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Knicks’ Historic Comeback Stuns Spurs; LeBron James Reignites GOAT Debate; Patrick Mahomes Half a Billion Deal · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 2: The Daily Play Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: What happens in the Garden Wednesday night will never be forgotten.
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  Speaker 2: The Knicks record setting.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty nine points comeback was completed by an og an
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  Speaker 1: andobi tip in that head coach Mike Brown described saying,
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  Speaker 1: it's unbelievable. You know the tip, how he had to
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  Speaker 1: control it and tip it in, and then, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it has to be the most iconic shot
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  Speaker 1: in the history of New York basketball. It seems like
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  Speaker 1: New York fans agreed, given that everyone stayed on the
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  Speaker 1: floor after the wind and mayhem pretty much ensued around
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  Speaker 1: the city. Looking ahead to Game five in this series
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  Speaker 1: and possibly beyond, I don't really know how you recover
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  Speaker 1: if you're the Spurs from that kind of a collapse.
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  Speaker 1: There were critiques from every angle from everyone today just
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  Speaker 1: examining what really happened, and.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the more I think about it, the more it
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  Speaker 1: feels like the Knicks are just a team of destiny.
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  Speaker 1: And I hate using terms like that because there are
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  Speaker 1: logical explanations for what's happening, But I do think you
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  Speaker 1: also have to have some momentum and things like that
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  Speaker 1: on your side. We know that luck plays a role
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  Speaker 1: in any of these championship runs. Somebody gets injured, somebody
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  Speaker 1: gets in foul trouble, There's so many things that happen.
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  Speaker 1: And I am in no way saying that the Necks
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  Speaker 1: are lucky. The Knicks have been brilliant. What I'm actually
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  Speaker 1: saying is I think they just have it. They have
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  Speaker 1: the thing where it just feels like they are on
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  Speaker 1: the way to what looks like an absolutely epic, all
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  Speaker 1: time championship run, and.
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  Speaker 2: That kind of a collapse by the Spurs is just.
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  Speaker 1: Something that I don't know how you recover from. There
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  Speaker 1: was just so many mistakes and there's so many what
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  Speaker 1: feels like basic critical errors, and I want to blame
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  Speaker 1: it on the Spurs youth. But it's not like the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks have all of this finals experience on their side.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously Mike Brown is much more experienced than
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  Speaker 1: Mitch Johnson, and I think that Mitch Johnson made some
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  Speaker 1: really critical coaching errors down the stretch. They felt unprepared,
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  Speaker 1: they felt like coming out of the half. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: have a strategy for holding on to that lead, which again,
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  Speaker 1: at some point you've got to calm everyone down and
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  Speaker 1: tell people to stop shooting these endless threes, to move
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  Speaker 1: the ball around, to burn some time. You're in control
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  Speaker 1: beyond belief in that game, and there's so.
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  Speaker 2: Much blame to go around.
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  Speaker 1: I really, my brain personally is still trying to contextualize
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  Speaker 1: what happened. It was just that kind of a game,
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  Speaker 1: that kind of a collapse, that kind of a comeback,
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  Speaker 1: and the way that the postseason has gone for both
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  Speaker 1: of these teams, it was just a lot to process,
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  Speaker 1: Like this Spurs team took down Okay, see the defending
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  Speaker 1: champions with a two time back to back league MVP
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  Speaker 1: and shake Gilsis Alexander, and then for them to look
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  Speaker 1: the way that they have looked in this series, it's
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  Speaker 1: just strange and like there are some excuses. I do
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  Speaker 1: think that that youth plays a role in experience, varience matchups,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all of that, But I think that that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of taking away from what the Knicks have done
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  Speaker 1: in this postseason by just making excuses and explanations for
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  Speaker 1: why the Spurs are not playing up to the level
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  Speaker 1: that we saw them play in the Western Conference Finals.
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  Speaker 1: I think the Knicks have been absolutely brilliant, and Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Brunson is a superstar and the energy that he creates
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  Speaker 1: with the shot making ability that he has, the way
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  Speaker 1: that he finishes at the rim, the way it just
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  Speaker 1: feels like everything he puts up is going in.
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  Speaker 2: That's contagious.
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  Speaker 1: And we look at Wemby and obviously he is an
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  Speaker 1: anomaly of a human being on the court.
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  Speaker 2: I think we all want.
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  Speaker 1: To believe that because he is that, that he is
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  Speaker 1: now ready to take over for a championship run. And
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  Speaker 1: it's just been obvious that he is not there yet,
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  Speaker 1: which is fine, and he's young, and you know, we
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  Speaker 1: all know that players develop and they usually go through
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  Speaker 1: some sort of trials and tribulations before they get to
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  Speaker 1: a championship.
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  Speaker 2: But this has just been It's been an incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Couple of hours just processing what we all watched. I
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  Speaker 1: do think that the Spurs have the ability to push
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  Speaker 1: it one more game. I mean, they are going back home,
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  Speaker 1: and I think the home crowd is going to do
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  Speaker 1: everything that they can to, you know, energetically keep them
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  Speaker 1: in and I don't think This is one of those
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  Speaker 1: losses where you can just like burn the tape.
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  Speaker 2: There's you very much need to watch the tape.
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  Speaker 1: You very much need to examine where strategically these errors went,
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  Speaker 1: where we went wrong, and as an organization really come
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  Speaker 1: together with a resolute answer for how that's not going
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  Speaker 1: to happen again if they're going to push this to
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  Speaker 1: another game.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So.
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  Speaker 1: The goat conversation is back, and lebron has brought it up.
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  Speaker 1: This time he thinks he's the goat, and listen, he
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  Speaker 1: might not be wrong. Bronnie's dad was interviewed for Time
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  Speaker 1: Magazine and Time Magazine Profile, and he said, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: taking nobody over me, There's no question. But I think
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  Speaker 1: Mike will say the same thing, Rest is soul, Kobe
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  Speaker 1: will say the same thing, Magic will say the same thing,
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  Speaker 1: Bird will say the same thing. Shaq could say the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. The late great Wilt Kareem. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: none of us are going to take someone else. He
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  Speaker 1: circled back to himself at the end of his response
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  Speaker 1: and said, if there's a general manager and he's eyeballing
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  Speaker 1: all of us on a baseline with the number one pick,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be hard not to take me shamp now. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: I've obviously spent years of my career having the goat debate,
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  Speaker 1: the goat conversation, and I thought we had laid this
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  Speaker 1: to rest, but we're back on it again, and I
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  Speaker 1: think we actually will circle back to this conversation quite
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  Speaker 1: often when Lebron is retired, because then we will have
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  Speaker 1: the fullness of his accomplishments to examine, because we've been
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  Speaker 1: having this conversation while he was still writing.
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  Speaker 2: His story and perhaps he still is.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think that he is probably going to
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  Speaker 1: do one more year, but it does seem like as
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  Speaker 1: far as championships go, he's, at least with the Lakers
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  Speaker 1: and the way things have been going for them, not
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  Speaker 1: going to add another.
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  Speaker 2: One of those. But who knows.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot that can change throughout the
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  Speaker 1: season and this offseason. I am a Jordan zellet myself personally,
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  Speaker 1: I grew up on Jordan.
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  Speaker 2: I realize now that I am a.
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  Speaker 1: Zealot and that I I cannot remove my inspiration in
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  Speaker 1: what I saw from Michael Jordan. And listen, Michael Jordan's
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  Speaker 1: considered the goat for a reason. It's not just because
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  Speaker 1: he has cool shoes or because you know, he had
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  Speaker 1: an amazing dunk.
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  Speaker 2: He's the goat for a reason.
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  Speaker 1: But I do think there are certain things that Lebron
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  Speaker 1: has done in his career that really make it difficult
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  Speaker 1: to stand immovable on the Jordan is the goat conversation.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, of course Lebron is going to take himself,
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  Speaker 1: and he's absolutely right. Any of the greats are going
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  Speaker 1: to take themselves, even some of the ones that we
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  Speaker 1: don't consider the greats, are going to take themselves.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm okay with that.
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  Speaker 1: I think if you are a top level competitor, if
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  Speaker 1: you're a legend of any sort, you are going to
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  Speaker 1: say that you would take yourself over pretty much anybody.
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  Speaker 1: And that includes ones that we keep at the top
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  Speaker 1: of the list in Kareem and Magic and Kobe and
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  Speaker 1: Bird and you know, Lebron, everyone that he mentioned. I
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  Speaker 1: think that Lebron has done some things that make it
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  Speaker 1: very difficult to say that anyone else.
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  Speaker 2: Is the goat.
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  Speaker 1: I am going to stick on Jordan, but I think
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  Speaker 1: it's a one a one B conversation. And I'm certainly
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  Speaker 1: not upset. And there was a time when I was upset.
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  Speaker 1: I am certainly not upset at anyone who says that
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  Speaker 1: Lebron is the greatest ever. He is certainly the greatest
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  Speaker 1: superstar that we have ever seen. I don't just think
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  Speaker 1: in the history of sports. I think in the history
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  Speaker 1: of superstars. What he has been able to do, what
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  Speaker 1: he has represented, what he has carried, what he has generated.
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  Speaker 1: He is an industry within himself and we are going
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  Speaker 1: to miss him when he is gone, deeply, deeply. There
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  Speaker 1: is no replacement for Lebron James in the league right now.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what anyone says. The superstar level that
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  Speaker 1: Lebron is, there is no replacement right now.
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  Speaker 2: There's not.
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  Speaker 1: We can go on and on and on, there's not.
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  Speaker 1: There's certain I don't know a lot, okay, but I
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  Speaker 1: know a lot about a little and one thing I
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  Speaker 1: do know is this business and what we talk about
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  Speaker 1: and what moves the needle and what conversations we have.
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  Speaker 1: And Lebron has been the north star. He has been
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  Speaker 1: the go to for this business for multiple decades. There's
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  Speaker 1: no person that's holding that weight right now, not in
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  Speaker 1: the league, not in sports.
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  Speaker 2: And that doesn't make you the goat.
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  Speaker 1: But what does is his consistency, his availability, his lack
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  Speaker 1: of injury, his leadership, his ability to bring championships to
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  Speaker 1: wherever he's gone. And I don't want to hear about
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  Speaker 1: the Bubble Championship, please, I don't want to hear it.
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  Speaker 2: I do not want to hear about it.
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  Speaker 1: He's been He's been absolutely incredible for his whole lifetime,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that for me is just you know,
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  Speaker 1: the longevity is just a conversation that has to be
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  Speaker 1: considered when you talk about the goat. So, Patrick Mahomes
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  Speaker 1: is worth half a billion and this time it's for real.
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  Speaker 2: The Chiefs restructured.
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes deal to making the highest paid quarterback in average
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  Speaker 1: annual value. That is love for a leader who's coming
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  Speaker 1: off an acl tair. Last season, he was already crazy
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  Speaker 1: decorated for a thirty year old quarterback, and things could
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  Speaker 1: be different this season. Kansas City invested in a running
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  Speaker 1: back and signing Kenneth Walker super Bowl MVP, and they
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  Speaker 1: brought back offensive coordinator Eric Biennem Patrick Mahomes deserves every
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  Speaker 1: single penny. He recorded a selfie video during the press
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  Speaker 1: for the contract and said, what's up, Chiefs Kingdom. I'm
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  Speaker 1: so happy to be here for life. We have so
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  Speaker 1: much more Ado, Let's go out and do it. Let's
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  Speaker 1: win some more.
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  Speaker 2: And stud loves to win.
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  Speaker 1: And I love that about Patrick Mahomes. He is the
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  Speaker 1: best player in the league to me. And he is
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  Speaker 1: now the first player in NFL history with a total
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  Speaker 1: contract value of half a billion dollars. Only New York
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  Speaker 1: Mets also a outfielder Juan Soto with seven hundred and
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  Speaker 1: sixty five million and Shoheotani with the Dodgers have a
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  Speaker 1: higher total contract value than mahome new deal in North
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  Speaker 1: American professional sports. And it's funny because when he signed
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  Speaker 1: his original deal for four hundred and fifty million, it
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  Speaker 1: was viewed by a lot of people, including myself, as
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  Speaker 1: a team friendly deal, and that wouldn't get him close
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  Speaker 1: to a billion dollars in reality. So he will now
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  Speaker 1: and he is absolutely deserving of it. Three times super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl Champ, three times super Bowl MVP, two time Most
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  Speaker 1: Valuable Player. Can go on and on and on about
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  Speaker 1: the success that the Kansas City Chiefs have had with
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  Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, both team and personally. He is one of
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  Speaker 1: a kind, one of a kind, worth every penny. He
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  Speaker 1: is a difference maker in that way. He is the
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  Speaker 1: face of the league. There are so many great players
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  Speaker 1: right now, so many interesting, fun young players. Patrick Mahomes
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  Speaker 1: is still the north Star. He's still the.
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  Speaker 2: Top of the mountain. I don't care about this injury.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what happened with the Chiefs last year.
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  Speaker 1: He's still that guy. So congrats to Patrick Mahomes. It's
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  Speaker 1: absolutely deserved and not surprising from the Chiefs. There's not
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  Speaker 1: going to be a whole lot of squabbling over the
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  Speaker 1: contracts when it comes to Patrick Mahomes. So love that
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  Speaker 1: we don't have to have those kind of conversations.
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  Speaker 2: About the best player in the league. To me, thank
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