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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. Hello and welcome back,

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. Straight Fire for Tuesday, December twenty second. Boy,

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Speaker 1: what on earth happened on Monday Night football? Just an

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Speaker 1: absolute shocker. Holy cal. I don't even know how to react.

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Speaker 1: I had planned on doing this podcast here heavy on

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Speaker 1: the NBA because the NBA tips off tonight. We love

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Speaker 1: the NBA here on the podcast, and I had anticipated

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Speaker 1: a Steelers blowout as we all had Steelers fourteen point favorites.

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Speaker 1: I think they closed at fourteen and a half. Would

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Speaker 1: not have been shocked if at fifteen sixteen thought it

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Speaker 1: was a layup and the hot streak would continue on

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Speaker 1: the best bet. But no, no, Pittsburgh and Mike Tomlin. Listen,

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Speaker 1: we know Mike Tomlin is prone to laying gigantic eggs,

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Speaker 1: and boy did he do that on Monday Night football.

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Speaker 1: But before we dive into the game, I quickly wanted

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Speaker 1: to talk about an interview we have coming up. You

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Speaker 1: guys are gonna love this. It's with the new meme

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Speaker 1: King of the NBA, Josiah Johnson. He is a former

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Speaker 1: U c l A basketball player. His father was in

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Speaker 1: the NBA. His older brother won a national title at

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Speaker 1: u C l A, and he makes funny memes about

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Speaker 1: the NBA on social media and he's crushing it, and

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Speaker 1: I thought we'd just bring him in change of pace.

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Speaker 1: You guys know, I love to change it up. A

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Speaker 1: curveball here and there. You guys are absolutely gonna love it.

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Speaker 1: He riffs on the NBA, some interesting stuff on LaMelo ball,

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Speaker 1: a great story about playing in a pickup basketball game

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Speaker 1: with an intense Kevin Garnett. You guys are gonna love it.

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Speaker 1: He's a big Lebron fan. Uh So Lebron fans definitely

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Speaker 1: stick around. I will give you a best bet here

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Speaker 1: for the opening night of the NBA. Yes, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: we're doing best bet for the NBA. But first I've

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Speaker 1: got to just quickly talk about Steelers Bengals Bengals seven,

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Speaker 1: Steeler seventeen. If you didn't watch the game, and there's

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Speaker 1: really no reason to. This is a bad game between

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Speaker 1: two unwatchable teams with a huge spread. You're probably wrapping

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Speaker 1: Christmas presents, sipping some eggnog, you know, hanging out with

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Speaker 1: the family. I know everybody's back from college and the

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Speaker 1: kids are off school, so everybody's up late and they're like,

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Speaker 1: I don't need to watch that bad game. And it's

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Speaker 1: seventeen nothing at halftime and Pittsburgh never really woke up.

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Speaker 1: They had a chance late and um they lost to

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Speaker 1: a Bengals team led by Ryan Finley who he passed

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Speaker 1: for seventy eight yards. At Pittsburgh lost. The vaunted Steelers

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Speaker 1: defense got run over Bengals hundred fifty two yards on

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Speaker 1: the ground. They can't stop the run. The offense is anemic,

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Speaker 1: three turnovers. Ben Roethlisberger was terrible, and folks, Ben Roethlisberger,

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Speaker 1: you know, I know, it's late in the season and

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Speaker 1: he didn't play last year. He's looking pretty washed here.

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Speaker 1: Some of these decisions were just unbelievably bad. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what's happened to Ben Roethlisberger. The offense has become

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Speaker 1: very predictable. Three game losing streak against Buffalo, UH came

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Speaker 1: out and basically said Ben was the reason they lost

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Speaker 1: that game. That picks six late in the first half.

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Speaker 1: And again another bad turnover against Cincinnati. They were down

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Speaker 1: tend nothing and driving and you're thinking, okay, you're getting

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Speaker 1: right back in this late first half and just an

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Speaker 1: atrocious read from Bend picked off. Bengals go into the

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Speaker 1: half up seventeen nothing and Pittsburgh claude back and you

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Speaker 1: felt they'd have a chance, But another sub sixty completion

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Speaker 1: night from Ben. Remember this is a Bengals team they

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Speaker 1: curb stomped thirty six to ten a month ago, and

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Speaker 1: now they come out and get I mean, their butts

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Speaker 1: kicked and embarrassing showing. Folks. Listen to Cleveland Browns. They're

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Speaker 1: on the verge of winning, stealing the a f C North. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: Cleveland could steal it. I don't know what to make

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Speaker 1: of Pittsburgh at all right now, three game losing streak,

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. I'm shocked. I'm utterly stunned. I know

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Speaker 1: the defensive injuries have been bad, right, and you expect

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Speaker 1: the defense to regress a little, But I didn't expect

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Speaker 1: the offense to get this horrific. I mean again, I

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Speaker 1: touched on it earlier. They didn't get a bye, and

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Speaker 1: they really got shafted with that um. But again they

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Speaker 1: the last game was against Buffalo on Sunday Night football.

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Speaker 1: They get a full week. This is the longest break

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry the Ravens game because it was pushed back

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Speaker 1: the first half and it's like, okay, let's get that

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Speaker 1: you ready for this? Three plays two yards, punt, three

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Speaker 1: what this against the Bengals, The Bengals, the Cincinnati Bungles

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Speaker 1: fought hard against Miami, they fought hard against the Giants.

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Speaker 1: They've been fighting hard for a few weeks. But you

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Speaker 1: just expect this Pittsburgh team two losses in a row. Hey,

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Speaker 1: we got this and we ain't got nothing. So an

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Speaker 1: embarrassing loss for Ben Roethlisberger. I gotta just say this offense,

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Speaker 1: how they don't target Chase Claypool more. We had t J.

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Speaker 1: we agree Chase Claypool's their most talented guy. He gets

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Speaker 1: three catches for fifty four yards. I don't know why

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Speaker 1: Deonte Johnson has thirteen targets. I don't. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: This Pittsburgh offense is just awful. The offensive line is

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Speaker 1: if you are Mike Tomlin and the Pittsburgh Steels. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's get to the interview Josiah Johnson previewing the NBA season.

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Speaker 1: Jason likes to think he knows everything when it comes

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Speaker 1: to sports. I know what sports stands want, but for

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Speaker 1: everything he doesn't, he knows a guy who does. Let's

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Speaker 1: just say I know a guy who knows a guy

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Speaker 1: who knows another guy. All right, so let's welcome into

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Speaker 1: like the Twitter king. He's taken over NBA social media.

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Speaker 1: We thought we'd preview the NBA season talking to him. Josiah,

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Speaker 1: how are you man? Doing good? It's great to finally

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Speaker 1: really appreciate you. You guys always give me so much

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, like there's nobody funnier in

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Speaker 1: the NBA I'm gonna start, well, first of all, let's

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Speaker 1: s I from like about how you parlayed being on

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Speaker 1: to actually put that to good use, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: so a lot of people are hearing on the bench.

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Speaker 1: I've made for my time there. Obviously you know you

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Speaker 1: can't you can't replicate that and change that. And we're

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Speaker 1: well right now. Let me okay, So let's back up

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Speaker 1: a little bit. Um. You know, you you played obviously

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Speaker 1: was pressure as a as a young kid to like,

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Speaker 1: it's got to be basketball. The things when you grew

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Speaker 1: we will, we will play our play our West Coast

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Speaker 1: friends and you know, act like we hadn't seen it

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Speaker 1: and be like right here, such such a go crap.

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Speaker 1: So we had all that stuff and just being immersed

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Speaker 1: and growing up in that world, and spending time as

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Speaker 1: a kid on the set of Different World, and you know,

431
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Speaker 1: seeing Debbie Allen do her thing and rock out and

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Speaker 1: just being able to kind of see that stuff front

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Speaker 1: and center. Now, I'm just, you know, so thankful and appreciative.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of built this this library in my head

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Speaker 1: of just clips I have ready to go at all times.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the current NBA season. Tip

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Speaker 1: Off is tonight, Uh, I gotta start. I know you're

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Speaker 1: a Lakers big fan. Obviously you're a Lebron guy. We

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Speaker 1: can get to Lebron Jordan in a second. But who's

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Speaker 1: the second best team in the NBA this season? I

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Speaker 1: think that's the real question. Lakers are the best, we

442
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Speaker 1: know that, who's the second best? I mean, I'm looking

443
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Speaker 1: at what Katie and Kyrie are doing at Brothlyn right

444
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Speaker 1: now and just knowing that style D'Antoni ash kind of

445
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Speaker 1: a Maori, just the crew they have in place there,

446
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Speaker 1: in the style they're gonna play with. I say, if

447
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Speaker 1: those guys can stay healthy, they're definitely gonna be a

448
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Speaker 1: problem for a lot of a lot of teams in

449
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Speaker 1: the League. You know, you look at the bucks. I

450
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Speaker 1: love Drew Holiday, that love when he brings to the table.

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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna really flourish in uh you know,

452
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Speaker 1: booten Holder system and really get buckets. And that's kind

453
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Speaker 1: of what Jannie needed to help kind of elevate him.

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Speaker 1: So we're talking about Janice back to back m vps. Now,

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Speaker 1: you know, Piste off with how the bubble went and

456
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Speaker 1: not not you know, reaching the Elisi, you know, conference finals,

457
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Speaker 1: let alone the finals. So he's gonna have a chip

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Speaker 1: on his shoulder. It's really gonna be you know, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna see what kind of work he's put in. And

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Speaker 1: I'm worried about the Lakers. I think they are the

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Speaker 1: best team. They definitely improved on paper. But you're talking like,

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Speaker 1: you know, a seventy day layoff Lebron now year a

463
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Speaker 1: team Lebron's senior cities, and Lebron needs that rest, he

464
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Speaker 1: needs that, that rehab, he needs that that summer field

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Speaker 1: of going to Brannie's games and banging out in AU

466
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Speaker 1: lines and stuff like that. So he's been denied that opportunity.

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Speaker 1: And a d another guy I think who could have

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Speaker 1: benefited for some rest and it seemed like they're still

469
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Speaker 1: playing at a bubble like finals level. And my pops

470
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Speaker 1: always jokes, you know what I'm saying, when when you're

471
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Speaker 1: your mid season for him a little too early than

472
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Speaker 1: you're a late season for him, and by the time

473
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Speaker 1: the playoffs come, you're just tired, you know what I mean.

474
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Speaker 1: You picked you've kind of reached your your say. So

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Speaker 1: I'm hopeful. I'm hopeful. I know Lebron is not an

476
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Speaker 1: advocate of loads man management, but I'm hopeful that he

477
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Speaker 1: will really invest in that and really buy into it.

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Speaker 1: You know, seventy two games season minus whatever kind of

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Speaker 1: Corona does to the schedule. Hope, and he plays around

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Speaker 1: fifty games, let him, let him. You know, regular season

481
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Speaker 1: is irrelevant to Lebron fans right now. We know what

482
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Speaker 1: our what our destiny is. We gotta go fulfill it.

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Speaker 1: We gotta get that five so we can match Kobe,

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Speaker 1: and we can't. We can't. You know, once you match

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Speaker 1: Code can get to that six and take down Jordan,

486
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Speaker 1: even though we've already done that. But for square square

487
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Speaker 1: metrics and Square accolades, that kind of how they rank

488
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Speaker 1: things that you know, that will kind of shore that up.

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Speaker 1: You do realize even if he gets six, they're gonna say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but Michael never lost in the finals. Lebron's like, there's

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Speaker 1: nothing that you can say to them. It's it's just

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Speaker 1: a it's a conversation that it's impossible to have. You

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Speaker 1: it's certainly not on social media. You know this. I've

494
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Speaker 1: asked this question of people who I thought had some

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Speaker 1: semblance of basketball intelligence. I asked, I asked him this,

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Speaker 1: what's a better record six and oh in the finals

497
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Speaker 1: or six and six in the finals. But that's what

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Speaker 1: it ends up being. And more times than that they

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Speaker 1: tell me six and no. My responses are, so you'd

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Speaker 1: rather not make the finals than make the finals, like

501
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Speaker 1: you'd rather lose in the first round, or you'd rather

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Speaker 1: not make the playoffs. And you think that's you know,

503
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Speaker 1: in terms of your accolades. It's a weird, like Lebron

504
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Speaker 1: is the only player and it's crazy to see that

505
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Speaker 1: gets punished for being successful when he was in the East,

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Speaker 1: the East was weak. Uh, he's just he's skating through,

507
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Speaker 1: you know, no respect for it for you know, I

508
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Speaker 1: think with eight or nine, eight straight finals appearance, whatever

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Speaker 1: it was, go to the West. Now, Oh, the West

510
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Speaker 1: this week. Oh you know, it's just like which one

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Speaker 1: is it? He came to the West, winner, Ring came

512
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Speaker 1: to the Lakers. There was a lot of last year

513
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Speaker 1: when he was hurt, kind of just oh he's done.

514
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Speaker 1: Lakers need to train him. They just need to go

515
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Speaker 1: ahead and cut their losses. And then here we are

516
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Speaker 1: in the bubble hoisting trophies. The hardest championship in NBA history,

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Speaker 1: the only championship performed during a pandemic, in a bubble,

518
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Speaker 1: no home court advantage, all the things that we covered

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Speaker 1: as Laker fans, if you've been the staples to a

520
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Speaker 1: Lakers game, didn't have any of those things. Still gave

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Speaker 1: everybody those hands. Was supposed to see the Clippers still waiting,

522
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Speaker 1: still waiting for that one, supposed to see the Bucks

523
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Speaker 1: still waiting, and got mad that we beat the team

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Speaker 1: that that won the Eastern Conference, as if Lebron was like, oh,

525
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Speaker 1: I want to play the heat, you know, which was

526
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Speaker 1: a little bit of poetic justice going up against Pat

527
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Speaker 1: kind of how you know, I brought up two ranks.

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Speaker 1: Didn't really get the thank you notes and flowers and

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Speaker 1: things that we hoped as Lebron family received. So let

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Speaker 1: me try to drill down on why people don't like Lebron,

531
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Speaker 1: and honestly, somebody should do like a thesis for college

532
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Speaker 1: on the mindset about the hate for Lebron, because again,

533
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Speaker 1: this is the guy who's the best of mine. Now,

534
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Speaker 1: I've never been arrested, never got in trouble off the court,

535
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Speaker 1: none of that stuff. Been a model citizen after being

536
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Speaker 1: on the cover of s I at like sixteen, and

537
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Speaker 1: we know a lot of those, you know, early fame

538
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Speaker 1: kids turn out not so well. Do you think this

539
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Speaker 1: all stems back to the decision and going to Miami. Look,

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Speaker 1: I think when you look at that, and you know,

541
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Speaker 1: people always overlook the fact that he raised millions of

542
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Speaker 1: dollars for the boy is in Girls club. This was

543
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Speaker 1: a guy who never really got the opportunity to do

544
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Speaker 1: that in college. Right, That's the whole big thing when

545
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Speaker 1: you when you're making your pick, I'm taking my talents

546
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Speaker 1: to whoever gives me the biggest bag. But uh, you know, so,

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Speaker 1: I think people are just bitter Lebron. It really extems

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Speaker 1: from a lot of m J hate And as I've

549
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Speaker 1: become an older Lebron fan, I used to be a

550
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Speaker 1: super radical Lebron fan out there just riding, you know,

551
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Speaker 1: twenty four hours a day, and inside of my vision, right,

552
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Speaker 1: it brought me to the wrong side of the four.

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Speaker 1: So I had to come to the correct side. And

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Speaker 1: I think you just deal with a lot of MJ

555
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Speaker 1: fans who are kind of bitter. And I grew up

556
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Speaker 1: in the nineties and I remember thinking how like high

557
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Speaker 1: level that that era basketball was. But then you really

558
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Speaker 1: go back and look at it. You know, six expansion

559
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Speaker 1: teams in seven years, the type of output that was

560
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Speaker 1: getting put out. You know, I went back and just

561
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Speaker 1: did some research on you know, basically looking at expansion

562
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Speaker 1: teams in Jordan's teams versus some teams in the first

563
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Speaker 1: couple of years. It was like, you know, he's going

564
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Speaker 1: thirteen and o fourteen, and know, it's just like these

565
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,080
Speaker 1: are lay up games on the schedule, right, because you're

566
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Speaker 1: taking this team that's literally been taken from the bottom

567
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Speaker 1: of you know, the bottom rosters of the teams in

568
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Speaker 1: the league. So a lot of people don't don't understand

569
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Speaker 1: that the to look past that, and they just take

570
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Speaker 1: it for face value. But what we're seeing now is

571
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 1: a game that's exploded, that's literally literally international dudes, have

572
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Speaker 1: bags from all types of countries all over the world.

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Speaker 1: You know, you're looking at Lucas and the Slovenian. You know,

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Speaker 1: when I was coming up, we would have never respected

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Speaker 1: any Slovenia hooper. You know, no disrespect of Slovenia. But

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, I gotta Slovenian dude on me. I'm about

577
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Speaker 1: to go for forty. This is not this is not

578
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Speaker 1: a question to Luca now arguably being the best player

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Speaker 1: in the NBA. So you've seen the way that the

580
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Speaker 1: game is just skyrocket of the league hasn't expanded, I

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Speaker 1: want to say, since like two thousand three or whatever

582
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Speaker 1: it was. You know, I'm start in terms of teams,

583
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,080
Speaker 1: so you're literally it's now caught up. So you're getting

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Speaker 1: to the highest level of basketball. So what Lebron is

585
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Speaker 1: doing now in year eight team is unbelievable. It's unprecedented.

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Speaker 1: You know. I saw that guy back in I think

587
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Speaker 1: in a series against the Bulls. I was in Cleveland.

588
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Speaker 1: High ankle sprain. That high ankle sprain would have normally

589
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Speaker 1: sidelined a gout for two or three weeks. Lebron rubbed

590
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Speaker 1: some testing on it took like two minutes on the

591
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,359
Speaker 1: bench came back out and to drive, you know. I mean,

592
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Speaker 1: it's just like things that you shouldn't, you know, as

593
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Speaker 1: a human being, be able to see as a basketball player.

594
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Speaker 1: So the way he takes care of his body, his mind,

595
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,439
Speaker 1: in his contribution to the game, even beyond basketball, you're

596
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 1: looking at him as a as a man and what

597
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,120
Speaker 1: he's doing. It's hard to be like, oh, I can't

598
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 1: really rock with that guy. It's just like, how like,

599
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 1: what's just weird? Yeah, you made a good point. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know you said Slovenians in the nineties. I mean

601
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 1: remember Tony Cook coach. We we saw that in last Dance. Uh,

602
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:22,200
Speaker 1: they just went at him and mocked him the Olympic team.

603
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Speaker 1: And now try to do that with Luca Donte's We

604
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Speaker 1: saw the Clippers try it and he basically fought back

605
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Speaker 1: and took them all down by himself without porzingis like

606
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Speaker 1: won a game Like Luca is incredible too. Is he

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Speaker 1: your m v P pick for this year? It's it's

608
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Speaker 1: like I'm always riding with Lebron. I think Lebron shouldn't

609
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Speaker 1: want it. Last year were regardless of I know, Janice

610
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Speaker 1: had the and it's the thing you deal with people

611
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:44,680
Speaker 1: and it's like, well, y'all just had a historic gear.

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Speaker 1: It's like, okay, how the story was it? Did you

613
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Speaker 1: get finals? MVP? Like where when's the parade? Like okay,

614
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,120
Speaker 1: so what are we saying? Because when Lebron does these

615
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Speaker 1: type of things, I hear terms like stat padding or

616
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,119
Speaker 1: you know, things that guys on them. Uh, you know,

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00:26:58,160 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 1: of course you can do that. Look at this team.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of situation. And I think Lebron was able

619
00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 1: to do obviously in the Western Conference, which was the

620
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 1: significantly better conference, and just raise the sticks and raise

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Speaker 1: the bar. But now I'm looking at Luca. If Luca

622
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 1: stays healthy, I don't know how you stop that guy.

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Speaker 1: He looks like me. He's built, like you know, he

624
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,439
Speaker 1: just down six packs all day. But he gets on

625
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 1: the court and just gives you straight buckets, like built

626
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,719
Speaker 1: like straight, like you know, like a retired tight end

627
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 1: type body, but goes out there beast mode, just gets buckets,

628
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 1: playing a fishing and playing at a level where you know,

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Speaker 1: every time you watch that guy literally I you know,

630
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:37,159
Speaker 1: I scream loudly, you know, and audibly, you know, imprompted,

631
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 1: just watching him, like that game winner on the Clippers

632
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 1: just like, yeah, what do you what? What more do

633
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:44,679
Speaker 1: you want to see from? You know, and you just

634
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,159
Speaker 1: see those moments, Like you look at Kobe's career, you

635
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 1: see those moments that define his career and elevate him

636
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 1: to that next level. You look at Lebrons, same situation,

637
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 1: and now you're looking at Luca and like this dude

638
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 1: is gonna be a problem and don't let him in

639
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 1: the honest or somehow whatever in these these stars and whatever,

640
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,360
Speaker 1: you know, team with some of these great euro dude,

641
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 1: you might really just see a domination of Euros like

642
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: we've never seen. Uh, let me quickly ask you about

643
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 1: Zion Williamson. It's weird him and Luca, you know, basically

644
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 1: young guys and everybody said, oh, would you rather have

645
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:16,119
Speaker 1: Luca or Zion? And instantly Luca takes off. Last year

646
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,360
Speaker 1: goes to the playoffs. Um, I feel like there's almost

647
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: no Zion buzz right now. And I've read reports he

648
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,879
Speaker 1: lost like twenty five pounds, He's playing big minutes in

649
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 1: the preseason. I have a feeling he's gonna sneak up

650
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 1: on people this year. Um, are you surprised there's no

651
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 1: more Zion excitement at this point? I think we all

652
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 1: we all drank and I'm still drinking it that the

653
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 1: Zion cool laid early last year, you know, hoping that

654
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 1: he was obviously gonna be the lie for Rookie of

655
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 1: the Year. You know, over job he gets hurt and

656
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: kind of you forget about him a little bit, you know,

657
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 1: the Pelicans kind of you know, just kind of faded

658
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: to oblivion. So you hope this year that he's gonna

659
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 1: really have a chance to do it. Because I saw

660
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 1: on the limited sample side, was like, who really gonna

661
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 1: want to guard this? He's the type of dude when

662
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 1: you have to guard him, you're honestly like, come on, dog,

663
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 1: somebody else help. I need somebody else get this dude.

664
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 1: So to see the way that he's you know, got

665
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 1: his body right, I know, that was kind of the

666
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 1: big knock. I was a little confused how they had,

667
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 1: you know, four or five months off. He came back

668
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 1: to the bubble and he looked, you know, still kind

669
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 1: of out of and it's like, way you just had,

670
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: you just had and you're young, Like you know what

671
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 1: I mean, You're like, you know, you're a young dude.

672
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 1: How how did the recovery should have been there, but

673
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 1: now him actually having a little bit more time, you know,

674
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 1: kind of benefiting from them, you know, not making the

675
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: playoffs to to get get that rest, get that rejuvenation,

676
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 1: kind of get over that first rookie year which is

677
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 1: always a pain in the butt, let alone in a

678
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: pandemic where you know, you have the longest season in

679
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 1: league history and all that good stuff. So I think

680
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 1: Zion will be ready to make noise. I'm a big

681
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 1: fan of Alonzo, b I that whole crew. It really

682
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 1: pained me to see Lebron have to trade them for

683
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 1: a d you know, I'm a big LaVar guy and

684
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 1: just a big believer in the whole you know, big

685
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 1: baller culture. So between Linzo and the melod you know,

686
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 1: I just look at Linzo like he didn't get a

687
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 1: fair shake in l A. I think a lot of

688
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 1: people didn't really appreciate what he brings to the table.

689
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 1: And I'm hopeful that with this squad he has now

690
00:29:58,400 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 1: he'll be able to really do what he does and

691
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: that's kind of be that that j kid type facilitator

692
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 1: with with the Jakie jumper. My my guess is you're

693
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 1: gonna do a lot of LaMelo bawl stuff this season. Now,

694
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest, I'm impressed with the preseason stuff

695
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 1: I've seen. I think he's gonna have a good year. Man,

696
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 1: Gordon Hayward is a good kind of fulcrum in that offense.

697
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 1: I think LaMelo can he can put up like twelve

698
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 1: and seven. Maybe is that? Is that too ambitious? The

699
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 1: thing about LaMelo, my older brother Chris actually was was

700
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 1: a coach in the j b A. And you've seen

701
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 1: the way that LaVar, you know, from from Lithuania to

702
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: starting the j b A, which I would argue with

703
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 1: significantly better talent level than high school. You've got guys

704
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 1: in there, you know, early twenties, you know, grown men

705
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 1: literally fighting and scratching and klawn to keep their basketball

706
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 1: dreams alive going against this, you know, seventeen year old kid,

707
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 1: and LaMelo was out there hold his own, really getting it,

708
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 1: giving these dudes buckets. A lot of the same stuff

709
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 1: I'm seeing now translated to NBA games, which you never

710
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 1: really know that the kid is out there. But those

711
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: full court dimes and just his court vision. You know,

712
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: you look at Alonzo Alonso's court vision and it's impressive

713
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: and you almost think LaMelo may have better core vision,

714
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 1: the lines of which is one of the ultimate compliments

715
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 1: you can give somebody. So looking at La Melo, I think,

716
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 1: you know, George selecting him for a reason. He seems

717
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 1: to me like a guy who doesn't He's never really

718
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 1: phased by stuff he's used to. It's funny like watching

719
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: watching lines on that that Chino Hills Crew. Lines always

720
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: struck me as this kind of quiet, like shy kid.

721
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 1: Then you look at his like he was doing like

722
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,239
Speaker 1: live streams at the crib and the way he was

723
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: cracking jokes and clowning each other, and he just let

724
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 1: it be known that he's really kind of you know,

725
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 1: in that house, you had to be able to hold drum,

726
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 1: kind of like we were talking about locker rooms earlier.

727
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: So La Melos kind of hurt at all. He's not

728
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 1: really gonna be phased by no trash talk, nothing that's

729
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 1: going on. And you're talking about a kid who skipped

730
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: the eighth grade I believe, to go to high school.

731
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 1: It was on the number one team in the nation,

732
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, the undefeated, playing the highest

733
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 1: level of basketball, playing against future pros out there holding

734
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 1: his own. It's just stuff you've never really seen. So ever,

735
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 1: since that kid was thirteen fourteen years old, we knew

736
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 1: that he was destined to kind of be doing what

737
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: he's doing right now. So I'm exed did to see

738
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 1: him again. If you can stay healthy, who's gonna stop him?

739
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 1: One last one before I get to the final question,

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Speaker 1: So would you say the big difference between Alonzo and

741
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 1: LaMelo is Alonzo's kind of quiet reserved and LaMelo, I

742
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 1: don't want to say, looks cocky, but he looks like

743
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 1: he's so confident that he fears nothing. The thing about

744
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 1: the thing is Alonso is not even quiet reserve. Alonso

745
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 1: gives that impression maybe to the public, but you've got

746
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 1: Alonzo dropping albums, cracking jokes on dudes, you know, doing

747
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 1: TV shows, all that type of stuff. So LaMelo, as

748
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 1: a youngster the most right, he's gonna get it from

749
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 1: from from Alonzo and from Jelo, So he's got to

750
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 1: be able to hold his own. You're talking about a

751
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: thirteen fourteen year old kid out here playing with brown,

752
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 1: you know, eighteen year old high schoolers and getting buckets.

753
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 1: You know, at no point looking like, damn, get this

754
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: kid off the court. He's out there getting buckets, shooting shots.

755
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: So I can only imagine over the last five six

756
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: years to Lithuania, where you're dealing with dudes who don't

757
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 1: speak the language, nobody cares about big baller brand out there.

758
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: You're going up against, playing these these these hungry Euros.

759
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 1: To the j b A same situation, you're playing against

760
00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 1: these grown man that that are all fighting and scratching

761
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 1: and claw and to be able to keep their dreams alive.

762
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 1: Like he's dealt with it already. It wasn't a traditional

763
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 1: path and it remains to be seen how it will

764
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 1: work out. But I think LaVar deserves a lot of

765
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 1: credit for literally, you know, I remember every step of

766
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: the way Lithuania, LaVar is getting clown. How can you

767
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 1: do that to your kid? He should have a high

768
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 1: school experience j b A. Well, you know, LaVar is

769
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: trying to start his own league. Next thing, you know,

770
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 1: we get the G League unite. Like these things aren't coincidence?

771
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: Is right? Next thing you know? Oh wait, the NBA

772
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: is doing the same exact thing. NBA's on their own

773
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 1: j b A too. Now LaMelo getting you know, I

774
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: think I would have loved seen when the Warriors with

775
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 1: Steph and claim what they would have been able to

776
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 1: do to his game, like it's it's you know, I

777
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 1: love Wiseman, but don't get you know, LaMelo getting tutel

778
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: it from Steff I think would have created a monster

779
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 1: that nobody would have really been prepared for. But now

780
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 1: getting that same type of situation from Jordan, who obviously

781
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 1: is a gold standard for some, I think, you know,

782
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 1: a lot is gonna be expected of him. A lot

783
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 1: always has been, and he's always delivered to this point,

784
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 1: so I don't anticipate that changing. All right, I'll go

785
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 1: out on this one. Josiah the best guy you've ever

786
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: dumked on or gone up against in pickup hoops out

787
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 1: at u c l A. The best guy gone gone

788
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 1: up against and pick up hoops. Kevin Garnett I had to.

789
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,719
Speaker 1: I had to. I had to guard Kevin Garnett um

790
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,400
Speaker 1: for for a summer. He came through and you know,

791
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:14,319
Speaker 1: and it's like I'm in I'm in college this point.

792
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 1: It's like he's arguably the best player in the league

793
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 1: around this time, if not one of the top five.

794
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 1: You know, I remember, you know, I'm guarding the dude

795
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 1: and its pickup right So there's this trick where if

796
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,360
Speaker 1: a guy shooting you can you can hit their elbow

797
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: and it'll it'll suck the shot up, and you know,

798
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: you know, no reft there to call it. So my

799
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 1: dumbass does that to KG, right, KG literally stops the

800
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 1: game proceeds and just like cuss me out with me apart.

801
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,320
Speaker 1: But after that, after that, I was board a board machine,

802
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: getting buckets, doing stuff. I used to always killing those

803
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 1: games because NBA guys will be going about and I'm

804
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 1: going about a hundred and eighteen just because I don't

805
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 1: want to get embarrassed or exposed going against these dudes.

806
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,319
Speaker 1: So always, but there's a lot of Paul Peers, you know,

807
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 1: Baron Davis, Baron who I grew up with and you know,

808
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 1: a few years older than me, but Baron, you know,

809
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,280
Speaker 1: if you would have saw Baron but for he suffered

810
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: his knee injury in college, like the stuff that he

811
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: was doing, and even after that were just like one

812
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,360
Speaker 1: of one of my favorite players. Average a great dude.

813
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,760
Speaker 1: But having to be on the court with these guys

814
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:13,359
Speaker 1: and I'm looking at my body and I'm looking at

815
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 1: their bodies and it's just like, all right, you guys

816
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,400
Speaker 1: are pros. My my my career is probably gonna end

817
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 1: after college, so let me go ahead and figure something

818
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 1: else out. Good stuff, dude, all right, Josiah Johnson follow

819
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 1: him King Josiah on Twitter, and uh, you know, continued

820
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:31,399
Speaker 1: success with this awesome brand you're building, man, I love

821
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 1: to see it. Congratulations. I appreciate you for having me.

822
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 1: The only thing better than sitting on your couch watching

823
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:43,359
Speaker 1: the game. He's making money while he's doing. Here's your

824
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: best bet. Alright, it's time for the best bet here

825
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: on straight fire and the Pittsburgh Steelers idiotic bet. That

826
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 1: was a loss ending what was pretty prolific street. Hopefully

827
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: you guys got on board and over the weekend just

828
00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 1: on fire last week, just hitting on all cylinders. Gotta

829
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:04,760
Speaker 1: love it. But that loss drops us to sixty wins,

830
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: forty eight losses, five ties. And if you remember, a

831
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 1: lot of the record early was built on NBA hot

832
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: Streak during the playoffs, I was just cashing left and right.

833
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,760
Speaker 1: It was awesome. And I'm gonna go with a player

834
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:22,359
Speaker 1: prop for Opening Night. I gotta confess I don't love

835
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 1: a side in the Warriors nets game. Draymond Green out

836
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 1: um and Lakers Clippers. I kind of want to lean

837
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 1: Clippers because the Lakers had so much turnover. UM, But

838
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 1: I don't know. I I don't know what to expect

839
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:42,839
Speaker 1: from the Clippers. UM. Like I'm fascinated by the game.

840
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: I can't wait. You know, obviously, uh should should be

841
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:50,240
Speaker 1: a Barnburner. Uh, I just say Barnburner. I believe I did. Um.

842
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:53,359
Speaker 1: I think for some reason, the Lakers were gonna see

843
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 1: a little bit of regression. Um. There's just so much turnover. H.

844
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: We do not expect Lebron to play as many games

845
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:04,839
Speaker 1: um as he did last year. Listen, they're coming off

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Speaker 1: the championship. There's no need to force things, uh and

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Speaker 1: risk and injury. Lebron turns thirty six here in like

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Speaker 1: a week ten days. Uh, So I'm gonna pass on

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Speaker 1: that one. UM. The only thing I would really look

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Speaker 1: at would be the under. Um, I'm gonna pass on that.

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Speaker 1: Under twenty two is a good look, I believe. However,

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Speaker 1: my bet for opening ninety ready for this a little

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Speaker 1: exotic Kelly Ubre over seventeen and a half points. I

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Speaker 1: am bullish, extremely bullish on Kelly Ubre this year. UM.

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Speaker 1: I think he's almost underrated. He's a bucket getter. And

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Speaker 1: we know the Warriors without Draymond Green are gonna play

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Speaker 1: no defense. They're gonna run up and down the court,

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Speaker 1: jack three's and just score as many points as they can.

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Speaker 1: And Kelly Ubre gets buckets. I don't know, Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: Weissman had COVID recently. Who knows what he's gonna produce? Uh,

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Speaker 1: Pashal Marquis Chris. I don't think they're gonna be looking

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Speaker 1: to score. This is gonna be the Stephen Curry Wiggins

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Speaker 1: Ubrey show. And I don't trust Wiggins. I think Ubre

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Speaker 1: is a real nice player. Um, I'm bullish on him

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Speaker 1: this season. So I will go over seventeen and a

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Speaker 1: half points for Kelly Ubre. Yeah, we're digging deep, folks.

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Speaker 1: Best bet for Tuesday Night. We'll be back tomorrow. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we'll do another podcast. UM. I know it's a holiday week,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people want to take time off. Not here,

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Speaker 1: we grind on straight fire. Talk to you tomorrow,