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Jimmy Butler Traded to the Golden State Warriors in 4-Team Deal | NBA GameTime · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: The trade deadline is Thursday, three eastern.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: The biggest news we got right now, and it is huge.
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler on his way to Golden State break down
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  Speaker 1: the deal for us.
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  Speaker 3: How we got here was wild and crazy. Remember that
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  Speaker 3: show Wild and Crazy Kids back in the day. You're
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  Speaker 3: probably too young.
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  Speaker 4: About.
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  Speaker 3: But no Wild and Crazy day. Ultimately, Jimmy Butler ends
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  Speaker 3: up in Golden State.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: You know, this was supposed to be a five team
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  Speaker 3: trade package is now reported, but Toronto portion fell through.
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  Speaker 3: So as of right now, it's a fourteen deal and
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  Speaker 3: Kyle Anderson for the time being is going to be
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  Speaker 3: sticking in Miami. We'll see how long that lasts. But ultimately, listen,
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  Speaker 3: the Golden State Warriors. The way that teams described the
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  Speaker 3: Warriors to me over the last few weeks was thirsty.
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  Speaker 3: They were thirsty to bring in another star to pair
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  Speaker 3: with Stephen Curry.
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  Speaker 4: They tried everything.
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  Speaker 3: They called every team about a star, specifically, I'm the
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  Speaker 3: star that could come alongside help with some ball handling dullies.
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  Speaker 3: They tried Lebron James, Kevin Durant, and Kevin Durant they
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  Speaker 3: try him today and then it fell through. Kevin Durant.
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  Speaker 3: I mean he left for a reason. He left Golden
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  Speaker 3: State for a reason, he had no desire to come back,
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  Speaker 3: and so they shifted their focus towards Jimmy Butler ultimately
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  Speaker 3: got it done because at one point last week the
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  Speaker 3: word was Jimmy Butler didn't even want to go to
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  Speaker 3: Golden State. So things changed really quickly in the NBA.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I love this league. But ultimately Jimmy Butler
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  Speaker 3: gets where he wants. The Golden State Warriors feel that
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  Speaker 3: they have a team that can contend for a title
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  Speaker 3: and improve their play in the second half.
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  Speaker 4: What's the fit like for you there with Jimmy. I
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  Speaker 4: don't like it personally.
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  Speaker 5: I just don't think it addresses where the league is
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  Speaker 5: going or where the Western Conference is. You look at
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  Speaker 5: the best teams in the West, the best teams in
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  Speaker 5: the East, and they are big man heavy, and to me,
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  Speaker 5: they're not addressing that glaring hole at the power forward
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  Speaker 5: and center position.
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  Speaker 4: Like they're doing a good job.
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  Speaker 5: But also we talked about their age, right, like what
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  Speaker 5: is this shelf life for these thirty five thirty six
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  Speaker 5: year old guys who are starting to get a little
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  Speaker 5: bit more beat up. What is identity of this team.
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  Speaker 5: How does he fit into this? If you were to
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  Speaker 5: go get you know, Kevin Durant, you would say, oh,
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  Speaker 5: of course this fits. He shoots threes, he can defend
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  Speaker 5: multiple positions. He shoots you know, he can create one
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  Speaker 5: on one. Jimmy for the past couple of years in
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  Speaker 5: Miami has been a system guy that has shined during
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  Speaker 5: the playoffs, but is a reluctant three point shooter, is
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  Speaker 5: a mid range guy, plays a lot slower. Having Jimmy
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  Speaker 5: passed screen move cut. I want to see it. I
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  Speaker 5: think it's gonna be must CTV. I just don't know
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  Speaker 5: when you look at some of the better teams, how
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  Speaker 5: they're gonna match up. I just don't know how it's
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  Speaker 5: going to work. So that's up to Steve Kerr.
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  Speaker 4: What about it?
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  Speaker 1: As far as the culture is concerned, does he fit there?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 6: I think there's some concerns.
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  Speaker 2: If you look at the history of Jimmy Butler and
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  Speaker 2: teams in the Jimmy Butler business, it hasn't ended well
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  Speaker 2: in Chicago, Minnesota, Philadelphia, or now Miami.
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  Speaker 6: So it might be over four.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not trying to.
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  Speaker 2: File out understating, but now that being said to Bill,
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  Speaker 2: I love it for the Golden State Awards. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to take the other side for Channing, because you have
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  Speaker 2: a thirty six year old Steph Curry still in his prime,
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  Speaker 2: Draymond Greens in his mid thirties as well. Answer Channing's question,
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  Speaker 2: I think their shelf flight is short. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: two or three years. But Jimmy Butler was the best
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  Speaker 2: player they could get for a reasonable cost to play
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  Speaker 2: in between Steph and the back court and Draymond in
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  Speaker 2: the front court, so I like it. In in addition
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  Speaker 2: to the trade, they also had agreed in an extension
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  Speaker 2: to your extension with Jimmy Butler, so that's the window
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  Speaker 2: two or three years.
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  Speaker 6: We'll see how it works out.
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  Speaker 2: I still think they're a notch below the elite contenders OKC,
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  Speaker 2: Cleveland and Boston, but at least now they have a chance,
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  Speaker 2: and prior to the deal today, I did not think
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  Speaker 2: they had a chance to contend.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have any information why I didn't work out
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  Speaker 1: with Phoenix, because clearly that's where he wanted to go.
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  Speaker 4: That was his number one option. Bradley Beal lock it up.
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  Speaker 3: Bradley one of two players with a Notrey clause. The
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  Speaker 3: Phoenix Sounds knew it was going to be a difficult
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  Speaker 3: pathway to try to get Jimmy Butler over there, but
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  Speaker 3: Jimmy Butler was the Phoenix Suns number one target. That
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  Speaker 3: was their only target. They still were optimistic this entire
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  Speaker 3: time that at some point they can find a destination
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  Speaker 3: that Bradley Beal will approve. I was told that Bradley
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  Speaker 3: Bill wanted to be in a warm weather climate. They
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  Speaker 3: tried calling some of those warm weather city, some those
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  Speaker 3: warm weather teams. There wasn't mutual interest, and so that's
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  Speaker 3: what made it tough. And then this today, That's why
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  Speaker 3: I said, this was just so wild. And then today
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  Speaker 3: when we got worried that Bradley Beal was not going
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  Speaker 3: away that new trade clause. Leading up to the deadline,
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  Speaker 3: we're hearing talks about potentially a swap of Kevin Durant
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  Speaker 3: for Jimmy straight up, and I thought that was ludicrous
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  Speaker 3: because I thought, Jimmy, they want Jimmy to play with
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  Speaker 3: KD and book. And then that fell through because Miami
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  Speaker 3: didn't have enough assets to give back to Phoenix. Phoenix
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  Speaker 3: was not going to do a one on one swap,
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  Speaker 3: and so that complicated thing, and so Phoenix Suns, they're
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  Speaker 3: left with the team that is intact. But what I
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  Speaker 3: was told, the Sons feel very optimistic that now with
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  Speaker 3: uncertainly of some of the player's futures in the short
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  Speaker 3: term being out the way, they feel like in the
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  Speaker 3: second half they can go into it with improved play.
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  Speaker 3: So we should see if that is the case.
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  Speaker 1: So what you're saying right now, because Kevin Durant's name
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  Speaker 1: has been flooring a brand, and you've talked about him
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  Speaker 1: in a couple scenarios, Kevin Durant's is not going anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: Doesn't look that way. Kevin Durant's not going anywhere. And
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  Speaker 3: Bradley Beal for sure is not going anywhere now.
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  Speaker 4: Man. Listen, he bought his house in Phoenix Sody Luca
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  Speaker 4: at one point. Oh you know, he didn't have that.
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  Speaker 4: No trade, that's different, that's key.
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  Speaker 1: That is valuable. I mean, when you look at the
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  Speaker 1: Phoenix Suns in the way they are and that big
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  Speaker 1: three moving forward, is there anything they can do maybe
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  Speaker 1: that small right now that could help them with that team?
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  Speaker 6: Very small? I would say, yeah, nothing major.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna look at trades involving Yusuf Nurkic, maybe Grayson
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  Speaker 2: Allen as well, because this is a very top heavy
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  Speaker 2: team in terms of the talent with Kevin Durant, Bradley
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  Speaker 2: Beal and Devin.
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  Speaker 6: Booker, and the payroll as well.
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  Speaker 2: They're up in the second Apron, which really limits your flexibility.
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  Speaker 2: As a reminder, in the second Apron, you cannot aggregate
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  Speaker 2: or combined contracts, so they can only send out players individually,
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  Speaker 2: which complicated the pursuit of Jimmy Butler.
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  Speaker 6: So they're going to try to upgrade around the margins.
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  Speaker 6: They already did that.
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  Speaker 2: I thought they made a nice move with Charlotte bringing
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  Speaker 2: in Nick Nick Richards for Josha Koge in a pick,
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  Speaker 2: But keep in mind this team really went all in
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  Speaker 2: to get Durant and Beal to Phoenix. They traded a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of draft picks and swamps, so theyre as asset
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  Speaker 2: light as any team in the league. And if they're
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  Speaker 2: not trading their top three guys, they don't have a
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  Speaker 2: ton that other teams around the league are interested in.
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  Speaker 5: I think my biggest question is what is the culture
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  Speaker 5: of this team. They are not committed to the defensive end,
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  Speaker 5: and I think Nick Richards was a huge steal. I
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  Speaker 5: think he is exactly what they needed, but they need
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  Speaker 5: an attitude adjustment, right. Everyone was so worried, who's sending
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  Speaker 5: here Bradley beal if you don't want me now all
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  Speaker 5: of a sudden, that's good.
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  Speaker 4: I've never seen it happen.
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  Speaker 5: It's like I've been trying to trade you, and if
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  Speaker 5: you didn't have that no trade calall, you'd have been
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  Speaker 5: in purgatory somewhere back east, right. And so for me
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  Speaker 5: for badly, Bill, how do you just say, oh, don't
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  Speaker 5: worry about the guys, let's keep playing. And then KD
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  Speaker 5: was like, well, now I don't want to be here,
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  Speaker 5: and now you're fielding calls for me. And then Booker's like, well,
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  Speaker 5: this was my team and now y'all came here. We're
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  Speaker 5: supposed to win. So there's a lot of things that
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  Speaker 5: I think they are they talented, are they top heavy?
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  Speaker 4: Do they have the opportunity to do it?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, But there's a lot of what ifs, And if
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  Speaker 5: you want to win a championship, you can't have five, six,
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  Speaker 5: seven what ifs and try to do that over the
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  Speaker 5: last twenty seven games of the season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels like it could be an uncomfortable situation,
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  Speaker 1: or it could work out real great because they got
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  Speaker 1: that star power.
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  Speaker 4: Fascinating The Fall