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Shaq: Mavs Won the Luka Doncic-Anthony Davis Trade for the Next 2 Years | NBA on TNT · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: For only the third time in history, a player that
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  Speaker 1: has made five All NBA First teams in their first
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  Speaker 1: seven season is playing for another team. Will Kareem and
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  Speaker 1: now Luka Doncic unbelievable. Still wrapping our heads around it. Sheck,
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  Speaker 1: have you come to a conclusion of what's going.
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  Speaker 2: On right now? Well, obviously Dallas didn't want to move
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  Speaker 2: forward with one of the greatest young players that we've
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  Speaker 2: seen today. I wish the business of basketball could have
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  Speaker 2: been handled a little better. You could think a guy
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  Speaker 2: that five years in the league, five first team of
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  Speaker 2: All nbas would at least get the conversation like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: names not going well, this could possibly happen. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: he felt the same way I felt win and went down.
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  Speaker 2: I actually had to look and make sure it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: April Fool's Day, So me, I would have liked to
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  Speaker 2: have seen it down a little bit more respectfully. But
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  Speaker 2: this is what and us three we know this. You
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  Speaker 2: know this. This is what we call it the business
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  Speaker 2: of basketball. I remember the day they traded Patrick Ewan
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  Speaker 2: and it made me say to myself, nobody is safe.
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  Speaker 2: Then Dominique, then me, then you So it happens. But
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  Speaker 2: it's just very unfortunate. You know, it's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: stuff going on. He wasn't in shape. He was It's
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  Speaker 2: obvious that they didn't want to move forward with a
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  Speaker 2: twenty five year old superstar. But now he's in La
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  Speaker 2: La line. His jerseys went from number six to number one.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot of speculation of can him
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  Speaker 2: and Braun play with each other? The answer is yes,
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  Speaker 2: of course they can play at each other. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to be interesting. However, I think Dallas got better of
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  Speaker 2: the trade for the next two years. Anyway, for the
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  Speaker 2: next two years, I think Dallas won that trick Kennis.
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  Speaker 1: They did say it was a win and aw let's
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  Speaker 1: take a look at the details of the trade.
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  Speaker 3: Let's take some of that base as I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 3: just saying, you said Dallas for the next is Luca
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  Speaker 3: the dawn Shaq, Like this is a dude that legit
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  Speaker 3: led the Dallas Mavericks to the final single handedly.
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  Speaker 4: Understood. I understand that he took a lot of black
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  Speaker 4: for defensive effort in the final, but are we forgetting
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  Speaker 4: the Luca magic that was in the Western Conference last year?
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  Speaker 2: They don't have nobody on the paint for defensive purposes
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  Speaker 2: or and I'm saying the Lakers.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think the Lakers are done, but I will
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  Speaker 4: say this, in the business of basketball we have to
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  Speaker 4: talk about nowadays you almost can't be transparent with players
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  Speaker 4: because of their camps and information getting out. So this
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  Speaker 4: is what today is because of all the leaks, because
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  Speaker 4: of all the people that are on the side, agents
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  Speaker 4: and everything leaking information. You can't be straight up with
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  Speaker 4: players because guess what if this trade doesn't go through,
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  Speaker 4: then you have a lot of guys in the locker
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  Speaker 4: room that were supposed to be traded that didn't have
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  Speaker 4: to come back and sit. And I think we've all
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  Speaker 4: been in situations where guys were supposed to be traded
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  Speaker 4: and they have to come back to the locker room
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  Speaker 4: and you have to talk about winning after that. So
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  Speaker 4: I think this that's today's game. But there's not going
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  Speaker 4: to be transparency and information and the two gms had
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  Speaker 4: to go about it in that way.
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  Speaker 1: Where are you with all of this what stage?
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  Speaker 5: I think there's more that needs to be needs to
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  Speaker 5: be done. It will be done on the Lakers side
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  Speaker 5: of it, because I feel like Luca is at his
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  Speaker 5: best with a big participation, but particularly that is a
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  Speaker 5: low threat and his ability. I mean, he can score,
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  Speaker 5: and I do think he and Lebron can coexist now.
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  Speaker 5: I think Lebron is at the stage where he's been
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  Speaker 5: willing to take a step back because we said, hey,
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  Speaker 5: he has to allow a d to be ad. Now,
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  Speaker 5: this is the perfect time for something like this to happen.
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  Speaker 5: But they need more, you know, and I'm sure they're
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  Speaker 5: they're trying to figure this out. But I'm saying, as
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  Speaker 5: of right now, I agree with you. Dallas right now
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  Speaker 5: is ready to roll right.
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  Speaker 1: Now, and it feels like a reset for the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: It was something that no one expected. The tweets were
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  Speaker 1: coming in firing on that night. Dirk Novinski, how does
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  Speaker 1: he feel. I'm sure he was shocked. I'm sure a
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  Speaker 1: lot of Mavericks fans wanted Luca for as long as
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  Speaker 1: Dirk was there. Jalen Brunson having the same thought as
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  Speaker 1: Shaquille O'Neil April fools right, it was shocked. Patrick Mahomes
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  Speaker 1: noted Briggs fan noted Luca fan, Wait, what I know
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  Speaker 1: he personally was taking this stuff and powle gasol part
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  Speaker 1: of a similar trade to the Lakers, where everyone afterwards
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  Speaker 1: went wait, wait, wait, wait, we could have gotten powle
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  Speaker 1: gasol almost to the date giving a It.
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  Speaker 4: Was really almost to the date of the Laker trade.
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  Speaker 1: Well, today was the first time that we heard a
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  Speaker 1: d and Luca chime in, and here's what they said.
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  Speaker 6: I was shockedone else, Like I said, I didn't know.
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  Speaker 6: I was actually at home about to watch a movie
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  Speaker 6: with my wife and uh got the phone call. So
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  Speaker 6: I had no idea. I just sent you know, the team,
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  Speaker 6: you know, text about congratulation on a on a win
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  Speaker 6: against the next big win, and then found out like
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  Speaker 6: hour later, I was no longer with the team. So
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  Speaker 6: now it's kind of over it and just kind of,
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  Speaker 6: you know, getting ready to play with Dallas.
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  Speaker 7: What's your reaction been the last forty eight hours to
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  Speaker 7: some of the comments coming from Dallas on your way
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  Speaker 7: out the door. I'm just excited, you know, to be
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  Speaker 7: here to start this new journey, journey and obviously, uh,
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  Speaker 7: at some point I knew this was going to happen,
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  Speaker 7: but I would say I always take the high road.
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  Speaker 3: How do you address the criticism that's followed you on
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  Speaker 3: your way out about concerns about conditioning endurability.
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  Speaker 7: So it's a motive. I'm always liked, true, but it's emotive.
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  Speaker 7: You don't come here for nothing else. In the championships,
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  Speaker 7: so have everything left to prove.
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  Speaker 1: And people say the Los Angeles Lakers have a history
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  Speaker 1: of acquiring stars that they don't know how they got
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  Speaker 1: them nineteen sixty eight, Will seventy five, Kareem. We mentioned
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  Speaker 1: those just a little bit ago. Shaquille O'Neal. It was
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  Speaker 1: a sign in trade in ninety six when you came
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  Speaker 1: from Orlando, the paw Gasol move in two.
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  Speaker 4: Thousand eight, exact same Shack Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Lebron James in twenty eighteen, Anthony Davis twenty nineteen, those
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  Speaker 1: two teaming up for that title in the bubble and
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  Speaker 1: now Luca, we heard people there saying about conditioning and
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  Speaker 1: all of that. You have faced that criticism as well.
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  Speaker 1: How much of that became a chip on your shoulder
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  Speaker 1: when you went to the New city. What kind of
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  Speaker 1: chip does Luca have now?
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  Speaker 2: It was really chip on my shoulder because I didn't
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  Speaker 2: work out during the summer because I had other applications,
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  Speaker 2: family children, and I wanted to work my way into shape.
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  Speaker 2: That was my method. It worked for me. You know,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of so called methods of how to
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  Speaker 2: get it done. You know, you come in shape and
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  Speaker 2: become a first ballot Hall of Family. We didn't win
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  Speaker 2: three championships in a row. That's that's your way, my way.
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  Speaker 2: I did it my way, and I'm happy with the
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  Speaker 2: way I did it. What do you think of Luca's way?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: He doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't look out of shape to me, Like, I
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  Speaker 2: need to know what the term out of when when
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  Speaker 2: you say out of shape is the fat? Does he
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  Speaker 2: have six packers? And I have like are we talking
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  Speaker 2: about it that story? Because one of my best friends
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  Speaker 2: just told me fat Luca is better than ninety nine
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  Speaker 2: zero point nine percent of all the guards in the game.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, in shape Luca five years, first team NBA,
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  Speaker 2: Fat Luca, or this out of shape Luca first team
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  Speaker 2: All NBA five years. So you know, if that's the case,
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  Speaker 2: they let him go, obviously, I would definitely have to
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  Speaker 2: blame management because there's better ways to you know, handle
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  Speaker 2: that fact.
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  Speaker 4: You are an anomaly. You are an anomaly. He's a
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  Speaker 4: one of one, he's you're one of one. You could
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  Speaker 4: come out of shape at seven foot three, What were
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  Speaker 4: you in your seventy foot two in your prime?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but me and him were the same guy. He's
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  Speaker 2: took out of shape his first fight years. He got
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  Speaker 2: five first.
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  Speaker 6: That's it's the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, I think.
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  Speaker 2: Will work this way.
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  Speaker 6: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: He cannot agree with this. You cannot agree with that.
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  Speaker 4: You are an anomaly. I cannot let you sit up here.
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  Speaker 4: I cannot let you set up here and compare your
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  Speaker 4: journey to other people. You are an anomaly, a complete anomaly.
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  Speaker 1: This trade also an anomaly. I just want to get
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  Speaker 1: some some reaction from around the NBA for how the
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  Speaker 1: players reacted, because you don't often see players this candid.
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  Speaker 1: So take a listen to this.
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  Speaker 8: It's a reminder. Only a few in this lead and
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  Speaker 8: don't go to sleeper, you know, any type of confidence.
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  Speaker 8: But the idea that they're happening in silence is pretty frazing.
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  Speaker 8: The fact that you hear trading everybody thanks, somebody's been
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  Speaker 8: hacking it hilarious.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I would have never thought Lucas don just get traded
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  Speaker 5: this age.
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  Speaker 2: They see it.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, how plays man and he can get traded
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  Speaker 6: and anybody's up for grabs. You know, so yes, so fans,
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  Speaker 6: you know by spectator, it's pretty fun.
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  Speaker 2: It's a business. I don't know. You know, I think
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  Speaker 2: nobody expected, especially on him. I think nobody is safe
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  Speaker 2: in the league. Seems like not what I want.
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  Speaker 7: I want.
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  Speaker 5: Look at the Lakers. I want jo kids to the Knicks.
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  Speaker 1: I want all the Europeans to go to all the
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  Speaker 1: big markets, you know, to.
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  Speaker 5: See something incredible.
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  Speaker 2: This is what I want.
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  Speaker 4: This is my dream.
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  Speaker 2: Credit how robbery.
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  Speaker 6: It's always very you know, when I get traded for a
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  Speaker 6: supers ourself, great, I'm scared.
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  Speaker 2: Tim, Hey, if you're gonna trade me, let me know.
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  Speaker 4: Dog.
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  Speaker 2: When Luca got traded, anybody is able.
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  Speaker 5: To get traded.
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  Speaker 1: At that point, before the game finish, he was saying
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  Speaker 1: that they were very happy with their investment, and you
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  Speaker 1: just give you at least
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  Speaker 4: As Thank god, I just bought a crib to