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Gordie Chiesa on tonight's NBA Draft, Darryn Peterson to the Jazz (?), Miami contenders again with Giannis (?) + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: Peace out.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get the latest on the Utah Jazz with former
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  Speaker 2: Jazz assistant coach Gordy Chiasa. He's forgotten more about the
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  Speaker 2: NBA than any of us will ever know.
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  Speaker 1: Let's not get crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Come for the hoops talk, stay for his list of
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  Speaker 2: the day, My list today.
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  Speaker 1: Here's oc with.
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  Speaker 2: Basketball Silva Gordy Chiasa on the Shan O'Connell show.
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  Speaker 1: A full slate of World Cup soccer today. Portugal right
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  Speaker 1: now up to nil on Uzbekistan, who had a goal
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  Speaker 1: called back on an off side in Group K action.
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  Speaker 1: And of course we've marched toward tonight's NBA draft, where
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  Speaker 1: the Utah Jazz will pick number two. I guess, barring
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  Speaker 1: any completely unforeseen trade, they will pick number two. Gordi
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  Speaker 1: Chiasa joins us now on the shan o connall Show.
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  Speaker 1: Christiano Ronaldo just scored again. Portugal is now up three
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  Speaker 1: zero news Bekkastan and Gordy. He is splitting his attention
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  Speaker 1: between the World Cup and this NBA draft like the
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  Speaker 1: rest of us.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Gordy, Sean, how's it going You okay, I'm doing
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  Speaker 3: all right.
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 3: It's a big day, Yes, your big day? Absolutely the
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  Speaker 3: older jazz fans tonight Jazz picking number two should be
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  Speaker 3: a stark.
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  Speaker 1: So we were just talking about that in the in
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  Speaker 1: the first segment. You know, there's all these guys that
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  Speaker 1: you could look back and you could say, number two
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  Speaker 1: picks in the NBA? What have they done with recency bias?
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  Speaker 1: Even like, oh, Dylan Harper, he's a number two pick.
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  Speaker 1: If you get Dylan Harper out of this draft, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna feel real good about it. But you're not comparing.
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  Speaker 1: You don't get it's it's one of these guys has
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  Speaker 1: to work out the way that some of these other
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  Speaker 1: great players have worked out. And it feels like there's
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  Speaker 1: an immense amount of pressure on the Utah Jazz franchise
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  Speaker 1: to get this one right. But how fool proof is
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  Speaker 1: this group of players, Gordy, when you look at the
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  Speaker 1: top guys when you took it that look at the
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  Speaker 1: top three of the top four that are realistic possibilities
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  Speaker 1: at number two, how much guesswork is there?
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  Speaker 3: Really not at all? The top four guys have really
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  Speaker 3: are tremendous talents and with proper just maturity and growth,
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  Speaker 3: they have absolutely all star potential, all four And so
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  Speaker 3: we're talking about aj Deboncer, Darren Peterson, Cam Buser and
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  Speaker 3: Caleb Wilson, And with a Jazz point of view, Sean,
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  Speaker 3: I'm just guessing for a second, it should be Darren
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  Speaker 3: Peterson at two tonight. And he's an unbelievable talent. He's
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  Speaker 3: a classic football player, jump shooter. I'll call him a guard.
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  Speaker 3: He's more of a two guard than a point guard.
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  Speaker 3: But that guy when he has unbelievable talent level and
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  Speaker 3: he has, you know, all the quick verts you need
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  Speaker 3: to be a scorer. And he's a good defensive player.
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  Speaker 3: He's a major talent. And inn Cam Boozer, they're getting
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  Speaker 3: somebody also that will average eventually twenty points a game
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  Speaker 3: and ten rebounds and almost shown as a point power
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  Speaker 3: forward and he can pass that ball. And he's really
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  Speaker 3: a talented guy. And so the Jazz looking at either
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  Speaker 3: all of those guys, they're both home runs. Both guys
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  Speaker 3: will be a franchise type players. Add to the Jazz group.
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  Speaker 1: How much time, energy effort has been spent by this
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  Speaker 1: Utah Jazz front office to check all these boxes to
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  Speaker 1: answer all the questions about especially health when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to Darren Peterson, Because there were those issues when he
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  Speaker 1: was at Kansas, the cramping and things like that. And
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  Speaker 1: the explanation that came out around draft combine time was
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  Speaker 1: that he hadn't figured out it was a creatine issue
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  Speaker 1: and stuff. But I imagine that the Jazz is a franchise
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  Speaker 1: and every other team that thinks that they might have
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  Speaker 1: a chance to draft him, they were probably doing extra
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  Speaker 1: research to figure out whether it made sense or not.
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  Speaker 1: Am I wrong?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Absolutely, you're correct, And that those guys that they
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  Speaker 3: dissected and bisected everyone of those guys, and they have
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  Speaker 3: the only intel on them, plus their doctor's opinions as
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  Speaker 3: far as the medicals, and so they know whoever drafts
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  Speaker 3: Darren Peterson, whether it's the Jazz, or whether it's the Wizards,
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  Speaker 3: or whether it's the Memphis Grizzlies, whoever it might be,
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  Speaker 3: is that they feel comfortable that they're going to take
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  Speaker 3: him as far as all the different medical quote issues.
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  Speaker 1: There was a conversation, according to multiple reports, between Darren
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  Speaker 1: Peterson and the Utah Jazz. He didn't come work out,
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  Speaker 1: but there was It sounded like more of like a
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  Speaker 1: combine interview type conversation between the franchise and the player.
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  Speaker 1: In those conversations. Is there anything momentous? What can can
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  Speaker 1: anything be said or done in a conversation to really
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  Speaker 1: change somebody like Darren Peterson's future with the Utah Jazz
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  Speaker 1: if he's available.
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  Speaker 3: It two, No, not at all. They know who he is,
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  Speaker 3: and they've been talking to his coaches and to his
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  Speaker 3: agent all the time and everyone around him. In the
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  Speaker 3: draft process. It's really thorough. Is that everyone goes back
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  Speaker 3: to the high school coach, to the to the college coaches,
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  Speaker 3: to other coaches they play against, to the athletic trainer
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  Speaker 3: of the university. They're going to be thorough about it.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why they feel comfortable. Whoever they draft tonight,
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  Speaker 3: they'll be comfortable of taking that guy. And last year
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  Speaker 3: they hit the jackpot with a spelly. Remember last year,
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  Speaker 3: not forget Ah Bally, there was things around him also,
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  Speaker 3: he didn't want to be here, et cetera. And now
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  Speaker 3: he's here, he's played, he played very well for the
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  Speaker 3: Jiff as a young player. And then this next guy,
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  Speaker 3: whoever they draft tonight, he will be right there. Also again,
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  Speaker 3: these first four guys, they have an unbelievable talent level.
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  Speaker 3: Now again the mental maturity and the physical part of
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  Speaker 3: it they'll grow into. But as far as being athletic
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  Speaker 3: and bouncy and knowing how to play and be at
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  Speaker 3: their position, being specific, these guys can score the ball
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  Speaker 3: and can rebound the ball, and most of them can
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  Speaker 3: pass the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Gordy with regard to to Ace Bailey and that whole narrative,
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  Speaker 1: that pre draft narrative, did we ever get clarity on
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  Speaker 1: whether or not that was kind of false reporting or
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  Speaker 1: whether that was genuinely how he felt about the idea
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  Speaker 1: of coming to Salt Lake City? But then he made
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  Speaker 1: the best of it, and the reality of it is
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  Speaker 1: something that he's he's embraced. Do we know if we
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  Speaker 1: heard the wrong story or if that was an accurate story,
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  Speaker 1: that then you know he changed his mind about.
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  Speaker 3: That was agent driven. So Ayton made that narrative and
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  Speaker 3: then everyone ran with it as far as quote the
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  Speaker 3: internet world, I mean, so that's what happened. So again,
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  Speaker 3: as always, she's got to go to sources yourself, and
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  Speaker 3: you talk to the players and people around that guy. Again,
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  Speaker 3: the agent's job, and that's the sole purpose, is to
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  Speaker 3: create a narrative for the best environment for his player.
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  Speaker 3: And also, if you're a free agent, the most money
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  Speaker 3: and the best fit, etc. However, Sean, it gets cloudy
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  Speaker 3: in the interpretation. And that's where it gets so interesting,
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  Speaker 3: is that what's your sixth sense about a player and
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  Speaker 3: what is true and what is not true? And most
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  Speaker 3: times you go by your instincts because anyone involved in
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  Speaker 3: basketball for a long long time, So someone like Danny Ainge,
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  Speaker 3: they're going by their instincts on a player. That's also
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  Speaker 3: what they see or I say all the time. All
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  Speaker 3: they know is what I see now, what I hear.
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  Speaker 1: Gordon Jesus is our guest here on the Sean O'Connell show,
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  Speaker 1: NBA Draft preview show tonight. NBA Draft Show tonight at
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  Speaker 1: the engine Room with Gordy, Smitty Spence, myself. Come down
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  Speaker 1: and see us drink specials, food specials, giveaways, and a
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  Speaker 1: celebration of the Utah Jazz picking at number two thirteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty eight South, three hundred West in Salt Lake City
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  Speaker 1: for the Engine Room. Gordy, obviously this draft is the
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  Speaker 1: biggest thing for the Utah Jazz, but there have been
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  Speaker 1: huge personnel moves made in the NBA just these last
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  Speaker 1: couple of days. Fray Young gets an extension done after
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  Speaker 1: he opted out as a free agent, he gets a
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  Speaker 1: deal done with Washington to remain there, as you told
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  Speaker 1: us was the most likely scenario. We'll start with that
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  Speaker 1: before we get to the big trade. Tray Young coming
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  Speaker 1: back to Washington, and obviously they hold the number one pick.
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  Speaker 1: I think they probably believe they were always going to
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  Speaker 1: have Trey when they were going through this draft process.
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  Speaker 1: But does this confirm whatever their plans were now that
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  Speaker 1: he's also under contract very much?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely. Trey Young is a point guard that can
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  Speaker 3: score the ball and he can pass the ball. Sometimes
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  Speaker 3: he's a little bit of a lightning run. I get it.
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  Speaker 3: So that's the risk factor. But they feel comfortable being
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  Speaker 3: around him when they traded for him at the trading deadline.
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  Speaker 3: So the Widgets make that move, and that tells all
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  Speaker 3: of us that at aj the bouncer who's a major talent,
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  Speaker 3: will have a past happy point guard to play with him.
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  Speaker 3: Also with Anthony Davis being there hopefully in play, and
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  Speaker 3: also with this young guy Colabali who's a young talent,
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  Speaker 3: and Alexander saw the Frenchman who's vastly underrated, who played
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  Speaker 3: very well on a very bad Wizards team last year. However,
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  Speaker 3: that's last year. So Trey Young being with signing that
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  Speaker 3: contract makes it the bouncer I believe in play for
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  Speaker 3: the Wizards.
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  Speaker 1: Now, let's talk about the massive trade. You and I
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  Speaker 1: have discussed the future of Giannis Anti Anti Compo for
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  Speaker 1: like two years now, and the Greek free it's finally
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  Speaker 1: been settled. He is headed to Miami. He's taken the
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  Speaker 1: talents to South Beach and in return, Milwaukee gets a
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  Speaker 1: pretty impressive haul. We have to see how it all
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  Speaker 1: plays out. But you know, you immediately start to analyze
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  Speaker 1: who won this trade. It's it's a bunch of draft picks,
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  Speaker 1: it's some quality players. And then of course in return,
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  Speaker 1: you get one of the best players in the NBA
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  Speaker 1: going to Miami to pair with bam Abadio and some
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  Speaker 1: of those guys who won.
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  Speaker 3: The Heat. Yeah, they Heat is the best player involved
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  Speaker 3: in Giannis will be highly motivated. Let's first break down
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  Speaker 3: the Heat is that for the four straight years, the
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  Speaker 3: Heat had been in a play in tournament four years
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  Speaker 3: in a row, and so they in their world remember
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  Speaker 3: their free time NBA titles also under pat Riley, and
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  Speaker 3: so they're saying philosophical and situationally that obviously we need
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  Speaker 3: they need more, and by getting Jannis and Bobby Porters
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  Speaker 3: they are they're having two players, especially Giannis, so now
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  Speaker 3: with the with the Mammy heat, they should start pas
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  Speaker 3: happy Davian Mitchell. Norman Powell was a free agent though,
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  Speaker 3: so there to re sign him and Hugh Wiggins, Giannis
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  Speaker 3: and bam Adebado who's an All Star, and Bobby Ports
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  Speaker 3: as a sixth man both as a power forward slash
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  Speaker 3: center and Pelo Lawson will be off the bench for
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  Speaker 3: them also plus other guys and so that team they
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  Speaker 3: think that will be much stronger in the Eastern Conference
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  Speaker 3: to go against the Nickelbockers and the Celts, etc. Now
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  Speaker 3: for Milwaukee new coach there is that they're saying indirectly
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  Speaker 3: that Giannis has one out is welcome here, and that
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  Speaker 3: Tyler Jenkins, who's not a new coach there, they're starting
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  Speaker 3: over and rebuilding the process. So they get Tyler Herro
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  Speaker 3: Colora Ware who's a very good player, Hey Matt hawkheaz
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  Speaker 3: who's an all around player, and plus the thirteenth pick
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  Speaker 3: of the draft, plus also two future first round picks
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  Speaker 3: in the twenty thirty one and twenty thirty three plus
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  Speaker 3: also second round picks. So they've got a major hall
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  Speaker 3: for Giannis and Bobby Porters, and they for them also.
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  Speaker 3: It's a good deal, but the better deal right now
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  Speaker 3: is more short term. It's Mammy heat, Gordy.
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  Speaker 1: How many great years does Giannis have left?
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  Speaker 3: Giannis has left right now. This is his thirteenth seaton
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  Speaker 3: disfinished in the NBA. So he turns thirty two on
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  Speaker 3: December sixteenth, so he's got three more great years in
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  Speaker 3: that athletic body. And remember now part of it, the
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  Speaker 3: reason why that the heat of saying philosophically that they
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  Speaker 3: can resign them. So next year on his contract weaned
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  Speaker 3: twenty six twenty seven showing in a fifty eight point
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  Speaker 3: four million, then he can op out, and twenty seven,
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  Speaker 3: twenty eight and six months from now he can. If
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  Speaker 3: he does op out, he can sign a massive contract
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  Speaker 3: for four years, total package twenty seventy five million dollars.
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  Speaker 3: And so that's so they're confident they can resign him
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  Speaker 3: and he has left in his body. I'm saying the
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  Speaker 3: high level, a nite level, three more years. Bobby Porters's
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  Speaker 3: contract is absolutely getting in a good way. It's team friendly.
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  Speaker 3: Bobby porters again off the bench, you know, bangor hustle player,
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  Speaker 3: timely shooter, got some toughness. His contract is actually really
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  Speaker 3: team friendly. He makes next year fourteen point five million,
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  Speaker 3: in the following year fifteen point five so it's literally
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  Speaker 3: under the mid level exception, which this year fifteen million dollars.
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  Speaker 3: And again, I know I'm getting geeking right now as
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  Speaker 3: far as these contracts, but it does matter. Again, these
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  Speaker 3: these numbers do matter to every organization, and that's why
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  Speaker 3: it's so important that you're going to pay somebody. He
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  Speaker 3: better be an elite player, or he better be a
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  Speaker 3: young guy, and his contract is team friendly.
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  Speaker 1: Now that you've got if you are the Milwaukee Bucks,
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  Speaker 1: you've got two first round picks this year. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about how deep this draft is. We've talked
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  Speaker 1: about the fact that especially you know, it's very very
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  Speaker 1: top heavy. But where their pick and the Heat's pick is,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got two in the first round, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: are they going to be able to add important pieces
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  Speaker 1: quickly based on even the early results of this deal?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, answer, yeah, this draft is very deep. And again,
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  Speaker 3: as always, every draft is good because it might take
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  Speaker 3: two or three years to play out. But these guys
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  Speaker 3: can play in the draft. And so I'll make a
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  Speaker 3: point about it as always is that Jellen Brunson was
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  Speaker 3: picked number thirty three in the draft in the second
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  Speaker 3: round is the MVP. And so there's to be so
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  Speaker 3: many in this draft that has that type of basketball game,
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  Speaker 3: endoor talent, end or body frame that will emerge future
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  Speaker 3: out and that makes the draft so intriguing. There's nothing
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  Speaker 3: like it. You know, where you project player's potential, but
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  Speaker 3: sometimes they underperform, and often they overperform. And Sewing tonight's
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  Speaker 3: draft Befootber, I know you'll not be together with the
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  Speaker 3: Smitty and with Spence. Is that tonight's draft. Rebert the
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  Speaker 3: Jazz draft at number two. As salary next season showing
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  Speaker 3: will be ten point three million dollars and in twenty
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  Speaker 3: seven to twenty eight, the second pick of the drafts
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  Speaker 3: will be ten point eight million dollars in salary. And
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  Speaker 3: so it just shows you that this is all part
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  Speaker 3: of the getting the numbers correctly as far as the
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  Speaker 3: cap numbers, and also the first apron and then worse
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  Speaker 3: than that, the second apriment as far as comunititip as
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  Speaker 3: far as tax dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Gordy. We've been spending the last couple of days kind
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  Speaker 1: of speculating on what the Jazz need to get whoever
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  Speaker 1: ends up being the player, and I think we're in
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  Speaker 1: agreement that it's going to be Darren Peterson, but could
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  Speaker 1: be Boozer, could be aj whatever, whoever they end up
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  Speaker 1: drafting tonight. What do you need to get out of
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  Speaker 1: that guy and how quickly do you need it? We
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  Speaker 1: were going through some of the accolades won by number two.
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  Speaker 1: Overall draft picks. Eleven have become Hall of famers, twenty
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  Speaker 1: two have ended up being All NBA or All ABA players,
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  Speaker 1: twenty six have been All Stars. You've got three MVPs,
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  Speaker 1: You've got four defensive players of a year, Twelve of
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  Speaker 1: them have gone on to be NBA champions. I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: at this draft and the importance of it for the
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  Speaker 1: Utah Jazz franchise after years of tanking and asking a
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  Speaker 1: fan base to hold tight with them, you have to
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  Speaker 1: hit on this. But what does this player have to
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  Speaker 1: achieve for us to then say yes, that was worth
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  Speaker 1: drafting Darren or aj or cam at number two in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six? Does he need to be an All Star?
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  Speaker 1: Does he need to end up being an NBA champion
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  Speaker 1: at the top end of this, are we going to
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  Speaker 1: have an unrealistic expectation that this kid has to be
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  Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer when we look back in ten years.
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  Speaker 1: What level of achievement is going to make us feel like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, justified the.
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  Speaker 3: Pick the year three to five years. Yeah, Maddie Scott's
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  Speaker 3: is so young, nineteen years old, so hopefully, but that
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  Speaker 3: guy who over the Jazz pick at age twenty two,
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  Speaker 3: he's an All Star his third to fifty year in
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  Speaker 3: the NBA, which is really realistic. And that this player
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  Speaker 3: along with Ace Valley and all the rest of other
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  Speaker 3: people that either we don't who they are or they're
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  Speaker 3: in their prime mening right now, Jaron Jackson, Larry Markin,
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  Speaker 3: et cetera, and those guys, and hopefully Walker Tesla that
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  Speaker 3: didn't get the Jazz back to the playoffs hopefully soon
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  Speaker 3: meaning if not next season, definitely the twenty seven to
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  Speaker 3: twenty eighth season. So the Jazz, this guy will. This
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  Speaker 3: guy will have major talent and he'll be a franchise
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  Speaker 3: type difference maker. And that's realistic because these kids have talent.
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  Speaker 3: But again, it's just so young. They're nineteen years old.
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  Speaker 3: Let's not forget about let's not forget about Victor rembiyond.
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  Speaker 3: But this guy, I know, he's getting paid a lot
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  Speaker 3: of money, and we preface saying that. However, also within
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  Speaker 3: that he's only twenty two years old, Victor Wenbiyamba, he
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  Speaker 3: has the weight of the shoulders all around him as
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  Speaker 3: far as on those narrow hips and stuff to try
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  Speaker 3: to lead the Spurs franchise. The Jazz player at number
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  Speaker 3: two will have the exact same eventually type of expectation
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  Speaker 3: level to lead the Jazz intoad to a deepened the
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  Speaker 3: player front eventually.
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  Speaker 1: Gordy, what's your list today?
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  Speaker 3: Okay? My list today is very similar to I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to break down the last ten of the NBA's second
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  Speaker 3: overall pick. Sometimes it's Sewan. You know the expression the
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  Speaker 3: good bed and the ugly, Well, this is part of
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  Speaker 3: it right now. Ten years ago, back in twenty sixteen,
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  Speaker 3: the second pick was Brandon Ingram by the Lakers, and
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  Speaker 3: now he plays for the Raptors. In twenty seventeen, the
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  Speaker 3: second pick that year was Lonzo Ball of the Lakers
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  Speaker 3: also drafted him, now plays for the cavalierswenty eighteen. The
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  Speaker 3: second pick of the draft was Marvin Bagley, drafted by
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  Speaker 3: the Kings, now plays for the Mavericks. Twenty nineteen, John
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  Speaker 3: Moran of the Grizzlies, twenty and twenty James Weissman of
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  Speaker 3: the Warriors, and shown that draft was so interesting because
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  Speaker 3: that's what we call the NBA bubble Draft. That was
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  Speaker 3: the November eighteenth, twenty twenty, that was during COVID nineteen
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  Speaker 3: and that wasn't even alive. That was in a video
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  Speaker 3: conferencing at the ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut. And the
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  Speaker 3: Warriors second pick with James Weissman number twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 3: Jellen Green of the Rockets now plays for the Suns.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty twenty two, Jackpot chet Honger in place for the
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  Speaker 3: Thunder twenty twenty three, Brandon Miller plays for the Hornets,
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty four, the Frenchman Alexander Saar who now plays
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  Speaker 3: for the Wizards, and last year with Jackpot, Dylan har
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  Speaker 3: Upper of the Spurs. Those guys who are all picked
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  Speaker 3: number two in the draft. In Jazz history, the last
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  Speaker 3: time the Jazz picked at number two as far as
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  Speaker 3: in the overall draft, that was in nineteen eighty the
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  Speaker 3: Jazz drafted Darryl Griffin doctor Donkenstein and he had eleven
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  Speaker 3: year career with the Jazz and he was voted the
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  Speaker 3: Rookie of the Year back in nineteen eighty one. And
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  Speaker 3: just two quick notes showing alluded to about the MVPs
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  Speaker 3: and stuff and also all Stars. Kevin Durant back in
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  Speaker 3: two thousand and seven was picked number two. Number one
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  Speaker 3: was picked that year was Greg Otum by the Portland
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  Speaker 3: Trailblazers and Kevin Durant is still playing his heading to
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  Speaker 3: the Hall of Fame. And another another quick side note back
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  Speaker 3: in two thousand and sixth year before the second pick
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  Speaker 3: of the draft is LaMarcus Aldridge who had a tremendous
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: career who was drafted and was traded to the Portland Trailblazers.
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  Speaker 3: The first pick shown was an Italian gang name Andre
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  Speaker 3: Barbignani and he had a very nominal career. So it
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: does happen this time, though tonight it will happen in
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  Speaker 3: a positive way. These kids who have picked the number
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  Speaker 3: two will have tremendous careers.
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  Speaker 1: Gordy very excited to hang out with you tonight at
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: the engine room and you and Smitty spencing me hanging
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  Speaker 1: out for the NBA Draft. Can't wait, man, Peter.
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  Speaker 3: Ca Andight, we're definitely excited about it and I'll kick
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  Speaker 3: the bouts Sean, you and I being together.
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  Speaker 1: That's Gordy Chieza, our resident NBA Guru, brought to you
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• 21:36
  Speaker 1: a lot more of Gordy this evening six to about
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: nine ish as we go through the first round.