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Charles Barkley Reacts to the Luka Doncic-Anthony Davis Trade | NBA GameTime · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: You start with Charles Berkley, who joins us.
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  Speaker 2: I want to see if he's gonna guarantee? Man, who's
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  Speaker 2: damn what you have?
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  Speaker 3: Surgery? Greg?
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  Speaker 4: Leave me alone?
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  Speaker 3: Man, Blake is what other? What's up?
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  Speaker 4: Jelle?
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  Speaker 3: I'm good Man.
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  Speaker 5: Hey Greg, I'm gonna disagree with you a little bit
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  Speaker 5: on the Kareem thing because you can't name me the
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  Speaker 5: guys Kareem got traded.
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  Speaker 3: For Brian Winners. That's that's not the same. No, No,
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  Speaker 3: you're right, you're right, it's it's not.
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  Speaker 5: But I think, I think, I think the most shocking
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  Speaker 5: thing about this trade is a couple of things. Number One,
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  Speaker 5: you never trade stars for stars. I'm trying to remember.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I've been in the NBA for forty years. Normally,
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  Speaker 5: when you trade a star, you get a bunch of
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  Speaker 5: junk back.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: This is the first time I can remember when you
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  Speaker 5: got two old NBA players traded for each other. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: obviously I don't remember every trade, but I'm trying to think, Uh,
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  Speaker 5: you guys got a great staffed at behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 5: I don't remember the last time we traded an all
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  Speaker 5: Probably never when you traded an all NBA player for
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  Speaker 5: an All NBA player, So that's probably. And the second
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  Speaker 5: thing is normally when stars get traded, you hear a
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  Speaker 5: lot of rumblings and you just put them up for
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  Speaker 5: the highest bidder. So I think those are the two
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  Speaker 5: first aspects of this trade that are shocking a star
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  Speaker 5: for star and normally, like they didn't go for the
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  Speaker 5: highest bidder, they went for a quick deal and it
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  Speaker 5: was over.
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  Speaker 1: Would you have taken a different approach there? Would you
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  Speaker 1: have gone to other teams to at least see what's
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  Speaker 1: out there, and then if Anthony Davis is the best deal,
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  Speaker 1: the best player you can get, that package was the best,
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  Speaker 1: you go with it, but at least go see what's
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  Speaker 1: out there.
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  Speaker 5: Well, in fairness, they got a hell of a players
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  Speaker 5: Aman Davis, the All NBA player. Like that kind of
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  Speaker 5: goes back to what I said earlier, like if they
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  Speaker 5: take another deal, they might get a bunch of draft
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  Speaker 5: picks and a couple of role players.
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  Speaker 4: They got an all NBA player back, so they unless you.
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  Speaker 5: Get Joker Johannis, I'm trying to think you can NBA
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  Speaker 5: MB be the only other guy.
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  Speaker 3: But you're not taking.
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  Speaker 5: In beany No, you're not taking in b with his
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  Speaker 5: injury history, so they got a really good deal. Now, listen,
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  Speaker 5: the MAVs obviously had to make a decision this summer
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  Speaker 5: whether to give him five years, three hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 5: million dollars.
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  Speaker 3: That's a lot of money.
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  Speaker 5: To give a guy you don't think and stay in shape,
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  Speaker 5: who's always going to be hurt. And let me tell
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  Speaker 5: you something. The only people know Luka Dunjik is to
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  Speaker 5: Dallas Mavericks, guys who've been with him for years, who
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  Speaker 5: are around him every day. He's a great player. He's
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  Speaker 5: a great player. But all us talking heads, they know something.
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  Speaker 5: They must know something we don't know because listen, he's
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  Speaker 5: been hurt. Everybody complains about his conditioning. But once you
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  Speaker 5: give a guy five years, three hundred and fifty million dollars,
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  Speaker 5: y'all are stuck together for life.
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  Speaker 3: So this is going to be.
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  Speaker 5: A great trade to see what happens the next x
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  Speaker 5: amount of years. I think the Mavericks are win because listen,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know who the second best team in the
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  Speaker 5: West is. The Oklahoma City Thunder are terrific, but I
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  Speaker 5: actually think, in my opinion, the MAVs are in that
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  Speaker 5: conversation at the second best team there right now. So
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  Speaker 5: but and the Lakers got what they wanted. They got
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  Speaker 5: a superstar going forward. I do think this kind of
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  Speaker 5: custer into like the Lebron James making all the decisions.
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  Speaker 5: They're like, hey, we love you, Lebron, but we're going
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  Speaker 5: to start what's doing best for the Lakers. That's what
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  Speaker 5: I got out of this trade from a Lakers standpoint, because.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if they didn't come tell Lebron because
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  Speaker 5: number one Clutch Sports is Athonty's agent. But it seems
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  Speaker 5: like to me they're like, hey, you know what, Lebron's
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  Speaker 5: on his last legs. Let's start getting us a start
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  Speaker 5: for the future. And it's gonna be fun to talk
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  Speaker 5: about this trade. Step back and watch who wins the trade.
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  Speaker 5: I think both teams have to win a championship to
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  Speaker 5: say they won the trade. Both teams have to win that.
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  Speaker 5: The only way you can win this trade if you
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  Speaker 5: win the championship. Like I saw Niko say, they probably
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  Speaker 5: got a three to five year window because Kyrie's great,
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  Speaker 5: athlete's great and they got a really good team down there.
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  Speaker 5: The only downside with Luca being twenty five, they probably
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  Speaker 5: got a ten year window. But whoever wins the champions
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  Speaker 5: is going to be the winner. This trade, plain and simple.
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  Speaker 2: Chuck, you hit it on the head, and that's what
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  Speaker 2: you're saying is kind of where I am like. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's a really good trade for both teams for
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  Speaker 2: different reasons, because I think in Dallas's case, Dallas's win
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  Speaker 2: now mode, and you heard Nico talk about he fits
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  Speaker 2: their timeline, him and Kyrie in essence the same age.
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  Speaker 2: They got a really good roster and the one issue
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  Speaker 2: Anthony Davis has always had is I want to play
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  Speaker 2: my natural position before well, they got a two headed
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  Speaker 2: monster at the center position with Lively and Gafford. I
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  Speaker 2: feel like to your point, I feel like they are
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  Speaker 2: if they stay healthy, they are built to be that
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  Speaker 2: team in the Western Conference. OKC has been amazing, but
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  Speaker 2: they match up, They're gonna be hard for people to
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  Speaker 2: score on because they got They don't just have great bigs,
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  Speaker 2: they got great bigs that can play at all three levels.
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  Speaker 2: When you talk about a young Lively, Anthony Davis, as
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  Speaker 2: great as he is defensively, he's also really good offensively.
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  Speaker 2: He's a guy that can get you thirty at night
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  Speaker 2: in a matchup nightmare. And for the Lakers with Luca,
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  Speaker 2: they've now got a new face of the franchise. That
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  Speaker 2: guy is box office and I think he's I guarantee
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  Speaker 2: you and Chuck, you can speak to this. It probably
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  Speaker 2: humbled him a little bit to be traded like that
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  Speaker 2: because he thought he had the key to that franchise,
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  Speaker 2: which he did, but there were definitely rumblings that they
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  Speaker 2: weren't thrilled with his approach to the professionalism of taking
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  Speaker 2: care of his body and investing in himself in a
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  Speaker 2: way where they felt comfortable. Because you know this, Chuck,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't have a problem paying him the money. If
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  Speaker 2: Luca hadn't shown them that maybe he wasn't as committed
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  Speaker 2: to his body. I don't think we'd ever be in
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  Speaker 2: this situation. But for that is why this deal ultimately happens.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Luca has to do a better job with his body.
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  Speaker 5: Greg Let's let's get that out the way and listen,
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  Speaker 5: everybody's talking about it. So clearly he's got to do
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  Speaker 5: a better job of taking care of his body.
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  Speaker 3: But hey, listen, they had to make a decision.
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  Speaker 5: Do we give this guy three hundred and fifty million
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  Speaker 5: dollars and we stuck waiting for the rest of his career.
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  Speaker 5: Number one, they probably was the shock. It's wait, wait
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  Speaker 5: a minute, it's still a shock. To his sister, it
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  Speaker 5: ain't like he like, when my phone started going crazy
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  Speaker 5: last night, I actually thought somebody like you thought it
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  Speaker 5: was door dash, You thought it was door dash.
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  Speaker 4: Well you know what I thought that.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you know how these fake things come out
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  Speaker 5: when somebody died Internet idiots, Well they said somebody died
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  Speaker 5: and they did die. Like this can't be true because
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  Speaker 5: I was actually watching the Lakers and I get this
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  Speaker 5: thing on my phone. I'm like, well, this is somebody
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  Speaker 5: playing a joke. Then I go to ESPN and they
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  Speaker 5: got college basketball on and nothing's happened.
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  Speaker 4: Then I go to ESPN too, see my girl Shake Cordinet,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm.
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  Speaker 5: Like, they're not even talking about it, and I'm flicking
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  Speaker 5: back and forth. I had ten people texting me like dude,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know anything. I'm just sitting here watching just
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  Speaker 5: like everybody else. Then I go back to Shake Cordinet
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  Speaker 5: and she said, we have breaking news, and I'm like, damn,
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  Speaker 5: this it was a shock. I mean, I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 5: I've been in here for forty years, Greg, I've never
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  Speaker 5: been more shocked because there was no grumblings. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: everybody's been talking about Jimmy Butler and Darren Fox for
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  Speaker 5: the last few days, and then you get.
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  Speaker 4: Too all NBA players.
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  Speaker 5: That's the thing, Like, I was a great player and
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  Speaker 5: that was all over the internet one so.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so older. You have internet.
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  Speaker 4: It was all over the newspapers for two years.
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  Speaker 5: Nobody ever thought that Anthony Davis and especially Luka Nanchik,
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  Speaker 5: especially the way Ad has been playing. He's been all
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  Speaker 5: NBA and Luca, you know, he's been the face of
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  Speaker 5: that franchise from day one. Man, I don't think I've
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  Speaker 5: ever been more shocked. But hey, listen, I'm gonna say
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  Speaker 5: this for the last time. Nobody knows Luca Doncik better
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  Speaker 5: than the Dallas Mavericks. And let me tell you something else, Greg,
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  Speaker 5: this thing is not going to be smooth in LA
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  Speaker 5: with him and Lebron because both of them want the
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  Speaker 5: ball one hundred percent of the time. I think that's
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  Speaker 5: gonna be I don't know if because you know, Luca
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  Speaker 5: does not move with doctor ball, len Lebron does not
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  Speaker 5: move with doctor ball. There's gonna be some serious growing
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  Speaker 5: pains when those two try to play together. Now, they're
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  Speaker 5: both great players, don't get me wrong, but Lebron wants
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  Speaker 5: the ball and Luca definitely wants the ball. So it's
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  Speaker 5: gonna be very interesting how that work out and when
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  Speaker 5: after the Davids is healthy, it's gonna be a seamless
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  Speaker 5: transition to Dallas, plain and simple, because you know he talks.
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  Speaker 5: He complains all the time about the five. I don't
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  Speaker 5: even understand why he complains about the five unless you're
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  Speaker 5: playing against Juco or mb Do we have any more
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  Speaker 5: big guys in the league.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good question. I think you're I think he's
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  Speaker 2: your spot on with that. I will say the other
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  Speaker 2: aspect of it, though, if you're the Lakers and if
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  Speaker 2: Lebron's a part of the near future, they can't win
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  Speaker 2: enough possessions with that roster, And to me, that's what
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna come down to. Like, Luca and Lebron could
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  Speaker 2: get thirty each, but they can't compete.
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  Speaker 3: On the backboard. They Greg Greg and they both can
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  Speaker 3: give up thirty.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, and they ain't got no back line help.
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  Speaker 2: They don't have Well, I will say they got Finney
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  Speaker 2: Smith and Vanderbilt. That does help, but they still are
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  Speaker 2: going to struggle to control that backboard. That that's where
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  Speaker 2: as that roster is now. So I also don't don't
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  Speaker 2: you get a sense, Chuck, that they're gonna probably the
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  Speaker 2: Lakers have to do something else if they're trying to
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  Speaker 2: win now, well.
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  Speaker 5: They gave away their best player. They don't have anybody
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  Speaker 5: else to give away.
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  Speaker 3: Wait a minute, are those shades? Are your glasses? Turn
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  Speaker 3: and come back my glass clog?
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  Speaker 5: Hey listen, hey kids at home, don't let people in
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  Speaker 5: froun of you.
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  Speaker 3: Don't they caught the four eyes. Don't worry about it.
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  Speaker 5: Most important things to be able to see. So I
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  Speaker 5: can see Greg, I can see you know Greg?
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  Speaker 4: You bet Greg?
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  Speaker 5: Me and you you know you're I think I'm a
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  Speaker 5: little older you. You've been around? Have you ever been
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  Speaker 5: more shocked?
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  Speaker 3: No? Like like me either? No? No.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's the And this is where you
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  Speaker 2: got to give Nico and the Mavericks a lot of
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  Speaker 2: credit because nobody saw this coming. Nobody. There is no
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  Speaker 2: scenario where anybody can honestly tell you they thought that
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  Speaker 2: this was a possibility. And I think that's why they
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  Speaker 2: were able to pull it. Off and it's probably why.
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  Speaker 2: And you made a great point earlier. They're like they
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  Speaker 2: weren't trying to rebuild. Normally, when you trade that superstar
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  Speaker 2: the team that's trade them, they're rebuilding. They said, no,
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  Speaker 2: we get we wanted Davis because he fits our timeline.
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  Speaker 3: We feel like we can win now.
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  Speaker 2: And I think a lot of it is because as
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  Speaker 2: great as OKC is, they haven't.
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  Speaker 3: Proven it in the postseason yet.
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  Speaker 2: And it gives those other teams more confidence when you
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  Speaker 2: get to the postseason because they're gonna be so reliant
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  Speaker 2: on young players. I think SGA is the MVP this year.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we still got a little ways to go,
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  Speaker 2: but he's gonna get my voted if this continues. But
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  Speaker 2: and they've got a lot of great young talent, but
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  Speaker 2: you notice chuck when you're getting the postseason. Coaching matters
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  Speaker 2: a lot and your ability to make adjustments. And one
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  Speaker 2: thing that Dallas has now with ad on that front line,
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  Speaker 2: they can play any style offensively and defensively. Like that's
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  Speaker 2: the thing that sometimes gets lost. People are discounting how
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  Speaker 2: great a player Anthony Davis is. That's all I've been
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  Speaker 2: hearing is all the Lakers they got fleeced. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: are y'all smoking crack? I mean, Anthony Davis is one
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  Speaker 2: of the three best bigs in the league, and I
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  Speaker 2: would say, based on what we see from embiid, he's
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  Speaker 2: one of the two best. And he's a guy that
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  Speaker 2: you can run your offense through as well well.
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  Speaker 5: And I listen, let me tell you something, and a
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  Speaker 5: pissed off Anthony Davis is probably even more dangers than
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  Speaker 5: who he is right now, because you know you talked
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  Speaker 5: earlier about Luca being shocked, a DS in shock too.
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  Speaker 5: He's playing, he's probably playing the best he's ever played.
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  Speaker 5: And to get that call in the middle of the
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  Speaker 5: night or late night that you've been traded like he had,
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  Speaker 5: Like I say, man, this, I think both guys that
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  Speaker 5: both guys gotta be in shocked. To be honest with you,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, but Luca is obviously in serious shock. But
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  Speaker 5: AD's got to be shocked also. But Ed, Greg, I
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  Speaker 5: agree with you, man, Okac, they're my favorite to win
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  Speaker 5: this team. But man, the Dallas Mavericks, they might have
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  Speaker 5: just became the second best team in the Western Conference because.
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  Speaker 3: The jury is still out.
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  Speaker 5: I think Denver needs to make a trade because they
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  Speaker 5: need to get some bench help.
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  Speaker 3: The Rockets are so young.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not gonna take the Rockets beating the MAVs in
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  Speaker 5: a seven game series. The Memphis Grizzlies, I like their team, Man, Dallas,
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  Speaker 5: this this is gonna be a very fun thing to watch. Now,
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  Speaker 5: what gets interesting? It's a Dearren Fox and the Jimmy
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  Speaker 5: Butler thing because that's everything got ramped up. It's gonna
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  Speaker 5: be a fun next three days. Buddy, I cannot because
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  Speaker 5: now you're like, if you're my Phoenix Sons.
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to think who else is Somethingnnesota?
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  Speaker 5: You got the Minnesota, you got the brandom England situation
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  Speaker 5: down in New Orleans. You're like, somebody gotta do something
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  Speaker 5: because the mav jumped to the front of the line.
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  Speaker 5: So you so now I think it's gonna be crazy
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  Speaker 5: the next three days because Thursday is the deadline obviously.
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  Speaker 5: But if you like, you're like, wow, the MAVs went
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  Speaker 5: from mediocre to really good in one night.
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  Speaker 3: What can the Suns do? What can Minnesota do? What
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  Speaker 3: kind of Lakers do?
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  Speaker 4: The Lakers got to do something else?
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  Speaker 1: In my opinion, Chuck, before we let you go, I
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  Speaker 1: got to ask you this, you know, after you got
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  Speaker 1: traded to the Suns, like you're talking about, you won
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  Speaker 1: the MVP the next year, right, you talk about Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Davis being pissed off forecasting Luka Doncic over the next
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  Speaker 1: maybe season and a half, are we going to see
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  Speaker 1: the best potential version that we've ever seen a Luka
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  Speaker 1: doncis because he's got to be pissed, like you said too.
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  Speaker 5: Well, first of all, he should be pissed because they
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  Speaker 5: called him fat. They called him fat and lazy.
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  Speaker 2: Why you get when people tell you the truth though
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  Speaker 2: they do say the truth hurts.
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  Speaker 3: I take that back.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I told this story.
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  Speaker 5: I wasn't getting to play my first year in the NBA,
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  Speaker 5: and Moses Malone pulled me aside. He told me I
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  Speaker 5: was fat and lazy, and I I cried, Greg, I
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  Speaker 5: ain't gonna even lie. I cried, but I was fat
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  Speaker 5: and lazy, and Moses took me on this wing and
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  Speaker 5: I lost fifty pounds and became a Hall of Basketball player.
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  Speaker 5: Nobody has been capable of telling Luca that that he
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  Speaker 5: was he needed to get in better shape. We've talked
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  Speaker 5: about this. Ain't like something new. We've been talking about
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  Speaker 5: it for two or three years. He needs to get
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  Speaker 5: in better shape, and the math made a decision, we're
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  Speaker 5: not gonna give you three hundred and fifty million dollars
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  Speaker 5: because if you're not in shape now, you ain't gonna
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  Speaker 5: be in shape and you get older. So they made
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  Speaker 5: that decision. They know him, Ben, we do it's easy.
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  Speaker 5: He's a great player. I think we all agree, but no, Bill,
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  Speaker 5: he has to get in better shape. But it's gonna
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  Speaker 5: be very interesting because I personally, I don't know if
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  Speaker 5: him and Lebron can play together. They're two, they're so
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  Speaker 5: bald dominant, they're both so ball dominant. Lebron is probably
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  Speaker 5: the best power power forward guard combination effort held in
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  Speaker 5: the ball, and Luca has to have the ball. I
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  Speaker 5: don't think Luca's ever ran to play with he didn't
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  Speaker 5: have the ball. So it's gonna be smooth selling for
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  Speaker 5: Anthony Davis when he gets healthy because he's that great.
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  Speaker 5: But man, it's gonna be a big adjudgment for Luca
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  Speaker 5: and Lebron playing together. So I think it's gonna be
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  Speaker 5: a long term play for the Lakers. A long term
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  Speaker 5: play