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Speaker 1: Good evening, Swereld and welcome to the No Dungks podcast

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Speaker 1: on the Athletic Network. It's Sunday night, February sixteenth, twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five NBA All Star Weekend is Ova. But first

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Speaker 1: a quick word from our sponsor on j Skeets here

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Speaker 1: in the yard and alongside me, thanks to the power

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Speaker 1: of technology, my top shot hotboy Trey Kirby, Hey, hey

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Speaker 1: yo yo, and filling in for JD on the Ones

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Speaker 1: and Tuesday Night, it's our guy, Eshwa kid hi, y'all

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Speaker 1: doing what's up? Esh No Task tonight. The lucky bastard

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Speaker 1: had no power all day. We had a crazy storm

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Speaker 1: in Atlanta last night. I lost power for a little bit,

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Speaker 1: came back in the afternoon. Task has been without it

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Speaker 1: for like twelve hours. And he's lucky he did not

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Speaker 1: have to watch this abomination of an All Star Sunday night.

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Speaker 1: It's not even a game. I can't even say all

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Speaker 1: Star game. It's three of them has expected it was

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Speaker 1: three crappy ones instead of won this time. Well, hold on,

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Speaker 1: was there even basketball played? K Well, it's a great question, Skeets.

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Speaker 2: I'll say the game, the games.

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Speaker 3: Even some entertaining moments but the fact that we had

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Speaker 3: about a half hour of basketball on a three hour

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Speaker 3: show literally insane. They went to the inside the NBA

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Speaker 3: tribute and it was eleven to one during the championship

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Speaker 3: game of the All Star Tournament, and I didn't like.

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Speaker 3: It didn't register to me. Are we at halftime? What's

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Speaker 3: going on here? Is the game still happening? Or did

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Speaker 3: it end and this is the end? I couldn't tell.

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Speaker 3: There was just so much else going on besides playing basketball. Look,

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Speaker 3: the format might work, I thought the first You know,

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Speaker 3: it was entertaining when Wemby was given it his all

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Speaker 3: trying to block shots on both ends. He said, I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna try hard, and he did. Second game actually pretty tight.

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Speaker 3: Looked like the Rising Stars might be able to pull

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Speaker 3: off the upset. I honestly don't know what happened in

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Speaker 3: the championship game because it was so disjointed. But you know,

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Speaker 3: Steph Curry at the end did enough to get the MVP.

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Speaker 3: That seemed to be kind of everybody's goal for the evening. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but other than that, it was just stop and start,

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Speaker 3: stop and start, stop and start. Forty is a quick game,

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Speaker 3: and it went so quick that you barely forgot they

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Speaker 3: were playing basketball out there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all spot on. I saw someone named Mannerly

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Speaker 1: Sneak commented in the stream team before we went live

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Speaker 1: and showed it. Everybody joining us live, hit the like

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Speaker 1: button subscribe if you're new to this thing. They wrote,

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Speaker 1: this whole thing felt like a costco sample of basketball. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty good when you actually get a taste, but

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Speaker 1: there's just not enough to satisfy your needs. And man esh,

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Speaker 1: I think that's spot on, because my big takeaway from

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Speaker 1: you know this Sunday night here, this new All Star

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Speaker 1: game format, was Hey, you know what's the only thing

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Speaker 1: worse than shitty, uninspired All Star game basketball? No basketball

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Speaker 1: really being played. That's the only thing worse than you know,

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Speaker 1: two hundred to one ninety that we've been watching the

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Speaker 1: last couple of years, just having very little basketball because,

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Speaker 1: as Trey said, so many breaks. What did you think?

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Speaker 1: Did you even watch this with your kids?

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Speaker 4: I don't know if they're up this way, but yeah,

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Speaker 4: we all stayed up like uh just put them to

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Speaker 4: bed right as it ended. I mean, the tray was

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Speaker 4: right like the I think the format could have worked

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Speaker 4: and it was okay like the basketball is fine for

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Speaker 4: the most part when it was being played, but I

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Speaker 4: was sitting there just as pissed as everybody else, Like

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Speaker 4: number one, I know we'll probably talk about it.

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Speaker 2: But Kevin Hart, oh my god, no, oh no. The

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Speaker 2: beginning of.

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Speaker 4: That first game, when it was just the regular commentator

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Speaker 2: Like, oh wait.

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Speaker 4: I thought he was okay, okay, maybe he'll just kind

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Speaker 4: of introduce people and that'll be the end of it.

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Speaker 4: And then we came back after the break and they

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Speaker 4: had that super awkward like everything he did except for

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Speaker 4: and I was like, what are we doing? Even he's like, cat,

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Speaker 4: who did your hair? You look at your hairline? Like okay, really, honestly,

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Speaker 4: that's a black people joke. I giggled, but I'm like,

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Speaker 4: not the this is.

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Speaker 2: Not no get out of here, Like it was terrible.

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Speaker 2: I just did not like that.

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Speaker 1: But we thought we thought maybe when we learned he

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Speaker 2: Mike died better that way.

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Speaker 1: I think it would have been better. Yeah, which is

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Speaker 1: like crazy to say out loud because this did not work.

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Speaker 1: Here's the crazy thing of this whole thing. We can't

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Speaker 1: really blame Adam Silver all that much of the league.

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Speaker 1: We really can't blame the players because, like Trey said,

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Speaker 1: and you agree, Ash like when they played there was

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Speaker 1: and I hate to do it in their quote unquote

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Speaker 1: farewell tour, which it's not because we're gonna see those

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Speaker 1: four guys at All Star Weekend again. It'll just be

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Speaker 1: with the ESPN, like the production and the decision making

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Speaker 1: and the stops and all these talking heads like that

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Speaker 1: was a nightmare. TK like that really did ruin any

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Speaker 3: Too much razzle dazzle, h too much style, not enough substance.

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Speaker 3: And that's ridiculous to say for an All Star game,

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Speaker 3: but it goes back to the fact that we haven't

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Speaker 3: had a competitive All Star game where people care even

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Speaker 3: as much as they cared tonight. We haven't had that

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Speaker 3: basically since twenty twenty when they did the elam ending

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Speaker 3: the first time Caught Lightning in a bottle A little

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Speaker 3: this other stuff to make the game entertaining, and it

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Speaker 2: I would or rather have.

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Speaker 3: I mean, they could take out an hour of stuff,

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Speaker 3: keep the same thirty minutes of basketball that we had.

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Speaker 3: If you're gonna just chalk it full with uh, random entertainers,

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Speaker 3: random challenges and stops and starts, at least make it shorter.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't need to be three hours. If that's all

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's that's right. They were just like they

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Speaker 1: to the point where suddenly the championship game, which we

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Speaker 1: had been told for at least a month, was going

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Speaker 1: to be to twenty five, right, two semifinal games to forty,

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Speaker 1: last one to twenty five. Everybody always thought that was weird.

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Speaker 1: It was like, well, they gonna be tired like that, okay,

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Speaker 1: but whatever, And instead suddenly it's back to forty and

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Speaker 1: I think a part of it and I's just like, well, damn,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Uh, I wish we had to cut so many of

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Speaker 4: those things. Like the mister bast thing was super awkward.

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Speaker 4: I felt bad for the guy for a little bit.

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Speaker 4: He ended up winning the money, so cool. Yeah that's cool,

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Speaker 4: But yeah, we don't need all that extra stuff. You know,

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Speaker 4: the forty minute basketball game. All right, not forty minute

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Speaker 4: basketball game, but playing the forty that's a lot better.

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Speaker 2: I think it was cool.

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Speaker 4: I thought having a target score was gonna make the

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Speaker 4: whole night shorter. I think you guys said it earlier

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Speaker 4: in the year, like, yeah, when we found out about this, oh,

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Speaker 4: we're gonna have to sit there all night.

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Speaker 2: And just be like, okay, when does this end?

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Speaker 4: But this was, as you said, skis way worse than

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Speaker 4: going to two point fifty in a basketball game. And

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Speaker 4: we're just like okay, goodness gracious, Like like you said,

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Speaker 4: why are we doing this swan song for T and

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Speaker 4: T when they are number one coming back? But it

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Speaker 4: wouldn't have hurt to just do it right afterwards, go

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Speaker 4: give the awards to the guys and then say, hey,

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Speaker 4: before we get out of here, we want to do

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Speaker 4: this for you guys, and like the tribute could have

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Speaker 4: been sweet, and it kind of was sweet, but we

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Speaker 4: don't need it in the middle.

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Speaker 2: It's eleven to one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, eleven to one of the championship game.

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Speaker 3: It's not supposed to stage a comeback when your momentum

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Speaker 1: Well, Team Chuck sit for basically eighty minutes from their

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Speaker 1: first semifinal game until they actually played again.

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Speaker 2: Insane inside time to lock in, That's what I mean.

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Speaker 4: And I feel like even though it was eleven to one,

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Speaker 4: maybe the intensity, intensity and air quotes will keep up

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Speaker 4: But nope, not after sitting for another twenty minutes, why

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Speaker 4: you have to bring out all this stuff and say thank.

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Speaker 2: You guys, like, oh my gosh. And then he went

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Speaker 2: to a commercial break in between that two.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, we got the commercials in big

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Speaker 1: night for commercials bigger than the Super Bowl. There, I say,

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Speaker 1: oh lost start Sunday night. It was crazy. You know again.

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Speaker 1: If you're just joining us, thank you. Hit the like button.

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Speaker 1: Suscribe podcast listeners five star ratings and reviews. Steph Creed

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Speaker 1: did win MVP. He got twelve points. I guess over

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Speaker 1: the two games all of his attempts, so I'm pretty

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Speaker 1: sure we're threes, had a couple boards and assists the steal.

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Speaker 1: He did at least catch fire in the championship game,

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Speaker 1: hit the bomb, and hit a couple other ones. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I thought it was almost ironic that the loudest the

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Speaker 1: is when there was that stretch in the championship game

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Speaker 1: where it actually turned in to previous iterations of all

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Speaker 1: these All Star games we hated, where it was sort

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Speaker 1: of like a little free flow in not a whole

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Speaker 1: bunch of defense being played. It was up and down,

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Speaker 1: some good dunks, some good shots. That's when the crowd

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Speaker 1: like sort of got hyped, and I just like, well,

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Speaker 1: that's ironic. We didn't want that, which we don't. We

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Speaker 1: want a little defense. But that's when they popped.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's hard to find the perfect mix because you're right,

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Speaker 3: we don't want it to be ridiculous Steph Curry laying

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Speaker 3: down on the ground two hundred points kind of defense.

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Speaker 3: But also the defense and the offense tonight was I

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Speaker 3: mean a little mediocre you now, like, we didn't have

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Speaker 3: any crazy highlights. We had the Jokic alleyp to Wemby

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Speaker 3: you know, Kyrie, I guess when at Wemby the one

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Speaker 3: time and missed the layup. That would have been cool.

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Speaker 3: But we didn't have any ridiculous highlights. I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I mean, really, step and Steph really was the biggest

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Speaker 4: highlight or violation was the second violation was That's the

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Speaker 4: best part of night.

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Speaker 1: Sort of funny yo Kich like trying to press him

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Speaker 1: a little bit and then he didn't cross and you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, Steph was gonna probably take the shot to

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Speaker 1: like try and end it, and instead I guess it

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Speaker 1: ends with a Tatum dunk.

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 1: Is that how? That whole thing is like a wet

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Speaker 1: fart that game is there? So yeah, shacks OG's Every

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Speaker 1: time I say this out loud, I just keep thinking, like,

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Speaker 1: twenty years from now, we're gonna be looking back at

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Speaker 1: all Star Games whatever, We're gonna be like, oh yeah

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Speaker 1: East versus West, Okay, Yeah, well yeah, remember when shacks

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Speaker 1: And then he also am I crazier? Did Kevin Hart

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 3: It was bad, man. It was the Kevin Hart did

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Speaker 4: What you just said.

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Speaker 1: How about so how bad was the the All Stars

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Speaker 5: Well I wanted more Reggie Miller, any more Reggie about basketball.

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Speaker 5: He's like, all right, think about they're playing some defense here.

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Speaker 5: That's a good that might sum it up. Uh did

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Speaker 5: the kids pop esh for the Mister Beast one hundred

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Speaker 1: I don't get it.

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Speaker 4: It's not for you guys. I'm a little bit younger.

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Speaker 1: Do you think he was?

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Speaker 4: No, because I saw him he was like talking crap

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Speaker 4: So I'm like I saw somebody tweet this out somewhere too,

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Speaker 3: The beast man that he makes you confront the beast

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Speaker 1: Throw dollar bills all over me. Yeah, and you had

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Speaker 1: were you a fan of of the Mister Beasts one

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Speaker 2: I mean Wimby.

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Speaker 2: Here he comes, He's blocking shots.

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Speaker 3: What about you, TK, Well, Shaq had a robot dog.

437
00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:45,120
Speaker 3: You mentioned it, so, like I said, I was watching

438
00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:46,600
Speaker 3: them with the girls and they're like, why did he

439
00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:50,560
Speaker 3: do that? And I was like, Shaq just does stuff

440
00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:52,639
Speaker 3: at All Star And then like that was part of

441
00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:54,960
Speaker 3: one of the intro packages. Was all the weird stuff

442
00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,760
Speaker 3: Shack has done at All Star, Jabbawaukee's included. So throw

443
00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:00,160
Speaker 3: a robot dog in there. I guess they're getting around now.

444
00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:03,919
Speaker 1: I guess that's saw a lot of robot dogs this weekend.

445
00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:10,560
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, yeah, m hm, what else I think

446
00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:12,800
Speaker 1: I'm with ash? I thought Wemby lived up to the hype.

447
00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:15,040
Speaker 3: He's like, I'm gonna take this too seriously, and to

448
00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:17,560
Speaker 3: take it a little bit too seriously. I love the

449
00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:21,000
Speaker 3: clip of him and Yokic pregame in the locker room

450
00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:24,960
Speaker 3: and Yokic is like dumbfounded that Wemby brings a book

451
00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:28,520
Speaker 3: into the locker room to read pregame. He's like, why

452
00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:35,080
Speaker 3: are you taking this thing seriously? Man? So disappointed. He's like,

453
00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:37,880
Speaker 3: you really care, don't you? And Wenby does really care?

454
00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:38,080
Speaker 4: Man.

455
00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:40,400
Speaker 3: You see how mad he was when Jason Tatum got

456
00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,800
Speaker 3: that dunk to bounce him from the tournament. He was

457
00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,240
Speaker 3: very upset that Shnghun would give up the lane like that.

458
00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:47,680
Speaker 4: He's also kind of pissed about like a couple of

459
00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:49,520
Speaker 4: foul calls, you know, like he was driving in they

460
00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:50,399
Speaker 4: hit him and nothing that.

461
00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:52,720
Speaker 2: He was looking at the refs like, hey, you gotta call.

462
00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:54,879
Speaker 1: That, you know, yeah, no it it was that was

463
00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,240
Speaker 1: nice to see a little fire from him. I do

464
00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:01,480
Speaker 1: love how Yokic goes from the greatest basketball player in

465
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:04,879
Speaker 1: the world to potentially the worst player in the world.

466
00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:07,360
Speaker 1: As soon as all stars on his chest, as soon

467
00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:09,440
Speaker 1: as that's near him, he just turns into the worst

468
00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:13,000
Speaker 1: player ever. It's so funny, like does not care. Yeah,

469
00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:16,760
Speaker 1: he hates it, and that's not great. I mean it's

470
00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:20,280
Speaker 1: not like not that you've got to go like the wall,

471
00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:22,320
Speaker 1: but I mean this is like how many years running

472
00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:24,720
Speaker 1: now that it's like he's like throwing He's like throwing

473
00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:28,840
Speaker 1: it away and stuff. It was pretty funny to me.

474
00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,760
Speaker 1: And yeah, like the first two games, you know, there

475
00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,600
Speaker 1: were some moments. I guess where was Anthony Edwards is

476
00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:36,800
Speaker 1: a big question from this night.

477
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:39,600
Speaker 2: Yes, Like I mean, get two different conflicting reports, right,

478
00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:40,040
Speaker 2: that's right.

479
00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:43,520
Speaker 1: Mark Spears is saying he had a cold, maybe a

480
00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,040
Speaker 1: little All Star Saturday night cold. I don't know. I

481
00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:48,879
Speaker 1: don't know who knows. And then I guess he was

482
00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:51,159
Speaker 1: saying it was sort of his groin, right, like a

483
00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:52,600
Speaker 1: lingering grind issue.

484
00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,080
Speaker 3: He's like, I don't know why, but I ain't playing tonight.

485
00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:59,320
Speaker 3: All I know is I'm sitting down for some reason.

486
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,040
Speaker 1: Yeah. And then, of course, the big news before we

487
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,040
Speaker 1: obviously started the games, when we eventually got to the

488
00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:10,000
Speaker 1: games was no Lebron James, who sat out Sunday's NBA

489
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Speaker 1: All Star Tournament to rest nagging injuries. And he did

490
00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:17,439
Speaker 1: you know, he addressed this and he said, quote, I

491
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:19,520
Speaker 1: was hoping that it would be a lot better this morning,

492
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:21,359
Speaker 1: but it's still not where I wanted to be. We

493
00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:23,640
Speaker 1: got thirty games left. I'm trying to make a playoff

494
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,480
Speaker 1: push in the Wild Wild West wiki wiki, and I

495
00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,760
Speaker 1: just thought it was important to take care of myself

496
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,600
Speaker 1: with what's going on. So James had played in a

497
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,320
Speaker 1: record twenty consecutive All Star Games dating back to two

498
00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:37,800
Speaker 1: thousand and five. Obviously still an All Star, that's still

499
00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:40,760
Speaker 1: on the resume. But yeah, no Lebron, which you know

500
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,199
Speaker 1: it's always going to dampen the mood a little bit.

501
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:45,200
Speaker 1: I guess how many more we got of Lebron.

502
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Speaker 3: Well, that's one thing is he must think there's at

503
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,760
Speaker 3: least one more if he's willing to sit this one out.

504
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,560
Speaker 3: He's not gonna skip his last All Star game, so

505
00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,280
Speaker 3: he can assume Lebron's coming back next season. I think

506
00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:58,360
Speaker 3: you can bet on that one, huh okay, and he'll

507
00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:01,120
Speaker 3: be an All Star. Would be an All Star.

508
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:02,639
Speaker 1: But I don't know.

509
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 3: I'm a little of two minds on this one. On

510
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:07,840
Speaker 3: one hand, it's like Lebron has given us a lot

511
00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 3: of All Star moments throughout his career. You said he's

512
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 3: played in twenty straight. If he wants to take one off,

513
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:16,680
Speaker 3: I'm totally fine with that. Just maybe say something before

514
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:18,679
Speaker 3: the day of the game. I would say is an

515
00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 3: option as well.

516
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:24,160
Speaker 1: And he like skipped. I think he skipped like media

517
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:27,800
Speaker 1: responsibilities on the Friday or Saturday whenever they're supposed to

518
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:31,560
Speaker 1: be there. He didn't show up. So there's that part

519
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:34,879
Speaker 1: of the equation as well. But yeah, any thoughts on

520
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:35,760
Speaker 1: no Braun.

521
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,000
Speaker 4: I mean, I just saw a lot of people, a

522
00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 4: lot of people. I saw some people being pissed that

523
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,760
Speaker 4: he didn't play or didn't say anything earlier, Like you said,

524
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:46,320
Speaker 4: should have said something earlier. Maybe somebody else gets in,

525
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:48,800
Speaker 4: like makes their first All Star or whatever. Whoever else

526
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:52,520
Speaker 4: was up next for Adam Silver to pick, because him

527
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:54,320
Speaker 4: and Anthony Ard really like that could have went to

528
00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:56,520
Speaker 4: somebody else that would have been a little bit more.

529
00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,440
Speaker 2: Excited to go there. Maybe. So that's my only one, but.

530
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 1: Maybe my we could flip that on its head and say, uh,

531
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:07,960
Speaker 1: those Sabonis whoever should be thanking Lebron James that he

532
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:12,600
Speaker 1: didn't say anything. Yeah, I'm sure he's on a beach somewhere,

533
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:15,320
Speaker 1: you know, enjoying a nice peanut colata and not having

534
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:26,440
Speaker 1: to be there to partake in that ship show. Yeah.

535
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,480
Speaker 1: The only other note I have is, uh, the refs

536
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:33,440
Speaker 1: were letting him play almost too much, almost too much.

537
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:35,639
Speaker 1: There was like there's a couple of times I forget

538
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:37,440
Speaker 1: who it was. I think Castle he sort of got

539
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,119
Speaker 1: tripped on like an alley up a team. Pretty blatant trip,

540
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:40,600
Speaker 1: I thought.

541
00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:43,399
Speaker 3: And then Duran got hacked on one on a fast

542
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:44,480
Speaker 3: break from behind.

543
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:45,120
Speaker 1: Ranka Hawk.

544
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:47,040
Speaker 3: Hacked.

545
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:48,720
Speaker 1: And then yeah, there was a couple other ones, and

546
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:50,560
Speaker 1: then then then they started putting in a couple of

547
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,960
Speaker 1: whistles here and era. But like it's like they should

548
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 1: have called war fouls. We wouldn't have had to have

549
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 1: so many commercials. We could have actually stayed with the

550
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,320
Speaker 1: basketball game a little bit longer. I swear they didn't

551
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 1: realize how fast these games were gonna go, playing forty

552
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 1: It's like, guys, look at last year's All Star Game.

553
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:11,119
Speaker 1: They scored forty points in like it was like five minutes.

554
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 1: It must have been five minutes. And sure they're gonna

555
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:15,440
Speaker 1: play a little harder this time, but it's not gonna

556
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 1: take long. I don't know. Maybe someone screwed up on

557
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 1: the mat there, That's all I got. I hope we

558
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:26,480
Speaker 1: never see this tournament again. I know, man, they like

559
00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 1: to change it up. They might not do it next year.

560
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,440
Speaker 1: Yeah we should cancel the All Star Game. Yeah, you

561
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 1: just give them the honors, give them the honors. I'm like,

562
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:39,919
Speaker 1: not really even joking. I think there's something to like, like,

563
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:42,359
Speaker 1: let like put it in hibernation for a year or two,

564
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 1: like we've done it with the Dunk Contest way back

565
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 1: in the day, and then you know, Vince came back

566
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:47,639
Speaker 1: and obviously brought it back to life and sort of

567
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,879
Speaker 1: saved it. I think we might be like jonesing for

568
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:51,399
Speaker 1: it if we took a year or two off and

569
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 1: we're like, oh man, and then it would come back

570
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,959
Speaker 1: and're like, oh, it's great. I don't know, or just

571
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,199
Speaker 1: like completely get rid of it and go to a

572
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,359
Speaker 1: one on one turn. Maybe they'll take something from the

573
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,679
Speaker 1: women doing it with the unrivaled tournament and stuff and

574
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:12,639
Speaker 1: try that honestly do anything besides and like good to

575
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,160
Speaker 1: start wrapping this up. Like that's that was the thing here.

576
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,719
Speaker 1: Like the league is like, okay, we want to make

577
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 1: these games competitive. We want everybody to give it their

578
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,119
Speaker 1: best shot. You know, we were going to talk to

579
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 1: you guys like come on, take this seriously. Okay, So

580
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 1: you do that and then you stay that out on

581
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:29,640
Speaker 1: one side of your mouth and then the other side

582
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:36,119
Speaker 1: it's like this, like we got bes like commercial after commercial.

583
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 1: Here's your fishing rod. It's like what like, It's sort

584
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:42,679
Speaker 1: of like, which one is it? Guys? Are we just

585
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:44,640
Speaker 1: if you want to be stupid and silly, let's play

586
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,720
Speaker 1: Rock and chok basketball. But if you really want to

587
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 1: make it a little more competitive and real, I guess,

588
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 1: or more like a basketball game, then maybe not all

589
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 1: the antics. They're torn between the two.

590
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 3: I think right now exactly, they can't figure out which

591
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 3: way to have it. And they haven't been able to

592
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 3: have a competitive one or a fun one yet, so

593
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 3: I don't know. Last year was back to basketball, this

594
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:11,479
Speaker 3: year was tournament and ads. Maybe next year is Rock

595
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:13,399
Speaker 3: and Jock put a twenty foot hoop up, put some

596
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 3: hot spots on the floor.

597
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 1: Let's see what how crazy we can go. I mean,

598
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:21,119
Speaker 1: we're gonna be in the into it though, fire fire

599
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 1: t shirts from that big board of the players. They

600
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 1: get an extra point, yeah, go insane, do something with

601
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 1: the wall, put the led court back in and have

602
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 1: light up things. Just go go that way. I mean,

603
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 1: is this crazy to say that the Disney game on

604
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 1: Christmas was more entertaining than this seeing goofy hoop?

605
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 2: You know what? I actually was a little bit more

606
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 2: into that one like.

607
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 1: Ridges that we've like crazy for that.

608
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 2: You might be wrong about that one.

609
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: Actually yeah maybe maybe now that well, now that this

610
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 1: game is I don't know who has the All Star Weekend?

611
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 1: Is it? Is it ESPN? It's gonna happen. I can't

612
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 1: remember if it's NBC or ESPN. Anyway, if it's ESPN,

613
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: there we go. We can get Mickey involved. He'll save it.

614
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:13,480
Speaker 1: Mickey Melser save the All Star Game. Yeah, we did

615
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: have just a quick some news I wanted to slip

616
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 1: in here before we wrap this up. A group of

617
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 1: seventeen finalists were announced for the Basketball Hall of Fame's

618
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: Class of twenty twenty five on Friday, including former ten

619
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 1: time All Star Camelo Anthony, three time NBA Defensive Player

620
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: there Dwight Howard. We also had superd Maya Moore of

621
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 1: the WNBA. So a whole bunch of names on the

622
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 1: finalist list, and it always, you know, catches me by surprise.

623
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 1: I go, oh, all right, cool Mellow made the Hall

624
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 1: of Fame. Dwyt made it. And then I'm like, okay, wait,

625
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 1: they haven't yet, because this is just the finalist list. Now,

626
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 1: A group of twenty four voters cast their selections to

627
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 1: determine the shape of the class, and I think you

628
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: got to get like seventy five percent majority to get

629
00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: yourself in. And this is Hall of Famers, basketball executives,

630
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: media members. We don't even really know who this secret

631
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 1: twenty four is, but that's where we're at. I mean,

632
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 1: I assume Mellow and Dwight will be guaranteed Hall of Famers.

633
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 1: I don't think there's go in there a bunch of

634
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: other names. I'm not gonna list them all, but maybe

635
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 1: some others that don't quite make the cut, so Mellow

636
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 1: Mellow could wait. Was Dwaight on the Redeem team too? Yep? Yeah,

637
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 1: both those guys, because the Redeem Team is up for nomination,

638
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 1: so they could sort of go in twice in the

639
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 1: same class two timers. Yeah, kind of dope, because the

640
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 1: eight Redeem Team is up for it again. So there

641
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 1: you go. Maybe we'll talk about that more in the future.

642
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 1: Let's call it there, I quick, thirty minutes in and out,

643
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 1: what did you think of the new All Star Game

644
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 1: tournament format? What'd you think of the broadcast sound off?

645
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 1: You're already doing it in the stream, team let us

646
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 1: know in the YouTube comments, tweet at us at no

647
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:55,760
Speaker 1: Dunk Sync. We're gonna take a couple of days off,

648
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 1: no basketball on for the next couple of days. We're

649
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 1: gonna plan on coming back on Wednesday to do some

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Speaker 1: you know, I guess mid season if you want to

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Speaker 1: call it. That's still rankings, tier rankings of all the teams.

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Speaker 1: You know, who are the championship contenders, who's a level below,

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Speaker 1: who's got no chance. We'll do that on Wednesday, a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun usually doing that, and then we'll be

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Speaker 1: back on Friday as well. So a couple pods coming

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Speaker 1: later this week, but you won't see us till Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to everybody that has joined us over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Here you know a lot of people out last night

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Speaker 1: for all start Saturday night and again here a lot

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Speaker 1: of people sort of an insane amount of people joining

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Speaker 1: us live right now to talk about what we just watched.

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Speaker 1: You sickos. We love it. So until next time, Clipper

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Speaker 1: Brus you heard it here first, have a great time,

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Speaker 2: Love you guys awesome.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 3: And actually, before we finish off the show here, I

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Speaker 3: want to honor you guys real quick. I got you

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Speaker 3: a couple of phishing lures for being able to lure

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Speaker 1: So shout out to our partners that Rapall.

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Speaker 3: For sending in the crank baits and the jerk baits

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Speaker 3: as we are able to honor one of the greatest

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Speaker 3: basketball shows that we've seen in today's NBA. We call

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Speaker 3: it the No Dunks Podcast, it has other names. Before,

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Speaker 3: we've done several All Star weekends and we just want

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Speaker 3: to thank each and every one of you for coming

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Speaker 3: out tonight to watch the show that we talked about,

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Speaker 3: a thirty three minute podcast, a one to one ratio

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Speaker 3: of basketball to podcasting tonight, So thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Let's continue the show. Yeah, and now back to basketball.

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