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The NBA All-Star Fix Is In: Rosters, Reactions & Rebuilding Saturday Night · Fanatically Speaking with Kent

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Hey, what's up everybody? Welcome to another
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episode of fanatically speaking. I am can't your
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coast and promoter I am log off the log off legend
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the hater of social media. I am the co -host
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and producer to show and this episode we are
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gonna dive back into the NBA and Yeah, the all
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-star rosters are complete so and talk about
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you know how we feel about who made it who didn't
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make it and This stupid format that they have
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going Why would you call the format stupid? What
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makes it stupid, Kent? Well, it's like we talked
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about. We could see the future, because we already
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did a kind of a preview talking about All -Star
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weekend coming up. And I think the problem is
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going to, or the problem did come up, that you're
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going to have three rosters, and you're separating
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by international players and then two American
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teams. And I get the feeling that maybe some
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people got left out because we're trying to stick
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to this format. So maybe there are some all stars
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that got left out. Okay. And I don't want to,
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you know, beat a dead horse, reinvent the wheel,
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pick a cliche, but at the same time, this happens
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every year. Like this is really common where
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there's someone that we feel should make the
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All -Star team. And it's weird because guys have
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bonuses and stuff like that tied to these types
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of achievements on their contracts. But at the
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same time, I feel like everyone who should have
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made it made the roster, if that makes sense.
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Okay. I mean, if you feel like there's someone
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who should not have made it and it's taken up
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a legitimate spot from somebody, I am all ears.
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Let me look at this You know and I think about
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the the all -star selections just like any all
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-star selections. There's always gonna be someone
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left out But I think there's also again there's
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room for saying well an Actual person who deserves
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to be here probably could be on there if we didn't
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have this format or these rules Mentioned MLB.
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I think the same goes for when we talk about
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college football and they're Committee pink picking
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the the playoffs teams. It's someone no matter
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how many teams you have in it There's always
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gonna be someone left out And it's the same with
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also is right if you expand the rosters if you
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do whatever You know whoever is not that next
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person that next number Is it gonna be left out
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and there's always gonna be conversation so I
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do agree there Okay, you know, I mean I just
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you know I mean, we could always say, well, everybody
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should have been an All -Star. So let's just
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start with the easy one, though. And this has
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nothing to do with the format. And you might
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be surprised on my take on this. But I saw a
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lot of talk about LeBron James being picked as
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a reserve. OK. And what is your issue with him
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being picked as a reserve? Well, I don't necessarily
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have an issue. OK. I get it, right? It's kind
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of a legacy pick. Right now, this is normally
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done. In other sports. To kind of say, hey, like
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even if they're not an all star, we're going
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to give him an honorary spot. Now this is not
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the case. This is he's actually got a reserve
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spot on the team. Where we could talk about OK,
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has he played enough? Is there someone that deserves
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to be on here more than him? And again, I think
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my first argument would be, did he play enough?
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Does he even qualify for some of the stats? Does
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he even qualify? And at first glance, he doesn't.
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I think at first glance, you would say there
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are other players like a Kawhi Leonard. I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry. Wait a minute. I'm sorry. Give me
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a second. Did you go back in time and put on
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your Kawhi Leonard cape to come in and save Kawhi
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Leonard, the LA Clipper, the side deal with Steve
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Balmer, the aspiration faking planting trees?
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fake LLC set up to funnel extra money without
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having to do any work. Are you about to defend
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Kawhi Leonard? This is called, this is one of
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the hardest things I've ever had to do. Cause
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one, I'm picking between Kawhi Leonard and LeBron
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James, two of my least favorite players on the
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planet. No, now you used to love Kawhi cause
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he was a spur. Well, yeah, of course I loved
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him as a spur. And then he, then he turned his
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back on the team. left us high and dry. And then
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LeBron's LeBron. So no, that was one of the names.
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I'm just saying like, hey, you know. And we could
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say, oh, well, you know, it matters what the
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team is doing, right? OK, well, Pascal Siakam
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is an All -Star. And the Pacers are doo doo this
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year. So you can talk about, oh, Halliburts out
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and he's doing this. Yeah, that's great. And
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I'm not saying Siakam doesn't deserve to be an
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All -Star. But I'd like to see, I think this,
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that, I'm flipping on you real quick though,
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because I brought up Siakam and I think on his
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spot, I would just rather see somebody from a
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team that's up and coming. Yeah, like a Charlotte
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Hornets. But, you know, that's just me though.
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But again, I think LeBron's name was brought
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up because it is kind of like, I think they gave
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him like the legacy, like we can't leave out
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the king, right? He's wearing a special patch
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this year. We gotta give them an all -star pick.
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Okay, so Again, this is This is what makes sports
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sports It's an inexact science. There is no perfect
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measurement system for any of this shit. We're
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all just guys Screaming into a microphone or
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yelling at the clouds like there there is no
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perfect math for this so I think I think the
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And a lot of this is just kind of TV talk, social
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media, podcast stuff, where it's like, you just
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need something to argue about. The up and comers
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that you mentioned, there's already two up and
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comers already in the reserve spots, especially
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in the East. You've got Jalen Durin and you got
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Jalen Johnson. one of them plays for the Hawks,
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the other one plays for the Pistons. Two young
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up and coming stars who earned their spots on
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the All -Star team. That's fine. So to give Pascal
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Siakam a spot, veteran, just played in the finals,
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starting point guard out for the year with an
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Achilles injury, still doing his thing, dropping
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almost 24 a night. That's not a bad... That's
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not a bad assignment. You can make the case for
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someone else. Like I've seen with some people
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were making the case or like Michael Porter Jr.
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But at the same time, or like a Brandon Ingram
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or Brandon Ingram BI, you know, I'll again, they
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gave the Raptors Scotty Barnes. So they're like,
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Hey, we'll give you Barnes. We can't give you
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another guy. Yeah. Um, Okay, I get you again.
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It's an inexact science and I feel like for this
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You know to round out the reserve spots and and
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I kind of feel this it's a little Like we should
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kind of go through the reserve spots because
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we went over the starters Scotty Barnes in the
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East Scotty Barnes Jalen Durin Jalen Johnson
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Donovan Mitchell Norman Powell Pascal Siakam
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and then cat count Carl Anthony Towns for the
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Knicks I mean, that's a solid reserve lineup
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to me You got your young guys. You got your Scotty
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Barnes, who's you know, a tweener? He's kind
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of in between young player and veteran You've
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got Norman power of power veteran, you know came
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from LA got sitting really well ball and playing
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well again See Ockham just went to the finals,
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you know last year and then you got Carl Anthony
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Towns the big man You know for one of the better
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teams in the East. I mean, I think they're right
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now They're still top three team in the Knicks.
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So, okay, so that's all All right. Well, I'm
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going to leave it there for the moment. OK. All
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right. And in the West, what's the reserves there?
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OK. For the Western reserves, we've got Denny
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out of Portland, Devin Booker. Yeah. We got Devin
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Booker. We got KD. You got Ant Man. You got Chet
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Holmgren. OK. Jamal Murray and LeBron James.
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Okay. So I think Chet Hongman was the name that
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I saw that like his numbers are just not exactly
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like, you know, popping off the page. 17, 17
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and eight. And I know you're going to say, Oh,
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17. That's what you thought Cody Zeller would
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average in his life. And then I think it was
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closer to like 14, but you shut up. Oh, man.
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Oh, man. I know you're going to say what they
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just went to. They just won the finals. So they
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get to have two guys because they're the top
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team in the NBA. I mean, come on, man. You. This
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it's situational. You're looking you. There is
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no there's no perfect math. It's it's the same
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thing with any with the college football playoff.
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It's the same with the March Madness who's on
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the bubble. No matter what when it's all said
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and done You'll always be able to make an argument
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that someone else should have had an opportunity
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period But they shake out the way that they do
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It's no one else's fault that you know, okay
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see is out there ball in the way that they have
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been all year You know, they it's a dominant
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team, you know, and there's only really one You
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know up -and -coming player, you know when it
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comes to Denny, you know making the for the trailblazers
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making that spot on the Western side, but we
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all know that the West is deep. It's ballers
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all over the Western Conference, and you could
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have filled this roster with anybody. And Chet,
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I feel like he's being rewarded for being, oh,
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at least this year, I believe he's their second
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best player behind SGA and OKC. And I feel like
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he's earned that. He's an all -star caliber player.
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on an all -star caliber team that just won a
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championship, I think it's fair. Okay. So I'm
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gonna bring out another Clipper name. James Harden.
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And by the way, the Clippers are playing like
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the best basketball of anybody outside of the
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Charlotte Hornets right now. Yes, I said that.
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The Clippers and the Hornets are playing the
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best basketball in the NBA. the last month. And
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again, the Clippers don't have an All -Star,
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which again, I know what you're saying. Like,
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I mean, I'm just having the conversation. You
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know, I'm just bringing up the topics that come
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along with these rosters being revealed was,
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you know, I, there's no, I think, like I said,
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I agree with you. Everybody on here is an All
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-Star. Some you can make an argument that, Hey,
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Does he deserve does this guy deserve this that
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any other who did they leave off? Did they pick?
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Some of these guys so they could do their three
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rosters though So we could have eight guys internationally
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It's possible maybe that why Leonard and Harden
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and a Michael Porter jr. And You know who else
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could have been on here? uh okay. Alright. So,
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so I'll I'll do this. Ingram Bencaro. I mean,
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you know, okay. And again, you can go down farther
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and say, you know, uh then you get into the weeds
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of uh you know, I mean, again, Scotty Barnes
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made it. So, I could argue for a LaMelo ball,
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a Brandon Miller for Charlotte because again,
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I I'll ask you this. I'm gonna ask you this question
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real quick. Sure. Go. Let it go. And again, Scotty
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Barnes, 19 points. Again, Mello, 19. So, Again,
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we talk about it, it's an exhibition, so again,
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it is really, it really means nothing in the
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game. No, no, no, making an All -Star team is
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an achievement. And I feel like I've been dismissing
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it a lot, but like to make an All -Star game,
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it matters to an NBA player. Yes. So you, were
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you gonna make... I don't know if you were going
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to do like a head to head between Scotty and
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Lamello, but I wasn't there. Not on that one.
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I was just going to say, you know, at the end
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of day, it is an exhibition, which is why they
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let LeBron in. OK, because I can't you can't
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honestly think that he's an all star this year,
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that he hasn't even like I said, he's not even
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played enough games to, again, be in the stat
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line for who's got the best average of points
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and all that. So my question just just taking
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a name here. Who would you rather watch in the
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All -Star game? Which is a game they do not try.
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All they do is throw alley -oops and other shenanigans.
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Pascal Siakam, LaMelo Ball. If you're a young
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kid, who do you want to watch in the All -Star
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game? LaMelo Ball, Pascal Siakam. Okay, I would
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rather see LaMelo Ball. Okay, so I'll answer
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your question directly Mm -hmm. The interesting
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thing is is I was gonna ask you a totally different
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question I was gonna ask you a totally different
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question when it came to because we're talking
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about all -star reserves and And we talked about
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like it's not it's not the reserves aren't a
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popularity contest at that point. It's just not
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and LaMelo ball His best shot is gonna be getting
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voted in by the millions of internet fans that
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he has. But what I was gonna do in terms of being,
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someone being green lit to make an All -Star
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team, I was gonna ask, who is a better player?
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Scottie Barnes or LaMelo Ball? Then I was gonna
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ask, who's a better player? Pascal Siakam or
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LaMelo Ball? Yeah, who's a better player? A better
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player. Which to me, that's what signifies who
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actually makes the reserve spot. Except LeBron
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James. I mean... You can name a lot of dudes,
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I wouldn't take them over LeBron even at this
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point in his career. No, and I'm not trying,
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again, I'm really on the fence. I am Sweden on
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this. I am really like, I'm not affected either
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way. You know what I mean? I'm just bringing
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up names to say, again, is this a case of making
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sure we fit the format, right? Deni Aviga, does
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he make it in a Portland team, even though the
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Clippers have two guys that are having really
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good seasons like Hardin and Kawhi? If we're
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just talking Western Conference and then when
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you go to the East again, I look at that like.
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And maybe it was just too little too late for
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the Hornets in their in their push at the moment,
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but. You know it. It would make sense. I think
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and I'm just naming the Hornets right now. I
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mean, there's obviously I named a lot of other
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I named a few other guys there too in the east
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that could have been a little more exciting to
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watch on a team that's doing better. But you
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know, that's my thing is like is it was it just
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too little too late for the Hornets and and again,
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are we just trying again Siakam or Avia? Are
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we just trying to make sure we have enough numbers?
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for this new format instead of just picking guys
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who deserve to be all -stars. And that's a fair
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question. This is year one. It's always going
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to be an imperfect system. Well, again, if it
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stays like this, it will be like this. Because
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I gave you the example of baseball, and it's
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like that every year. some, you know, no name
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dude guy on the worst Major League Baseball team
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makes the All -Star team. And you're like, why
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do I gotta make the All -Star team when there
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is a much better name, bigger name that now on
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his resume is missing an All -Star nod because
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we have to stick to this format that every team
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gets an All -Star. Every kid gets a trophy. Well,
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apparently not Lamello. Well, not in basketball.
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I'm just saying in baseball. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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Okay. Baseball, I'll give you that. In the NBA,
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this is the thing where I've been able to...
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Every country gets a trophy. Yeah, your entire
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nation. Every nation gets a trophy. This is where
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I get an opportunity to take... I could take
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a step back and say, I'm not going to feel sorry
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for an NBA player who didn't make an All -Star
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team because there's one thing that I know. is
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that all the guys that you mentioned that didn't
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make the All -Star team, they could have did
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more, and they didn't. Now, whether that's due
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to health, whether they got injured, whether
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it's due to the complexity of their roster, maybe
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it's due to their schedule, the bottom line is
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the guys who are on the team who made the All
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-Star rosters are deserved of that, and the guys
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that didn't didn't do just enough. You talked
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about it. Kawhi was mailing it in all year. He
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knew when the season was started, mailing it
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in. Talk about Harden. Harden's that guy who
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always has to play himself into shape every NBA
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season. You know what I'm saying? Like, I can
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do this with anybody. Any name you throw at me,
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I can say, oh, okay, come on. And if LeBron would
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have got snubbed, I could have said the same
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thing. I feel like LeBron's out there holding
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back. He's not playing hard on defense. He's
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not getting back the way that he should. You
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know, he's still a good player and he's still
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all -star worthy, but I can make a case for anybody.
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If he happened to not get picked, then I could
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have made, I could have made an argument as to
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a justification for that. The other thing is,
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is the kind of the elephant in the room. And
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it's really interesting. Where's the All -Star
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game held this year? LA. At the Intuit Dome.
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Yeah, yes. At, in the Clippers house. And no
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Clipper. A brand new, brand new spanking brand
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new arena. that from what I hear from everybody
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is really dope, but they won't even have a player
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representing their team in that building. Now,
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a lot of reasons for that and they earn that,
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but you got two stars from LA, arguably two of
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the biggest stars in the league in Luka and LeBron
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who are going to be a part of it. So they'll
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be okay. Everything will be all right. It'll
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come out and wash. Yeah, they'll be fine. I mean,
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that was one I had not even thought about. um
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yeah that's an interesting that they would not
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you know and maybe that's the Clippers punishment
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that's that ultimately is their punishment for
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all their fraud and wrong transgressions all
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their all their uh adulterous behavior with the
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lead that's that's their slap on the wrist yeah
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yeah okay Yeah, I mean, I mean he could have
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just moved it to Staples, but you know or Staples
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jeez crypto I'm not calling it crypto. It's still
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it's the Staples Center and they should have
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moved it to the Staples Center Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
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I mean it doesn't matter. It's LA Yeah, I mean
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other than that, I mean like said all -star game
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It is what it is. I don't know if the new format
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is gonna make people watch it. I Don't know if
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you're gonna get any more effort from these guys.
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Like I said, first year of it, we shall see.
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Again, as we always mentioned, we could fix it
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just like we could fix everything in the NBA.
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But Adam Silver, he just, you know, he just needs
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to listen one time and we can get in contact
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and we can fix the NBA. Yeah, we, yes, let's
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fix the NBA. I can do that. That's easy. That's
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the easy part. Figuring out all -star math is
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hard. But figuring out how to fix the weekend
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is easy shit. I can fix the NBA. I can fix the
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WNBA. Fix it all. Yeah. All with the wave of
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a magic wand. They might not like it, but I'll
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fix it. Yeah. Hell yeah. Alright, so for a little
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fun and stick with the all -star weekend I guess
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that we can we can go through that roster and
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forever but the other thing that happens is the
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the favorites because I know some of the kind
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some of the things on our star weekend they change
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every year then they also change the rules and
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It's not only the game. But the extra stuff is
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getting where I need a rule book to understand
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What is going on? So but again, we could fix
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that but the other the big two are the slam dunk
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contest and the three -point contest now to have
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some fun i think we're going to sit here and
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we're going to go with the all -star rosters
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just from the rosters and pick who would we want
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to see in the dunk contest and the three -point
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contest because the actual dunk contest right
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now has two participants and they will not blow
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you away. It is Jackson Hayes of the Lakers and
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a Spurs rookie. You might not even known was
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only their team, Carter Bryant. No idea who that
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is. Exactly. Okay. Which is part of the problem.
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Uh, so like I said, yeah. So to have some fun
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here and say, okay, what if we just pick from
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the rosters, right? I know anybody can be in
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these contests, but Hey, let's have a little
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bit of fun and say if we were putting together
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four guys, right? Four guys in the dunk contest.
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Okay. Are we going to go east and then west?
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No, either one. Just four guys for me, a combination
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here. Okay. Um so the the Eastern Conference
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is weak. Um because when you're just looking
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at the roster, I mean, No, I don't know. If I
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had to pick two, I would probably whittle it
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down to about four names that I would actually
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want to see. And one would be Yannis, who's more
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of a power dunker. Okay. Yannis. Go ahead and
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give me Cade Cunningham. Okay. Donovan Mitchell.
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Jalen Brown. Okay, so you you're picking four
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from the East Well, no, I know I'm gonna narrow
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it down to two Okay, but that's who you would
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pick from from those and I think and I think
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just just for the star power alone I think I'd
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have to go with the honest And for yeah and from
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the ease I'll go with you I would if I had to
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pick two from each car I go with Yannis and in
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in spider Mitchell. Yeah. Yeah, I go with those
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two That's two good ones Yeah, it's just like
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I said and it's hard cuz John is cuz he's so
24:44
he's so tall He's so long and and he you know,
24:47
he he's not he's not as you know Flexible as
24:52
a lot of he's a stiff basketball player in a
24:55
lot of ways, even though we know he's athletic
24:56
as hell But but I think I think I'd have to see
24:59
it I think if you went Janice and Mitchell out
25:02
of the West, I think there's only two names and
25:05
it's It is LeBron James and it's Anthony Edwards
25:11
I got it. I got it. I gotta see Ant Man II. I
25:16
don't I don't it. It's almost criminal. It's
25:18
almost criminal that he hasn't participated in
25:21
the slam dunk contest. He's one of the he's one
25:23
of the players in the league that still prides
25:25
himself on dunking on people. We also prides
25:28
himself on participating like playing. So, I
25:32
don't know why he's not been in a dunk contest
25:35
like again, I put Lebron in it because I think
25:37
we've all wanted I think he's ran from it from
25:41
his entire career. Yeah. He was afraid to fail
25:44
at that. So, um, but yeah, in, in this scenario
25:48
though, we're going to make them, we're going
25:50
to make Lebron and Giannis and, uh, Mitchell
25:54
be in the dunk contest. Got it. Okay. All right.
25:59
Yeah. And I think, I think that's fair. And I
26:02
think it's a nice evenly matched. I feel like
26:05
Donovan Mitchell and Anthony Edwards are kind
26:07
of neck -and -neck in terms of the type of player
26:10
that they are and Janis as great as he is and
26:13
LeBron even though he's past his prime still
26:16
good too great I think yeah I think that'd be
26:19
a fair matchup and that would get people to watch
26:21
it or we could watch Jokic and Wimby one of them
26:26
stand at each goal and just see how many they
26:30
can make in a row reaching up without without
26:34
without their feet leaving the ground without
26:35
jumping Yeah. Yeah. No, yeah. Can't jump over
26:41
a phone book. Yogi is just there right there.
26:43
Yeah. And then again, Wimby, you know, he would
26:46
be interesting to say, I'm going to throw this
26:48
alley. You got to reach from the, you got to
26:50
stand at the basket, reach to the three, the
26:53
free throw line and grab the alley. You've been
26:55
ducking. So I've seen them. I've seen them reach
26:59
and grab, uh, from way out. Um, okay. That'd
27:04
be, again, that'd be better than watching Steph
27:06
Curry try to dunk. um but well, we know Steph
27:11
Carey can do. We're going to get to the three
27:12
-point contest. How many how many uh guys in
27:14
the three -point contest? Well, I think it's
27:17
usually I mean, I know it's an even number. I
27:20
can't remember if it's four or six. Let's go
27:23
six. Six guys. So, we gotta pick three. We gotta
27:27
pick six people. No, I'm saying three from each
27:30
conference. Yeah. Well, we can stick that way
27:33
from the from the All -Star stars. I mean, OK,
27:35
first off, let's just let's just make this easy
27:37
from the roster. Let's just make this easy. Start
27:40
with the West Coast. OK, it's going to be is
27:44
is is Curry, Luca and Ant -Man. On the three
27:47
point contest. Yes. No. Yes. It would be Curry.
27:54
Booker. And I'm going to I'd say Jamal Murray.
28:08
justify that. I have a I have a rational justification
28:12
for I don't want to see. I don't want to see
28:14
it. Yeah, I don't want to see and the dunk and
28:16
the three point. So, okay. Why not? Because I
28:20
don't he's to me. He's more of a dunker than
28:23
a shooter. Okay. I know he can shoot now. I could
28:27
go Curry, Luca Booker, but I think definitely
28:31
Booker and Curry. Okay. Now, again, you can have
28:37
your three. That's all right. We don't have to
28:39
agree. Okay. So, I just I just want to point
28:42
this out to you and a little little known fact
28:45
and and this is like I've you know me, man. We
28:48
get into basketball like this is my **** right?
28:51
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Ant Man led the league
28:55
in threes last year. Don't know if you knew that.
29:00
He took more threes than Curry last year. But
29:02
what does that mean? It means that he's taking
29:06
more threes than you thought he was. Because
29:09
like you said, and I understand you thinking
29:11
of him as like a slasher or a dunker. When he
29:13
came into the league, he was shooting 32 % from
29:16
three. Right now he's shooting 40. Last year
29:19
he shot 30 and he shot a hair under 40%. This
29:21
year he's at 40%. Like he's a good three point
29:24
shooter. I think this would this this may almost
29:28
push us to that conversation when you look at
29:30
all time stats of threes made and we say that
29:33
guy does not strike me as a three point shooter.
29:38
Okay, fair enough and you're going to have some
29:41
of that in some NBA because I didn't like didn't
29:44
like Chris Bosch participate in the three three
29:46
point shootout once like like we've seen guys
29:49
who aren't premier, you know, ideal shooters.
29:53
you know, go out and participate in the three
29:56
-point, I mean, hell, didn't Paul Pierce win
29:58
a three -point contest? Probably. I think Paul
30:02
Pierce won one. So it's like, and nobody really
30:04
looks at him like, you know, nobody looks at
30:07
him as like one of the greatest shooters of all
30:09
time, but. Exactly. You know. And that's why
30:11
I think that's where we get like, you know, aunt
30:13
can have these stats and all this stuff. I'm
30:15
just, I don't know. Yeah. But yeah. All right.
30:20
Let's, like I said, we don't have to agree. I
30:23
get what you're saying. I get it. Yeah. No, I
30:25
just wanted to understand where you were where
30:26
you were coming from, but I get you. It's just
30:29
my mindset of a three -point shooter and I you
30:32
know, I feel like Booker is more of a shooter.
30:36
What a pure shooter, right? Yeah. Uh let's see.
30:41
Alright, let's go to the east. and I will start
30:46
this one. I'm going to want to see Tyrese I'm
30:56
gonna say Jalen Brunson and Norman Powell. Not
31:07
bad. Not bad, not bad, not bad, not bad. I am
31:18
gonna go Jalen Brunson. Actually, I'll take that
31:26
back. Tyrese Maxey. Uh huh. Cade Cunningham.
31:32
Okay. Carl Anthony Towns. Oh, Cat. And I'm going
31:36
with Cat mainly because I don't like the shots
31:40
that he takes in game. Like you're too tall to
31:44
be posted up at the three point line. Dude, get
31:46
your big ass in the post and go grab a rebound
31:48
or block somebody or set a screen or something.
31:51
I feel like he spots up too much. for a guy of
31:55
his size and with his athleticism. So, okay,
32:00
fine. You want to shoot threes, let's see what
32:02
you got. And I'm pretty, I'm not entirely sure.
32:07
I'm pretty sure he's participated in a three
32:09
-point shooting contest before. I feel like he
32:13
has. You know, they like to put these big guys
32:16
in like skills competition and the three -point
32:19
contest to try to, you know, expand the game.
32:22
which I know the game has expanded you got these
32:25
you know you got stuff like that but uh just
32:30
for this Carl Anthony Towns participated in the
32:33
2022 Mountain Dew three -point contest and won
32:36
it wow yeah just just throwing it out there like
32:43
yeah okay fine go do it again damn it hey there
32:46
you go yeah go do it again yeah well I saw a
32:54
funny meme just to bring this up, because all
32:56
the Jaylins in the Eastern Conference. Yeah.
33:02
And it said, Jaylin, Jaylin, Jaylin, Jaylin.
33:07
And it had Chappelle saying, Dylon, Dylon, Dylon.
33:14
Yeah, listen, Jalen Rose, his mother was, she
33:20
was more impactful on sports culture than she
33:23
ever thought. If you thought his Fab Five legacy
33:26
and the shorts and the socks and all of that,
33:29
and Chris Webber and Juwan Howard, all of that,
33:32
it pales in comparison to the fact that she created
33:35
a name that has both young men and women. Yeah.
33:40
competing in in college and now professional
33:43
sports. It's it's crazy to see man. That's yeah
33:46
crazy ass turn around. All right. Well, that's
33:51
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33:54
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