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Cowboys Beat Depleted Eagles Team, Colts Trade Stars, and WNBA Finals Scheduling Controversy · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to the Daily Play with Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: So the Colts decided to go on fire sale on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 2: trading away two excellent players to the NFC East, despite
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  Speaker 2: being second in the AFC South. They're two and five,
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  Speaker 2: and they shipped one of the faces of the franchise, Gardner.
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  Speaker 2: Quentin Nelson to the Seahawks in exchange for a 2027
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  Speaker 2: third and a 2028 fifth round pick. Not to be outdone,
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  Speaker 2: the Niners traded the Colts a 2027 fourth round.
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  Speaker 1: Pick to get their guy defensive tackle DeForest Buckner.
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  Speaker 2: San Francisco had traded Buckner to the Colts in 2020,
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  Speaker 2: and that was a decision that GM John Lynch really
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  Speaker 2: struggled with. So for the Colts, both of these trades
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  Speaker 2: mean something. It means moving on from their sixth overall
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  Speaker 2: pick in the 2018 draft, who's been a pro bowler
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  Speaker 2: in eight of his seasons, holding down many different quarterbacks
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  Speaker 2: on the offensive line. He's in his last year of
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  Speaker 2: his deal, but this is a big turning of the
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  Speaker 2: page for the Colts sending Quentin Nelson away. And with
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  Speaker 2: the Buckner trade, maybe an admission that the original trade,
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  Speaker 2: which costs them a first round pick, um, wasn't necessarily
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  Speaker 2: the best trade. I mean, Buckner voices frustrations after the
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  Speaker 2: Colts most recent loss. And now he gets to rejoin
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  Speaker 2: the foreign one Niners on a bi-week. So good situation
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  Speaker 2: for him. Not a bad time to be moving from
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  Speaker 2: Indiana to California. Just saying, I don't really think that
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  Speaker 2: this was a bad move for the Colts. Um, You know,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes a player can fit a certain point in your
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  Speaker 2: franchise better than others.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, over time, they age. And if you can get use.
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  Speaker 2: Out of a player and then get a pick back,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that was a bad trade for them.
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  Speaker 1: And the Niners.
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  Speaker 2: Are obviously desperately in need of talents and bodies as
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  Speaker 2: they are constantly injured.
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  Speaker 1: So I think this is a good deal for both
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  Speaker 1: of them. Now, from....
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  Speaker 2: Seattle side, it's a defense and run first team. So
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  Speaker 2: that's merely a bet on that. Seattle needs dudes, especially
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  Speaker 2: on the defensive line, which was dealing with injuries since
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  Speaker 2: before the season even started. So I think this is
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  Speaker 2: a good bit of, of trade action. I expect there
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  Speaker 2: to be a whole lot more as the trade deadline
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  Speaker 2: approaches because the NFC is going to be a battle. And, um,
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  Speaker 2: I think there's going to be a lot of action
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  Speaker 2: at the trade deadline, a lot of movements, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of teams trying to bolster as the season is progressing.
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  Speaker 2: And this does feel like a season where there's just
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  Speaker 2: a lot of injuries.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that sounds silly.
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  Speaker 2: There's injuries every single year, but it just feels like
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  Speaker 2: we're missing a lot this year. And it feels a
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  Speaker 2: bit incomplete. So I'm interested to see what teams do.
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  Speaker 2: to try and make a run. So the Cowboys won
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  Speaker 2: a game on national television the other night.
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  Speaker 1: Not so fast. That's a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: But, but Zach looked good through touchdowns to both CD
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  Speaker 2: lamb and George Pickens.
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  Speaker 1: George had an unbelievable touchdown. catch in this game. A
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  Speaker 1: win's a win.
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  Speaker 2: And with the NFC East going to be being a very,
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  Speaker 2: very close race, I think that you take what you
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  Speaker 2: can get. I mean, the Cowboys are three and four.
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  Speaker 2: They should be buyers at the trade deadline. Whether they
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  Speaker 2: end up doing that or not, we shall see. If
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  Speaker 2: you take Jerry's word, he suggests that they will be.
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  Speaker 2: but I always take that with.
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  Speaker 1: A grain of salt.
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  Speaker 2: Their next three games are Arizona, Indy, at Indy and
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  Speaker 2: San Francisco. And if you're paying attention to what the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles do this season, which is, you know, what Jalen
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  Speaker 2: hurts out and the way that they were looking against
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  Speaker 2: the Cowboys, not a whole lot to be excited about,
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  Speaker 2: but their next three are at Washington, the Giants, and
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  Speaker 2: then probably a much needed bye.
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  Speaker 1: Finally, I want to talk about the WNBA.
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  Speaker 2: Finals scheduling debacle that has taken over all of the headlines.
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  Speaker 1: On the courts, the Valkyries took control of the series.
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  Speaker 2: In a defensive game, Golden State held Atlanta to just
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  Speaker 2: 55 points, their lowest scoring output of the season.
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  Speaker 1: It was.
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  Speaker 2: a pretty abysmal offensive performance by Atlanta. Both teams only
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  Speaker 2: combined for 47 points in the first half. That's the
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  Speaker 2: lowest cumulative scoring first half in WA finals history. So
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  Speaker 2: not a huge offense performance by either team. However, the
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  Speaker 2: box came out on top. That is not the storyline though.
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  Speaker 2: What is, is that these two are going to play
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  Speaker 2: game six at 1230 p.m. Eastern because that is the
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  Speaker 2: only time that they have available to play in State
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  Speaker 2: Farm Arena. So potentially the WNBA Finals could be decided
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  Speaker 2: on a Thursday afternoon. There were obviously a lot of
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  Speaker 2: extensive conversations about how they could move these things around.
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  Speaker 2: If they end up pushing it to Game 7, hopefully so,
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  Speaker 2: it'll be 5 p.m. Pacific on Saturday, which would be
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  Speaker 2: much more ideal to settle the WNBA Finals. There's been
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  Speaker 2: a lot of suggestions thrown out there. And obviously, when
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  Speaker 2: something like this, as unfortunate as it happens, people do
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  Speaker 2: want to just throw ideas out publicly without having the
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  Speaker 2: proper research. It just doesn't actually point to real progress.
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  Speaker 2: This is a failure by Kathy Engelbert, the commissioner.
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  Speaker 1: Full stop.
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  Speaker 2: This has nothing to do with the players. This has
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  Speaker 2: nothing to do with the coaches. This has nothing to
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  Speaker 2: do with the owners. It is 100% on the top
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  Speaker 2: level of the organizations and most importantly, the commissioner who
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  Speaker 2: is out after this year. And that's a good thing
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  Speaker 2: because she is no longer the right person for this
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  Speaker 2: job and she hasn't been for a while. I think
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  Speaker 2: she did a good job when she started, but what
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  Speaker 2: the job of the WMA commissioner is today is not
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  Speaker 2: what it was when Kathy started.
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  Speaker 1: This is a viable.
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  Speaker 2: League that has real potential to take a massive, step
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  Speaker 2: up both in profitability and viewership and growth.
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  Speaker 1: And she is not the right person for that. This
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  Speaker 1: is an example of that.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean you haven't planned and you haven't
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  Speaker 2: talked to all of the arenas about the potential of.
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  Speaker 1: These teams playing in the finals? If a team made the.
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  Speaker 2: Postseason, they should have had scheduling conversations with each of
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  Speaker 2: these arenas.
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  Speaker 1: That is not the job of the players. So when
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: How unserious of a league this is, keep in mind
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  Speaker 2: the players are not making the schedules. This is not
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  Speaker 2: on the Atlanta Hawks. This is not the responsibility of
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  Speaker 2: the NBA. to move their schedule around. It also can't
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  Speaker 2: be moved around.
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  Speaker 1: You can't just.
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  Speaker 2: Move another league's schedule around because this happened.
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  Speaker 1: It's unfortunate. Yes. Is it embarrassing for the commissioner? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it falls in any way on the players.
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  Speaker 1: Why would it?
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  Speaker 2: And no, the Atlanta Hawks cannot just move their schedule around. No,
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  Speaker 2: they cannot go and play in a small arena. They
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  Speaker 2: have season ticket holders who have paid to go and
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  Speaker 2: watch them play. Throwing out completely improbable and ideas that
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  Speaker 2: are completely not possible to work or be employed is
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  Speaker 2: not helpful. What is helpful is to have a real
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  Speaker 2: conversation about the type of leadership that needs to be
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  Speaker 2: brought in to run the WNBA. So embarrassing things like
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  Speaker 2: this do not happen. Again, I don't think the fans
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  Speaker 2: should be embarrassed. I don't think the players should be embarrassed.
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  Speaker 1: This is the failure of leadership, period. Owners are billionaires.
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  Speaker 2: They are not supposed to be worried about where their
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  Speaker 2: teams are playing. That's not their job. The players obviously
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  Speaker 2: have absolutely no say in this. The Hawks have nothing
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  Speaker 2: to do with this. This is the job of WNBA leadership.
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  Speaker 2: When you know what teams have made the postseason, you
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  Speaker 2: should look into the schedule and find out if those
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  Speaker 2: buildings are going to be available if they make the finals.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that seems like common sense. However, that's not
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  Speaker 1: what's happened here.
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  Speaker 2: So I know the conversations have really spiraled and people
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  Speaker 2: are throwing out a lot of suggestions that do not work.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't think that that's very helpful. But hopefully,
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  Speaker 2: my hope is that the dream, have a big game
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  Speaker 2: on Thursday, push it to a game seven, and we
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  Speaker 2: don't have to worry about the WNBA finals being decided
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  Speaker 2: on a Thursday afternoon, which would be really, really unfortunate.
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  Speaker 2: And in the grand scheme of things, a small blip
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  Speaker 2: on what will be a long and storied history for
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  Speaker 2: the WNBA.
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