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The OKC Thunder Are NBA Champions · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: It is official.
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  Speaker 2: The twenty twenty four twenty twenty five NBA champions is
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  Speaker 2: the OKC Thunder. It is bittersweet that the season is over,
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  Speaker 2: like the twenty twenty five postseason gave us game winners, comebacks, upsets,
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  Speaker 2: gave us everything. So I'm kind of sad about it
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  Speaker 2: being over, and I can't wait to do the rewatch
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  Speaker 2: deep dive later in the offseason when I get bored
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  Speaker 2: about what the hell happened in the twenty twenty five postseason.
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  Speaker 2: But the Thunder just wrapped off a sixty eight win
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  Speaker 2: regular season with the Larry O'Brian Trophy. And whether or
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  Speaker 2: not you respect his game, you like him as a
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  Speaker 2: person or a player, you got to you got to
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  Speaker 2: tip your cap to Shay Gives Alexander because just at
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  Speaker 2: the age of twenty six, he just did something that's
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  Speaker 2: like very rare.
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  Speaker 1: He won a scoring.
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  Speaker 2: Title, he won the MVP, he won a championship, and
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  Speaker 2: then he wrapped it off with the finals MVP.
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  Speaker 1: That really is legendary stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I got so much love and respect for this Pacers team,
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  Speaker 2: and we're gonna talk about them in a second. For
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  Speaker 2: them to have that run in the fourth quarter We're like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: see everybody in that arena was like, oh my goodness, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: For them to have that level of fight consider the circumstances,
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  Speaker 2: I got nothing, belove, And I'll always remember that team too,
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  Speaker 2: And I feel like it's rare for me to like
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  Speaker 2: have that kind of mindset towards the team that lost
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  Speaker 2: in the finals. But that's how good of a run
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  Speaker 2: it was for them, and that's how much fight they
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  Speaker 2: gave in every single series.
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  Speaker 1: But again, we're gonna talk about that now.
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  Speaker 2: And we get to the third quarter, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: the Pacers are throwing the ball around, They're turning the
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  Speaker 2: ball over left or right, and OKAC ends up going
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  Speaker 2: up by high double digits or whatever. And I'm thinking
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  Speaker 2: to myself, if OKAC closes out this game, how will
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  Speaker 2: I remember them as a team. And it is very simple,
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  Speaker 2: and it is something that I've been very redundant when
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  Speaker 2: talking about. It is that legendary defense that we have
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  Speaker 2: been seeing. This team has the best turnover margin of
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  Speaker 2: any team in the postseason. This team has just been
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  Speaker 2: an elite level defense. And I know we say a
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  Speaker 2: time and time again, but now I'm thinking about it,
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  Speaker 2: and look, look let me show you how elite of
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  Speaker 2: a defensive run this was for them in the regular season.
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  Speaker 2: These are the stats, right, the offensive and defensive ratings.
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  Speaker 2: In the first round of the playoffs, they went against
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  Speaker 2: the Memphis Grizzlies, who were sixth in offense. The second
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  Speaker 2: round of the playoffs they went against the Denver Nuggets,
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  Speaker 2: who were fourth in offense. And the conference finals they
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  Speaker 2: went against the Minnesota tim Wolves, who were eighth in offense.
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  Speaker 2: And in the NBA Finals they went against the Indiana Pacers,
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  Speaker 2: who were tenth in offense. And y'all know that is
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  Speaker 2: skewed based on the first twenty five or so games
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  Speaker 2: of the season. So this legendary defense just went against
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  Speaker 2: four offensive juggernauts and not only win against these four
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  Speaker 2: offensive juggernauts, shut the Fawcett off quite a bit. Now,
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  Speaker 2: of course, we got two seven games series and they won,
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  Speaker 2: like they just steamrolled that way through these things. But
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of the stuff that we saw
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  Speaker 2: of them going to seven game series was because the
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  Speaker 2: offense wasn't as advertised that defense really was though. So
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  Speaker 2: that's how I remember this team, Foreverend grave Man, I
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  Speaker 2: will forever remember this team for exactly that. This was
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  Speaker 2: a game that I think check Holmer put on an
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  Speaker 2: absolute masterclass on their defensive side of the balls, just shooting,
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  Speaker 2: and the offense has not been there for him this
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  Speaker 2: seven game series. I thought tonight he was pretty good
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  Speaker 2: and picking his spots and using his body to get
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  Speaker 2: easy ones. But it was the defensive side of the
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  Speaker 2: ball where there was just stretches in that third quarter
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  Speaker 2: where nobody could score other than the TJ McConnell's out
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  Speaker 2: of the T McConnell and Chet Holmer was blocking everything.
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  Speaker 2: He was switching out, he was preventing cuts. He was
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  Speaker 2: just an absolute monster. And I think it's so easy
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  Speaker 2: for a player to recognize, like, man, I'm shooting eleven
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  Speaker 2: percent from three and thirty something percent from the field
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  Speaker 2: as a seventh for the damn this is not really
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  Speaker 2: for me. I can't stay locked in. And he just
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  Speaker 2: recognized the stakes, recognized where he was and just really played.
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  Speaker 1: A phenomenal, phenomenal game.
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  Speaker 2: Shaye has been so good at the game by game
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  Speaker 2: adjustments like and you just don't get too like poor
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  Speaker 2: decision making games in a row from shape last game,
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  Speaker 2: I thought he looked pretty pretty bad when it came
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  Speaker 2: to decision making, you know, and that was partially because
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  Speaker 2: the end of the paces did an amazing job of
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  Speaker 2: mixing in when they were gonna help, where they were
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  Speaker 2: gonna help from, and who was who they were sending.
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  Speaker 2: And this one, I thought he really did think the
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  Speaker 2: game a little bit better and ended up play making better,
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  Speaker 2: which in time ended up meaning that they got better looks.
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  Speaker 2: A team that had struggled to even take three pointers
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  Speaker 2: in this game, I thought that they got what sixteen
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  Speaker 2: eighteen up in the first half. I'm like, yeah, okay, see,
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  Speaker 2: let's do it. They took forty three pointers tonight. That's
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  Speaker 2: not OKAC. But they recognized the time and the place.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of that is because man, when you get
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  Speaker 2: a team to turn the ball over twenty one times.
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  Speaker 1: You get so many expossessions.
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  Speaker 2: The Pacers shot seventy shots today, almost twenty more shots
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  Speaker 2: from the OKC Thunder. That is them getting out in
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  Speaker 2: transition and them getting second chance opportunities from Louke Dort
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  Speaker 2: in the second half. And you know, the Pacers tried
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  Speaker 2: to do everything that they could to match some of
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  Speaker 2: the energy to max some of these lineups, but obviously
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  Speaker 2: they were at a big disadvantage considering what happened in
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  Speaker 2: that first first quarter, and it I mean it may
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  Speaker 2: suck because I think through time it might be remembered
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  Speaker 2: as that. Right, what happened with Tyres Haliburton might be
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  Speaker 2: the first thing that comes to mind where you think
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  Speaker 2: about the twenty twenty five NBA Championship Game seven, and
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  Speaker 2: maybe it should be. But I also don't want to
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  Speaker 2: take away from what Okac has put together this entire season. Right,
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  Speaker 2: this is not a surprise champion. They won sixty eight games.
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  Speaker 2: Like I'm already seeing ridiculous hot takes on the timeline
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  Speaker 2: even before the game was over about it being the
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  Speaker 2: worst champion. And if you don't like the team, that's fine,
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  Speaker 2: that's fair. Everybody has their preferences on the styles that
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  Speaker 2: they want to watch as a basketball fan. But the
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  Speaker 2: motherfucking team just won sixty eight. It ain't like they
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  Speaker 2: were a forty one team. They went on a run.
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  Speaker 2: This team has been as good this entire time, and
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  Speaker 2: for them to win this championship, I think they mentioned
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  Speaker 2: when they were doing the whole ceremony it being the
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  Speaker 2: second youngest team to ever win. This is really special stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And Sam Presty. I think you got to start off there, right.
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  Speaker 2: Sam Presty had an opportunity over a decade ago to
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  Speaker 2: build a team that we thought would be in championship
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  Speaker 2: after championship, Final series after final series. They got one
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  Speaker 2: final series and one bad decision, well one of the
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  Speaker 2: biggest bad decisions. And if that as a potential dynasty,
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  Speaker 2: I think Sam Presty learned his lesson after last year, right.
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  Speaker 2: It would have been very easy to try to mortgage
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  Speaker 2: some of these younger dudes to go be big seller
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  Speaker 2: or big buyers. After losing to the Dallas Maveris last season,
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  Speaker 2: he still put he got a guy like Isaid Hartenstein
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  Speaker 2: who was able to impact these games and just watch
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  Speaker 2: the team grow around like a team that basically went
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  Speaker 2: from with nineteen wins to NBA champions in three seasons.
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  Speaker 2: That sounded like a fucking kot for a Q video.
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  Speaker 2: It happened in real life. It just happened in real life.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know if I expected at two o'clock
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  Speaker 2: in the morning when the Paul George trade broke that
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  Speaker 2: eventually that would lead to OKAC winning the championship. If anything,
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  Speaker 2: I thought that I'm not trying to rub it in
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  Speaker 2: Clippers fans. I promise you I'm not I thought of
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  Speaker 2: anything That trade was setting the Clippers up to go
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  Speaker 2: on multiple runs, and instead it sets Okac up for
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  Speaker 2: their first championship in twenty twenty five. And who the
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  Speaker 2: hell knows what happens after this, Right, even though they
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  Speaker 2: were this juggernaut sixty eight win team, it ain't like
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  Speaker 2: we can guarantee that they're gonna go back. So the
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  Speaker 2: fact that you get one, like so many people have
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  Speaker 2: talked about this, whether it be Steve Kerr or these
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  Speaker 2: people that won multiple championships, always talk about how tough
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  Speaker 2: just getting that first one is.
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  Speaker 1: And Okase can say.
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  Speaker 2: Confidently that we got it and we deserve that, and
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  Speaker 2: I respect the hell out of that.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about Tyres Haliburg.
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  Speaker 2: No, I want to talk about Tyres Halliburn because, like
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned, when you think about the game seven, I
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  Speaker 2: think that the Halliburton injury might pop off more than
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  Speaker 2: anything else that happened in this game. And so y'all know,
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  Speaker 2: Tyres Halliburton is my dog. He's one of my favorite
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  Speaker 2: players in all of basketball. It's rare that I feel
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  Speaker 2: as devastated as I did when that injury happened.
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  Speaker 1: It's rare.
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  Speaker 2: I've had it a few different times in my life. Right,
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  Speaker 2: you think about my first year of high school when
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  Speaker 2: the Rose goes down against the seventy six ers. Obviously
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  Speaker 2: that's the moment there. But I feel like, if you
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  Speaker 2: are a fan of sports and you grew.
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  Speaker 1: Up wanting to make it to the league, this is
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  Speaker 1: the type of game.
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  Speaker 2: You're shooting a driveway about Game seven of the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 1: My team needs me, right, you've done that before, right,
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  Speaker 1: game on the line? I got a ball, right, a
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  Speaker 1: game of the line. Can you beat some touch? A shot?
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  Speaker 2: And he misses, Oh, there was four more seconds added
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  Speaker 2: to the shock like that.
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  Speaker 1: You live for game sevens.
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  Speaker 2: So when he goes down, even before they showed up
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  Speaker 2: the injury like a replay, you see the pop.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: I can't I can't stop thinking about or visualized because
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  Speaker 2: they played on the brock as one hundred times when.
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  Speaker 1: He went down, the emotion that he had.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't talked to him. I'm sure that emotion is
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  Speaker 2: not about, oh, I'm in pain. I'm sure that emotion
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  Speaker 2: is about damn. This is Game seven, and I can't
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  Speaker 2: be there to potentially win this game for my guys,
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  Speaker 2: and I feel so bad for him, I feel so
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  Speaker 2: bad for Pacer fans, and I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Fucking sick to my stomach over some of.
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  Speaker 2: The conversations that have happened over the last I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: five days or so when it comes to this, this,
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  Speaker 2: this calve.
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  Speaker 1: Strain, I hate. I hate the way it is taught about.
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  Speaker 2: At times, a player plays to an injury and struggles
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  Speaker 2: from the field where he ain't given enough. A player
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  Speaker 2: decides to not play and now he don't care about
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  Speaker 2: the team. Skip Bayless had tweaked before Sarry's Halimer goes
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  Speaker 2: down with his injury, making fun of the idea that
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  Speaker 2: he was faking an injury, and then his achilles popped,
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  Speaker 2: and the medical professionals that do sports injuries on Twitter
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  Speaker 2: are saying, yeah, a calf strain can lead to that.
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  Speaker 2: I just I don't know what people want. I just
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  Speaker 2: don't know, because if he would have went down with
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  Speaker 2: that injury like he did in the game and decided
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  Speaker 2: not to come back, he would have been called soft
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  Speaker 2: and not a big called a bad leader because he
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  Speaker 2: wasn't there for his guys, and he was there for
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  Speaker 2: his guys at Game seven. He had three threes in
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  Speaker 2: the first fucking quarter and his achilles snap and it's.
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  Speaker 1: Like, well, come on, man, I just I feel so bad.
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  Speaker 2: This organization has no ever been this close to winning,
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  Speaker 2: and they lost. And they haven't officially called it achilles tear,
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  Speaker 2: but we saw that they set a lower leg injury
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  Speaker 2: and achilles injury.
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  Speaker 1: We saw that.
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  Speaker 2: So not only was he not able to be there
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  Speaker 2: for his guys for a Game seven on court, he
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  Speaker 2: may not be able to play it all next season.
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  Speaker 2: Dame Tatum Halliburton Kyrie Irving towards ACL before the postseason
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  Speaker 2: last year. We're about to go and I feel like
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  Speaker 2: I'm missing somebody up top. Hey, We're about to go
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  Speaker 2: into a twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six season without
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  Speaker 2: some of the best players in the league.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, some of these are like the Damian.
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  Speaker 2: Lillard won in the in the Tyres halliburnon one feels
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  Speaker 2: pretty similar. I'm injured, but it's the playoffs, baby, I
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  Speaker 2: gotta do something. I gotta go out there and try
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  Speaker 2: to help my team. I think it was Giler Arenas
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  Speaker 2: I said he texted or told to Tatum and dame
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  Speaker 2: about their injuries, and he said that both of them
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  Speaker 2: said that they had a calf streams before it happened.
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  Speaker 1: So how about this now?
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  Speaker 2: And I'm sure everybody's gonna forget about this next year,
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  Speaker 2: and somebody else is gonna be going thro an injury
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  Speaker 2: and we gonna make fun of him for.
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  Speaker 1: Not not playing.
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  Speaker 2: When you see somebody's out with an injury or playing
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  Speaker 2: through an injury, accepted at face value. These dudes are
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  Speaker 2: so hyper competitive. Nobody is out there, especially not the
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  Speaker 2: cream and the crop, the all NBA players are not
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  Speaker 2: about to fake an injury, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, man, It's so frustrating the way our game
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  Speaker 1: is covered. I hate so much about it. But I was.
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  Speaker 1: I was genuinely emotional. I ain't afraid to say it.
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  Speaker 1: I was genuinely emotional. Man. I was genuinely emotional when
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  Speaker 1: it happened.
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  Speaker 2: Because win or lose, I don't know what happens in
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  Speaker 2: this game if he plays, but he has the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to lay it all on the court and say that
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  Speaker 2: if we lost, we lost because well, you lost with
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  Speaker 2: me instead of without me. And when they show them
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  Speaker 2: walking off the court, the cameras following teas McConnell, who
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  Speaker 2: is extremely emotional with someone. I don't know if that
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  Speaker 2: was a relative or whatever, and the relative tails the
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  Speaker 2: camera get out of here. Then it cuts to the
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  Speaker 2: other camera and got Reese on the crutches and he's
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  Speaker 2: he's hugging TJ.
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  Speaker 1: McConnell's man. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Get into the finals is really hard. So to be
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  Speaker 2: this close, I can understand the emotion. I can understand
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  Speaker 2: the emotion.
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  Speaker 1: I am extremely proud and happy for the OKAC Thunder.
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  Speaker 1: I am extremely proud and happy for the fight the
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  Speaker 1: Pacers gave us.
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  Speaker 2: This was a seven game series, a series that the
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  Speaker 2: Pacers were I'm sorry the OKC Thunder were a minus
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  Speaker 2: seven hundred favorite in this one. This series should not
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  Speaker 2: have gone seven Carlyle. Even though pasc whoa.
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  Speaker 1: Series is whoa.
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  Speaker 2: Pascus, the Ox probably played a little bit more. Regardless,
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  Speaker 2: it was a great series. It was a great series,
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  Speaker 2: a great sea. And now we point our attention to
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  Speaker 2: the NBA Draft and free agency.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah,