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Wemby Confident Spurs Win Game 2; Clippers Under Investigation Over Kawhi’s Contract; Micah Parsons Eyeing Mid-October Return · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: So Wemby is not flinching Victor wembin Yama anchoring the
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  Speaker 1: first Game one NBA Finals loss in San Antonio Spurs
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  Speaker 1: franchise history, but the twenty two year old has made
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  Speaker 1: it clear he is unbothered moving forward. He did take
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  Speaker 1: accountability for an inefficient performance. He posted postseason career highs
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  Speaker 1: and turnovers with six and missshots with fifteen, but he
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  Speaker 1: told reporters he isn't worried in the slightest. How about
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  Speaker 1: the Spurs bouncing back in Game two? Jalen Brunson scored
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  Speaker 1: thirteen of his game high thirty points in the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: but it was pretty inefficient with thirty one shots.
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  Speaker 2: But the Spurs shot one.
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  Speaker 1: Of fourteen, including oh for eight on three pointers with
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  Speaker 1: one turnover. When Brunson was the primary defender in Game one,
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  Speaker 1: he contested nine of those fourteen attempts. So throughout the games,
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  Speaker 1: BUR's definitely had moments where they could have been better,
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  Speaker 1: particularly in the fourth quarter, and they did let a
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  Speaker 1: sizeable lead slip away from them. Wemby joined Shaq and
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  Speaker 1: a keem By dropping twenty six points in twelve boards
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  Speaker 1: and three blocks in his debut. But they need to
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  Speaker 1: make some adjustments. This is what the postseason is about,
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  Speaker 1: particularly the NBA Finals. Okay, you got hit in the mouth,
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  Speaker 1: you lost Game one at home. All of the moments
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  Speaker 1: is now with New York. What do you do to
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  Speaker 1: adjust and get back on track. How do you get
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  Speaker 1: wenby the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Rolling towards the rim? He's unstoppable.
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  Speaker 1: How do you make the adjustments to put Jalen Brunson
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  Speaker 1: in a situation where he has to be the absolute hero?
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  Speaker 1: What do you do with him defensively to make things
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  Speaker 1: difficult for him? And like I said, he was inefficient
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  Speaker 1: in his thirty points. So if you can maximize on
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  Speaker 1: another performance potentially like that, you will come out with
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  Speaker 1: a victory in game two. I do expect the Spurs
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  Speaker 1: to bounce back in Game two. I do think that
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  Speaker 1: they're going to come out with a little more serious energy.
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  Speaker 1: The thing about it is in the postseason, these runs
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  Speaker 1: can happen so quickly, and particularly in this modern MBA
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  Speaker 1: where you have three point shooters at every single position,
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  Speaker 1: and you can really no lead is safe.
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  Speaker 2: I really feel like this.
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  Speaker 1: Was a combination of inexperience, a lack of adjustments mid game,
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  Speaker 1: and potentially fatigue from the Spurs.
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  Speaker 2: So I think the Spurs win Game two.
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  Speaker 1: Otherwise it's going to be a very tough flight to
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  Speaker 1: New York for Game three.
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  Speaker 2: So this was a monster story.
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  Speaker 1: Pablo Toori broke this about Kawhi Leonard and the Clippers
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  Speaker 1: and the investigation into illegally funneling money for a side
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  Speaker 1: deal to Kawhi Leonard. So the NBA has a nightmare
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  Speaker 1: scenario that it's dealing with now. On June first, a
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  Speaker 1: federal judge sentenced Aspiration co founder Joseph Sandberg of fourteen
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  Speaker 1: years in prison for a massive two hundred and forty
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  Speaker 1: eight million dollar investment fraud. But that brings the NBA
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  Speaker 1: to the finish line of the investigation as to whether
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  Speaker 1: or not the Clippers owner Steve Balmer use Sandberg's company
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  Speaker 1: to illegally funnel a twenty eight million dollars side deal
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  Speaker 1: to Kawhi Leonard to circumvent salary cap. If they are
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  Speaker 1: found guilty, the league could really damage the Clippers. They
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  Speaker 1: would avoid Kawhi's contract and strip away their number five
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  Speaker 1: overall pick, which is just weeks before the June twenty
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  Speaker 1: third MBA Draft. So all of this is coming together
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  Speaker 1: very quickly and it's going to have huge implications. They
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  Speaker 1: are expected to release the findings after the NBA Finals
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  Speaker 1: wrap up between the Nixon.
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  Speaker 2: Spurs, which makes a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 1: You do not want to distract from the biggest moments
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  Speaker 1: between the Nixon Spurs with an announcement like this, particularly
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  Speaker 1: if it means that they're going to be levying a
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  Speaker 1: four point five million dollar fine and a loss of
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  Speaker 1: a first round draft pick and the voiding of Leonard's contract.
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  Speaker 1: It would be catastrophic for the Clippers, to say the least,
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  Speaker 1: not to mention all of the implications about what this
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  Speaker 1: means legally, so it's something to pay attention to as
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  Speaker 1: it's unfolds. We won't likely get an answer on what
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  Speaker 1: the NBA is going to do until after the finals,
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  Speaker 1: but it could have big, big, big, big implications across
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  Speaker 1: the league. So the Packers' defense will have to navigate
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  Speaker 1: the first month of his season without Micah Parsons, the
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  Speaker 1: pass rusher. Confirmed two reporters at the team facility that
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  Speaker 1: he won't be on the field to open the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six NFL regular season, which is very disappointing. He
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  Speaker 1: revealed that he underwent both ACL surgery and a secondary
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  Speaker 1: meniscus procedure on December twenty ninth of last year, and
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  Speaker 1: he is strictly adhering to a data backed nine.
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  Speaker 2: Month recovery protocol.
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  Speaker 1: So they should prepare to see Micah Parson Anchor the
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  Speaker 1: start of the year on the physically unable to perform list,
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  Speaker 1: and he is targeting a realistic return in mid October.
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  Speaker 1: He suffered the injuries in Week fifteen on December fourteenth
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  Speaker 1: against the Broncos, but the surgery took place on the
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  Speaker 1: summer twenty ninth. I do think that this is the
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  Speaker 1: right choice. He's young, he is one of the stars
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  Speaker 1: of the league. This is a compounding injury with both
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  Speaker 1: ACL and meniscus. As someone to come back from an
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  Speaker 1: ICL injury just to be able to walk it is very,
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  Speaker 1: very unpleasant. So I can't imagine having to do that
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  Speaker 1: and a meniscus and the pressure of coming back. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not comparing myself to Mica Parsons. I'm just saying
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  Speaker 1: I had another ACL surgery. The point is this is disappointing,
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  Speaker 1: but I do think it is the right way to
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  Speaker 1: handle it. Not only do you want him one hundred
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  Speaker 1: percent healthy so that he can contribute at the highest level.
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  Speaker 1: This is an anchor of your team, a leader on
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  Speaker 1: your team, and one of the best players in the league.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to be gentle and do what he feels
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  Speaker 1: his best for his body alone, along with the doctors.
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  Speaker 1: The Packers open up the season against the Vikings, Jets, Falcons,
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  Speaker 1: and the Bucks, and they did take care of their
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  Speaker 1: receivers Jaden Reed and Christian Watson within a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: They extended both of them on long.
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  Speaker 1: Term contracts, so they are coming in mostly put together.
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  Speaker 2: I do expect them to be competitive early.
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  Speaker 1: But this is disappointing obviously because you would love to
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  Speaker 1: see my guy out there, but it's best that he
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  Speaker 1: is ready to go when he.
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  Speaker 2: Does come back.
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