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LeBron James and Lakers Fail to Close Houston and Aaron Rodgers Drama Saga Continues · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to the Daily Play with Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: Play Joey Taylor. So the NBA Playoffs continue. The big
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  Speaker 2: game that everyone was looking forward to is Lakers and Rockets,
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  Speaker 2: assuming that the Lakers would take care of business and
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  Speaker 2: close the Rockets out.
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  Speaker 1: However, they did not.
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  Speaker 2: They missed their chance and lost ninety nine to ninety three,
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  Speaker 2: despite Austin Reeves coming back and scoring twenty two points
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  Speaker 2: in his return from injury. So the series now shifts
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  Speaker 2: back to Houston for Game six on Friday. It was
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  Speaker 2: a silver lining that Austin Reeves was able to come back.
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  Speaker 2: He looked a bit rusty at times, but he did
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  Speaker 2: still drop twenty two points and he gave the Lakers
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  Speaker 2: the secondary playmaking that they have desperately laxed with him
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  Speaker 2: not being out there and the loss of Luka Doncic.
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  Speaker 2: But the series now heads back to Houston for Game
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  Speaker 2: six and all eyes are going to be on Reeves
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  Speaker 2: to have a really big performance and the Rockets season.
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  Speaker 2: Before the game started, Reeves spoke about his readiness. He said,
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  Speaker 2: I want to get back out there as fast as
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  Speaker 2: I can, have done everything I could do to be
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  Speaker 2: in good condition, be in somewhat of a rhythm as
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  Speaker 2: I can, to go out there when I'm able to
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  Speaker 2: get on the court, to try and make it as
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  Speaker 2: seamlessly as possible. I can't wait to get up and
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  Speaker 2: attack another day. They also talked about not having any
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  Speaker 2: minutes restrictions on him, so I think that he is
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  Speaker 2: the key to winning Game six. What I don't like
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  Speaker 2: about this is extra time for Lebron James, who is
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  Speaker 2: forty one years old and just had to play thirty
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  Speaker 2: eight brutal minutes in a loss where he shot under
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  Speaker 2: forty percent. So every extra game in this series, every
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  Speaker 2: dragon is an advantage to the Oklahoma City Thunder who
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  Speaker 2: are young, who are sitting at home, rested and waiting.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't believe this is one of those old
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  Speaker 2: you want more rest type of thing.
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  Speaker 1: They just want a championship.
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  Speaker 2: They know what it takes to go through the NBA
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  Speaker 2: playoffs and get to the finals and win. So maybe
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  Speaker 2: Game one the first quarter isn't great for you know,
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  Speaker 2: those of you pay attention to those things. But I
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  Speaker 2: don't think that this is an advantage at all for
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  Speaker 2: the Lakers to be dragging this series out while OKC
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  Speaker 2: is sitting at home.
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  Speaker 1: They're younger, They're gonna have fresher legs.
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  Speaker 2: And while I think Reeves will play a really significant
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  Speaker 2: role in Game six if the Lakers do end up winning, why, like,
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  Speaker 2: it just would have been so much better for the
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  Speaker 2: Lakers to close out at home get this series behind them.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't look like the Rockets are going to get
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  Speaker 2: Kevin Durant back. I don't think that all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: the amnem has shifted to the.
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  Speaker 1: Rockets like this.
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  Speaker 2: This was still available to the Lakers at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the game, even though most of the game the
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  Speaker 2: Rockets felt like they were in control. I just don't
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  Speaker 2: know how much more Lebron's tank is gonna be full
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  Speaker 2: once this series.
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  Speaker 1: Is over heading into Oka See.
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  Speaker 2: Not that I really think they have chance at okay
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  Speaker 2: See at all, but if we want this to be
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  Speaker 2: a good series, we're gonna want everybody to be where
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  Speaker 2: they need to be.
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  Speaker 1: They also shot terrible from three.
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  Speaker 2: They shot seven for twenty seven, twenty six percent from
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  Speaker 2: three and forty two percent from the field Thursday night.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, the Rockets are feeling great.
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  Speaker 2: After the game, Sengoon said, of course they're coming back
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  Speaker 2: to Ola for Game seven. Everyone feels amazing and nobody's hired.
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  Speaker 2: So look, I don't think they're coming back for Game seven.
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  Speaker 2: But I also thought the Lakers were gonna close them
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  Speaker 2: out in Los Angeles at Crypto and they did not
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  Speaker 2: do that. So we will see what Houston's answer is
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  Speaker 2: for them in game six.
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  Speaker 1: So the Aaron Rodgers.
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  Speaker 2: Saga has taken a bit of a turn so after
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  Speaker 2: the season. Obviously, he has reunited with Mike McCarthy in Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 2: which I have lots of thoughts on, but he's been
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  Speaker 2: a little incognito since uh leaving the Steelers in the
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  Speaker 2: dark about his twenty twenty six plans. So the Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 2: Steelers have had to make a move. They've gone deep
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  Speaker 2: into spring for the second straight year without any clarity
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  Speaker 2: on what he is going to do, so they made
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  Speaker 2: a rare procedural.
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  Speaker 1: Move to box him in.
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  Speaker 2: They placed the unrestricted free agent tender on Aaron Rodgers,
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  Speaker 2: so it guarantees a ten percent raise, but it also
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  Speaker 2: ensures that they are tied to him so they can
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  Speaker 2: match any offer that he has. Basically This is how
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  Speaker 2: Schefter explained it. They place the first writer refugal tender
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  Speaker 2: on Aaron Rodgers, meaning he can accept a ten percent
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  Speaker 2: raise off of last year's salary, which would pay him
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  Speaker 2: about fifteen million this season, and they also have the
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  Speaker 2: right to match any offer sheet that he would sign
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  Speaker 2: with another team. They'll receive exclusivity on negotiating rights if
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  Speaker 2: he does not sign by July twenty seconds, so it
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  Speaker 2: essentially guarantees that Rogers will either play for Pittsburgh in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six or he will retire. This is exhausting
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  Speaker 2: for me as a Steelers fan, as someone who has
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  Speaker 2: watched this team their entire life, as someone who thinks
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  Speaker 2: of this ORGANI as a very high quality, winning organization.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't understand being held hostage by a forty
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  Speaker 2: two year old Aaron Rodgers. And I know everyone was
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  Speaker 2: losing their minds about how he played last year. Where
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  Speaker 2: did that get to all that work and where did
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  Speaker 2: it get you a blowout in the first round of
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs?
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  Speaker 1: I just when is this organization going to go into
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  Speaker 1: the future.
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  Speaker 2: And I really do like Mike McCarthy, but moving on
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  Speaker 2: from Mike Tomlin to Mike McCarthy. It just seems like
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  Speaker 2: more of the same. I think Mike Tomlin is a
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  Speaker 2: better coach than Mike McCarthy. So if you are going
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  Speaker 2: to make a move, make a move that aggressive to
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  Speaker 2: move on from a coach to like Mike Tomlin, who
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  Speaker 2: has never had a losing season, a super Bowl winning coach,
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  Speaker 2: just the gold standard for coaching in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you go in a different direction.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know, I just feel like the Steelers
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  Speaker 2: are being held back. I know they drafted Drew Aller
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  Speaker 2: in the third round, but he's a rookie, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I just don't think there's a Super Bowl competing team.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're going to move on from someone like
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  Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin, all of these moves should be aggressive, they
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  Speaker 2: should be forward thinking, and I'm just not seeing any
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  Speaker 2: of that with the Steelers. But look, this is the
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  Speaker 2: choice they made, so at least they guarantee that Aaron
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  Speaker 2: Rodgers will be.
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  Speaker 1: There this year. If he's gonna play, who knows.
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  Speaker 2: I'm losing hope in the direction of the Steelers every day,
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  Speaker 2: but that were as the season approaches, I guess we'll
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  Speaker 2: get an answer from.
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  Speaker 1: Him one day.
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  Speaker 2: What he's going to do, and they have Drew waiting
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  Speaker 2: in the wings if he decides that he doesn't want
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  Speaker 2: to play this year. It just seems like a very
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  Speaker 2: strange plan to me, but we'll see what happens. For
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