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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you what. It's a fantastic day on Sunday
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  Speaker 3: for the New York next as they sweep the sad,
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  Speaker 3: pathetic seventy six ers over here, just easy work had
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  Speaker 3: a thirty nine point win in the series. Had another
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  Speaker 3: thirty point win on Sunday as they sweep away the Sixers.
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  Speaker 3: But I will circle back to the Knicks because they
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  Speaker 3: deserve their their sunshine, their their roses. They're bouquets, you
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  Speaker 3: know all that stuff. Jalen Brunson did his thing, six
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  Speaker 3: three pointers, Karl Anthony Towns ten assists in twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, he did have five files. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: what it is with it. He should just start off
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  Speaker 3: with three files. But I will get to the Knicks
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  Speaker 3: and their takeover of the Sixers Arena, which is just
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  Speaker 3: fully embarrassing for the Sixers and the city of Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 3: We will get to that. But the true story on Sunday,
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  Speaker 3: at least in the NBA, is Victor wembin Yama, known
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  Speaker 3: as the Alien. He was the angry Alien on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: As he came unhinged. He was upset that there was
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  Speaker 3: not a file called on nos Reed. So what does
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  Speaker 3: Wemby do. He says, I'm taking matters into my own
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  Speaker 3: hands or his own elbows, and he smacks nos Reid
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  Speaker 3: right in the kisser, probably more in the throat than
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  Speaker 3: the chin right there, but yeah, upgraded to a flagrant two.
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  Speaker 3: He's out of here. Get out of here or Wemby
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  Speaker 3: enjoy it and get a quick shower. And he was
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  Speaker 3: off the floor with what eight plus minutes to go
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  Speaker 3: in the second quarter. No Victor wenbin Yama for the
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  Speaker 3: rest of the game. And I've compared the Spurs this way.
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  Speaker 3: I actually think it's a good comparison. Sometimes my comparison's land,
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  Speaker 3: other times they're just idiotic. I think this one's a
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  Speaker 3: good one. I think the Spurs are like Tom Petty
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  Speaker 3: and the Heartbreakers, okay, because wem bin Yama is Tom Petty, right,
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  Speaker 3: Victor wen bin Yama is a superstar, and then you've
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  Speaker 3: got the background band, right, and the Heartbreakers were great.
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  Speaker 3: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The Heartbreakers were good. But
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  Speaker 3: I think of the Spurs like that, where Victor wen
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  Speaker 3: bin Yama is such a superstar. If you went to
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  Speaker 3: see Tom Petty back in the day in concert. I
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  Speaker 3: never was able to do that. But if you went
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  Speaker 3: and someone was like, oh, how was the concert, and
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  Speaker 3: you're like, oh man, you wouldn't start waxing poetic about
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  Speaker 3: the Heartbreakers, you know what I mean. He wouldn't be like,
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  Speaker 3: oh man, the rhythm guitarist was amazing, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: drummer wow, backup vocals unbelievable. You would start waxing poetic
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  Speaker 3: about Tom Petty. He would catch your eye, he would
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  Speaker 3: gain your attention. That's the way the Spurs are. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know about you, but when Wemby is playing, I
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  Speaker 3: can't help but watch everything that he does, and so
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  Speaker 3: the other guys who are very good players, they just
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  Speaker 3: kind of blend in. If you go back to Game three,
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  Speaker 3: it's a really good example, right If you look at
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  Speaker 3: Game three. I'm watching the entire game, and then I'll
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  Speaker 3: look at the stats after the game and I'll be like,
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  Speaker 3: holy cow, I didn't realize Champenny had twelve rebounds. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't realize Stefan Castle had twelve assists. I'm watching the game.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't even notice that was happening, because Wemby just
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  Speaker 3: takes so much of your attention. So that's how I
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  Speaker 3: think of the Spurs, and I think that it hits.
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  Speaker 3: But the point remains, even though they don't have Wemby
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  Speaker 3: level superstars. Aside from Wemby, They've got a really solid
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  Speaker 3: collection of players. You know, some of these dudes. You
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  Speaker 3: look at Dylan Harper Junior. He's a rookie. He's a
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  Speaker 3: number two overall pick. Stefan Castle is a baller. That
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  Speaker 3: guy's a former number four overall pick in his second season. Right,
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  Speaker 3: They've got dudes, But Wembin Yama is a true superstar.
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  Speaker 3: They don't have a true superstar at least on that level,
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  Speaker 3: aside from Wemby. And so when Wemby's off the floor,
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  Speaker 3: you start looking at the Spurs a little bit differently.
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  Speaker 3: And I look at the Spurs in that game, especially
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  Speaker 3: on Sunday, Game four, they lose to the Minnesota Timberwolves.
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  Speaker 3: Timberwolves pull it out without Wemby on the floor for
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  Speaker 3: two and a half quarters. But it was close, man,
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  Speaker 3: it was and Tuck as they say, it was a
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  Speaker 3: very very close game. And the Spurs for most of
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  Speaker 3: that game just doing the small things right. I would
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  Speaker 3: compare the Spurs of another comparison here, very dangerous to
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  Speaker 3: make comparisons. I'm living on the edge this evening here.
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  Speaker 3: So I think the Chiefs of Old Okay, go back
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  Speaker 3: maybe three years four years ago when the Chiefs are
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  Speaker 3: winning back to back Super Bowls. What the Chiefs did
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  Speaker 3: so well two main things. They always capitalized on the
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  Speaker 3: mistakes of their opponent, and they very very rarely would
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  Speaker 3: screw themselves. They just wouldn't commit big mistakes. But they
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  Speaker 3: would take advantage of your mistakes all the time. And
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  Speaker 3: that's how the Spurs aka the Heartbreakers right aside from
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  Speaker 3: Tom Petty slash Victor Winbin Yama, the Heartbreakers the supporting cast.
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  Speaker 3: They do a great job of maximizing your mistakes and
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  Speaker 3: not making many mistakes of their own. And I really
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  Speaker 3: do think it was like the Chiefs of Old before
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  Speaker 3: the Chiefs started, you know, committing mistakes left and right
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  Speaker 3: and turning the ball over and this and that. They
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  Speaker 3: did a great job of not putting themselves in a
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  Speaker 3: bad position and taking advantage when you put yourself in
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  Speaker 3: a bad position. That's really what stood out for most
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  Speaker 3: of the game without Wemby is it's just doing the
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  Speaker 3: little things so well. It's like the Spurs are such
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  Speaker 3: a young team, but they do the little things so
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  Speaker 3: well where you're like, man, they seem a lot more
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  Speaker 3: mature than they are in years, you know, in terms
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  Speaker 3: of age or playoff experience. It's just little things. It's
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  Speaker 3: moving the ball well, it's moving the ball in Harrison
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  Speaker 3: Barnes hits a little open jumper at the free throw line,
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  Speaker 3: and the next possession Stefan Cassley probes the paint and
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  Speaker 3: he gets filed and he goes to the free throw line.
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  Speaker 3: Then it's Luke Cornett, or as I love on Basketball Reference.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know about this nickname, corn on the Lob.
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  Speaker 3: I just call him that based on principle. From this
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  Speaker 3: point on, I call him corn on the Lob. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't even know that was a thing, but Luke Cornett,
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  Speaker 3: he just stays active on the offensive class forces a
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  Speaker 3: file to be called. You know, just little things and
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  Speaker 3: then you see some of the playmaking ability. Deeern Fox
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  Speaker 3: is a stud cans at three little drive and kick
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  Speaker 3: Devin Vassel. Don't say vassal Devin Vassel, good luck from
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  Speaker 3: three drains. It just little things. They start building their lead,
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  Speaker 3: building their lead, and you just start thinking, man, they
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  Speaker 3: play really good defense. They're always able to recover and
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  Speaker 3: challenge everything. Like the Timberwolves will start swinging the ball around.
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  Speaker 3: You're like, all right, someone's gotta be wide open, and
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  Speaker 3: they never are. The Spurs do a great job of recovering, defending,
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  Speaker 3: just moving their feet, communicating. They do the little things right.
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  Speaker 3: But what really turned in this game is they didn't
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  Speaker 3: have their superstar on the floor and the Timberwolves did.
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  Speaker 3: And you have to take your hat off to Anthony Edwards.
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  Speaker 3: He was magnificent. He took over the fourth quarter, scored
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  Speaker 3: sixteen of his thirty six points in the fourth quarter alone.
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  Speaker 3: And this is a superstar that's as competitive as it gets.
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  Speaker 3: I love, absolutely love the fire of Anthony Edwards. He
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  Speaker 3: gets a shot and he's dropping f bombs. He's like
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  Speaker 3: Taffing gote like he's dapping up Mitch Johnson, the Spurs
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  Speaker 3: head coach, when Mitch isn't actually dapping him back up.
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  Speaker 3: I just love Aunt and how competitive of a maniac
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  Speaker 3: he is. And he's just driving the Timberwolves. And with
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  Speaker 3: two knee injuries. The guy has two knee injuries. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I hate to take a shot at someone that Anthony
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  Speaker 3: Edwards loves, who's a huge Kevin Garnett fan, Kevin Durant
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  Speaker 3: fan growing up. That was his favorite player. He said
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  Speaker 3: that numerous times. And I can't help but watch Ant
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  Speaker 3: battle through his knee injuries plural and think if Kevin
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  Speaker 3: Durant had the same injuries. I don't know, he's playing
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  Speaker 3: a game thus far in this series, Like that's just
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  Speaker 3: the reality of it. Anthony Edwards not to punch down
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  Speaker 3: on Kevin Durant or kick him while he's down, but
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  Speaker 3: really it's to point out Anthony Edwards, it's not just
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  Speaker 3: that he's battling through these injuries. He hyper extended his
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  Speaker 3: knee the last series and we're like, when's he gonna return?
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  Speaker 3: Is he gonna be out for a long time?
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  Speaker 4: Here?
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  Speaker 3: What's the deal? He missed two games of the Nuggets series.
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  Speaker 3: He hasn't missed one game against the Spurs in the
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  Speaker 3: second round series. And he's not just out there waddling
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  Speaker 3: around and you know, half the version of himself. He's
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  Speaker 3: still productive. Like I said, drop thirty six points on Sunday,
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  Speaker 3: scored sixteen points in the fourth quarter. He is fantastic, man,
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  Speaker 3: and he found a way to greatly assist the Timberwolves
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  Speaker 3: in a whin they desperately needed. I up the series
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  Speaker 3: two to two. They were staring a three to one
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  Speaker 3: deficit in the face. It looked like it might happen
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  Speaker 3: even without Wemby. Wemby missing two and a half quarters,
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  Speaker 3: but it was not meant to be, as the Timberwolves
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  Speaker 3: even the series, and we got real drama in this series. Man,
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  Speaker 3: it is up for grabs. I would lean Spurs in
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  Speaker 3: this one. I just think that they are more talented.
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  Speaker 3: To not have Wemby on the floor for two and
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  Speaker 3: a half quarters made obviously a monstrous difference right there.
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  Speaker 3: So assuming that he's good to go for the rest
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  Speaker 3: of the series, I would lean Spurs. But it's not
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  Speaker 3: going to be easy, and I love the way the
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  Speaker 3: Timberwolves battle as well. I will just say this because
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  Speaker 3: I was watching Sports Center before this show started and
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  Speaker 3: Kendrick Perkins was on the show and he was wondering
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  Speaker 3: out loud about Wemby being suspended possibly for game five.
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  Speaker 3: Let me just tell everybody listening this. He will not, repeat,
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  Speaker 3: not be suspended for game fight. He will not Lorena
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  Speaker 3: is not happening if that's on the BINGO card, like
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  Speaker 3: Wemby will not be suspended for That's basically another free space.
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  Speaker 3: It's a free space because it's it's not gonna happen. Man,
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  Speaker 3: the NBA with Adam Silver, do you think Adam Silver's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be like, yeah, that that warrants a one game
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  Speaker 3: suspension on top of him missing two and a half
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  Speaker 3: quarters in Game four, Let's suspend him for Game five
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  Speaker 3: as well. Really, you think that's gonna what evidence would
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  Speaker 3: you point to for the sheriff? You know, you know,
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  Speaker 3: do that on the sheriff's watch here, Adam Silver will
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  Speaker 3: get you. No. No, Adam Silver is as weak as
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  Speaker 3: it gets. And listen, it's bad for the NBA too.
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  Speaker 3: Why would the NBA when it doesn't have to suspend
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  Speaker 3: Victor wembin Yama for Game five? Why would they do it.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't benefit the NBA at all. And with him,
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  Speaker 3: I could see if listen, if he gets he threw
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  Speaker 3: an elbow midway through the fourth quarter, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean, He barely was off the floor, especially if
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  Speaker 3: the Spurs found a way to win the game and
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  Speaker 3: they're up three to one. Okay, maybe maybe he would
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  Speaker 3: be suspended for Game five, but the situation being what
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  Speaker 3: it is, series tied to two. He was out with
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  Speaker 3: eight thirty nine remaining in the second quarter. Like he's
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  Speaker 3: not getting suspended for Game five. Spare me, that's not happening.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the NBA will take a look, you know,
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  Speaker 3: quote unquote, we reviewed the footage. We bad, bad, bad.
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  Speaker 3: He's not gonna be suspended for Game five. The NBA
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  Speaker 3: just won't do that. So I will shave off both
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  Speaker 3: eyebrows my head fully and for the militia a body
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  Speaker 3: part yet to be named later. How about that? Right there?
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  Speaker 3: You go, head, eyebrows gone, body area yet to be named.
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  Speaker 3: You picked the area that's shaved two. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I want to get too graphic over here, but it's
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  Speaker 3: not happening, all right, Victor Wenbinyama will be on the
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  Speaker 3: floor for Game five. Let's let's stop with the Shenanigans
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  Speaker 3: over here. It's just it's so easy to tell, like
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  Speaker 3: you need to waste any time, Like I don't know
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  Speaker 3: the NBA. If David Stern were still alive and still
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  Speaker 3: the commissioner, maybe, But Adam Silver is in town and
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't exactly rule with an iron fist. It's more
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  Speaker 3: of like a halfway strong suggestion. That's what he like.
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  Speaker 3: Let me think about it and I'll get back to you.
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  Speaker 3: That's how he rules. That's Adam Silver. So no, And
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  Speaker 3: for the record, I don't think that he should be
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  Speaker 3: suspended for game five. You know, he got the gate
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  Speaker 3: in Game four. That was a big enough penalty, So no,
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  Speaker 3: I would not think that he deserves to be suspended
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  Speaker 3: for Game five. But bigger picture, there's no way he
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  Speaker 3: will be. Even if you make it the argument he should,
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  Speaker 3: he won't be. That's the bottom line.
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  Speaker 3: We had Wemby throwing bows, getting crazy. You gotta keep
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  Speaker 3: the emotions in check, you know. Like, here's the thing, man,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna talk about the New York Knicks here in
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  Speaker 3: just a couple of minutes. But the thing with Wemby.
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  Speaker 3: We've talked about this before, where the Spurs are a
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  Speaker 3: young team, they don't have much playoff experience. And the
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  Speaker 3: people that ride with the Spurs and say, ah, it's fine,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's all right, don't worry, not gonna matter.
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  Speaker 3: They're so ten galented. Wemby's an alien, YadA YadA. Whatever.
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  Speaker 3: The reasoning is, like playoff experience, it's got to matter.
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  Speaker 3: And that's that's the one reason where if it is
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  Speaker 3: the Spurs and the Thunder in the Western Conference Finals.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I'm all over Oka. See if that is
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  Speaker 3: the matchup. The playoff experience means a lot, and you
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  Speaker 3: saw a complete lack of playoff experience with Wemby losing
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  Speaker 3: his cool like that. He can't lose your cool like that. Man,
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  Speaker 3: He's way too valuable for their team to be swinging
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  Speaker 3: bows like that. Getting kicked out in the early in
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  Speaker 3: the second quarter. It's like, you got a chance to
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  Speaker 3: take a three to one series lead and you're upset
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  Speaker 3: that you're not getting a foul called, so you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: elbow Nick nos Read in the throat and get the
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  Speaker 3: gate Like what? And I totally forgot to add one
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  Speaker 3: part in that he was talking to his teammate while
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  Speaker 3: they were reviewing the elbow, right, they were reviewing the play,
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  Speaker 3: and he was talking to his teammate, Harrison Barrs, and
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  Speaker 3: so they were announcing that it was a flagrant two
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  Speaker 3: foul and Wemby was like, what does that mean? And
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  Speaker 3: Harrison Barnes is like, it means you're ejected, dude, Like
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  Speaker 3: and he's like, oh, I'm ejected. It's like, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's that's what flagrant two means he's like, oh, news
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  Speaker 3: to me. Didn't I couldn't blame. He's like, what does
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  Speaker 3: that mean? Flagrant too was that He's like, uh, it
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  Speaker 3: means you're taking an early shower man. That's what that means.
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  Speaker 3: You're done, You're gone. Yeah, But that that is a
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  Speaker 3: lack of playoff experience. So when people like me say,
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  Speaker 3: I just I can't trust a team that's got no
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  Speaker 3: playoff experience. It's mattered throughout the history of the NBA,
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  Speaker 3: with very few exceptions. Like Magic Johnson wins right away.
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  Speaker 3: That's an all time great. It hardly ever happens that way.
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  Speaker 3: Michael Jordan, as great as he was, he had struggles
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  Speaker 3: for years in the playoffs, couldn't get past the Pistons
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  Speaker 3: year after year after year. It's like they lost to
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  Speaker 3: wom in five, all right, let's try to get him
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  Speaker 3: next year, lost to him in six, all right, next year,
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  Speaker 3: and lost to him in seven. It's like they're taking
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  Speaker 3: baby steps and trying to you know, they're going up
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  Speaker 3: against the Spurs, would be going up against the Oklahoma
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  Speaker 3: City Thunder, who you know, are just a hot knife
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  Speaker 3: through butter through everybody they faced in the NBA playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: Not even a fair fight. And they don't even have
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  Speaker 3: Jalen Williams, who's one of their main guys, scored forty
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  Speaker 3: points in an NBA Finals game last year. So playoff
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  Speaker 3: experience is gonna matter. And you saw a lack of
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  Speaker 3: it on Sunday night with Wemby doing that. So you
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  Speaker 3: just you gotta maintain your emotions, man, And I love Wemby.
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  Speaker 3: Wemby is a competitive maniac and I love that about him.
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  Speaker 3: He's going hard in the All Star Game, that's how
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  Speaker 3: crazy he is. And I absolutely adore that about Wemby.
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  Speaker 3: But sometimes that competitiveness, it can get the best of you.
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  Speaker 3: And you saw that on display. You saw a lack
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  Speaker 3: of a lack of control, a lack of playoff experience,
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  Speaker 3: and you also saw competitiveness. You know, when keeping it
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  Speaker 3: competitive goes wrong, Like competitiveness isn't automatically a great thing
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  Speaker 3: all across the board. Every now and then, it's like
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  Speaker 3: the old Dave Chappelle skit, when keeping it real goes wrong,
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  Speaker 3: when keeping it competitive goes wrong, That's what happened with
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  Speaker 3: Wemby on Sunday night. But listen, man, if Wemby, you
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  Speaker 3: think Wemby's doing that, say five years from now, ten
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: years from now, when he's got all that playoff experience,
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: he's much less likely to do it with more playoff experience.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: But he doesn't have that right now. And so you know,
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: sometimes you take debait, sometimes your emotions get out of control,
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: and sometimes you ended up costing your team. That's what
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: happened on Sunday. Hey. For over forty years, ti Iraq
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• 19:02
  Speaker 3: should be. Okay. The New York Knicks, my gosh, this team,
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: they have been fantastic in the playoffs over here. Can
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: you believe they had? They were staring a two to
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: one deficit in the face, they were trailing the Atlanta Hawks,
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: and since then it kicked it into overdrive. Seven straight
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: wins and not just wins like crushing teams. The Knicks.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: They were the first team in NBA history to win
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: three straight games by at least twenty five points in
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: the playoffs. Those were the final two games against the Hawks,
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: and then that was Game one against the Sixers, and
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: those are historic beatdowns. The closeout game against the Hawks,
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: Game six, they I don't even know what they ended
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: up winning by fifty one. I think that's what it was.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: And then the first game against the Sixers they won
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: by thirty nine. Then on Sunday they won by thirty.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: They've been crushed teams. If I saw this stat here too,
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: the Knicks have outscored their opponents by nineteen point four
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: points per game this postseason. That is actually the largest
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: differential by any team entering the conference finals since the
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: playoffs expanded to sixteen teams in nineteen eighty four. They've
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: dusted everybody. They've crushed the Hawks, they obliterated the Sixers,
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: and they've punched their ticket to the Conference finals already,
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: and they get to rest up. Og Ananobi, he's got
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: a hamstring strain. He missed games three and four. He
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: gets to rest up. He had a hammy issue two
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: years ago in the playoffs. Was a big deal. He
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: missed games three through six. He tried to come back
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: in Game seven, played five minutes and that was it.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: The hammy was a big, big deal. Now it's not
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: to believe. It's not believed to be as severe right
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: now as it was a couple of years ago. But
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: still the Knicks get to rest that guy. You look
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: at the Calves series, the Calves have a they're facing
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: a two to one deficit. Calves won Game three, Pistons
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: still lead the series. But if the Calves win on
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Monday Night, that series is tied to two and the
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Knicks are just chilling. Knicks are just waiting. The only
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: question for the Knicks is the rust thing. Will that
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: be a deal? If you look at the Thunder. Ok See,
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: they swept the Suns and then they had eight days
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: off until they faced the Lakers, and even though they
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: won Game one and they covered a fifteen and a
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: half point spread, they did not look crisp, especially in
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: the first half. They did not look like the typical
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: OKC Thunder. They weren't executing at a high level and
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: so it was a little bit of rust. So that's
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: the only question with the Knicks. Do they look a
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: little rusty when the Eastern Conference Finals finally do get underway,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: we got to see who emerges, Pistons or Calves. How
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: long it goes. But in the meantime, the blessing is
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: that og Nanobi can rest up. And he was a
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: big deal. He made a big impact. He was great
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: in Game two against the Sixers and then just tweaked
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: his hammy at the very end of that game, about
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: three minutes to go, and he makes the gesture like, yo,
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: I gotta come out of the game, man, like something's
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: going on here. So he gets to rest up. Very
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: very good news for the Knicks and man to add
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: insult to injury. It wasn't bad enough that the Knicks
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: swept the Sixers. Then the Knicks fans took over on
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: the road in the sixers own arena. They're pretty loud
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: in game three. They're even louder in Game four with
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: the sweep being pulled off. Here the greatest thing was
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: behind one of the baskets. Joel Embiid went to the
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: free throw line and it's nothing but Nick fans, and
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: they had like pieces of paper with the poster from
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Game three of Mitchell Robinson dunking on top of Joel Embiid.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: So they have pieces of and they're just waving it
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: at Joel. It's as it's as if it's in the
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: garden and all the Knick fans are trying to throw
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: them off while he's shooting a free throw. It was
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: at the Sixers Arena and it's filled with Knick fans
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: like Boom missing, Joel mess it you there was a
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: poster lasket. They're just trying to throw them off. It's like,
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: what is happening? So, yeah, the Knicks turned that into
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: Madison Square Garden just a little south of the city
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: right there, and that was a big talking point after
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Game four, after the sweep was pulled off. Here's Josh Hart.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Listen to Josh Hart take a dig at Philly sports
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: fans far and wide. Check this out.
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: How many Knick fans are hits nose. Everybody was begging
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: for Philly to not soda tickets and man, yeah, it's
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: I used to think Philly was a sports town. I
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: don't know if it is anymore.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Oh baby, man like it's that one. But Philly takes
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: pride in being passionate and being a hardcore sports town
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: and it is. But listen, that's fair for Josh Hart
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: to wonder. He's like, have you seen the arena? Did
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: you hear those fans? There were Nick fans everywhere crawling
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: with Nick fans in there, and man, that's I thought
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: it was a sports town. I'm not so sure anymore.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: I get why Josh Hart would think and say that.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Now here is Tyrese Maxi. So Star of the Sixers
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: did not have a great series. Didn't take a ton
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: of shots either, a little bit nicked up. Everybody's dealing
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: with something at this stage. But not a great series
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: for Tyrese Maxing. He was commenting on all of the
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Knicks fans that were just pouring into the arena, super loud,
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: very boisterous. Here's what Tyrese Maxey had to say about.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: That, tyres can can you describe what it was like
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: playing again against the Knicks here where their fans come
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: down here and kind of take over your home arena?
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: Do you do you use it as.
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: Fuel your if I'm being it just sucks. It just sucked, man, Yeah,
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: it just sucks. I can't That's really all I can
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: say about it. Man, Like I just it's hard. It's
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: definitely difficult, you know what I'm saying, And uh, it's
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: only one way to put a stop to it, and
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: it's we have to go out there and win these games.
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: Like we just being completely honest. We were better when
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: we played them in the Garden this entire season. Like
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: I know we lost game two and one, but like
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: game two was better, regular season was better. Here we
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: was you know, I was telling them, it just feel
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: it felt louder here for them than it did in
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: the Garden. And it's like, well, we got to put
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: us up to it as a team, like winning these games,
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: that's what's going to make you know, our fans like
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: louder than theirs or whatever. I don't know how to
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: keep them out. I don't know the logistics of it,
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: but you know, it does suck. I can't even lie.
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: It definitely does suck.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Hey man, I get it you. Let's say you're Tyrese
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: MAXI you're on the floor. Game three is close, but
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: slips away. Game four is just a beat down from
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: the word go. You know, jump ball, it's just beat
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: down city and Nick fans are going ballistic and they're
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: all over the place. They're loud. You're in your home
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: right like you're in your home arena and it's swarming
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: with Nick fans. If you're Tyrese Max, is totally fair
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: to say that. And look he's like it's on us
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: to win and we can quiet them down. So he's
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: not putting that only on the Sixers fan base, but
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: he's right, like, it sucks. It sucks to go into
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: your own building and you are outnumbered. They are so
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: much louder. Think how often we clown We always clown
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: the Rams, the Chargers, right, We're always like, that's not
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: a home field advantage. They are more road fans than
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: home fans. They always get hammered for that, and they should.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: It's embarrassing. One of the games I was there last year.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: I went to a Chargers game last year when the
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Eagles played them. Eagle fans everywhere. I even took a
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: picture next to a guy and like, full fledged, like
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: bird mascout or what he was. They're all over the place, man, Like,
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: it's crawling with Philly fans. But it's embarrassing for a
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: hardcore sports town like Philly to have their home arena
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: crawling with Nick fans. And I think Tyrese Maxey is
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: completely in the right to be like, hey, man, I'd
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: be lying to you if I said it didn't suck.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: It sucks. It shouldn't be a thing, but it is.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: It's lame. He's right. As far as the Knicks going forward, man,
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: they're gonna be a tough out. They're gonna be a
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: tough out in the Eastern Conference Finals. The one thing
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: to keep in mind though, if they are facing the Pistons,
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: if Detroit's able to emerge, Listen, you can't trust either
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: team in that series. You can't trust the Pistons, you
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: can't trust the Cavs. The cliffs notes version calves backcourt.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: James Harden finally came to play in Game three, hit
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: some huge shots down the stretch. He was fantastic. He
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: was the main reason why they won Game three. So
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: give him flowers for that, But he's been a disaster
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: aside from that. More turnovers than made field goals in
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: the first two games against the Pistons. It's the thirtieth
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: time in his career that's happened. Think about that, more
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: turnovers than made field goals. That shouldn't happen. That shouldn't
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: be a thing. It's happened thirty times for the Beard.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: So as great as Spider Mitchell is offensively, as dynamic
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: as James Harden can be offensively, but has had his
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: shortcomings in the playoffs. They're not good defensively, that's a
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: bad backcourt. Defensively, you can't trust them. Evan Mobley had
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: one rebound in Game three. You just can't be trusted.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: But by the same token, you can't trust the Pistons either.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: Tobias Harris has been fantastic. Eight straight games scoring at
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: least twenty points. He didn't do that in back to
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: back games all regular season. He didn't do it one time.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: He's done it eight games in a row, scoring at
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: least twenty points. But what happens if he goes cold?
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: What happens if he has an off night? You know,
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: they just as good as their defense is, as hard
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: nosed as they are, as special as Cad Cunningham is,
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: he doesn't have a reliable co pilot. There's not a
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: guy where you're like, oh, game in and game out,
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: you can trust this guy or them collectively. I just
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: don't know that they have enough offense. But the one thing,
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: if it is Pistons and Knicks, man, the Pistons put
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: it on the Knicks in the regular season consistently, so
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: that would be a very interesting matchup. That's what you
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: get for the Eastern Conference Finals. But still work to
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: be done for the Pistons to get there, and the
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: Knicks just get to chill and wait, and they've got
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: a formula. This is the thing. This is the thing
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: that's different. Their formula offensively is a lot different now.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: With Karl Anthony Towns being so focused on distributing the ball,
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: he has been an excellent passer for the degenerate gamblers
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: out there. It is the gift that keeps on giving.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: Just take Carl Anthony Town's assists over play some alternate
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: numbers over He had ten assists in twenty minutes on Sunday.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Somehow that guy ended up with five files in a
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: blowout like that, He's still managed to commit five files.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: I don't know what it is with Kat and just
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: he is so prone to committing stupid files. If he
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: could control that, he would be such a problem. But
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: he gets limited playing time because he just picks up
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: these dumb files in the first half and Mike Brown's like, dude,
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: you got your third file already. You gotta sit for
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: the rest of the second quarter. What are we doing?
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: But he's still ten assists in twenty minutes. Is it's fantastic,
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: It's that's high production right there. Ellen Brunson is magnificent.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: Got a good supporting cast. Love how they defend. They
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: got a lot going for them right now. So we'll see.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: We'll see if the Knicks with Brunson coupled with Kat
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: being a little bit more pass happy in a good way.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: You know, he's not turning down open shots. There was one.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: It was a hilarious brief brief story. I still owe
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: you my eyebrows story. I gotta write that down. There
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: was a brief time in Game four where Karl Anthony
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Towns had the ball and he was looking to pass.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: He was like on the right elbow, right maybe about
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: seventeen feet away from the bucket, and he's looking to pass.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: He's looking to pass. No one's open, and he's like,
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: I don't think anyone's really guarding me right now, I've
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: got a wide open shot. And he starts to shoot,
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: and at the last second he's like, well anybody last
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: second opening, Nope, nope, all right, fine, now it's he's
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: still he was so reluctant to shoot it and kept
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: looking for someone to pass to. That has opened up
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: their offense. Jalen Brunson doesn't have to dribble the ball
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: into the floor to death. He can rest a little bit,
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: he's fresher, and Karl Anthony Towns can run point forward.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: He's been doing a fantastic job of that. The Knicks
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: collectively have a knack with it when to cut, when
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: to move when they've timed it up very nicely, and
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: Kat has great vision. Man, he's done a fantastic job
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: distributing the ball. So it's great if you're betting over
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: on assists, not great if you're betting over on points,
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: because you're like, just shoot the ball, man, He's like, no,
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: I'd rather pass. This is better for our offense. So
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: you got to realize what his mentality is, and his
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: mentality is to get others involved, and that has opened
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: up their offense. So that is different than when the
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: Pistons were blown them out in the regular season. So
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: if that's the matchup would be really interesting.
• 32:50
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• 32:56
  Speaker 3: So it was the NBA Draft lottery on Sunday, So
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: the order of the draft, at least the top fourteen
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: picks is in stone right, So they had the ping
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: pong balls, the whole thing, and the winner. Well, actually,
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: this is out I would was unveiled with the last
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: two teams. It's up for grabs between the Jazz between
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: the Wizards. Here's how it sounded on ABC.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: Picking second will be the Utah Jazz, and that means
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: that the.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: Number one pick in.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: The twenty twenty six NBAY Draft.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: Goes to the Washington Wizards.
• 33:32
  Speaker 8: The Washington Wizards win the twenty twenty six NBA Draft lottery.
• 33:39
  Speaker 9: Remember they made a huge trade last season. They added
• 33:42
  Speaker 9: Anthony Davis, they added Trey Young, and now they will
• 33:45
  Speaker 9: have a number one pick to pair alongside their young core.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: There you go. So the Washington Wizards, they win the
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: draft lottery, they will have the number one overall pick.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: They will have the chance to, most likely I think,
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: take aj De Bonsa out of BYU. This is kind
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: of what's crazy too, is the Bonsa BYU right right
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: down the street from the Utah Jazz and they have
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: the second overall pick. So there's a good chance that
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: the Utah Jazz do not get the Bonsa and he
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: goes to Washington. Well we'll see what the Wizards end
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: up doing. But if it were up to me, I
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: would take the Bonsa myself and that to do a
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: whole long tail of the tape with these two players,
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: between the Bonsa and Darren Peterson. He was the stud
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: from Kansas. I take the Bonsa man. The Bonsa is
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: a hardcore competitor and productive as well. And I'm not
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: saying that Darren Peterson is not a competitor, but you
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: at least have to question how competitive is he actually
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: because he was missing games left and right. The latest
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: thing that we got was, oh, I was cramping up
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: because of creatine. That's what we've heard from Darren Peterson.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: And it's like, is that is that a thing? Is
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: that actually what's going on here? I went to a game.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: I went to fog Allen this past year, one of
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: the great basketball venues in this country. It was amazing.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: I loved it. Went to a Kansas Jayhawks game. Always
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: wanted to go see Rock Chalk. Finally made it. It
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: was against number one Arizona at the time, and I'm like,
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: all right, let's do this, baby, And then on my
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: phone I get an alert and it's like, no Darren
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: Peterson tonight. He's uh. He's an active and It's like, what,
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: what's the deal here? Is like, yeah, he's just not
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: feeling I'm like, he's playing the number one team of
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: the country. What And that was the story time and
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: time and time. It was cramps here, it was maybe
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: a little flu is more cramps. So it's like, what
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: is going on with this freaking guy? Man? It felt
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: like load management during the season, even as head coach
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: Bill self was like, the way to get the nay
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: sayers to stop nay saying is to play, Even as
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: coach was saying that, So, no, I'm not taking Darren
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: Peterson number one. He is a walking bucket, got a
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: lot of talent, and the team that drafts him might
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: have a great player. But when the Bonds is putting
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: up huge numbers, he's productive, and he's a competitive maniac,
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: and he's not missing any games. I'm going with the
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: Bonds and myself. We'll see what the Washington Wizards do.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: Man the big loser Lou Hooser. In the draft lottery,
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: it was tied to the number five overall pick as
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: the lottery balls went a certain way. This is how
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: it sounded on ABC.
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: The fifth pick in the NBA Draft will be made
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: by the La Clippers.
• 36:47
  Speaker 8: So the Clippers received this pick from the Piecers because
• 36:50
  Speaker 8: of the Eviza Zubots trade.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so the Aviza Zubots trade. We go back to February,
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: the Pace make a trade with the Clippers. The Pacers
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: get Zubots, who's a good player. He turned twenty nine
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: in March, so you know he's not in his early twenties.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: But the Pacers were trying to replace Miles Turner. Miles
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: Turner went over to the Milwaukee Bucks. So they need
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: a center, they need a starting level center. So that's
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: why the Pacers made this trade for Vitza zu Bots.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: So part of the trade it was two first round picks,
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: two second round picks, so the first round pick this year,
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: the Pacers were hoping the draft pick was between numbers
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: one or number four. If it was between number one
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: and number four, the Pacers kept the draft pick. If
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: the pick was between numbers five and nine, the Clippers
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: got the draft pick. So it turns out to be
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: number five, which means the Clippers maintained that number five
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: overall pick. In a rich loaded draft, the Pacers don't
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: get a first round pick. They don't have a first
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: round pick. They basically traded it along with some other
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: picks for a Vitza zo Bots, and the Pacers made
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: this deal while gambling that the ping pong balls would
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: go a certain way and they would get one of
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: the top four picks. They'd be able to add a
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: top four pick to their roster along with a Vitza
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: Zoo Bots, and a team that was in Game seven
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: of the NBA Finals last season will now get Tyrese
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Haliburton back and it's all systems go. Baby. Well, that's
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: not what happened. That's not what happened with to ping
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: pong balls. The Clippers maintain that pick because it was
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: number five overall and the Pacers swinging a miss, swinging
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: a miss, and actually there was a there was a
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: tweet that was pretty interesting. On Sunday, they had their
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: they had Pritchard. He he fired up the old X
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: machine and basically apologized. He's like, my bad, I'm sorry
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: for that whole trade, and they quite work out. We
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: needed a center. We got a center. So that's good.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: That's good. We got a center. Let's not forget that
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: we needed a center. But bad, bad that we uh
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: if we lost the number four overall pick. Not what
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: we were trying to do. Not the uh not the
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: design exactly, not the intended consequence. But uh my, my bad.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Uh Pacers Nation is basically what what Prichard was saying
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: right there, and uh man that that's a swing and
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: a miss. When you when you try to get a
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: player and maintain your draft pick and you do not
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: maintain your draft pick. That's that's tough. Man. Now, this
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: is what Kevin Pritchard wrote on X I'm really sorry
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: to all our fans. That's the first sentence. Just think
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: about that. I'm really sorry to all of our fans.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: I I own taking this risk. Surprise that came up
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: fifth after this year. I thought we would do some luck.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: But please remember this team deserved the starting center to
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: compete with the best teams next year. We have always
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: been resilient. Wow, there's a lot to unpack right there.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: By the way, that tweet has six point one million views.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: So yeah, that's that's the Indiana Pacers president of basketball
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: operations saying my bad. That's really what it is. Where
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: you know, he's not apologizing for trading for a starting center. Again,
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: if Vitza Zubats is a good player, I like him,
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: but he's not twenty one years old. He's twenty nine
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: years old, and he's only got a couple of years
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: left on his deal. And the Pacers don't get a
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: first round pick because of the way the ping pong
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: balls fell this year in a loaded draft. So that's
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: a tough one right there, man. And you think about
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: the Pacers. They had the same percentage chance to get
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: the number one pick as the Wizards had, and also
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: as the Brooklyn Nets had, and so what happened was
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: the Wizards got the number one overall pick. Wizards had
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: a fourteen percent chance to get the number one pick,
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: so did the Pacers, so did the Nets. All three
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: teams because they had the three worst records, had a
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: fourteen percent chance to get pick number one. The Wizards
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: get picked number one, the Pacers get picked number five,
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: which means it's actually the Clippers that get pick number
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: five because five through nine was not protected, so that
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: pick goes right to the Clippers and the Pacers have
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: to wave goodbye to like bye bye, top pick. Goshold.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: We wish the ping pong balls would have fallen in
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: a different way and we could have a top four pick,
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: even the number one overall pick. They could have added
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: a number one overall pick along with getting Tyree's Haliburton healthy,
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: along with getting a Vitza zu Bots in the trade.
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: But they just get Haliburton healthy zu Bots and no
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: top four pick. Those ping pong balls, man, sometimes they
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: will screw you. The other team that came up on
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: the losing end would be the Brooklyn Nets, so they
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: had they were tied for the best odds to have
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: the number one overall pick. They ended with the sixth pick.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: What happened with the Nets, but at least they're picking sixth.
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: That is their pick. The Pacers number five pick is gone.
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: Bye bye wave boite bye to it. It's the Clippers
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: pick now because of that trade for a Vitza zu Bots,
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: so that it is unfortunate for any Pacer fan. Not good,
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: not a good outcome whatsoever. But the big winners the
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Washington Wizards. The other winners were the Jazz They jumped
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: up from the fourth best odds, tied for the fourth
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: bets odds. They got the number two pick, so you
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: move up a couple of spots. The Grizzlies they had
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: the sixth best odds, They get the number three pick,
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: and then the Bulls my balls, they move up. They
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: had the ninth best odds. They end up with the
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: number four overall pick. So those are your winners. The
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: biggest winners, I would say the Wizards, followed by the
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: Wizards with the number one pick, followed by the Clippers
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: with the number five pick. Because who knows what's gonna
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: happen with that franchise. The Kawhi Leonard situation. Kawhi you know,
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: he definitely was taking Mondy money under the table to
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: become a Clipper. How crazy, Just the ripple effect of
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: stuff that happened. Just think about this for a second. Okay,
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: can we get NBA nerdy for a little bit. Just
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: think about the Clippers and their impact on what could
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: be a dynasty in Okay. See, these two franchises are
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: absolutely linked together. So the Clippers they get Kawhi Leonard,
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: Kawhi Leonards signs with the Clippers, and then Pablo Torre
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: his podcast, they do this deep dive. Pablo Torre finds
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: out and it's like, oh, so the Clippers are just
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: paying Kawhi Leonard a bunch of extra money under the table.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: And there are all these documents, all this stuff, all
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: this information that links Kawhi to the Clippers, these monstrous
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: payments going directly to him, all these conversations on all
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: this stuff, and so it's like, oh gosh, it's just
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: staring the NBA in the face that they had this.
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: They're circumventing the salary cap, right, That's what's happening right there,
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: clear as day. And so far the NBA is just
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: dragging its heels and like, e dd, we don't really
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: want to open this can of worms because probably happen
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: in other places. They have to, they have to do
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: something about that. But let's stay focused on the ripple effect. Okay,
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: Kawhi Leonards signs with the Clippers. The Clippers are like,
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: we'll make it worth your while. What do you need?
• 45:05
  Speaker 7: What do you need?
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: You need extra? You need extra? This extra that? All right?
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: We got you. So Kawhi is there. Then they get
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: Paul George. They trade for Paul George. They trade all
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: these first round picks for Paul George. Kawhi Leonard's like,
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: I need a real running mate. This Shay Gil just
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: Alexander Guy. I need a real running mate. I need
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: Paul George. Clippers make this huge trade to get Paul
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: George from the Thunder. Meanwhile, what did the Thunder get? Okay, see,
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: well they get a guy named shay Gil just Alexander
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: in the deal. Played one year with the Clippers. So
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: they get SGA. Who's gonna be a back to back MVP.
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be announced any day now, right, So they
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: get SGA. They also get another first round pick. Turned
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: out to be Jalen Williams. Pretty good guy, went to
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: Santa Clara, dropped forty points in a finals game just
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: last season. Really good player. They got him in the
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: deal as well. They also got the number twelve overall
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: pick this year. They just with the draft, right they
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: This is how it sounded on ABC. Yet again, let's
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: hear this.
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: Picking twelve in the NBA draft will be the Oklahoma
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: City Thunder.
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: Remember the Thunder.
• 46:15
  Speaker 8: They received this pick from the Clippers because of the
• 46:17
  Speaker 8: Paul George trade in twenty nineteen.
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so they just got another for another one. They
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: got another first round pick, the twelfth overall pick in
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: this year's draft. Okay, see has that pick because of
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: the twenty nineteen trade with the Clippers for Paul George.
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: So you have SGA. You have Jalen Williams. You got
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: a number twelve pick and a loaded draft. Maybe they
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: get a real player, Maybe they get a contributor this year. Also,
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: that's all tied to Kawhi initially going to the Clippers
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: and then the Clippers trading for Paul George