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Brian Geltzeiler | Sirius XM NBA Radio Host | 07-02-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: I do like Brian Goeltzader like Brian for years. He's
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  Speaker 1: on the NBA channel on Sirius XM and will take
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  Speaker 1: a little break from.
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  Speaker 2: All the political self talk MBA with my friend Brian. Brian,
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, buddy.
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  Speaker 3: How are you? I'm great, Sid. How you doing my man?
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing well.
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  Speaker 2: So stephen A.
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  Speaker 1: Smith got a little hot water because he talked about
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers now basically being a white team. Not their
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  Speaker 1: three best players are all white because Lebron James has
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  Speaker 1: decided not to come back, and he's right. They got
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  Speaker 1: Luka Doncik, he's white. They got Austin Reeves, he's white.
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  Speaker 1: So three white guys have become the base of the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: People think you can't win in the NBA. If that's
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  Speaker 1: the case, could be Bonnie, could be not. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but Lebron James looks like Golden State, Miami or Cleveland.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have a pick?
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  Speaker 3: You know? I think it's gonna be Golden State, But
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how prominent Miami is in this mix?
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  Speaker 3: Did I The vibes I'm getting and what I'm hearing
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  Speaker 3: is that it's either gonna be Golden State or Cleveland.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting thing with both of those teams. In the offseason,
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  Speaker 3: Draymond Green opted out of the last year of his contract.
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  Speaker 3: He is a Clutch Sports client, which is obviously Rich
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  Speaker 3: Paul and Lebron's firm, and the whole idea there is
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  Speaker 3: to free up enough money to give Lebron something to
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  Speaker 3: entice him to come there in. Money's not going to
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  Speaker 3: be a huge part of this, and there's not gonna
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  Speaker 3: be huge money in this for Lebron. This is about
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  Speaker 3: going somewhere where he's got a chance to win and
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  Speaker 3: chance to enjoy finishing his career. So Draymond Green's done that,
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  Speaker 3: and then James Harden did the same thing in Cleveland.
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  Speaker 3: He declined his player option and his idea is to
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  Speaker 3: get more years added on at less money per year,
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  Speaker 3: allowing the casts to be able to fit Lebron in.
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  Speaker 3: So you had both of those moves there. The problem
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  Speaker 3: with Miami is Miami is there. They're capped at the
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  Speaker 3: first Apron because of his Giannis trade and they just
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  Speaker 3: don't have a lot of room for him. Now, again,
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  Speaker 3: money's not gonna be prominent in all of this, but
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  Speaker 3: I do think Lebron going somewhere with people he wants
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  Speaker 3: to be around and spend time with. I know Lebron is.
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  Speaker 3: I spent a lot of time in October and Cleveland
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  Speaker 3: with that organization, a full six hours one day. I
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  Speaker 3: know this. They're very fond of Lebron James personally. No listen,
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  Speaker 3: love to of course, love to have him back home
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  Speaker 3: to Lebron, Curry, Draymond, those those are his buddies. You
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  Speaker 3: have a blast doing that. So I think he's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be one of those two teams.
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  Speaker 1: All right, there you go, he says, either Golden State
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  Speaker 1: or Cleveland. Brian geltzaler on Lebron James. The Knicks, we
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  Speaker 1: said goodbye yesterday to one of the more popular players,
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  Speaker 1: not even a starter, but he's been there for so
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  Speaker 1: many years and came up big, even a moment's coming
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  Speaker 1: off the bench in this championship run. Mitchell Robinson is gone.
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  Speaker 1: But the funny part is, not only is Mitchell Robinson gone,
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  Speaker 1: but he goes to the nemesis, the Boston Celtics.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, it's a it's a Knicks did not have a
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  Speaker 3: wonder morning yesterday morning in trying to keep this thing
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  Speaker 3: together and give themselves a backup center. Because ultimately, James
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  Speaker 3: Dolan doesn't want to go into the second apron. Now
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  Speaker 3: what does that mean? It essentially means Adam Dolan doesn't
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  Speaker 3: care about paying the luxury tax money they print money
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  Speaker 3: at MSG said, you know that the thing for Jim
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  Speaker 3: Dolan that bothers them here is the roster restrictions and
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  Speaker 3: the lack of flexibility when you go into the second apron.
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  Speaker 3: So the Knicks did make a decision that they were
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  Speaker 3: not going to bring back Mitchell Robinson. And with that said,
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  Speaker 3: I don't mean they thought he was gonna do my
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  Speaker 3: Ona Celtics, so that that wasn't necessarily an ideal scenario
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  Speaker 3: the Knicks there. But the other thing that happened quietly
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  Speaker 3: is listen, we saw Ariel Huckporty play a little bit
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  Speaker 3: in the finals and it was bad. And to me,
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  Speaker 3: I thought though he was the best choice to promote
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  Speaker 3: to replace Mitchell Robinson. See if that works, especially if
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  Speaker 3: you weren't going to go into the second apron, come
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  Speaker 3: to the trade deadline, you got to get a backup center.
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  Speaker 3: You can Huckporty. The Knicks they declined his option, thinking
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  Speaker 3: they could bring him back on a cheaper number. Because
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  Speaker 3: again the Knicks Margins with the second apron or slim
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  Speaker 3: and the Sixers swooped in and grabbed them at a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of a number above. Yeah, and now the
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  Speaker 3: knickser are in a little bit of a pickle trying
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  Speaker 3: to find a backup center. May have to make a
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  Speaker 3: trade to do that because it's a vital spot for them.
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  Speaker 3: And how this team is constructed and had his team.
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  Speaker 1: Plays, especially with kat he always goes in the foul
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  Speaker 1: trouble early on. Needs some big bodies on the court.
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  Speaker 1: And you mentioned Porti going to Philadelphia, and listen, I
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  Speaker 1: know we keep talking up Philly every year. Embiid and Maxi.
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  Speaker 1: They brought in Harding, they brought in Paul George. This
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  Speaker 1: is a completely different animal. They get Jalen Brown from
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  Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics. And I'm sorry, but if you can
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  Speaker 1: go to war with Embiid, Jalen Brown, Maxie, They've got
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  Speaker 1: other good players on that basketball team. I think this
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  Speaker 1: may finally be the year with the seventy six Ers.
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  Speaker 2: All le jit.
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  Speaker 3: Here's what I mean. Listen, this is a home run
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  Speaker 3: deal for the Philadelphia seventy six Ers. What I love
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  Speaker 3: about it is Jalen Brown is the kind of lead
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  Speaker 3: guy to go at Esse Maxi that makes them embeed proof.
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  Speaker 3: You know, MV listen MB, you know it's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna get hurt at the wrong time. He always does.
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  Speaker 3: And and listen, I'm not killing the guy. He's a
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  Speaker 3: wonderful player when he's on the floor. He's just not
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  Speaker 3: on the floor all that much. And Philly's in a
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  Speaker 3: bad situation with him contract wise, but Dave essentially built
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  Speaker 3: a team that makes his contract bravy. This backcourt of
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  Speaker 3: Teresse Maxi and DJ Edgecombe is fantastic. And then you
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  Speaker 3: look at putting Jalen Brown in that mix. You will
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  Speaker 3: beat a lot of teams with that JOELLENPII on the floor.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, they got this a nice backup
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  Speaker 3: center in Arion Hockport right that role there, Yes, that
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  Speaker 3: that that'll work nicely for them too. They signed Dean
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  Speaker 3: Wade yesterday morning in free agency, who's a very good
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  Speaker 3: defensive player. Didn't make a lot of threes for the
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  Speaker 3: Cavs in the playoffs, but has the potential to be
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  Speaker 3: a very good three point shooter. A six foot ten wing.
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  Speaker 3: Philly is tough man Philly's gonna be really, really good.
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  Speaker 3: And listen, it's very interesting because we were looking at
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  Speaker 3: the Celtics with Tatum and Brown, thinking they could be
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  Speaker 3: a challenge once again to the Knicks next year. Philly's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be a much bigger challenge than they are.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I told you this morning. He disagreed with me.
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  Speaker 1: I told you justin Philly's gonna be the bigger challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Although Boston again Tatum comes back healthy this year. He
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  Speaker 1: is not really healthy most of the year. Last year
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  Speaker 1: they did add Mitchell Robinson. I'm not sure what poor
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  Speaker 1: George as left, but you know, obviously when you lose Brown,
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  Speaker 1: you don't win adding Robinson and George, but a healthy
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  Speaker 1: Jason Tatum White is still there.
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  Speaker 2: They could still be very very good.
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  Speaker 3: I agree said and I think people like people are
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  Speaker 3: piling on the Celtics this morning. The Celtics put themselves
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  Speaker 3: in a very very bad spot by not being willing
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  Speaker 3: to pony up enough in these Giannis talks and once
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  Speaker 3: the fact that they floated Jalen Brown publicly in a
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  Speaker 3: Giannis deal. This was after Jylen Brown won in this
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  Speaker 3: crazy Twitch stream as soon as their season end and
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  Speaker 3: kind of turned everybody off in Boston. Then you get
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  Speaker 3: the analytics community and said, I don't know if you
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  Speaker 3: saw what happened over the weekend on X, but Bobby Marks,
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  Speaker 3: ESPN's front office insider, who's a fantastic analyst in terms
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  Speaker 3: of the NBA, does a terrific job. Came on My
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  Speaker 3: show with Me and Sam Mitchell, and Bobby made a
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  Speaker 3: comment that he spoke to an analytics guy in one
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  Speaker 3: of the front offices of the league who said that
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  Speaker 3: Jalen Brown, from an analytics standpoint, is a seventh best
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  Speaker 3: player on the team. And again, the numbers on the
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  Speaker 3: spreadsheet don't make Jaylen Brown look wonderful. We don't play
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  Speaker 3: the game on the spreadsheet. We play it on the
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  Speaker 3: basketball court. The guy is a killer and he matches
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  Speaker 3: up great with people. But there's a lot of analytics
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  Speaker 3: guys that look at those numbers and want to stay
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  Speaker 3: away that and kind and then Brown went at Bobby
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  Speaker 3: Marx on Twitter in a very aggressive way, and that
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  Speaker 3: kind of stuff turned teams off. I know that for
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  Speaker 3: a fact, is that you know what will exactly be
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  Speaker 3: bringing into our program with this guy, because again, he
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  Speaker 3: had a great year of Boston everything should be happy.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't seem all He said he had his most
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  Speaker 3: fun year, but it doesn't seem all that happy with
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  Speaker 3: the pups, So so you seek. So it philed. What
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  Speaker 3: Boston did here is they had a rapidly shrinking market
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  Speaker 3: for Jalen Brown, and they figured, you know what, we
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  Speaker 3: bring PG in. We've gotten some reinforcements with Robinson here,
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  Speaker 3: we're keeping Derek White, we have some young guys that
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  Speaker 3: we think can get better. Even though we take a
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  Speaker 3: step back this year, we added valuable draft capital that
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  Speaker 3: we can use with George's expiring contract to upgrade this team.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the other point no one's making about the Steel
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  Speaker 3: sid all right, the Boston had this like alpha dog problem,
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  Speaker 3: whose team is it? And it was always good to
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  Speaker 3: be Tatum's team, and then they had this surprising year
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  Speaker 3: last year where Jalen Brown was an MVP candidate and
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  Speaker 3: had this super year, and now all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 3: they don't know whose team it is. They want it
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  Speaker 3: to be Jason Tatum's team. They didn't want it to
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  Speaker 3: be Jaln Brown's team, and they were rightfully afraid of
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  Speaker 3: Jalen Brown trying to hijack that and you think his
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  Speaker 3: value is bad. Now he comes to training camp and
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  Speaker 3: stirs everything up and him and Tatum are not exactly
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  Speaker 3: cooking his peas and carrots. And by the way, I
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  Speaker 3: don't think Tatum's right about everything either. Jaylen Brown was,
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  Speaker 3: I know, for a fact, not all that happy that
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  Speaker 3: Jason Tatum chose to not play in Game seven of
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  Speaker 3: the Philly series in the first round when maybe he
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  Speaker 3: could have. Now. Listen, Tatum just came back with Achilles' injury.
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  Speaker 3: I understand that, but there was definitely something there. You
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  Speaker 3: never heard Jason Tatum once with all this stuff going
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  Speaker 3: on with Jaylen Brown going hey, keep my guy here.
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  Speaker 3: I want them. So they're trying to avoid something here
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  Speaker 3: and they took cents on the dollar to avoid it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, kind of like George and Soda with the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: Toronto may be better. They bring back Kawhi Leonard. He
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  Speaker 1: won a championship there a couple of years ago with
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  Speaker 1: the former Nikobokers Quickly and Auj Barrett. But one more
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  Speaker 1: on the Knicks will let you run, Brian, and that
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  Speaker 1: is they did lose Mitchell Robinson to the Celtics, but
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  Speaker 1: they kept for four years our assassin coming off the bench.
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  Speaker 1: Landry's still here, Landry Shamitz still here.
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  Speaker 3: You know what, It's a super deal value wise for
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  Speaker 3: the next million dollars a year from what that guy brings,
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna shoot forty percent from three and became a
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  Speaker 3: good defensive player. That's an absolute bargain. And the thing
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  Speaker 3: is for the Knicks, they don't need a really big,
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  Speaker 3: long wing off the bench because they have long wings
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  Speaker 3: in the starting line. If an og Anobi and Mikhale bridges,
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  Speaker 3: so the wing may bring in could be a little
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  Speaker 3: bit smaller. So Shamman is a perfect fit for this team.
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  Speaker 3: And listen, they essentially prioritize Shamant over Huck forty and
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  Speaker 3: as long as they find a way to fill the
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  Speaker 3: backup center spot, that should play out okay and look good. Listen,
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  Speaker 3: I know Knick fans would have loved if Jim. If
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  Speaker 3: Jim Dolan would have gone into the second apron, I
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  Speaker 3: probably think for the year they could have and not
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  Speaker 3: really handcuff themselves that much. But also with the way
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  Speaker 3: these league rules are, I understand why he didn't because
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  Speaker 3: of the restrictions. With all that said, finding a way
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  Speaker 3: to stay under the second apron and bring back, Bring
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  Speaker 3: back Landrew Shammitt was a very nice job by Leon
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  Speaker 3: Rose in that front office.
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  Speaker 2: What are you hearing about Kelly Ubray possibly to the Knicks.
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  Speaker 3: Did you hear that No Uber already with Indiana? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Oh he did?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that was yesterday. Okay, there you have it.
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  Speaker 3: Who do you deal with Indiana? Yes? Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 3: Sid right now? These deals are flying in fast and furious.
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  Speaker 3: It's very very fluid in the NBA this time of year.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you're going to be back again next week.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe Lebron will decide sooner than later. I think
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  Speaker 1: he wants to. So this was a great job today.
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  Speaker 1: Brian Galtzana. Will do it again next week. Serious XM
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  Speaker 1: NBA Radio. Great NBA guy, terrific guy as well, Brian Gutzalo.
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  Speaker 2: Brian, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: And it is always my pleasure, my guy, reach out anytime.
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  Speaker 3: We will talk soon, my man.
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  Speaker 1: Love you, Brian Goutzano right here on SID and Friends
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