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  Speaker 1: Now. I was told when I was a kid that
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  Speaker 1: unicorns aren't real, So how could the Celtics trade a unicorn?
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  Speaker 1: That's what you can't do, that they don't exist. It's impossible,
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  Speaker 1: but apparently it's happened. Well. Come in the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: this hour is from the I'd say the calm before
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  Speaker 1: the storm. That would not be accurate. Way, that would
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  Speaker 1: not be accurate. That'd be an incorrect statement. Because the
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  Speaker 1: NBA Draft. This is our Wednesday show, still late Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: on the coast, but we're heading in to the day
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  Speaker 1: of the draft and not all was quiet in the
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  Speaker 1: land pro bouncy ball and oh boy, so exciting. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it is draft day and Wednesday night there in Brooklyn,
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  Speaker 1: just across the Brooklyn Bridge, down a couple of streets
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  Speaker 1: and then a couple more streets and then you turn
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  Speaker 1: right and then a left and boom, right there you're
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  Speaker 1: in this big place where they have the draft and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. So the Mavericks are on the clock,
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  Speaker 1: better known as the mav Rex, and they're going to
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  Speaker 1: draft Cooper flag and less and less. Their GM is
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  Speaker 1: told he has to trade that pick and then that
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  Speaker 1: would be a big short. But Cooper flag expected to
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  Speaker 1: be the number one overall pick. So it's a big
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  Speaker 1: week for the transaction wire for Reverence, though I said,
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  Speaker 1: not all quiet in the land. We had the dismantling
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  Speaker 1: of the once proud Boston Celtics continuing the super team.
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  Speaker 1: Remember when they won the championship a couple of years ago,
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  Speaker 1: It goes, oh, man, this team has set up for
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  Speaker 1: years to come. They are so explosive. They have an
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  Speaker 1: amazing amount of depth on this team. Well not anymore so.
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  Speaker 1: One day after they said bye bye to the holiday
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  Speaker 1: as they sent Drew Holliday to basketball purgatory with the Trailblazers.
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  Speaker 1: The deals that kept coming. The Green team, which is
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  Speaker 1: ironically making trades because of Green, because of Green, And
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  Speaker 1: if you have not been following along here, maybe not.
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  Speaker 1: We've learned that Chris stops porzingis affectionately known as the Unicorn,
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  Speaker 1: has been traded Bye bye, as he's going to the
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  Speaker 1: atl He'll enjoy magic City there in The Atlanta Hawks
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  Speaker 1: have acquired a unicorn, how magical, along with a second
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  Speaker 1: round pick part of a three team trade, not a
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  Speaker 1: mega trade, not a mega trade, but a three team trade.
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  Speaker 1: So it supports no. There will be a test on
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  Speaker 1: this coming up in a moment. So Porzingis has been
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  Speaker 1: straight to the Hawks along with a second round pick,
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  Speaker 1: and then Terrence Man. There goes that man, a former Clipper,
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  Speaker 1: Terrence Man. He goes from Atlanta and the number twenty
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  Speaker 1: two pick in the draft, which is tonight to the
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  Speaker 1: Nets for someone named Georges Niang who goes to Boston
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  Speaker 1: and a second round pick. That is what the Celtics
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  Speaker 1: got for Porzingis. So let us discuss the question who
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  Speaker 1: got the better of this three team Christops Porzingis trade.
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  Speaker 1: He's the headliner, so he's the one people know who
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  Speaker 1: he is, so will use him in the description. So
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  Speaker 1: who got the best or better if you will, of
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  Speaker 1: the three team Christaps Porzingis trade? My thoughts on this.
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  Speaker 1: I've got a pringles can, midway and dashboard, and we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we are
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  Speaker 1: going to make the Babaganoosh. We're gonna make the Boba noosh.
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  Speaker 1: Now A to answer the question, who got the better
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  Speaker 1: of this particular transaction? Is it a the Celtics b
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  Speaker 1: the Atlanta Hawks see the Nets one of those options.
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  Speaker 1: How about answer D none of the above. None of
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  Speaker 1: the above right now, if you had to force me
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  Speaker 1: gun to the head to pick a team, because why not,
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  Speaker 1: you're really gonna threaten someone's life over this trade. But
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  Speaker 1: if that's the case, man I trying to make sense
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  Speaker 1: of this, So porzingis he goes to Atlanta. This is
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  Speaker 1: not really a trade, because a trade you're doing quid
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  Speaker 1: pro quoa, right, you get something, you get something, you
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  Speaker 1: get something that's not it. This is more like a
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  Speaker 1: yard sale where you're giving away. You have this vintage
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  Speaker 1: leather recliner. The leathers kind of worn out a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: but it's like your favorite chair. You're giving it away
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  Speaker 1: and because your wife forced you to get rid of it,
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  Speaker 1: and you're getting in return a half eaten pringles can.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what you're getting. You're giving your favorite chair away,
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  Speaker 1: and that's it. It's slop for garbage. So slop for garbage.
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  Speaker 1: That's the trade. And on the mall of report card,
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  Speaker 1: the Atlanta Hawks get a CEA minus, a C minus
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  Speaker 1: for the Atlanta Hawks, the Nets get the D, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll give the Celtics a D. Alsa. I give the
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  Speaker 1: Celtics of d Alsa. So the Edges to Atlanta, but
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  Speaker 1: only because they got the one guy we've heard of
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  Speaker 1: in Porzingis in this trade. When he is upright, which
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  Speaker 1: is very rare. Porzingis is not upright very often. When
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  Speaker 1: he is upright, he's pretty good. He's pretty good player
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  Speaker 1: when he's upright for the thirty games a year that
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  Speaker 1: he plays and all that stuff. So you got that.
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  Speaker 1: And he can stretch the floorest what he did in
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  Speaker 1: Boston when he played when they won the championship, and
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  Speaker 1: you can protect the rim occasion when he decides to
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  Speaker 1: play some defense. And it was a good fit with
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  Speaker 1: Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown in Boston, allowed them to
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  Speaker 1: do their thing and did not impede what they were doing.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's the rough the Unicorn as he has known,
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  Speaker 1: the unicorn. The medical chart, if you look at it,
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  Speaker 1: it's literally longer than those CBS receipts, Like have you
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  Speaker 1: ever checked out back in the day and CBS they
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  Speaker 1: used to print out these massive, massive receaedts. Now on
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  Speaker 1: q on Que Porzingis. His final act as a Boston
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  Speaker 1: Celtic was this mysterious post viral syndrome, thinga ajig, the
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  Speaker 1: watch you McCall it. They didn't know what it was,
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. Was it long covid? Was it
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  Speaker 1: the creeping crud? Was it something else? Nobody seems to know.
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  Speaker 1: But he could play sometimes and they couldn't play other times.
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  Speaker 1: And remember one of those playoff games when he got
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  Speaker 1: all bloody I think it was against the Knicks and
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  Speaker 1: looked like a boxer that was a tomato can. And
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  Speaker 1: then he came back into the game and he had
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  Speaker 1: a big bandage on his forehead and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, that's Porziicas. He goes to Atlanta. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: other part of this, as we do our frame by
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  Speaker 1: frame breakdown on the Ben Maler Show, So how do
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  Speaker 1: you process the part of this that is really surprising.
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  Speaker 1: I shouldn't be surprised. It would have been surprising ten
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  Speaker 1: years ago, fifteen years ago, twenty years ago with misurpresient.
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  Speaker 1: But how do you process the Celtic supporters, the Marching
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  Speaker 1: and Chowter Society of the Boston Celtics, who seem to
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  Speaker 1: be celebrating the cap belief, the cap relief from the
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  Speaker 1: Porzingis trade. So this is one of those things. Why
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  Speaker 1: I don't get it. I didn't grow up in that
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  Speaker 1: era where you celebrate this. I don't understand that mindset.
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  Speaker 1: To me, that is ridoculous. Maybe you can explain it
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  Speaker 1: to me. I look at it like a trip to
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  Speaker 1: the Circus Circus Midway. It's a fun house of mirrors,
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. Right, you throw a parade and
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  Speaker 1: let me get us right, So you're happy. You're excited
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  Speaker 1: because your team, which you don't work for. You're just
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  Speaker 1: an outside observer. It's not like you're on the payroll
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  Speaker 1: and you get more money because the owner has more money.
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  Speaker 1: But you're happy because the Celtics ducked the second apron.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess like being at a kitchen and you
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of aprons and so they duck the
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  Speaker 1: second apron. So this is what the Boston fan base
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  Speaker 1: has become that they feel this is a giant win
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  Speaker 1: because their owner saves some money and I have no
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  Speaker 1: skin in the game. This makes me want to puke
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  Speaker 1: in my mouth, is what this is. I mean, will
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  Speaker 1: come on, you talk about some kind of warped distorted
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  Speaker 1: like that. That's your reality. I mean, that's your representation
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  Speaker 1: of reality. Like this is a great thing. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna pump your fist in the air everywhere because
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  Speaker 1: of luxury tax of wid like you got nothing in
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  Speaker 1: the trade. I mean, he's just present as you gave
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  Speaker 1: him away, so always hurt. That's fine, but you've got
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  Speaker 1: nothing for him. And he was when he played a
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  Speaker 1: pretty good player for you. And you're all horny because
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  Speaker 1: the Celtics. The the nerds cooked up the numbers here
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  Speaker 1: and they said, well, the payroll and tax for the
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  Speaker 1: new incoming Celtic ownership there, it's down from five hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twelve million to two hundred and seventy four million,
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  Speaker 1: and so they said that's a big thing. Now. That
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  Speaker 1: means the two trades, the holiday trade and the Unicorn trade,
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  Speaker 1: saved the Celtics about two hundred and thirty eight million
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  Speaker 1: the ownership of the Celtics two hundred ten million coming
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  Speaker 1: from purely tax penalties. So again, if you're the owner
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  Speaker 1: of the Celtics and you're excited, that's great. I get it.
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  Speaker 1: If you work for the team, hey, more money for
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  Speaker 1: the owner, maybe that money will come to me. If
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  Speaker 1: you're not an employee and you do I don't own
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  Speaker 1: the team, I don't understand the dynamic. I really I
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  Speaker 1: don't get it. Like, if your biggest offseason transaction is that, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we saved two hundred and ten million in tax penalty
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  Speaker 1: as a fan, like, how does that help you? I
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  Speaker 1: don't I really don't get it. Right, congratulations, way to go,
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  Speaker 1: we save some tax money. The team is plausibly worse,
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  Speaker 1: but you saved some tax money and a way to go.
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  Speaker 1: It's like you're sharing for a hedge fund, not so
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  Speaker 1: much a basketball team at that particular point. But what
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  Speaker 1: do I know? So the Celtics appear to be now
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  Speaker 1: that Tatum's hurt. They have the green life of Tatum.
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  Speaker 1: They would have done this likely even if Tatum hadn't
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  Speaker 1: gotten hurt, because they were gonna lose to the Necks anyway.
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  Speaker 1: However they did in this part of the multiverse, they did.
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  Speaker 1: So the Celtics are like empty nesters without Jason Tatum's injury,
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  Speaker 1: and so they have decided now they are going to
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  Speaker 1: downsize to a little casa, a little coss out in
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  Speaker 1: the in the woods. And that's what they're doing. They're downsizing,
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  Speaker 1: and the fans are applauding, or at least some of
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  Speaker 1: them are applauding this because the owners saved some dough.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, go, Wawie Cazawi here, what are you doing here?
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  Speaker 1: It's it's not basketball book keeping. It's like, is a
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  Speaker 1: team but no, team's not better, but we save some money. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: but is the team? Have you improved the team? No,
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  Speaker 1: we haven't improved. The team's not but we save some money. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Are they going to have a Bobblehead Night with a
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  Speaker 1: bag of money that bobbles and be like, hey, this
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  Speaker 1: is the money that we save. We would have had
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  Speaker 1: to pay the Twitter ten million. It's a special promotion
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  Speaker 1: for the Celtics' it's it's money bobble Night, tax Uncle Sam,
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  Speaker 1: Bobblehead or whatever. Anyway, all right now the last word
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  Speaker 1: to Dallas. We go. Now the mav Rex are on
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  Speaker 1: the clock. They have the top pick in the draft.
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  Speaker 1: The Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving declined his contract option. You
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  Speaker 1: see this turned down forty three million dollars, said x
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  Speaker 1: n A on the money A Instead he opted out
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  Speaker 1: and then said all right, psych, I'll stay. And so
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  Speaker 1: the Mavericks, because they don't know what they're doing, they
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  Speaker 1: gave Kyrie Irving a three year contract extension for one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and nineteen million dollars one hundred and nineteen million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: The deal includes a player option for twenty twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight, so a couple of years down the line. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Irving is what's known as d G damaged goods. He's
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  Speaker 1: damaged goods. He tore his ACL snap crackle pop back
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  Speaker 1: in March and so he's he's damaged. Does it surprise you?
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  Speaker 1: Here's the question. Does it surprise you that the mav
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  Speaker 1: Rex and the great Nico Harrison have forked over this
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  Speaker 1: kind of contract to Kyrie Irving. So I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: nod my head yes, realizing we're talking about Nico Harrison,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to nod my head. Yes. Dallas did not
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  Speaker 1: just double down. They didn't just double down on this.
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  Speaker 1: They tripled down and then they slipped a disc in
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  Speaker 1: their back while doing it with Kyrie Irv. It's the
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  Speaker 1: only way describe it here. Acls are supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: the flashing check engine light on the dashboard of the car.
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  Speaker 1: Right Like, if you take a car for a drive
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  Speaker 1: and the dashboard light comes on there's a problem with
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  Speaker 1: the engine. Do you still buy the car, right, that's aady.
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  Speaker 1: They knew there was a problem, and they said, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we want the car. We'll pay. In fact, we'll pay
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  Speaker 1: a damium price for the car. That's what we'll do.
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  Speaker 1: I know, the check engine light is flashing on the dashboard.
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  Speaker 1: Will we want the car? So we'll still pay for
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  Speaker 1: the car. So normally that doesn't happen. At least it
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  Speaker 1: used to not happen. I know it happens quite a
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  Speaker 1: bit now, especially in basketball. Guys are hurt. They still
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  Speaker 1: sign these massive, massive contracts. But the Mavericks that they
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  Speaker 1: see torn ligament in the knee and they're like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: how fast can we grab the check book? Here you go,
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  Speaker 1: blank check, knock yourself out. And so Kyrie's got the
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  Speaker 1: double whammy against him. Strike one is the shredded ligaments
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  Speaker 1: in the knees, so he's got that going for him.
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  Speaker 1: He's also thirty three, which in the real world is
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  Speaker 1: not old, but in the sporting world, your athletic prime
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  Speaker 1: ends at age thirty two. So using malormath, if you're
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  Speaker 1: thirty three, you're past your athletic prime. He's garontee to
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  Speaker 1: miss irving most of the almost all the first half
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  Speaker 1: of this upcoming season. Assuming there are no bugaboos with
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  Speaker 1: his comeback, he's going to be out until at least January.
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  Speaker 1: So forget about October, November, all those Monday in December,
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  Speaker 1: see you later out So he could come back sometime
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  Speaker 1: in January of twenty twenty six. His knees have over
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  Speaker 1: the years put up more dnps than conspiracy theories, which
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  Speaker 1: it was neck and neck. He's toned down. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: he's still into the wacky conspiracy theories, but he's not
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  Speaker 1: talking about them as much anymore. And so here we are.
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  Speaker 1: Here we are watching the Nico Harrison who somehow kept
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  Speaker 1: his job as the Maverick executive the Nico Harrison Experience,
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  Speaker 1: and he signs a deal with the Mavericks. Kyrie, he's
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  Speaker 1: like Nico Harrison's buying beachfront property in a resort in Hawaii.
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  Speaker 1: And really it's like a rundown shack. It's got some
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  Speaker 1: miles on It needs more than just paint, more than
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  Speaker 1: cose medic at this point. Now, when Kyrie has played,
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  Speaker 1: he plays often like it's poetry. It's a problem. Look,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't play very much. Another one of these guys,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of mileage, and the injury charts are rather
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  Speaker 1: large there for him as well, and so it ain't
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  Speaker 1: my problem. I'm not a Maverick guy. That's guys like
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  Speaker 1: Charlie in Dallas and those guys. That's their problem. Ain't
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  Speaker 1: my problem, all right? If you would like to be
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  Speaker 1: part of this the Talk Radio Hacked, the easiest time
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  Speaker 1: you about two fifty batting average right now. Later on
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  Speaker 1: we prove when the phones were down for an entire week,
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  Speaker 1: The porzingis trade Kyrie Irving getting the extension couple of
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  Speaker 1: the moves in pro bouncy balls. We work our way
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  Speaker 1: through the overnight and a ring ring text text, ring
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  Speaker 1: So who's the joker? Now, that's the question. Well, come
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  Speaker 1: begin in the Rocky Mountains. A stunner, not from down under,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: a stunner from up above the Mile High City. Now
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  Speaker 1: it involves a world where the Denver basketball team would
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  Speaker 1: be went out, their most valuable player up in thin air,
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  Speaker 1: just vanishing into thin air. So if you didn't see this,
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  Speaker 1: and perhaps not, the Denver Nuggets owner Josh Kronkie, who
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  Speaker 1: is the son of Stan Kronkie, who is the one
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  Speaker 1: that has the money. But Josh Kronky, unsolicited by the way,
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  Speaker 1: said there is a world. There is a world where
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  Speaker 1: they have they have no choice. They being the Nuggets,
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  Speaker 1: they have to get rid of the multi Platinum multi
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  Speaker 1: time MVP Nikola Jokic, the man that gave the Nuggets
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  Speaker 1: the championship couple years back, and he said, it's not
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  Speaker 1: as far off as you would think. Now, just to
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  Speaker 1: prove I'm not making this up, we have the audio
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  Speaker 1: tape here is Josh Kronky, again unsolicited. He just brought
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  Speaker 1: this up on his own. The idea that number fifteen
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  Speaker 1: Jokic would be relocated take a liss.
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  Speaker 4: I think that for us as an organization, going into
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  Speaker 4: that second apron is not necessarily something that we're scared of.
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  Speaker 4: I think that there are rules around it that we
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  Speaker 4: needed to be very careful of. With our injury history.
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  Speaker 4: The wrong person gets injured and very quickly you're into
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  Speaker 4: a scenario where that I never want to have to
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  Speaker 4: contemplate that to trade in number fifteen. You know, we're
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  Speaker 4: very conscious of that pushing forward and you know, providing
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  Speaker 4: the resources that we can when the moment arrives. But
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: that second apron is it a hard cap. I'm not
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: one hundred percent sure, but it's something that teams are
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: obviously very aware of going forward.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So that was Josh Cronky. You also spoke
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: about the possibility Yokich would get a contract extension and
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: said that, well, yeah, it's contests going to expire in
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight. That's three years down the line. And
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  Speaker 1: while he would love for Nicola to stay with the Nuggets,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: he did not make any promises that Jokic would stay
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  Speaker 1: with the Nuggets past twenty twenty eight. So let us
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: discuss the question. You are the insider Nuggets owner Josh
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  Speaker 1: Cronki got that Cronky money. Josh Kronky is out there
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  Speaker 1: un promoted by the media floating the idea of a
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  Speaker 1: scenario where they would have to trade Nikola Jokic because
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: of the second apron So how do you appraise this one?
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: So I've got Marvel Comics, protein shake, and down payment,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: we're going to make some delicious tiktos with cheese and
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: chicken and just just delicioustle sauce on the side. It's
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: the way to go. It's the way to go. So
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: my first thought on this is the butt. He said
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: the word, but everything before the word butt is a lie.
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  Speaker 1: So when he said we're very conscious of that, pushing
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  Speaker 1: forward and providing the resources. Josh Cronky said that when
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: that momon arrives talking about you know, the aprons and
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: all that stuff, that is the lie part. They're aware
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  Speaker 1: of it. They're scared to death. It sounds like they're
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: scared to death. It's basketball malpractice, is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: You can't do it. You get rid of everything, you
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  Speaker 1: trade Rocky the mascot if you have to. Okay, you
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: get rid of my you rent out the arena as
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: an airbnb, but you do not get rid of Nikovie ookicch.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Cannot do it. Cannot do it. Now. I understand this
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  Speaker 1: guy won the genetic lottery, is the heir to the throne,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the Kronky throne and all that stuff. But as we
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: often say, the sequel is not the equal. As a
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: talk show host, I love Josh Cronky because he does
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: not know what he's doing in terms of dealing with
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: the media, and in this one he's like a Marvel
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Comics care character, the face of the Nuggets ownership group,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Doctor Strange, the mystic manipulator of time. Josh Cronky again unprovoked.
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  Speaker 1: He was asked a question unprovoked, just casually drifting towards
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: the nuclear red button for the Denver basketball team of
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: trading away the joker right setting up the doomsday clock,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: if you will, for the Nuggets. And he has no
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: idea Kronky seemingly on how to talk to human beings,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: let alone the media. So it's a bit of a problem.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: There's no charisma, there's zero awareness and all that stuff,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: which it makes for good soundbites. So I should be
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: happy that he's like this, and we hope he doesn't change.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: But it's just another owner essentially crying poverty. And that's
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: a common theme among the big market teams. They haven't out.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: They're like, oh, well, we'd love to keep the player,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: but not our fault. The apron, damn apron. I've never
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: seen so many billionaires afraid of an apron. But here
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: we are, right here we are. But Nicola Jokic, I'm
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: pretty sure you don't need to have a baked sale.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Stan Krock, He's worth eighteen billion. He's worth eighteen billion dollars.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Nikole Jokic is the is the Nuggets universe. At this
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: particular point, you ride that horse till the horse needs
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: to go to the glue factory, and then yeah, you
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: get a different horse. But you don't trade planets. You're
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: not like, I'm gonna deal this planet because the telescope
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: cost too much, so I'd rather than pay for the telescope.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna trade trade the planet. Why would you
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: even entertain the thought and to just throw it out
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: there publicly, It's like, what's going on? Right? I understand
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I get to the old the CBA outrage, and this is
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: not right. It's it's hard to stack super teams and
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: all that stuff keep players around. But if you trade
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Nikola Jokic as the Denver nugg, you got to go
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: back a generation or two and you might as well
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: bring back nine. We'll do the naanee, bring Nane back,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: and and Raifel of friends. And I don't know where
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Danny Fortson is at this point. Maybe can track him
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: down and have him play. And Mike D'Antoni is still
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: hanging out somewhere, so why not now. Secondly, we have
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: an ownership change in Minnesota just days after the Lakers
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: were sold for ten billion dollars. The Minnesota basketball team,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: the Timberwolves, franchise that years ago flirted with contraction and
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: now they flirt with the conference finals every year. And
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: can't seem to get past that bump bumpity bump in
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: the road. But they have new owners. Now the NBA
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: has rubber stamp the one point five billion. What a deal?
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: One point five but no, what a Glenn Taylor was upset?
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: So the Lakers worth ten billion. The Timberwolves who play
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: the Lakers are a contemporary, are worth one point five billion?
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Who goofed? I've got to know the team sold from
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Glenn Taylor, who did nothing his owner for years and
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: years and years except to make money and put a
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: crappy team on the court. And Mark Lore and Alex Rodriguez.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I believe I'm saying that Laur's now, I don't know.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: I've never heard. It's some rich guy. So what do
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: you make the story? Here is a Rod? So what
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: do you make of a Rod as an owner? Any advice,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: any wisdom to share with the Minnesota long suffering Minnesota
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: fan covered in Juicy Lucy's any advice? What do you
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: make of a Rod as an owner? So you don't
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: have to worry about spending a lot of money, You
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: don't have to worry about a Rod doing whatever it
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: takes to put a winner on the court. That's not
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: going to happen a Rod. Even though he's got a
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: lot of money. He's got player money, which is not
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: owner money because he played got two big contracts playing baseball,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: so gave up a lot of money because he was
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: a steroid cheat and all this stuff. But a Rod,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure, from what I know of him, would
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: not pick up a dinner tab a Rod, unless unless
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: that dinner tab came with a tax ride off and
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: a protein shake tossed in on top. He might The
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: protein shake would be the thing that he needs with
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: his special proprietary blend, if you know what I mean.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, So fasten your seatbelts. It is going to
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: be a white knuckle roller coaster with a Rod. And
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I hope for my friends in the Twin Cities that
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: the NBA adds expansion teams asap, or you might want
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: to look behind your back here because you could be
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: stabbed in the back. Rodriguez. Now, a Rod's he says
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: all the right things. He says all the right things
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: a Rod. Most of these people do. Very rarely you
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: get a Josh Kronkey who's sounds like he's got his
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: foot in his mouth and all that stuff, But a
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Roddal He's said a lot of these things already. I
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: am committed to Minnesota. I love the fans. These are
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: the greatest fans in the world. Everyone quoting the late
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: great Tommy Lasorda, and what do you want to win
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: championships for these fans? All this so you say all
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: those things. Commitment, you say it, You're committed. I believe
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: in this team. That's why I bought this team and
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: all this stuff. It's easy to say when the deal's
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: done right away and the cameras are rolling and you're
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: getting some cloud on social media and all that stuff.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: But what happens, the real test, where the rubber meets
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: the road, is what happens when the honeymoon ends. And
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: let's say A Rod wants a new arena because you
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: can make more money and why not and they say
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: x nay on the arena A and he doesn't get
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: that money, and then he wants more TV money, but
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: they're capped out because of the Minnesota market. You can
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: only make so much money in that market. And then
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: you've got Anthony Edwards who's got the big money, but
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: he's gonna want more money, and then that's an issue
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: where you wanna pay him more money, do you end
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: up getting rid of him and all that stuff, and
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: so then the payroll balloons up like a turkey before Thanksgiving.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: And so again, the hope is that the NBA adds.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: And there's been some chatter that I've heard from people
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: who are associated with this that later this summer, once
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: everything calms down, there'll be an announcement that we're gonna
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: start reviewing expand we'll take bids and go through the
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: review process and all that stuff. And so at that
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: point that'll be great. That'll be good for Minnesota because
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: a Rod will be essentially stonelalled because the most likely
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: destination a Rod's gonna leave Minnesota, he's gonna go to
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Seattle or Vegas. Those are the obvious markets that are
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: this close to getting an NBA team, And so Seattle's
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: waiting around. Vegas is also a lurking out there in
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: the shadows, and so those are cities you get some
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: shinier toys, you get some you know, get some more
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: more money, deeper pockets. There's a lot of money in
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Vegas because of gambling. So I'm not being like paranoid guy.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: I'm not being the print. It's a paranoia here. I'm
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: just telling you that A Rod saying all the right
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: things and saying, oh no, I want to stay here
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: and all this stuff. No one buys a team and
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: then announced I really want to move the team in
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Vancouver when the years ago the Grizzly and we were
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: just in Vancouver and we met a bunch of guys
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: that grew up Vancouver Grizzlies fan and they never thought
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: the team would move to Memphis, Tennessee. But it happened right.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: And the Sonics they were owned by a guy that
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: was a Starbucks owner. They never thought he would sell
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: out to a oil baron from Oklahoma. And I mean
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: it's people say how still wear the gold and the
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: green of the Sonics and then but they moved. I mean,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: you love the nostalgia and all that, but you love
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: the money more and you buy the team for the
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: leverage and the leverages, you're going to move the team.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: And so now you have the team, and so now
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: you can negotiate with a bunch of hacked politicians. And
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: so that's where we are. It's not personal, it's business now. Again.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: I hope I'm wrong on this. A Rod keeps the
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: team in Minnesota if there's no expansion this year, and
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: a Rod you know who's he's got money, but he
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: doesn't have the kind of money that Mark Walter, who's
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: going to buy the Lakers have, or the new owners
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: of the Celtics. So it's a little different now final
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: fut to hockey, what kind of hockey kind of it's
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: more of like a party story than hockey story. So
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Matthew Kachuk says, the Florida Panthers, the team that just
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: won the Stanley Cup, they went out to a night
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: club in the Greater Miami area and they had a
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: banger of a knight. They had a night of nights
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: after they won the Stanley Cup, and the hockey players
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: ran up a five hundred thousand dollars bill one night
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: after they won the Stanley Cup and they didn't have
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: to pay it. So what are your thoughts on this?
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw the story or not.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: By the way, that is not a tab. A tab
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: is an expensive tab. Was a five hundred and seven
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars. That's an expensive tab at a restaurant, most
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: expensive meal I've ever been a part of. And this
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: was years ago, so with inflation, it's probably a lot
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: more than that. Most expensive meal was like seven hundred,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: like seven hundred and seventy dollars, I think, and it
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: was with work. We were on the road, and we
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: blew our travel budget in that meal. So the rest
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: of the time we were essentially eating doggie bags of
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: food because we burned through the budget. But anyway, back
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: to the story, Dan, so that's again not a tab
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: five hundred thousand dollars. That is like a down payment
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: on a yacht, okay, or you can buy a small
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: island in the Caribbean or something like that. But my
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: favorite part though, was the fact that it all got comped.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: And this is one of those things I'm not sure
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: why it happens, but it's happened as long as time
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: has been around. I remember years ago when I was
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: lucky enough to do stuff with the Doyers, and I
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: befriended some of the bullpen guys on the team, and
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: they would drag me along because they felt pity on me.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: So I would go out with them as a young
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: young guy, would go out to restaurants or bars on
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: the road, and I can't tell you how many times
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: these guys would have everything taken care of, like all
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: the drinks, all the food. They didn't have to pay
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: for it. It was wild. I was like, these guys
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: are all them like they have unbelievable amounts of money
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: back in those I'll tell you how long ago this was.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: In those days, to verify before the internet, to verify
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: who these guys were, they carried in their wallets their
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: baseball cards. They're like their tops baseball cards to show
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: they were actually who they were. And that was their
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: price to get into They got through the velvet ropes
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. But these these hockey players, everything come,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, and these guys walk in there, they rack
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: up the mother of all bills, and you know, you
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: could fund a community college with that amount of money.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: And they sashe their way out of the nightclub there
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: in Miami, and they do the old thanks for the
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: free drink wave will nod and they move on. And
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: you got Ka Chuck over there drinking Long Island iced
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: teas and a Dakerrie over there by the pool. And man,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: I go to a restaurant. I I try to use
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: a coupon at a restaurant, and I get people pushing back,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: why that coupon doesn't work anymore? You know, I want,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: like I get the five dollars off the garlic mash.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: No you can't. You don't get the five dollars off
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: the garlic mash because you know you're not I don't
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: know who you are. And uh yeah, so you get that.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: That's that's what that's what I get. Hockey player goes
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: in there half a million dollars, no problem. One night.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: What exactly were they drinking? I know alcohol is expensive,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Johnny Walker and all that stuff. Were they drinking liquid gold?
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: By the way, is it like some kind of from
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: the Middle East or something like liquid?
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: Like?
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Seriously? Were they just spraying bottles of don perion? Were
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: they spraying that like in like water guns like super
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: soakers spray. I mean, seriously, that is wild. Can I
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: have the menu? Yes, here's the menu. Can I get
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: three of everything? I'd like three of everything? Can I
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: get some doggy bags? I'd like those in a doggie
• 36:35
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• 36:40
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• 37:18
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• 37:24
  Speaker 1: that his difficulties in negotiating with Lamar Jackson during the
• 37:30
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• 37:35
  Speaker 1: the difficulties in negotiating with Lamar Jackson were exasperated because
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• 37:46
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  Speaker 1: How about that?
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  Speaker 2: To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets krailled.
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  Speaker 1: Get roddy. We being roddy, all right? Jumping right.
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  Speaker 5: In NBA draft prospect Ace Bailey has garnered a lot
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  Speaker 5: of attention for canceling his visit with the seventy six
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  Speaker 5: ers last week. He's still the only American prospect not
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  Speaker 5: to meet with a single team. Uh, Ben, Do you
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  Speaker 5: see this as a sound strategy for the eighteen year
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  Speaker 5: old No?
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  Speaker 1: I see this as him getting bad advice. Now, he
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  Speaker 1: does apparently want to play, he has a team he
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  Speaker 1: wants to play for. But this is you gotta play
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  Speaker 1: the game, right. You gotta play the game the way
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  Speaker 1: it works in the NBA. There's a certain decorum that
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  Speaker 1: you're supposed to have. And I don't think Ace Bailey
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  Speaker 1: is God's gift of basketball. You could be the one
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  Speaker 1: that breaks the mold. So it doesn't seem like it
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  Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense to me. Now we'll find out.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if he gets drafted by a really good
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  Speaker 1: team that he wants to play for, then that's fine,
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  Speaker 1: but it's draft manipulation.
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  Speaker 5: Next, another NBA draft prospect, Noah Asenge, who currently plays
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  Speaker 5: over in Germany. He's drawing some criticism this week because
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  Speaker 5: he's leaving his team in the middle of the German
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  Speaker 5: League finals.
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  Speaker 1: In end, the draft in person can't leave the German
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  Speaker 1: League finals.
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  Speaker 5: So, Ben, do you think it's okay for him to
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  Speaker 5: leave his teammates out to dry if it's for such
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  Speaker 5: an important personal moment.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's it's for the endorsements, right, You will either
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  Speaker 1: draft some emotional moment. There no Schnitzel for him though.
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  Speaker 1: When he goes back to that German German League. I
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  Speaker 1: don't have a brother. I'm not as high on the
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  Speaker 1: draft as that used to be. I'll watch the first
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  Speaker 1: five or six seven picks of the draft and then
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  Speaker 1: I'm out. If he's drafted in that time, I watch
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. But that's a big night. I
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  Speaker 1: get you. Know, you want to play in the n
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  Speaker 1: BEHAVIOR basketball player, that's the top league in the world.
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  Speaker 1: You make the most money, So I get it. I
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  Speaker 1: understand why he would want to be there. But if
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  Speaker 1: you have all their business, you gotta you gotta finish
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  Speaker 1: what you start. And if you agreed to play for
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  Speaker 1: the German team, you gotta you gotta finish it next,
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  Speaker 1: all right, Shams Sharania, I've heard of him. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: The Four Letter Network, he reported that the Heat were
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  Speaker 5: in the mix for Kevin Durant but couldn't get a
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  Speaker 5: deal done as they were unwilling to part with certain
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  Speaker 5: young players like Jaimei Hawkes, Nicola Jovich, Haywood, high Smith,
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  Speaker 5: kelll Ware and the number number twenty pick in the draft. So, Ben,
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  Speaker 5: do you agree with Miami valuing those young guys more
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  Speaker 5: than an established This is what pat Riley did.
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  Speaker 1: He and he spun this sort. Kevin Durant didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to for somebody, din't want to play with the heat.
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  Speaker 1: If he wanted to play with the heat, Riley would
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  Speaker 1: have traded everyone to get him. It's bull crap. I
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  Speaker 1: don't believe the spin from Miami. How did we do
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  Speaker 1: we