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Speaker 1: I'd like to imagine that when his parents were naming him,

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Speaker 1: How about Khaled for her first name?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Sure, sounds good. What about a last name another one?

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Speaker 3: Good morning, swimmer and welcome to the No Dunks Podcast

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Speaker 3: on the Athletic Network. It's Thursday, January thirteenth. I'm j E.

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Speaker 3: Skeets here in the Classic Factory and alongside me, as always,

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Speaker 3: we got task Millis.

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Speaker 1: Good morning everybody.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Tassy, we got a tap shot. Hot boy

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Speaker 3: over there. Trey Kirby. Hey, hey, the international man of

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Speaker 3: mystery taking it to the max Leella friends.

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Speaker 4: He's a bit damn the big man this morning he

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Speaker 4: is I'm surprised.

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Speaker 3: And finally making the magic happen. Super producer JD.

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Speaker 4: Hello, there he is here.

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Speaker 3: We are a nice sweater, Jady, thank you very much,

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Speaker 3: very cozy.

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Speaker 1: Over the very cozy um.

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Speaker 3: Yes, TKA. A little sad this morning, fair to say.

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Speaker 3: Oh the ups and the downs.

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Speaker 2: You win by forty six, you lose by twenty eight.

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Speaker 2: What a swing of emotions.

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Speaker 3: I didn't want to get dressed today. I was bummed, man, I.

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Speaker 2: Was excited to wear my bulls jacket had a red

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Speaker 1: That's why I thought you were bummed because you're wearing

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Speaker 1: this sham shirt, calling it the sham. Wow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's my shammy shirt. I gotta break it in.

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Speaker 2: This is going to be my most worn shirt this year.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, it's tough to bring to wear it on Friday.

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Speaker 3: I've heard it's really thick. Bro, it's thick, it's rugged.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to mold them my body, but I didn't.

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Speaker 3: Want to have to wear it until tomorrow. Okay, you'll

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Speaker 4: That's right on them.

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Speaker 3: Do you what do you call appetizers? Yeah? Do you

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Speaker 3: ever call them appies? That's a weird thing. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: like apparently it's a West coast thing, at least in Canada.

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Speaker 4: Does Matt Austin call them appies? I can't remember me now,

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Speaker 4: he's a West Coaster, so yeah, I.

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Speaker 3: Picked it up appies. Okay? Anyway, email in your NBA

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Speaker 3: All Right, you ready to get into this bus? We

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Speaker 3: we'll talk about Davison Millard. Yeah, we'll talk about Ben Simmons,

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Speaker 3: A little light scare there? Oh? Fingers crossed that we're

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Speaker 2: What's you good?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? And what you got okay. First one, we had RJ.

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Speaker 3: Barrett scoring thirty two points, Mitchell Robinson he dunked his

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Speaker 1: I kind of want to start with star J. Barrett

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Speaker 2: It felt like a statement win for the Nets to me.

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Speaker 3: And it took basically one quarter.

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Speaker 2: The numbers are crazy, Like I don't know how many

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Speaker 2: They were both in complete control of the game. It

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Speaker 2: And it's like Harden has been setting guys up for

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Speaker 3: completely disrespectable. Should not be diving like that.

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Speaker 4: No, I mean, that's what Kyrie was complaining about in

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Speaker 4: So we'll see what happens there. But this was the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's coming.

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Speaker 5: It's not the easiest thing. Apple, Please make it easier.

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Speaker 3: What do you mean, Apple, make it easier for if

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Speaker 3: It'll so a state of the Next with Fred Kass,

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Speaker 4: He's actually he's out. He's out. He hasn't been to

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Speaker 2: Uh, most realistic has gotta be Tyler Hero. He's got

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Speaker 2: but still hilarious stuff. So Kusma ain't gonna make an

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Speaker 2: All Star Game. He might be the best Wizard so

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Speaker 2: far the season.

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Speaker 3: That's why I threw him in here.

436
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I still think Beal would be the guy at

437
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Speaker 2: the Wizards get an All Star. But Kuzma has hit

438
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Speaker 2: a bunch of big shots. He's been pretty reliable for

439
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Speaker 2: them all season long. So he's starting on my on

440
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Speaker 2: my content team so far.

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Speaker 1: Come on, come on, cord, I think that can take

442
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Speaker 1: off as a meme, come on right there with fuck you.

443
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Speaker 1: But you know, Corey Kispert's face can be a part

444
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Speaker 1: of it. He's got a unique he looks like the white,

445
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Speaker 1: typical white college player. Look, come on, Corey. Yeah, because

446
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Speaker 1: just just keep going with this, kuz What an incredible

447
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Speaker 1: year for cuz even though you were even getting into

448
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Speaker 1: the stats. Yeah, Kuzma's not the something and the three

449
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Speaker 1: point percentage is surprisingly low. Lee brought it up yesterday,

450
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Speaker 1: surprising because he's hitting big, big shots in comparison to

451
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Speaker 1: those other two guys. Kuzma, you know, running away with

452
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Speaker 1: the social media sort of headlines. But uh, I personally

453
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Speaker 1: think Darius Garland's got a better chance than Tyler Hero

454
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Speaker 1: because because I think we're talking about Miami Heat guys

455
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Speaker 1: and even though Jimmy Butler has been out, he still

456
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Speaker 1: has the cachet with the coaches when they picked the

457
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Speaker 1: reserves while in Cleveland, Darius Garland's sort of going up

458
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Speaker 1: against Jared Allen and uh, loved me some Jared Allen,

459
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Speaker 1: But Jared Allen's missed a bunch of games and it's

460
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Speaker 1: just not the same cache as Jimmy Butler. And I

461
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Speaker 1: think if you look at Darius Caroll's numbers a comparison

462
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Speaker 1: to Taylor Hero, you could argue that they're better in

463
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Speaker 1: terms of just overall shooting great percentages for a point,

464
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Speaker 1: go great percentages, and you know nineteen and seven and

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Speaker 1: a half. So who do you pick from the calves? Yeah,

466
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Speaker 1: it's it's a glut of great guys. They've been playing

467
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Speaker 1: so well and they're still going. They're still going here

468
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Speaker 1: into the second half of the season.

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Speaker 3: Lee, if you had to pick between these three, Herold,

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Speaker 3: Garland or Kuzma, who.

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Speaker 4: Going or got a strong case, I'll just quickly pouring

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Speaker 4: out coups in the clutch is at fifty percent from downtown,

473
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Speaker 4: so it's that's where it checks out. It's like, yeah,

474
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Speaker 4: he only turns up when it's the last five minutes

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Speaker 4: of games and close one.

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Speaker 3: That's all they do.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, clutch coups. Yeah. So it's interesting because the Heat

478
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Speaker 4: will get one.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and it's and will Butler have played enough games?

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Speaker 4: I don't think so. He's only at twenty three right

481
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Speaker 4: now and where most most teams are sort of at

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Speaker 4: forty one or that halfway mark. And Hero has played

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Speaker 4: thirty five, so they deserve one. And do the Calves

484
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Speaker 4: deserve two? Probably not so, I think based on just

485
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Speaker 4: games played, Hero deserves it. For the Miami Heat.

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Speaker 3: It's number.

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Speaker 4: I mean, he's averaging twenty one points for a game.

488
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Speaker 4: He nearly got a chiple double last night.

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Speaker 1: He's say off the bench too, coaches look at games played.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if they do or not, especially in

492
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Speaker 4: this and it's one of those things. Yeah, but he's

493
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Speaker 4: also miss games just through ankle and things like that.

494
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Speaker 4: But you know, it's it's almost like the respect vote. Well,

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Speaker 4: we can't, you know, we can't give it to Tyler

496
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Speaker 4: over Jimmy Butler. He's their best player, but he hasn't

497
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Speaker 4: been playing. And kus is probably the most surprising chance

498
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Speaker 4: here because the Wizards have been better for the most part.

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Speaker 4: Of this season than we thought, and he has been great,

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Speaker 4: so I think he's got a strong case there. Ultimately,

501
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Speaker 4: I guess I'm going with Garland as well because I

502
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Speaker 4: had him in my reserves and I think he has

503
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Speaker 4: been really, really good here for the Cavs. So maybe

504
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Speaker 4: they do get too. I doubt it, but of those three,

505
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Speaker 4: I probably have him slightly ahead of the other two.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Well, that's a fun question for everybody in the

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Speaker 3: stream team right now listening later. Of those three, hero

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Speaker 3: Garland or KU's was the best chance of making their

509
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Speaker 3: first All Star Game, they would all be first time

510
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Speaker 3: All Stars, of course, So let us know, all right,

511
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Speaker 3: final one here, guys, in what you got? Bigger surprise?

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Speaker 3: Let me just forget right to the question bigger surprise

513
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Speaker 3: from last night the Hornets snapping a sixteen game losing

514
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Speaker 3: streak to the seventy six ers. They had not beat

515
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Speaker 3: that team in a long long time. Or was it

516
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Speaker 3: the Kings dropping the Lakers to five hundred lee? What

517
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Speaker 3: you got?

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Speaker 4: Any Kings winner is a kind of shock, especially when

519
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Speaker 4: they're down they came back. But really it's the Charlotte

520
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Speaker 4: Hornets because those last two games, though in Charlotte were

521
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Speaker 4: very close, and Joel EMBII took over down the stretch,

522
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Speaker 4: and I thought going into this game, that's what he's

523
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Speaker 4: going to do. Joel Embiid hit thirty one points again,

524
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Speaker 4: I know, five straight crazy stuff. But and he got

525
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Speaker 4: to the free throw line a ton, which he'd also

526
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Speaker 4: done in those other two games.

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Speaker 3: But gutten foul trouble though.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well I think he should have dominated a little

529
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Speaker 4: bit more. But the Hornets got off to such a

530
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Speaker 4: good start. Gordon Hayward god last night, nine for nine

531
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Speaker 4: in the first half, they just couldn't really get a

532
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Speaker 4: stop on the Sixers and what on the Hornets and

533
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Speaker 4: what the Sixers did late as well. They went with

534
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Speaker 4: Drummond and Embiid in that lineup, which I don't mind

535
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Speaker 4: against the team like that that doesn't have great interior presence,

536
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Speaker 4: but they didn't really take advantage of that. And then again,

537
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Speaker 4: they just couldn't stop the Hornets in that sort of

538
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Speaker 4: last second half. Really, so I think it's surprising that

539
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Speaker 4: they had a sixteen game win streak.

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Speaker 3: I just hadn't won since November twenty sixty, Yeah, which

541
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Speaker 3: is just one of the It was the longest act

542
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Speaker 3: of losing streak to one team in the NBA.

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Speaker 4: Which is weird, but anyway, so good. Good on the

544
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Speaker 4: Hornets to bounce back and get that victory. Yeah, sure

545
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Speaker 4: if you want to talk Kings and Lakers, but no thanks.

546
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Speaker 3: Okay, so you're going good Gord hitting his first night

547
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Speaker 3: shot and finishing with thirty and the Hornet snapping that

548
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Speaker 3: crazy losing streak to the seventy six or spite in

549
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Speaker 3: beads still getting to his thirty one.

550
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and then he just like, all right, that's it.

551
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Speaker 4: I just need to keep this streak.

552
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Speaker 3: You imagine that? Yeah? What do you think thought between

553
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Speaker 3: these two? Is it the Hornets, you know, continuing to

554
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Speaker 3: play well here and snapping this crazy streak, or is

555
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Speaker 3: it the Kings beating the Lakers and LA falling to

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Speaker 3: five hundred.

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Speaker 1: Well, Embiid's game, even though he got to that magical

558
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Speaker 1: thirty one point mark, he had seven turnovers in this game,

559
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Speaker 1: and he knew that he should be better. The doubles

560
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Speaker 1: were coming. It's surprising against the Hornets team that has

561
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Speaker 1: no one to guard him. They don't, but they threw

562
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Speaker 1: enough bodies at him, so good for them to get

563
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Speaker 1: that job done. I think the Kings win is a

564
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Speaker 1: little bit more surprising because it is the Sacramento Kangs

565
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Speaker 1: and the Los Angeles Likers. Just couldn't find a way

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Speaker 1: to finish this game. And I think the Russell Westbrook

567
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Speaker 1: a little rut that he's in is something to be watching.

568
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Speaker 1: Last four ten point five points, only only nine rebounds

569
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Speaker 1: and six point eight assists. Not his type of status,

570
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Speaker 1: shooting thirty five percent from the floor. He's gone like

571
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Speaker 1: four fourteen, two of twelve, two of fourteen in his

572
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Speaker 1: last few games. He's saying the right things though. He's

573
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Speaker 1: saying the right things after the game, you know, he

574
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Speaker 1: he slips it in there that he's not the point guard.

575
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Speaker 1: He said, you know, in this role that I'm playing,

576
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Speaker 1: I just have to accept it and figure things out.

577
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Speaker 1: So you know, to me, it's like flashback to Carmarlo Anthony,

578
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Speaker 1: you know, sort of being off the bench or being

579
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Speaker 1: off the ball with with okay, see, like just not

580
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Speaker 1: not finding his role yet. Is Russell too proud a

581
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Speaker 1: guy to be able to figure this out? His words

582
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Speaker 1: say he can't figure it out. But right now, since

583
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Speaker 1: you know, the Lakers went on a four game run,

584
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Speaker 1: now they've lost two in a row, Lebron has taken

585
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Speaker 1: over as the center, as the point guard is everything,

586
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Speaker 1: and so now Westbrook is playing this new role where

587
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Speaker 1: he's like off the ball shooter. Yuck, it's not it's

588
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Speaker 1: not working out for anybody.

589
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Speaker 3: But here he got the Kings. You know, what do

590
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Speaker 3: you call them walking to the paint right well, no,

591
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Speaker 3: I was going to say their their operations team, you know,

592
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Speaker 3: piling on Westbrook right now and playing cold as eyes

593
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Speaker 3: and stuff like that. Westbrook's taken taking the arrows right now,

594
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Speaker 3: and deservely so in some cases with his play. But

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Speaker 3: you know, you know, when the Kings are clowning you,

596
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Speaker 3: you know you're you're in it right now, You're in

597
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:04,360
Speaker 3: the Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they'll take every opportunity they can. But the Lakers

599
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,200
Speaker 2: are rolling out of Big three of Lebron, Malik Monk,

600
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Speaker 2: and Austin Reeves right now. That's a problem. Seventy points

601
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 2: in the paint literally for the Kings last night. Lebron

602
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 2: is a good center offensively, but he hasn't played center

603
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:20,640
Speaker 2: in his NBA career because he's only six foot eight.

604
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 2: Like we remember his highlight blocks. There was an awesome

605
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,199
Speaker 2: one against Thiago Splitter. That's not every single time down

606
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 2: the court, right, So, I don't know the Lakers, man,

607
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 2: they need Anthony Davis back.

608
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Speaker 3: That's really what it needs to be.

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Speaker 2: They need Anthony Davis back, and if they have any

610
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Speaker 2: chance of doing anything come playoff time, if they make

611
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Speaker 2: it to the actual playoffs, they need Bubble Anthony Davis

612
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Speaker 2: because that's the only real chance that the Lakers have

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Speaker 2: is Lebron and Ad being as good as they were

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Speaker 2: in the twenty twenty season.

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Speaker 4: It's been a bad a month since he was out,

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Speaker 4: I think, so he must be ramping it up there.

617
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Speaker 4: But a couple of times Lebron last night when they

618
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Speaker 4: scored in the paint just shoulders slump trudging off either.

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Speaker 4: You know, the team is just making it too easy

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Speaker 4: for the guth to enter the paint there. Well, he's

621
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Speaker 4: just like, I've got to do everything on this team.

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Speaker 4: I think it's a combination of both. But they just

623
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Speaker 4: don't look that good. I know they had a recent

624
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,680
Speaker 4: win streak and everything was happy again in Lakers Land,

625
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Speaker 4: but I don't think this team's got much to go

626
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Speaker 4: for this season, even when Davis comes back, because he

627
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:16,359
Speaker 4: wasn't that good.

628
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Speaker 3: I know the numbers, that's why he's going to be

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Speaker 3: Bubble Davis. Yeah, it's not that impressive.

630
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Speaker 4: So you know, if they're a lying like, yeah, he

631
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 4: needs to be incredible because I just don't think they're

632
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 4: better than you know, teams like the Suns and the

633
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Speaker 4: Warriors at full strength and even a couple of those

634
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 4: other teams in the Western Conference, And yeah, I don't

635
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 4: see it right now.

636
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Speaker 1: I think the time off is good for Anthony Davis

637
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 1: though in a weird way, because he took off several

638
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 1: months before the bubble like everybody else did, and then boom,

639
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 1: the best Anthony Davis we've ever seen. So I think

640
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 1: he's going to slow play this as much as possible.

641
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 1: And even last year if we got back, you know,

642
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 1: the year in between the bubble and now, they were

643
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Speaker 1: the best defense in the league. How I don't know,

644
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 1: but obviously they had KCP and Carus Clutchkus, but they

645
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 1: have that wasn't gonna include him, but they had enough.

646
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Speaker 1: They had enough on the defense end. They had a

647
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:09,959
Speaker 1: different attitude. So you know, Westbrook is staying staying the

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Speaker 1: course here, but I don't know, He's got to play

649
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Speaker 1: a good soldier when Ad and Lebron take away his touches.

650
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Speaker 1: That's gonna be even different for him.

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Speaker 3: Well kind of, and Malik Monk too.

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Speaker 2: I feel like Lebron and Malik Monk have incredible chemistry

653
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 2: right now because they can both handle the ball, they

654
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Speaker 2: can both shoot the ball.

655
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Speaker 3: So Lebron is like, I.

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Speaker 2: Want to work in a two man game with you

657
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 2: where we can both do stuff rather than Westbrook where

658
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Speaker 2: it's like who knows what's gonna happen when I actually ditched.

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Speaker 1: The ball off. Yeah, yeah, Monk's been great.

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Speaker 3: Just to go back to Embiid, I know it was

661
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,719
Speaker 3: in a loss, and maybe we glossed over the Hornets

662
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 3: a little too much for some of you Charlotte fans

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Speaker 3: out there, because they are playing really well here. Those

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Speaker 3: back to back wins are the Bucks and then of

665
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 3: course beating the Sixers team. But I just wanted to

666
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 3: point out, because you know I'm tracking this all the time.

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00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 3: I'm happy to say Joel Embiid has finally parked his

668
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 3: car found a spot. It was it was blocks away

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Speaker 3: from the MVP restaurant, but he has made his way

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Speaker 3: in to the restaurant. Okay, and I'm of course talking

671
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Speaker 3: about basketball references. MVP Award tracker. Joel Embiid is there.

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Speaker 3: He has now played enough games and he's seventh on

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Speaker 3: the list. It's Giannis number one. It's Joker number two.

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Speaker 3: Did you hear that, Mike Malone? Joker number two, Michael,

675
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 3: it's Michael. I'm calling him. Mike, start taking notice of us,

676
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 3: always including Jokis in the MVP conversation. Katie three, Curry four,

677
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Speaker 3: Rudy Gobert five, and if you've watched the Jazz play

678
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Speaker 3: without him, you starting to go he is pretty important.

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Speaker 3: Hard and six, and then Jowell and Beiad seventh, Chris

680
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Speaker 3: Paul eighth, Lebron ninth, Ja Morant tenth. So DeRozan actually

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Speaker 3: leaving the restaurant for a second forgot something in his

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Speaker 3: car while Embiid came in.

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Speaker 4: There you go and be told him I think he

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Speaker 4: double parked at there, what damn it?

685
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Speaker 3: And then we already said it's overcapacity now can't even

686
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Speaker 3: get back in for a little bit until somebody leaves.

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Speaker 3: So there it is, okay. So that's what you got,

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Speaker 3: you know, I don't know a bit of a wilder

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Speaker 3: way to touch on some of the games. Last I

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Speaker 3: guess the other games we didn't even include were the

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Speaker 3: Celtics crushed the Piecers.

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Speaker 4: There was no way I was watching another Celtics Paces game.

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Speaker 4: No way, I saw that on the schedule, Like that

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Speaker 4: game just ended the other night over time and we're

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Speaker 4: playing again.

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Speaker 3: I'm skipping over Jel Brown and a game two of

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Speaker 3: them and chipping in there. I know you didn't watch anything.

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Speaker 4: I know because there were so many other games, and

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Speaker 4: I was like, all right, I'm sacrificing that game, Like, nah.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well did you watch any of the Rocket Spurs game?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 4: I watched them Hawks and heat and nine home losses

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Speaker 4: in a row for the Atlanta Hawks. Right now, they

704
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 4: are it is smash the panel because they got punked

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Speaker 4: last night. Absolutely punk. We talked about title Hero there,

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Speaker 4: so they're in. They're in a whole whole lot of

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Speaker 4: trouble and a whole.

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Speaker 2: Do you know we were there for the last home

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Speaker 2: that was the last time they won it on we

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Speaker 2: were survival. Yeah, we're talking about h Skitty's hair way back.

711
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Speaker 2: I showed up like one hundred minutes late.

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Speaker 3: Wow, I totally forgotten, but that I think was tweeting

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Speaker 3: like why like one of the Hawks fans going to

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Speaker 3: start booing they are.

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Speaker 1: Hollinger did tweet that they booed later. Yeah, after that tweet,

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Speaker 1: I was long gone at that point because it was

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Speaker 1: like a twenty five point yeah deficit at that point. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the seats weren't full, that's for sure. Seeing some photos.

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Speaker 1: Nine losses in a row at home, that's again, that's hard.

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Speaker 1: That's hard. You get forty one home home games. Now

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Speaker 1: you're like a quarter of them, straight o shocking.

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Speaker 3: Well at this point, what last year they fired their coach? Right,

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Speaker 3: fire them again?

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Speaker 4: Wows Lloyd, you're out.

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Speaker 1: Here comes a trade, Here comes a trade. It's got

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Speaker 1: to happen for ideally a second star if they're.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they they should have two or three Hawks players

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Speaker 3: and get a star player at least.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, DeAndre Hunter came back yesterday and that helped helped

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Speaker 1: get that. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, let's take our first break. When we come back,

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Speaker 3: we'll talk Lillard, we'll talk Simmons, we'll talk about the Wolves.

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Speaker 3: So don't go anywhere. Welcome back to Nodungks. Let's get

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Speaker 3: into a little is this news? Is this news? Very simple?

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Speaker 3: Can give you guys a headline and you tell me

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Speaker 3: whether or not it's newsworthy. First one from Yeahoo Sports.

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Speaker 3: Damian Lillard to undergo surgery for an ab issue, will

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Speaker 3: be reevaluated in six to eight weeks. Tray, is this news? Oh?

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Speaker 2: This is news because shout out to six six sticks.

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00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 2: Now it's gonna be tough, and honestly, it's been a

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Speaker 2: bad couple of days for me on this show. Shout

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Speaker 2: out to sticks because thank you very much, sir, mister Robota.

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Speaker 1: Worth it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, there's a key line in Chris Hayneses report here.

745
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 2: It says Lillard's return to play this season will depend

746
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Speaker 2: on his health, makes sense, and where the team sits

747
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 2: in the standings, which is pretty interesting because right now

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Speaker 2: the Blazers have the ninth best lottery odds, which is

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Speaker 2: a nice way of saying they have the ninth worst

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Speaker 2: record in the league. That's important because they owe a

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Speaker 2: first round pick to the Bulls, which is protected one

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00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 2: through fourteen until twenty twenty eight. I got a long

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00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:29,799
Speaker 2: time to be bad if they want to hang onto

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00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 2: this one. But they are only three wins better than

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Speaker 2: the top four teams, so no Lillard plus any potential

756
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 2: trades they could make means you're getting better odds at

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Speaker 2: a top lottery pick, which means you're either getting a

758
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Speaker 2: better player or you're getting a better pick that you

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Speaker 2: can then package for a star alongside Lillard. So it's

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Speaker 2: a little bit of news to me because it feels

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Speaker 2: like this is the end of the Blazers season, which

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Speaker 2: means also cross them off for the play in tournament.

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Speaker 2: So there's a spot open in tenth place in the

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Speaker 2: Western Conference right now. So yeah, this is definitely news

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Speaker 2: for me.

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Speaker 1: What do you think tests Absolutely, I think Lillard and

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00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 1: the Blazers should look at this together as tank time

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Speaker 1: because Lillard has devoted his career to Portland and if

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Speaker 1: they're gonna get better and maybe through the draft, just

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Speaker 1: the way their contracts are, Yeah, you can trade CJ.

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00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 1: Mccollin and try and get better that way. But if

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Speaker 1: Lillard's gonna give this one more season next year, why

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Speaker 1: not actually go for it with a potential top five pick,

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Speaker 1: drop from that ninth spot that they're currently in and

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Speaker 1: go way down and just do it. Why the heck not.

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00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 1: They're going on a six game road trip. I think

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00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: it'll probably happen naturally anyways for this Kings and the

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Speaker 1: Spurs and the Pelicans to pass them in that tenh seed.

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Speaker 1: Is there another way to rebuild? I don't see it immediately.

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00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 1: This could be you know, I don't know the draft class,

781
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 1: but you can always get somebody that's very very good

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00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: at nine. Could but you got better shot at three,

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Speaker 1: four five. And I think you know, near future for

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Speaker 1: the Blazers, Chauncey Bilts will probably this a little bit

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Speaker 1: more coaching this team with no expectations. There should be

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Speaker 1: zero expectations. And the question is are they going to

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Speaker 1: make a trade in the next month. CJ mccoam gonna

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Speaker 1: come back and look fine and be tradeable or is

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Speaker 1: he just going to hang out at his winery. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's got the injury, he's got a kid on the way.

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Speaker 1: Maybe a chill for four four weeks there, CJ and

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Speaker 1: not get traded. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Well, maybe it's not even a column right that gets

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Speaker 3: traded because it's Covington and Nurkic, both unrestricted free agents

795
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Speaker 3: this summer. Do you unload them at the trade deadline? Now?

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00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 3: With Lillered out, now, with your chances of maybe getting

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Speaker 3: even in the play in you know, diminishing Portland is

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Speaker 3: a team that is currently three million dollars over the

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Speaker 3: luxury tax line. You don't want to pay the tax

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Speaker 3: when you're not even a playoff team, So maybe I

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00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 3: think they'll look to move. It could be McCollum as well.

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00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,319
Speaker 3: I assume it probably is too, but those two are

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00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 3: maybe easier I guess to move and get something back.

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Speaker 4: I think there'll be some interesting kitch for a couple

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00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 4: of teams, like the Hornets. They might say, listen, take

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00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 4: a bit of a flyer on him. We might be

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00:36:58,120 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 4: able to get him on the cheap. They could use

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00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:02,239
Speaker 4: him and Covington. We know three and D sort of.

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Speaker 4: Guy's got that reputation.

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Speaker 3: Pot of mine. Almost any roster place a minutes in a.

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Speaker 4: Playoffs, and honestly, where the Blazers are right now, they've

812
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:12,399
Speaker 4: got to just say, all right, this McCollum and Lillard era,

813
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:15,439
Speaker 4: it's done. You know, because even if you say, okay,

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Speaker 4: we are going to take and try and get a

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Speaker 4: good draft pick next season, the chance of the Blazers

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Speaker 4: competing while Lillard is still in his prime years like

817
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:25,400
Speaker 4: this is just extremely remote. So I think they should

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00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 4: move on. I think it's admiral. I know Lilid doesn't

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00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 4: want to be one of those guys who goes and

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Speaker 4: plays for another team. He wants to be a one

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00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:35,359
Speaker 4: team guy. Fine, but ultimately the Blazers have hit their

822
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 4: ceiling with this backcourt. Like it was with de Rosen

823
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:40,800
Speaker 4: and Lowry, they got to a certain point it's like, Okay,

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Speaker 4: it's not working. We try something different. So now he

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00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,840
Speaker 4: won't get traded while he's out. I'm sure that won't happen.

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Speaker 4: But if I'm the Blazers, I look to move on

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Speaker 4: from this period and start again.

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Speaker 3: And do you see, like these guys are saying, the

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Speaker 3: Blazers not really in three or four weeks being in

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00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 3: a play in race here, even though it's pretty abysmal.

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Speaker 3: I mean you can see, yeah, amazing, they're still in it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the thing that because it's it's I mean,

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Speaker 4: it's funny. The Spurs have dropped back again. Yeah, but

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Speaker 4: you know, Pelicans thunder rockets, they're largely out of even

835
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Speaker 4: though the Pelicans have the same wins as the Spurs.

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Speaker 4: But the Blazers just by default could find themselves in

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00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:16,799
Speaker 4: with a chance there. But again, okay, even if Little

838
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 4: comes back and he's great, and McCollum's playing, and they

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00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,839
Speaker 4: get in that they're really only extending the season. They're

840
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,399
Speaker 4: not sort of going to skyrocket up the standings there.

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00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 4: So I just think after ten years, it's it's probably

842
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 4: time to look for a new solution there, all right.

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00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:35,240
Speaker 3: Our next headline from ESPN never heard of it. Sources

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Speaker 3: Ben Simmons agent meets with the seventy six ers, but

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Speaker 3: sides no closer to resolution. Now. I put this in

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Speaker 3: our dock, and we usually have a little spot for like, oh,

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Speaker 3: I'll answer this first. You know, Tass will put his name,

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Speaker 3: Trey will put his name, he will put his name,

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Speaker 3: one of you wise asses, but far.

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Speaker 4: You Yeah. Look, you know in the pick and pay off,

851
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 4: if you're last, sometimes you're forced to swerve. You just

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00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:10,360
Speaker 4: are you know, it's the same with the answer. First

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Speaker 4: you look at the little lead ins and like, Trey's

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00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 4: got that one, has got that one your I've got

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Speaker 4: the Simmons one. Again. I was taking my kids to

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Speaker 4: school sometimes because I liked this morning.

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Speaker 1: Yeah you've got to I don't think your kids go

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Speaker 1: to school.

859
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Speaker 4: Well, I'm having breakfast, we're getting ready. I mean, it's

860
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 4: not like you wake up and you're out the door.

861
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:36,920
Speaker 4: You know, there's a whole are you eating beans for breakfast? No, no, no,

862
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 4: no oatmeal. But you know so you and you look

863
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 4: at it and just think I saw it all yesterday. Nothing happened.

864
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 4: They may as well have just got up and said

865
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 4: they had lunch and that was it. Because and I tweeted,

866
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 4: I tweeted, who pays for lunch in that situation? I'm

867
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,879
Speaker 4: saying it was like this. I think Ben Simmons said

868
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 4: to Rich like, what's going on? Man? And if you've spoken, no,

869
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 4: I haven't spoken. Can you just go and like meet

870
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 4: up with Darryl and Elton and see what's going on?

871
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 4: I think Rich Paul's Darryl and says, can we get

872
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:13,359
Speaker 4: together and talk about things? And and Daryl said, if

873
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 4: you want, there's nothing going on our end. Let's just

874
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 4: go and have lunch and talk it out, man to man,

875
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 4: let's try to find a solution. And Daryl said, all right,

876
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:22,479
Speaker 4: let's just go to a great restaurant. He's inviting us.

877
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:26,359
Speaker 4: Therefore the bill is his. Do you think Rich Rich

878
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 4: Paul has to be paid? They just pay for there on.

879
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 1: No one does that.

880
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 4: No, I does that. You go out for a meal,

881
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 4: It's like, okay, I'll get the check. So unless it

882
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 4: comes out of the escrow that they're not paying Simmons

883
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 4: right now? Do you think Rich and Darryl and Elton

884
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:41,840
Speaker 4: just said you want to just take it out of that?

885
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:46,800
Speaker 4: I mean, why not? So then Rich calls up, Ben

886
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 4: calls up Rich and says, how to go? Well, I

887
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 4: got bad news and even worse news. The bad news

888
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 4: is you're not being traded. Words is you had to

889
00:40:54,960 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 4: pay for lunch? Ah, That's all I want to say,

890
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 4: because nothing news to report, So I try to make

891
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 4: something a little bit funny out of it.

892
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:10,800
Speaker 3: You nailed it. Yeah, Well what do you think? Is

893
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 3: there anything you want to add to this? Wow? Nobody, no,

894
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:18,800
Speaker 3: norus frustrated putting it in because we got this school.

895
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 1: I was to say, you got it, you made something funny,

896
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 1: and we saw a fark.

897
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 3: Far.

898
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:33,799
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've ever sad. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

899
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:37,760
Speaker 1: I guess. I just like hearing their names, Darryl, Elton

900
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:43,319
Speaker 1: and Rich. Hey, Rich, what's the ideal with this situation?

901
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:48,880
Speaker 3: Trade? Did you want to jump in here? What do

902
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 3: you think they have it for lunch?

903
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 1: Uh?

904
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think Darryl's like Rich.

905
00:41:56,040 --> 00:42:00,439
Speaker 2: I was in Atlanta during the playoffs last year, as

906
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 2: a pork belly, and it was incredible.

907
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 3: Try it. It's good.

908
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 2: It's very rich, and it actually is. I don't know

909
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 2: what's mentioned in this report. Some teams have even described

910
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:16,800
Speaker 2: the Sixers asking price for a Simmons deal as growing

911
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 2: in price.

912
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 3: Not to Clay, I love it. I love it. Just

913
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 3: keep asking for more. Wear them down.

914
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:26,840
Speaker 2: We've heard the reports that the Sixers also want to

915
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 2: bias Harris into this trade, which Kyle Kuzma was laughing at.

916
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:34,319
Speaker 2: Sam Amick reported that the length and size of Ben

917
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 2: Simmons contract, which a lot of people thought would be

918
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:39,920
Speaker 2: a selling point for the Sixers, is actually a concern

919
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:41,879
Speaker 2: to teams that are going to be trading for him,

920
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 2: because I mean, you got to rearrange things when you

921
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:46,319
Speaker 2: trade for Ben Simmons, and you gotta do it for

922
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:47,879
Speaker 2: a little bit of time, Like he's gonna be stilling

923
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:51,880
Speaker 2: that for a couple of seasons. So to me, it

924
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 2: feels like we're going to be having a bunch more

925
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:56,880
Speaker 2: meals here, like we got another month of meals.

926
00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 3: Because I feel.

927
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:01,879
Speaker 2: Like Daryl Morey probably regrets the way things went down

928
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 2: with the Chris Paul trade at the end of his

929
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 2: tenure in Houston, where tension with the team kind of

930
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:10,400
Speaker 2: forced that trade to happen. Westbrook comes in and that

931
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:12,880
Speaker 2: was the end of title contention for the Rockets, just

932
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 2: like that. So he's obviously being a little bit more

933
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:20,319
Speaker 2: patient here. But man, there's a lot of meals. That's

934
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:21,280
Speaker 2: a lot of meals.

935
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:25,719
Speaker 3: Good thing. It was described as amicable and professional. Well yeah,

936
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:27,319
Speaker 3: and the other the whole thing too is I guess

937
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 3: from the sixer side of things, they say Simmons is

938
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 3: no closer to, you know, honoring the team's hopes for

939
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:35,800
Speaker 3: returning to action, because there is that too, Like he

940
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 3: could be in theory, could be playing for the Philadelphia

941
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 3: seventy six ers, but you know, you know rich and

942
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 3: I guess Ben Simmons himself say he's not in the

943
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 3: right headspace. And whether you believe that or not, you

944
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:49,879
Speaker 3: know who knows. But he's not gonna be playing for Melly. Well.

945
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,279
Speaker 4: The thing is, honestly, at some point, I would think

946
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,800
Speaker 4: Ben Simmons would be like, all right, fuck you, fuck everyone,

947
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 4: I'm going at it and I'm just gonna like go

948
00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 4: off to every rebound, try to push the bull, try

949
00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 4: to score get triple do was I don't care if

950
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:04,280
Speaker 4: we're going to lose, and because the fans will actually

951
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:06,759
Speaker 4: appreciate the effort and the hustle. Now, when we talked

952
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:08,880
Speaker 4: about Julius Randall booing and I was like, you shouldn't

953
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 4: do that, But then I was like, you guys are like, no,

954
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 4: you should because.

955
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 3: The fans respond to that.

956
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:14,799
Speaker 4: The fans will support Simmons if he goes out there

957
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:16,720
Speaker 4: and works his ass off, even.

958
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:17,720
Speaker 3: If it means he gets traded.

959
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 4: But him sitting there, you know, on the sidelines, not playing,

960
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 4: not competing, I think everyone's like, well, you're just pouting it,

961
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 4: like you've got to prove the Sixers have done the

962
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 4: wrong thing here by you know, not trading you or

963
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 4: not getting out. Look at how well you can play

964
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 4: when you are committed and focused. But he doesn't seem

965
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 4: to have that motivation. He'd rather just sit out and

966
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:38,879
Speaker 4: not do anything, which I think at the start, sure

967
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 4: you want to play that sort of card, but right now,

968
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:43,280
Speaker 4: why wouldn't you now just be like I can actually

969
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:45,359
Speaker 4: go out there and really embarrass the front office if

970
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 4: I go out and just play really really hard.

971
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 2: He's doing a go job already of what embarrassing in

972
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 2: the front office. Yeah, I mean, this has lasted too long.

973
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 2: This is like we saw Embard. He's putting up macad

974
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:00,880
Speaker 2: numbers right now. He's incredible. The guard play last night

975
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:03,960
Speaker 2: was why they lost the game, Like the Hornet's guards

976
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,879
Speaker 2: were incredible. Matisse Thibel couldn't score, so he couldn't stay

977
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 2: on the court to guard Gordon Hayward. And I think

978
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 2: it was twenty points combined from their starting backcourt. That's

979
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 2: just not going to get it done against the team

980
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 2: like the Nets, who has great backcourt players, or a

981
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 2: team like the Bucks, who's going to be able to

982
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 2: really shut down those role players in Curry and Tyrese MAXI.

983
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw an interesting comment on the Athletic. I

984
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:27,319
Speaker 3: think it was from a guy I wrote it down

985
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:29,840
Speaker 3: from Jim so shout out to Jim Gee, and I

986
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 3: thought this was an interesting way to put it. He says,

987
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 3: So the choices for Daryl Mory right now are one

988
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 3: hold firm on his asking price and potentially waste one

989
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:43,439
Speaker 3: year of Jowell Embiid's prime. Or two settle for say

990
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 3: seventy cents on the dollar type of trade and potentially

991
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 3: waste all of Dwell Embiad's prime with like a bad

992
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 3: return right rock in a hard place here for Maury Interesting.

993
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 3: I think there's some truth to that, but I just

994
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 3: want to make sure that if Ben Simmons doesn't get

995
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:03,799
Speaker 3: traded and doesn't play for Philly all year, and then

996
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 3: the Sixers go into the playoffs and let's say they

997
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 3: win a series or don't, and maybe because of their

998
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 3: guard play or their defense or whatever it is, I

999
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:14,040
Speaker 3: hope we are sitting here sort of taking the Sixers,

1000
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:16,359
Speaker 3: you know, going sort of crazy on them or going

1001
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 3: hard on them in the idea that they are wasting

1002
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 3: Jewell and Bead's a great year from Dwell and bed

1003
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 3: here if they come up short, because that's what's happening here.

1004
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 1: Well, if they don't do anything, not just this season,

1005
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:28,720
Speaker 1: but you take them to task for how they handled

1006
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 1: not the comments at Ben Simmons. You know, Doc said

1007
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 1: what he said after the game, and he said, I

1008
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 1: don't necessarily know if we've got a championship point guard,

1009
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:39,720
Speaker 1: but how they handled the summer right after that, because

1010
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:43,319
Speaker 1: it just went downhill. So that's where they made their

1011
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:45,919
Speaker 1: bed and Ben Simmons was extremely angry for those couple

1012
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: months and then it blew up then, so yes, it

1013
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 1: started then, and yet Darryl Morey's definitely it's a regret

1014
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 1: of his I'm sure to give away the entire team,

1015
00:46:56,719 --> 00:46:58,840
Speaker 1: the entire cupboard when he was with the Houston Rockets

1016
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 1: Westbrook Uh to get Westbrook end, he gave up Chris

1017
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:03,879
Speaker 1: Paul and all the draft picks. But I think he'll

1018
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 1: be kicking himself for the way he handled the offseason

1019
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,440
Speaker 1: as well if it doesn't work out here. But Uh

1020
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 1: got an.

1021
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:13,360
Speaker 3: Because he wants a return right that gives the Sixers

1022
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 3: a chance to compete for a championship. But in him

1023
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 3: saying that, is he not sort of saying I also

1024
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 3: don't believe we can win a championship with Embiid right

1025
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 3: now playing the way he is and then just good

1026
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 3: players around him.

1027
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 2: He is saying what he's saying exactly, and he's saying,

1028
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 2: I want to start because look at our team right now.

1029
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:32,919
Speaker 2: It's Joel Embiid with good players around him, like Max

1030
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 2: He's having a good season, Curry's having a good season,

1031
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 2: Tobias Harris, he's playing Gord yeah right, like Matist Thibel

1032
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:40,520
Speaker 2: probably will make an All defense team.

1033
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:42,880
Speaker 3: Trumple's playing well for lot of good players.

1034
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:44,960
Speaker 2: Around no great players except for Joel Embiid and that's

1035
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:46,760
Speaker 2: why they're in the bottom half of the Eastern Conference.

1036
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:50,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, but again, will you not be pissed off if

1037
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:52,480
Speaker 3: you're a Sixers fan if they lose in the first

1038
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 3: round or second round and beat is putting up monster.

1039
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:55,319
Speaker 3: Now he's gonna leave.

1040
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:57,720
Speaker 2: He's gonna leave if it keeps happening. That's what will happen.

1041
00:47:57,800 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 2: Be on the line for.

1042
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 3: Sure, for sure. Well, then that's worse on the organization here. Yeah, yeah, I.

1043
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:06,759
Speaker 2: Mean, were they should have traded Simmons six months ago? Yeah,

1044
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 2: if they were going to say what they said after

1045
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 2: the playoffs. If Embid and Doc Rivers came out immediately

1046
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:14,279
Speaker 2: after Game seven put it all on Ben Simmons, that's

1047
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 2: when they should have traded There was no way he

1048
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:16,759
Speaker 2: was ever coming back.

1049
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:20,400
Speaker 3: Okay. Our final headline here from the Athletic Great website.

1050
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:21,800
Speaker 3: You should go to the Athletic dot com slash no

1051
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 3: dun just get yourself a subscription. It's awesome because you

1052
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 3: can get headlines like this. Timberwolves hiring former Clutch executive

1053
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:33,400
Speaker 3: Marquise Watts too prominent executive Roles tass I needed you

1054
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 3: to tell me whether this is newsworthy.

1055
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 1: We just talked about the Philadelphia seventy six ers in

1056
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:41,319
Speaker 1: their work environment. Some not happy work environment matters, and

1057
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:45,359
Speaker 1: I think the Timberwolves can improve their work environment. And

1058
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:48,240
Speaker 1: it's been a trend in the NBA to bring somebody

1059
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: from the agency side, like Bob Myers with the Golden

1060
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:55,279
Speaker 1: State Warriors. He was an agent, came over and it's

1061
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 1: been a decade and that's when the turnaround really started

1062
00:48:57,600 --> 00:48:59,560
Speaker 1: in Golden State. We saw what happened with the Nicks

1063
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:04,240
Speaker 1: and Leon Rose last year. Things changed, and so Alex Rodriguez,

1064
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 1: who's assumed to be one of the owners of the

1065
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:08,480
Speaker 1: Minnesota Timberwolves, got into the nitty gritty in this article.

1066
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:13,320
Speaker 1: We're talking about stuff like shower heads, food in the clubhouse,

1067
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:17,960
Speaker 1: like the little thing redefining the player experience. I think, yeah,

1068
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 1: I mean, okay, sure, Like I think we see it

1069
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:25,200
Speaker 1: with the our Toronto Raptors, a practice facility, like real

1070
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 1: stuff that really matters. So it's like a chicken in

1071
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:30,920
Speaker 1: an egg scenario, what comes first, the professional organization or

1072
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 1: the professional team, professional team of the professional organization. Right

1073
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:35,839
Speaker 1: now with the Wolves not professional enough, but they can

1074
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 1: make the experience a little bit better. So yeah, I

1075
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:41,320
Speaker 1: think it. I think it does matter. Now, it doesn't

1076
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 1: work in every scenario, no, but but yeah you can.

1077
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:45,200
Speaker 3: You can.

1078
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 1: It's a player league. And that's one other thing that

1079
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:52,600
Speaker 1: Alex Rodriguez said. He said, coming from his baseball background,

1080
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:54,920
Speaker 1: this is different. Basketball is different in that it's it's

1081
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 1: led by players, player empowerment. The whole league is centered

1082
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 1: around the players, as it should be. They're the ones

1083
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 1: who make the money. And a great article about Michelle

1084
00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:07,319
Speaker 1: Roberts leading the players Union, talking about how she thinks

1085
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 1: that players should have a stake in teams. When a

1086
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 1: team is sold, that the money should go to the

1087
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:13,520
Speaker 1: players Union and everybody get a stake of it. I

1088
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:15,840
Speaker 1: say all that because it is a player's league. It

1089
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 1: all blocks of the players, and Alex Rodriguez is quite aware

1090
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:20,879
Speaker 1: of that, along with Mark Lauris. So yes, I think

1091
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:22,120
Speaker 1: this is great.

1092
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 3: Okay, because yeah, Shauan's in this article. He says, like

1093
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:29,799
Speaker 3: players who started their career in Minnesota and then would

1094
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:33,359
Speaker 3: go to another team, We're almost like, oh, wait, they're

1095
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:35,360
Speaker 3: doing it a little maybe better over here at this

1096
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 3: organization when it comes to like taking care of their

1097
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:40,839
Speaker 3: families and the programs and all that. So I guess

1098
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:44,440
Speaker 3: that's what Rodriguez and hiring Watts here who's worked at

1099
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:47,520
Speaker 3: Adidas Basketball before, and it's from the Minnesota area, and

1100
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 3: I think going to school there, that's what he'll sort

1101
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:52,479
Speaker 3: of bring to this. I think it's newsworthy though.

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00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 1: Sure.

1103
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 2: I think it's newsworthy because of the clutch connections. More

1104
00:50:56,719 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 2: so when the Anthony Edwards being a clutch client and

1105
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:01,440
Speaker 2: with Ben Simmons Obie being a clutch client, and the

1106
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:05,839
Speaker 2: Timberwolves being involved, you know, in the Ben Simmons talks

1107
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 2: for basically this entire time. So I think that is

1108
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 2: and I think Tas is exactly right. It's not surprising

1109
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:12,359
Speaker 2: to me the a rod a guy who went from

1110
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:15,240
Speaker 2: a small market in Seattle to a bigger market in Texas,

1111
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 2: to a humongous market in New York and then.

1112
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:19,719
Speaker 3: What was here from Marlin was here from Marlin. I

1113
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:20,319
Speaker 3: don't know about that.

1114
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 2: At the end of the Yankees, but he likes it swanky, swanky,

1115
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:26,000
Speaker 2: like the Yankees.

1116
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:26,960
Speaker 3: You gotta have perks.

1117
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 2: Everybody's got the same amount of money they can spend.

1118
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 2: Not everybody does spend the same amount, but they've all

1119
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:34,040
Speaker 2: got the same salary cap. They're working with the same rules,

1120
00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:37,080
Speaker 2: So what can you give as a perk. It ain't

1121
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 2: the weather in Minnesota, it ain't the history of winning,

1122
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:42,399
Speaker 2: So you might as well make everything else good. Get

1123
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 2: some incredible shower heads, make the facilities beautiful, and make

1124
00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 2: it a place that if you're drafted there, if you're

1125
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:50,359
Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards, you don't really have a choice where you're

1126
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 2: going to go. At least you can love it while

1127
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:53,880
Speaker 2: you're there and want to stick around.

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00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:56,440
Speaker 4: Well, that's the thing is, it's not a free agent destination.

1129
00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 4: So if they can make it more appealing, because it

1130
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:01,719
Speaker 4: is a tough place to live during the winter months.

1131
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:03,800
Speaker 4: I heard Sam Mitchell talk about that. You know, it

1132
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:06,840
Speaker 4: gets very very cold up there. More north and Toronto

1133
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 4: on the on the map, I believe.

1134
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:10,359
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1135
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:11,960
Speaker 4: So so yeah, you are.

1136
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:15,520
Speaker 3: That latitude remember, yeah, I think it's a.

1137
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 2: La latitude goes around latitude flatitude.

1138
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 4: That's great, you go, so that that's what it is.

1139
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 4: I mean, they and Mark Cuban did this when he

1140
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:28,280
Speaker 4: took over the Mavericks. He tried to really improve everything

1141
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 4: about the franchise so that people would want to go

1142
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:32,880
Speaker 4: there and live there and stay there and be a

1143
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:34,480
Speaker 4: part of that team. And that's the thing with the Wolves,

1144
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:36,920
Speaker 4: like when you look at their two stars, Towns and

1145
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:39,600
Speaker 4: Edwards were both drafted. Now Towns has been there for

1146
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:41,880
Speaker 4: quite a while, Edwards obviously in his second season. But

1147
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 4: if they can create an atmosphere that people go, I

1148
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:47,279
Speaker 4: think I could actually go and win there, then that's

1149
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:48,920
Speaker 4: going to help the Wolves because they haven't been a

1150
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:51,280
Speaker 4: very successful franchise since their existence.

1151
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 1: Really, were you thinking about Derek Jeter, because I was

1152
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 1: thinking Jeter. Yeah, he's in the front office.

1153
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:01,000
Speaker 3: Thinking Jeter, and I think lives in Miami.

1154
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 1: Probably that makes sense.

1155
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:04,160
Speaker 3: I think that's where his house is.

1156
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 1: He's probably got a good shower head. And that's Hey,

1157
00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:10,279
Speaker 1: shower heads matter. I mean, this ping pong table that

1158
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: we're sitting at matters. I love this ping pong table.

1159
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:15,120
Speaker 3: It's not gonna be here much longer.

1160
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:16,919
Speaker 1: I'm leaving. I'm leaving too.

1161
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 3: Wow, Holy crap, hear that g taking my table and leaving?

1162
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:22,759
Speaker 3: All right, Well, let's hear from everybody out there in

1163
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 3: the stream team listening later. All three of those Lillard's

1164
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:29,160
Speaker 3: you know, injury taking him out for six eight weeks.

1165
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:30,880
Speaker 3: The good news with that, I guess is they are

1166
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:33,359
Speaker 3: not saying he's done for the season. We'll find out

1167
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:36,399
Speaker 3: whether that's true depending on the record. Then of course

1168
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:38,280
Speaker 3: the Ben Simmons News. What did they have for lunch?

1169
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 3: Let leel us know, Rich, Paul, Darryl and Elton brand there?

1170
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:45,839
Speaker 4: What do you think they call him? Appetizes or appy?

1171
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:50,240
Speaker 1: Happy hour? They were? They weren't in happy hour? They

1172
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:51,800
Speaker 1: pay full break they okay?

1173
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 3: And then the final one there Marquis Watts joining the

1174
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:56,880
Speaker 3: Minnesota Timberwolves and and what he can sort of do

1175
00:53:56,960 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 3: to again redefine the player experience and whether that will

1176
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:00,880
Speaker 3: help the Wolves. Let us know, Okay, we'll take our

1177
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:02,799
Speaker 3: final break when we come back. Tweeted the night, pick

1178
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 3: up results and a little bit more. Don't go anywhere,

1179
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 3: all right, it's time for everyone's favorite part of the show.

1180
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:09,680
Speaker 3: Tweet of the.

1181
00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:17,160
Speaker 1: Night, Tweet of the night, Wow, Tweet of the night.

1182
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 2: TK bit of a one to two punch Here, skeezz

1183
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 2: areno our tweet of the night. I don't know if

1184
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:25,840
Speaker 2: you would say it comes from the Memphis Grizzlies or

1185
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 2: if it comes from John Hollinger. So let's start with

1186
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:30,879
Speaker 2: the Grizzlies part of this. They tweeted out a new

1187
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 2: promotion last night, New Year New Jerseys tomorrow, which is

1188
00:54:34,719 --> 00:54:38,239
Speaker 2: today at five pm. Kids twelve and under can exchange

1189
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:42,960
Speaker 2: any old opposing player NBA jersey for a new Jamorant

1190
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 2: or Jaron Jackson Junior replica jersey, plus you get two

1191
00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 2: tickets to the game. This is basically to take that

1192
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:54,040
Speaker 2: jersey off and dat me up, Primo. After Jamarant stared

1193
00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:57,319
Speaker 2: down a Warriors fan during their win over Golden State

1194
00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:01,640
Speaker 2: earlier this week, the John Hollinger Factor he quote tweets

1195
00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 2: this with here's a great, great question, what will be

1196
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 2: the number.

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00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:09,480
Speaker 3: One exchanged opponent jersey? So my question to both of

1198
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:13,120
Speaker 3: y'all is what will be the number one exchanged opponent jersey?

1199
00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:15,600
Speaker 2: And which of your jerseys would you trade in to

1200
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:17,480
Speaker 2: get a Jaw or a Jared.

1201
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:20,360
Speaker 4: You got a million, Yeah, I've got a Pozingis Nicks jersey.

1202
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:22,080
Speaker 4: I would trade that one in a hot.

1203
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:24,680
Speaker 2: I had that high on my list for traded in

1204
00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:27,080
Speaker 2: jerseys was a Porzingis jersey. Because you got to think

1205
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:29,279
Speaker 2: of a jersey that a lot of kids would have

1206
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:34,120
Speaker 2: that doesn't apply anymore. So Porzingis is good. A Kyrie

1207
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:37,200
Speaker 2: Irving Celtics Jersey. And then I think like an Anthony

1208
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:41,080
Speaker 2: Davis or Lonzo Ball New Orleans Pelicans Jersey because they're

1209
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:44,640
Speaker 2: kind of near to Memphis could be in the mix.

1210
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:48,280
Speaker 3: I feel like a Derek Rose Bulls jersey. Yeah, there's

1211
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:50,160
Speaker 3: a popular popular that's a good one years ago.

1212
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:52,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially because he went to Memphis.

1213
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:53,680
Speaker 3: Oh that's a really good one.

1214
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 1: You think of that part. Yeah, it was a while back.

1215
00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:59,800
Speaker 1: You know, a kid under twelve, but yeah.

1216
00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:01,640
Speaker 3: They are adult jerseys as well.

1217
00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:01,879
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1218
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:05,399
Speaker 3: Right, there's gonna be a lot of like, hey, kid,

1219
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:09,239
Speaker 3: take this jersey. Doesn't you get those tickets and a replicatory?

1220
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:12,160
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, Rose obviously really popular. I think it was

1221
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:16,000
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, six twenty sixteen, you's still on the top

1222
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:20,799
Speaker 1: ten jersey sales. So it's definitely a possibility. Yeah, guys

1223
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:23,840
Speaker 1: who played near Memphis or played at Memphis. James Wiseman

1224
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:26,560
Speaker 1: just played there. I don't know if there's a few

1225
00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:29,200
Speaker 1: there that a few Warriors Wiseman jerseys hanging out. They're

1226
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:31,919
Speaker 1: getting good pup for this. The Grizzlies are they shouldeah smart.

1227
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:34,120
Speaker 1: It's only two hundred and fifty jerseys that they're doing though.

1228
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:39,920
Speaker 1: It's a small number if you read small number. But

1229
00:56:40,239 --> 00:56:41,480
Speaker 1: it's cool. It's a cool thing.

1230
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:45,040
Speaker 3: What jersey would you great question shop in for? For

1231
00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:46,880
Speaker 3: a Ja Morant or a Jaron Jackson.

1232
00:56:47,719 --> 00:56:50,080
Speaker 1: I would give up. It's gonna be hard, but I'd

1233
00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:52,239
Speaker 1: give up my Mecca Oka for Charlotte Bobb.

1234
00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:52,600
Speaker 3: Wow.

1235
00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:59,120
Speaker 1: Right, Orange. I can't wear it unless i'm, you know,

1236
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:01,719
Speaker 1: in a costume with my wife where two of us

1237
00:57:01,719 --> 00:57:04,839
Speaker 1: are slipping into this jersey because it's like it's like

1238
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:08,479
Speaker 1: four people wide. It was it's like a plus four

1239
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:12,160
Speaker 1: w it's not plus four a long. I can't think

1240
00:57:12,160 --> 00:57:13,880
Speaker 1: of another jersey. I give up. I love my Wesley

1241
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:20,160
Speaker 1: Matthews Jazz jersey. Wow. I love my Malcolm Delaney Hawks jersey.

1242
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 1: I've got. You can give up that one. Nope, it's

1243
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:26,520
Speaker 1: a cool jersey. Uh, it's the checker pattern. I got

1244
00:57:26,520 --> 00:57:31,600
Speaker 1: a bron just can't get it. Never warran it, no way.

1245
00:57:31,640 --> 00:57:34,120
Speaker 1: I got a Steph probably won't give that one up.

1246
00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:36,680
Speaker 4: I've got a Denver Nugget sleeve jersey. I think we

1247
00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:40,280
Speaker 4: all go slee There's no number name on the back,

1248
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:42,800
Speaker 4: so it's like, okay, just take it, you know. I

1249
00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 4: like the design, but it's like, well, if you're getting

1250
00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 4: me a Ja Moran in return, I'll make that deal.

1251
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:51,440
Speaker 1: Will they even take that as a jersey? I think

1252
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:52,080
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen.

1253
00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:53,960
Speaker 3: What are they gonna do with all the I was

1254
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:55,680
Speaker 3: gonna ask, what are they gonna do with these jersey?

1255
00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:58,200
Speaker 3: Are going to good Will? Yeah, they're giving them to charity?

1256
00:57:58,360 --> 00:57:59,160
Speaker 3: Okay like that?

1257
00:57:59,320 --> 00:57:59,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that.

1258
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 4: It's the best thing to do because you can imagine

1259
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:04,320
Speaker 4: someone like, there's no way, there's no way anyone wants

1260
00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:06,439
Speaker 4: this jersey, so I throw it in the trash. But yeah,

1261
00:58:06,640 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 4: we've got to do the right thing.

1262
00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:09,920
Speaker 3: I'm definitely trying to think of one of the jerseys

1263
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:13,840
Speaker 3: that I got because we did a Halloween costume. Probably

1264
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:19,120
Speaker 3: I think I have a River's Wizards jersey. Yeah, yeah,

1265
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 3: so I trade that one.

1266
00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:21,640
Speaker 4: You got sixes.

1267
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:23,480
Speaker 3: I don't think I have that one. I definitely have

1268
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:26,240
Speaker 3: a Chris Paul Hacket because I was a CP three.

1269
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 1: Oh I didn't get to keep my Halloween jersey.

1270
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:32,920
Speaker 3: I mean I didn't ask anybody.

1271
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:39,160
Speaker 2: You could have kept the trust me. Yea LaMarcus Aldridge Spurs.

1272
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:43,520
Speaker 3: It's a laser yeah, blazers. Funny mistaken Oh well yeah,

1273
00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:46,760
Speaker 3: smart thinking there by the Grizzlies organization to it to

1274
00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:48,960
Speaker 3: take that Ja Moran moment, which I don't even think

1275
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:50,960
Speaker 3: we talked about. Did we where he went up into

1276
00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:53,640
Speaker 3: the stands? Did we get into that on the show

1277
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:55,240
Speaker 3: or do we talk about a pre show?

1278
00:58:56,480 --> 00:58:58,240
Speaker 1: We didn't talk about it. Yeah, I've never seen it.

1279
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:00,840
Speaker 3: There, but anyway, very very funny. Okay, pick the results

1280
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:03,680
Speaker 3: from last night. It was the Nets Bulls game. Brooklyn

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Speaker 3: was favored by one and a half on the road there.

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Speaker 3: This brought to you by Bet MGM of course. And

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Speaker 3: I took the nets. Task, you took the Nets, and

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Speaker 3: you know they hammered them there in the second half,

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Speaker 3: as we talked about off the top of the show.

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Speaker 3: So I'm rolling right now. I'm six and two. I'm

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Speaker 3: feeling good. I'm seeing things now again. Task and cruise

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Speaker 3: to three and five. Lee and Trey fall to three

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Speaker 3: and five. So it's a three way tie at the

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Speaker 3: bottom here between you three. So what's tonight's game.

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Speaker 1: I'm just sticking with the Mammoth Games, the Monster Games

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Speaker 1: TNT doubleheader tonight, Golden State going into Milwaukee, a potential

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Speaker 1: finals matchup the Milwaukee Bucks. Only two and a half

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Speaker 1: point favorites at home because they're facing the Warriors, of course,

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Speaker 1: and I along with Lee are taking the Golden State

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Speaker 1: Warriors skeets and Trade taking the bucks. I just think

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Speaker 1: Steph and KD are linked this season. Katie had an

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Speaker 1: incredible game yesterday his team walloped the Bulls, and I

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Speaker 1: think although Steph has been low, I just feel like

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Speaker 1: recently his his play is gonna shoot right back up.

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Speaker 1: We'll see a great stuff game tonight.

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Speaker 3: I've got to ask to because I'm seeing the graphic

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Speaker 3: here on YouTube. Are you guys three and five or

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Speaker 3: Trey and lead four and four? I thought you were.

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Speaker 4: I think we're all three and five.

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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, good bad mouth, that's okay. I told you

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Speaker 2: you're like in a Westbrook run right. I'm not firing

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Speaker 2: on all cylinders right now.

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Speaker 3: You guys. Make New Year's resolution, Yes, mine was. My

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Speaker 3: real one was to start waking up early this year.

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Speaker 2: I want to get a lot of stuff done before

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Speaker 2: everybody in the house wakes up. It's been a transition. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's been a little bit of a transition.

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Speaker 4: Get there.

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Speaker 1: You're up this morning, though, I saw I saw you

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Speaker 1: on the Slackies.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, how it is.

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Speaker 2: I actually slept in this morning because I fell asleep

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Speaker 2: on the couch watching that Hole Sea. But that was

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Speaker 2: a plan to sleep and that was my first one

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Speaker 2: of the year. Okay, I'll be better tomorrow, so I promise.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: You guys are all three and five and we are

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Speaker 3: split on tonight's war yours Bucks game. That's, like you said,

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Speaker 3: one of the big ones on t n T first one.

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Speaker 1: I guess first one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, what's that on?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It's a good one, I think, is it?

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Speaker 4: Come on, you go Blazes Nuggets?

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Speaker 3: Good night?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess I was thinking about weed and I

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Speaker 1: saw that, Oh, blazing Nuggets. That's a good one. Not

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Speaker 1: so much basketball game, but it's a good it's a

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Speaker 1: good play on.

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Speaker 3: Well, here's what we can maybe do on the Drop

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Speaker 3: podcast tomorrow because there's not a lot of games on,

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Speaker 3: you know, hopefully we get some some some good ones

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Speaker 3: and we will definitely talk about them if they are close.

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Speaker 3: It's the mid season of the the midway point excuse

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Speaker 3: me of the season, so we could definitely do some

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Speaker 3: awards or some big questions as we hit the halfway mark.

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Speaker 3: So maybe we'll do that on the Drop podcast tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you got to start answer like, get your quick

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Speaker 3: in the dock. You've already you've probably already created the dock.

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Speaker 4: Maybe that's what I'll do though, instead of all hold

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Speaker 4: off and I'll gonna.

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Speaker 3: It's just the student stuff.

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Speaker 4: It's just that's that's all it is you're looking at.

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Speaker 4: Maybe Simmons will get traded tonight, you never know. I

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Speaker 4: just imagine them all sitting around the restaurant. Do you think

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Speaker 4: there are morey tutsis napkin into these?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 3: Sure, well you've you've you've.

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Speaker 2: Gone, but we only snacked, we didn't meet. Yeah, they

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Speaker 2: said it was amicable and professional. Yeah, your napkin and

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Speaker 2: your collar profession.

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Speaker 3: What it was?

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Speaker 4: Its pasta you know, it's like, I don't want to

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Speaker 4: spill it all over mine should let me ask.

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Speaker 2: You this, If Ben Simmons got traded tonight, would you

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Speaker 2: sign up to answer first what you think about the trade?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely? Because that would be news, that would be something

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Speaker 4: we could actually get.

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Speaker 3: How does the new team? Yeah, the Sixers got back.

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, not whether he calls them or nerves or appies?

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Speaker 3: What you got? All right? Well, that's tomorrow, that's a

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Speaker 3: draw podcast later today, we are going to do another

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Speaker 3: popping packs. Oh yeah, yeah, So we'll file that up

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Speaker 3: in I don't know, an hour and a half or so.

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Speaker 3: think we got a nice jumbo pack of like ninety

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Speaker 3: one ninety two upper deck those beautiful cards. So join

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01:03:24,240 --> 01:03:26,200
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01:03:26,200 --> 01:03:29,200
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01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:31,680
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Speaker 3: giggling at something.

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Speaker 4: Amelia Ahat in the stream team says, Maury looks like

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Speaker 4: a napkin Tucker. Maybe I'm just saying I'm just saying

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Speaker 4: I'm not the only one who takes it.

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Speaker 3: Maybe he's a napkin Deckernak Tugers sounds like a Seinfeld.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. So email in your questions, follow

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Speaker 3: dot Com slash No Dunks until later today with Popping Packs.

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Speaker 3: Clipper bros. You heard it here at first. Have a

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Speaker 3: great time, turn up. Love you guys awesome.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, and remember enjoy the ping pong

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Speaker 1: table while it's here. I know, I am.

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Speaker 3: I liked you guys were playing like tickling the ivory

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Speaker 3: on the ping pong table when we had that little

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Speaker 3: music coming.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very nice. Em Brace the eight people