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Speaker 1: Welcome to This League Uncut in the world of twenty

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Speaker 1: four hour NBA news. Just do you lose? Chris Hanes,

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Speaker 1: Di's go Time, Mark Stein, Di's show Time, Bucker Loka,

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Speaker 1: Chris Hanes and Mark Stein. This League Uncut just underway

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Speaker 1: and then fire. This should be a good one. Thank

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Speaker 1: you Tim kits Roe, legendary voice of NBA jam who

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Speaker 1: is graced our little pod, our new little pod with

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Speaker 1: some amazing intros. Some drops will be throwing in here.

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Speaker 1: Mark Stein here with his pal Chris Haynes. Mister Haynes.

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Speaker 1: It was just a week ago that not only this

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Speaker 1: show debuted, This League Uncut, not only a week ago

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Speaker 1: was the first episode. I'm pretty sure a week ago

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Speaker 1: you and I were at the end of that episode.

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Speaker 1: We were talking and kind we were trying to will

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Speaker 1: it into existence. Are we gonna get a curveball? Are

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Speaker 1: we gonna get a surprise? Are we going to get

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Speaker 1: something that we haven't even talked about? But it's gonna

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Speaker 1: make this trade deadline memorable. Yesterday Sunday, what I thought

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Speaker 1: was going to be the last stretch of the last

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Speaker 1: dose of calm before the madness, before locking myself in

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Speaker 1: the trade deadline Dungeon. Of course, the Dallas Mavericks, the

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Speaker 1: team in my city, strikes a Sunday afternoon trade to

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Speaker 1: acquire Kyrie Irving from the Brooklyn Nets. I guess we

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Speaker 1: have our seismic surprise this league. There you go, I

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Speaker 1: did this league. I didn't. I mean we talked. We

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Speaker 1: talked the morning Sunday morning. Yes, and you know what

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Speaker 1: the people need to know. You told me a stein,

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Speaker 1: you said this could happen today. I'm like this young fellow,

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Speaker 1: Chris Haynes, what is he talking. There's no way this

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Speaker 1: trades happened on a Sunday. I at least have till Monday. No,

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Speaker 1: I do not. Chris says was correct, and I was not.

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Speaker 1: And Sunday lunchtime you were right boom. So I gotta

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Speaker 1: call at five in the morning my time. I'm here

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Speaker 1: That should I marks GM of the Nets and Joe Side,

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Speaker 1: the owner of the Nets, were going to huddle up

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Speaker 1: at some point in the morning. So I got to

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Speaker 1: all their all the offers that they had. And so

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Speaker 1: at that point, that's when I knew, Okay, this thing

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Speaker 1: can go down today or at the latest tomorrow, just

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Speaker 1: the way that this individual explained the plan of attack

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Speaker 1: for that day. And so I remember I talked to you.

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Speaker 1: We talked, Yeah, we talked that morning. I think we

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Speaker 1: talked a couple of hours. It had to been the

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Speaker 1: morning time. Yeah, you weren't. I should I should have

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Speaker 1: just locked myself in my house, but no, I tempted fate.

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Speaker 1: I said, this is my last chance to escape before

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Speaker 1: these next four days of NonStop no sleep. So what

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Speaker 1: were you doing? Star? Do I have to reveal that?

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Speaker 1: I will? I will reveal. It doesn't made me look

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Speaker 1: very smarter. Good, So you know, you know I'm a

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Speaker 1: tennis addict. I mean addict. Tennis was my first sporting love.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to be a pro tennis player. Never even

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Speaker 1: got within a bazillion miles of being anywhere close. But

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Speaker 1: I started playing very late. I didn't really start playing

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Speaker 1: and I realized it really cemented my decision to be

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Speaker 1: a sportswriter because I thought I can make the tour

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Speaker 1: as a writer. I can be and in those days,

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Speaker 1: I said, I can make it as a I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: I mean tennis. So we have a pro tennis tournament

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Speaker 1: that started Sunday in Dallas and it runs through the

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Speaker 1: to any of it. Pro tennis in my city up.

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Speaker 1: a smidge of tennis before. And I'm an idiot. I

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Speaker 1: should have listened to Haynes. Haynes told me the trade

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Speaker 1: we gave, We gave everybody a little bit of a teaser.

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Speaker 1: Was it our first episode about how this could possibly

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Speaker 1: and you said, we've got to keep our eye on

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Speaker 1: this Kyrie Irving situation. Yeah, and this was obviously the

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Speaker 1: last step requesting the trade in. We're here now, go

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Speaker 1: the Mavericks trade assets get dissed all the time, but

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Speaker 1: what the Mavericks do have. Nico Harrison, the former Nike executive,

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Speaker 1: very closely with both Kyrie and Shatilia Riley Irving, kyrie

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Speaker 1: Jason Kidd was one of young Kyrie's favorite players because Kyrie,

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Speaker 1: I just found out the other day that in twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 1: when Kidd got inducted to the Hall of Fame, when

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Speaker 1: Kyrie found out. You know. He basically reached out to

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Speaker 1: MAVs do have that infrastructure in their favor. But I

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Speaker 1: didn't think the MAVs would be able to put the

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Speaker 1: they value more importantly to have good complimentary players to

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Speaker 1: I reached out to Chris Paul. I told him what

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Speaker 1: I respect the fact that you haven't handled it this way.

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Speaker 1: I've heard, though, the Nets asked so much more from

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Speaker 1: the presumed objectives for Joe Si the Nets owner in

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Speaker 1: this trade, was don't send Kyrie where he wants to go,

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Speaker 1: don't send him to La. And when you when you

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Speaker 1: it does certainly support the notion that they did not

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Speaker 1: But what the stuff you reported about the Suns is

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Speaker 1: fascinating because is Din Witty, Dorian Phinney Smith and a

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Speaker 1: I do not know how the nets arrived at that

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Speaker 1: Durant would like the din witty Phinney Smith combo better

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Speaker 1: than the Chris Paul J. Crowder combo. But again, that

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Speaker 1: the Bucks Thursday, Lakers Bucks Thursday, thirty six is your guest.

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Speaker 1: So now I'm rooting. I'm rooting him for him now

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Speaker 1: to score thirty four against the Thunder because I want you,

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Speaker 1: I want you to get that that postgame interview when

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Speaker 1: he breaks it. No, and honestly, in all seriousness, like

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Speaker 1: I don't want to go on a full on rant here,

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Speaker 1: but I'm actually I mean, you know, I am a nostalgist.

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Speaker 1: I'm his story, and I love anything that takes us

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Speaker 1: back to the eighties. I remember being fifteen years old

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Speaker 1: when Kareem broke Wilts record. I remember watching the game.

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Speaker 1: I can remember chick her and on the call swaying

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Speaker 1: left shoots. I mean, I can see it. I can remember,

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Speaker 1: though the game was played in Vegas instead of you know,

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Speaker 1: against Utah over Mark eating the sky hook, and this

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Speaker 1: is such a huge, huge achievement for Lebron. I hate

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Speaker 1: that it's happening now. I mean, I wish this was

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Speaker 1: happening after the All Star Game two weeks from now,

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Speaker 1: because the way this is not nineteen eighty four anymore.

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Speaker 1: The way that the the way that this league, the

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Speaker 1: way that this league has evolved, trade season dominates everything,

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Speaker 1: and I know, like we're barely getting to this record

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Speaker 1: at the end of this pod, We've we have not

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Speaker 1: even talked about it yet on any of our shows.

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Speaker 1: I've barely written a word about it. And it sucks

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Speaker 1: because this is, this is this is really just a

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Speaker 1: crazy record. I mean, this is it's been forty almost

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Speaker 1: it's been thirty nine years since since since this was

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Speaker 1: since since Kareem broke the record, and we might never

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Speaker 1: see it broken with what I mean, what about the

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Speaker 1: other what do you think the other day when le

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Speaker 1: Bronson I'm playing a few more years so that he's

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Speaker 1: gone past forty. Yeah, he's going up. Man, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: pile up. I think I honestly think he's breaking it Tuesday. Okay, see,

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Speaker 1: let's do the reverse jinks. Let's guarantee that he's okay.

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Speaker 1: I don't see anybody stopping that man from getting thirty six,

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Speaker 1: thirty seven whatever he needs to break that record. Man,

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Speaker 1: lou Dorc can't hold him under thirty five. I don't

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Speaker 1: see it. I don't see it, but I will ask this.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think time is running out shortly, but

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Speaker 1: I do want to ask this. I think I asked

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Speaker 1: you off the off the um when we're just talking

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Speaker 1: on the phone, stock is it better to break a

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Speaker 1: record like that to have your moment? Is it better

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Speaker 1: to have it in the fourth quarter when the game

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Speaker 1: is in the balance, or is it better to have

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Speaker 1: the record early in the game. And I'm just assuming,

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Speaker 1: you know, he'll if he doesn't get the record Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna come so close to where it's gonna be.

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Speaker 1: He'll need probably six of four or six points on

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Speaker 1: Thursday to what's better? What's better for the moment? I

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Speaker 1: don't know's I mean, that's a I really haven't thought

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Speaker 1: of it like that. Um. Like I said, my own

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Speaker 1: kind of myself is just myselfish rooting interest for you

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Speaker 1: that you get that post game, that you get to

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Speaker 1: be the one to ask him about it because it

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Speaker 1: is Look, and you know, everybody's turning this into does

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Speaker 1: this make him the Goat? And I just you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's there's just there's always gonna be people no matter

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Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of people who say it's Jordan

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Speaker 1: and there's nothing you can do to convince them. But Lebron,

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Speaker 1: to me is the longevity goat. And I think that's

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Speaker 1: a big deal. I don't think we talked about that

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Speaker 1: last week a little bit. I think that's a huge deal.

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Speaker 1: Like to Kareem played pat to forty two and Lebron

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Speaker 1: sounds like he's gonna play to forty. We know he

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Speaker 1: wants to play with Brownie. I mean, he plays to forty,

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Speaker 1: he's probably gonna take the scoring. His total will end

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Speaker 1: up in the forty thousands. Yeah. His contract, I think

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Speaker 1: is his current contract, So he has one more guaranteed

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Speaker 1: year with the Lakers and then he can become a

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Speaker 1: free agent same June twenty four, same month that let

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Speaker 1: Brownie becomes draft eligible. Um, I mean if he and

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Speaker 1: that's if he plays with his son. I mean here,

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Speaker 1: he's already playing again. He's already playing the sons of

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Speaker 1: guys he played against. To play with his son in

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Speaker 1: the NBA would just be absolutely ridiculous. So, I mean,

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Speaker 1: he is the longevity goat. Maybe that's not enough for him.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a pretty damn impressive honor. And I

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Speaker 1: you know, like I said, I just trade season is

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Speaker 1: all encompassing, and I look, I'm as guilty as anybody.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm the month of January every story I

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Speaker 1: wrote was about trades. M but that's just we're so

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Speaker 1: we can't think about anything else. But and that's the

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Speaker 1: thing is like right now with the Lakers, were they

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Speaker 1: gonna get Kyrie? And what happens now that they didn't

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Speaker 1: get Kyrie. That's that's the story with the Lakers, and

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Speaker 1: it just kind of bums me out. Yeah, well, STI,

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Speaker 1: we gotta get out of here. We're coming back at

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Speaker 1: some point this week. Man. We got to figure out

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Speaker 1: where before they didn't talk about to talk about all

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Speaker 1: the other trades. Yeah, well, free agency and that'll do

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Speaker 1: it for us, See you next time. This League Uncut

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