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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up straight fire? Payam, It's me Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: Straight Fire for Tuesday, June the eighteenth, and we have

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Speaker 2: a new NBA champion, six time in six years, a

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Speaker 2: different champion hoisting Malaria O'Brien trophy. And there's no drum

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Speaker 2: roll needed for the Boston Celtics who wiped the floor

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Speaker 2: with the hapless Dallas Mavericks. I'm a little embarrassed. I

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Speaker 2: had the MAVs winning. What was it one, six, one

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Speaker 2: five or something nonsense. I will confess I had zero

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Speaker 2: read on this series. This series totally shook me. I

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Speaker 2: had a great read on the Celtics throughout the run

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Speaker 2: in the East, loved them all along, had an awesome

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Speaker 2: read on the MAVs against the Clippers, against Okace, against Minnesota,

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Speaker 2: felt great. You get to the finals and I'm like,

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Speaker 2: I don't get this. Nothing adds up. Porzingis did play,

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Speaker 2: came off the bench, he was eh. I thought this

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Speaker 2: was all about Jason Tatum, who was incredible. I thought

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Speaker 2: he was on his way to finals MVP with a

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Speaker 2: spectacular thirty one eleven assists, eight boards performance in forty

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Speaker 2: five minutes, Tatum did not miss a free throw. He

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Speaker 2: I thought he was spectacular in a game that was

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Speaker 2: basically over in the second quarter. Actually, you could go Rob,

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Speaker 2: I could argue late first quarter. It's funny. I went

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Speaker 2: and I'm watching the game on my phone. But then

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Speaker 2: I see somebody I know quick, what's up? So I

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Speaker 2: went from I saw the Xum three pointer right that

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Speaker 2: cuts it to nineteen eighteen with a minute fifty five

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Speaker 2: left in the first In the next one seventeen, Boston

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Speaker 2: won on a nine to nothing run Okay Jaylen Brown dunk,

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Speaker 2: Maxi Kleeber miss three, Sam Howser three, Luca turnover, Jalen

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Speaker 2: Brown two, PJ. Washington picked clean by Tatum, who scores

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Speaker 2: nine to nothing in one point seventeen, and it felt

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Speaker 2: get I literally get to the restaurant, I look up

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Speaker 3: What?

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Speaker 2: It was just a one point game. That's how quickly

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Speaker 2: this game turned. It just fell apart for Dallas. Second

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Speaker 2: quarter Howser bangs of three, Brown bangs of three. They

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Speaker 2: go up by twelve and that was a wrap. I

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Speaker 2: mean maybe in the third quarter, I think Dallas got

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Speaker 2: it to like fifteen, it was like, ooh, could this

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Speaker 2: Tatum was having none of it. Drew Holliday was excellent,

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Speaker 2: and ultimately, there's really not much to dig into regarding

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Speaker 2: the game. I think the conversation today will surround two things.

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Speaker 2: Number one, what does the media have against Jason Tatum?

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Speaker 2: Why don't they like him? Folks? He led the Celtics

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Speaker 2: in the playoffs in points, rebounds and assists. He led

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Speaker 2: the Celtics in the finals in points, rebounds and assists,

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Speaker 2: and they gave the MVP to Jalen Brown. Okay, Jayalen

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Speaker 2: Brown was excellent in the series. Fine, he wasn't particularly

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Speaker 2: great last night twenty one to eight and six, not

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Speaker 2: that he was bad seven or twenty three shooting. Didn't

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Speaker 1: He was good.

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Speaker 2: He was very good. Drew Holiday was excellent. But I'm

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Speaker 2: watching that game and I'm like, boy, Tatum, he's the MVP.

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Speaker 2: He was. I thought he was fantastic and again he

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Speaker 2: and for whatever reason, the media, I don't know. I

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Speaker 2: have it out for Tatum, but they don't like him

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Speaker 2: or respect him. I'm not saying they dislike him. I'm

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Speaker 2: just saying for a guy who's as great as he is,

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Speaker 2: and I will stand by this. We can argue it

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Speaker 2: and forth on who are the five guys you can

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Speaker 2: I mean he's a little older than SGA. Tatum is

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Speaker 2: and younger than Lebron. He's better than Curry. Like Jason,

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Speaker 2: Tatum is a very He's so accomplished. It's scary how

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Speaker 2: know if people realize this the Celtics, who just went

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Speaker 2: twenty seven. They don't seem to be going anywhere. And

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Speaker 2: I did look through I did. This is so nerdy

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Speaker 2: of me. I don't care to admit this. I did

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Speaker 2: a search for myself on Twitter what I had said

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Speaker 2: to all my comments over the years on Tatum, I

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Speaker 2: He's a superstar. I think I set the over under

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Speaker 2: and a half. I think my guess is next year

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Speaker 2: he probably opens the season as the favorite, him or Luca. Usually,

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Speaker 2: if you win the finals, you open as the favorite.

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Speaker 2: Jokic won the finals last year, came in as the favorite.

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Speaker 2: Now Joel Embiid, who the media loves. It's funny media

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Speaker 2: Now he probably works, talks to the media, is a

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Speaker 2: source off the record text blah blah blah. And Tatum

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Speaker 2: doesn't he just doesn't play those games. That's possible. I

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Speaker 2: don't know if that's factual. I'm just speculating why the

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Speaker 2: I'll turn it over to you before we get to

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Speaker 2: our second level. But it is weird how people want

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Speaker 2: to pick apart Tatum's game. And he was spectacular in

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Speaker 2: this postseason. I know. Let me guess. Oh, he's only

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Speaker 2: shooting thirty ninety eight percent. Hello, the playoffs are tough.

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Speaker 2: People actually play defense. This isn't like the regular season.

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Speaker 2: he's shooting three. He's now, I know he didn't shoot

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Speaker 2: in the in the finals. It's the Finals, folks, you're

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Speaker 2: on game What eighty two plus nineteen is one oh one? Now,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure Tatum missed a couple games, but you're one

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Speaker 2: don't totally get it. Oh, I have the official numbers.

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Speaker 2: Tatum shot thirty eight percent from the field, twenty six

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Speaker 2: series average twenty two, seven and seven. Go ahead, Brob,

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Speaker 2: pick him apart, Taram the shreds my Man.

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Speaker 3: Jason Tatum was robbed point blank period. Future Laker Jason

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Speaker 3: Tatum was robbed the Finals MVP. You mentioned right off

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Speaker 3: the top his numbers there in the clincher in game

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Speaker 3: to put those kind of numbers in a Finals clinching game.

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Speaker 3: In the process, Jason Tatum became just the sixth player

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Speaker 3: in NBA history to win the championship while leading their

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Speaker 2: And Tatum, that's a good group. I mean joining him decently.

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Speaker 3: And yet even with all of that under his belt,

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Speaker 3: being the unquestioned best player out. Don't care what Jason

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Speaker 3: you that for eighty to eighty five percent of our listeners,

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Speaker 3: this does absolutely nothing for them. If you had Jason Tatum,

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Speaker 3: like yourself, somewhere in the top five, he's probably staying

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Speaker 3: right there in the top five. He's not jumping ahead

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Speaker 3: probably not jumping ahead of Kawhi and Kevin Durant whatever.

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Speaker 3: Like Jason Tatum, it seems like he can't do anything

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Speaker 2: They're gonna hold.

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Speaker 3: Five, six, seven years of coming up just a little

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Speaker 2: And I was keeping receipts for everybody when Jason.

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Speaker 3: Tatum was doing all of the Anthony Edwards shit four

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Speaker 3: or five years ago. Right, everybody loves SGA like he's

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Speaker 2: I'm almost positive that SGA is.

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Speaker 3: Only like one year younger than Jason Tatum. Jason Tatum,

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Speaker 2: Him is historical?

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Speaker 2: Because he doesn't have the bag like Kyrie.

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Speaker 3: Every which we'll get to him a little bit later.

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Speaker 3: I mean, talk about not reading the room, is it?

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Speaker 3: Because you know, he's not the dominant figure that Joel

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Speaker 3: Embiid is who can't ever get past the second round.

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Speaker 2: By the way, like, I don't understand.

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Speaker 3: I've racked my brain about this for hours before this

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Speaker 3: podcast started recording, and days and weeks even before that,

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Speaker 3: during this playoff run. I do not understand why Jason

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Speaker 3: Tatum is not talked about and held in a higher

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Speaker 3: regard by most NBA basketball fans. I don't get it.

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Speaker 2: Nothing makes sense, You're right. SGA's like Johnny come Lately

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Speaker 2: and they're like, oh, that there's an MVP award. I mean,

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Speaker 2: Celtics won the East by fourteen games fourteen, and all

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Speaker 2: anybody could talk about was Jylen Brunson, who was phenomenal,

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Speaker 2: no doubt this season. Jaylen Bunson was great, But like

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Speaker 2: you'd think that the best player on the best team

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Speaker 2: this comes back to the media likes to pick new guys.

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Speaker 2: They want to unearth the new guys. SGA's new Anthony

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Speaker 2: Edwards is new relative to the playoff game. Meanwhile, Tatum's

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Speaker 2: been knocking on the door for years and it's like,

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Speaker 2: I can't get it done. It's similar to Yokis. You

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Speaker 2: He's eligible for a five year, three hundred and fifteen

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know it's funny because Jason Tatum, you know,

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Speaker 3: Will say in all honesty that the hashtag future Laker

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna pump the brakes a little bit on that one.

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Speaker 3: But one of the reasons why I picked him is

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Speaker 2: And what did Luca do? He played right into it.

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Speaker 3: His usage rate in the NBA Finals coming into Game five,

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Speaker 3: So Luca went right back to doing Luka Doncic things, dribble, dribble, dribble, isolation,

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Speaker 3: It allows the defense to load up and limit opportunities

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Speaker 3: It is extreme xdremely difficult to win when your whole

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Speaker 3: it's got to come from Luca first and foremost, that

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Speaker 2: That seems a little dramatic, but I did look this up.

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Speaker 2: Luca Is he's got to be what the oldest twenty

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Speaker 2: five year old. He looks and maybe his body's just

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Speaker 2: And that leads us to sixteen and three playoff run.

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Speaker 2: They won eighty Let's see, they won sixty four and

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Speaker 2: one games and they won eighty. That's pretty freakin phenomenal.

427
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Speaker 2: And outside of a Game four collapse in Dallas where

428
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Speaker 2: they just got run out of the gym like it

429
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Speaker 2: took historic three point shooting nights from the heat and

430
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Speaker 2: I think the Cavs had a really good three point

431
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Speaker 2: shooting night when they beat him in Game two, and

432
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:43,600
Speaker 2: it was like other than that, no hiccups, and did

433
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Speaker 2: a lot of it without Porzingis. I know I'm not

434
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Speaker 2: putting them in the twenty seventeen Warriors class. Obviously, they're

435
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Speaker 2: not the ninety six ninety seven Bulls. I don't think

436
00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:58,960
Speaker 2: they're as dominant as the Shaq Kobe Lakers. But in

437
00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 2: the next how could they not be? The numbers say it,

438
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,240
Speaker 2: And this is the tricky part, the numbers. Whether you

439
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:09,159
Speaker 2: want regular season playoff either one. I mean, this is

440
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,600
Speaker 2: a team that had more fifty point wins than anybody

441
00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,119
Speaker 2: in NBA history in the season. They had the most

442
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:16,720
Speaker 2: twenty five point wins in NBA history in the season.

443
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Speaker 2: That is dominance, my friends. The problem is in the

444
00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:25,359
Speaker 2: high leverage spots. They didn't always pass the eye test.

445
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Speaker 2: Even in the third quarter last night, there was a

446
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Speaker 2: moment rob where it was like, okay, they're up, they're

447
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,639
Speaker 2: down twenty one, it's over. And then Boston missed like

448
00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:34,199
Speaker 2: nine threes in a row. They just kept jacking and

449
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:37,200
Speaker 2: slowly they chip away. Dallas chips away, Dallas chips away.

450
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,800
Speaker 2: Could this get interesting if Boston keeps missing threes. And

451
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Speaker 2: then at one point I think I think it was Tatum,

452
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Speaker 2: Oh no, it was Howser was like they're hugging me

453
00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:48,000
Speaker 2: up on the line. He had like a floater, and

454
00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:49,600
Speaker 2: then Jalen Brown had a midti and then it was

455
00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 2: back to nineteen. It was like, all right, it's over.

456
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 2: But the eye test they don't always pass because they

457
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Speaker 2: jack so many threes. Last night they were e here

458
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 2: thirteen of thirty nine from deep, so under half their

459
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:06,800
Speaker 2: shots were threes, which is a bit of change. They

460
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 2: usually go over fifty percent of their shots or threes.

461
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:12,480
Speaker 2: It didn't shoot it great. Free throws were good, but

462
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:16,440
Speaker 2: ultimately it's it's not like Dallas was a great offensive team.

463
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Speaker 2: I mean, other than yeah, they scored over twenty one

464
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:22,879
Speaker 2: points in one quarter. They got held under one hundred

465
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:26,119
Speaker 2: and four or five games this series. Boston did it defensively.

466
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Speaker 2: Boston's offense was a machine. I don't see how they

467
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Speaker 2: can't be somewhere in the five to ten range of

468
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Speaker 2: teams all time. I mean, I'm sure obviously there's a

469
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:42,040
Speaker 2: Magic Johnson Lakers team in there that's better. I don't

470
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:44,960
Speaker 2: know if there's this Larry Bird Celtics team that was better.

471
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Speaker 2: These Celtics peeled off what was it, nine or ten

472
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Speaker 2: straight playoff wins. Tatum did some things thirty points, ten

473
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Speaker 2: plus assists. Larry Bird never did that. And I know

474
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Speaker 2: Celtics fans hate that because the Hayes giography of eighties players,

475
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,639
Speaker 2: whether it's Bird, Magic Jordan, is like, come on, they

476
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 2: never missed a shot. Like Tatum's numbers were outstanding. The

477
00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:06,879
Speaker 2: Celtics numbers were tremendous.

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Speaker 1: So for me, you're.

479
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Speaker 2: Looking at like a notch below and all time great team.

480
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Speaker 2: For my money, they're better than any Spurs team I saw.

481
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:18,639
Speaker 2: I mean, now, maybe that's like old. The Spurs are boring.

482
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Speaker 2: They Spurs did have three Hall of Famers and Duncan

483
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 2: jenobileon Parker and then David Robinson as well. They had

484
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Speaker 2: a lot of guys. But Drew Holliday is a Hall

485
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Speaker 2: of Famer. Guys. I know, people are come on, no,

486
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Speaker 2: he's a Hall of Famer. He now has two chips

487
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Speaker 2: with two different teams. He's an Olympian. I mean, I

488
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 2: think he's a Hall of Famer. I think Brown and

489
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 2: Tatum are on that track. Horford is I don't know.

490
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Speaker 2: I don't know if he gets in the Hall of Fame. Remever,

491
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 2: he had a really good run with Atlanta. Guys don't

492
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Speaker 2: dismiss al Horford. So this is a stacked team. It's

493
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Speaker 2: just tough for me to pinpoint all the seventy NBA

494
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Speaker 2: champions or whatever the number is. The Celtics would rank nine,

495
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Speaker 2: Like I would say, they're probably because of the numbers,

496
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Speaker 2: a top ten all time team for me, Like, for instance,

497
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 2: I think they're far superior to last year's Nuggets team.

498
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,160
Speaker 2: I don't even think it's close. Now, head to head,

499
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,960
Speaker 2: would Denver beat them, Well, that's a different question than

500
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,719
Speaker 2: did Boston have that great of a postseason run? I

501
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Speaker 2: say yes. I mean I don't think Denver beat a

502
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Speaker 2: fifty win team last year in the playoffs. Now, what

503
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,960
Speaker 2: is fifty wins verse forty five? That's another discussion. But yeah,

504
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:29,240
Speaker 2: I would say these Celtics probably the most dominant NBA

505
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 2: champ we've seen since those Warriors. I mean, I'm trying

506
00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:37,080
Speaker 2: to think rob so the Raptors were not dominant. They

507
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 2: were fortunate. Lakers bubble team was good, but not that dominant.

508
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 2: The twenty twenty two Warriors really good, but not I

509
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Speaker 2: mean not utterly dominant. The Bucks I did not. I

510
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 2: mean they trailed two against Phoenix, they were not. So yeah,

511
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Speaker 2: I would say this is the most dominant NBA champ

512
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Speaker 2: since the Warriors from seventeen or eighteen.

513
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Speaker 3: This is a very loaded question because depending on how

514
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 3: I feel, you know, at the time of the day,

515
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,199
Speaker 3: I could make the case that this is, you know,

516
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 3: one of the greatest teams in NBA history. And I

517
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 3: can tell you, hey, of all of the NBA championship

518
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 3: teams in NBA history regular season and playoff combined win percentage,

519
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 3: they are eleventh. Like they they are all time dominant. Finally,

520
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 3: there was eighty and twenty one. As you mentioned, their

521
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:44,919
Speaker 3: point differential Okay, as a team, regular season in postseason,

522
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 3: including a thirty eight point loss in Game four, is

523
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:57,919
Speaker 3: still the fifth highest in NBA history. Okay, ahead of

524
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 3: my Shaq Kobe Lakers, of every great Golden State team

525
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 3: saved for the first KD year, that was all time,

526
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:05,640
Speaker 3: you know, the one. We think it's the best team ever.

527
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 3: Like they're all the way up there. On the flip side,

528
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Speaker 3: if I want to say that they're overrated, Okay, if

529
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 3: I want to say that, you know, as Jason Tatum said,

530
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 3: you're probably gonna say, we didn't beat anybody to get here.

531
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Speaker 3: Of the last twenty five seasons for an NBA champion,

532
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:30,199
Speaker 3: the Boston Celtics combined regular season win percentage of their

533
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 3: opponents on their way to the championship was twentieth out

534
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 3: of twenty five. They beat the Heat, they beat the Calves,

535
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 3: they beat the Pacers, they beat the MAVs. And that's

536
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 3: not even factoring in that they beat the Heat without

537
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Speaker 3: Jimmy Butler. They beat the Calves without Donovan Mitchell. They

538
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 3: beat the Pacers without Tyre's Halliburton. So it's not looking

539
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,560
Speaker 3: great for Boston if you want to make that argument.

540
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 3: I tend to think that they fall somewhere in the middle, because,

541
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 3: like you said, if you're just looking at raw numbers,

542
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 3: it's hard to make a case against them. Their point

543
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 3: differentials the fourth highest in NBA history, right or fist

544
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:13,720
Speaker 3: to be fifth highest. That's because of that thirty eight

545
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 3: point silacking that they took on. You know that their

546
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 3: their net rating during the regular season was the third

547
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 3: best in NBA history, behind only the two Jordan Bulls teams.

548
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 3: Third best, third best, they became the first team in

549
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 3: NBA history when play by play existed. I think it's

550
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 3: over like thirty years or so to have the best

551
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 3: team in the regular season net rating and the best

552
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 3: net rating in each of the first three rounds of

553
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 3: the playoffs. Obviously that's gonna go up again because the

554
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 3: final only two teams, so they'd be the only team

555
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 3: in the play by play era to have the best

556
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 3: net rating in the regular season, the first round, the

557
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 3: second round, the conference finals, and the finals. And yet

558
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 3: to your point, there's always something about them and the

559
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 3: way that they play and the fact that can go

560
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 3: to these cold stretches because they play such isovy basketball.

561
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 2: Where you're not sure if you really trust them.

562
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 3: You kind of get these moments where like, oh, they

563
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 3: might flumble it away again, like they you know, inexplicably

564
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 3: do every single round of the playoffs.

565
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Speaker 2: So I think that.

566
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Speaker 3: They're somewhere between the best of the best all time

567
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 3: and a very very good NBA champion. So I think,

568
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 3: like you said, somewhere in the top ten probably feels right.

569
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Speaker 2: I think what I think it kind of hurts them

570
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 2: that they jump to the three tozer elite and none

571
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 2: of the games are competitive or fun other than like,

572
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 2: you know, a few moments here and there when the

573
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 2: series isn't great and it's not memorable. It's like, this sucks.

574
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Speaker 2: It's not fun for me. This just was not a

575
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 2: great finals. I wasn't super stoked for any of the

576
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 2: games after Game three three, well even even Game three

577
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 2: was just like eh, it was just the swings were

578
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 2: so crazy. Game four stunk, and I thought largely Game

579
00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 2: five was trash. But now we move on. The NBA

580
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 2: Finals are done. We could get onto you know, how

581
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 2: quickly does JJ Reddick get the Lakers job? If not Reddick, whoa?

582
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 2: Then what you know? You got the NBA Draft next week.

583
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 2: By the way, did you guys know the NBA Draft

584
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 2: was two days? Somebody speculated to me that that was done.

585
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 2: This is the first time it's ever been two days,

586
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 2: or maybe the first time in like forty years or whatever,

587
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 2: or they had like eight rounds that this was done.

588
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 2: Because Bronnie James is likely day two and he alone

589
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 2: will get people watching. I'll say this, Robin, We'll save

590
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 2: it for you know, we got a bunch of podcasts

591
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 2: to do this week. This whole like Rick Carlisle saying oh,

592
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 2: Bronnie James is gonna be gone well before fifty five.

593
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 2: He probably won't even be there when we're drafting back

594
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,239
Speaker 2: to back at I think forty and forty one, and

595
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 2: you start to wonder, like, ooh, are are folks gonna

596
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 2: play some mind games with the Lakers and try to

597
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 2: get them to use their their top twenty pick on Bronnie,

598
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 2: And like if they don't and they don't get Bronnie,

599
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 2: how pissed will lebron be? I mean, I don't think

600
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 2: he'd be more pissed enough to like take less from say,

601
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 2: I don't know Dallas to play with his boy Kyrie.

602
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 2: I cannot imagine that. But it'll be interesting if somebody

603
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 2: swoops in and tries to grab Bronnie and play mind

604
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 2: games with the Lakers and screw them everybody. You know,

605
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 2: most teams around the league don't want to trade with

606
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 2: the Lakers. They're not happy that everybody wants to go

607
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 2: to the Lakers. This is an opportunity to really screw

608
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 2: with some things. I can't tell Rob if you're laughing

609
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 2: or just like here we go again. I mean, can

610
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 2: we get the coach first?

611
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Speaker 1: Right?

612
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 2: Can we land Reddick by the way, have you any

613
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 2: vibes on whether or not Reddick you think will be

614
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 2: the guy or is there another mystery coach out there?

615
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 3: Well, I hate to put this out there again because

616
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,719
Speaker 3: you know my sources are my sauces as I call

617
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 3: him on Twitter. Have been burned already with the Dan

618
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 3: Hurley news that I talked about. But my sauce has

619
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 3: told me back on May thirteenth that JJ Reddick was

620
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 3: the coach. So they were burned with the Hurly situation,

621
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 3: but hopefully they were right from the beginning. And I

622
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 3: just kind of let myself get caught up in the

623
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 3: moment for a second there. So I believe you get

624
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 3: Reddick will be hired, if not by the time you

625
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 3: listen to this podcast twenty four hours after that.

626
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Speaker 2: No, there's no way he's gonna be hired by the

627
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 2: time you listen to this on No shot depends. What

628
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 2: if you're a late riser in the West Coast and

629
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 2: you're listening and new there's no way he's gonna be hired.

630
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 2: Come on, so they met with him over the weekend,

631
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 2: you think they'll lock him up? Like, I don't know.

632
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 2: The more interesting will is the Donovan Mitchell situation because

633
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 2: as soon as the finals are over, I guess you know,

634
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 2: the Cavs technically could have been waiting in his driveway today. Donovan, Hey,

635
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 2: here's that extension, baby, hook us up. And he's probably like, do,

636
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 2: who's our coach again? Oh, we don't have one yet,

637
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 2: bleep off Calves. Anyways, NBA's gonna be fun. We got

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Speaker 2: some fun off season topics. Congrats to Celtics fans. You know,

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Speaker 2: usually i'd be vomiting over a Boston team winning the title,

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Speaker 2: but you guys don't. Tatum dude, I'm a Tatum Homer.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I like him and his trainer was

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Speaker 2: on the pot I think two years ago. Really good

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Speaker 2: stuff handling. Yeah, I like Tatum. I'm happy for I'm

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Speaker 2: happy for Jaylen Brown. Jew Holiday now has two chips.

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Speaker 2: Life's good if you're a Boston sports fan. That's all

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Speaker 2: for today. We'll talk to you tomorrow.