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Baker Mayfield and Tampa Contract Standoff, Falcons QB Injuries, and WNBA All-Star Momentum · 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 1: Joy Taylor. Baker Mayfield has proven himself for a second
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  Speaker 1: time to be a legitimate starting quarterback in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: but there's always something with Baker and whether it's Baker's
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  Speaker 1: fault or not, this time, Baker Mayfield and the Bucks
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  Speaker 1: have failed to get a deal done. According to sources
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  Speaker 1: that have told ESPN, Baker is looking for a deal
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  Speaker 1: that reflects his performance and is more in line with
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  Speaker 1: what quarterbacks of the similar caliber are making. He is
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  Speaker 1: also unfazed by the potential of being franchise tagged in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 2: So Baker is a man of his word. He had
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  Speaker 2: a self imposed deadline.
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  Speaker 1: If the Bucks come to him with a great deal
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  Speaker 1: right now, he is going to sign it. So when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to these type of you know, arbitrary deadlines,
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  Speaker 1: it's really just more to push and negotiate and you know,
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  Speaker 1: be cryptic of the whole thing. But if they come
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  Speaker 1: with an offer, let's legit a long term deal, He's
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  Speaker 1: going to sign it. So I guess the question is
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  Speaker 1: why haven't they done that. The Bucks are a team
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  Speaker 1: that is competing in the NFC South, which is always
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  Speaker 1: a winnable division. Baker Mayfield is not the only player
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  Speaker 1: on the Bucks that's frustrated. Vitaveya has requested a trade
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  Speaker 1: and they have to sort that situation out. He, unlike Mayfield, though,
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  Speaker 1: was a full participant in mandatory mini camp and was
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  Speaker 1: a mini camp holden to avoid fines and participate in
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  Speaker 1: classroom instruction without risking any injury. This is an interesting
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  Speaker 1: situation with the Bucks. I feel like the division is winnable.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand why the Bucks wouldn't give a long
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  Speaker 1: term deal to Baker At this point, when you're looking
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  Speaker 1: around the NFL at the options that you have a quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: which we're going to discuss for another team that is
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  Speaker 1: in their division, it's scarce and the quarterback position is
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  Speaker 1: just it's it's just not a position that you want
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  Speaker 1: to play around with.
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  Speaker 2: And look, do I think Baker is capable of winning
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  Speaker 2: a Super Bowl? No? But is he a franchise quarterback? Absolutely?
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  Speaker 1: And is his deal going to be one that can
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  Speaker 1: give you some wiggle room around for the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the roster. Yes, has he proven himself that he has
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  Speaker 1: grown that he is capable of leading a team. So
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  Speaker 1: I really don't get what the Bucks are doing here,
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  Speaker 1: and they're going to need to get it together and
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  Speaker 1: get together quickly if they're going to compete in this division.
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  Speaker 1: You just don't want to go into a situation where
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  Speaker 1: you're unsure what the quarterback mentality is going to be.
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  Speaker 1: And while Baker does play really well with his backup
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  Speaker 1: against the wall when he has something to prove at
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  Speaker 1: this point in your career, like, just give the man
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  Speaker 1: a deal. And this should not be the conversation around
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  Speaker 1: the Bucks at this point in the off season.
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  Speaker 2: So staying in the NFL, set over.
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  Speaker 1: To the Atlanta Falcons, where they might.
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  Speaker 2: Already have a problem at the quarterback position.
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  Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins walk and plan to have two lefties Michael
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  Speaker 1: Penick Junior and two a Toungua bai looa compete for
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  Speaker 1: the starting job. Well, Penix is recovering from an ACL
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  Speaker 1: injury from last season and now Tua is out of
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  Speaker 1: practice with a reported flare up in his back. So
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  Speaker 1: the Falcons are bringing in Cooper Rush, famously of the
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys and new head coach Kevin Stefanski says it's
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  Speaker 1: all good. He said, two is dealing with an injury
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  Speaker 1: right now, it's not long term. He'll be out there
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  Speaker 1: sooner than later, and we'll work through that. In the
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  Speaker 1: next couple of days something flared up, he will be
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  Speaker 1: back shortly. And when he was asked about Penix being
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  Speaker 1: cleared for eleven on eleven, he said, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: the exact date that would happen. As long as you
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  Speaker 1: can imagine, we have put total trust in Mike and
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  Speaker 1: the medical team and the doctor who performed a surgery.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm very comfortable with very very comfortable with where
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  Speaker 1: we are and the plan that we have.
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  Speaker 2: Very comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, listen, I don't expect Kevin Stefanski to get
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  Speaker 1: out here and start making grand proclamations about how much
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  Speaker 1: trouble they're in. But you have two injured quarterbacks. You
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  Speaker 1: have a quarterback that's coming back from an acl who
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  Speaker 1: still has a lot of proving himself to do in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, Tua who is habitually injured, and as a
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  Speaker 1: Dolphins fan who has only seen him play seventeen games
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  Speaker 1: once in his six year career, yeah, you should be concerned.
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Rush is a really, really good backup quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: This is not a good situation.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously there's still some time left in the
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  Speaker 1: off season, but yeah, campus approaching and things are going
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  Speaker 1: to start to get serious, and you're going to start
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  Speaker 1: to have your ones practicing and preparing for the season
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  Speaker 1: with a backup quarterback because no one is available, not
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  Speaker 1: to mention, you're not going to to get you potentially
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  Speaker 1: could not have a true quarterback competition, which is a
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  Speaker 1: nightmare to begin with anyway, So little Testy Pennix is
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  Speaker 1: four and eight as a starter. Tua has a forty
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  Speaker 1: four and thirty two record as a starter. But as
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  Speaker 1: I discussed, and as we know, he's no longer with
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  Speaker 1: the Dolphins as their first round pick because he cannot
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  Speaker 1: stay healthy. So this is quite a tricky situation for
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski and the Falcons to navigate. And to refer
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  Speaker 1: back to what we talked about with Baker Mayfield, if
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  Speaker 1: you have a franchise quarterback, lock him in and figure
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  Speaker 1: it out. Finally, let's follow up on an incredible WNBA
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  Speaker 1: All Star Weekends. I was out there in Chicago summertime,
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  Speaker 1: shy the best and it was a great weekends, very positive.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to the stud buds whose stream always causes
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  Speaker 1: a little chaos, and mostly the fun kinds. Don Malonga,
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  Speaker 1: Nasty Dunk served by Angel Reese, John Coyle Jones, made history,
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  Speaker 1: Caitlin gut buckets. It just felt like a very fun,
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  Speaker 1: positive weekends. Overall crowd of nineteen thousand, record setting for
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  Speaker 1: the All Star Game, and the question is how does
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  Speaker 1: the WNBA harness that momentum for the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: season and beyond. So Katie Barnes wrote an interesting article
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  Speaker 1: for ESPN kind of recapping the WNBA weekend and also
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  Speaker 1: asking some questions about this season, which has.
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  Speaker 2: Been a fiery one on and off the court.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of controversy, a lot of conversation, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of crossover conversation outside of the W, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: political conversation, and the W is in a very interesting
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  Speaker 1: space right now where I do feel like the momentium
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  Speaker 1: of All Star Weekends, all of the positivity, all of
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  Speaker 1: the brands activating, all of the parties, all the tension,
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  Speaker 1: all the celebs, it was a legitimate All Star weekend.
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  Speaker 1: As someone who has attended many, many tent pole events,
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  Speaker 1: this was a legitimate All Star weekend, and I was
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  Speaker 1: happy to see it, and with all of the tension
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  Speaker 1: and controversy, it felt very celebratory. The league isn't an
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  Speaker 1: interesting place where it has maximized within its capabilities and
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  Speaker 1: space that it was in this wave of attention and
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  Speaker 1: affection for these new players.
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  Speaker 2: They have a new.
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  Speaker 1: CBA, they have all of these eyeballs, they are getting
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  Speaker 1: all these new sponsors.
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  Speaker 2: There is this.
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  Speaker 1: Moment that is happening of how do they maintain this
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  Speaker 1: and then roll it forward?
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  Speaker 2: Like what is the next step?
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of people are talking about what's talk
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  Speaker 1: about the game, Like, forget the stuff that's going on
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  Speaker 1: off the court, Forget the controversy around Caitlin Clark, Forget
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  Speaker 1: the controversy around the coverage of Angel Reese, forget the
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  Speaker 1: controversy around the trans protest.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just talk about the game.
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  Speaker 1: And while all of those other controversial things are very
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  Speaker 1: frustrating and they have taken away from the focus of
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  Speaker 1: some really great basketball that's being played right now, some
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  Speaker 1: incredible rookie seasons that are happening, and the momentous growth
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  Speaker 1: of the game. I do think, as someone who has
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  Speaker 1: covered sports for pretty much the last twenty years of
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  Speaker 1: my life. There is a formula to the growth of
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  Speaker 1: the game, and it's not always popular.
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  Speaker 2: With players, with coaches, with organizations, but.
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  Speaker 1: Fans want to have conversations, and they want to have
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  Speaker 1: conversations that they all feel they can participate in. And generally,
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  Speaker 1: controversy is something that people can dig their teeth into.
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  Speaker 1: But villains, heroes, debates lists, who's better, who deserves this,
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  Speaker 1: who should be the MVP, Who's gonna win Rookie of
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  Speaker 1: the Year? What team really is trending in the right direction?
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  Speaker 1: Should this person get traded? Should this person not get traded? Stars,
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  Speaker 1: like all of those things that are low hanging fruits
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  Speaker 1: for sports fans to discuss. That is what will roll
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  Speaker 1: the game forward into a place where it's no longer
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  Speaker 1: being pitched and it's being truly discussed. There's never going
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  Speaker 1: to be a space where there's not going to be controversy.
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  Speaker 1: Men's sports have controversy. They are discussed at length every
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  Speaker 1: single day on all of these debate shows and panel
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  Speaker 1: shows and podcasts. It's part of the game. And so
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  Speaker 1: I do think that we should get back to basketball.
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  Speaker 1: I do think there's some great basketball being played right now.
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  Speaker 1: I do think there's really interesting stories happening on the court,
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  Speaker 1: and if we can find a way to focus on
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  Speaker 1: the game, those other controversial things I believe will start
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  Speaker 1: to fall by the wayside because at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, you got to win.
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  Speaker 2: You have to win, and you can be a superstar.
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  Speaker 2: But if year after.
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  Speaker 1: Year it's not getting done, it eventually becomes a numb
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  Speaker 1: drum beat. So I do think there is a real
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  Speaker 1: potential for the momentum that the w has built off
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  Speaker 1: of this All Star weekends. And I think the benefit
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  Speaker 1: of having all of these eyeballs right now is that
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  Speaker 1: we're learning the stories of more and more players, and
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  Speaker 1: those players are having incredible seasons as well. So it's
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  Speaker 1: a really interesting article by Katie and you should go
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  Speaker 1: check it out. I think it really recaps the entire
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  Speaker 1: weekend very well, and that is my takeaway is that
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  Speaker 1: there is a real future here. The foundation has been
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  Speaker 1: laid by the legends, the current players have pushed it forward,
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  Speaker 1: and now the future is here to stay.
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  Speaker 2: If we can actually focus.
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  Speaker 1: As much energy on what's happening on the court as
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  Speaker 1: to what the conversation is off the court. Thanks so
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