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Victor Wembanyama Expected to Miss the Rest of the Season Due to a Blood Clot | Inside the NBA · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Well, he Jay.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty crazy that yesterday Kevin Durant was fielding questions
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  Speaker 2: about Victor Webbin Yama becoming the next face of the NBA.
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  Speaker 2: And while that's still very well could happen, we are
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  Speaker 2: now talking about Wemby likely missing the rest of the season.
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  Speaker 2: It's yet another shock to the Spurs system. Number three
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  Speaker 2: and a half months ago, Greg Popovich suffered a stroke.
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  Speaker 2: Today we learned that Wemby is expected to be out
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  Speaker 2: for the year after being diagnosed with a blood clot
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  Speaker 2: in his right shoulder. I was told that Wemby felt
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  Speaker 2: off during All Star weekend, but the official diagnosis came
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  Speaker 2: following the weekend when he was on vacation. Now we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about him missing the entire rest of the season.
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  Speaker 2: This afternoon, Chris Paul said that it has been a
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  Speaker 2: very difficult stretch for the Spurs organization.
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  Speaker 3: Man, it's been extremely tough, tell you to say the least,
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  Speaker 3: you know, especially with this organization and how they put
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  Speaker 3: everything into perspective.
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  Speaker 1: You know, so.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously to pop situation and knowing what he means to
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  Speaker 3: leave VIC and you know, him playing his first All
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  Speaker 3: Star game. I think for us, you know, we know
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  Speaker 3: we got a job to do, but just like anybody,
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  Speaker 3: we worry about our people.
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  Speaker 2: Chris talked a lot about the Spurs family today and
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  Speaker 2: how somehow, some way, with situations like this, families find
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  Speaker 2: a way to get closer. Now, there is optimism today
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  Speaker 2: with all of this doom and gloom, that the Spurs
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  Speaker 2: believe that this is an isolated incident with Victor Wembin Yama.
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  Speaker 2: There is no concern for his long term health or
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  Speaker 2: his basketball activities. The treatment for Wenby whatever action the
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  Speaker 2: Spurs do take, they are hoping to keep that news
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  Speaker 2: private due to the sensitive nature of his health. With
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  Speaker 2: all that said, Wemby, according to Spurs officials, is expected
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  Speaker 2: to make a full return to the court and be
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  Speaker 2: ready to go at the start of next season. However,
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  Speaker 2: to add insult to injury with missing the final thirty
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  Speaker 2: games of the season, that will take Webben. I'm out
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  Speaker 2: of contention for any postseason awards, including Defensive Player of
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  Speaker 2: the Year, which guys, he was the overwhelming favorite to.
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  Speaker 4: Win, Absolutely no doubt about that. Jared, thank you very
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  Speaker 4: much for the reporting appreciation, you man. You hate to
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  Speaker 4: hear this. We go to Carmacks and never settle and
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  Speaker 4: you take a look at what the Spurs have done
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  Speaker 4: with him without Victor wembin Yama in the lineup. They
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  Speaker 4: go into this game twenty three and twenty nine. Had
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  Speaker 4: all these thoughts about hey making a little push here
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  Speaker 4: after the All Star break, maybe get into the play
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  Speaker 4: in chance to get in the postseason. But there are
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  Speaker 4: the numbers with him on the floor and off the floor.
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  Speaker 4: But you just hate to hear that for this guy
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  Speaker 4: who is who loves the game so much, who has
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  Speaker 4: made such an impact so early. Just and and I
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  Speaker 4: think to All Star weekend. I was on the Technology
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  Speaker 4: Summit panel. He was on my panel, got a chance,
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  Speaker 4: had talked to him there, met his dad that day,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, and then all of a sudden this happens.
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  Speaker 5: Well at number one, number one. Just wish him good
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  Speaker 5: health and I'm not going to try to play a
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  Speaker 5: doctor on television. That's got to be scary when you
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  Speaker 5: get that news. Got a chance to see his mom
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  Speaker 5: at the All Star Game. But I feel bad for
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  Speaker 5: the Spurs organization also because you know, you're right when
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  Speaker 5: they went out and made that deer in Fox trade.
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  Speaker 5: You're like, man, this team, they're not gonna win the Championship,
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  Speaker 5: but they could get into the play in because Deer
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  Speaker 5: and Foxes of parental your all star. But I just
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  Speaker 5: wish him nothing but the best.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: But this is a bad look. This is just a
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  Speaker 5: bad thing for that Spurs, for the NBA. I mean
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  Speaker 5: he I mean when he played over in Paris, Man,
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  Speaker 5: it was crazy those two games. So good luck to
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  Speaker 5: him and his family.
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  Speaker 1: You know, according to my doctor friends, just comming for
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  Speaker 1: guys that are very large, you know, especially guys are
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  Speaker 1: very tall, especially with all the flying we do. But
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  Speaker 1: one thing I know about the NBA, especially the Spurs organization,
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  Speaker 1: they have the top medical people. And I'm glad they
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  Speaker 1: just found that the truck makes a great point. Scary.
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  Speaker 1: This is something that you can not wake up from.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm glad they find it, and I'm glad they're
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  Speaker 1: you know, taking control of the situation. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: even though they can make a push of the play
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  Speaker 1: and they're saying, nope, we're shutting you down the whole year.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna treat this thing. We're gonna make this thing disappear.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, my sentiments go out to him and his family.
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  Speaker 1: He's a great kid, and some day he will be
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  Speaker 1: the face of the league. But he's twenty one years
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  Speaker 1: old and I'm just glad they caught it early, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad to Spurs organizations saying, hey, we love you
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  Speaker 1: enough to say forget you know, making a push for
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  Speaker 1: the playing and we care about you. We know you
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  Speaker 1: are a future. We're shutting this thing down the rest
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  Speaker 1: of you.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's it's it's not safe to play with in
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  Speaker 4: a situation like that, especially, I mean, we don't know,
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  Speaker 4: and you would think giving blood thinners for one, but
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  Speaker 4: it's not. It's not safe to play because of the
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  Speaker 4: physical nature of the game and you're you're more easily
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  Speaker 4: it's it's more likely you will bleed and and you see,
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  Speaker 4: you know, internal bleeding, that kind of thing. This is
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  Speaker 4: nothing to mess with.
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  Speaker 6: Well, yeah, definitely heartbreaking just because of what he's been
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  Speaker 6: doing with in terms of this season obviously with the
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  Speaker 6: Spurs and where they were going. As the news comes
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  Speaker 6: out later, I think those are the questions that the
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  Speaker 6: common person doesn't know, and the Spurs or someone will
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  Speaker 6: give an indication of well, what is that type of
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  Speaker 6: treatment when you have a blood cut in your right shoulder,
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  Speaker 6: what does that actually mean? Why does it mean instead
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  Speaker 6: of one month, two months, three? What does it Why
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  Speaker 6: does it mean thirty days? And why does it mean
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  Speaker 6: it's going to actually be a full recovery at the
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  Speaker 6: end of the startup next season, so or isolated in
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  Speaker 6: this incident?
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  Speaker 5: So what does all that mean?
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  Speaker 6: I think the information will come out a little bit,
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  Speaker 6: maybe not the treatment, but at least the information about
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  Speaker 6: blood clots.
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  Speaker 5: And the first phone call I would make would be
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  Speaker 5: to Chris Bosh. Yeah, because somebody who's been through it
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  Speaker 5: like that would be my first any time I had
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  Speaker 5: some type of major injury, Hey, tell me about what
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  Speaker 5: you what the rehab and things like that, that'd be
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  Speaker 5: my first phone call.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it happened to Chris Bosh and it and it
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  Speaker 4: ended his playing days. It happened to Brandon Ingram, It
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  Speaker 4: happened to us R Thomas, us R. Thompson who have
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  Speaker 4: had blood clots and then we're still able later to play.
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  Speaker 4: But I talked to doctor Jonathan Reiner today. He's a cardiologist.
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  Speaker 4: CNN uses him from time to time. He said, the
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  Speaker 4: most important thing right now is you got to figure
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  Speaker 4: out the cause. Why did this happen? Was there some
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  Speaker 4: trauma to his arm? That damaged a vein or is
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  Speaker 4: there something anatomical going on where And we've seen it before,
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  Speaker 4: like with baseball pitchers, this thoracic outlet syndrome where a
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  Speaker 4: vein is actually compressed by like a rib, and the
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  Speaker 4: only way you could fix that for those players was
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  Speaker 4: to take out a part of the rib. So the
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  Speaker 4: most important thing is why did this happen? And once
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  Speaker 4: you get there, then you decide here's the best course
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  Speaker 4: of treatment. So obviously we can. I say one more thing.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I saw some guys on another network the other
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  Speaker 5: day talking about Face of the League, and I was
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  Speaker 5: so annoyed just sitting around watching. You know, Jerry started
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  Speaker 5: with Kevin Durant was talking about weinby Bene Philly. First
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  Speaker 5: of all, you don't give anybody the face of the league,
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  Speaker 5: am I right? Shack Shaq took being faced with Mike,
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  Speaker 5: when Matti Johnson and Larr Bird came in. They're like
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  Speaker 5: with the new sheriffs in town. Shaq took it, Kobe
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  Speaker 5: took it, Lebron took it, Steph took it. But I
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  Speaker 5: get so annoyed when I hear these guys, like, you
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  Speaker 5: don't give somebody something that's one of the problems we got.
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  Speaker 5: These idiots won't play an All Star game. We've given
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  Speaker 5: them so much. They don't have no respect for the history.
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  Speaker 5: But you don't give anybody the face of the game.
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  Speaker 1: You take it.
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  Speaker 4: You don't annoy them. It just it becomes you took it. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: it's what the player. That's what the players made of
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  Speaker 4: and what the player wants.
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  Speaker 1: And to counter what Chuck saying, they whoever they will be,
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  Speaker 1: they will try to put somebody as the face of league.
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  Speaker 1: They do that. But you know, Chuck makes a great point,
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  Speaker 1: you have to go take it. And you know they're
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  Speaker 1: sitting saying him. John Moran is thinking something different, Lucas
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  Speaker 1: thinking something different. You know a lot of young guys. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna make it. Man is thinking something different. So
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  Speaker 1: you know it's just uh, them against us syndrome.
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  Speaker 4: And the most important thing, nothing has nothing to do
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  Speaker 4: with basket Nothing just has everything to do with taking
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  Speaker 4: care of something that can be a very very serious situation. Uh.
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  Speaker 4: We'll be coming back with more on t at NB
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  Speaker 4: A tip off.
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  Speaker 1: Correct. They should have gave me the day a Hey,
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  Speaker 1: what a party it was too. That was look at
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  Speaker 1: Ernie Underdog. Put that on a T shirt and.
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  Speaker 4: Look at Kenny. Look at the shot.
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  Speaker 5: Will a kid kid