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Vince Carter & Tracy McGrady Reminisce on the Iconic 2000 Slam Dunk Contest · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: My guy. You realize we didn't know about it. It's
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  Speaker 1: been twenty five years.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty five years since you didn't since you forced me
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  Speaker 2: or I wouldn't say you since I asked you to
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  Speaker 2: join me in.
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  Speaker 1: But she was a He was real annoying with your ass.
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  Speaker 2: Though sometimes you got to be annoying to make history.
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  Speaker 1: We made it. This was just sky high.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you could tell how badly he wanted to
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  Speaker 3: win this competition.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody talks that he was doing was pretty pretty unbelieved.
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  Speaker 2: Something that I always, you know, missed something that I
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  Speaker 2: chose for the rest of my life.
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  Speaker 1: I had to give it to Vince. He lived up
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  Speaker 1: to that height.
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  Speaker 4: All start Saturday at the Arena, you know, show is
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  Speaker 4: back featuring the next generation stational field coming up, and
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  Speaker 4: they slammed those competitions.
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  Speaker 2: This is what everybody's been waiting for us to climbing
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  Speaker 2: something to night.
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  Speaker 5: Let's go.
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  Speaker 1: Out there.
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  Speaker 5: I've never seen that a fuck that perform.
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  Speaker 1: That's n Let's see who's going for place.
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  Speaker 2: You know what's crazy is those guys are great. Stack
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  Speaker 2: is great, you know, Ricky Davis, Steve Francis. Me personally,
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't even worried about them. I know what I'm
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  Speaker 2: about to witness, and I knew history is going to
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  Speaker 2: be made.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to go out there and put on the show.
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  Speaker 1: That's tarn half mad, halfa basics.
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  Speaker 2: Kobe's a competitor. We all know Coke was a competitor.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't get in it because of one person, and
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  Speaker 2: that was you.
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  Speaker 1: As he said to himself, yeah he already knew.
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  Speaker 2: It made me laugh. He's always up for a challenge.
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  Speaker 2: But he said, I'm not getting you to know you.
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  Speaker 1: Can't win something. Bro.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, man, you crazy, I ain't getting nervous.
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  Speaker 1: This is a day.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, look at it about check him out.
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  Speaker 2: Kobe got in a slam dunk contest his rookie year, right,
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  Speaker 2: and I watched that. I was a fan. I was
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  Speaker 2: inspired by that. Nineteen ninety seven. I was going to
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  Speaker 2: enter the slam dunk contest. That was something that I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to do as a rookie. We didn't have it
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  Speaker 2: right two years it went away because my year I
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  Speaker 2: come down to year you come in in ninety eight
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  Speaker 2: lockout right, there was a lockout year.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't have it.
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  Speaker 2: So we had a two year hiatus, but we didn't
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  Speaker 2: have a slam dunk contest, and because it wasn't no creativity,
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  Speaker 2: people didn't think it was really good. Two thousand, the
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  Speaker 2: magic was brought back in San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: Ride for the dunk contests.
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  Speaker 2: We were obviously supposed to get there early enough for practice.
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  Speaker 1: And it was raining and cold.
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  Speaker 2: So then we're going from San Francisco to Oakland in
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  Speaker 2: traffic all Star weekend, and I was like, shoot, we
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  Speaker 2: might not even.
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  Speaker 1: Get to do I get hurt.
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  Speaker 2: I just remember opening that curtain, seeing all.
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  Speaker 1: That people and that that that adrenaline meter. Shut up,
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  Speaker 1: shut oh look ready, what a wait over? I really
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  Speaker 1: like that. I like the elevation. I like the creativity.
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  Speaker 2: Seen you throw this dump down got me like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: here we go, Here we go, because it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's he came to play. That's kind of I think
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  Speaker 2: that's what set the tone.
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  Speaker 5: Here is Vince Corner with his first gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go building.
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  Speaker 2: Ex Once I took that last dribble, that last back
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  Speaker 2: of the ball, I was on ten thousand, Look at
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  Speaker 2: the ball.
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  Speaker 1: This is how much power he dumped you. Look at
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  Speaker 1: the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Great, the ball bounced higher than to go.
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  Speaker 1: That's how much force. You dumped that ball, Like, that's
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  Speaker 1: that's what did it for me?
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  Speaker 2: Like that reaction when you get that, bro, you know
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  Speaker 2: you did something spectacular.
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  Speaker 1: We look at that.
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  Speaker 2: Jerry Stackhouse because we knew he was next.
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  Speaker 1: I just say, good luck, bro, Just just she wasn't
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  Speaker 1: white shaver. He's headed at the rim. Look at that.
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  Speaker 3: That was going to be up on somebody's not enough.
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  Speaker 2: We knew he was in the Slam, going to be
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  Speaker 2: in the Slam n contest. We had no idea. We
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  Speaker 2: had to use a partner until we got to the arena, right,
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  Speaker 2: so they told us were late, right when we missed
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  Speaker 2: our practice. Oh you know, make sure you remember now.
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  Speaker 2: But you got to do a teammate Yeah, Like what
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  Speaker 2: what does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: Huh?
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  Speaker 2: Like we straight free spot this freestyle, all of this.
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  Speaker 3: Vince Carter gotting chiming down with free shimmigranty.
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  Speaker 1: Did?
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  Speaker 2: I asked him, like, yo, bro, what are you about
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  Speaker 2: to do? I just remember, tell you to bounce it,
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  Speaker 2: get the hell out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I did.
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen the judges come out of their seats.
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  Speaker 1: I can't listen. I'm in awe.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, yo, I cannot believe what you just did.
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  Speaker 5: It's old ladies.
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  Speaker 1: Gentlemen, and it's funny.
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  Speaker 2: Kenny Smith asked me a couple of months ago for
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  Speaker 2: the first time.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, did you hear me say it's over?
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  Speaker 2: He's like, it's over, as gentlemen, I'm doing at the
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  Speaker 2: same time, but I didn't hear.
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  Speaker 1: You right right.
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  Speaker 2: It was just yeah, moon and stars lining up at
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  Speaker 2: the right time, You're three dunks. Those three dunks were like,
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  Speaker 2: they're iconic. They're iconic dunks. And the pressure was, oh, hell,
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  Speaker 2: what to do?
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  Speaker 1: What we do next? All right?
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  Speaker 3: Bench Connor with us fush I'm fighting around out.
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  Speaker 5: There when he's doing this, and see that I got
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  Speaker 5: another fifth age.
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  Speaker 3: Let's trying to.
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  Speaker 1: Where this stuff came from.
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  Speaker 2: So it goes back to Gary Payton's Celebrity Game. I
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  Speaker 2: was jumping doing the lead line like we used to
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  Speaker 2: do in the lead line, jumping over the rims, dropping
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  Speaker 2: it in type thing, and Katina Moe was there, so
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  Speaker 2: I go over, remember when when I played in the
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  Speaker 2: game did the thing. He's like, yeah, yeah, I said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna try that, but hang up there, he said,
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  Speaker 2: what So I wanted people to see.
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  Speaker 1: Oh how high he is, and then you kind of
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  Speaker 1: go like what he do?
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  Speaker 2: The confusion on everybody's face and the silence. Now, hold up,
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  Speaker 2: he just do that.
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  Speaker 1: Right there. My eyes are closed and I'm just like.
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  Speaker 2: This zero reaction, and that's kind of what I was
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  Speaker 2: looking for. Whatever you try to accomplish on this dunk,
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  Speaker 2: you you freaking did it. It was like this man
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  Speaker 2: just disrespected this slam dunk contest.
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  Speaker 3: Vince Harter, what a sacular shows the champions.
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  Speaker 1: I've practiced so many times. Receiving that trophy from David
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  Speaker 1: Stern and the.
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  Speaker 2: Top it all off obviously, you know, Doctor J is
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  Speaker 2: my idol in for sure, and Doctor J literally was
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  Speaker 2: standing right there, so I'm like, you here, I'm here.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, hey, will you take a picture with
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  Speaker 2: the trophy? And he said yes, and it made for
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  Speaker 2: a pretty dope picture. Yeah, that was legendary. And we
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  Speaker 2: brought that back, you know after two years of how
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  Speaker 2: it is. Just think if we don't do it, it
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  Speaker 2: could have been golf forever.
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  Speaker 5: To get on my feet to borrow man, That's what
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  Speaker 5: I'm talking about the contest.
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  Speaker 2: After you know, we completed our slam dunk contests and
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  Speaker 2: the years going and to see the homage that is
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  Speaker 2: being paid or putting on our jersey. Oh man, that's
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  Speaker 2: like that's what we do it for, right, I mean
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  Speaker 2: to keep pushing it forward. The inspiration is, don't be
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  Speaker 2: afraid to fail, do it because you love it. I'm
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  Speaker 2: dunking in the dunk contest, a dream of mine with
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  Speaker 2: my Yeah, like just like cousin, Like this is my
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  Speaker 2: cousin out here in front of millions to watch us
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  Speaker 2: do our.
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  Speaker 1: Think like it's nothing greater, man, nothing greater. How do
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  Speaker 1: you think this perform great over history? With the Jordan's
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  Speaker 1: and the Dominique? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: You're talking about two great great Slam dunk champions there,
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  Speaker 2: And I'm just happy to win. And maybe one day
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  Speaker 2: I'll I'll look back at the taste and compare. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to compare all others compare