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Speaker 1: Our two. Welcome in. It's the Herd. Wherever you may be,

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Speaker 1: Oh whatever, I'll take you right now. You eat with

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Speaker 1: your eyes before you eat with your mouth. I'm not

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Speaker 1: eating a blue sour patch kid, I'm not eating blue food.

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Speaker 1: And J Mack goes yellow and I'm like, well, that's

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Speaker 1: a lemon orange orange.

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Speaker 3: When I used for full.

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Speaker 4: Straves, I get the pack of Skittles, I take out

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Speaker 4: the orange and yellow and get into my kits and

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Speaker 4: my I love that cover, only the red.

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Speaker 1: You all the same.

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Speaker 3: I don't get skittles.

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Speaker 5: That knew it.

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Speaker 4: No, No, we did skittles, Like, close your eyes, put

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Speaker 4: the skittle in your mouth. What flavor is it?

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Speaker 3: And I hasty because I'm good at that. Sally ranswers

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Speaker 3: Skittles gotta be air.

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Speaker 1: Some people are whine. Sam Aliet's you're good on skittles.

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Speaker 3: That sounds about right.

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Speaker 1: So I was thinking about this. So the Cowboys, it's

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Speaker 1: so crazy. They gave up a fourth round pick for

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Speaker 1: Trey Lance, who Kyle Shanahan's like, not gonna work. They

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Speaker 1: gave up a fifth and a sixth round pick for

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Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks, who I kind of like, a fourth and

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Speaker 1: a seventh for Jonathan Mingo, which I said, as they

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Speaker 1: did that ridiculous. They traded a third and a fifth

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Speaker 1: round pick for George Pickens, which is too much for me,

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Speaker 1: and a sixth round pick. I would not have given

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Speaker 1: up that much for Pickens. But they they treat draft

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Speaker 1: picks like office supplies, like, oh, you lose a pen,

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Speaker 1: let's just order some more. There's a reason the best

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Speaker 1: teams accumulate draft picks, because it's a volume game. Drafting

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Speaker 1: is an inexact science. Fifty five percent of the guys

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Speaker 1: never pan out. And that's I mean, they're they're I

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Speaker 1: mean the Rams have done almost the possible. Every defensive

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Speaker 1: Roseman who hit on their picks. Howie Roseman, though, whiffed

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Speaker 1: on a Stanford receiver. That TCU receiver in the first round.

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Speaker 1: Who's bounced around the league? The great guys wh So

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Speaker 1: you're trying to accumulate the most picks and just play

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Speaker 1: the math game, the volume game. So like San Francisco

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Speaker 1: this year, at eleven picks, if you could get five

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Speaker 1: to contribute, that's about the league average. And we think

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Speaker 1: the Niners are better run than most teams. So the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys giving up all these picks for George Pickens. He

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Speaker 1: is a volatile player that the Pittsburgh Steelers Mike Tomlin said,

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Speaker 1: I've had enough. By the way, how has Deontay Johnson

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Speaker 1: been since he left Pittsburgh? How was Levian Bell when

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Speaker 1: he left Pittsburgh? How was ab when he left Pittsburgh?

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Speaker 1: Generally speaking, when Mike Tomlin says see you later, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't work out well. So if I had to pred

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Speaker 1: what would happen is that Ceedee Lamb is gonna get

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Speaker 1: drafting is such an inexact science to just be giving

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Speaker 1: too far into that. So if you've not heard, is

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Speaker 1: Rachel here yet. One of the things that the story

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Speaker 1: now is Steph Curry. It's going to basically miss the

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Speaker 1: next three games. I think Golden State can win one

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Speaker 1: coaching and defense is so strong that they'll just muddy

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Speaker 1: up and ugly up a game. Game two is going

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Speaker 1: to Minnesota. They had no energy last night. They'll play

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Speaker 1: Rachel Nichols now is joining us here in the Herd

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Speaker 1: on our set. It is great to see Rachel as always. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I used the example earlier. Remember Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: and he wins the game. Last night, It's like, we

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Speaker 1: it's like, well, buddy healed his Steph. And so I

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Speaker 1: do think there are moments where you can come losing

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Speaker 1: a star. But if I get a plan a series

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Speaker 1: without staph, does it feel like to you the Warriors

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Speaker 6: First of all, report just came out while you guys

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Speaker 6: have been on the air that Steph is going to

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Speaker 6: miss at least a week.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and so that's three games.

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Speaker 6: That's that's a lot of games. First of all, look,

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Speaker 6: I'm not sure it was, Hey, we didn't plan for

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Speaker 6: not Steph. I think that Minnesota's offense has been pretty disorganized,

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Speaker 7: And in fact, it speaks to boy that game five.

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Speaker 6: The fact that they even won that thing when they

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Speaker 7: Three point shooting night and then again last night, the worst.

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Speaker 6: Combined three point shooting over two games and NBA history.

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Speaker 6: I mean, that's not a Steph's not here problem, right,

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Speaker 6: So part of it is just disorganization. The transition game

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Speaker 6: was bad. Chris Finch after the game called it diabolical.

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Speaker 6: Our transition was diabolical. I mean that when your head

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Speaker 6: a lot of it, too, was just guys being disrupted

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Speaker 6: that has a multiple time All Defensive player in Jimmy Butler,

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Speaker 6: I think that now that they can know that Steph

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Speaker 6: and I expect them to try.

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Speaker 1: So it's interesting with ant. I'm a defender of him.

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Speaker 1: I do think the world has changed. Where you got

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Speaker 1: almost every great Tim Duncan where they came and as men. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: tough college coach. And I've said this, I said this

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Speaker 1: last hour, Rachel. When you go to the G League,

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Speaker 1: in front of big crowds. So you know, Aunt's one

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Speaker 1: year at Georgia. He at least gave it a shot.

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Speaker 1: But there's those who have said he could have. It

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Speaker 1: there's always been this he's a bit immature. And I

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Speaker 1: have the wherewithal to go. Okay, guys, we're young and rested.

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Speaker 1: They're old, tired and no staff. I thought it was

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, there's no question it was.

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Speaker 6: He missed his first ten shots extending into the second half.

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Speaker 6: He have one point in the first half, and again

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Speaker 6: his coach called him out on it after the game.

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Speaker 6: He's twenty three years old. I just think we do

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Speaker 6: have to keep remembering that. So, yes, he is going

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Speaker 6: to have some immature nights. He's not there yet. He's

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Speaker 6: which is what Steph Curry is. He's got a long

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Speaker 6: runway still there. So yes, sometimes these nights happen. We'll

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Speaker 6: have to see if he can learn his.

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Speaker 7: Way out of it. As they said, look terrible.

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Speaker 6: And I would also say this because I thought you

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Speaker 7: I completely agree with you.

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Speaker 6: It's not providing those guys with these clutch time situations.

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Speaker 6: I have long said that the NBA, which is currently

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Speaker 6: still talking about should we remove the first year age

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Speaker 6: limit thing again and go that you could go straight

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Speaker 7: It should go the other way. Yes, they should.

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Speaker 6: Require people to spend two years doing something college basketball,

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Speaker 6: playing in a league. Guys who have come out of

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Speaker 7: There have gotten a lot of seasoning do something.

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Speaker 6: And the fact that you now can get paid to

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Speaker 6: paid more in college than they are in their first

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Speaker 6: year in the NBA, you don't have that ethical dilemma

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Speaker 6: that the NBA has wrestled a little bit of, Like, man,

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Speaker 6: we're preventing young men from earning money and supporting their

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Speaker 7: That's not a factor anymore. So why not make it

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Speaker 7: two years?

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Speaker 6: To your point, you had people doing the work for

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Speaker 6: and you would get a completely different preparation of player.

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Speaker 6: And I'm just not really quite sure why they're not

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Speaker 6: doing that. I know the Players Association, there's some agreement

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, the other thing is, and there was

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Speaker 1: that sort of ethical dilemma. You're not paying the kids.

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Speaker 2: I get that.

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Speaker 1: But even if the G League offered you a little

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Speaker 1: more than Kansas or Duke, Kansas and Duke games are

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Speaker 1: on television. So the truth of the matter is the

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Speaker 1: shoe deal and the advantages. Zion gets no shoe deal

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Speaker 1: at the G League. He got it because of Duke.

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Speaker 7: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: So like I'd say this just as a cautionary tale

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Speaker 1: about just getting the money. I understand it ethically, But

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Speaker 1: even if the G League paid more, do you guys

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Speaker 1: understand how much a commercial costs during a Duke game?

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Speaker 1: Because there's so many people watching a Duke or a

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Speaker 1: Carolina or a Kansas or a Yukon game. College provides

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Speaker 1: unbelievable free marketing to your body, your feet, your shoes,

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Speaker 1: your game, your personality. Take advantage of it. Baker Mayfield

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Speaker 1: so listen, I'm not going to tell people. Dan Wooke

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Speaker 1: the worst Houston's going to be over the next ten years.

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Speaker 6: But absolutely, if they get some you know, some incredible

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Speaker 1: So over the course of a life, everybody should evolve,

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Speaker 6: No, no, no, But look, Lebron has felt for a long

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Speaker 6: time that he is large at large, big picture underpaid,

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Speaker 7: So he is always going to be quote underpaid.

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Speaker 7: And if you took just the.

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Speaker 6: He could get maybe two ranks, and by the way,

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Speaker 7: One more ring puts them in the Kobe conversation. Two

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Speaker 6: Ring conversation, and I don't care how much money the

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Speaker 7: They can't pay him more championship rings.

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Speaker 6: And I just if I were him, The thing money

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Speaker 7: He was playing for something.

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Speaker 1: I mean, think about this, Think about Denver, a team

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Speaker 1: you need too major moves to compete with OKAC going

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Speaker 6: Well, look, first of all, I just want to keep

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Speaker 6: saying it. We don't know for sure that Yannis will

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Speaker 7: But he could.

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Speaker 6: even if he's indicating that he wouldn't resign. But let's

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Speaker 7: They can't even they can't even have.

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Speaker 6: That conversation because the money factor won't work. So I

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Speaker 7: If it were me, I.

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Speaker 6: Would prioritize spending my last couple of years on a

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Speaker 6: that's winning. You cannot buy that.

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Speaker 1: Look at this. The Warriors without Steph beat the t

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Speaker 1: Like, Yeah, the Lakers like their third guy didn't contribute.

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Speaker 7: And look, I will say the Lakers knew this. It's

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Speaker 6: After they made the Luca trade they were like, we're done,

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Speaker 6: We're great. Right, they made that trade, they knew it

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Speaker 6: You still make that trade fifteen times out of ten, right,

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Speaker 6: Can you part with Austin Reeves emotionally if you have to?

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Speaker 1: So somebody asked me yesterday and they said, you know,

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Speaker 1: And I said, the Olympics are like summer camp. Everybody

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Speaker 1: a great teammate for eighty two games, right. So you

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Speaker 1: go to the Olympics and like summer camp, there's a hierarchy.

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Speaker 1: People have been to camp before. You know, they get

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Speaker 1: series is over because one team, even though Donovan Mitchell

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Speaker 7: Look what he does at the end of game.

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Speaker 6: Right, He's had two last second game winners in the

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Speaker 7: Right, you literally cannot ask for more of that.

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Speaker 6: When Tyres didn't play at the Olympics, the funniest tweet

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Speaker 7: In the league.

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Speaker 6: And by the way, with the percentage of how much

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Speaker 1: It can be a little bit of a petty league.

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Speaker 6: I was going to say, this is a league, a

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Speaker 6: little bit of a petty league, A little bit. This

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Speaker 6: I just don't I throw that overrated thing out.

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Speaker 7: He's obviously started to use it to his vantage.

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Speaker 6: You've heard overrate that from him again last night, and

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Speaker 7: That is a rallying cry.

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Speaker 6: He is a very very good basketball player that you

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Speaker 1: I mean, we all talk about the great domestic player

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Speaker 1: Winver's got too many guys, too many veteran guys who

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Speaker 6: at that. I will say that if Aaron Gordon doesn't

436
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Speaker 6: hit another last second sort of miracle sort of thing,

437
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Speaker 6: that even the disorganization of the thunder at the end

438
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Speaker 6: of that game wouldn't have mattered. So I just some

439
00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:05,080
Speaker 6: of these games are so razor thin, so tight. Nikoli

440
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Speaker 6: Jokich is on the other side and energize Russell Westbrook,

441
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Speaker 6: who got a standing ovation in a foreign arena in

442
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Speaker 6: the playoffs, which is just something you never see, is

443
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Speaker 6: on one right now. I just think the difference in

444
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Speaker 6: that game. Yes, the Thunder didn't play up to their level. Yes,

445
00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:24,919
Speaker 6: they still don't have the solid, solid, oh my gosh,

446
00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,600
Speaker 6: number two option who can just come out there and score.

447
00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:31,120
Speaker 6: Jaylen Williams hasn't developed into that as the number two

448
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Speaker 6: to Shay in that way, and we are still waiting

449
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Speaker 6: for that to happen. He is their number two option,

450
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Speaker 6: but it's just not the kind of at the level

451
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Speaker 6: of what Okac is going to need to win titles

452
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Speaker 6: in this round right now so far, so let's.

453
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Speaker 7: See what happens.

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Speaker 6: I still have a lot of faith in the Oklahoma

455
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Speaker 6: City Thunder, But anytime you send Nikolijokic into a playoff game,

456
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Speaker 6: I don't care what he seeded, I don't care what

457
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Speaker 6: his teams are doing. That is a connected locker room

458
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Speaker 6: who is playing for a coach that they really like.

459
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Speaker 6: I talk to a bunch of the Nuggets players last

460
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Speaker 6: week and they just were singing the praises out of Adaman,

461
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Speaker 6: and I just think they will remain an extremely dangerous

462
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Speaker 6: team as long as they're in it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got a little Bill Russell, he's coaching, he's playing.

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Speaker 1: He I mean, I.

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Speaker 6: Mean, he's one of the best basketball players of all time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Period.

468
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Speaker 1: I said, outside of Kareem in his prime, No, because

469
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Speaker 1: Kareem was an unbelievable defender and like sometimes could you know,

470
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Speaker 1: it's funny when you look at Jokic, you think he's

471
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Speaker 1: indifferent and a lot of times he's just coachable. But

472
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Speaker 1: the minute the coach leaves, he's the coach.

473
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Speaker 7: He's screaming at his guys on the sideline.

474
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Speaker 1: So good. Yeah, Rachel Nichols, so much fun. These games

475
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Speaker 1: are crazy.

476
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Speaker 7: It's amazing what these playoff games have been.

477
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Speaker 6: And it is also the first time in NBA history

478
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Speaker 6: that you had four road.

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Speaker 7: Teams win Game one in this round.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 7: Never happened before that.

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Speaker 1: Good jam, good nugget. All right, live Li, it's.

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484
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485
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Speaker 2: Search Herd to listen live or on demand whenever you like.

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Speaker 1: I'm not into like escapism. I didn't watch Game of Thrones.

487
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Speaker 1: I like reality, and you say, well, what about Mission Impossible.

488
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Speaker 1: That's not a movie, that's a documentary that's really happening

489
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Speaker 1: in real time.

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Speaker 3: Hold on, Tom Cruise was in interview with the Vampire.

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Speaker 1: I didn't watch it.

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Speaker 3: I thought he was your guy.

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Speaker 1: No, I don't do vampire movie. I don't do wizards

494
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Speaker 1: and sorcerers. I'm not into that stuff. I like documentaries, news, politics, sports, Okay,

495
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Speaker 1: highbrow elitists. Yes, what am I escaping from? I talked

496
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Speaker 1: sports for a living. I don't need to escape to

497
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Speaker 1: some realm. I got nothing against sinners. But it's vampires.

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Speaker 3: So Game of Thrones.

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Speaker 4: Someone told someone smart, said, listen, start watching Game of

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Speaker 4: Thrones with your kid because it teaches a lot of

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Speaker 4: life lessons.

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Speaker 3: I guess I haven't seen it. Have you seen Game

503
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Speaker 3: of Thrones?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of life lessons. Sorcerer appears, don't be

505
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Speaker 1: friends with him or a wizard?

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Speaker 3: What about the dragons?

507
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Speaker 1: It's just I'm not into that. So I guess Centners

508
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Speaker 1: is great. But like when I watched Oppenheimer, that really happened? Well, okay,

509
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Speaker 1: I didn't watch Barbie. That didn't really happen.

510
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Speaker 4: You didn't see Barbie. No, it wasn't bad. And listen

511
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Speaker 4: if Margot Robbie's in a movie as a man.

512
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Speaker 1: I watched it. I just watched the movie by Steven Soderberg,

513
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Speaker 1: The Black Bag, and it didn't happen, but it could happen.

514
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Speaker 1: It's like espionage. I like reality. Don't throw in stuff

515
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Speaker 1: that doesn't exist. I'm not interested in that. I like

516
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Speaker 1: heist movies. I like, you know, anything that I have

517
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Speaker 1: to figure out. I'm not into face stuff, escapism, escape

518
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Speaker 1: from what.

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Speaker 4: You don't want to go sit in a theater for

520
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Speaker 4: two hours and just escape reality?

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Speaker 3: Just oh, man, what is a cocktail?

522
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Speaker 1: Does that just as well? You know, just sitting there

523
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Speaker 1: thinking about things.

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Speaker 3: But you sound like you're really fun at parties.

525
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Speaker 1: I'm not. I don't like part Oh I don't.

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Speaker 3: By the way, I invited Cowherd to a dinner tonight.

527
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Speaker 1: He's like, no, thanks, Well you really sold it. Hey,

528
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Speaker 1: it's a bunch of local dads. And I'm like, why

529
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Speaker 1: don't you just take a sleeping pill instead? Jmack with

530
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Speaker 1: the news. No, no, no.

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Speaker 2: This is the mind.

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Speaker 4: Let's go to the Celtics colin their game one strategy

533
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Speaker 4: of sixty three point attempts did not work, missed forty

534
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Speaker 4: five of them.

535
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Speaker 3: Well, I think he's your friend. Timmy Legler aka Legs.

536
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Speaker 4: Absolutely tore the Celtics to shreds yesterday.

537
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Speaker 2: Man, he ripped them.

538
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Speaker 1: Here we go.

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Speaker 5: What the Boston Celtics did last night was an insult

540
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Speaker 5: to basketball in my opinion, Man, that that's an abomination,

541
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Speaker 5: an abomination.

542
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Speaker 7: Offensively to play the way they played.

543
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Speaker 2: And look, if.

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Speaker 8: People are gonna sit there, well, let's till they play

545
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Speaker 8: all the time, may flip out of three, time out

546
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Speaker 8: of three?

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Speaker 2: What are you talking about?

548
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Speaker 1: Watch the game.

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Speaker 9: What I didn't understand was why they were the Celtics

550
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Speaker 9: playing as if for literally an entire eighteen minute stretch

551
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Speaker 9: they played offense like there was three seconds.

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Speaker 3: Not up in the game.

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Speaker 1: He's so right with such a bad look. I mean Tatum.

554
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Speaker 1: This goes back to my Tatum. They're so embedded in

555
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Speaker 1: this three point culture that Tatum, who can beat guys

556
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Speaker 1: off the dribble. You'll watch him beat a guy off

557
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Speaker 1: the dribble and pull back to take a three, because

558
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Speaker 1: that's what Missoula and the guys upstairs won. Like I'm sorry,

559
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Speaker 1: get me up. That's what Jimmy Butler does, get me

560
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Speaker 1: a basket. Momentum, basketball matters. The fans are right on

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Speaker 1: the floor. Get last night the Warriors when it all

562
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, here goes Minnesota. Minnesota's got it to ten.

563
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Speaker 1: Butler's like, let's just get a basket. Quiet the crowd

564
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Speaker 1: down this and again. I think I think Boston's really good.

565
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Speaker 1: But watch Tatum will beat guys off the dribble. He'll

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Speaker 1: pull back and take the worst shot.

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Speaker 3: Well, three is more than two step back three for Tatum.

568
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Speaker 1: What's the percent of John hitting a three over a

569
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Speaker 1: two normally for Tatum? It's good.

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Speaker 4: They just had an off game, Colin, I am curious.

571
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Speaker 4: Can you guess the line tonight? Celtics hosting the net

572
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Speaker 4: told me the other day it was ten and a half.

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Speaker 4: It's not ten and a half now, I would guess

574
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Speaker 4: it's nine and a half.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 4: It's going the other way. Everybody thinks Celtics bound back

577
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Speaker 4: big time.

578
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Speaker 1: Nel McHale Bridges played like fifty one minutes.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he was three or thirteen, but he

580
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,200
Speaker 4: had a huge steal at the end. Like, I don't

581
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Speaker 4: know that the Knicks show up again. I done just

582
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Speaker 4: kept how I mean's done. This is a one possession

583
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Speaker 4: game late, because if that's.

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Speaker 3: The case, then the Knicks can win the series.

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Speaker 1: Thanks, you're not gonna win this show.

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Speaker 4: I largely agree with you, but I'm a Knicks fan,

587
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Speaker 4: so I got a ride with her. Next up, let's

588
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Speaker 4: go to the Nuggets, Colin another big comeback. Look at

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Speaker 4: this Jokic coaching, Yes, coaching against Okay. See, he had

590
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Speaker 4: a masterful forty twenty two. Now there's some interesting stuff

591
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Speaker 4: about him being a vocal leader in the huddle.

592
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Speaker 3: Listen to Christian Brown. Listen closely to what he said about.

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Speaker 10: Yokich obviously has mine you know, in basketball, maybe ever,

594
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Speaker 10: but definitely has the best mind on our bench. And

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Speaker 10: so when he talks to people, listen, and that's who

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Speaker 10: he is. He wants to win. So when he's yelling

597
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Speaker 10: and telling you things a lot of times it's pretty

598
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Speaker 10: hard to understand, but you know he means it. He's

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Speaker 10: passionate about it. What he's telling you. He's not telling

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Speaker 10: you just to say something. That his mind is great

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Speaker 10: and he wants to win. And that's the guy he

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Speaker 10: wants to be. I think he wants to be vocal.

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Speaker 10: I don't know that he wants to have to yell

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Speaker 10: every time out, but when people when he talks, people listen.

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Speaker 4: Jokics has the best mind on our bench. Where does

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Speaker 4: that say to you? That includes the coaching staff.

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Speaker 1: I'm not I know I supposed to be appalled by that. Look,

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Speaker 1: I think Lebron's had a better basketball mine, not than Spolstra,

609
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Speaker 1: but I think Lebron probably knows situational basketball better than

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Speaker 1: JJ Ruddick.

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Speaker 3: So that gets to the point.

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Speaker 4: Is there a world where the Nuggets saw, hey man,

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Speaker 4: Michael Malone, Let's just get him out of here.

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Speaker 3: Jokis can lead us in the Houddel lead us on

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Speaker 3: the well.

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Speaker 1: I think stand Kronky, who owns the Nuggets, at one

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Speaker 1: point said, like the most Joe's bad. Malone is a

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Speaker 1: very critical dressing. He's rough on players and so so

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Speaker 1: so certain coaches, not a lot of them, but they're

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Speaker 1: really good with players. Maybe not scheme guys. Now. Kerr

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Speaker 1: is both full for both, but Malone was more scheme

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Speaker 1: first and getting along at a cocktail party second. And

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Speaker 1: I think Malone barked a lot, and I think that

624
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Speaker 1: wears players out. It's a players league, and it has

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Speaker 1: been since the seventies.

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Speaker 3: Can I put Reddick in that class of the elite coaches?

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Speaker 1: Well, no, he's not a leade yet any playoff series.

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Speaker 1: I think schematically, I thought the Lakers were a very

629
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Speaker 1: good first half team, mission very intentional team. You could

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Speaker 1: see the game plan. But I think there is It's

631
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Speaker 1: not the NFL you got, you know, seventeen Sundays, you

632
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Speaker 1: got eighty two games sometimes. I mean Chris Finch twice

633
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: a year probably has to light his teammate, and he did.

634
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 1: That's about what you get two to three times a year.

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Speaker 1: You can light your team up. You forget Remember it's

636
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Speaker 1: not just the games. You have three times the practices.

637
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 1: So two hundred and forty days with these players, you

638
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Speaker 1: get about three nights to light them off.

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Speaker 3: The coaching part's interesting.

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Speaker 4: Remember Kyrie Irving when he went to Brooklyn and was like,

641
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Speaker 4: we don't even need a coach.

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Speaker 1: We got me stupid to talk.

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Speaker 4: I largely agree, but Jokis versus an interim coaches is interesting.

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Speaker 3: Final story Collins to.

645
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Speaker 4: The NFL, where the Lions have had an amazing run

646
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Speaker 4: in the last two seasons, but still.

647
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Speaker 3: No Super Bowl trips. They were closed two years ago.

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Speaker 3: Detroit legend.

649
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 4: Barry Sanders believes the running game of Gibbs and Montgomery

650
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Speaker 4: can lead the team to their first Super Bowl appearance.

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Speaker 11: David Montgomery, He's been a great running back in the

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Speaker 11: NFL for many years, and he just added to that.

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Speaker 11: You know, coming over from the Bears, and you see

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Speaker 11: what Jamiir Gibbs was able to do last season. Really

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Speaker 11: from the time, you know, from the last two years

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Speaker 11: that he's been here, But I feel like last year

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Speaker 11: was more of a breakout season for him. You would

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Speaker 11: think that if the Super in our future in the

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Speaker 11: near future, and you would think that those two guys

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Speaker 11: would be a big part of it.

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Speaker 1: No good line, good backs, good receiver.

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Speaker 3: Interesting in the running back hype, two running backs.

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Speaker 4: He said nothing about the quarter that who had four

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Speaker 4: turnovers in the playoff loss to Washington.

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Speaker 3: I didn't notice GoF three picks in a fumble.

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Speaker 1: Well, Goff is the last one of the last three

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Speaker 1: or four pure pocket passers. Cousin Stafford gob not many

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Speaker 1: I get super Bowl. Oh, Goff's been to a Super Bowl.

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Speaker 4: Yes, look at that fifty nine years since the Lions

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Speaker 4: were in the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: My my Jets are on that list.

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Speaker 4: I would guess I'll never see the Jets in the

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Speaker 4: super Bowl in my lifetime.

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Speaker 3: I don't think they'll get there in the next.

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Speaker 1: I think I think Detroit's got Detroy's got a way

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Speaker 1: better chance. Well, I will say this is gonna be

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Speaker 1: a big year for Golf. If he stumbles in the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: they'll just got a new contract, didn't you. Well, you

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Speaker 1: know what, he is a good cornerback. You could put

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Speaker 1: Goff every year. Eight teams are desperate for a quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Jared Goff on the market would would find a job.

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Speaker 1: Geno Smith has gotten multiple opportunities. Jared's beat up the

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Speaker 1: Gino y. Sam Darnold totally resurrected his career. Baker Mayfield,

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Speaker 1: you get opportunities. Jared Goff on the market would have suitor.

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Speaker 4: Speaking of Darnald, you'r Niner's last place take yesterday, forty

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Speaker 4: nine ers fans on the internet were fired up. I

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Speaker 4: know people are angry when they're coming to me saying

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Speaker 4: you've got a talk sense into coward. Niners are not

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Speaker 4: a last place team like people are your NFL takes

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Speaker 4: in the office.

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Speaker 3: I said, you're working people up.

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Speaker 1: Hey, truth hurt, I said a year ago today, I

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Speaker 1: said the Niners have peaked. It is not going to

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Speaker 1: look the same, And I was right. They should have

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Speaker 1: two years ago started moving pieces. They didn't, So this

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Speaker 1: is and I thought Seattle and Arizona arguably had two

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Speaker 1: of the top three drafts.

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Speaker 4: Niners lost that Super Bowl in overtime like they were close.

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Speaker 3: You know, that was their peaking year, eleven eleven wins

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Speaker 3: this year.

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Speaker 1: Wait till the schedule comes out too. Hopefully it's not

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Speaker 1: as tough as the Bear schedule. Jay Mack with the.

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Speaker 2: News, Well that's the news, and thanks for stopping by

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Speaker 2: the herd Line News.

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Speaker 1: Julian Edelman stops by that whole Jordan Hudson Belichick thing.

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Speaker 1: Do you know, do you see the story that Belichick

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Speaker 1: could be looking for some quote, professional pr help, that

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Speaker 1: Jordan Hudson has rubbed people the wrong way? I have

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Speaker 1: no insight on this. This story is so weird. I

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Speaker 1: don't know where to go in it. I'm about ready

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Speaker 1: to wave the white flag on this whole story. I

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Speaker 1: like it gets weirder every time there's a new story.

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Speaker 1: She forced her way into the Duncan Donuts commercial with Belichick,

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Speaker 1: like it's intense, But there's there's Edelman will have to

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Speaker 1: give us some insight.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well I made the mistake once you mentioned like

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Speaker 4: her the story about her family, her parents, like what

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Speaker 4: they do and stuff, and then I went down from

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Speaker 4: rabbit holes.

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Speaker 3: I'm just going to stay out of the story. It's

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Speaker 3: like you're waiting to go like, I don't.

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Speaker 1: Think I'll tell you the story. That's crazy is that

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Speaker 1: guy going from Oregon to Hawaii. I'm a sailboat with

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Speaker 1: his cat. Have you seen that thing on TikTok gripping?

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Speaker 3: Let's TikTok, my friend, come on, it's the hurt.

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Speaker 12: Covino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio. You could catch

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Speaker 12: well other shows don't seem to have the time to discuss.

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Speaker 12: And the fact that we've been friends for the last

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Speaker 12: Rich live on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app

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Speaker 1: That's Covino and Rich.

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Speaker 4: As Kyle Tucker leads the Cubs against Juan Soto and

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Speaker 4: the Mets, or the Giants take on Firron Buxton and

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Speaker 4: a Twins. Check local listings for the game in your

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Speaker 4: area Saturday, seven Eastern.

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Speaker 1: On pod, people are saying the Cubs should be the

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Speaker 1: best eam in baseball, That's what they're saying. So Steph

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Speaker 1: Curry will not play minimum next three games for the Warriors,

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Speaker 1: So it's interesting. Here's a graph that he definitely won't

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Speaker 1: play tomorrow. The Warriors are seven and five without Steph.

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Speaker 1: The offense takes a huge hit when he doesn't play.

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Speaker 1: They score like seven less of game. The defense is

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Speaker 1: actually noticeably better, one ten to one oh five. Here's

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Speaker 1: kerr on playing without Steph.

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Speaker 5: Talked to Hi about halftime, just you know, he's obviously crushed,

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Speaker 5: but you know, the guys picked him up and played

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Speaker 5: a great game and concerned about stuff. But it's part

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Speaker 5: of part of the game. You just guys get hurt

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Speaker 5: and you move on. It's an amazing group of guys.

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Speaker 5: These guys are they're they compete and they're together. We've

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Speaker 5: been the best defense in the league since the Jimmy

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Speaker 5: trade and that's what's keeping us afloat right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean they they took the Rockets in Game

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Speaker 1: seven and the t Wolves in Game one, took them

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Speaker 1: to the shed. And that that offensive performance was brutal

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Speaker 1: by Minnesota last night. The other thing that happened last night,

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Speaker 1: it was the craziest game. I mean, Calves are up seven,

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Speaker 1: like there's a minute left. It's crazy. But this whole

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Speaker 1: thing about Tyrese Halliburton the NBA has always been a

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Speaker 1: very petty league, and guys play favorites, and there is

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Speaker 1: some value in being cool, which is fine. It's doctor

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Speaker 1: j was cool, Michael was cool. Uh there, you know,

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Speaker 1: Iverson had so much street cred, like I get it.

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Speaker 1: Halliburton maybe maybe he's not, but the numbers are insane.

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Speaker 1: He is ten of eleven this year to tie the

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Speaker 1: game or take a lead with under two minutes left.

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Speaker 1: That is remarkable. That is unbelievably clutch. And he talked

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Speaker 1: after doing it again last night about the whole overrated label.

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Speaker 8: Good for them, man, that came out of nowhere. But uh,

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Speaker 8: it's just uh, I think now that that label's there,

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Speaker 8: they're all that's going to be every time he plays them.

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Speaker 8: But every time I'll row it. He'll probably follow me

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Speaker 8: until the next poll comes out and then we'll see

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Speaker 8: if I'm number one again. But you know, for me,

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Speaker 8: I just control what I can man, And uh yeah,

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Speaker 8: I mean that.

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Speaker 1: The other thing about Halliburton is he stayed in college

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Speaker 1: another year and it paid off. He got to become

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Speaker 1: a lottery pick. And I think you know I've said

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Speaker 1: this before, is point guards are quarterbacks and Shader Sanders

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Speaker 1: dropped in the draft, and part of it was people

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Speaker 1: thought he lacks self awareness. And I think the players

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Speaker 1: that understand the value of college basketball. I mean, look

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Speaker 1: at the Warriors right now, Steph Clay was Draymond Green.

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Speaker 1: Young players struggle with the Warriors. They just they young

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Speaker 1: guys aren't mature enough to make the Warriors. Jordan Poole,

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Speaker 1: they bailed on him. Wiseman cominga looks lost. And I

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Speaker 1: think Halliburton's one of those NBA players that plays much

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Speaker 1: older than he is, and I think college basketball deserves

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Speaker 1: a lot of credit for that. This is you know, listen,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you my opinions. You don't have to

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Speaker 1: like him. I've been on this for years. I confronted

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Speaker 1: Adam Silver on it. The G League hurts growth. It

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Speaker 1: hurts growth. You're just taking money. Go to college. It's

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Speaker 1: better for marketing, you get better coaching. You play in

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Speaker 1: march madness, which is an NBA environment, you plan sold

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Speaker 1: out arenas. You're on a college campus. You're just dealing

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Speaker 1: with smart people all over your college campus. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: have friends that aren't basketball players. I you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: Urban Meyer. When he in college, he always liked recruiting

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Speaker 1: players who played other sports beyond football. He wanted basketball

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Speaker 1: players and track guys. I'm really if I was an

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Speaker 1: NBA GM, I would be more attracted to college basketball players.

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Speaker 1: I think you've been coached better, You've had more sold

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Speaker 1: out arenas, you've had more national television games. I mean

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Speaker 1: the G league'es just G league. Give me a break.

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Speaker 1: I mean, no, nobody's watching those games, nobody's going to

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Speaker 1: those games. And the coaching. Now, Nick Nurse came from

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Speaker 1: the G League. There are some good coaches. But I

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Speaker 1: think if you're not going to go college basketball, go overseas,

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Speaker 1: go play in Europe, and go play in these intense

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Speaker 1: environments in Greece or Spain or wherever it is now.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's a terrible idea because again, there's intensity,

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Speaker 1: and there's you know, there's a there's a press that's

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Speaker 1: on you, and there's a community that it's pretty tribal

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Speaker 1: and intense. I don't think the G League. The NBA

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Speaker 1: just was on this G League thing, and I don't

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Speaker 1: think it helps players There are by the way, NBA's

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Speaker 1: most clutch player, best clutch player, Jalen Brunson three years

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Speaker 1: in college, won two titles. Go look at the best.

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Speaker 1: Who are the best clutch players? Brunson College, Halliburton College.

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Speaker 1: Here's the guys that are lost cominga and Jalen Green.

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Speaker 4: Let me give you a couple of G League guys

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Speaker 4: who have thrived in the NBA. Pascal Siakam has been excellent.

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Speaker 4: Chris Middleton had a great run with the Bucks. Fred

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Speaker 4: van Vliet won a title, and the list stops about there. Well,

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Speaker 4: Alex Caruso with the Lakers had a good little on them,

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Speaker 4: fine solid run. Austin Reeves started with the South Bay Lakers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but he also played a bunch of college.

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Speaker 3: They played a bunch of college.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, No, I'm not saying Lebron James has to

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Speaker 1: go play college or like Wimby. But the European system

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Speaker 1: of basketball is more like our college system. You're playing

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Speaker 1: sometimes against older players. An eighteen year old comes into

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin and they've got twenty two year old seniors. So

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Speaker 1: the European system is more like our college system with

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Speaker 1: the elite coaching, real pressure, skills and practice matter, and

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Speaker 1: you're playing against older guys.

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Speaker 4: There's also something that Halliburton being kind of an overlooked

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Speaker 4: recruit out of Wisconsin.

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Speaker 3: They weren't even recruiting him in state. Same with Donovan Mitchell.

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Speaker 3: He ended up. I think at Louisville, guy dropped forty

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Speaker 3: eight last time. We haven't mentioned that he.

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Speaker 1: Had a great game.

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Speaker 4: Well, but like some of these guys who were overlooked underdogs,

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Speaker 4: if you will, the Brock Parties of the world, Halliburton,

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Speaker 4: a lot of these guys were overlooked and they.

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Speaker 3: Come out and they've got the chip on their shoulders. Well,

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Speaker 3: whereas you know, the number one overall pick doesn't always

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Speaker 3: feel that way.

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Speaker 1: I thought, I still think it's funny that a lacrosse

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Speaker 1: player was getting minutes for the Warriors last night. So

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Speaker 1: I went, indeed, I went and looked at it last night.

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Speaker 3: Unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: He went overseas, he wasn't even a dominant overseas guy,

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Speaker 1: and the Warriors got his rights and just doing hook shots,

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Speaker 1: running hook shots.

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Speaker 4: And his brother played on Yukon's national championship. When he came,

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Speaker 4: I didn't even know that. I mean, this kid, he

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Speaker 4: looks like a police officer with that mustache.

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Speaker 3: You know, he wears Thember sixty.

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Speaker 1: He kind of looks like Reno nine to one pop.

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Speaker 4: He almost looks like a parody of something and he's

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Speaker 4: just out there playing and he's a tough guy.

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Speaker 1: By the way. Lacrosse. He reminds me of the sixty

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Speaker 1: two year old guy at the YMCA who's doing hook

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Speaker 1: shots and they go in off the glass. Guys, have

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Speaker 1: you ever gone to the YMCA and had the old

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Speaker 1: guy who like can't miss hook shots. It's like, what

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Speaker 1: do you, George Miken, what does this game come from?

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Speaker 1: All right, Julian Edelman's around the corner. We gotta go

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Speaker 1: down Belichick and Jordan Hudson. This. We need an investigative I.

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Speaker 3: Team be careful on this one. Big guy.

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Speaker 1: Hey, I have supported that relationship. My wife has not

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Speaker 1: supported I have supported this fren relationship.