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The New York Knicks Are Going To The NBA Finals · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 1: Just like that. The Knicks are going to the finals.
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Speaker 1: The Knicks are going to the final. I just realized
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Speaker 1: this week how many Knicks fans are truly in my life.
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Speaker 1: Between again my cousin Pierre, if you watch my shows,
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Speaker 1: to people that work in the enjoy basketball studios, and
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Speaker 1: on the editing side and on the concerts side, I'm
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Speaker 1: kind of surrounded by Knicks fans. I'm happy for him.
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Speaker 1: The last time the Knicks made it to the NBA
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Speaker 1: Finals was nineteen ninety nine. I would assume that eighty
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Speaker 1: five percent of the people watching this video was not
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Speaker 1: alive the last time the Knicks did it. I was alive.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't conscious. I was like two years old, but
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Speaker 1: I was alive. Didn't the Knicks did it? Now? They
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Speaker 1: still got four more to go to do the ultimate thing.
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Speaker 1: But my goodness, has this been a great season for them?
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Speaker 1: A great post is specifically, the one thing I admire
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Speaker 1: about the Knicks right now is they don't play what
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Speaker 1: they fool. They recognize the opportunity, and a lot of
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Speaker 1: teams up three to zero may not on purpose, but
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Speaker 1: may concede that fourth game to win it on their
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Speaker 1: home court. But the next lift to themselves say, hmm,
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Speaker 1: this is our home court because Knicks fans travel, dammit,
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Speaker 1: and every single one of these close out games, whether
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Speaker 1: they be versus Philly, whether it be versus Atlanta, whether
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Speaker 1: it be versus Cleveland. That last close out game on
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Speaker 1: the road has sounded ridiculous with Knicks fans. They're going
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Speaker 1: to the finals, y'all, They're going to the finals. I
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Speaker 1: think they close up that first time by like thirty
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Speaker 1: points versus the No no, no, no, no, no, I'm sorry, like
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Speaker 1: fifty points versus the Hawks, and they close out game
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Speaker 1: the seventy six is may have been thirty five forty
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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna get him a forty point win and
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Speaker 1: it's closed out versus Cleveland Cavaliers. This has been great
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Speaker 1: Knicks fans. I'm so happy for you. I'm so happy
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Speaker 1: for you. And though I know that I got new
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Speaker 1: watchers and listeners every time we upload the video sides
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Speaker 1: to everybody that ends up tuning in, I'm gonna say
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Speaker 1: this for the third time, I'm not closing the door
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Speaker 1: on the Knicks actually winning the championship. A lot of
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Speaker 1: people are looking at that Western Conference between the two
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Speaker 1: juggon OKC and San Antonio and say, whichever one of
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Speaker 1: these teams win is gonna win the finals, which could
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Speaker 1: definitely be true, but they should not look past this
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Speaker 1: next team. This next team has put everything together at
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Speaker 1: the right time. The offense has counter on counter on counter,
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Speaker 1: and though whichever team they go against in the next
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Speaker 1: round is going to be the best defensive team they've
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Speaker 1: gone against in the postseason, they have a ton of
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Speaker 1: counters and the defense has got better and better throughout
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Speaker 1: the course of it as well. So they're ready for
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Speaker 1: the moment and they could one hundred be the team
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Speaker 1: that raised the Larry O'Brian Trophy in two weeks, which
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Speaker 1: would be crazy for real now Knicks fans, I know
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Speaker 1: you want this video to be all about you, and
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Speaker 1: it should be all about you. But because I knew
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Speaker 1: after Game to three that they was going to put
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Speaker 1: the smack down on the cass last video we uploaded
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Speaker 1: about this series, I spent fifteen minutes gushing about about
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Speaker 1: the New York Knicks from Leon Rose and him taking
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Speaker 1: over basically right before COVID hit to Jalen Brunton's pay
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Speaker 1: cut and his signing to five first round picks on
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Speaker 1: Michel Bridges to Nowhere, trade of kar Anthony Towns, O
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Speaker 1: Gionna Noby, Josh Hart. I went down the list Mike
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Speaker 1: Brown as a coach. The reason I did that premature
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Speaker 1: because I knew that they were gonna close the series
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Speaker 1: out And I said in that video I could spend
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Speaker 1: thirty minutes talking about the Caves, but I'll save that
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Speaker 1: for another day. Today is that other day, so Knicks
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Speaker 1: fans can grinds a fucking latious. I just got a
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Speaker 1: notification to my email that I will be a Game
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Speaker 1: one and though it will not be in New York City,
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Speaker 1: I'll be a Game one and I ain't wrapping nobody,
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Speaker 1: but I'll be there and I'll be excited anyway. Shout
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Speaker 1: out to the Knicks, the Calves. This is how crazy
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Speaker 1: the perception of things can be. The Calves. This corps
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Speaker 1: has been together for four or five seasons at this point,
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Speaker 1: had struggled to get over the hump to make it
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Speaker 1: to the conference finals. This is Donald Mitch's first conference
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Speaker 1: finals of his tight career, and you start to think
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Speaker 1: about it. Originally you say, hey, it took two seven's,
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Speaker 1: but damn it, They're in the conference finals for the
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Speaker 1: first time since Lebron left. That is something to be
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Speaker 1: proud of. But after four games that dramatically shifts. It's
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Speaker 1: not about losing to the Knicks. The Knicks are phenomenal
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Speaker 1: basketball team, as we know. It's about how you lose.
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Speaker 1: It's about a twenty two point lead that you're blowing
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Speaker 1: Game number one with five I'm sorry, seven minutes and
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Speaker 1: fifty two. That number isn't graving my seven minutes off
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Speaker 1: and two seconds left in the game. Down by twenty two,
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Speaker 1: the Knicks come back and win. It's this close out
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Speaker 1: game on your home court where ninety percent of the
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Speaker 1: team had already quit on you. So it went from
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Speaker 1: oh my god, we're in the conference finals to damn,
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Speaker 1: what do we do next? In the midst of this game,
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Speaker 1: I went on to Twitter and I asked that very question,
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Speaker 1: what is next for the Cleveland Cavaliers, because I feel
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Speaker 1: like I don't use the word fork in the row
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Speaker 1: because the fork that I'm building has seven different options
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Speaker 1: for the calves to potentially do, and I don't know
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Speaker 1: which one of them is the right thing to do.
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Speaker 1: And I'm happy I ain't the person that got to
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Speaker 1: make this decision. We can retroactively now talk about am
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Speaker 1: I using that right? Talk about the trade that they
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Speaker 1: did out of nowhere around the deadline where they traded
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Speaker 1: a twenty six year old Darius Garland for a thirty
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Speaker 1: six year old James Harden. And Nick Wright was first
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Speaker 1: to this, And I'm very far from James Harden hater.
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Speaker 1: If anything, I've grown to love James Harden in the
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Speaker 1: latter parts of his career. But I got to call
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Speaker 1: the spade a spade. Nick Wright was early to this,
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Speaker 1: showcasing how many times in James Harden's career in the postseason,
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Speaker 1: how he's has he finished with more turnovers. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: look it up right now. With that number is now
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Speaker 1: more turnovers than field goes mate in the postseason tonight
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Speaker 1: two field goals mate five turnovers, And I'm gonna look
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Speaker 1: this up real quick. There's a four game series. I
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Speaker 1: would not be surprised if three out of the four games,
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Speaker 1: two out of the four games, so half the games
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Speaker 1: he ended with more turnovers than field goals. And this
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Speaker 1: is well passed James Harden right as the biggest problem
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Speaker 1: with this team. But I do think it's noteworthy to
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Speaker 1: know that they gave up on Darius Garden in order
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Speaker 1: to bring in James Harden, and James Harden just straight
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Speaker 1: up wasn't great. Had moments and moments of brilliance throughout
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Speaker 1: this playoff run, but for the most part of we
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Speaker 1: were gonna grade the James Harden experience this postseason for
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Speaker 1: them probably a D man, probably a straight up D
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Speaker 1: and that's not good. Now, maybe you say to yourself,
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Speaker 1: this version of Dearis Garland is gonna be the best
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Speaker 1: version that you get. Maybe that is the case. I
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Speaker 1: don't know. He's twenty six years old. Dere's Garden also
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Speaker 1: dealt with many injuries over the last couple of seasons,
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Speaker 1: and they took the shot at James Harden, who is
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Speaker 1: mister ironman, where like, remember earlier in the season he
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Speaker 1: like broke his hand or something and I was so
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Speaker 1: sad and like, oh my god, they just traded him.
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Speaker 1: He basically played through that whole thing. You know, he's
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Speaker 1: mister iron man. He the one thing he said about
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Speaker 1: James he will be on the court regardless. So they
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Speaker 1: took that shot and accelerated that position by ten years.
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Speaker 1: In theory, James Harden is an upgrade defensively, matter of fact,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, not a theory. In actuality, he is an
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Speaker 1: upgrade defensively then Darius Garland. Though we watch Jay Le
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Speaker 1: Bronson put him on an island many times in this series,
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Speaker 1: the big bodiness of James Harden makes him a better
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Speaker 1: defender than Darius Garland. I wouldn't go as far to
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Speaker 1: say he's a plus defender or one of the best defenders,
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Speaker 1: like Kenny Akison said. But Kenny Aksen knows way more
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Speaker 1: basketball to me. But now that we look at it
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Speaker 1: and say, damn, we got swamp, you go back to say, hmm,
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Speaker 1: when has this been better to keep Darius Garland? Because
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Speaker 1: though the reason why that trade special because their contracts
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Speaker 1: are nearly identical and it was second April teams. That's
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Speaker 1: one of the only way you can make a trade
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Speaker 1: like this. But you ask yourself, hypothetically, if you kept
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Speaker 1: Darius Garland around even if you lost in the second
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Speaker 1: round or set of the conference finals. I think a
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Speaker 1: twenty six year old Darius Garland is more of an
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Speaker 1: asset for the future team building than the thirty six
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Speaker 1: year old James Harden. And now let me quickly look
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Speaker 1: at James Harden's contract situation because I'm not completely sure
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Speaker 1: if he's even under contract for next season, and if
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Speaker 1: he is, it might be like an, I feel like
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Speaker 1: he's got a player option or something. He has a
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Speaker 1: player option for four forty two million, that's interesting, will
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Speaker 1: he take that or way they try to renegotiate him.
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Speaker 1: You look back on the train and you say, didn't
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Speaker 1: really work out the way you wanted it to. I mean, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it helped you make the conference finals for the first
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Speaker 1: time in fever, but it didn't help you get over
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Speaker 1: the hump, and again you got swept once we got
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Speaker 1: to the conference finals. And in this conference finals, I
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Speaker 1: don't remember many James Harden moments that were positive. So
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Speaker 1: that's the first thing you think about. You also think
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Speaker 1: about do you feel like a core of Don moeb
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Speaker 1: Jared Allen and James Harden. If you want to know
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Speaker 1: if you are an optimists, you're a glass half full
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Speaker 1: type of person. You say, hey, Kenny, this team was
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Speaker 1: just put together in February. Let them get a full
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Speaker 1: offseason and maybe they can compete. If you are at
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Speaker 1: glass half full, God, that is your approach, But also
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Speaker 1: you have to ask yourself, do we really feel like
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Speaker 1: they can compete with New York again next season. They
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Speaker 1: didn't were name to do it this year. Some of
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Speaker 1: the other teams. Boston should be back to some capacity.
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Speaker 1: The Pacers will be back like the Pistons, and Theory
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Speaker 1: are also gonna buy in a little bit. Is that
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Speaker 1: Core gonna be good enough to get through the East?
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Speaker 1: And even if they are good enough to get through
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Speaker 1: the East, is that Court good enough to get through
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Speaker 1: whatever the hell is gonna happen out west next season?
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Speaker 1: The answers probably know. So. Now these different forks in
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Speaker 1: the row option a what this offseas could look like?
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Speaker 1: Blow it all up. It was fun while I lasted,
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Speaker 1: but ultimately there's no avenue for us to be true contenders.
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Speaker 1: I think that is truly on the table. Donavan Mitchell
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Speaker 1: without him signing an extension. He was a guy that
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Speaker 1: was very open about him wanting to see what the
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Speaker 1: team does. They brought in James Harden and that didn't work.
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Speaker 1: He could genuinely say I kind of went out before
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Speaker 1: I signed his extension and that changed everything as well.
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Speaker 1: There's another fork that says, hey, maybe we just say
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Speaker 1: to hell with all the youth. Yonza de that the
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Speaker 1: Coopo's probably gonna get traded this offseason. And while my
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Speaker 1: opinion about the Miami Heat package has shifted dramatically over
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Speaker 1: the last week or two, which now I think about
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Speaker 1: the Miami Heat and what they can potentially give up
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Speaker 1: and say, not that bad, because nobody else really has
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Speaker 1: the package that will give you two first round picks
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Speaker 1: plus Kaleil where plus the thirteen old Kaleil where Jamey
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Speaker 1: Hawk is Tyler Hero and I think it was one
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Speaker 1: more person that trade. It's a hell of a lot
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Speaker 1: of stuff, right, So I'm turning myself to the Miami
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Speaker 1: Heat package being decent. But if you want to say
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Speaker 1: the hell with the youth movement and trade Evan Mobley away,
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Speaker 1: Evan Mobley is by far the best individual player the
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Speaker 1: Milwaukee Bucks could get in a Janisa Delpo trade. The
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Speaker 1: contracts aren't that far off. Well, you can kind of
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Speaker 1: make it happen pretty easily. So do we blow it up?
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Speaker 1: Do we simply trade out of the Mitchell because he
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Speaker 1: wants out. Do we use the you the twenty four
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Speaker 1: year old Evan Mobles trade tip to get again older
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Speaker 1: with a thirty one year old Giannis? Do we do
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Speaker 1: a smaller move and get rid of Jared Allen and
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Speaker 1: letting Evan Mobley be the true center for the foreseeable future.
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Speaker 1: These are all things that are on the table right
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Speaker 1: now for the Cleveland Cavaliers. I will tell you how
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Speaker 1: matter of fact, let me go down one through ten,
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Speaker 1: how much I like E Jopson blow it up completely,
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Speaker 1: damn it. I'm kind of like at eight. We've seen
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Speaker 1: this card get to the conference finals, but we've seen
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Speaker 1: lights be too bright. We've seen them go to seven
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Speaker 1: in the series. They shouldn't have to go seven. We've
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Speaker 1: seen them get swept by the New York Knicks. I'm
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Speaker 1: kind of in favor of them trading don and them
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Speaker 1: trading Jared and them trying to find out what happens
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Speaker 1: with James and maybe blow it up. Is not trading
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Speaker 1: the twenty four year Evan Mobley but the things around
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Speaker 1: him and say hey, we want to hit the reset
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Speaker 1: and we'll be back to here in two to three years.
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Speaker 1: Just trading Dono Mitch could be interesting because I think
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Speaker 1: there would be potential suitors. If you are the I'm
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Speaker 1: just talking now, if you are the U, I don't
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Speaker 1: know the Houston Rockets. Can you use some on ball bounce,
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Speaker 1: get the defensive infrastructure, and you have the size. Like
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Speaker 1: one of the big things about the Cleveland Cavaliers is
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Speaker 1: that they just end up being not great at the
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Speaker 1: point of attack, and they lost most of their wings.
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Speaker 1: They just really didn't have many wings on the team,
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Speaker 1: and Dovin Mitchell is basically six foot one and stocky.
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Speaker 1: A team like Heilstick could kind of resolve some of
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Speaker 1: that and they can make that happen relatively easy. It's
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Speaker 1: some pretty interesting picks over there in Houston. They got
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Speaker 1: the best swab between them and the Brooklyn Nets. So
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Speaker 1: I ain't mad at that idea, but that's only contingent
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Speaker 1: on if he asks for out. On the Yannis thing,
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Speaker 1: I hate the idea of trading ev Mobley Friianni's. While
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Speaker 1: we can all agree that Gianni's is leagues and I
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Speaker 1: mean leagues ahead of Eva Mobile as a player, it's
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Speaker 1: something about getting that old because now you look at
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Speaker 1: again now about the thirty seven year old James Harden,
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Speaker 1: a thirty one year old Joannis who's still great, don't
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Speaker 1: get me wrong, gonna be a thirty year old Donovan Mitchell.
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Speaker 1: That window is pretty That's like a two year window, y'all.
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Speaker 1: And though they would go into it as one of
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Speaker 1: the contenders, at least in theory, I just feel like
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Speaker 1: we've seen that type of trade before from a team,
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Speaker 1: and it very rarely works out. And then the younger
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Speaker 1: fella that you trade away ends up blossoming and he
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Speaker 1: now Evan Mobley is tearing up the Central Division all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden. There's so many things that can happen.
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Speaker 1: Kenny Akison, I can't say that he is completely off
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Speaker 1: the hot seat. One of the craziest things I've heard
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Speaker 1: from a coach in the last decade is Kenny Akison
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Speaker 1: publicly saying analytically, we've won two of the three of
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Speaker 1: these games. What the fuck are you talking about? Kenny?
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Speaker 1: Which now then I've realized my name is also Kenny.
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Speaker 1: That feels like a weird clip. Even if you feel
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Speaker 1: that way, because the shot all our shot quality is
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Speaker 1: an a flu yeah, sweet, just they just not going
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Speaker 1: in and Vinci, They'll go in. Even if you feel
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Speaker 1: that way, you have an entire city of Cleveland that
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Speaker 1: wants to see you win. They don't give a damn
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Speaker 1: about shock quality. They give a damn about the final score.
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Speaker 1: That's one of the craziest things I've heard of genius say.
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Speaker 1: And Kenny Akison is that he's a basketball genius. I
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Speaker 1: wonder if he feels like they won three of the
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Speaker 1: games analytically now after getting destroyed and gained the before Hey, man,
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Speaker 1: what Josh Hart say? He said, analytics are like a
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Speaker 1: like a light post a light, a lamp at a
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Speaker 1: party and angle at you home, something along those lines.
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Speaker 1: Analytics are fun, but you can't win ball games strictly
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Speaker 1: off analytics. Shot quality is great. All we get in
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Speaker 1: good looks, but damn it are that going in? And
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Speaker 1: the answer for them all series long was nope, nope, nope.
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Speaker 1: So Kenny Akinson probably I wanna use the word hot seat.
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Speaker 1: But like, if we got notification and in seven days
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Speaker 1: about Kenny Acton getting fired, I wouldn't be like, oh
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Speaker 1: my goodness, because I think he got out coaching this
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Speaker 1: well for sure. Then across worlds with seven different forks
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Speaker 1: in a row and I don't know what they do,
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Speaker 1: but this is what happens. The Knicks might have ended
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Speaker 1: this core, which is crazy. New York Knicks are going
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Speaker 1: to the finals. Man, The New York Knicks are going
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Speaker 1: to the finals. And I'm not one to root for
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Speaker 1: a team if my team ain't involved, so I'm not
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Speaker 1: doing that. But I've said it many times before. This
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Speaker 1: is a very likable core guys. Jaylen Bronson is likable.
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Speaker 1: I remember there was it might have been Kendrick Perkins.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it was Perk. They're like two season ago that
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Speaker 1: said like yeah, man, and maybe it's not Perk. So
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Speaker 1: I don't want to put this flame on Perk. Somebody
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Speaker 1: can probably google this and get the answer right now.
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Speaker 1: One of the people on one of the talking there
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Speaker 1: shows says the Knicks can never win a championship because
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Speaker 1: Jalen Brunton is too ball dominant, which I think is
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Speaker 1: an interesting take. But I also think the Jalen Brunton
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Speaker 1: has evolved to not be as bald dominance. Maybe he
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Speaker 1: was last year or two years ago. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. The Knicks are going to the finals.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to the finals, dammit. I gotta get a
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Speaker 1: haircut because I'm worth it right now. Appreciate y'all watching.
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Speaker 1: Let me know if you're a Calves fan, this is
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Speaker 1: a good question. If you're a Cavs fan, you let
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Speaker 1: me know. What you want to see your favorite team
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Speaker 1: do this offseason. Is it buying, is it resetting. I'm
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Speaker 1: not against anything right now. I'm open