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Shaq Defends Jimmy Butler After His Second Suspension | Inside the NBA · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: We've talked about Jimmy Butler's situation here at length on
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  Speaker 1: this show, but now the latest chapter is missing the
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  Speaker 1: flight and another suspension for Jimmy Butler's shock.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, there's a letter of the law and
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  Speaker 2: the spirit of the law. I'm not gonna disrespect Jimmy
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  Speaker 2: don't really know. Well, I'm not gonna disrespect him. I
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  Speaker 2: know there's some tension going on. It's unfortunate that we
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  Speaker 2: have to be involved in his attention, but both sides
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  Speaker 2: have said that they want to depart two weeks left.
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  Speaker 2: And don't know his reason for miss la Plaine. You know,
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  Speaker 2: some people call it unprofessional. I don't know his reasons,
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  Speaker 2: but so you know, the letter of the law states
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  Speaker 2: be professional and you know, do things that you're supposed
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  Speaker 2: to do so by the letter of the law. He
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  Speaker 2: disobeyed the letter of the law, which shows a little
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  Speaker 2: bit on professionalism. But I'm not going to take shots
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  Speaker 2: at Jimmy. This is what we call the basket, the
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  Speaker 2: business of basketball. Things like this do happen. Both teams
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  Speaker 2: have again said that we want to part way, so
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  Speaker 2: just gonna sit back and see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you guys too, what what affect
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  Speaker 1: this has on the rest of the team. Is it
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  Speaker 1: a distraction that kind of thing. And that's something that
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  Speaker 1: Eric Spolster was addressing earlier today. The point that I
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  Speaker 1: made to, you know, to our team is he used
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  Speaker 1: to get over This is the NBA life, this is
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  Speaker 1: the life we chose.
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  Speaker 3: If you think that it's just.
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  Speaker 1: Going to be tradictable, you're really mistaken.
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  Speaker 3: You can make any excuse you watching, but you get
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  Speaker 3: to do what we lost.
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  Speaker 2: We get to compete.
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  Speaker 4: Tonight and uh, you know best team tonight, Chuckster, Well,
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  Speaker 4: Jimmy is going up against pat Rally.
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  Speaker 2: He gonna lose. Pat Rally is.
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  Speaker 4: Arguably the greatest person in NBA history for is coaching,
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  Speaker 4: running teams and everything. Pet Rally is not gonna lose.
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  Speaker 4: Jimmy just wasting money. I mean, he's lost three million dollars.
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  Speaker 4: He's never gonna see that's a lot of money, no
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  Speaker 4: matter how much money, you got, three million dollars a
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  Speaker 4: lot and he's gonna get traded. But the Heat are
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  Speaker 4: not going to take fifty cents on the dollar. And
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  Speaker 4: if you get in a contest with pat Ryder, you're
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  Speaker 4: going to lose. Plain and simple.
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  Speaker 1: So there's no urgency I mean, yeah, for two weeks
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  Speaker 1: before the trade deadline, but there's no urgency in your
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  Speaker 1: mind to get something done, to get this just off
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  Speaker 1: their radar right now, not just to give him away,
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  Speaker 1: not to give him I'm not saying to give him away,
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  Speaker 1: but urgency to get a deal.
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  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure.
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  Speaker 2: They both want to get a deal done.
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  Speaker 4: I think the Miami Heat are going to be in
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  Speaker 4: a playing situation regardless if he plays or not. You
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  Speaker 4: look at the Philadelphia seventy six is at nineteen and
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  Speaker 4: twenty seven. I think it's going to be difficult for them.
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  Speaker 2: To catch up.
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  Speaker 4: However, you know, you know we said, is it it
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  Speaker 4: is unprofessional, Like there's when you miss things that you're
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  Speaker 4: supposed to be at and you get paid to be
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  Speaker 4: at that there's no other word for it. And he
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  Speaker 4: has been the consummate pro when you when you hear
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  Speaker 4: about guys, how his work ethic and things that he's
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  Speaker 4: done that people have been around him. So I'm disappointed
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  Speaker 4: in that regard. And if it's about a new contract
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  Speaker 4: and money, you're losing money now by not showing up
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  Speaker 4: the one you lose three million dollars, so that what
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  Speaker 4: you was getting on it on the back end. But
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  Speaker 4: you know, but I say that, I say, I also
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  Speaker 4: say I watched the game, uh, Portland versus Miami, and
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  Speaker 4: I was watching the game and I said to my
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  Speaker 4: friend and I said, man, they're playing hard, but they're
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  Speaker 4: not playing with enthusiasm. So it's gonna be tough to
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  Speaker 4: beat Portland tonight. They wind up losing that game. So,
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  Speaker 4: so how does that affect your locker room. It's different
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  Speaker 4: when you come in and you work hard, and it's
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  Speaker 4: different when you come in and you cheer for someone
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  Speaker 4: to play well. There's a different energy in your team
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  Speaker 4: and what has been sucked out of that environment? When
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  Speaker 4: you say when things like this happened, because I've been
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  Speaker 4: on teams and things like happen. Every every player comes
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  Speaker 4: to work hard, but every praise. The enthusiasm is what
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  Speaker 4: wins anything in life. You can't you can't be great
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  Speaker 4: without enthusiasm. That is gone right now.
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  Speaker 2: I just think in this situation, it's it's more about
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  Speaker 2: human nature. I know exactly how Jimmy feels. I've been
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  Speaker 2: in this situation many times. All that I've done for you,
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  Speaker 2: and you don't want to give me what I want.
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  Speaker 2: So human nature case.
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  Speaker 4: I gave you what you want because you signed a
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  Speaker 4: deal that goes on the next year.
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  Speaker 2: But hold on, hold on, I want an extension, and Charles,
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  Speaker 2: you want to That's what I said. So the part
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  Speaker 2: I hate about this business of basketball thing, it always
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  Speaker 2: has to be somebody fault. I think it's more human nature.
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  Speaker 2: All I've done for you guys, you don't want to
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  Speaker 2: give me extension. So now human nature kicks in. You
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  Speaker 2: don't want me. I don't want you, so I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like. You still have to be professional, yea,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, but I don't like. It's his fault and
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  Speaker 2: he's on professional. He's doing that human nature kid.
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  Speaker 4: He signed a deal first of all, hold on, go ahead, Kenny,
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  Speaker 4: go ahead. If you sign a deal that has an extension,
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  Speaker 4: want an extension. So you're saying you were not getting
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  Speaker 4: it's not saying that you want.
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  Speaker 2: You're not getting on like you're a human nature kicker.
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  Speaker 2: You don't want me. I don't want to do it
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  Speaker 2: this ship next year. You should just leave it at that.
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  Speaker 4: Not it's Jimmy's fault. But Pat Rodd ain't gonna just
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  Speaker 4: give him away. That's fine by Jimmy is a really
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  Speaker 4: good player. I'm saying people that don't understand that this
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  Speaker 4: is the differ, we understand it very well. Yeah, we understand.
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  Speaker 3: This is the public.
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  Speaker 4: They have paid Jimmy Butler, make Jimmy Butler make fifty
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  Speaker 4: million dollars a year more, so what he ain't getting more?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so guess what. You don't want me? I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to be here.
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  Speaker 3: But you can't just not show up the work.
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  Speaker 2: Why not?
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  Speaker 3: Because because you getting took the other two. You took
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  Speaker 3: the fifty for this year and next year.
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  Speaker 4: So you're saying you took those two, but you're not
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  Speaker 4: because you don't.
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  Speaker 2: Get two more. Doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 3: I don't. You could ask for a trade, but you
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  Speaker 3: gotta show the.
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  Speaker 2: Nature you don't want me. I don't want to be here.
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  Speaker 1: You don't feel a responsibility when you are under contract
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  Speaker 1: for this season to play this.
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  Speaker 3: And next year.
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  Speaker 2: I do, but but I'm not gonna go all out.
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  Speaker 2: I was ready to say I'm not gonna go out play,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm not gonna go out.
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  Speaker 3: You're like, you're not gonna play hard. No, listen, I
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  Speaker 3: didn't say.
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  Speaker 2: I said I'm not gonna go all out, especially if
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  Speaker 2: we're not going you don't feel no obligations could because
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  Speaker 2: you know I at thirty five, what if I Tearanny
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  Speaker 2: and get hurt.
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  Speaker 3: It's just gonna make you fifty million dollars. You got
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  Speaker 3: fifty million coming.
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  Speaker 2: Bro, I want more. Man, You keep talking about two years.
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  Speaker 2: What about year three, four, five, and.
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  Speaker 4: Six, because if you were that good at that time,
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  Speaker 4: your extinction would have been longer. No, you signed the
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  Speaker 4: deal that you thought was great at the time.
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  Speaker 2: He's old.
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  Speaker 4: Michael Jordan. Let me give you this, except Michael Jordan
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  Speaker 4: played for two point three million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: I understand like when he was in and then.
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  Speaker 3: Said I signed the contract and I'm going.
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  Speaker 2: To play period. That's what now.
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  Speaker 4: I could ask for more, and I can, and he
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  Speaker 4: never did, but you could, Jimmy could ask for more.
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  Speaker 4: But if Jordan has an obligation to Michael Jordan and
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  Speaker 4: not believing he has the obligation to she retired.
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  Speaker 2: Business of basketball. He came back to play for Washington.
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  Speaker 2: He did.
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  Speaker 1: But also the business of basketball.
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  Speaker 2: Go all out. Listen, go all out.
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  Speaker 3: You owe that. You owe that to your teammates, you
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  Speaker 3: owe that to the fans.
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  Speaker 2: What is you going to your son, you're on to
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  Speaker 2: your teammates.
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  Speaker 4: Boy, you can get mad at the Miami Heat organization,
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  Speaker 4: but the fans of Miami and those guys in that
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  Speaker 4: locker room, they ain't got nothing to do with You
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  Speaker 4: want a contract.
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  Speaker 2: Extension, okay? Or to your point, how come people don't
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  Speaker 2: play hard in the Also?
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  Speaker 3: How come I wish, I wish we all had an
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  Speaker 3: answer to that, But.
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  Speaker 2: They don't go.
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  Speaker 3: There's no consequences for losing at all star.
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  Speaker 2: They don't go.
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  Speaker 4: Consequences they're they're not on the contract at all. Reason
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  Speaker 4: they don't go all out as again because they don't
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  Speaker 4: want to get hurt. So again, if I'm not winning
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  Speaker 4: the championship at thirty five, right.
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  Speaker 3: He's making fifty million dollars a year.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to what I'm saying, it might be another team
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  Speaker 2: that gets him instances.
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  Speaker 4: Your question is why should say I'm young, I could
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  Speaker 4: get hurt. We're not in the playoffs. I should just
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  Speaker 4: chill out a little bit. Nice analogy, but it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: I'm young.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not getting hurt and messing up my years.
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  Speaker 4: You ack like Jimmy's playing for free bro y'all keep
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  Speaker 4: talking about one and two.
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  Speaker 2: What about three, four, five, six?
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  Speaker 4: That ain't Listen he's on the contract for two more years.
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  Speaker 4: But hold on, listen, listen you so you think the
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  Speaker 4: Warriors who made it, like, listen, Clay, we love you.
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  Speaker 3: You won four.
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  Speaker 4: We won you four championship, but you will pass your prime. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: we're not gonna give you. Imagine, not even to say
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  Speaker 4: because he was a free agent. No, but they offered
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  Speaker 4: him a deal. They want to not a free agent.
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  Speaker 4: I understand that, Kenny, but they don't want to pay
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  Speaker 4: him because he's older than in decline and.
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  Speaker 2: Human nature is kicking. Y'all don't want me. I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to be there.
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  Speaker 3: I just say that he should show up. He could
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  Speaker 3: ask for more.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, you show up and show up for your tea base.
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  Speaker 1: We're about to do our third lap saying the same thing,
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  Speaker 1: so let's take a break.