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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 3: It was the running of the bulls.
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  Speaker 3: Here we are again, side by side. Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: A little hot talk for you and our lead this hour.
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  Speaker 1: Our lead this hour is from night two of the
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  Speaker 1: playing tournament.
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  Speaker 3: Now why are we.
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  Speaker 1: Talking about this Because it's on the schedule, That's why.
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  Speaker 1: And we have a talk show to do right now,
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  Speaker 1: not an hour from now, not two hours right now. Well,
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  Speaker 1: actually we'll be doing it two hours from now also,
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  Speaker 1: but double barrel action. Now, I'm not gonna tell you
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  Speaker 1: this was compelling. I'm not gonna tell you this was
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  Speaker 1: muss C TV.
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  Speaker 3: It what But we watched.
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  Speaker 1: So you had the Heat that's a basketball team from
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  Speaker 1: South Florida visiting the Bulls. That is a team that
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  Speaker 1: plays in Chicago. That was the Eastern matchup. And then
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  Speaker 1: the mav Rex. What a hot mess that team was
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  Speaker 1: taking on the Kings in the Western matchup. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know you watched any of this. You might have
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  Speaker 1: missed all of it, and consider yourself lucky. Perhaps you
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  Speaker 1: missed everything, but we took the hit. It's our good
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  Speaker 1: mits for the day, and we're gonna start out in
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  Speaker 1: the Windy City as we navigate through the highways and
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  Speaker 1: byways of the playing tournament. So Tyler Hero went bonkers
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  Speaker 1: thirty eight points, thirty eight points, and he was here,
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  Speaker 1: there and everywhere, especially at the start of the game.
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  Speaker 1: The Miami Heat boat race. They did the old Harvard
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  Speaker 1: boat race over the I don't know if we should
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  Speaker 1: call them the bulls.
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  Speaker 3: How about the baby bulls? My god? One nine ninety in.
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  Speaker 1: A game that was not that close on a Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: night in the playing tournament.
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  Speaker 3: The game featured zero lead changes. There were no lead changes.
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  Speaker 1: Miami led by as many as twenty five points. They
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  Speaker 1: never trailed. That's the Harvard boat race. You jump out
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  Speaker 1: in front and you never trail, and the Heat knocked
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  Speaker 1: out the Bulls.
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  Speaker 3: If you feel like you've seen this before in.
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  Speaker 1: The Playing tournament, third year in a row, say deja
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  Speaker 1: vu situation. And they will play at Atlanta on Friday night,
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  Speaker 1: and I am not. I am not on the watch
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  Speaker 1: tower Friday night, so you let me know how that
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  Speaker 1: game goes. I ain't watching.
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  Speaker 3: I ain't watching. You can watch, I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: But the winner of that game will have a chance
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  Speaker 1: to meet the top seeded Cleveland basketball team to seemingly
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  Speaker 1: be annihilated. Though who knows Cleveland? Are they real? Are
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  Speaker 1: they phony? Only time will tell. But that's the first
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  Speaker 1: round matchup, so either Atlanta or Miami will be going
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  Speaker 1: to Cleveland, and that one. The better story though, is
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  Speaker 1: in the losing locker room, so let us discuss.
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  Speaker 3: We'll start with that. We'll work our way.
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  Speaker 1: Through the question though, how bleak are things looking for
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  Speaker 1: Billy Donovan and his Chicago Bulls. That's the coach, Billy Donovan.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got my thoughts on this. I have Paul Simon,
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  Speaker 1: Twilight and Marshmallows and we'll ring the bell. Well, we'll
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  Speaker 1: put all these things together and we're gonna make deep
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  Speaker 1: dish Chicago pizza, which is one of the great treats
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  Speaker 1: you can have. It's one of the reasons to stay alive,
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  Speaker 1: just to eat more deep dish Chicago pizza. So a,
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  Speaker 1: the Bulls franchise is currently locked in a never ending
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  Speaker 1: asteroid feel.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, they they can't get out of their own shadow.
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  Speaker 1: The Eastern Conference is as if Hillary Clinton was commenting,
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  Speaker 1: she'd say, a basket of deplorables, and the Bulls are
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  Speaker 1: like the star of the deplorables. Right that the Bulls
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  Speaker 1: aren't even good enough to punch their ticket to go
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  Speaker 1: to the basketball version of the prom, which is the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: It's a masculine and it's.
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  Speaker 1: Time to redo the old Paul Simon song and update
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  Speaker 1: missus Robinson. Where have you gone? Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen.
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  Speaker 1: A bulls nation turns its lonely eyes to you. These
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  Speaker 1: are not your daddy's Chicago bulls. These are more like
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  Speaker 1: your granddaddy Chicago bulls because other than the Jordan years,
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  Speaker 1: the bulls blue and man, they are a bunch of castaways.
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  Speaker 1: The Chicago Bulls here stuck on a dingy with a
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  Speaker 1: broken down motor at this particular point, they're just a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of dinghies. And they're not bad enough. Like you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to be in the middle, and they're in
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  Speaker 1: the middle. Right, you know, you're not bad enough to
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  Speaker 1: really have a legitimate chance of getting the number one
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  Speaker 1: overall number one, and they're not good enough to really
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  Speaker 1: do anything. They can't even make the playoffs. And so
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  Speaker 1: here's where the bulls find themselves. Good luck. Now we
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  Speaker 1: turned the page. So the winning locker room, We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do a little.
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  Speaker 3: True or false. You want to play true or false,
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  Speaker 3: Let's play true or false.
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  Speaker 1: So the statement is Tyler Heroes big night, thirty eight points,
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  Speaker 1: this was a stepping stone, a stepping stone game in
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  Speaker 1: his Miami Heat career.
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  Speaker 3: Is that true or false?
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  Speaker 1: So after a minutes long mallor review, we are we're
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  Speaker 1: voting false. Okay, that is a false statement. Now keep
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  Speaker 1: in mind Tyler hero If you saw the game, you
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  Speaker 1: probably didn't. I think I was the only one watching.
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Hero was electric. I think he hit something like
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  Speaker 1: his first eight shots. Didn't write it down, but he
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  Speaker 1: finished up thirteen of nineteen from the floor and was
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  Speaker 1: the player that pat Riley thought he was going to
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  Speaker 1: become when they got rid of Jimmy Butler. But it
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  Speaker 1: was only slight progress. I'm only gonna move it a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. It does not count as a stepping stone.
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  Speaker 1: That's too dramatic. And here's why it is impossible in
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  Speaker 1: the court of malar. It is impossible to have such
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  Speaker 1: a thing as a springboard game.
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  Speaker 3: In a playing game.
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  Speaker 1: The playing we in here talking about the play in,
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  Speaker 1: not a real playoff game.
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  Speaker 3: No, the play in playing Yeah, that's what.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about. It is an empty wasteland. They are
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  Speaker 1: played in the twilight or go the twilight zone. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: if you will, a world where the stats vanish into
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  Speaker 1: thin air. They're neither regular season stats nor postseason stats.
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  Speaker 1: It is an alternative reality that only last a couple
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  Speaker 1: of games in between the regular season and the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: Now we know from years gone.
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  Speaker 1: By that legends are born, Legends are born in the playoff,
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. But not whatever this watch your McCalla,
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  Speaker 1: It is not the watch you McCalla. It now, Tyler
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  Speaker 1: Hero does have a chance. He does have a shot
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  Speaker 1: if play the if game, if some butts were candy
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  Speaker 1: and nuts, right, But if Miami can do this again
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  Speaker 1: and beat Atlanta and take down the Hawks on Friday,
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  Speaker 1: and normally Heat will burn a Hawk. So if that happens,
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  Speaker 1: and then he gets on the big stage, and if
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  Speaker 1: there's an eight seed one seed, which is really not
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  Speaker 1: an eight seed because the Heat are lower than that.
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  Speaker 1: They were down there at the very bottom. So if
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  Speaker 1: the heat can then go into Cleveland and not only
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  Speaker 1: make some noise, but actually when we can revisit this conversation.
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  Speaker 1: But I know the hot take artists and how this works.
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  Speaker 1: I have a study the ancient art of the hot take.
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  Speaker 1: And there's this overreaction. Oh my god, I can't but
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  Speaker 1: it's so a basic. Oh man, all right, now the
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  Speaker 1: last word. Let's go over to the Western Conference side
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  Speaker 1: of the play in whatever this thing is, and Klay
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  Speaker 1: Thompson caught the bug for one quarter. It was vintage
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  Speaker 1: Klay Thompson in Sacktown, as Clay had sixteen.
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  Speaker 3: Of his twenty three points in the second quarter. And
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  Speaker 3: if you saw the game, that's all you needed to watch.
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  Speaker 3: That was it.
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  Speaker 1: That was not another ey go bye, say bye bye
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  Speaker 1: to Sacramento bye bye. Yes, he had an absolute dud
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  Speaker 1: a year ago, which was brought up many times on
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  Speaker 1: the television broadcast, but to this time, wearing the mav
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  Speaker 1: Rec uniformity, surprise, did not see this one come. He
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  Speaker 1: thought Dallas would be meekly eliminated from the playoffs. But
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  Speaker 1: that's why they play their games. So Klay Thompson went
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  Speaker 1: big in the Dallas basketball team, proving Nico Harrison a
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  Speaker 1: genius with an easy win. So they advanced in the
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  Speaker 1: playing tournament, and now they will take on Memphis for
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  Speaker 1: a chance to get into the playoffs and take on
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City. So that's the next matchup. But a year ago,
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  Speaker 1: Klay Thompson, in what was his final game with Golden State,
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  Speaker 1: had the worst possible final game.
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  Speaker 3: You remember he took ten shots. You remember how many
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  Speaker 3: he made? How about none? Zero for ten in that.
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  Speaker 1: Loss a year ago for Klay Thompson's last moment as
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  Speaker 1: a Golden State Warrior. But in this game he had
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  Speaker 1: four to three points. Dallas put up forty four points.
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  Speaker 1: Do you understand how incompetent the Kings have to be
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  Speaker 1: to allow a team in a twelve minute quarter to
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  Speaker 1: score forty four points? How I don't give an f
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  Speaker 1: The mantra must be for that team that the better
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  Speaker 1: story here is in the losing locker room. And we
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  Speaker 1: don't spend a lot of time talking about the team
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  Speaker 1: in Sacramento.
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  Speaker 3: Why would we. It's broadcasting, not narrow casting. But this
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  Speaker 3: is rare and appropriate, and rare and appropriate, we're allowed
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  Speaker 3: to do. We're allowed to do it.
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  Speaker 1: So what does the future hold for Demontes Sibonis and
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  Speaker 1: the Kings? What does the future hold here in sack Down?
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  Speaker 1: So my advice to the Kings and to Demonta Sabonis
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  Speaker 1: is to go out and go to Walmart. Get some marshmallows.
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  Speaker 1: Get some marshmallows. If I could talk to get some marshmallows, right,
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  Speaker 1: Get the marshmallows. Because the Kings are going to have
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  Speaker 1: a bonfire. There's already talked there. They're going to bring
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  Speaker 1: in a new GM.
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  Speaker 3: And a new broom sweeps clean.
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  Speaker 1: And so they got rid of Mike Brown during the season.
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  Speaker 1: They whacked him. They traded away dearon Fox. It was
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  Speaker 1: the face of the franchise until they traded him. So
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  Speaker 1: expect the urge to purge, the urge to purge. I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking and everything must go. Liquidation situation here. You want
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  Speaker 1: Demanta Sabonis. How about Demart Rosen? Do I hear anything
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  Speaker 1: for Demart Rosen? Can I get an offer for zach Levine?
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  Speaker 1: Anyone wants zach Levine, make sure to use that coupon
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  Speaker 1: code and you'll say if it's a red tag sale
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  Speaker 1: in store and online, now the Kings have this, this
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  Speaker 1: kind of dopey mascot.
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  Speaker 3: I think they should change their mask. I I believe
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  Speaker 3: here as this franchise continues to be in limbo, the Kings,
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  Speaker 3: where have you gone?
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  Speaker 1: Pays yourstoyakovitch right. The King's spirit animal is a chicken, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: the headless chicken. Because they are stuck.
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  Speaker 3: In this cycle of that.
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  Speaker 1: They use the word rebuilding, which is a it's a
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  Speaker 1: sports term. It's a it's a politically correct sports term, rebuilding.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's synonyms are suck and blow. Because that's what
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  Speaker 1: the Kings are. They suck and they blow every year,
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  Speaker 1: every year, right, every year.
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  Speaker 3: The same thing. They're bottom feeders.
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  Speaker 1: And it just keeps going on and on, and they'll
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  Speaker 1: get rid of these guys and then they'll they'll be
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  Speaker 1: terrible for several more years, and then they'll get a few,
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  Speaker 1: they'll stumble onto a few players that actually turn not
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  Speaker 1: to be halfway decent, and then the same thing will happen.
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  Speaker 1: It is a never ending cycle, never But they pay
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  Speaker 1: pretty well so they can hire people. They pay decent
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  Speaker 1: money and all that.
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  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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  Speaker 3: App or lead. This hour is from the Silly Season
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  Speaker 3: and it hasn't started. Been what are you doing? Are
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  Speaker 3: you already talking about it? There's still playing now. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: These playing games were so fugazy. Okay, they are terrible.
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  Speaker 1: They do not provide good talk radio. So we must
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: turn went in doubt, throw the Boogeyman out or in
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  Speaker 1: this case, the slim Reaper. If you have not heard,
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  Speaker 1: the body is not yet cold in the Valley of
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  Speaker 1: the Sun.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you missed it.
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  Speaker 1: The Suns, who were supposed to be a heavyweight contender,
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  Speaker 1: were a total pretender, and now they are expected to
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  Speaker 1: open up the bidding. If you would like, Kevin Durant
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  Speaker 1: come on down. Yes, several teams already have emerged as
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  Speaker 1: early front runners.
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  Speaker 3: We're not even at the quarter pole, but they're.
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  Speaker 1: Leading contenders, including a team that was prominently mentioned in
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  Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours.
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  Speaker 3: You know what team that is? Named? That team? All right?
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  Speaker 1: You don't know the Houston Rockets. The Houston Rockets. So
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  Speaker 1: let us discuss the question for the esteemed panel. How
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  Speaker 1: do you evaluate the Rockets and Kevin Durant said to
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  Speaker 1: have mutual interest in joining forces. So I've got boombox,
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  Speaker 1: freight train, and paperless, and we will combine all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together and we are going to empty the bench,
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  Speaker 1: is what we're going We're gonna empty our bench out right.
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  Speaker 3: Now, and we are going to say numb. I said numb.
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  Speaker 1: All right, We'll try not to hit an iceberg here.
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  Speaker 1: So here's the deal. I don't think I'm wrong on this,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't know. I just do the overnight show.
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  Speaker 1: I believe the Rockets have not played a postseason game.
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  Speaker 1: Is that correct? Okay, I'm told that is correct. So
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  Speaker 1: the Rockets have not played a postseason game. Houston is
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  Speaker 1: the number two, number two seeds in.
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  Speaker 3: The Western Conference.
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  Speaker 1: They have a playdate with Jimmy Buckets, Stephen Curry and
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  Speaker 1: Golden State this weekend. Despite Houston having home court, the
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  Speaker 1: Warriors are the public's picked to click in that series.
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  Speaker 3: So until that matchup is decided.
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  Speaker 1: Until that matchup is the side and the NBA likes
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  Speaker 1: to drag these things out, so until that happens, it
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  Speaker 1: is the word is the premature?
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  Speaker 3: Is the word premature with a cap.
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  Speaker 1: That's the word premature to properly speculate about the next
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  Speaker 1: step for Kevin Durant in association with Houston.
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  Speaker 3: Now, if the Rockets go on.
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  Speaker 1: A magic carpet ride and get through Golden State and
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  Speaker 1: then get through the next round and advance to.
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  Speaker 3: The Western Conference Finals, it would not make sense.
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  Speaker 1: It would not make sense to bring in an aging
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant, who is a team killer.
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  Speaker 3: A team killer.
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  Speaker 1: So either way, though, you don't need me to tell you,
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  Speaker 1: you don't need me to tell you that you need
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  Speaker 1: to get your boombox out and crank up the Sandals
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  Speaker 1: the theme from Endless Summer, because it is going to
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  Speaker 1: be the summer of Kevin Durant. Expect seven thousand, eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred and ninety four different reports from league sources. Kevin
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  Speaker 1: Durant had a great pastrami sandwich in Manhattan. He'd like
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  Speaker 1: to play for the Knicks. Kevin Durant. One time he
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  Speaker 1: was in Minnesota. The greatest burger he ever had was
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  Speaker 1: a juicy Lucy at the Nook in Saint Paul. So
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  Speaker 1: he wants to play for the Timberwolves. Yeah, I'm telling
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  Speaker 1: you yeah. In fact, they'll even make stuff up like
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  Speaker 1: Durant one time he stopped over in Kansas City and
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  Speaker 1: he went to the landing and he had the Ben
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  Speaker 1: Maler chicken fingers. So he wants a franchise to relocate
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  Speaker 1: the Kansas City and then he can have those all
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  Speaker 1: the time.
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  Speaker 3: You know, every angle, every.
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  Speaker 1: Single angle, not the usual suspects, and forget the usual
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  Speaker 1: suspect not just the NBA teams. Who knows the Beijing Ducks.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant would like to expand his brand in China,
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  Speaker 1: So he wants to play for the Beijing Ducks. Or
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  Speaker 1: how about this one Durant when he was a kid,
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  Speaker 1: he growing up in in the Baltimore area.
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  Speaker 3: I believe he had the uh he had the.
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  Speaker 1: The Ant thing, you know that, the the Ant collection.
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  Speaker 1: So he wants to play in the G League for
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  Speaker 1: the Indiana mad Ants. Whatever works, whatever works, Just go
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  Speaker 1: with it all right now. Page two, developing story from
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  Speaker 1: the Bayou.
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  Speaker 3: We go to n Orleans. We go to New Orleans
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  Speaker 3: where Joe Dumars. You're old.
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  Speaker 1: You remember Joe Dumars as a dominating, quiet assassin for
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  Speaker 1: some great Pistons teams back in the old days when
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  Speaker 1: the players had hair on their chest and actually played
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  Speaker 1: in most games. It's a different era now. The players
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  Speaker 1: miss as many games as possible. But Joe Dumars, who
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  Speaker 1: was hired as the head of basketball ops for the Pelicans,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: and he has released an opening statement and the Pistons
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: legend from another era. His opening statement about the current
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: state of the Pells roster and what many are pulling
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: out the magnifying glass and examining that may or may
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: not have been a jab at at Zion Williamson. Let
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: me give you the quote and then we will parse
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: the words together. I'm gonna give you the quote. I
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: am not Joe Dumars. I want the record to show
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: I am not Joe Dumars. However, I will pretend for
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: the purposes of talk radio to be Joe Dumars. This
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: is only a drill. This is only a drill quote.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of talent on this roster. My vision,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Dumars stated, is to build a discipline team that is
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: built on toughness, smart decision making, and a no excuses mindset.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: I am proud to have grown up in Louisiana and
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: know how passionate, resilient and tough we.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: Are as a community. Blah blah blah, blah blah. Close quote.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: So did Joe Dumars in the previous quote.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Take a shot at Zion Williamson? Did he pokes Ion
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Williamson in his Pelicans opening statement? That is the question?
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: What is the answer?
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: So I spent about sixty seconds on a Mallard deliberation
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: and this is as subtle as a freight train. It
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: is as subtle as a fur trader, Zion Williamson. What
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: is Zion Williamson known for? What is he known for
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: as an NBA player? He's undisciplined, He's not tough, he
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: doesn't make good decisions, and he makes a lot of excuses.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: He is the opposite of a Joe Dumars type player.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Did I get any of that wrong? Did I get
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: any of that wrong?
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: He has been.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Under siege Zion Williamson for a total lack of good
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: judgment when it comes to decisions you make on and
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: off the court, the no excuses, mindset, toughness, all of that.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: He is the perfect modern ballplayer.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: And from the sound of it, Joe Dumars is not
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: going to have anyone on his roster because the entire
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: NBA is opposite of what Joe Dumars wants. Zion has
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: missed two hundred and fifty eight games in his New
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Orleans career.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: He's played in two hundred and fourteen. We're talking about
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: six seasons.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: He's missed two hundred and fifty eight work assignments in
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: six seasons. You talk about meandering, now, that means using Malormath,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: that he has missed approximately fifty four percent little over
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: fifty four percent of his possible work assignments. So rather
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: than just say I'm gonna trade Zion Willimson, you don't
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: have to say that when Joe Dumars comes out and says,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I want a team that is built on discipline, toughness,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: good decision making, no excuses, and you have a guy,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Zion Williamson, who was the opposite of all that.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Bye bye no no naa no no na na hey
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: go bye by final point follow up follow up Nico
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: no no, Nico no no Dateline Dallas, the embattled GM
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: of the mav Recks who did win the play in
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: game on Wednesday night.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: The Mavericks will play again to try to get in
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. Ball GM Nico Harrison. Remember he held that
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: news Commerce's second news conference with the media after his
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: decision or the team's decision to say goodbye to Luca Donzig,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: and the story was he did not want any record
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: of that to get out. Initially, initially there were no
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: cameras and no microphones, and then eventually they allowed.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Some recording, but you couldn't publish it.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: No cameras allowed, and he was surrounded by hand picked
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: media elites, the Dallas Mavericks, tecting the Nico Harrison only
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: bringing in the reporters that will lick his toes.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Well, now we are hearing what the.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Old broadcaster Paul Harvey back in the day would say.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Is the rest of the story the rest of the story.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Is it true that if it was up to Nico
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Harrison he would not would not have done that at all?
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Is it also true that Nico Harrison fought for several
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: weeks and at the behest of his owner, and only
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: because the owner said you've got to do it, that
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Nico Harrison did the closed door round table, round table conversation,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: something that was demanded by the owner. He was able
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: to push back for several weeks, push it back, push
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: it back now, but eventually he had to do it.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: So question, does Nico Harrison being forced to meet with
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: the Dallas media elites. Does that change the storyline?
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: So it moves it ever so slightly. You can't see
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: my fingers, but ever so slightly like that, just a
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: little bit like why would the owner care if Nico
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Harrison meets with the media. Could it be just spitball
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: in here?
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Could it be because the owner is getting absolutely charbroiled
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: for dealing away Luka Donzik and the owner, this guy
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Patrick Dumott, has no basketball knowledge and just allowed Nico
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Harrison to do whatever he wanted and this is what happened,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: and therefore therefore the owner's like, dude, you got to
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: get out there. You're my pinata and it's a kid's
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: birthday party. Everyone gets a swing. You're the pinata. Get
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: out there and be the pinata and hopefully candy will
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: fall out take some of those hits.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: So Niko agreed to it. He agreed to it on
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: one condition.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: It had to be paperless, paperless, no paper trail, no
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: video surveillance. The popular opinion that I keep hearing from
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: people that claim to have insider information is that the
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: reason that Nico Harrison wanted no recording on video of
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: this event is because he knows that the internet is forever,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: and he was concerned that by him coming out and
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: saying what I praised him for this the other day,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: you don't apologize, he said. He has no regrets because
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: if it doesn't matter whether Nico Harrison Keem comes out
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: and says, boy, I have that one up, Well, that
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: really escalated. It's not going to change any People think
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: he's a douche and the village idiot.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: So nothing is going to change that. So you certainly
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: don't walk back on it.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: However, he did not want the video because it would
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: have lasted forever. And the assumption is Luca's going to
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: play another ten years, is at least in the NBA
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: and have many all star appearances and good individual moments
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff, and so what are we doing.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: So there's two possibilities. Either the owner really had nothing
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: to do with it and he just allowed Nico Harrison
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: to destroy the business and he wants Nico to go
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: out there as a pinata. Or the alternative reality is
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: the owner absolutely absolutely pulled the strings, or did it
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: via pressure by the NBA to improve television rating. But
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: either way, either way, the issue is that Hey, you
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: got to run interference, running the naked bootleg.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: You got to get out there. You got to get
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: out there, and that's where we are.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: You're Bozo the clown, So put on some clown makeup
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: and some funny shoes and put on a show, start
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: juggling and have all kinds of fun.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Smeller,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: how about that to the third degree, This is one
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: big event.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Gets grilled because Randy Johnson played fifteen plus years.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: Kopolo Ravens GM Eric DaCosta said that an extension for
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: Derrick Henry was definitely in the off season conversation, but
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: declined to give a timeline for getting the deal done, saying,
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: we have a lot of different balls in the air
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: right now. Ben, do you think the Ravens are hesitant
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: to extend Henry?
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Well, first of all, I've gotten that line when I
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: try to get my contract from this company. We've got
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: a lot going on.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: That is a way of not answering the question and downshifting,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: slowing down is what that is.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: We were not really in a rush to pay this
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: person it makes sense if you're the Ravens. Derrick Henry
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: was much better than I thought he would be last year,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: but he is at that point where he's doing a
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: little tap dance right on the rubicon, and so I'd
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: give him more money, but I wouldn't go more than
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: a year or two at most.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: And I think that's the play here for the Ravens nag.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: Jason Tatum has joined Larry Bird is the only Celtics
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: to lead the team and forced statistical categories multiple times now.
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: This stat has led many to debate that Tatum is
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: the third best Celtic of all time, behind Bird and Russell.
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: Do you agree with that?
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: But my problem is I have an issue with players
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: that I've watched now. I always think the players when
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: I was a kid are better and the people now
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: are not pushovers, but they're just not as good because
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: I saw those players through the eyes of a child.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: So Tatum statistically is right in that conversation, but for me,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: I can't. I'm not gonna put him there. I can't
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: because I don't think he's that good.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Next.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: Lou Williams was blasted for his prediction on Tuesday that
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: despite not having Damian Lillard that the Bucks would still
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: beat the Pacers in their opening series.
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: Ben, is it that crazy?
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, what Lou's doing is he's got the knee
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: pads on for Doc Rivers. He likes Doc Rivers, and
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: so he's looking out for Doc.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: That's what that is. Okay, Now that the Bucks are going,
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: they're losing. Here we go, Pacers, here we go.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Here that buck seem has been contaminated by Doc Rivers.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: D don How did we do pass this edition?
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: I won?
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: Put her on the board.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: I won.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: That's right, Gunner, I won, Gunner.
• 29:18
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• 29:31
  Speaker 3: It's now time for time. Horry, Horry, Honey, ask Ben Twitter.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Send us your questions on Twitter.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Now anyway, we go to Ask Men. Your questions are
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: answers on a Newbie Night and over to the Kooper
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: Loop for the reading of the question.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: All right, We're gonna start off with a question from
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: Ferg dog Hi. Ferg, he wants to know do you
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: own a firearm?
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: Well as you know, oh, I must protect myself, Coople Loop.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: But we do not discuss whether or not there's a
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: firearm or not.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Let's just say I am I am prepared if someone
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: goes wild on What about.
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: You, Lorraina, Yeah, I stay strapped even right now? I
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: got a gatling on me.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: Is that right? Yeah? Mean unbelievable, Coople Loop. I think
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: that's a Bucky's version, Coop.
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: All right, I realized this is such a private question. No,
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: I do not own a firearm.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: All right? What is next to ask? Ben? Your questions
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: are answers our rest for the hour?
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: The King Rory would like to know.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, do you have any concerns that you'll not be
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: allowed back into the United States of America after attending
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: the Vancouver Meet and Greet?
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Well, uh, it depends what part of Canada I'm in.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: If I'm not allowed back in, as long as they
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: have poutine.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: I'm good. I'll be all right. I'm fine, Lorrainy. You
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: think we'll get stuck in Canada? You think there'll be
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: some kind of issue there.
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: I think Fox might be mad if that happens, or
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: maybe they won't care about you know, I.
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: Think it might be a nice vacation.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm not. I'm not really worried about it
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: and looking forward to seeing Van Cooper though. It's gonna
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: be a lot of fun. What about you, Coop? You
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: figure get stuck there.
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: I think made's legal there, so I'm okay, is it?
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: I believe?
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: So? You sure?
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah? They have dispensaries.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: We're gonna about like if you're taking some back in
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: the country though, I'll finish it all.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: Okay, Good job for you, good good effort there, Coop.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: All right, what's next year? It's ask Ben? Your questions
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: are answers on a Newbie night. We do this every week.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: If you like it, if you really like it, we
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: have something totally different on Sunday on the Fifth Hour podcast,
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: The mail Bag, which is nothing like this at all.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: Go ahead, Coop, Donkey sausage would like tonight, Donkey, do
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: you crack your knuckles?
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah? You know what I do?
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: I have my My right knee is kind of messed
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: up a little bit at old football injury, you know,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: back at Polk High School. So my knee cracks sometimes
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: and it I'll like sometimes when I on board, I'll
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: just crack my knee and it drives the wife crazy.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: He gets really annoyed by that, but I love it.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: It's like, oh man, that's a that's the sound of
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: a bone cracking. I love it. So I don't crack
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: my knuckles. I crack my knee. What about you, of
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: a rain?
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: I am absolutely terrified of cracking things I do do
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: my pinky toes. Okay, specific I know, but everything else
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: scares me, especially your neck. If you can crack your
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: own neck, oh my gosh.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: Get a neck so much. But like the knee, you know,
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: it's just like it's like a power. It's like a
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: super That one's fun hip bones connected, go ahead.
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: Coop all the time, every every knuckle in my body.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: There you go, elbows, fingers, toes, neck, back crack.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: No, that one picks he picks his nose. That's all right.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: What's what's next?
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: Uh, let's see.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: La la la la.
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: Well then we're gonna do another one from King Rory.
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: All right, he wants to know what is your go
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: to dessert?
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Banana cream pie. I love the ice cream sandwich with
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: the cookie, the cookie, ice cream sandwich cream pie.
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: Kind of guy, Ben, the.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Rain's my time to talk. So you have the you
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: have the two cookie, the chocolate chip cookies, and then
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: you have the vanilla ice cream. I'm a basic bitch
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: when it comes to that, like it a lot, but
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: I'm pretty pretty by dessert. I'll go pretty much any dessert.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: What about you, Lorrain, Oh.
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: I'm an ice cream girl, Ben, I love ice cream.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: That's your go to favorite always, not just a candy bar.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: Bucky nuggets or are good too. What about your cinnamon rolls?
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: Well, so.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: You just have to keep talking the rain. Now you
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: give one thing answer, that's all you get.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: Uh so uh mind straddles between breakfast and dessert. But
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: cinnamon roll is the it's that's it's the best. Love
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: cinnamon rolls.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: You like with pecans on top? No pecun?
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: I prefer without, but I'll take it with the pecans. Yeah.
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: A nice sticky bun.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, sticky bun real quick.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: Late night drug tester wants to know have you ever
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: gotten bumped to first class on a flight for free?
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: On the flight though Waii when I got married. It
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: was awesome. It was so good.
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: Wow, bit lucky.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I had to wait five hours, but it was
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: worth it. At the airport,