to see Oh yeah, then in the booth. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: all right, give us a team no one is considering

819
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Speaker 4: for title contention this year, but should be in the conversation.

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Speaker 5: Should be in the conversation.

821
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess I guess I would go with.

822
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Speaker 5: Clippers. Yeah, I'll go Clippers.

823
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 4: Sure, Clippers.

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Speaker 3: Wow, I mean, listen, I'm not thinking too hard about this,

825
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 3: so I'll.

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Speaker 4: Go that's it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what is it about the Clippers?

828
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Speaker 4: Go On?

829
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Speaker 3: Well, I'm assuming here's the thing. I'm assuming they get

830
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Speaker 3: hardened because the so this always happens, Cardon wants to

831
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Speaker 3: go to the Clippers. The Clippers have no incentive to

832
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 3: put together a great package because this is the only

833
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Speaker 3: team Harden wants to go to, so no other team,

834
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Speaker 3: so they won't have to give up that much. You know,

835
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Speaker 3: it's probably gonna be like Marcus Morris and like Stevemers,

836
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Speaker 3: you know, Steve Bombers driver.

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Speaker 4: Or something, you know, Yeah, for sick though this is sick,

838
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 4: you're going to really make good use to that driver. Yeah.

839
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Speaker 3: You gotta trust the process there.

840
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 4: And while we're at it, we might as well give

841
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Speaker 4: him embiid, you know what I'm saying. And so are

842
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:15,320
Speaker 4: gonna be awesome.

843
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, but but but you gave me someone that's probably

844
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Speaker 3: not gonna be considered it entitled contention who probably should

845
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Speaker 3: be And I think it's it'll be the Clippers.

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Speaker 5: That's okay, that's off the top of my head.

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00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 3: I'm sure if I thought hard, right, Yeah.

848
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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna cut you off right there so because

849
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Speaker 1: we do have to keep the segment going.

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00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:34,760
Speaker 4: Was so good, Like I'd recognized the injury is troubling,

851
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:38,399
Speaker 4: injury history is troubling. He was still so good when

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00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:39,640
Speaker 4: he was playing last year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, next one. Oh yeah, best NBA city

854
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:47,239
Speaker 1: in terms of food choices and what's your go to

855
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:49,240
Speaker 1: dish and what's your go to dish?

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00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 3: New Orleans, that's NBA city for food. Uh, and my

857
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 3: go to dish is there's a restaurant called Esh, which

858
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:03,359
Speaker 3: is like an amazing new or restaurant. Okay, and uh,

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00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 3: you know there's like they have a they have everything there.

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00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 3: But when we go, we usually get this like whole

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Speaker 3: fish there that they have.

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00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 1: It's amazing.

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00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 3: So I'm going I'm going to passion New Orleans. Amazing.

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00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 5: New Orleans is the best food city.

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Speaker 3: And I think in in Frand Bay City.

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Speaker 1: He's pash please have us there for a live episode

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Speaker 1: or just a meal.

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Speaker 4: We're willing to hear offers.

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Speaker 1: You can find an eight hundred magazine street New Orleans.

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Speaker 3: Well, I gotta cut you off right, so you gotta

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Speaker 3: yeh whoa, yeah, yeah, I do just have to add

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Speaker 3: I do just have to add brandon Ingram looks like

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Speaker 3: a totally different part.

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Speaker 4: Like he looks like he's been eating well in New Orleans.

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Speaker 4: And I don't mean that like eating well like you know,

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Speaker 4: he he looks like he filled out like I was

877
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:44,799
Speaker 4: always like, he's not going to fill out. He's that's

878
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 4: his body like, and he's good. He in the USA

879
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:49,919
Speaker 4: basketball things, I was like, who is that out there

880
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 4: that looks looking like a slightly short muffle lettuce.

881
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:55,399
Speaker 1: He's just just pounding them muffle lettuce down there.

882
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 4: No, but he looks he looks good. All right. If

883
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:00,120
Speaker 4: you could have any players skill set for a a

884
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 4: who are you going with? What skills set? Are you

885
00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 4: stealing Jokich easily?

886
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, listen.

887
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:08,799
Speaker 5: To me, all right.

888
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 3: I guess I'm not supposed give extant answers. But he

889
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 3: was the only the only players that I would catch

890
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 3: every game I went during the season.

891
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:17,760
Speaker 5: There's something about him.

892
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 3: That I just, I just I just find his game

893
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:22,319
Speaker 3: to be very magnetic. And to see a guy of

894
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 3: that size passing the weight. I love big guys that

895
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 3: can pass, I really do. And that's my favor you know,

896
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 3: those are my favorite. That's why I got an Antoine

897
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:31,800
Speaker 3: Walker in my you know as a child. Right, Yeah,

898
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 3: So for me, it's just I love love big guys

899
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 3: that can pass.

900
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, Unfortunately you have only taken his passing skills. You

901
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 4: haven't taken his height. So uh it's a monkey's pod

902
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:46,759
Speaker 4: type wis sorry, but you can.

903
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 1: Still shoot that shot over a D somehow you'll.

904
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 4: Off right falling away off one.

905
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 1: That's really just to like just to make just completely

906
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 1: frustrate people at every pickup game at La Fitness across.

907
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,400
Speaker 4: The count been a higher release in the history, Like

908
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:07,239
Speaker 4: he releases so high and he's also seven foot whatever. Yeah,

909
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 4: it's a tie.

910
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:11,479
Speaker 1: I mean I just saw Klay Thompson talking about that shot.

911
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 1: He's like, gods, like, it's like, it's disgusting.

912
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:17,880
Speaker 4: It's disgusting.

913
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it was Okay, here we go, Soapan ultimate peak,

914
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:30,759
Speaker 1: prime bird or prime KD. You lean back on that one.

915
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:31,839
Speaker 1: You're thinking, I like this.

916
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 3: I've never thought about that. I would say prime bird

917
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 3: because he won the three m vps in a row

918
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:42,479
Speaker 3: and no one's done that since. Yeah, and I also

919
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:46,840
Speaker 3: think that Bird, you know he had you know, he

920
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:49,839
Speaker 3: was a better rebounder and passer, but again, the game

921
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 3: was so different back then. But I'm going I think

922
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:54,799
Speaker 3: I'll go with Bird because he did, you know, he

923
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:56,320
Speaker 3: did something that no one has.

924
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 5: Done since then, right, And that's that's.

925
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 3: It's a very arbitrary thing. Like I think Yoka should

926
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:03,800
Speaker 3: have won three straight. I think, you know, Lebron should

927
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 3: obviously have won three straight or if not more than

928
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 3: that some point in his career, Jordan whatever. But given

929
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 3: that Bird did it, I mean to me, it's it's Bird.

930
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, Like.

931
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 3: But that's like, you know, that almost feels unfair to KD.

932
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 3: But like you know, the the that platitudes are what

933
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 3: the you know, the platers are what they are, you.

934
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 4: Know, Yeah, all right, you can place any former Celtics

935
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 4: grade on next year's roster. Which former great are you

936
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 4: adding to this mix? And you do have to make

937
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:33,919
Speaker 4: the salaries work.

938
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 5: I think salaries work.

939
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Bird made like forty K a year,

940
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:41,320
Speaker 4: so you got to make sure that that.

941
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 1: The luxury attack.

942
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 5: We're doing it by salary.

943
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 4: And he got a case of beer too if they

944
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 4: won the title, So.

945
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:52,239
Speaker 3: I guess it would be Russell man. I mean, how

946
00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:54,760
Speaker 3: do you I mean, it's an easy I mean It's

947
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 3: almost like an unfair question ask the Celtics fan because

948
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 3: there's such like easy hierarchy to choose from. But yeah, yeah,

949
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:02,400
Speaker 3: guess then you know you're adding Bill Russell. He literally

950
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:04,919
Speaker 3: fits a knee for the Celtics right now. They need

951
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 3: a defensive anchor since they lost Marcus Smart like they

952
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:08,880
Speaker 3: needed so like, of course you're.

953
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:12,400
Speaker 4: Gonna add Bill Alpha. Yeah, that personality.

954
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 3: You're bringing Al Horford off the bench. I guess he's

955
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 3: wanted to let his ego subside for one.

956
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it is funny. I feel like there's every

957
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 1: time we've I think, asked this question to Celtics fan,

958
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 1: it's like I don't think anyone has not said Bill Russell, right.

959
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 1: I feel like that's been pretty good. I mean, yeah, yeah, exactly.

960
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 1: And finally, Soap, this is actually the most important question

961
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 1: I think we've asked of the money one. Yeah yeah yeah.

962
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 1: Uh So please be quick with your response to this one, Soapan, Depp,

963
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:41,840
Speaker 1: Jack or Miles.

964
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,759
Speaker 3: Oh. I have to give it to Jack because of

965
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:47,840
Speaker 3: his dad. Man, his dad was a big part of

966
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:52,320
Speaker 3: my childhood. I would take its.

967
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:53,919
Speaker 1: His dad was a big part of his childhood too.

968
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 1: So if your dad coached.

969
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 3: The two thousand and two Celtics. I would have gone

970
00:46:58,239 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 3: with you, like.

971
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 1: Really, he wouldn't even be close to doing that. But

972
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 1: so and that I can only respect that answer, So fan,

973
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 1: I can only respect that answer. Man, it is hard

974
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:08,399
Speaker 1: to hear.

975
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:12,080
Speaker 4: I mean, everything worked out in this episode. We surprised

976
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:14,719
Speaker 4: him with it. I knew. I knew he was a

977
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:17,720
Speaker 4: big two thousand and two Celtics fan, but I didn't.

978
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:20,080
Speaker 4: I didn't let it slip before we recorded so we

979
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 4: could just like build momentum everything. Yeah, perfectly. You fell

980
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:24,920
Speaker 4: right into my.

981
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:30,080
Speaker 1: I the second he mentioned I was like, this guy's

982
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 1: rubbing his mits. Now he's rubbing.

983
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:36,880
Speaker 4: Yeah and my family.

984
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:40,719
Speaker 3: Well, well, Jack, you can pass on to your dad,

985
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:41,839
Speaker 3: and I hope you do that.

986
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 5: He I was a big fan of him growing up.

987
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:46,720
Speaker 5: All right, Yeah, I hope you'll pass that on to him.

988
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:50,160
Speaker 4: Fantastic not my dad, but I did. You can't take

989
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 4: it back. Yeah, that was all all lie. You fell

990
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 4: for it.

991
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:57,440
Speaker 1: His dad owns like a bunch of subway franchises in

992
00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 1: mon Talk. Wow, no way, my favorite place for somewhere.

993
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:12,560
Speaker 4: Man a baby?

994
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah for real, for real. So Pandemic, thank you

995
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:17,359
Speaker 1: so much for joining us. On Miles and Jack got

996
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 1: Mad boosties. Where can people catch your work and all

997
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: that and and and and read you and all all

998
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:23,960
Speaker 1: any sort connect to you? How do they do that?

999
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 3: I'm easy to find on social media, man, and I've

1000
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:29,360
Speaker 3: got my books are easy to find. But I appreciate

1001
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 3: the opportunity to plug. But you know, it's just Google.

1002
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:34,879
Speaker 3: I had to be like shack here, but like, just just.

1003
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:39,240
Speaker 1: Googley, Okay, I like that. Just just one name, baby,

1004
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 1: That's all you need to know and and it will appear.

1005
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 4: It's just really nice to finally see nepotism winning. For like,

1006
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:51,200
Speaker 4: if you're an NBA nepotism who stinks at basketball, like,

1007
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:54,880
Speaker 4: it doesn't help that much. So it's just nice to see, Uh,

1008
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:58,240
Speaker 4: you know a place where nepotism can finally win.

1009
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 1: And that place is Miles and Jack got Mad Matt

1010
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:03,759
Speaker 1: stec you know you know that, So make sure you

1011
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:06,160
Speaker 1: follow us on Twitter. You can follow me at Miles

1012
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 1: of Gray and Neto. I mean, Jack, where can they

1013
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:09,359
Speaker 1: find you?

1014
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:17,279
Speaker 4: What at NBA Neto Baby on Twitter? Uh? At Jack

1015
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 4: Underscore O'Brien NBA Netle Boy. That's available.

1016
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:27,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, you should, you should, or at least your display name,

1017
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:29,759
Speaker 1: and you can also follow the show on hashtag mad

1018
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:32,720
Speaker 1: Boosty's buble O, sd I e S for show links

1019
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: and updates. That's gonna do it for us. You're gonna

1020
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:37,479
Speaker 1: be back because you know that's what we do. We're

1021
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:41,279
Speaker 1: always back, We're always there for you, and until then

1022
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:43,800
Speaker 1: will be us the U b U Okay cool.

1023
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 4: I like that lit sign off. Bye.

1024
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:46,759
Speaker 1: You know that's the way to go.