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Hour 1 - Golden Gone · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 2: eat too much pod. So here in hour number one,
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Speaker 2: it is all about pro bouncy ball and turn out
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Speaker 2: the lot the parties over in Golden State. Did the
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Speaker 2: Warriors ever have a real shot without Steph Curry or
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Speaker 2: was this series over before it started?
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Speaker 1: The momont Curry had the hammy go whammy?
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Speaker 2: Was Steve Kerr the Warriors coach out coached by Chris.
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Speaker 1: Finch of Minnesota?
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Speaker 2: And is this the official end for Golden State as
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Speaker 2: a contender or do they have one last run left
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Speaker 2: in them?
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Speaker 1: We'll take a look at that. And is Anthony Edwards
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Speaker 1: playoff success.
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Speaker 2: With the shutting up his doubters on this postseason journey
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Speaker 2: We'll go there. In addition all that, and who knows
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Speaker 2: game that ended not that long before we cracked the
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Speaker 2: microphones here within the last couple hours in downtown Minneapolis,
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Speaker 2: right next to the Sid Hartman Statue in the Twin Cities.
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Speaker 2: There close out game Aunt Edwards and the Timwolves Game
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Speaker 2: five there against Jimmy Butler and the Warriors Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: The set up up three to one.
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Speaker 2: They rolled into the target center and Steph Curry did
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Speaker 2: not roll out on the court. He couldn't play, too
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Speaker 2: fragile to play, and he was on the sidelines again
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Speaker 2: and Boston earlier on the NBA card they won. We'll
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Speaker 2: talk more about that game later. So they stayed alive.
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Speaker 2: They'll Bigis stand alive, and so Golden State had their
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Speaker 2: chance to stay alive. And you're watching the game. You
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Speaker 2: know what happened, but perhaps you did not watch the game.
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Speaker 2: Julius Randall for years of playoff third, but not on
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Speaker 2: this night. Julius Randall twenty nine points. He took eighteen shots,
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Speaker 2: He made thirteen of the eighteen. That seems pretty good.
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Speaker 2: I didn't play in the NBA, but I think that's
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Speaker 2: pretty good. So Randall had twenty nine points on thirteen
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Speaker 2: of eighteen shooting. Anthony Edwards added twenty two points in
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Speaker 2: twelve assists, and the himber Wolves led by as many
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Speaker 2: as twenty five points, and they found their way into
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Speaker 2: the next level of the NBA postseason one twenty one
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Speaker 2: to one ten the final as they get to win
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Speaker 2: over the Warriors, so Minnesota wins the series four games
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Speaker 2: to won. The Wolves have now advanced the Western Conference
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Speaker 2: Finals again, where they will play either the Thunder or
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Speaker 2: the Nuggets, and the winner of that will go on
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Speaker 2: to the NBA Finals. Minnesota could have as many as
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Speaker 2: five days off. O MG, they'll be so rusty.
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Speaker 1: Five days off.
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Speaker 2: That's if the Nuggets beat the Thunder in the Mile
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Speaker 2: High City coming up on Thursday night, and that would
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Speaker 2: force a game seven.
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Speaker 1: And that's her. So more on all that.
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Speaker 2: We have plenty of time to talk about all that
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Speaker 2: later on. The better story, though, is in the eliminated
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Speaker 2: locker room, now the losers' locker room, the eliminated elimination.
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Speaker 1: That's what happened to the team from Northern California.
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Speaker 2: So let us discuss the question did the Warriors ever
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Speaker 2: have a real shot without Steph Curry or was this
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Speaker 2: series over before it started once Curry his hammy went whammy.
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Speaker 2: So I've got looney Tunes, Jacuzzi and biblical and we
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Speaker 2: will combine all of these things together, and we are
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Speaker 2: going to make the baba Ganoche is what We're gonna
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Speaker 2: make the babaosh all right. So my first thought on this,
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Speaker 2: the Warriors were clearly on life support. They had aspirations
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Speaker 2: of championships and all these wonderful things. But the Maul
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Speaker 2: McCurry went down and they won that game. Buddy Hill
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Speaker 2: game won, Buddy, He'll play well. Golden State wins with
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Speaker 2: Steph Curry playing limited time because.
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Speaker 1: He got hurt.
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Speaker 2: I think he played thirteen minutes in that game, and
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Speaker 2: that was it. And as Steph Curry goes, it turns out,
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Speaker 2: so go the Warriors. The Jenga tower. When you take
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Speaker 2: Curry out of the wobbly Jenga Tower, it comes tumbling down, down, down,
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Speaker 2: And so as was the case here, Golden State ends
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Speaker 2: up their playoff er on booby trapped or in this case,
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Speaker 2: Hammi trapped by Steph Curry who was sitting on the
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Speaker 2: bench getting hemorrhoids. As Golden State floundered, there was a
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Speaker 2: comical report we'll get to later, which I just have
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Speaker 2: to bring this up at some point during the show
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Speaker 2: about Curry and how he was trying to come back well.
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Speaker 2: I explained more on that later in the show. But
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Speaker 2: the Warriors were a beautiful sand castle when they got
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Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler on a sunshiny day, weather's nice, getting better
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Speaker 2: summertimes around the corner, and just beautiful sand castle. And
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Speaker 2: then Steph Curry when he went Rice Crispy snapcrackle pop
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Speaker 2: goes to Hammy. They were the sand castle at high tide.
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Speaker 2: They were the sand castle at high tide? And was
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Speaker 2: Steve Kerr out coached in this particular series? Was he
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Speaker 2: out coaching well, Chris Finch, the other coach for the Warriors.
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Speaker 2: We're not sure if out coached is the right word
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Speaker 2: to describe Steve Kerr.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that he did anything. I don't know
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Speaker 1: that you can be out coach if you don't do anything.
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Speaker 2: When Steph Curry left because of injury, Steve Kerr and
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Speaker 2: Golden State had a chance.
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Speaker 1: They were suddenly dead and barry.
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Speaker 2: They were a cow stuck in a hole on the
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Speaker 2: side of the road, and this was an opportunity for
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Speaker 2: them to overachieve. And for all the criticism, why anybody
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Speaker 2: could have coached the Golden State Warriors back when they
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Speaker 2: had the Splash Brothers and they had durant, they were
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Speaker 2: winning championships. Well, here's an opportunity for Steve Kerr and
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Speaker 2: a team to overachieve. Right, kerk could go out there,
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Speaker 2: coach him up, scheme him up, outperform. You're suddenly very
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Speaker 2: low expectations. Did any of that happen? Did any of
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Speaker 2: that happen?
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Speaker 5: Uh?
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Speaker 2: I mean, well, anyway, here is Steve Kerr commenting on
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Speaker 2: the big story of Golden State season. They were not
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Speaker 2: playing that great, and then they made the trade. They
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Speaker 2: got Jimmy Butler, who did not want to go to
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Speaker 2: the Warriors. He initially did not want to play for
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Speaker 2: the Warriors, and then he they paid him some more money,
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Speaker 2: so he said, okay, you should you paid me.
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Speaker 1: I'll go.
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Speaker 2: Here's Steve Kerr waxing loquacious about Jimmy Butler.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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Speaker 6: I love our guys, Like I said, we we this
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Speaker 6: was a hell of a run for us. We considering
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Speaker 6: where we were at the trade deadline, you know, Jimmy
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Speaker 6: changed our season, flipped everything for us, gave us a chance.
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Speaker 6: We became one of the best teams in the league.
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Speaker 6: And obviously, you know, you get to the final eight
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Speaker 6: in the NBA. You're one of the best teams, and
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Speaker 6: we had had a shot, but you know, things didn't
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Speaker 6: go our way. But like I said, Minnesota deserves the credit.
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Speaker 1: They were the better team. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Well wait a minute, because I was told when I mentioned,
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Speaker 2: like in years past, when the Clippers have gotten to
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Speaker 2: the Elite eight or the Final.
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Speaker 1: Four, nobody says that. Nobody says that's impressive. Well here's
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Speaker 1: Steve Kerr saying that's impressive. So all you.
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Speaker 2: Haters know what's happy about making you, lady. Steve Kerr
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Speaker 2: just said, and you're one of the better teams in
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Speaker 2: the NBA when.
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Speaker 1: You get to the Elite eight. He just said it.
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Speaker 2: But as far as Jimmy Butler's concerned, to me, that's
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Speaker 2: more disappointing than Steve Kerr. Like, that's that's a guy
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Speaker 2: we support. We don't like many people on this show.
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Speaker 2: There's many many people that we take shots at on
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Speaker 2: a regular basis, But one of the players we like
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Speaker 2: watching is Jimmy Butler, and he went looney Tunes right
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Speaker 2: from playoff. Jimmy, here's another guy. Opportunity knock knock at
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Speaker 2: the front door. Opportunity. Steph Curry's out. You figure at
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Speaker 2: some point he's gonna come back. He just got to
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Speaker 2: carry the load for three, you know, three or four
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Speaker 2: games without Curry, and that's Jimmy Butler who's done it
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Speaker 2: with other teams. Playoff Jimmy went to He had a metamorphosis.
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Speaker 2: He went from playoff Jimmy to Pepe lpew pu.
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Speaker 1: What stinks.
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Speaker 2: The baton was passed from Curry to Butler, said hey,
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Speaker 2: I need to pick me up here, and Jimmy Butler
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Speaker 2: took the baton and he fumbled it right into the sewer.
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Speaker 1: He was sleepwalking.
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Speaker 2: There were points in these last couple of games. I
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Speaker 2: think he was playing in a medically induced coma. I'm
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Speaker 2: waiting for the almost guaranteed report this happens only well,
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Speaker 2: he was playing with some kind of.
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Speaker 1: Injury and he didn't disclose it. You know, that story
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Speaker 1: always comes out after the fact.
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Speaker 2: But as a result, the Warriors did something they have
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Speaker 2: never done in the postseason going back over fifty years.
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Speaker 2: The Warriors had not lost four straight playoff games in
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Speaker 2: a single postseason since nineteen seventy two. Holy crap, right now,
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Speaker 2: Page two? Is this the official end game for Golden State?
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Speaker 2: As a contender, a feeble exit from the postseason against
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Speaker 2: the Minnesota basketball team. Is this the official end for
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Speaker 2: Golden State there? Or do they have one last run,
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Speaker 2: one last dance left in them. So as you know,
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Speaker 2: not only do I moonlight as a gas bag, blow
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Speaker 2: hard and know it all here at Fox Sports Radio,
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Speaker 2: I am also a Malar meteorologist. I can forecast what's
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Speaker 2: ahead for all of these teams. I know you're waiting
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Speaker 2: with bated breath. So the Malard meteorologists forecast for the
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Speaker 2: next year.
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Speaker 1: Or two for the Warriors.
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Speaker 2: Golden State is now entering the twilight zone. Fasten your seatbelts.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be a bumpy ride. It's going to
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Speaker 2: be a bumpy ride. You got Steph Curry, who's what
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Speaker 2: he thirty seven, Draymond Green thirty five in the twilight
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Speaker 2: zone of their careers, Curries Hammy is already Whammy. So
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Speaker 2: he's got the older you get, he's got the issues, the.
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Speaker 1: Cloud hanging over him.
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Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler thirty five, also has dealt with various injuries,
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Speaker 2: and he missed about twenty five percent of the games
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Speaker 2: during his time with the Miami Heat, some of that
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Speaker 2: because he was at loggerheads with pat Riley.
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Speaker 1: But that's that's an issue. So you've got.
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Speaker 2: Major durability concerns Golden State. What they need to do
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Speaker 2: is swing another trade with the Sunshine State and they
12:36
Speaker 2: need to pick up a jacuzzi, but a Ponce de
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Speaker 2: Leone jacuzzie. That's what they need to get, a Ponce
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Speaker 2: dely oone jacuzzi because Pastellion.
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Speaker 1: He has that mythical spring.
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Speaker 2: I think it's in Sant Augustine, Florida, and it will
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Speaker 2: restore youth to anyone who drinks or bays in the
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Speaker 2: water there.
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Speaker 1: So that's what they have to get. So as long
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Speaker 1: as they have that, they're fine.
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Speaker 2: How many young players have passed through Golden State that
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Speaker 2: were supposed to be that next wave that turned out
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Speaker 2: to be turns one after another, whether the team didn't
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Speaker 2: trust them or they just didn't live up to the
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Speaker 2: lofty expectations, but it's been a constant stream for that
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Speaker 2: particular team. Now, last word, we go to the winning
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Speaker 2: locker room, the winners. So back to the Final four.
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Speaker 2: The swing in effect for the Minnesota basketball team as
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Speaker 2: they are just four wins away from getting the finals.
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Speaker 2: So the question on this is Anthony Edwards' playoff run
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Speaker 2: with the Timberwolves. Is his playoff run shutting up the doubters?
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Speaker 2: A classic sports debate, who's nothing? The daughters could say,
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Speaker 2: they'll be come out okay. So the resume is looking good,
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Speaker 2: depending on whether or not you put it under the microscope,
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Speaker 2: because Anthony Edwards now has playoffs series wins against Kevin Durant,
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Speaker 2: Lebron James, Steph Curry, and Nicola Jokic, all of that,
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Speaker 2: all of that before he even turns twenty four.
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Speaker 1: So that's pretty good.
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Speaker 5: Now.
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Speaker 1: Lebron washed up an.
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Speaker 2: Old we can all agree on that, ran out of
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Speaker 2: gas in the playoffs, Steph Curry got hurt?
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Speaker 1: Does that really count? Who knows? And the Jokic one?
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Speaker 2: Sure, Durant, Okay, if you want to give up credit
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Speaker 2: for that, that's fine. So in terms of the question,
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Speaker 2: is Anthea aras plaoffer on, you know, shutting up to dat?
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna shake my head.
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Speaker 2: No, I'm shaking my head. No you can't see me,
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Speaker 2: you don't.
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Speaker 1: Look at me.
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Speaker 2: I'm shaking my head. On this has been a roller
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Speaker 2: coaster up and down and loopy loop. The Timberwolves have
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Speaker 2: been the beneficiaries of what we would call biblical kindness.
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Speaker 2: In this playoff run, it's the classic biblical story Moses
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Speaker 2: parting the red sea. Minnesota has beaten the forty year
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Speaker 2: old Lebron who ran out of gas. If you don't
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Speaker 2: believe me, look at his fourth quarter numbers, the out
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Speaker 2: of shape hook Luca and slaying the always overrated Lakers
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Speaker 2: who hired a podcaster as.
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Speaker 1: Their coach, and he coached like a podcaster. It was
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Speaker 1: so good to see lovel On a hot take is validated.
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Speaker 2: I love a good hot take validation, and podcaster JJ
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Speaker 2: Reddick validated the hot take.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for that. JJ.
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Speaker 2: All right, so that when okay, you beat old Lebron
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Speaker 2: and out of shape.
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Speaker 1: Luca, Lakers aren't very good. We all know that.
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Speaker 2: And now you put under the Mallord microscope you take
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Speaker 2: out the Warriors, a team that was neutered. They had
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Speaker 2: their balls chopped off when Steph Curry left with a
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Speaker 2: hammy injury. So you're not getting a lot of style
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Speaker 2: points under the microscope. Now, wide angle lens, it looks
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Speaker 2: pretty good for the low information fan. The casual fan
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Speaker 2: will say that's very impressive. But under the microscope again,
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Speaker 2: not that much.
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Speaker 1: And so there you go.
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Speaker 2: And that being said, in the modern NBA, we've seen
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Speaker 2: this a lot with like Indiana has made back to
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Speaker 2: back conference finals and they have been.
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Speaker 1: The beneficiary as well of pop goes.
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Speaker 2: The Achilles over there for Dame Lizard for example, or
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Speaker 2: some of the injuries that have taken place with Cleveland
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Speaker 2: had a bunch of guys out.
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Speaker 1: Although I don't think they would have won anyway, but
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Speaker 1: that's fine.
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Speaker 2: So in the modern NBA, this is how you get
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Speaker 2: it done. You can talk about getting all these.
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Speaker 1: Great players and having amazing talent, but really what you
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Speaker 1: need is a good voodoo doll. That's the secret.
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Speaker 2: If you have a good voodoo doll, that is the
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Speaker 2: great equalizer. Every NBA postseason is a war of attrition.
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Speaker 2: It's always been. But the players are softer.
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Speaker 1: Now than they've ever been.
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Speaker 2: They have the greatest medical they have all the top
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Speaker 2: minds in sports medicine, all the IVY League geniuses or
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Speaker 2: babying and coddling the players, and it doesn't matter right,
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Speaker 2: they have it all figured out. Right, they've all the
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Speaker 2: medical figured out. When you're gonna get hurt, you have
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Speaker 2: to rest this amount of time to avoid getting hurt.
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Speaker 1: And they still go out and get hurt all the time.
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Speaker 2: Right, So whatever team gets injured the least will go
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Speaker 2: the furthest in the postseason. Now, in terms of what
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Speaker 2: this all means, it's a mixed bag for the Wolves
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Speaker 2: because they are very reliant on Anthony Edwards and Julius
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Speaker 2: Randall and they have to score score score score score
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Speaker 2: score score score score. And it's obviously a soft underbelly
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Speaker 2: for Minnesota because if either one has an off performance,
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Speaker 2: if they underperform.
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Speaker 1: Then that's an issue. The three point shooting is not good.
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Speaker 2: The defense appears to be the meat and potatoes for
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Speaker 2: the Timberwolves, and they make a lot of unforced errors,
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Speaker 2: as they say in tennis, which becomes problematic if you
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Speaker 2: play a team that can take advantage of that, which
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Speaker 2: would be more Oklahoma, say, if you played Denver's a
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Speaker 2: that's a much better opportunity for Minnesota than OKC. But
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Speaker 2: we shall see.
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Speaker 2: X at Ben Mahler that's at Ben Malorer. As Minnesota
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Speaker 2: has punched their ticket on to the next level in
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Speaker 2: the NBA playoffs. Wall We'll get to the East later
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Speaker 2: on to a full Mallar monologue. Oops a daisy, what
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Speaker 1: Jason in Kansas City. I met Jason at the Mallard
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Speaker 2: Landing in Liberty, Missouri last November, before that wild Bronco
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Speaker 2: ten on the Mallard monologue, bend the Woles, predictability, predictably,
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Speaker 2: beat up, beat up the hapless Warriors. Side note, what
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Speaker 2: the hell have the Warriors been drafting the last ten years?
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Speaker 2: Jason in Cansa City, the fun Fact. I have a
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Speaker 1: From the Golden Fun Fact.
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Speaker 2: So the young player, the one young player who will
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Speaker 2: likely go somewhere else. I guess his contracts up, so
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Speaker 2: he'll probably leave the Warriors, whether it's a sign in
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Speaker 2: played in seven playoff games where he had twenty or
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Speaker 2: more minutes this postseason. The Golden State Warriors record when
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Speaker 2: Jonathan Kaminga plays twenty or more minutes in the postseason
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Speaker 2: is zero to seven. Now, I didn't coach the NBA.
23:25
Speaker 2: I'm not an executive. I just do an overnight show.
23:28
Speaker 2: But that does not seem seem particularly good. And he's
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Speaker 2: one of those guys that has the reputation early in
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Speaker 2: his career where he is a stat bandito, a stat
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Speaker 2: patter and that's it.
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Speaker 1: He's just a guy.
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Speaker 2: But you can get you some good empty numbers, and
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Speaker 2: the Warriors have had a few of those guys run
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Speaker 2: in small Mallard monologue sized doses, though they're bite sized doses.
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Speaker 2: Sheena des moines a plus on the NBA coverage. The
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Speaker 2: King Rory writes in from northern Wisconsin, says, I thought
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Speaker 2: you were going to start the night off with Vegas
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Speaker 2: in Vegas, since your Oilers eliminated the Golden Knights in
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Speaker 2: a thrilling, overtime one nothing game and advanced to the
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Speaker 2: Western Conference Finals. Besides, I completely forgot the NBA was
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Speaker 2: still playing. I thought they crowned a champion back in December.
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Speaker 2: Yeah they did.
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Speaker 1: They did, absolutely do that.
24:43
Speaker 2: Let's see hear sir Scratchoff, who used to be a
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Speaker 2: caller retired as a caller. He says, why don't you
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Speaker 2: talk about the Clippers. Your Lakers suck? Well, not my Lakers,
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Speaker 2: my Clippers. I know you're probably drinking some whisky or whatever.
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Speaker 2: They're The Lakers do suck, but they're not my Lakers.
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Speaker 1: I'm a Clipper guy. Absolutely, uh, your suck, Aileen.
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Speaker 2: Says, sad San Francisco is now pushing the w NBA.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I tuned that out, Eileen. I don't you know
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Speaker 1: it's not.
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Speaker 2: I do broadcasting, not narrow casting, so there's no need
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Speaker 2: for me to worry about that. James says, Jimmy Butler
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Speaker 2: has that deep butt bruise, dumbass. Yeah, okay, Well he's
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Speaker 2: out there playing, and if he's out there playing, he's
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Speaker 2: fair to be judged.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
25:33
Speaker 2: And he's out there playing, and he played like he
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Speaker 2: should not have been out there. Maybe should have been
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Speaker 2: sitting on the bench sucking a lolly or something like that.
25:42
Speaker 2: Chip and the Cues rights in and says a plus
25:45
Speaker 2: on the Mala malologue. The NBA lottery might be fixed,
25:48
Speaker 2: but maybe not the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: They're not.
25:51
Speaker 2: After all, the league probably wanted the Warriors versus the Celtics,
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Speaker 2: and it looks like it's going to be Nicks versus
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Speaker 2: the tim Purwolves.
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Speaker 1: Well, that would not be a rouble series. Nicks Timberwolves
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Speaker 1: in the finals. That's got a little juice to it.
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Speaker 1: That's got a little juice because.
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Speaker 7: You got the whole that you get the Carl Anthony Towns,
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Speaker 7: longtime Timberwolf who was traded for all those random players
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Speaker 7: from the Knickerbockers.
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Speaker 2: And Joyous Randall going against the Knicks's former team and
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Speaker 2: that that whole thing get the Villanova connection as they
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Speaker 2: broke up the Villanova crew on the Knickerbockers. So that's
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Speaker 2: got a little meat to it. That's got a little
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Speaker 2: meat to it, for sure.
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Speaker 1: Spox Weed rights in from.
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Speaker 2: The Oregon Trail, says, Golden State needs to have an
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Speaker 2: astonishing trade for Giannis Adent to Coombo and then Milwaukee
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Speaker 2: get the first pick in the NBA draft next year.
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Speaker 1: So he's got that all mapped out.
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Speaker 2: From Spoxwed got crystal Ball, and he's figured every thing out,
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Speaker 2: every single thing out, Chris writes in, says Ben ruff
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Speaker 2: and tumble. End of the season for the Golden Knights
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Speaker 2: here in Vegas are going scoreless over the last two games,
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Speaker 2: including failing to the oiler falling of the Oilers in
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Speaker 2: sudden death overtime.
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Speaker 1: Simply brutal conclusion for the Golden Knight.
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Speaker 2: Faithful, says Chris, who seems beaten and broken in Vegas.
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Speaker 2: But you'll get over it. You'll be okay because the
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Speaker 2: athletics are coming soon, well like three years from now.
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Speaker 1: You'll get the athletics there in Vegas. All right.
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Speaker 2: It is the Ben Maler Show'll tike some calls here
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Speaker 2: in a moment. Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
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Speaker 2: is the number eight seven seven nine nine six six
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Speaker 2: miney mo.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to Justin in Pennsylvania. What's going on? Justin?
27:52
Speaker 1: Welcome You're on Fox Sports Radio. Man's a going I'm
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Speaker 1: ta walking into a microphone in a very dark room
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Speaker 1: right now?
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Speaker 2: And uh yeah, it's it's going sounds like you're driving.
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Speaker 1: Where are you driving to Justin? At the moment you're
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Speaker 1: you're what I couldn't hear you what I'm doing?
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Speaker 5: Er?
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Speaker 1: Oh? You doing Uber? Oh? Yeah? How's how's Uber going?
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Speaker 1: People out? People out this hour? Do they need Uber
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Speaker 1: at this hour?
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Speaker 5: Of course?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that night making that money.
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Speaker 2: You got to make the money, that's sure.
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Speaker 1: But I didn't want to take your thumberway. You said
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Speaker 1: you want to talk about the sublics and the next later,
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Speaker 1: so that's what I was calling.
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Speaker 2: Well, no, we can talk about it now if you want.
28:42
Speaker 2: I mean, I was gonna do a monologue on. I
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Speaker 2: still will do a monologue on. But it was listen,
28:46
Speaker 2: It's it was an interesting night. Boston was favored going
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Speaker 2: in the game. A lot of people were like, well
28:52
Speaker 2: are they favored? I don't understand. Tatum's not playing, and
28:55
Speaker 2: they end up running the Knicks off the court. The Knicks,
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Speaker 2: it looked like they were playing in like a second
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Speaker 2: gear type situation. Is the highlight of the night though,
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Speaker 2: was was Heart taking the shot to the face with blood.
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Speaker 1: Flowing all over the place. That was that was entertaining.
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Speaker 1: It's like a professional wrestling type situation.
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Speaker 5: I didn't get to watch it right now, but I
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Speaker 5: was just saying, your thoughts, I'm actually having a chance.
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Speaker 7: To win again.
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Speaker 1: Uh the Celtics, Yeah, I would say they.
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Speaker 2: I didn't the Knight, Tatum got hurt. I said, well,
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Speaker 2: that's it, They're done. But they obviously it's a one
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Speaker 2: It's really a one game situation because if the Knicks
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Speaker 2: don't win in game six, you you'd think they're just
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Speaker 2: going to completely fall apart in game seven. So it's
29:44
Speaker 2: it's really that's it. I mean, it should they should
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Speaker 2: win there at home and all that, and you figure
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Speaker 2: Luke Cornett and some of these guys for the Celtics
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Speaker 2: that played well will not play as well.
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Speaker 1: In that arena as they did at home. So that
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Speaker 1: usually is the way it goes in the NBA.
29:58
Speaker 2: Generally speaking, the pop their pin is the secondary players
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Speaker 2: don't play that well on the road, they'll play well
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Speaker 2: at home, and so that's your your opportunity.
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Speaker 1: All right, thank you.
30:07
Speaker 2: Just you're very calm. Just you're very mellow. You're a
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30:18
Speaker 2: So we have the play of the day and all you, dope,
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Speaker 2: what do you talk about hockey?
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Speaker 1: What's going on? You should really talk about hockey. I
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Speaker 1: don't understand why don't talk about hockey. It's hockey so great,
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Speaker 1: you know. And he's going, you've got to talk about hockey. Well,
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Speaker 1: we will throw you a bone. We're gonna throw you
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Speaker 1: a bone. Here.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to the play of the night, the Oilers
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Speaker 2: and the Golden Knights in overtime Game number five.
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Speaker 1: Trying to get to the Western Conference Finals. The game was.
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Speaker 2: Scoreless unless it wasn't. After this tig a list.
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Speaker 1: I'll get it all the way across the dry sidle
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Speaker 1: to the middle.
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Speaker 8: I should say, hi, hell read they're jamming aways. The
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Speaker 8: Oilers pour off the bench if they win at what
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Speaker 8: nothing and overtime and win this series score games.
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Speaker 2: To want happened in the game winning goal there in overtime.
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Speaker 2: missing was dagger, like the pacer guy like.
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Speaker 1: From the.
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Speaker 7: Girl.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, should he?
31:51
Speaker 2: Now let's play that oiler highlight again and then we'll
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Speaker 2: try to mix in the dagger because that would have
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Speaker 2: been the perfect call. But here's again the game winning goal, overtime,
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Speaker 2: scoreless game for the Oilers.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen, and then we got to mix in
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Speaker 1: the dagger. Let's see this gore. They'll get it all the.
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Speaker 8: Way across the wide will tell them in all this say.
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Speaker 1: My hell, girl on that time, play again? Oh my god,
32:29
Speaker 1: what is that? He hadn't scored the goal yet, Laura.
32:37
Speaker 2: Good news, we have an advertiser's a pill for that,
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Speaker 2: but a little premature. You're excited it happens, you know, so, yeah,
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Speaker 2: would be great.
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Speaker 1: Well that's one way to do it.
32:48
Speaker 2: So that was a that was a little scrambled play
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Speaker 2: in front of that seven fourteen.
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Speaker 1: To go on the clock and overtime there.
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Speaker 2: And so the Oilers beat Vegas and advance out of
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Speaker 2: the second round of the playoffs, which is proof you
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Speaker 2: don't have to have a great goaltender, all right.
33:08
Speaker 1: Because you know, I don't think anyone's.
33:11
Speaker 2: Gonna say Stuart Skinner is an amazing goaltender and all that.
33:16
Speaker 2: But he did he stopped. But you have twenty four
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Speaker 2: saves in this game and all that. So the Oilers
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Speaker 2: win and advance, and I believe that ends the.
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Speaker 1: Hockey portion of the show.
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Speaker 2: I think we've moved on now from hockey and we'll
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Speaker 2: push back.
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Speaker 1: Push it back now, push it back.
33:32
Speaker 2: The Lebron James multiverse story.
33:38
Speaker 1: A little Maggie, she's all grown up. I got kids now.
33:41
Speaker 2: So anyway, here's the who Am I Game? And we'll
33:44
Speaker 2: get back to that multiverse with Lebron. So the who
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Speaker 2: Am I Game? The Celtics, Luke Cornett.
33:49
Speaker 1: Who exactly. I don't know this guy. I never heard
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Speaker 1: this guy.
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Speaker 2: Luke Cornet just another like backup big guy white dude
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Speaker 2: for the Celtics.
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Speaker 1: Luke Cornett had had seven blocks.
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Speaker 2: I am the last player to record more block shots.
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Speaker 1: In an elimination game than Luke Cornett.
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Speaker 2: Again, the Celtics backup played about twenty to twenty five minutes.
34:14
Speaker 2: Luke Cornett had seven block shots. I am the last
34:18
Speaker 2: player to record more blocks in an elimination game. Who
34:22
Speaker 2: am I that question? We'll get to it. Take some
34:24
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Speaker 1: and it is time now for the who am I? Game?
35:45
Speaker 1: This is where we pretend to be somebody else's who
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Speaker 1: am I? Game? And we'll go to basketball where the.
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Speaker 2: Celtics Luke Cornett had seven blocks, seven off the bench.
35:56
Speaker 2: I am the last player to have more blocks in
35:59
Speaker 2: an E limit game than Luke Cornett. Who am I?
36:05
Speaker 2: That is the question? And what is the answer?
36:09
Speaker 1: And let's see does anyone know the answer?
36:13
Speaker 2: We go to the Hoy POLOI here and Scrooge in
36:17
Speaker 2: the Bay Area is going with George W.
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Speaker 1: Bush as his answer. Who else do we have? Page down?
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Speaker 2: The Great ostrich Ant, Yes, by malaprop guy, there's ostrich
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Speaker 2: Ant who can play with three balls on the court.
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Speaker 1: At the same time. Who else the.
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Speaker 2: Andro Barbosa, the fastest man in the NBA back the
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Speaker 2: last time Shane in the one.
36:39
Speaker 1: Watched an NBA game, Robin Brazilian.
36:41
Speaker 2: That's right, Robin Lopez from King Rory oh J. Simpson
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Speaker 2: guessed by Alf the alien O piner Alonzo warning from
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Speaker 2: Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Nature Boy says everyone's favorite Clipper
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Speaker 2: big Man Stanley Roberts. Actually, I knew Stanley a little
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Speaker 2: bit when I was around the Clips. Stanley Roberts had
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Speaker 2: a better offensive game than Shaquille O'Neil and I will
37:06
Speaker 2: die with that take. Stanley Roberts was a better offensive player.
37:10
Speaker 2: He had more movement and more more different variety to
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Speaker 2: his offensive game than Shaquille O'Neil. Well, I'm just saying
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Speaker 2: that's my take. And the real ones know, Lorena, you're
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Speaker 2: a real one, you know, good old Stanley who was
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Speaker 2: also banned for life.
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Speaker 1: Stanley Roberts from the NBA. I don't believe he's ever reinstated.
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Speaker 2: Coco the Bear from Milkman, Mike Enzo says Vancouver Grizzlies
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Speaker 2: legend Stroll Miles Swift. Yeah, you think Enzo's going to
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Speaker 2: beat the mall of Meat and greet there in Vancouver?
37:40
Speaker 2: You think he'll show up to the mall of Meat
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Speaker 2: and greet? Maybe Libby Dunn from Ozzie w Was that's
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Speaker 2: his guest, big fan of her work.
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Speaker 1: Who else do we have?
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Speaker 2: Page dam Titan Up, says Shaq is the answer, the
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Speaker 2: dunking Dutchman, Rick Smith's from Andrew in the Bay Area.
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Speaker 2: Mister Irrigation's going with Muggsy Bogues is his answer.
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Speaker 1: Who else you have?
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Speaker 2: Page Down Herman Munster, the ghoulish globe trotter from Perito
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Speaker 2: the Undertaker, guess by Steve the misplaced San Diegan, Earl
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Speaker 2: Boykins from Big Lou He's on number two, Edmund Houston
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Speaker 2: Garcia from James was Dallas, the Duck Duckworth, Kevin Duckworth
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Speaker 2: from Sean in the Valley of the Sun.
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Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Kevin Durant or Lurch from
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Speaker 1: Spock's Weed. That's his answer? What say you, la Oh?
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Speaker 1: I thought really long and hard about this one.
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Speaker 5: Ben.
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Speaker 8: I'm gonna have to go with my guy porky pig.
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Speaker 1: Is it porky pig?
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Speaker 2: It is also not the mellow uber guy who has
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Speaker 2: a big fan of Eileen Mello, Uber guy, big fan
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Speaker 2: of your work.
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Speaker 1: I know that is incorrect.
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Speaker 2: The correct answer is Dick Kembe come.
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Speaker 1: Way back in nineteen ninety four, the late great to
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Speaker 1: Kembe mud Tombo.
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Speaker 2: Man, it's crazy that Wow left this mortal coil Tombe Mutombo.
39:15
Speaker 2: All right, So the lebron story, the rumor right away
39:20
Speaker 2: the Trailblazers are on the market. You can buy, if
39:24
Speaker 2: you have the money, you can buy the Trailblazer. So
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Speaker 2: the assumption was Phil Knight was going to buy the team,
39:28
Speaker 2: at least publicly, he's saying he's not interested. He tried
39:31
Speaker 2: to buy the team a couple of years ago. He's
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Speaker 2: eighty seven, I believe now.
39:35
Speaker 1: So he's like, ah, I'm good. I don't want the
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Speaker 1: team anymore.
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Speaker 2: So that's that's a big debacle for the Trailblazers because
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Speaker 2: he's the richest person in Oregon, Phil Knight, I don't
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Speaker 2: want the team, and he works for a sports a
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Speaker 2: sports business a Nike, although most of their stuff's made in.
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Speaker 1: Sweatshops overseas, but anyway.
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Speaker 2: So the rumor is that Lebron James wants to buy
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Speaker 2: a team.
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Speaker 1: He's forty years.
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Speaker 2: Old, He's only got limited time left as a player, anyway.
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Speaker 2: Would Lebron leave the Lakers and his career early to
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Speaker 2: buy the Trailblazers. The assumption was he wants to own
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Speaker 2: the team in Vegas, not in Portland. But beggars can't
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Speaker 2: be choosers, right, If you have a chance to buy
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Speaker 2: the Trailblazer If you're Lebron and the NBA said we'll
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Speaker 2: set you up, would you retire to own the Trailblazers?
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Speaker 1: Hmm? Things that make you go hmm,