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Speaker 2: bunch of news later on, of course, tweeted the night,

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Speaker 2: but let's start with Kevin Durant score in thirty seven.

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Speaker 2: This guy is cooking right now, helping the Suns rally

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Speaker 2: to the one seventeen to one to eleven victory over

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Speaker 2: but still Suns start their road trip here with a

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, there are three men playing together Beial, Booker and

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Speaker 3: Durant for only the twenty fourth game this season. They

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Speaker 3: A BBD doing their thing. Kevin Durant's family, Yes, for sure,

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Speaker 3: two three ABC Durant thirty seven. Yeah, he's been absolutely

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Speaker 3: Those three guys played together, Maybe Durant would have got

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Speaker 3: bit better. Either way, It was a funny one because

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Speaker 3: take this thing to overtime. They're down two to fifty

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Speaker 3: seconds left ally you for Jared Allen, it just kind

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Speaker 3: that was just an odd ending to a team which

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Speaker 1: That's such a pleasant surprise. When all three of Beal,

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Speaker 1: all three and then they look unstoppable at times. That

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Speaker 3: it won't be an All NBA player.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. He sat again with knee soreness, so

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Speaker 1: Yeah, especially if you watched him play because he was

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Speaker 1: that a great season, yeah for sure.

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Speaker 2: first triple double to rally the Nuggets pass He also

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Speaker 2: Kid said, okay, that's enough. He went for in the

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Speaker 2: But you know, they they played around with their food

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Speaker 2: just by playing I don't know, twenty good minutes of basketbally.

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Speaker 1: Flipped the switch. Yeah, they were one of the teams

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Speaker 1: upon a time Jamal Murray was asked, you guys were

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it happens the championship teams for sure, and it

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Speaker 3: Moral victories are beloney. However, I am saying this is

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Speaker 3: three of the stars. To call them four. Really, no Barns,

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Speaker 3: Interview done. That's how he answers those questions. Just get

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you look at the Raptors' starters and you think,

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Speaker 3: gonna start emptying the clip. They didn't. They all played

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Speaker 2: We also had kuminga Klay Thompson doing their part, helping

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Speaker 1: Literally, the only takeaway I have from this is trace

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Speaker 1: Jackson Davis dunked on Victor Wembanyama. I call it a

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Speaker 1: Did I don't know who it was on the sideline

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Speaker 1: He's only played seventy five minutes since the All Star break,

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Speaker 1: But if the Warriors are hoping to make any sort

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm starting to look at those those potential playoff

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Speaker 3: matchups for sure. Trace Jackson daves that dunk. I think

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Speaker 3: Lester kenyone is also fainted. They're great. Everybody's just good

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Speaker 2: A guy makes a play, I mean a play that

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Speaker 3: He did so he threw it down with his left

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Speaker 2: Look, you know you've made it as a superstar like

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Speaker 2: his age and is going to get some Defensive Player

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Speaker 2: know he's already there. That's a good sign, and he's

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Speaker 2: the point He's going to be on posters. De ken

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Speaker 2: kudos to him. And what a play. That was an

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Speaker 2: A trunk is a dunk, a dunk is a thrunk.

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Speaker 3: I thought he watched it. Actually, when he was doing

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Speaker 3: just watch it on a on a phone, why the heck?

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Speaker 2: Other games last night a lot of blowouts. Let me

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Speaker 2: Kate Cunningham twenty two points, helping the Pistons task his

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Speaker 2: Pistons be Trey Kurby's Hornets one fourteen ninety seven, the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, sure, what with one way to put it there?

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Speaker 1: A MAVs fan, it was?

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Speaker 1: that first quarter was the best quarter I've seen them

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Speaker 1: they scored forty four in the first quarter. The Bulls

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Speaker 1: He was doing literally everything. That one was actually fun

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Speaker 1: is DeMar Derozen So anytime they were trying to double Luca,

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Speaker 1: he would just throw it over the top, which is

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Speaker 1: why Daniel Gafford went nine for nine. He's made twenty

429
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Speaker 1: eight straight shots in a row. Derek Lively went eleven

430
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Speaker 1: for twelve. Sucker missed one, probably grab the offensive bound

431
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Speaker 1: and put it back in. You would think the Bulls

432
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Speaker 1: maybe be able to score it. The MAVs been pretty

433
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Speaker 1: bad on defense. Bulls got a lot of good looks,

434
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Speaker 1: but they went seven for thirty four from three and

435
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Speaker 1: thirty of those were considered open or wide open. It

436
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Speaker 1: just was not going in and the MAVs were making

437
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Speaker 1: everything because Luca was magical.

438
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Speaker 2: And hey, galaxy brain thinking here from the bulls snapping.

439
00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,800
Speaker 2: Luca's uh, you know, NBA record streak of thirty point

440
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Speaker 2: triple doubles only got to twenty seven points because he

441
00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:45,679
Speaker 2: exited the blowout midway through the fourth good thinking they're bulls,

442
00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:49,440
Speaker 2: it's not gonna happen on you. But yeah, obviously continuing

443
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Speaker 2: to dominate.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the Gaffer thing where Luca would just find him

445
00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:56,560
Speaker 3: way above the room. Obviously that would happen over and

446
00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:58,080
Speaker 3: over and over again in this game. I think you

447
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Speaker 3: should just keep doing it, because, as you said, he's

448
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Speaker 3: at eight consecutive made shots, is nearing the NBA record.

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Speaker 2: That's right. He is seven shy of Wilt Chamberlain's record

450
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Speaker 2: of thirty five in a row back in like nineteen

451
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Speaker 2: sixty seven, So can Gaffer do ith? That's right, Gafford

452
00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:18,960
Speaker 2: has been twenty eight shots. I mean, I mean, I

453
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Speaker 2: know a lot of them are around the rim, Lucas

454
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Speaker 2: finding them. They're dunks. But still, you know, you botch

455
00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:26,840
Speaker 2: the odd little gimme every once in a while, or

456
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Speaker 2: even a tip or something like that that you get

457
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Speaker 2: credited with the shot. But perfect right now, over the

458
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Speaker 2: last four games, twenty eight for twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: Warriors up next.

460
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Speaker 2: Hmmm, I think the streak ends.

461
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Speaker 1: I think it's Yeah, I think it's coming to an end.

462
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Speaker 1: They play the pick and roll a little better. What

463
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Speaker 1: it's got some athletic guys. It's a funny streak.

464
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Speaker 2: When you think about it, because in theory, he could

465
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Speaker 2: keep the streak going if he really wanted to. Just

466
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Speaker 2: never shoot unless you're dunking the ball. You're gonna get

467
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Speaker 2: called out, I assume from your players and your coach

468
00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:58,440
Speaker 2: and maybe your fans if you're you know, doing old

469
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Speaker 2: the old Ben Simmons thing where you're past it when

470
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Speaker 2: you probably should be shooting it. But you know, he could, Yeah,

471
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Speaker 2: he could go for it.

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Speaker 3: I think maybe that's what Will did. Because the streak

473
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Speaker 3: was from February seventeenth to February twenty eighth, eleven days

474
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Speaker 3: for Wilt Chamberlain to take thirty five shots. How many

475
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Speaker 3: games is that? Were they just not passing it to

476
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Speaker 3: too much? I mean, the guy used to score fifty

477
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Speaker 3: points a game. Is it is at some point in

478
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Speaker 3: his career where he's like thirty plus. Anyways, I'm not

479
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Speaker 3: going to evaluate that either way. Here's another fun stat.

480
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Speaker 3: Lively in Gafford combined twenty for twenty one, first pair

481
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Speaker 3: to score twenty or more while combining to shoot ninety

482
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Speaker 3: five percent or better. That's a good one.

483
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Speaker 2: Since who it's an insane one. It's never a ridiculous one. Yeah,

484
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Speaker 2: it's Nate Robinson's and then a big Wilson Chandler. Yes, yes,

485
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Speaker 2: that's a weird one.

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Speaker 1: That's impressive for two you know, not bigs. Yeah, these

487
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Speaker 1: guys are literally Lively and gafferd are just catching lobs,

488
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Speaker 1: were getting offensive rebounds. I'm assuming that Nate Robinson and

489
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Speaker 1: Wilson Chandler were creating some.

490
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Speaker 2: Of their shows. Yeah, that's very impressive.

491
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Speaker 1: And just to confer, Derek Lively did get the tip

492
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Speaker 1: in on his Okay, okay, very cool.

493
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Speaker 2: All right, goodwin there from the Mavericks, and congrats to

494
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Speaker 2: your Pistons too. That's that's big. That's big for the

495
00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:14,520
Speaker 2: neut Dust Bowl. We're tied. I mean the Hornets are

496
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Speaker 2: still within striking distance.

497
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Speaker 1: Getting scarier the entire games, with like eighteen left something

498
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Speaker 1: like that, maybe a few fewer. Whether they played sixty

499
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Speaker 1: four games for both Washington and Detroit, it's gonna be tight.

500
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Speaker 2: It was losing to our teams has has helped make

501
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Speaker 2: this a little more intriguing. But okay, keep your eye

502
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Speaker 2: on that. All right, let's take a quick break. When

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Speaker 2: we come back. We got a whole bunch of news.

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Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere, okay, still here in the Classic Factory.

505
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Speaker 2: Got a bunch of news for you guys, and the

506
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Speaker 2: first one here it's good news. I think we would

507
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Speaker 2: all agree. According to Woes Rocket center Alprin, Schnggun escaped

508
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Speaker 2: serious injury to his lower right leg. Now, he did

509
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Speaker 2: still suffer a severely sprained ankle and a bruised knee,

510
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Speaker 2: but sheng Gun hasn't been ruled out for the remainder

511
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Speaker 2: of the season, though this could take a while to heal,

512
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Speaker 2: so maybe he doesn't play, but still nothing that's going

513
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Speaker 2: to require surgery for sheng Gun. Obviously, we're a little

514
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Speaker 2: worried when he got wheeled off in the wheelchair and

515
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Speaker 2: it looked bad, and we're like, is the ankles and

516
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Speaker 2: the knee?

517
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Speaker 3: Is it both both?

518
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Speaker 2: So yeah, MRIs revealed his injuries do not require surgery.

519
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Speaker 3: So that's good, fantastic news for this man. Year three

520
00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:29,080
Speaker 3: has been really, really, really good period, and it just

521
00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:31,840
Speaker 3: looks so scary at the end of the game, minute left,

522
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Speaker 3: he's going back to just play defense in a game

523
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Speaker 3: where he's played awesome and this team's gonna win.

524
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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: And it looked like something severe on a wheelchair where

526
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Speaker 3: he said, you know, and I quote in Turkish, No,

527
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Speaker 3: I'm not really quoting, but he did say I'm eft up.

528
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Speaker 3: He said, I'm fed up. So we literally, when you're

529
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Speaker 3: out on a wheelchair, you think it's legitimately fed up,

530
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Speaker 3: but it was not. I mean, obviously, this is severely sprain,

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Speaker 3: severely spraining, so something, Yeah, that could keep him out

532
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Speaker 3: for a long period of time. The Rockets likely weren't

533
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Speaker 3: playing for anything really at the eleventh seed.

534
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Speaker 2: Unlikely anyways, what do you think about this?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I wonder iful I see him again just by

536
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Speaker 1: the end of the year. We got four weeks in

537
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Speaker 1: five days until the end of the Rockets season. A

538
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Speaker 1: badly spraned ankle I could easily keep you out four weeks.

539
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Speaker 1: But it'd be cool to see him just to be like.

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Speaker 1: That wasn't the last moment we saw from Shenguon during

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Speaker 1: his best season they's had so far. Tarry Eason is

542
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Speaker 1: out for the season already for the Rockets. So I

543
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Speaker 1: guess we're just getting more Jabari Smith and Cam Whitmore.

544
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Speaker 2: All right, sheng guon averaging twenty one points per game,

545
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,200
Speaker 2: nine point three boards, five assists, shooting fifty three percent.

546
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Speaker 2: Really good year. Now, if he doesn't play any of

547
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Speaker 2: these games from the rest of the season, he will

548
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Speaker 2: finish with sixty three games played. You know. I bring

549
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Speaker 2: that up because I don't think he was going to

550
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Speaker 2: win any of these major awards, probably maybe some most

551
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Speaker 2: Improved love you had mentioned TK, I agree with that.

552
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Speaker 2: I don't think he was going to crack all NBA yet,

553
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Speaker 2: you know, as a top fifteen player. But if he

554
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Speaker 2: does a play, he couldn't even make it anyway. Yeah,

555
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Speaker 2: I mean there's a lot of guys on these lists

556
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Speaker 2: where they won't hit sixty five games.

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Speaker 3: That's a really stupid question. But he can't win if

558
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Speaker 3: he gets sixty if he plays fewer than sixty five games.

559
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Speaker 3: But can you vote for him anyways? Just to have

560
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Speaker 3: him on the question, I think I don't like so

561
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Speaker 3: it would be good to have him on there because

562
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Speaker 3: this has been his best year. He has improved, oh

563
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Speaker 3: the most improved.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just to see his name on.

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Speaker 3: The get the votes on there because I was a

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Speaker 3: sick oh. And I did see a player that we're

567
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Speaker 3: going to talk about very soon when we talk about

568
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Speaker 3: Kobe's statue that he got some most Improved Player votes

569
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Speaker 3: a long time ago, and I said, Wow, that's phenomenal

570
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Speaker 3: that that man got it. So can't wait to talk.

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Speaker 2: I can't figure out what you're talking about. All right. Well,

572
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Speaker 2: next piece of news not as fortunate when it comes

573
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Speaker 2: to the injury here the Atlanta Hawks roster. It's going

574
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Speaker 2: to be thinned even more as the team pushes for

575
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Speaker 2: a play in spot. Forward Sneik Bay out for the

576
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Speaker 2: rest of the season after suffering a torn ace in

577
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Speaker 2: his left knee. The team announced this yesterday. He was

578
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Speaker 2: in June in the fourth quarter of Sunday's lost to

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Speaker 2: the Pelicans. So Sadik Bay out TK for the season

580
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Speaker 2: with this torn acl. He played in a lot of games,

581
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Speaker 2: played in sixty three games, started fifty one, you know,

582
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Speaker 2: played alright for the Hawks here, but he will be

583
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Speaker 2: gun for the season.

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Speaker 1: The hawks best run I think this season was when

585
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Speaker 1: Sadik Bay first went into the starting lineup for DeAndre Hunter.

586
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Speaker 1: But you're right, they are completely banged up. Right now.

587
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Speaker 1: We know Trey is out, Jalen Johnson is out, and

588
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Speaker 1: Yakaakongwu is out, and now Sadik Bay. That's four of

589
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Speaker 1: their top seven guys at the worst. Kobe Buffkin he's

590
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Speaker 1: out right now too, a first rounder that they would

591
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Speaker 1: probably like to get some time here to develop at

592
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Speaker 1: the end of the season. Also bad timing for Sadik Bay.

593
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Speaker 1: The guy's going to be a restricted free agent this summer.

594
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Speaker 1: The timing of his injury and recovery, it means like

595
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Speaker 1: maybe he's back towards the end of next year. He's

596
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Speaker 1: got a six and a half million dollar qualifying offer

597
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Speaker 1: for next season that I assumed the Hawks will offer him,

598
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Speaker 1: and I don't know if he's going to another deal

599
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Speaker 1: this summer, just because nobody's gonna be able to count

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Speaker 1: on him heading forward next year. So maybe he comes

601
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Speaker 1: back to the Hawks, plays it out, and then enters

602
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Speaker 1: unrestricted free agency next summer. But yeah, it sucks for him.

603
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,399
Speaker 1: I think DeAndre Hunter probably just moves back into the

604
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Speaker 1: starting lineup. He's been playing okay recently, very odd rotations

605
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,119
Speaker 1: there in Atlanta. I don't know what Landry Fields and

606
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:24,479
Speaker 1: kal Kova are gonna do because they've paid so much

607
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 1: for DeAndre Hunter and not them specifically, but this team

608
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 1: is paid a lot for DeAndre Hunters. So as such

609
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 1: a bad defensive team, you think you'd get DeAndre Hunter

610
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 1: over and over and over and over again in that

611
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Speaker 1: starting lineup.

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Speaker 3: They've gone to Sadik pay Quinn. Snyder loves him, but

613
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Speaker 3: this is him at the end of his rookie deal,

614
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Speaker 3: four years into his NBA career. You have the restricted

615
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Speaker 3: free agent offer. I assume that's what would happen. It

616
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Speaker 3: is odd to see such a a fairly good three

617
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Speaker 3: point shooter. I was gonna say, such a good three

618
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Speaker 3: point shooter, but it's probably a little better than I

619
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Speaker 3: perceive it to be. A better than it is. But

620
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Speaker 3: he's sort of, you know, average over his career.

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Speaker 2: By he's a guy that can hit eight in the game.

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Speaker 3: But yeah can go, Yes he can. When I saw

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Speaker 3: thirty one percent, I was like, this season, I was

624
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Speaker 3: surprised by that, because yeah he can. He can light up.

625
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:18,120
Speaker 3: He's the fifty point guy.

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Speaker 2: You sort of blew my mind when you said he

627
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Speaker 2: was coming up to the end of his rookie deal.

628
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 2: It feels like this guy's been in the lead for

629
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Speaker 2: a way longer. He's only twenty four years old, so

630
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Speaker 2: that sort of surprised me. But yeah, it sucks for him,

631
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Speaker 2: especially with the contract situation. I will say one thing

632
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Speaker 2: I've been watching with the Hawks since Trey Young went

633
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 2: out with the uh, you know, left hand surgery. There

634
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 2: they're five and three since he left the lineup, and

635
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 2: they're playing defense. They ranked fifth defensively in the league

636
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 2: over that eight game stretch without Trey Young. That's something

637
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 2: that's better. That's basically dead last, which they were for

638
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Speaker 2: most of the season. So you know, they're hold no

639
00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 2: to the playing spot, the nets are not. They're there

640
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Speaker 2: within striking.

641
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 1: Distance in half game.

642
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 2: It feels like the Hawks should be in it now.

643
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone will be picking them to fight

644
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 2: their way out of the play in again like they

645
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 2: did last year. I don't think I will be. But

646
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 2: you know, they'll play the bulls and then they'll have

647
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 2: to win that. We'll have to play the loser of

648
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 2: the seven eight. But you know, again, if they play

649
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 2: some defense, there's something there. But yeah, they're banged up

650
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 2: a lot of their guys.

651
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: Could it be Skyhawk's time? Crachie going crazy Crachie go

652
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 1: Mo gays up to let's go.

653
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 2: I wish Buffkin wasn't injured. He's a walking boot because

654
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 2: of that toe. Yeah, just yeah, because you're right, here's

655
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 2: a perfect opportunity, Like you know, games sort of still

656
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 2: matter to them and give him an opportunity. But shots

657
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 2: to be had, Yep, yep. But he is out as well,

658
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 2: all right. Next piece of news here, Otto Porter Junior

659
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 2: Otto Man, the number three pick in the twenty thirteen

660
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 2: draft and a member of Golden State's twenty twenty two

661
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 2: championship team. He announced his retirement after eleven NBA seasons

662
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 2: on a porter it's only thirty years old. Yeah, finishing

663
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 2: his career with averages of basically ten points five boards

664
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 2: in over five hundred games. Played for Washington where he

665
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 2: was drafted, Chicago, Orlando, Golden State, and then finally Toronto.

666
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 2: He made his way to Utah but never played for them.

667
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 2: Were surprised by this Otto Porter Junior news here for sure.

668
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 3: He's barely played the last two seasons just because of

669
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 3: the injuries. It was cool to see him get that

670
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 3: Warriors championship ring earlier this year. It was a long

671
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 3: time coming because you know, they won in twenty twenty two,

672
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 3: but he only got in twenty four just because of

673
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 3: the matchups. But he played for that team and started

674
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 3: in the in the finals because they wanted a three

675
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 3: point shooter. It's it's something that I think about, like

676
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 3: he could have been more. I know he was drafted

677
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 3: third in Washington and people expected him to be a

678
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,479
Speaker 3: lot and he signed a big deal to play beside

679
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 3: Beal and John Wall way back when, but he could

680
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 3: have been more. And obviously injuries have slowed him down,

681
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 3: but all in all, a good career for him.

682
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 1: Thoughts on Auto, Yeah, it seems like he basically hasn't

683
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 1: been healthy for his entire career. I went back and

684
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: was checking his Wikipedia page. He missed like the first

685
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 1: fourteen games of his rookie season with an injury, and

686
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,239
Speaker 1: then once the back went, it was kind of just

687
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: trying to manage it and stay healthy, and it just

688
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: worked perfectly that he was able to play during that

689
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 1: twenty two season with the Warriors. I saw John Hollinger

690
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: tweeting he started the last three games of the twenty

691
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 1: two finals. Since then, he's played twenty three games and

692
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: has three starts since That's what his Bull's tenure was

693
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 1: he played one full season, two half seasons there in Chicago,

694
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 1: fifty four games. Just could not stay on the court.

695
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 1: But he's obviously a talented player, could shoot threes, could rebound,

696
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: and that's why when it all clicked and he was healthy,

697
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 1: it was exactly what the Warriors needed. But it just

698
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: shows you how much lightning in a bottle you have

699
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 1: to catch to win a championship. Getting sixty three games

700
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 1: out of Otto Porter when he hasn't been able to

701
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:50,719
Speaker 1: play since it was worth it.

702
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, yeah, he was frequently hampered by injuries.

703
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 2: With well your bulls and the magic and stuff like that. Man,

704
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 2: you go back and look at the twoenty thirteen NBA

705
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 2: draft too, it's a weird one. Obviously, Joannis goes fifteenth.

706
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 2: I mean, he's the gem in that draft. But number

707
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 2: one Anthony Bennett, yeah, baby, Number two Victor Oladipo three,

708
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 2: Otto Porter Junior, four, Cody Zeller Come and rescue me, five,

709
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 2: Alex len six, Neurlins Noel seven, Ben McLamore eight, Contavious

710
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 2: Caldwell Pope, nine, Trey Burke and ten. I guess you

711
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 2: could say the best player from the top ten c J. McCollum,

712
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:35,720
Speaker 2: Michael Carter Williams went eleventh to Philadelphia. Yeah, yeah, what

713
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 2: a weird draft. That's a rough draft.

714
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 1: Ten like Alex lenn Is probably the second best player

715
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 1: in that top ten man the Conus Caldwell Pope I

716
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 1: get Oh yeah, I go CJ. KCP And then only

717
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 1: because of longevity. Yeah, no one stole his sunshine.

718
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 2: That's crazy. Nice, nice nice anyway, Otto Porter Junior, it's

719
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 2: good he got the title. Good for him. And you

720
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 2: know he even said that he was also he shot

721
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 2: forty percent basically if you round up thirty nine point

722
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 2: seven percent from three in his career, rank sixty first

723
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 2: in NBA history.

724
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 1: It's not bad at all, bad at all, and had

725
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 1: a legendary low light. Oh what when his controller came

726
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: unplugged it he was just standing in the corner looking

727
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 1: around for whatever Chicago bull he used to be guarding

728
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 1: that is.

729
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 2: That's that's an iconic shocked in a full moment. Definitely,

730
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 2: he's just frozen. It's like plugging back, all right, next

731
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 2: piece of news here, I guess it's news. According to

732
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 2: the Twitter account s Ravin Nbaravin, NBA free throw attempts

733
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 2: are down. You can see the data here on YouTube.

734
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 2: We're showing you this craft. You may have to squint

735
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 2: a little bit, but that's okay. Sharp drop in offense

736
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 2: after January thirty first, and the main reason seems to

737
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 2: be due to the less shooting fouls, so just it's

738
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 2: being called less or at least, you know, less trips

739
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 2: to the line. In fact, all except two teams, the

740
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 2: Bowls and Rockets, have lower free throw at imps after

741
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:05,959
Speaker 2: January thirty first than before. It's just worth noting here

742
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 2: because it's something we talked about. Maybe the officials are

743
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:09,359
Speaker 2: starting to let them play a little bit, a little

744
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 2: playoff basketball. You got to really earn it. But yeah,

745
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,319
Speaker 2: any thoughts on this, there's a good good stuff there

746
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 2: from this Twitter account.

747
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 3: Yes, I definitely think that's what it is, in that

748
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 3: they just want to see offense numbers a little bit lower.

749
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 3: I think if Rudy Gobert as he thinks that there

750
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 3: could be a referee gambling situation, what really happened was

751
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 3: that they What definitely happened, I don't know what Rudy

752
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 3: is talking about. What definitely happened is that front office

753
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 3: talked to the referees and said, let's lower this, let's

754
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 3: lower this number that everybody shoots at, everybody scores at.

755
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 3: So I think that's what it is.

756
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 2: Let the defense play, Yeah, let happen. Yeah, you don't

757
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 2: have to call a foul every time either someone goes

758
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 2: down or there's contact in the offensive player initiating it. Yeah,

759
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 2: make aim earn it.

760
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: That's the thing that is one hundred percent. Change the

761
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,759
Speaker 1: drives where the offense leans in to clear space and

762
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 1: then goes up. Those are no anymore. It happened a

763
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 1: ton of times in the Bulls Mavericks game on both

764
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 1: sides last night. Classic move. You're trying to just clear

765
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 1: a little space. Early in the season, that's free throws

766
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 1: and now it is not free throws. But it does

767
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,319
Speaker 1: make you think if the league can change it just

768
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 1: like that. I don't know who else skeets in literally

769
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 1: one call and they're like, look at scoring is.

770
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 2: Down right right?

771
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,439
Speaker 1: Could they do that every game? Yes?

772
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I mean they have a huge impact. You're

773
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,760
Speaker 2: saying officials have a huge impact on obviously the result

774
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,840
Speaker 2: of the game in terms of how they call the game. Yes, yes,

775
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 2: absolutely so. Hit the under, smash the under apparently, damn

776
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 2: it all right. Final piece of news, the NBA opened

777
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 2: its exclusive media rights negotiate negotiations with Disney and Turner

778
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 2: over the weekend, so this window is going to run

779
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 2: through April twenty second. Sources told the Sports Business Journal

780
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:56,280
Speaker 2: a guy named Tom friend shout out to my Space

781
00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 2: that they believe the three sides entered talks roughly seventy

782
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 2: five percent in agreement on a deal based on their

783
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,840
Speaker 2: preliminary discussions over the past few months. But the window

784
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:10,840
Speaker 2: is open. And I will add here that the SBJ

785
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 2: sources expect the NBA Cup right you know, aka the

786
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,880
Speaker 2: n Season tournament, to be bundled into the Disney and

787
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 2: Turner packages after there were early expectations that a streaming

788
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 2: entity like Apple or Netflix might try and get that

789
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 2: entire event, or maybe even the final four, but it's

790
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 2: sounding from the Sports Business Journal that that'll be split

791
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 2: somehow with Disney and Turner. But will wait to find out.

792
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 2: But any thoughts on this either of you guys.

793
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna have to have a lot of subscriptions, because,

794
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:47,319
Speaker 1: like you're saying, even though the n Season tournament's likely

795
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 1: getting rolled into this linear deal here. It's also mentioned

796
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 1: in the Sports Business Journal that Amazon is trying to

797
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 1: get in on national streaming rights and the Apple is

798
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: likely to bid for the play in tournament and NBC

799
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 1: as somehow still in the mix as.

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00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:04,759
Speaker 2: Well basketball and that's fine.

801
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that means you got to have five services

802
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,720
Speaker 1: can keep track of it's gonna be harder to find games.

803
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 3: This is true, especially when it comes to play in

804
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:17,840
Speaker 3: tournaments or the in season tournament. It might be just

805
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 3: be for one dedicated network or device. So yeah, that's

806
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,399
Speaker 3: totally true. And this inform me that as you said

807
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:29,959
Speaker 3: about the Emirates in season tournament, the Emirates NBA Cup,

808
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 3: that's what it's called from. Also, the play in tournament

809
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 3: is called the Sophie NBA so FI.

810
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, I didn't know that either. Slipped it

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00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 2: by us. I have no idea, So yeah, this we

812
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 2: don't have to call it that.

813
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I know, I don't have to be.

814
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 2: A chill to them. They don't pay us.

815
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 3: The stadium in La it's called the Sofi, so it

816
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 3: must be fine. So fine, it's that investment company, is

817
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 3: what it is. But yeah, they sold it. Baby.

818
00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 2: You never you never say, oh the YouTube NBA Finals

819
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 2: because I think they have it right. While Yeah, yeah,

820
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 2: I don't know.

821
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:10,759
Speaker 3: I don't call it the Kia m VP either. Good

822
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 3: you should, I shouldn't.

823
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:14,800
Speaker 1: Do you call it the Sprite Slam dunk contest? That

824
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 1: no storry, that's all right.

825
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:18,279
Speaker 2: Three print contests.

826
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:20,800
Speaker 1: Who had the dunk contest.

827
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 2: At and T which is weird because they used to

828
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 2: have the three point shoot. I think it was a

829
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 2: long distance. Yeah, I think. I think. I think Taco

830
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 2: Bell had the skills.

831
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 3: They call them long distance in the dunk contest.

832
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 2: I know, man, I'm telling you, I'm pretty sure. I'm

833
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 2: pretty sure. So anyway, we'll wait to see how this goes. Yeah,

834
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 2: the NBC expected to gain a portion of the NBA's

835
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,799
Speaker 2: linear broadcast package. That is fun. We're gonna get the

836
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 2: We're gonna get the NBA on NBC Music back. I

837
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 2: would they'd be insane. Nothing you have to of course,

838
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:52,399
Speaker 2: they would like you should just go retro with it all.

839
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 2: They should, They should lean into that. But you guys

840
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:56,439
Speaker 2: are right, it's gonna be like, all right, the Big

841
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:59,800
Speaker 2: Games this week On Monday night it's on mb n

842
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 2: B See and on Tuesday night it's on back on

843
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 2: Turner and then on Wednesday night, it's you know, ESPN

844
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 2: slash Disney, And I guess that's the way it's gonna

845
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:08,800
Speaker 2: be with a lot of this stuff. No real different

846
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 2: than some of these games in the NFL, like oh,

847
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 2: it's only Amazon exclusive this one playoff game, stuff like that.

848
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 2: But they're gonna get paid. Says they're gonna the deal's

849
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:22,759
Speaker 2: gonna be worth between sixty and seventy two billion, this

850
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 2: entire thing. That's what they're expecting. The NBA Meteorites deal,

851
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:27,720
Speaker 2: which is two and a half to three times larger

852
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 2: than the previous arrangement in twenty fourteen.

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00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,760
Speaker 1: Wow, that's good for contract numbers and good for Keith

854
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 1: Parrish at Fast Break Breakfast. I saw yesterday was like

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Speaker 1: the start of NFL free agency, and anytime an NFL

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Speaker 1: player would sign a huge deal, he'd be like, Wow,

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Speaker 1: that's Paul Reid money. Saquon Barkley like one of the

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Speaker 1: biggest names in the NFL, he signed for Paul Reid

859
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Speaker 1: money yesterday. Whoa the wrong sport?

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Speaker 2: What about Kirk Cousins. He signed for a big old

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Speaker 2: fat paycheck, didn't you with the.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he said, he's wait made what he's gonna be

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Speaker 1: three hundred.

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Speaker 2: He's going to be three hundred million plus in his career.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's Jalen Brown money.

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Speaker 2: He's only won one playoff games.

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Speaker 1: Jalen's won a lot more and made a lot more.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow, it's incredible.

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Speaker 1: And you don't get concussions playing basketball as often, right.

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Speaker 2: Right, Tyres Maxie expected?

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Speaker 1: That's expected.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's get to tweet of the night.

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Speaker 3: Tweet of the night. Wow, what do you got?

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Speaker 1: I've got a tweet here from at Drey Void, a

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Speaker 1: German basketball journalist who caused the ruckus yesterday on the

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Speaker 1: Internet when he revealed that the Kobe Bryant statue outside

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Speaker 1: of the Crypto Center has a lot of spelling mistakes

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Speaker 1: on it, including most notably Jose Calderson, bomb wafer and

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Speaker 1: uh an incorrectly spelled coaches decision rather than d E

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Speaker 1: C I s io. Correct, it's spelled d e C

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Speaker 1: I see I owen. Apparently the Lakers have known about

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Speaker 1: this for a while, they say, and they're getting it changed.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how. Probably some sand blasting will be

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Speaker 1: an effect here, but we were die laughing at this

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Speaker 1: and I cannot stop thinking about bomb wafer.

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Speaker 2: That's your favorite on the bunch.

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Speaker 1: Wafer is so good to me. It reminds me of

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Speaker 1: those tweets that went around back in the day of

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Speaker 1: a Japanese baseball game that had to come up with

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Speaker 1: a bunch of fake American names, and they came up

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Speaker 1: with like sleeve mcdigael bomb wafer Man, how would you

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Speaker 1: like to be one of the guys who didn't play

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Speaker 1: that game? And you did not play Coaches Decisions is

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Speaker 1: on shrine there forever.

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Speaker 2: It's a weird I mean, I get it because it's

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Speaker 2: the anyone play game, but it is weird that these

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Speaker 2: other guys' names, Like I saw somebody taking offense that

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Speaker 2: Smush Parker's name is on Kobe Bryant's statue. We can

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Speaker 2: put it that way. It's a little odd, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: they need a copy editor. They slipped the slip through

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Speaker 2: the cracks literally in some sense there with the statue.

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Speaker 2: It's sort of a crack, isn't it a little chisel

903
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Speaker 2: slip through the chisel? Yeah, but what do you say, Well.

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Speaker 3: Where did they get that spelling from? Like was it

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Speaker 3: misspelled in a box score somewhere?

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Speaker 2: This wrong? Yeah, I know.

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Speaker 3: Basketball Reference knows how to spell von Way from not me.

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Speaker 3: He ain't vomiting. That's so odd.

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Speaker 2: That's gonna be That's gonna be just a keystroke error.

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Speaker 2: So whoever took the basketball reference and then redid it,

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Speaker 2: you know, m right by the end there just.

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Speaker 1: Hit it.

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Speaker 3: Comfort well.

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Speaker 2: I mean that when at least it's like, I don't know,

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Speaker 2: somebody just called her he knew how to spell it.

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Speaker 3: It feels like, yeah, like it called her and called

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Speaker 3: her road could be like a Johnson Williamson. You know,

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Speaker 3: I just throw an ass over there, called her son. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 3: vomb is really weird and decisions just spelled wrong.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that one's yeah, that one's off.

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Speaker 1: It's definitely off. It does look like the box scores

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Speaker 1: that get printed off at a game that they hand

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Speaker 1: the announcer. Totally. It looks exactly right. He's Wafer on purpose.

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Speaker 2: And so what was this tease you were talking about

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Speaker 2: earlier on.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, not that great. Von Wafer was voted. He was

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Speaker 3: tenth in the voting, but he was voted for most

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Speaker 3: Improved Player when he was with the Houston Rockets. Got

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Speaker 3: one vote, No, he got more than one vote. He

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Speaker 3: was voted twice as the most Improved Player winner. And

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Speaker 3: he had twelve first vote. Yeah, there were some really

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Speaker 3: weird ones, don't Yes, I don't want to make you

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Speaker 3: a vomit here, but I'll tell you. I'll tell you

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Speaker 3: all the names that got first place vote. Danny Granger

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Speaker 3: won it that year. If I'm not mistaken, I don't

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Speaker 3: want to scroll because I'm scared by two thinks. Granger,

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Speaker 3: then Devin Harris, then Kevin Durant in year number two

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Speaker 3: of his Okay, how was that possible?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: You better?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Paul millsap Nene, Roger and Rondo, David Lee, john Samon's,

942
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Speaker 3: Thaddius Young, Von Way For Brandon Roy, Chris Anderson j R.

943
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Speaker 3: Smith Wilson, Chandler, Glenn, Big Baby, Davis, Jason Terry all

944
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Speaker 3: received first place votes. And then a bunch of guys

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Speaker 3: Aaron Brooks, Jamier and Nelson LaMarcus Aldridge, Klena as a Bookie,

946
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Speaker 3: Roger Mason, Dwayne Wade, Ronnie Louis Scola and JJ Burrew

947
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Speaker 3: all got votes.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that was a whole bunch of what about this guy?

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Speaker 3: That was fun?

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Speaker 1: That was some great names?

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Speaker 3: Sorry, that was that was That's amazing?

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Speaker 1: How was that possible?

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Speaker 3: That was two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine.

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Speaker 3: Actually that was Kevin Durant's. Oh that wasn't a season.

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Speaker 3: That was the second Yeah, that was the second year.

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Speaker 2: I would have been upright, I would have been upset.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I was. We were doing the show. I probably

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Speaker 2: was upset. Yeah, he was much different thy votes. Yes,

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Speaker 2: it was, it was. It wasn't that superstardom. Leap was

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Speaker 2: guys more along the lines of you know Vomb, Well,

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Speaker 2: I guess Danny Granger. Did he turn into an All

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Speaker 2: Star that year? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: That was his one All Star season. There he goes.

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Speaker 2: It's set the tone for the rest.

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Speaker 1: Wow, what a jump he went from twenty eighth and

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Speaker 1: MP voting to first. This is a great edition for basketball.

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Speaker 1: Yeah for what about this guy Yea on the side.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw Otto Porter was fourth one year. It

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Speaker 3: is nice, nice edition there. Vomb. I can't get over

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Speaker 3: bomb Wafer.

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Speaker 1: I will think of that every time I think Wafer.

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Speaker 3: Somebody's going to vomit on that spot of the statue,

973
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Speaker 3: then that's that's sad and that's wrong. They probably was

974
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Speaker 3: as a joke. Somebody's probably filming that, maybe a TikTok

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Speaker 3: in fake vomb hopefully.

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Speaker 2: In reading about this, uh you know, the the misspellings here,

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Speaker 2: I was reminded. I was like, oh, yeah, there's two

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Speaker 2: more Kobe statues coming. Yeah, almost like I mean you better, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you better have the magnifying glass out and have like

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00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:57,799
Speaker 2: ten editors looking at this this statue whatever they're putting

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Speaker 2: on the next two. You can't have this mistake.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I cannot have this happen again. But it

983
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Speaker 1: does make you think, like this has been out there

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Speaker 1: for weeks?

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Speaker 2: Why did it take so long to Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't Laker fans look and see.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Calderson was a Laker at one point, right, Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: of course Vom was a Laker. Yeah, they didn't notice

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Speaker 1: or care.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like Kobe.

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Speaker 2: It was goody, you're you're not too worried that von

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Speaker 2: Wafer's name is spelled R or the word decision in

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Speaker 2: very strange, very strange, but good tweet. There h two

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Speaker 2: games on TNT tonight, Sixers, Nicks, Wolves, Clippers. You know,

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Speaker 2: could be missing a whole bunch of guys in those

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Speaker 2: two games on TNT. Uh so maybe a little rough.

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Speaker 2: We also have Wizards Grizzlies. That's big for me and

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Speaker 2: the nut Dust Bowl, Pacers, Thunder that one's not bad,

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Speaker 2: Rocket Spurs, Celtics, Jazz and Bucks Kings. I say that

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Speaker 2: to tell you that we'll be back tomorrow talking about

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Speaker 2: a lot of those games we might hit the beach.

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Speaker 2: Get your questions in No Dunk's at the Athletic dot Com.

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Speaker 2: Leave him in the YouTube comments. We'll make sure to

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Speaker 2: get a tweet out there as well if you want

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Speaker 2: to reply to that at No dunk Sync. But otherwise, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to see you guys tomorrow. Till then,

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Speaker 2: Clipper Bro you.

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Speaker 1: Heard it here first, have a great time turn up.

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Speaker 2: Love you guys awesome, thanks.

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Speaker 3: For joining us. And remember new NBA TV deal. Sorry,

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00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:22,640
Speaker 3: new NBA deal got me thinking NBA TV. I'm always

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00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 3: thinking about NBA TV, but the new NBA deal got

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Speaker 3: me thinking because apparently bri I list that players get

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Speaker 3: money for fans who vote, excuse me, who bet, who

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Speaker 3: gamble on this sport, players get money, They get a percentage,

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Speaker 3: They get a percentage. It makes me think what happens

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Speaker 3: to Rudy Gobert? What does he do? Is you give

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Speaker 3: them money back? I don't know. I need to know

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Speaker 3: more I'm just googling race today.

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Speaker 2: People just