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USMNT Knockout Preview, LeBron James Leaving Lakers, Kawhi Traded to Toronto, Liberty Wins Commissioner’s Cup · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to Daily Play with Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: day to day. US men's national team face their first.
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  Speaker 1: Elimination game of the World Cup today, taking on Bosnia
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  Speaker 1: and Herzegovina in San Francisco. Fellow host nations Canada and
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  Speaker 1: Mexico are already through to the round of sixteen, so.
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  Speaker 2: We cannot lose this one. We cannot embarrass the Americas.
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  Speaker 1: The US is the higher ranked team in the matchup,
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  Speaker 1: they are favored to win, but anything can happen in
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  Speaker 1: an elimination game, and coach Mauricio Pochettino knows it. He said,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have an opportunity if we fail. Pochettino said,
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  Speaker 1: it's all in knowing that the game is the final.
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  Speaker 2: Of the World Cup.
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  Speaker 1: If we were capable to go through, the next one
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  Speaker 1: is going to be another final of the World Cup,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that needs to be our mindset and
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  Speaker 1: our mentality.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so winner go home game.
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  Speaker 1: That's how the tournament works, like every game is a final.
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  Speaker 2: That's how it is in the World Cup.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds us sustainable and crazy, but this is not
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  Speaker 1: any kind of regular season situation.
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  Speaker 2: This is the highest stakes in the world.
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  Speaker 1: The US is currently the fifteenth best national team in
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  Speaker 1: the world according to the latest FIFA rankings, and eleven
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  Speaker 1: of the fourteen teams ranked higher than them are still
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  Speaker 1: in tornament as of Wednesday morning, So that's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of world class soccer football navigate over the next three
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  Speaker 1: week stretch. But Bosnia and Herzegovina are ranked sixty first,
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  Speaker 1: so it's not going to get any easier after.
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  Speaker 2: This, and there's a lot on the line.
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  Speaker 1: The last time the US men's national team won a
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  Speaker 1: knockout game was two thousand and two. They won two
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  Speaker 1: consecutive games, the first time in almost a century. And
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  Speaker 1: it's group with a match to spare, So Christian Polistic
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  Speaker 1: has only paid seventy seven minutes through three matches.
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  Speaker 2: He should be ready to go after this one.
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  Speaker 1: He got some playing time in the third group stage
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  Speaker 1: against m game against Turkey A, and he said that
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  Speaker 1: he's feeling good. So this is for all of marbles.
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  Speaker 1: This is how it goes, this is how it begins.
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  Speaker 1: This is a knockout game. They're going to have to
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  Speaker 1: come with it. I think that they need to play
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  Speaker 1: extremely aggressive, offensively and leave no doubt. That'll be not
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  Speaker 1: important just for this game, not to look ahead as
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  Speaker 1: they do. They definitely don't want to do that. But
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  Speaker 1: this is this is the confidence stage, like this is
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  Speaker 1: when it matters most.
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  Speaker 2: So I am excited.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a little nervous, and I cannot wait to watch,
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  Speaker 1: and I believe that we will win. So let's go
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  Speaker 1: do it. Man, big big bag baby, big big, big,
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  Speaker 1: big news. Lebron pulled a magic and said, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to be here. He is leaving Los Angeles. I
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  Speaker 1: talked about this a couple times this week. I thought
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  Speaker 1: he should finish his career in LA. But it has
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  Speaker 1: come to an end. Everyone within the organization has handled
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  Speaker 1: it really well. Of course that is to be expected.
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  Speaker 1: Luca said, an honor to play and learn from you,
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  Speaker 1: King James. Genie Buss had comments that were posted on
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers' social Lebron James, this is one of the
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  Speaker 1: greatest athletes in history. We will always be thankful for
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  Speaker 1: his eight years with the Lakers, including the title which
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  Speaker 1: he led us to in twenty twenty under the toughest,
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  Speaker 1: unimaginable circumstances, and the countless records he broke.
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  Speaker 2: In the Purple and Gold.
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  Speaker 1: We wish him all the best in the future, both
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  Speaker 1: on the court and off the court. He will always
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  Speaker 1: be a cherished member of the Lakers family. And you
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  Speaker 1: know the Lakers, They're all about family. Magic tweeted on
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  Speaker 1: thank Lebron and his super agent Rich Paul for taking
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  Speaker 1: a meeting with me back in twenty eighteen and I
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  Speaker 1: was the president of the Lakers and decided to sign
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  Speaker 1: with us. He created a new era for the Lakers,
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  Speaker 1: including leading us to a championship in twenty twenty and
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  Speaker 1: all the milestones he surpassing the Lakers jersey. I always
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  Speaker 1: love and be grateful for him and wish him all
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  Speaker 1: the best in the to days of his life and
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  Speaker 1: on and off the court. All classy stuff from the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers organization, which is to be expected. Why wouldn't they
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  Speaker 1: It's things come to an end. This was already a
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  Speaker 1: part of the rumors and conversation. They need to move
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  Speaker 1: forward as an organization, so you know that could play
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  Speaker 1: a part in this as well. Does he want to
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  Speaker 1: be responsible or be you know, viewed as responsible for
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  Speaker 1: holding back a player, Not that he's holding back I
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  Speaker 1: mean he carried them through the playoffs, but you know
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  Speaker 1: they develop team around Luca is really what it comes
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  Speaker 1: down to. And Lebron is one of the most intelligent
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  Speaker 1: basketball players that we have ever seen. And this is
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  Speaker 1: wild news. It's crazy news. It's going to be discussed
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  Speaker 1: thoroughly over the next once he makes his decision, until then,
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  Speaker 1: when he makes his decision through the offseason, and then
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  Speaker 1: the expectations will come once the season starts. He's forty
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  Speaker 1: one years old entering his twenty fourth season. Despite that,
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  Speaker 1: he led the Lakers with a bang up Austin Reeves
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  Speaker 1: and know Luca to the second round of the playoff,
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  Speaker 1: knocking out the Young Rockets. And no matter where he
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  Speaker 1: ends up, it's going to be a movie. And I
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  Speaker 1: always like to bring this up when we talk about
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  Speaker 1: it being you know, this number season for Lebron. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's his twenty fourth season, but he's basically played three,
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  Speaker 1: i think almost four additional seasons if you count all
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  Speaker 1: of the postseason games.
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  Speaker 2: That he's played.
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  Speaker 1: If you count all of the Olympic games that he's played,
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  Speaker 1: he has played almost an additional three seasons. So it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like his twenty seventh season, which is wild,
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  Speaker 1: and for him to be playing at the level that
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  Speaker 1: he's playing still is just remarkable.
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  Speaker 2: I want him to go to the Heat.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like, obviously I am going to root for
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  Speaker 1: him to come back to the Heat.
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  Speaker 2: The rumors are the Warriors, and that.
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  Speaker 1: Would be contingent on a lot of money moving around
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  Speaker 1: and a d going there. They are also talking about
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  Speaker 1: the Calves and him potentially going back to Cleveland.
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  Speaker 2: I think anywhere he goes there's.
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  Speaker 1: Going to come, it's going to come with the expectations
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  Speaker 1: of winning a championship. Whereas, like I said, if I
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  Speaker 1: think he said with the Lakers, that wouldn't necessarily be
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  Speaker 1: the bar, especially when you look at some of the
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  Speaker 1: other young teams in the West. But things happened quickly
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  Speaker 1: and this has already been a crazy NBA offseason.
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  Speaker 2: Also a note, Brownie James.
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  Speaker 1: Two point three million dollar contract with the Lakers is
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  Speaker 1: now fully guaranteed, so the Lakers had until Monday night
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  Speaker 1: to wave him, and they kept him on the roster,
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  Speaker 1: so that's cool as well saying on the basketball court,
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  Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard is going back to Toronto.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we talked about this yesterday and then
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  Speaker 2: everything happened. He won a title there.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty nineteen, the Clippers repoortedly traded him to Toronto
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  Speaker 1: and exchange for Brandon Ingram, Grady Dick, two first round
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  Speaker 1: picks and one PICKSWAP and two second rounders. He did
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  Speaker 1: have a healthy season, a seven game first round series,
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  Speaker 1: and the Clippers wouldn't commit to.
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  Speaker 2: Kawhi and found a trade suitable for him, a place
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  Speaker 2: that he wanted to go.
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  Speaker 1: So he was familiar with them, and you know, loves Toronto.
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  Speaker 1: So this is a situation that makes sense for Kawhi
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  Speaker 1: and for the Clippers, because the situation with the Clippers
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  Speaker 1: is incredibly toxic and there's an investigation going on to
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  Speaker 1: whether that they circumvented the salary cap and funneled money
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  Speaker 1: to Kawhi through his twenty eight million dollar endorsement deal
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  Speaker 1: with Aspiration, which also had a three hundred million dollar
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  Speaker 1: twenty three year endorsement deal with the Clippers. Steve Bomber
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  Speaker 1: invested sixty million in aspiration. He's denied any knowledge of
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  Speaker 1: Leonard's deal, and under those conditions, it's gonna be really
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  Speaker 1: hard to make a new deal with. Kawhi is entering
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  Speaker 1: the last year of his current deal and the investigation
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  Speaker 1: is not done. So now he's in Toronto, that chapter
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  Speaker 1: of the Clippers is over.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I like that he finished on a high note. I
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  Speaker 1: am a big Kawhi fan. I think him going to
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  Speaker 1: Toronto makes them a contender again. If he can stay
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  Speaker 1: healthy for another season, they're going to be a really
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  Speaker 1: tough team in the East. And yeah, things are getting
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  Speaker 1: very interesting, very fast. All of us is moving around
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  Speaker 1: at a very very high pace. And I think once
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  Speaker 1: the chips start to settle and we ships fall where
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  Speaker 1: they may, I don't know thust settles, I really mess
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  Speaker 1: that analogia up, but you get what I'm saying. Once
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  Speaker 1: everything starts to sort itself out, we are going to
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  Speaker 1: be looking at a very different MBA for next season,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll have a lot to evaluate. But there's going
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  Speaker 1: to be some more news, some more trades, and we
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  Speaker 1: will we'll get to see what actually.
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  Speaker 2: Ends up shaking out.
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  Speaker 1: Kawhi is now eligible to sign up to a two
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  Speaker 1: year one hundred and twenty three point seven million dollar
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  Speaker 1: extension with the Raptors, so pretty likely he finishes his
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  Speaker 1: finishes his career in Toronto. Finally, shout out to the
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  Speaker 1: New York Liberty winning the Commissioner's Cup against the Aces
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  Speaker 1: ninety three eighty five. They Sabrina and Brienna combined for
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  Speaker 1: fifty one points.
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  Speaker 2: Sabrina Anesco and Brianna Stewart fifty one points.
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  Speaker 1: Stewie also had eleven rebounds and was the game MVP.
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  Speaker 1: Jackie Young from the Aces score to game high thirty
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  Speaker 1: one points. Asia Wilson did not play. She had an
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  Speaker 1: injury and was rolled out before the game. Liberty that
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  Speaker 1: is by as many as seventeen and the third. Aces
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  Speaker 1: took a brief lead in the fourth quarter, but the
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  Speaker 1: Liberty come out on top with their second Commissioner's Cup over.
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  Speaker 2: The Aces, So congrats ladies.
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