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[SPEAKER_02]: What you are listening to now is the Central Indian Sports Report podcast number three hundred and fifty three point two The Pacers report with Mike Rich.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Although today we had the entire gang with us to talk about the Pacers schedule release Mike and I were joined by our fever guy John Robertson our baseball guy Cody Emerson
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[SPEAKER_02]: Will Rutherford of the Will Rutherford Show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And, of course, Michelle Garmin of the Tipton Tribune and L. Wood Collider was able to join us in the middle of the conversation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Please enjoy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're listening to the central Indiana Sports Report with your host, Greg Mendel.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Good morning, good afternoon or good evening, Pacers fans and welcome to the Pacers Report with Mike Rich before we get to Mike and our other guests just want to go over the entire Pacers schedule with you in just a couple of minutes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The NBA season officially gets underway Tuesday, October,
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[SPEAKER_02]: But your eastern conference champion Indiana Pacers don't get underway until Thursday, October, twenty-third on my father's birthday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: One of the biggest Pacers fans I know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Talk to him earlier today.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think he's going to try to get to that one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it'll be against the defending NBA Champion Oklahoma City Thunder, seven, thirty on October, twenty, third on ESPN.
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[SPEAKER_02]: First road game of the season is in Memphis on Saturday, October, twenty, fifth followed the next night by a trip to Minnesota, then three nights later they stay on the road in Dallas, October, twenty, night.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's a Wednesday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So three of the first four games are on the road.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Pacers first NBA Cup game is Friday, October, thirty first, Halloween night.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Against the Atlanta Hawks at home, the next NBA Cup game isn't until Friday, November, twenty first at Cleveland who of course will be the favorites in the East and the favorites in the East Group A in the NBA Cup.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The final two pool play games of the NBA Cup will be Wednesday, November, twenty sixth at Toronto.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And the final game is Friday, November twenty eight against the Wizards, the winner of each group will advance to the elimination stages of the NBA Cup with the championship played in Vegas.
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[SPEAKER_02]: These semi-finals are on December, thirteenth, and the NBA Cup Championship will be held on the sixteenth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Of course, all of those games, except for the championship, also count as part of the regular season standings.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And back to the nine NBA Cup games.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Starting in November, the Pacers play the first three games at home, and the first two are games that are guest pointed out as
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[SPEAKER_02]: games they are most looking forward to or games they're looking forward to going to and on Saturday November first the Golden State Warriors Steph Curry and the gang will visit the fieldhouse seven o'clock Saturday November first again Monday November third is the return of Miles Turner the first time he'll ever play an Indianapolis as a pro not as a pacer can't wait to beat them not a team in the league
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[SPEAKER_02]: just like more than Milwaukee right now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Wednesday, November, fifth also at home is the Brooklyn Nets.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The pastors make their first trip out west in early November.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They got a Denver on the eighth and Golden State on the ninth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Utah on the eleventh and Phoenix on November, thirteenth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They return home on Saturday, November, fifteenth to face the raptors before going to Detroit two nights later and coming home to face the hornets two nights after that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: After the NBA Cup game against the Cavaliers, the Pacers will play the Pistons again this time at home on Monday, November, twenty-fourth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And the special night after Thanksgiving, which seems to happen every year in Indianapolis, now features the Washington Wizards at home.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The following night, Saturday, November, twenty-ninth, the Bulls visit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: December begins with two more home games against to NBA championship contenders.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Cleveland comes the indie on Monday, December first, Nicola Yokech and the Denver Nuggets visit on Wednesday, December third, and if you haven't seen him live, you might want to do that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Pacers go to Chicago on Friday, December fifth before returning home for two Monday, December eighth against the Kings.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That is the last game before the NBA Cup tournament.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then the first game after ten days following the Kings game is the New York Nix at home on December eighth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The final three games before Christmas.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Two of them are on the road December twenty.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's a Saturday in New Orleans and then their first game against the Celtics of the year on Monday, December twenty second before a Tuesday, December twenty third home game once again against Miles Turner and the Milwaukee Bucks.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Once again, the Pacers do not play on Christmas Day, a little bit of a surprise.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But they do play the following day at home against the Boston Celtics Friday December, twenty-sixth before going to Miami the next night to place the heat on the twenty-seventh.
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[SPEAKER_02]: December, twenty-nineth
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[SPEAKER_02]: Pacers will play Kevin Durant and the Houston Rockets for the first time in Houston before finishing twenty twenty five at home against the Orlando Magic another game that came up in our conversational later.
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[SPEAKER_02]: twenty twenty-six begins with a home game against Victor Wimbagnama and the San Antonio spurs January fourth their at or a lando again another team that figures to be at least in eastern conference contender and then their home against the eastern conference favorite the Cleveland Cavaliers on January sixth
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[SPEAKER_02]: They go to Charlotte on January eighth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They host the heat on January tenth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Celtics on the twelfth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Raptors on the Fourteenth and the Pelicans on the sixteenth and a four game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Home stand in January.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And they go on their longest road trip of the year, five straight games, January, seventeenth of Detroit, nineteenth at Philadelphia, the twenty first at Boston, then the return trip to Oklahoma City, Friday, January, twenty-third on Amazon Prime at nine thirty, a rematch of the NBA finals.
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[SPEAKER_02]: the location where all of our hearts were broken.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Monday, January, twenty-sixth, the Pacers are in Atlanta.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They host the bulls on the twenty-eighth of the Hawks on the thirty-first, the Rockets on the second and the Jazz on the third and other five-game homestand before going
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[SPEAKER_02]: Six straight games on the road.
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[SPEAKER_02]: At Milwaukee on Friday, February six at Toronto on the eighth, at Madison Square Garden to take on the nicks on the tenth and in Brooklyn to face the nets on eleven.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Then after the All-Star Break, they return to the road to Games in Washington on the nineteenth and twentieth back to back nights against the wizards.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Late February is all played at home.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The twenty-second they will host Cooper Flag in the Dallas Mavericks.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The twenty-fourth will be against Paul George and the seventy-sixers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The twenty-sixth against the Hornets and then March first at home against the Memphis Grizzlies.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Pacers take their second West Coast Road Trip in early March.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They go to the Clippers and Lakers on March fourth and sixth Portland on the eighth Sacramento on the tenth before coming home.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and facing the suns on the twelfth and the nix on the thirteenth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're at Milwaukee on the fifteenth at New York on the seventeenth at home against the blazers on March eight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They go to San Antonio on Saturday, March twenty first to Orlando on the twenty-third.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're at home against the lakers and clippers on March twenty fifth and twenty seventh.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Then the heat at home on March twenty ninth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: April starts with three straight road games Chicago and the first Charlotte on the third and Cleveland on the fifth seems like they played Cleveland, twelve times.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Their home against Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves on NBC on Tuesday, April seventh.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Speaking of which, the Pacers have nine national television games, if you include the National Streaming Services.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thursday, November, night, they're in Brooklyn.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The next night, they host the Philadelphia Seventy-Sixers and the entire league finishes the regular season on Sunday, April, Twelfth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Pacers will host the Pistons.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Please stay tuned for Mike Rich, John Robertson.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Will Russford, Cody Emerson, and Michelle Garm.
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[SPEAKER_00]: you're listening to the central Indiana sports report with your host Greg Mendel.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome, Pacers fans of the central Indiana sports report and the Pacers report with Mike Rich, John Robertson, Will Rutherford, Cody Emerson, and maybe Michelle Garment.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She said she might be here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I just went over the entire Pacers schedule game by game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Now we're here to talk with everybody about
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[SPEAKER_02]: what is most interesting to you about the Pacer Schedule and which games you're looking forward to attending and John Robertson maybe attending on the road and those are the stories I'm looking forward to start with you, Mike Rich.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Definitely looking forward to the first game against Oklahoma City.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That'll be an exciting game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think tickets are running just under two hundred dollars right now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Probably won't go to that game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm also looking forward to the first game against the bucks at home in early November and of course December, eighteenth when they play the sucky ass nicks.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm looking forward to that game too.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I probably go to the one in December.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's gonna be tough.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's gonna be a Cody set up before.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's a brutal start.
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[SPEAKER_03]: to the season.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I look at the first ten games.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if they're going to go five hundred.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's going to be a really tough run in the beginning.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We're really going to find out what this team's made of.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm excited to see, you know, how they're going to pan out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that that first ten games going to tell you how most of the season's going to go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll all say that you're right about having a rough start to the season, like a difficult start to the season, but I also think that it won't dictate the whole season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think just like last season, they're going to have to figure out how they mesh and how they drill together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And like, so they may have a terrible start, but I think they'll pop out of it again, you know, second half of the season again, maybe.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I hope so.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Barring injuries.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's, I think, going to be this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that we're not going to have the level of depth that if we get injured, we're not going to be able to overcome it as quickly.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think we can sustain a rough start like we had last year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think we're bound from that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think we're good enough to rebound from a rough start.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like I said before, we got started.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's a Pearl stretch.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I don't like Mike said I'm looking forward to the season opener game.
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[SPEAKER_05]: What is this now game?
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[SPEAKER_05]: It'll be game eight.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Is this what we're calling it again?
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's a game eight at a chance that, you know, maybe some sense of redemption.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Then just some games better than the first.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Any time a Steph Curry comes to Indianapolis.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, shows are gonna be, or the stands are gonna be packed tickets.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I don't have anyone looked at tickets yet, but shows are going for, you know, pretty expensive, then kind of like you said again, Mike.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Um, when Miles Turner make comes back to gain bridge, this will be another hot topic.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I think he gets a video tribute, but does he kill probably get cheer?
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[SPEAKER_05]: There'll probably be some booze in there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he gets a video tribute, but I think he gets the DeWanna bottom treatment.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I think that is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's better not.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Anybody playing for the Milwaukee bucks does not get a video tribute.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He put ten good years in for the team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like he's playing for the box.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: In a span of eight days, you play the Warriors twice.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And then also back to back with Denver.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And you know, let's hold on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Warriors of the Warriors of twenty twenty five twenty twenty six probably aren't the Warriors of the of the twenty nine.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But I'm curious to kind of I think like we all said the start.
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[SPEAKER_05]: How they do what's the rotation look like how does Carlisle manage that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And it's going to we're going to find out pretty quickly.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, how good or bad.
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[SPEAKER_05]: This high-rethal burdenless pace of the team is going to be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Give, give, uh, Rick Carl all credit though that if the rotations aren't going the way he wants in the first in games, he's going to figure something out to make it better.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It may not work well, but I think he's proven that he can figure out to do it and adjust on the fly after Will threatened to throw him in the canal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, you know, he knows what's on the line.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't want to be a canal bath.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, he doesn't.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we'll do it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I mean, we didn't with Pat McAfee.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll do it with this.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, allegedly, allegedly, McAfee ended up in the canal.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe I'm the, all the one out.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't really think the beginning of the schedule matters.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Honestly, I like it backloaded easy because I think they're going to be rolling going into the playoffs, have confidence, they'll be rotations that we locked up.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They just seem to survive.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They stay hover,
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[SPEAKER_04]: around five hundred a couple games that out of five hundred the first two months they're going to be just fine I mean it's a tough front loaded schedule but it's better to get it out of the way early go into the playoffs which this team is going to be in the playoffs with confidence and the ability to I think compete probably for a six five through seven seed probably somewhere so I think that it's reasonable to say that they'll be just fun
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[SPEAKER_05]: to that point will, it's when we speak to the playoffs, that's because how, how God awful the Eastern Conference is going to be this year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, there are no great teams in the East, but I think they're probably eight pretty good ones.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think there's pride.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's going to be top heavy, but I mean, you're going to have that, I think, like, we'll mention the the thick through, ten eleven, like all be fighting, they're all going to have a chance.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's going to be there's going to be some teams who maybe on my outside looking in the last few years or starting to look maybe and look.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, crap.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We have a chance and make it a little decimated after the Achilles wars of twenty five.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That's why I still think the Pacers can can and will make the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that leads into no one's mentioned the Orlando games.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the three Orlando games are going to be pretty telling and important.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have expectations for the magic to be better by far than they have been in the past.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just have a feeling they're going to be a top three in the east.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They could definitely be the biggest competitor to Cleveland.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think right now Cleveland is an entire level above everybody else in the east, assuming they rebound from the ass kicking they took from the Pacers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But talent wise, there's no doubt that they should be the number one seed and the favor going into the season.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Orlando could definitely be number two.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think the Pacers still can be in that next group of teams that is a threat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, they're not going to win anything, but I hope it's much as I hate to say this, like I think New York's going to be number two.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like I've got.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I've got Cleveland, New York, that Orlando is my
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[SPEAKER_01]: whatever the cult trifecta for what I think it's going to be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Looking at the schedule for travel out for those people that don't know like my daughter and I want to watch the Pacers play at every away city at some point in our lives.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a bucket list long term thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We try to knock out two a year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, my original plan for this year was to try and hit both LA games at the, you know, within the same three day span.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, but they're playing on a Wednesday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, they played Clippers March fourth and then Lakers Friday March six, which I think would be a break for you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's that's late in March.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I would have to use three personal days to do it, but you know what, I might, I might just do it like,
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[SPEAKER_01]: I do think my big thing is I want to see the Clippers Arena, the new Clippers Arena while it's still new.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to see it, you know, five, seven years down the road.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to see it while it's still fresh.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that for those people that haven't followed the Clippers at all, like their new arena is really, really cool.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's probably like top of the wide technology.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They've got like all sorts of really cool stuff there that they don't have anywhere else.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I want to see that like part of you wants to hold off and to go to Lakers until LeBron's gone because I just don't care about LeBron, but I think that it's Lucas team now anyway, so it's not really going to affect ticket prices when LeBron leaves.
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[SPEAKER_01]: At least I don't think so.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not much.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's that's all my list of games that I care about.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If we don't do the LA double this year, we talked about going to Atlanta.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's one game in Atlanta early in the season because that's like a seven hour drive, which wouldn't be too bad.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then flying into one of the Boston games.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So do like in Atlanta one week and then do Boston later in the season.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Should November eight through the thirteenth I think you should drive to Denver San Francisco Salt Lake City and then Phoenix and then you know you take it off if I didn't have to take off so many days to do that like that's that's it my wheelhouse.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I love long road trips.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean you I don't know if you guys know I like we we drove to Vegas last year for the world series of poker.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I took my daughter with me and it was awesome.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was super fun.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So like I have no problem with a giant road trip but missing what eight
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[SPEAKER_01]: How many days would that be eight through thirteen so at least five days plus travel.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's like a week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like nine day trip.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I can't really take a full week off of school.
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[SPEAKER_02]: By the way, the weekend after Thanksgiving Friday and Saturday at home against the bullets and the bowls.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So and then that's four straight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: December first three third it's a Monday and Wednesday the first and third is Cleveland and Denver at home so nice little stretch there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't mind going to that Denver game at home just to see you could play well it before he gives up basketball for horse racing maybe maybe by January who knows with that guy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: See what you can everybody because then your next chance is going to be live in Serbia.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Are we surprised that the Pacers got nine national TV games?
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[SPEAKER_05]: No.
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[SPEAKER_02]: A little.
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[SPEAKER_05]: A little shocked.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I was a little shocked.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I was shocked.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I got that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Especially when I heard they weren't playing on Christmas like they never have in the history of the franchise.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And never will.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to get screwed again with this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think screwed.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I understand that if you're the NBA, you probably aren't banking on a tie-reath, Haliburtonless Pacers bringing a lot of eyeballs.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We think they will, we're a little biased, but you understand from their perspective why you wouldn't have a ton.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think that, I think nine games is pretty respectful of the past.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I'm sorry.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're going to be without a caliber.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think if the NBA, you have to give last year's finalists more games than you normally do regardless of who it is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Not if they're going to stink.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, but we don't think they're going to, but most people do think they're going to.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But that's what we thought they were going to stink this year too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But like, as a league, first of all, they haven't wanted to give Haliburton the credit for being as good as he was anyway.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So if you say, well, right, but if you say you're not going to show the team because they're not going to be good because Halibur is out, then you're giving credit to Haliburton for being like the engine, which he is like, I don't want to take it away from me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's just getting one of those narrative things.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And the most respectful way I can say that I don't really give a shit who plays an NBA on Christmas of it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The NFL owns Christmas now anyway, so does.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah, you're going to be like this.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm completely disagreeing.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The NFL will plot Drupal quite a group of the NBA.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the biggest viewers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They ratings day that isn't in the play.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I understand that the NFL fan base is bigger than the NBA fan base, but like, it is a big deal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I watch all five NBA games on Christmas Day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I said they're watching all of them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I absolutely do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's a big deal.
21:52
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's a great lineup, by the way, we mentioned Cleveland versus the Nick.
21:55
[SPEAKER_02]: Those are going to be the two top teams in the East if two of the top three.
21:59
[SPEAKER_02]: The spurs and thunder.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's going to be a huge ratings game.
22:03
[SPEAKER_02]: The rockets and lakers.
22:04
[SPEAKER_02]: If you don't think people are watching the lakers, you're out of your mind.
22:07
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a great lineup.
22:08
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's on watching it.
22:09
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm watching every game.
22:11
[SPEAKER_01]: Be a Christmas.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, and that's one of those things that like is getting complicated as we go forward.
22:18
[SPEAKER_01]: Not everybody has prime.
22:19
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I feel like most people have prime at this point, but not everybody has it.
22:23
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to get peacock just for a basketball game.
22:27
[SPEAKER_02]: Kind of have to live with watching what you can, right?
22:29
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a different landscape, but hey, when we were growing up at least Mike Rich and I and Michelle, we got to watch eight Pacer games a year.
22:36
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm I'm not going to complain.
22:39
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not so busy.
22:41
[SPEAKER_03]: I was like eight games a year, so and and you don't want to go there with me because I can't stand fan-dool, Bali, forever.
22:54
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
22:56
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you guys could go to one home game when you get lost, you got free tickets to one game, and that's the only game you could go to all year, what's game do you pick?
23:04
[SPEAKER_01]: Who do you want to see?
23:06
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the first Milwaukee game I want to boo miles turner and I want to beat their asses That game or the next on December eighteenth
23:19
[SPEAKER_03]: Where you going will, which game you're taking?
23:21
[SPEAKER_04]: You know what, I've gone, I've stayed a pretty consistent schedule with Twitch game.
23:25
[SPEAKER_04]: I go to and college.
23:26
[SPEAKER_04]: I always go to the Friday after Thanksgiving.
23:29
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm home.
23:29
[SPEAKER_04]: My friends are home.
23:30
[SPEAKER_04]: We go.
23:31
[SPEAKER_04]: They play Washington this year, which I mean, blah, but I just enjoy that.
23:36
[SPEAKER_04]: We go with friends.
23:38
[SPEAKER_04]: It's a good time.
23:38
[SPEAKER_04]: We're all twenty one now.
23:39
[SPEAKER_04]: So that's the game that I'm probably going to actually go to.
23:44
[SPEAKER_04]: Probably the only one.
23:45
[SPEAKER_02]: I also really like the New Year's Eve game and this year it's against Orlando at three o'clock.
23:51
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Mike every year you and I go it seems to be Orlando so maybe that's the one for us the New Year's Eve game.
23:59
[SPEAKER_02]: I would be up for that.
24:02
[SPEAKER_01]: Like one of my favorite parts of this whole thing is like trying to find the best seat value.
24:06
[SPEAKER_01]: So like I don't care if we're in like Baloney Row one or if we're like core side if it's the best value for price.
24:12
[SPEAKER_01]: So I personally like when I think the first home Milwaukee game at home is the obvious answer like everybody wants to be there to see the reaction to miles.
24:21
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I think that if I can only have one that's the one I would go to.
24:26
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't particularly want to see New York at home.
24:28
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
24:30
[SPEAKER_01]: I just make me nauseous.
24:33
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'll go with the first.
24:35
[SPEAKER_01]: I know it's the obvious answer, but I'll go with the first miles back in indie game.
24:41
[SPEAKER_02]: By the way, Cody, we're waiting for yours, but I just want to point out that the Houston.
24:45
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't want anybody to go.
24:47
[SPEAKER_02]: The Houston and Kevin Durant team that looked like it might be a championship contender is in town on February second, just wanted to point that out.
24:56
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't mistake, let's allow it.
24:57
[SPEAKER_00]: That was bad.
24:58
[SPEAKER_00]: That was bad.
25:00
[SPEAKER_00]: That was bad.
25:01
[SPEAKER_00]: That was bad.
25:03
[SPEAKER_00]: That was bad.
25:04
[SPEAKER_00]: That was bad.
25:05
[SPEAKER_00]: That was bad.
25:05
[SPEAKER_00]: That was bad.
25:06
[SPEAKER_00]: That was bad.
25:07
[SPEAKER_00]: That was bad.
25:14
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm just going to agree with Michelle with the Warriors game on the first.
25:19
[SPEAKER_05]: I love, I'm not seeing Steph Curry play getting to watch him in person.
25:25
[SPEAKER_05]: I kind of like to choose a weekend because I'm busy at work throughout the week and in the evenings.
25:31
[SPEAKER_05]: So I typically like to go during a weekend and thankfully that's Saturday and November first.
25:37
[SPEAKER_05]: So try to pick one that's probably go watch Steph Curry, you know.
25:42
[SPEAKER_05]: Hopefully do stuff for you things one last time before he's obviously in the twilight but he's got a few I think he does too, but I mean, but you want to see him when he's still in my part.
25:55
[SPEAKER_02]: He's gonna age well, but I wanted to say one of the things
26:01
[SPEAKER_02]: Cody brought this up a weekend game.
26:03
[SPEAKER_02]: DJ and I, one of the very few we can do is Sunday afternoon, you know, the five o'clock games.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No Sunday home games until the end of February.
26:13
[SPEAKER_02]: And the first one is February, twenty second, five o'clock against Dallas and the first game for Cooper Flag in Indianapolis is appropriate.
26:21
[SPEAKER_01]: I bet tickets are gonna be spicy for that one.
26:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Not super spicy, but a little, a little up there.
26:26
[SPEAKER_01]: Again for a hundred and six right now.
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