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World Wide Wob on NBA Playoffs + Michael Leboff on NHL Playoffs · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, the podcast from the Action Network.
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Speaker 1: Guy Am Chad Moman Uh listen, it is Tuesday morning.
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Speaker 1: Last night I watched the Sixers and the Nets play
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Speaker 1: and I watched the Sixers score fifty one points in
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Speaker 1: the third quarter to tie an NBA playoff record, and
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Speaker 1: I thought, well, that's going to be the action for
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Speaker 1: the night, and then the Clippers and the Warriors play it.
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Speaker 1: And I can't think of anyone better to come on
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Speaker 1: and discuss all of the NBA action then worldwide Web.
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Speaker 1: Rob Perez of the Action Network, who did an epic
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Speaker 1: twenty four minute periscope last night late night to catch
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Speaker 1: us all up on it. He's gonna rehash everything from
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Speaker 1: the evening this morning. Bob, How you doing, buddy? This
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Speaker 1: is why you can't work to cover the NBA and
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Speaker 1: be on the East code in life was so much
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Speaker 1: easier in lons Ange plus complete games that don't end
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Speaker 1: until two a m. And it's five to m before
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Speaker 1: you're actually getting done doing content or watching inside the
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Speaker 1: NBA or whatever the hell it is you're doing. But
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Speaker 1: I guess that's what we signed up for. So good
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Speaker 1: morning to YouTube, Chad. Listen. I appreciate waking me up.
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Speaker 1: I will say. I will say that. You know, I
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Speaker 1: was watching that game last night. I knew you were
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Speaker 1: coming on the podcast this morning because we had set
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Speaker 1: this up before the games, and I'm thinking to myself, well,
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Speaker 1: he's probably gonna do a periscope. This guy is not
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Speaker 1: going to bed. I don't think he's going to bed
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Speaker 1: the entire night. And I half thought of, you know what,
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Speaker 1: I'll text him right now and say, don't worry about it,
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Speaker 1: we'll catch another time. And then I thought, well, if
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Speaker 1: you really doesn't want to do it, it'll just text
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Speaker 1: me and be like, I'm way too tired. I appreciate
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Speaker 1: your professionalism. If you did that, I would have never
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Speaker 1: spoken to you again because I wrote an article, I
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Speaker 1: did a periscope by set an alarm just for this,
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Speaker 1: and if I woke up to him, we're not doing
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Speaker 1: this text. We would have had problems. We would have words,
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Speaker 1: but we have had the kind of words that Patrick
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Speaker 1: Beverly is having with Kevin Durant right now. That is insane,
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Speaker 1: absolutely insane, what he's doing to him. I don't never
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Speaker 1: really know what to compare it to, but it's more
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Speaker 1: of just uh, he planted a seed, not just not
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Speaker 1: just in game two down thirty, but he didn't in
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Speaker 1: game one two, where he's just he plants the seed
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Speaker 1: of I'm Patrick Beverly and I'm here just to annoy
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Speaker 1: the crap out of you, and it doesn't it's not
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Speaker 1: even like he doesn't play. The misconception here is that
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Speaker 1: Matt Beverly plays dirty. I never really thought he plays dirty.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes he just plays too hard and creates those situations
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Speaker 1: in which one can interpret that he plays dirty. So,
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Speaker 1: for example, in game one, when Kevin Durant gets uh
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Speaker 1: got he got like an AD one call because he
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Speaker 1: did his rip through and kind of falls back, and
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Speaker 1: Patrick Beverley's like impersonating him with a flail, and they're
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Speaker 1: going back and forth and they exchange technical fouls, then
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Speaker 1: they exchange objections, and Kevin Durant said he was cool
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Speaker 1: with it. After the game, He's like, I kind of
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Speaker 1: like that. We're just trash talking. You know, nothing was
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Speaker 1: taken personally. But when you're up thirty one, you get
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Speaker 1: a win, you can say that, right, you can say
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Speaker 1: that it wasn't personal. And then Patrick Beverley keeps doing
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Speaker 1: it down thirty one and he's doing this thing at
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Speaker 1: the foul line where he's pretending to fall in every
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Speaker 1: into the paint every time Kevin Durant is taking a
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Speaker 1: free throw, and it's starting to piss him off a
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Speaker 1: little bit. And when Kevin Durant ends the game with
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Speaker 1: almost as many fouls as total shots and more turnovers
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Speaker 1: than total shots, and he's got Patrick Beverlely inside of
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Speaker 1: his shirt clapping in his space, maybe it's not a
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Speaker 1: joke anymore. And that's just it's more, it's not a
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Speaker 1: knock against Katie as much as it is a credit
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Speaker 1: and a testament. But just what Patrick Beverley is that
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Speaker 1: he's made it this far being missed exact player, and
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Speaker 1: he continues to produce and be efficient as the NBA
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Speaker 1: evolves from this nineties style basketball to pace in space
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Speaker 1: and everything is a foul. This man still continues to
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Speaker 1: this day to be an NBA starter, and a good
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Speaker 1: one at that. He is one of those guys who
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Speaker 1: he's good on every single team and yet never sticks
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Speaker 1: with anybody. Why do you think that is? I wouldn't
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Speaker 1: look so much into not sticking with teams because in
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Speaker 1: the NBA the contracts was so short and there's so
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Speaker 1: much turnover for all the players that I don't really
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Speaker 1: see it that way. But he was as a part
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Speaker 1: of that Chris Paul throw away, you know. Darryl Moray
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Speaker 1: was like, here's seven players for Chris Paul, because Chris
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Speaker 1: Paul is this almighty point guard point guard that we're
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Speaker 1: gonna pay forty million dollars to when he's thirty five
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Speaker 1: years old. Here just take Contrese Harold and Patrick Beverley Montrose.
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Speaker 1: Harrold is probably gonna finished second in six Man of
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Speaker 1: the Year, third and most improved player. Uh oh. And
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Speaker 1: Patrick Beverley, by the way, is just like an absolute
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Speaker 1: pitfall helln dog I can guard and he is a
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Speaker 1: point guard guarding Kevin Durant. In the playoffs, they put
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Speaker 1: a point guard on d and and he limited into
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Speaker 1: nine total shots, and that nine numbers inflated because it
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Speaker 1: was five going into into the final couple minutes there.
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Speaker 1: So when Kevin Durant is jack in three thirty as
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Speaker 1: they're blowing the thirty point lead with two minutes left, listen,
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Speaker 1: the Warriors sort of run their offense like Steph Curry
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Speaker 1: has to come off to off ball screens and then
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Speaker 1: he usually comes through some sort of an elevator pick,
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Speaker 1: and Kevin Durant is just launching any time he gets
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Speaker 1: open because he's had Patrick Beverly inside his shirt. Call game.
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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, the seed was planted and it actually grew
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Speaker 1: on top of the Warriors last night when when I
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Speaker 1: watched I don't mean this to sound nasty, when I
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Speaker 1: watched Patrick Beverlely guard Kevin Durant, I see him get
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Speaker 1: in his face. It's almost like watching like remember that
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Speaker 1: video of Kevin Hart versus Draymond Green and that that
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Speaker 1: Fox three point shooting contest at the All Star Game,
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Speaker 1: And like Kevin Hart is so much shorter than Draymond
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Speaker 1: Green that when he's trying to like get in his face,
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Speaker 1: he can get up to maybe his stern um. That's
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Speaker 1: what it feels like when Patrick Beverly is doing except
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Speaker 1: he's actually doing it in a real game and being
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Speaker 1: unbelievably effective. Yeah. The comparison I made here was the
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Speaker 1: movie comparison is from the movie The Mummy. There's that
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Speaker 1: that beetle that gets inside the guy's skin and he
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Speaker 1: like starts like one. The thing is mind, he runs
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Speaker 1: into the wall and kills himself. I know it's the
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Speaker 1: Nicious movie, but that really is Patrick Peverley in basketball form.
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Speaker 1: And the thing with me is similar to what you
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Speaker 1: just alluded to, Kevin Hart is internet culture as well.
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Speaker 1: So Patrick Beverley is a basketball troll. And what do
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Speaker 1: you do with trolls. You don't respond to them. Whether
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Speaker 1: you are correct or you are wrong. You can be
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Speaker 1: the most correct response in the history of the Internet.
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Speaker 1: And it does not matter if you are responding to
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Speaker 1: a troll. All a troll cares about is that they
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Speaker 1: put the interactions so they can screenshot it and they
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Speaker 1: can put it as their header in their profile. So
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Speaker 1: this whole time, Patrick Peverley troll and cant like, you're
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Speaker 1: gonna respond to me by the end of this You're
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Speaker 1: gonna respond to me by the end of the game,
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Speaker 1: and Kim Durant sitting there just kind of laughed in
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Speaker 1: like we're up thirty. I'm just I'm gonna stand over
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Speaker 1: here and just let him be annoying. And then all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, thirty becomes twenty, becomes ten, becomes five
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Speaker 1: to oh my god, we just lost, and kimbn Durants
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Speaker 1: trying to respond and bring the team back. You can
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Speaker 1: see just the look on Beverly states he knows he
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Speaker 1: has tru cause hooked into KIMN. Durant as much as
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Speaker 1: he wants to smile and say, uh, this is just
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Speaker 1: Pat Dev and Pat Dev and I respected. It's not different. Now,
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Speaker 1: this is what makes this last night's game so amazing.
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Speaker 1: Is Patrick Beverley fouled out with four and a half
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Speaker 1: minutes left in the game. All right, Kevin Durant fouled
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Speaker 1: out maybe a minute or so later. We are ten
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Speaker 1: minutes into this podcast. Last night, you did a twenty
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Speaker 1: five minute periscope. You were fifteen minutes in the periscope.
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Speaker 1: That's twenty five minutes of combined content talking about this game.
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Speaker 1: And we haven't even talked about Lou Williams. Yeah right,
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Speaker 1: I mean there's so many other like what happened during
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Speaker 1: that game last night. So you had Lou Williams, who
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Speaker 1: was put it this way. So pom were put on
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Speaker 1: this planet to be an artist. Some people were put
8:10
Speaker 1: on this planet to be a salesman. Some people were
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Speaker 1: put on this planet to be a blacksmith. Right, it
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter, like we all have a purpose. Lou Williams
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Speaker 1: was put on this planet to get buckets, and I
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Speaker 1: don't know how he continues to do this decade later,
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Speaker 1: not games later, not seasons later, that years later. This
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Speaker 1: man has been doing this for decades and he's just undarnable.
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Speaker 1: So like people are talking about where's Clay Thompson, Pey
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Speaker 1: Thompson was busy last night with Georgy Lou Williams, which
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Speaker 1: is an impossible task in how do guys like to
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Speaker 1: boll Crawford and Lou Williams continued to be this hood.
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Speaker 1: The rules have changed a little bit, and they've like
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Speaker 1: James hard and they're so good at manipulating contact that
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Speaker 1: they're gonna be in this league forever. So this is
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Speaker 1: nothing new. Lou Williams was hitting game winners all year.
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Speaker 1: He ran away with six Man of the Year. Is
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Speaker 1: gonna plain that award again. And the only reason why
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Speaker 1: we didn't talk about Lou Williams more was because the
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Lakers and all their drama ate up all
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Speaker 1: the market share in the media in Los Angeles. And
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Speaker 1: the Clippers have been doing what they did last night
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Speaker 1: all season, and I realized if they were packed, they
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Speaker 1: wouldn't have been the eight seed. They have been overachieving
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Speaker 1: with two rookie starting, a third year guy, and a
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Speaker 1: bunch of no names that you thought sell off Planet
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Speaker 1: Earth's and we're included in a throwaway dream for Chris Paul.
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Speaker 1: So when you combine all those elements together in this
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Speaker 1: little cauldron, the ingrediants that are produced in this whap,
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Speaker 1: or a team that feels disrespected and it's going to
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Speaker 1: over a change. You combine the personality of Patrick Beverley,
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Speaker 1: and then you have this guy, Landry Shannon. Okay, I
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Speaker 1: don't know if everyone listening to this knows about Landry Shannon.
9:41
Speaker 1: Landry Shannon was another throwaway piece that the Philip Sementi
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Speaker 1: switch was included in the trade for the Pious Harris
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Speaker 1: remember the blockbuster at Sea very trade of oh my god,
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Speaker 1: they just got bious hairs for what Landry Shamont was
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Speaker 1: the key piece going back all and Andrew Shannon has
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Speaker 1: fun is be the best NBA there. I'm talking Lebron,
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Speaker 1: James Kevin ran the odes same kind of Google. They
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Speaker 1: were all second to Landry Shammon after the All Star
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Speaker 1: Break in terms of individual net raining on off stats
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Speaker 1: I meaning he was being best players statistically in the
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Speaker 1: NBA going all the way into the final season, the
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Speaker 1: tunnel weak of the season. That's an actual fact that
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Speaker 1: he has presidents on the court. Then that much to
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Speaker 1: the Clippers, and the Clippers were the best second NAP
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Speaker 1: team and it was all because of Sharon's shooting motility.
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Speaker 1: That's what he does. Last night, it came on the line,
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Speaker 1: no big deal, You're just playing in pal against the
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Speaker 1: best dynasty of all time. Just steps right up at
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Speaker 1: h the game winner like it's absolutely nothing. So coming
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Speaker 1: to class, we talked about it was point four or
10:42
Speaker 1: five guys that are completely non namers that now are
10:45
Speaker 1: going to become household names because the Clippers, Doc Rivers
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Speaker 1: and more import named Lord Spring my executive of the
10:52
Speaker 1: year have found that recipe knows great. Damn all right,
10:56
Speaker 1: we've talked about Patrick Beverley, you said, we mentioned a
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Speaker 1: few players, Patrick bever Lee, Lou Williams, Landry Shamat. You
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Speaker 1: say Lawrence frank Is is Executive of the year. On
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Speaker 1: your periscope last night you also said Bob Myers could
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Speaker 1: be Executive of the Year forgetting Andrew Bogat to come
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Speaker 1: back from Australia. So let's flip this because at the
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Speaker 1: end of the day, like we're talking about a thirty
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Speaker 1: one point come back, we're talking about three one. We're
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Speaker 1: talking about a Warrior's team at the ending of the day.
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Speaker 1: Like you said last night, they're going to win this
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Speaker 1: series in five games. So let's get to the Warriors
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Speaker 1: for a second. If you're a betting man, now is
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Speaker 1: the best price to get the Warriors? Probably? But also,
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Speaker 1: why do you say Bob Myers should be Executive the
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Speaker 1: Year in the periscope last night because I got Andrew
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Speaker 1: Bogett to come back from Australia, right, So there should
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Speaker 1: be some context to that if you can say that
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Speaker 1: it was in the moment uh exaggeration that he should
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Speaker 1: now be considered because of what happened to Marcus Cousins.
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Speaker 1: So from all the things that happened last night, we
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Speaker 1: haven't mentioned yet that the prized possession of free agency,
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Speaker 1: Uh likely We don't know at the time of selling this,
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Speaker 1: but I could very likely have a torn quadrstep and
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Speaker 1: be out for the playoffs at the very ladies step
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Speaker 1: Curus said it's going to quote be a while, um
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Speaker 1: and it is a quote significant injury. So Bob Myers
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Speaker 1: just decided to believe in early March, maybe of Slate
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Speaker 1: February or whenever it was, to call up Andrew Pogett,
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Speaker 1: per former center for the Lawyers, who was the MPP
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Speaker 1: down for the Sydney Kings in Australia, decides to call
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Speaker 1: him up and say, hey, do you want to come
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Speaker 1: back up here for the remainder of the season of
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Speaker 1: play for the Warriors, And that ended up being a
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Speaker 1: really really important decision it has. Without him, the Warriors
12:40
Speaker 1: would simply just have Kevon Looney. Now, Cabon Looney is
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Speaker 1: been perfect, almost perfect, as perfect as cavan money can be. Uh,
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Speaker 1: for this Warrior's team. You want to talk about how
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Speaker 1: important players are when they're on the court versus they're off, Looney, Uh,
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Speaker 1: it makes the Warriors a plus ten point one net rating,
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Speaker 1: and when he's off the court it goes all the
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Speaker 1: way down into like four beliefs. So that means his
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Speaker 1: presence is worth almost five and a half points two
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Speaker 1: good Golden State ward is It's the complete opposite for
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Speaker 1: so on paper, the Warriors are not gonna miss Bookie
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Speaker 1: that much. And part of that reason is because DeMarcus
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Speaker 1: Cousins is a ball stopper. And when he's out there
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Speaker 1: with Kevin Durant, who's also a ball stopper. When you
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Speaker 1: play in the Warriors offense, the ball doesn't stop. So
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Speaker 1: it really hasn't been a basketball fit in terms of
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Speaker 1: like on paper stuff. But the eye test will tell
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Speaker 1: you that DeMarcus Cousins is an All Star for a reason,
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Speaker 1: and he looked pretty dang good this year, so they're
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Speaker 1: gonna miss him for depth purposes. But when it comes
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Speaker 1: to actual like gameplay and you look back under advanced analytics, uh,
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Speaker 1: DeMarcus Cousins will not be as important as losing like
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Speaker 1: a Steph Curry or Clay Thompson or Draymond Green. So
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Speaker 1: my statement about Bob Myers was that was probably the
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Speaker 1: most important phone call he's made all year, even more
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Speaker 1: so than DeMarcus Cousins, because Boget, like Looney, does not
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Speaker 1: need the ball. He's in there for one reason to
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Speaker 1: protect the pain, clean the glass. Uh, do all of
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Speaker 1: those important things that Steph Curry, Clay Thompson, Kevin Durant
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Speaker 1: are not willing to do. You don't need a fit
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Speaker 1: player who wants who is so good at offense that
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Speaker 1: he needs the ball. There's only one of it on
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Speaker 1: the court. So unless you're willing to adapt to and
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Speaker 1: embrace this warrior style of play, uh, the Fircus Cousins
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Speaker 1: is not a great long term fit for this team.
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Speaker 1: And having Boget and Mooning as options is going to
14:26
Speaker 1: make life a little bit easier for those guys who
14:28
Speaker 1: have been around the Clay's to drink again that the
14:30
Speaker 1: Hampton's five, their lives are gonna be a little bit easier.
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Speaker 1: If you're did you watch I felt like you know
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Speaker 1: sixty minutes on Sunday had a Game of Throne story,
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Speaker 1: which I know you like, and uh, a story about
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Speaker 1: the Warriors? Did you happen to see the story by
14:47
Speaker 1: John Worth time on sixty minutes about the Warriors on
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Speaker 1: Sunday night enough to continue to have this conversation? So,
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Speaker 1: which is really all you need in the podcast? What
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Speaker 1: that was when they were interviewing all five of those
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Speaker 1: guys they were interviewing Iguadala, Sean Livingston, Um, Clay Durant,
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Speaker 1: and Steph That was some weird body language in that interview,
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Speaker 1: especially from Kevin Durant. What did you think? Well, remember
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Speaker 1: sixty minutes they filmed their stories, probably five or six
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Speaker 1: months before they actually go to air a majority of these.
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Speaker 1: Now I don't know when the exact date that this
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Speaker 1: was filmed, but based on Steph Curry's haircut and his goatee,
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Speaker 1: that sure looked like the end of November. And at
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Speaker 1: the beginning of November. We know what happened back against
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Speaker 1: the Clippers in that Staples that same Staples Center, Raymond
15:44
Speaker 1: Green and Kevin Durant had their World War three on
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Speaker 1: the bench, and that's when like two weeks of oh
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Speaker 1: my god, this might be actually happening, was was happening
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Speaker 1: there for a little bit, so uh that the timing
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Speaker 1: of that. They may not have been in love with
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Speaker 1: each other, and to be honest, they still probably don't
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Speaker 1: love each other to this day. Um, but they're so
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Speaker 1: good that it is in their best business interests. You
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Speaker 1: know what they look like when they're sitting there talking
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Speaker 1: to that interview. They know that, you know what, we're
16:11
Speaker 1: probably going to break up and we don't like each other,
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Speaker 1: but it isn't our best business interest to just come
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Speaker 1: together for this playoff run. Let's win four titles in
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Speaker 1: five years and we'll worry about Kumbaya after this. So
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Speaker 1: that's that's the vibe that has always surrounded this team
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Speaker 1: throughout the year, and to be honest, it's the same
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Speaker 1: arb that surrounded the Jordan's Bulls for almost a decade.
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Speaker 1: All of these dynasties, these guys have egos. They think
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Speaker 1: they're the best players. They want to get paid, they
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Speaker 1: want they wanted the recognition. It's only natural right, we're
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Speaker 1: all human. But they do look like they're at the
16:42
Speaker 1: end of that. Okay, one more is fine, and then
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Speaker 1: we're gonna move on. Here. God, that is some Zepruder
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Speaker 1: film breakdown right there, because that could also be why,
16:54
Speaker 1: if we want to extend the conspiracy a little bit further,
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Speaker 1: that could be why Draymond wasn't in the interview. That's
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Speaker 1: would be my theory. I wish I could prove that,
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Speaker 1: but if I'm putting, I don't have any tinfoil in
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Speaker 1: this near me around this chair. But the reason why
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Speaker 1: Draymond was not included was because Warriors pr likely hilted
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Speaker 1: him out as they did many times turned that run.
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Speaker 1: Remember kid, there was there was a stretch there, not
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Speaker 1: even during the Draymond versus Kad thing in November when
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Speaker 1: there was the second like what is going on here
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Speaker 1: with Kevin Durant going to New York or something that
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Speaker 1: Katie didn't talk to the media for eight days and
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Speaker 1: he was like running out of practice through the back door,
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Speaker 1: avoiding pr and everything. Uh so this is guess what
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Speaker 1: happened last night. Draymond and Katie left before the media
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Speaker 1: got into the locker room. They snuck out the back door,
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Speaker 1: the Bruce Wayne door. So that this is this is
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Speaker 1: just like another notch on the belt for these guys.
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Speaker 1: And the fact that Draymond Green was not there was
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Speaker 1: certainly not by accident. Kad is becoming such an enigma
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Speaker 1: because he's a guy who he should be having more
18:02
Speaker 1: fun playing basketball than anybody. He is built for basketball
18:07
Speaker 1: better than anybody could possibly be built. He is, except
18:10
Speaker 1: for by Patrick Beverley, essentially unguardable. He can do whatever
18:14
Speaker 1: he wants on the court at any time. He's playing
18:17
Speaker 1: on a team that could be amongst the greatest, most
18:21
Speaker 1: legendary athletic teams that has ever talked about, and he
18:24
Speaker 1: looks miserable every single time, even even during that sixty
18:27
Speaker 1: minutes piece when he was practicing, he looked miserable. How
18:31
Speaker 1: do you reconcile that I in terms of you can
18:35
Speaker 1: truly answered that is ken berlant Um. I'm sure there
18:38
Speaker 1: are some things going on that nobody knows about, and
18:41
Speaker 1: I'm going to continue to reiterate that they're humans too. Right,
18:45
Speaker 1: So despite his amazing superior talent to play basketball, that
18:49
Speaker 1: may not be enough for him. He may does he
18:52
Speaker 1: love playing basketball? Does he not playing basketball? Um? I
18:56
Speaker 1: wish I could answer those questions for him. But to
18:58
Speaker 1: your point, at at this current moment, I would probably
19:02
Speaker 1: say he it's real close between him Jannis and Lebron.
19:06
Speaker 1: But you could argue that he has does basketball play
19:08
Speaker 1: on planet Earth? And you'd figure if you're the best
19:10
Speaker 1: basket player on planet Earth, life is pretty good, right.
19:13
Speaker 1: But something is clearly not fulfilled for him that you
19:16
Speaker 1: can win two straight finals m v ps. There's a
19:19
Speaker 1: very high chance you're gonna win three straight finals m
19:22
Speaker 1: v ps and go into a conversation that only Bill
19:24
Speaker 1: Russell consid he did right. You went to Golden State
19:28
Speaker 1: to get your trophies in your your rings. Maybe you
19:30
Speaker 1: did it to get the approval of everyone that says
19:35
Speaker 1: you were the next Patrick Ewing. You're the best player
19:38
Speaker 1: that never finished with the championship. Well, now I don't
19:42
Speaker 1: have the everyone thinks I kind of bought my way
19:45
Speaker 1: into this versus earned it, and now I like these.
19:48
Speaker 1: I wish I could answer these, but these are all
19:49
Speaker 1: common themes that may just have stacked up in his
19:53
Speaker 1: brain throughout time that the only way he's going to
19:55
Speaker 1: be happy is if X, Y, and Z happens. And
19:59
Speaker 1: that's why so many people are like looking to see
20:01
Speaker 1: him come to New York, because if he were to
20:04
Speaker 1: win a championship in New York, you know, it's the
20:07
Speaker 1: same thing as Lebron going back to Cleveland. We forgot
20:09
Speaker 1: that Lebron was the biggest villain on planned for almost
20:12
Speaker 1: five years. Kevin Durant is the biggest sports villain in
20:14
Speaker 1: the United States because of what his decision could go
20:17
Speaker 1: to the Golden State. If he came to New York,
20:19
Speaker 1: he wouldn't build him a statue if he won a championship,
20:22
Speaker 1: not no statue outside the garden. He would get his
20:24
Speaker 1: own tower, he would get his own skyscraper. They would
20:28
Speaker 1: rename the Canyon of Heroes after him. So if he's
20:30
Speaker 1: looking for narratives now, in addition to actual accomplishments and achievements.
20:35
Speaker 1: Maybe that's the next step for him and your reconcile question.
20:38
Speaker 1: That's how maybe he's going to reconcile it before his
20:41
Speaker 1: career is done. Alright, I got one more question for you.
20:43
Speaker 1: Later on the podcast, we got Mike Leeboff, hockey editor, writer,
20:48
Speaker 1: islander fan extraordinary um the creator of Francessicon by the way,
20:52
Speaker 1: uh and Action Network you know, do it all Master.
20:55
Speaker 1: He's gonna come on later. We're talking about the Stanley Cup.
20:58
Speaker 1: But I have one more question for you before I
21:00
Speaker 1: let you go. You're all Foxhole team as of right now?
21:05
Speaker 1: Who is your all Foxhole team? Patrick Beverley, Gamba Walker, Montrez, Harrold.
21:14
Speaker 1: I think it's going to create some problems, but I
21:16
Speaker 1: do want Chris paul in there because he's so smart
21:19
Speaker 1: and play he thinks ahead. Um, my fifth spot. I
21:24
Speaker 1: wish I could give you a fifth spot off the
21:26
Speaker 1: time I had. Those four guys are my fox although
21:28
Speaker 1: I can tell you that much. Who do you think
21:31
Speaker 1: could eat the most thumb tacks and wash them down
21:35
Speaker 1: with the most nails? Well, I mean I made the
21:40
Speaker 1: joke last night. I think the answer is Patrick Beverley.
21:43
Speaker 1: He's been doing that throughout his career when everyone's over
21:46
Speaker 1: there and joining themselves. Patrick Beverley is, it's like he's
21:49
Speaker 1: the mankind for anyone out there that I've watched w
21:52
Speaker 1: W E Attitude Era, he is the mankind of NBA
21:56
Speaker 1: basketball that you just can't kill him. He just keeps
21:59
Speaker 1: coming back and anything you do to him just seeming
22:01
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22:04
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22:06
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Speaker 1: Next up on the podcast from the Action Network, one
24:16
Speaker 1: of my favorites. I can't believe he hasn't been fired yet,
24:19
Speaker 1: but uh, Mr Michael Leavoff covers hockey, covers baseball, covers
24:25
Speaker 1: covers everything really, but mostly I think you're probably known
24:29
Speaker 1: at the Action Network for the things you don't do
24:31
Speaker 1: with the Action Network, like your podcast Islanders Anxiety and
24:36
Speaker 1: being the creator of francessicn So before we even get
24:40
Speaker 1: into the Islanders, which is why you're here, we're gonna
24:42
Speaker 1: talk about the Stanley Cup laughs, and the Islanders. It's
24:44
Speaker 1: Tuesday morning. Like I said, the Islanders have a chance
24:47
Speaker 1: to sweep the series tonight. You are wearing your Islanders hats,
24:50
Speaker 1: You're wearing your Islanders sweater, You're wearing your Islanders T shirt.
24:54
Speaker 1: You have been thinking about all the things you can
24:57
Speaker 1: do to rub it and John Tavaris's face when the
25:00
Speaker 1: Olanders advanced in the second round of the playoffs. You
25:02
Speaker 1: had a conversation this morning. Tell me about your conversation
25:04
Speaker 1: this morning coming in on the l I double R
25:07
Speaker 1: with the train conductor. Yeah, I was just walking away
25:10
Speaker 1: from a screaming baby, uh, walking downstream as we like
25:13
Speaker 1: to call it, towards the back of the train, and
25:16
Speaker 1: I got stopped because I'm wearing an Islander's hat and
25:18
Speaker 1: he wanted to check my ticket. He thought I just
25:21
Speaker 1: got on, and I said no, you know, I was
25:22
Speaker 1: just getting away from that maniac baby over there. And
25:25
Speaker 1: and and he's like, oh, He's like yeah, Plus, you
25:28
Speaker 1: got an Islander's hat on, You're good. And then we
25:29
Speaker 1: just started talking about the game for you know, twenty
25:32
Speaker 1: minutes while Uh, an oversized truck hit a tunnel, so
25:37
Speaker 1: we had to slow down in Forest Hills. Uh. There's
25:39
Speaker 1: always something new on the Long Island Railroad and so
25:42
Speaker 1: let's slow the Iron Horse down a little bit and
25:44
Speaker 1: uh we we got uh, we got to talking and
25:48
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, the Islanders are up three nothing on
25:49
Speaker 1: the Penguins right now, and um the credo from Barry
25:52
Speaker 1: Trots our fear this leader has been the fourth game
25:55
Speaker 1: as the hardest to win. It as excited and surreal
25:57
Speaker 1: as this whole thing has been. We kept reminding each
25:59
Speaker 1: other not not to count our chickens before before they hatch,
26:02
Speaker 1: because you know, if there's a team that can blow
26:05
Speaker 1: a three nothing lead and just stomp your heart in
26:07
Speaker 1: front of your face, it's the New York Islanders and um,
26:09
Speaker 1: so we're not looking past this game. We're not counting
26:11
Speaker 1: anything is done and dusted. So the conversation was literally,
26:16
Speaker 1: I'm so excited, you know this is a dream, but
26:20
Speaker 1: we gotta win the fourth game. And then I would reply,
26:22
Speaker 1: you know, the fourth game is the hardest game to win,
26:24
Speaker 1: and he said, yeah, this team is really tough. Like
26:26
Speaker 1: if there's a team that can come back from a
26:28
Speaker 1: three nothing lead at Sidney Crosby and the Penguins. So
26:30
Speaker 1: we uh, we made sure to to kind of pump
26:32
Speaker 1: our brakes a little bit, both literally add metaphorical. Yes, exactly.
26:36
Speaker 1: There were a lot of breaks being pumped on the
26:38
Speaker 1: train this morning. Here's what I love about Leeboff is um,
26:43
Speaker 1: you go all in on your passions the Islanders. When
26:48
Speaker 1: you decided things weren't going well in Rockville Center. What
26:52
Speaker 1: did you do? I ran from mayor? How old are you?
26:55
Speaker 1: And what happened? I lost? Why did you lose? It's
27:01
Speaker 1: just a political machine and I was trying to tear
27:03
Speaker 1: down it's too too tough the incumbent mayor. Um, he's
27:08
Speaker 1: a good guy. Uh his his dad was married for
27:11
Speaker 1: like thirty years in my town. Um. Part of the
27:14
Speaker 1: reason I was running for mayor was just because the
27:16
Speaker 1: Islanders were in a very precarious position and I didn't
27:18
Speaker 1: know how to get into a position of power and
27:20
Speaker 1: try to like save them. And this was one avenue. Um,
27:24
Speaker 1: not that I was that was the only reason. Obviously,
27:26
Speaker 1: you know, I'm I'm an idealist, idealistic guy like I
27:30
Speaker 1: would love to to be in a position to make
27:33
Speaker 1: the world a little bit better place, to make timey
27:35
Speaker 1: changes to Earth if you if you will, and uh,
27:37
Speaker 1: it's all any of us can get. Yeah, exactly. And um,
27:40
Speaker 1: yeah I lost this guy. Friend Mary's doing a pretty
27:43
Speaker 1: pretty decent job. And yeah, I mean every time I
27:47
Speaker 1: see him, which has probably been like six or seven
27:48
Speaker 1: times since then, it's you know, a little cold. And
27:51
Speaker 1: I've never had a political rival before, and now I do.
27:54
Speaker 1: Does he know it's cold when you see him or
27:57
Speaker 1: is it just from you? I don't know. Actually I
27:59
Speaker 1: saw him once at a at a bar at we
28:02
Speaker 1: ended up relieving ourselves at adjacent urnals. Yeah, and uh,
28:08
Speaker 1: that's when I noticed it was cold. What he wouldn't
28:13
Speaker 1: look at you. What happened? I said hello and he
28:16
Speaker 1: didn't say back. You usually say hello back or how
28:19
Speaker 1: are you? And he didn't do that. Um he. I
28:22
Speaker 1: mean it was a big drinking day on Long Long Island.
28:24
Speaker 1: Is drinking days we do. I think we do drinking days,
28:27
Speaker 1: and I think we curse better than anybody, like, we
28:29
Speaker 1: don't waste curse curse words on anything. Um. So it
28:33
Speaker 1: was Irish Day on Long Island in Raffles Center and
28:36
Speaker 1: it was late. We've both had our drinking legs under
28:39
Speaker 1: us and made it till the sun came down, which
28:41
Speaker 1: is an accomplishment in itself. And um, maybe I didn't.
28:45
Speaker 1: I think I said hello, uh and then he didn't
28:47
Speaker 1: say it back. But you know, maybe he was just
28:49
Speaker 1: a little fatigued from the drinking. There's an Irish day
28:53
Speaker 1: in Long Island that is different than St. Patrick's Day. Uh. Yeah,
28:56
Speaker 1: there's so many Irish days actually, there's like they just
28:59
Speaker 1: like throw him on this the calendar just to like,
29:01
Speaker 1: I think, bringing an influx of people from from all
29:04
Speaker 1: over uh Raffolsner, where I grew up, is known for
29:07
Speaker 1: having this. A lot of towns claim this week. We
29:10
Speaker 1: claim it to uh most bars per capita in the
29:12
Speaker 1: United States, and so a lot of people come from
29:15
Speaker 1: all over Long Island. The week after St. Patrick's Day
29:18
Speaker 1: is our Irish Day. So fran Murray is your political rival. Yeah,
29:23
Speaker 1: well he's one of them, several I think, but most
29:25
Speaker 1: of them just don't know it. But you're thinking about it.
29:27
Speaker 1: You're going after him. Um, all right. The other thing
29:30
Speaker 1: that you started before we can get to the playoffs
29:33
Speaker 1: is France Sssicon. Mike Francesessa explore, there was a great
29:39
Speaker 1: story about this. This is why I hired you is
29:41
Speaker 1: because we were talking and you're like, I started friends
29:43
Speaker 1: Sssicon and then you sent me the story that was
29:46
Speaker 1: in grant Land about you starting Francessicon. I feel like
29:51
Speaker 1: you starting friends ssicon and francessa on w f A N.
29:56
Speaker 1: These are the most Long Island things ever. Yeah, explain
30:00
Speaker 1: how you started this. Well, it wasn't just me. It
30:03
Speaker 1: was me and my buddy Ron, who's actually from Clifton,
30:05
Speaker 1: New Jersey. Um, but he's a huge francessa guy too.
30:08
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, when I was used to working in
30:11
Speaker 1: this uh financial job, which like I to this day
30:14
Speaker 1: don't know how I ended up there. It didn't last long.
30:17
Speaker 1: And uh one day I was driving home from work
30:20
Speaker 1: and I was just like real piste off because I
30:22
Speaker 1: hated my job. I hated my boss. And I was
30:26
Speaker 1: stuck in traffic on the Merritt Parkway, which you know
30:28
Speaker 1: very well, um, and I was listening to Mike and
30:32
Speaker 1: I was just cracking up because he was just going
30:33
Speaker 1: off on someone. And I called my buddy. I was like,
30:36
Speaker 1: we need to we need to start a bark call
30:37
Speaker 1: from Mike Frances and just have people dressed up like Mike,
30:40
Speaker 1: you know, like Santa Con and um, we both kind
30:44
Speaker 1: of just shot the idea around and uh we we
30:47
Speaker 1: were working, you know, both freelancing for a guy who
30:49
Speaker 1: who ran like a sports culture website out in the
30:52
Speaker 1: West Coast and he didn't really know, you know, much
30:54
Speaker 1: about the Frances of phenomenon. He's like, yeah, go for it.
30:57
Speaker 1: So we did, and the next thing, you know, it
30:58
Speaker 1: like kind of just went pretty much like sports viral,
31:01
Speaker 1: I guess would be the best way to put it.
31:03
Speaker 1: And he called me. He's like, we're gonna get sued
31:05
Speaker 1: by Mike Frand says, I can't be attached to this um.
31:07
Speaker 1: And we're like, all right, like but we're gonna still
31:09
Speaker 1: do it. And we did. It. Was it was the
31:13
Speaker 1: Saturday before the Super Bowl in New York. It was
31:16
Speaker 1: a bar crawl. Didn't really get past one bar, but
31:19
Speaker 1: I mean it was a great time. Where did you
31:21
Speaker 1: start and finish? It was a bar called the Saloon.
31:23
Speaker 1: I don't think it's there. It's up on the Upper
31:25
Speaker 1: east Side or it was um and I think it closed.
31:29
Speaker 1: But the we had special guests there. We have Jack
31:31
Speaker 1: young Blood who is in an NFL Hall of Famer,
31:34
Speaker 1: showed up, played in a broken wagon Super Bowl. No
31:36
Speaker 1: idea how he got there, but he was there. Um
31:38
Speaker 1: Jeff Cumberland who we paid a thousand dollars to show
31:41
Speaker 1: up because we we had raised money through like ticket sales,
31:45
Speaker 1: not ticket sales that year, but just selling T shirts online,
31:48
Speaker 1: so we we had paid Jeff Cumberland a show up fee.
31:51
Speaker 1: He was a terrible tight end for the Jets, Like
31:54
Speaker 1: just I mean, I don't know if many Jets fans
31:56
Speaker 1: would know who he is, but he showed up. Um
31:58
Speaker 1: paying him, you know Grant like me and my friends
32:00
Speaker 1: called a Cumberland Now anytimes someone talks about and a
32:04
Speaker 1: mere con who's actually boxing, Terence Crawford Saturday at the
32:07
Speaker 1: Garden showed up. His people call him called me the
32:10
Speaker 1: day before frances Con. Hey, a meir is gonna be
32:13
Speaker 1: in town for the super Bowl. He wants to go
32:14
Speaker 1: to a super Bowl party. Yours really stuck out. I
32:17
Speaker 1: was like a mere con, you know, the British boxer,
32:19
Speaker 1: and he's like yeah. I was like, all right, he's
32:21
Speaker 1: more than welcome to show up. He's gonna have no
32:23
Speaker 1: idea what's going on. So he just like walks through
32:25
Speaker 1: the crowd and walked out. And you know that boxing
32:28
Speaker 1: already's in each sport. Mike, francis Con was a very
32:31
Speaker 1: neat thing. Um one person noticed called into Mike the
32:34
Speaker 1: next day and it's like or for super Bowl show
32:37
Speaker 1: on Sunday. He's like, Mike, did you know a mere
32:39
Speaker 1: con was at frances Con? And he thought he meant
32:42
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars owner who was also his name. Last
32:45
Speaker 1: name was also con. He's like, the Jacksonville Jaguars owner
32:47
Speaker 1: was at Francis Con. And he's like, yeah, so so
32:53
Speaker 1: Mike thought that that the owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars
32:56
Speaker 1: was at Francis Con. He might do this day. But yeah,
32:59
Speaker 1: and then uh, Mike and I become, you know, basically
33:02
Speaker 1: best friends stance. Then I actually was texting him on
33:04
Speaker 1: the train. Yeah, you text him a lot. You're every day.
33:06
Speaker 1: You tell me when you're texting Frances it's a it's
33:08
Speaker 1: a flex. You flex very well. All right, let's get
33:14
Speaker 1: to the NHEL playoffs. Let's do it. Last night, you
33:16
Speaker 1: were on the Predators they won. You were on the
33:18
Speaker 1: money line. You have. The only reason anyone in the
33:22
Speaker 1: office is betting hockey is because you're betting hockey. So
33:25
Speaker 1: and Ken Barkley, Locky Lockerson, who has been writing like
33:28
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33:32
Speaker 1: like he's putting out a spreadsheet, and then people can
33:34
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33:38
Speaker 1: if they go to the Action Network Action network dot com,
33:40
Speaker 1: download the free app. Um, what are you thinking about
33:45
Speaker 1: when you're betting hockey? Right now? Yeah? The uh the
33:47
Speaker 1: NHL playoffs are just a really, really good opportunity to
33:50
Speaker 1: learn a lot about betting because it's a very controlled environment,
33:54
Speaker 1: very controlled betting environment. Right, the same two teams are
33:56
Speaker 1: playing each other for especially game between game one and
33:59
Speaker 1: game two, there's very little change, Right, the teams are
34:02
Speaker 1: on the same rest, they're playing in the same venue.
34:04
Speaker 1: There's maybe there's an injury or whatever, but most of
34:07
Speaker 1: the time it's the same roster playing each other. So
34:09
Speaker 1: the market theoretically should be set before game one. But
34:14
Speaker 1: so the best example is last year the Penguins played
34:16
Speaker 1: the Flyers. They won game one seven nothing. They were
34:19
Speaker 1: like minus one eighty. Then for game two they were
34:22
Speaker 1: like minus two thirty. So what's that telling you is like,
34:24
Speaker 1: the markets already been set at minus one eight, So
34:28
Speaker 1: you're you're getting you know, somewhere between thirty and fifty
34:30
Speaker 1: cents of value on the Flyers the next game because
34:32
Speaker 1: you already know what the line should be. They already
34:35
Speaker 1: told you what the line should be. Ah, And it
34:37
Speaker 1: doesn't even matter that the Flyers. The Flyers did win
34:39
Speaker 1: game two, but that doesn't even matter. What matters is
34:40
Speaker 1: you were able to recognize that situation and then take
34:43
Speaker 1: advantage of it. And we saw that with the Blue
34:45
Speaker 1: Jackets and and Lightning a little bit. Lightning lost game one,
34:50
Speaker 1: which they were already overpriced. Like people are underestimating the
34:52
Speaker 1: Blue Jackets. They're they're a good team. Like sure they
34:56
Speaker 1: were the eight seed and they're playing a generational team. Um,
35:00
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35:01
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35:04
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35:08
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35:11
Speaker 1: game one, then people just can't fathom the fact that
35:14
Speaker 1: this amazing Lightning team would be able to would go
35:17
Speaker 1: down to nothing at home. So the line moved in
35:19
Speaker 1: their direction for game two too, And what are you
35:23
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35:25
Speaker 1: when the markets already been said, You're gonna take a
35:26
Speaker 1: good number on top of what it was already a
35:28
Speaker 1: good number. And the Blue Jackets won. So like there's
35:32
Speaker 1: a very easy, um kind of like surface level way
35:35
Speaker 1: to get in. And I always try to tell like
35:37
Speaker 1: I was talking to Scott Miller, I think last year
35:39
Speaker 1: for the playoffs ANDLLAR, executive vet or of the action, right.
35:43
Speaker 1: I was like Scott, you know, my big hockey fan
35:45
Speaker 1: at all um, I you know, kind of explained my
35:49
Speaker 1: my strategy for that game with the Penguins and and
35:52
Speaker 1: Flyers and it, and that drew them in. And it
35:56
Speaker 1: takes one hockey bet to get into hockey, I think,
35:58
Speaker 1: especially in the playoffs, Like it's a different antim once
36:01
Speaker 1: you do it, Like the game is just a roller coaster,
36:04
Speaker 1: it's just chaos, which is absolute chaos in in a
36:09
Speaker 1: very small area. So once you do that, you'll get
36:12
Speaker 1: into it. And there's so much good public facing data
36:16
Speaker 1: in hockey too, so you can just keep learning and learning.
36:18
Speaker 1: And it's already a soft market because not as many
36:20
Speaker 1: people bet it, so your best I think if you're
36:23
Speaker 1: going on to better for one of the four major
36:25
Speaker 1: sports and you're looking to actually succeed and not just
36:29
Speaker 1: betting to you know, because you're watching the Dolphins and
36:31
Speaker 1: the Bears on Sunday, it's it's got to be hockey.
36:35
Speaker 1: This all makes perfectly good sense, except for the fact
36:38
Speaker 1: that you still end up betting on bad teams. Yeah
36:41
Speaker 1: all the time. I think. I mean, I had another
36:44
Speaker 1: good season betting hockey, and I was well under five,
36:46
Speaker 1: because it's just betting bed underdogs. So that's what you
36:49
Speaker 1: really do, is you end up betting the money line
36:51
Speaker 1: on the underdogs every single time. When do you bet
36:54
Speaker 1: favorites in the NHL in the playoffs, especially rarely, I
36:59
Speaker 1: would say, like, probably the most expensive team I bet
37:01
Speaker 1: this year, it was like a man just won forty
37:04
Speaker 1: You already it's it's such a volatile sport already. It's
37:06
Speaker 1: very low event scoring two so one goal is very important.
37:10
Speaker 1: And think about how many goals going off someone shin
37:12
Speaker 1: pad and that changes the game completely, you know, So
37:16
Speaker 1: you take you take advantage of that valatility by not,
37:18
Speaker 1: you know, laying crazy prices. Sure there's sometimes its value
37:21
Speaker 1: on favorites and hockey, but I tend to and maybe
37:25
Speaker 1: this is, you know, an area I've got to improve on,
37:27
Speaker 1: is I tend to just always lean towards underdog because
37:30
Speaker 1: I don't think we account for the randomness of the
37:34
Speaker 1: sport enough. So what do you do about the Islanders?
37:36
Speaker 1: The Islanders are up three? Oh, what's the price on
37:38
Speaker 1: the Islanders tonight? They're like plus one fifty? They they
37:42
Speaker 1: they've been underpriced. This is probably the closest to the
37:46
Speaker 1: appropriate price we've seen the series, and so there's plus
37:49
Speaker 1: one fifty against the Pens tonight, Penguins down three nothing.
37:54
Speaker 1: What do you do in that game? Yeh, right now,
37:59
Speaker 1: I don't really think I'm gonna bet it. I have
38:01
Speaker 1: an I have an Islander series. Bet. I have an
38:02
Speaker 1: Islanders Stanley Cupp future. So I by the way, yeah,
38:06
Speaker 1: I know we all do. Yeah, I think who who
38:08
Speaker 1: brought those? For every Evan Abrams as Yeah, one of
38:12
Speaker 1: one of our do it all guys that at the
38:13
Speaker 1: Action Networking. You see him on television all the time too.
38:15
Speaker 1: For I'll take that bet um. He went out to Vegas.
38:19
Speaker 1: He bought everybody an Islander's futures ticket. I forgot what
38:22
Speaker 1: the price was at um. So you have an Islanders
38:25
Speaker 1: futures bet, you have an Islanders series, bet Um. Take
38:29
Speaker 1: the Islanders out of it, then handicap the rest of
38:31
Speaker 1: the NHL playoffs for me, yeah, I mean there's there
38:35
Speaker 1: are a couple of scary teams, like I think the
38:36
Speaker 1: Nights are probably the best bet in the in the
38:40
Speaker 1: West if if you're looking to I mean, the number
38:43
Speaker 1: is pretty much gone at this point for for any team.
38:46
Speaker 1: But they they're good like they and I think they've
38:49
Speaker 1: kind of flown under the radar a little bit because
38:52
Speaker 1: of all the hoopla up their season last year. Uh,
38:54
Speaker 1: they're good, they're playing the Sharks are also good. But
38:56
Speaker 1: the Sharks have a terrible goalie. Like goaltending also, is
38:59
Speaker 1: it really really probably the hardest position to project in
39:02
Speaker 1: all sports. I think, um is goaltending in the NHL,
39:06
Speaker 1: like guys just come out of nowhere to have great seasons.
39:08
Speaker 1: Guys fall off a cliff all the time. Like it's
39:11
Speaker 1: just impossible to be able to project goaltending UM. And
39:15
Speaker 1: there are a lot of bad goalies in the West,
39:16
Speaker 1: like Mike Smith on the Flames is as serious, Achilles Heal,
39:20
Speaker 1: Martin Jones for the Sharks not good. So the Knights
39:23
Speaker 1: are not only are a good team, but they have
39:24
Speaker 1: a reliable goaltender and Mark Andre Fleury, which should put
39:29
Speaker 1: them in a decent position. Um. The Blues. The Blues,
39:32
Speaker 1: who had a tar horrible start to to the regular season,
39:35
Speaker 1: have kind of put they put things together around the
39:37
Speaker 1: midway mark, and uh, after they lost the Islanders. Actually
39:41
Speaker 1: they even cite that game that that was their turnaround,
39:43
Speaker 1: part point of the game season. They but their goaltender
39:48
Speaker 1: is a rookie Johan Bennington, who's who's come out of nowhere, uh,
39:51
Speaker 1: kind of taking the lead by storm. So I'm not
39:54
Speaker 1: really waded into the Blues that much just because I
39:57
Speaker 1: don't like, I can't figure this guy out, so rather
40:01
Speaker 1: I've just been passing on it. But I mean, if
40:04
Speaker 1: if you're really just like looking for for a team
40:06
Speaker 1: that maybe has like a shred of value left, it's
40:09
Speaker 1: it's probably the Nights in the West, So that would
40:12
Speaker 1: be your team in the West. That would be my pick.
40:14
Speaker 1: I'm running for for the Avalanche because they're the worst
40:16
Speaker 1: team and I'm expecting the Islanders to get the Stanley Cup.
40:19
Speaker 1: I mean, you want the Islanders the matchic have the
40:21
Speaker 1: best opportunity. Correct. If the Islanders don't make it from
40:24
Speaker 1: their conference, who makes it likely? I think the Bruins
40:28
Speaker 1: are probably it should be the Lightning, but they're they're
40:32
Speaker 1: they're in, yes, a lot of trouble um. I think
40:35
Speaker 1: that whoever comes out of that, it'll be the Bruins,
40:39
Speaker 1: Maple Leaves or Blue Jackets, assuming they can hold onto
40:41
Speaker 1: this three three game lead. I think whoever comes out
40:44
Speaker 1: of that, we'll play the Islanders in the Eastern Conference Final,
40:47
Speaker 1: so we could be looking at a Tavaris situation here.
40:49
Speaker 1: Oh my god, if the Islanders play the Maple Leaves
40:53
Speaker 1: and John Tavaris is at the folk point of that
40:57
Speaker 1: playoff series, how are you going to handle it? Not well,
41:04
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? How are you going to
41:05
Speaker 1: manage that? Are you gonna take the week off? Like?
41:08
Speaker 1: Are you gonna just sitting there all day? What are
41:10
Speaker 1: you gonna do? I try not to think about it.
41:14
Speaker 1: Um yeah, Like I mean it. It's making me nervous
41:18
Speaker 1: right now. I've already, you know, been texting my friends
41:20
Speaker 1: like this is the Blue Jackets have kind of been
41:23
Speaker 1: you know, screwing with my mind a little bit, just
41:24
Speaker 1: because you know, I expected the Leaves not to be
41:27
Speaker 1: able to get out of that gauntlet. The Bruins are
41:29
Speaker 1: very good, obviously, the lightning or the best team in
41:31
Speaker 1: the league. So I was like, all right, like they
41:32
Speaker 1: should be taken care of by the time the Islanders
41:34
Speaker 1: are in the Eastern Conference Final, and now we're have
41:38
Speaker 1: some more uncertainty, and um yeah, I don't know. I know,
41:41
Speaker 1: like some couple of my loved ones, like my mother,
41:43
Speaker 1: was very worried about that. She she doesn't she didn't
41:46
Speaker 1: really understand the playoff format, but she's like, well, how
41:48
Speaker 1: likely is it? And I said it wasn't very likely,
41:51
Speaker 1: you know, five days ago, but now it's increasingly likely
41:54
Speaker 1: or getting more likely by the day. And um, she's
41:57
Speaker 1: she's very concerned. Um, not just for me, but for like,
42:00
Speaker 1: my my relationships and you know, my my job, and um,
42:04
Speaker 1: you know what what would happen to me if if
42:07
Speaker 1: And this is not just me, I mean Islander fans
42:09
Speaker 1: are all like this, like we have been treated so poorly,
42:13
Speaker 1: not just by other teams, but like by the media
42:16
Speaker 1: and by local politicians and on Long Island. Like it's
42:20
Speaker 1: just an absolute disaster the way we've been treated. And
42:24
Speaker 1: so getting this opportunity has been that's why you know,
42:27
Speaker 1: we don't take anything for granted really as a fan base,
42:29
Speaker 1: just because we can't take like, for my greater part
42:32
Speaker 1: of my life. When I would not go in to bed,
42:34
Speaker 1: I wouldn't know if the Islanders would be there in
42:35
Speaker 1: the morning, just because they almost moved so many times. Um,
42:39
Speaker 1: so this is this isn't just me, Like this is
42:42
Speaker 1: all Islander fans are kind of have this, you know,
42:44
Speaker 1: feeling inside them and I'm worried for for all of us,
42:48
Speaker 1: not just not just me. Listen, I want you to
42:50
Speaker 1: tell your mom you have nothing to worry about in
42:54
Speaker 1: your job. I cannot vouch for you're impending marriage, but
42:59
Speaker 1: I can promise as you that you are always going
43:02
Speaker 1: to have a job unless you keep losing hockey bets,
43:05
Speaker 1: in which case we're gonna fire you. Yeah, it's fine.
43:07
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't understand why you and and p
43:10
Speaker 1: k are are always on my back about Patrick Keene,
43:12
Speaker 1: CEO of the Action I don't know if you don't
43:14
Speaker 1: follow me in the app or whatever, but usually we're
43:16
Speaker 1: on the winning side and hockey. I think you're on
43:19
Speaker 1: the winning side of life, Mike Leeboff, I hope. So
43:21
Speaker 1: thanks for coming on the podcast anytime. Let's go back
43:25
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