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Kevin Durant on Who'd Win an NBA 1-on-1 Tournament & Playing w/ Team OGs | 2025 NBA All-Star · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Thanks BA.
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  Speaker 2: You know, congrats Katie, to thirty thousand points in your career.
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  Speaker 1: Just outstanding.
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  Speaker 2: Your fifteenth All Star appearents. But when I see that,
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  Speaker 2: I go hold on Kobe bron kareb the only three
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  Speaker 2: players with more All Star appearance is than you. Are
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  Speaker 2: you gonna catch Kobe at eighteen?
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna keep going that long? My friend? Man?
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  Speaker 3: Who knows? Man, I wanna take it to day at
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  Speaker 3: a time and enjoy the moment.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's cool being around the best players in the world,
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  Speaker 3: some old, some young. And to be back in the
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  Speaker 3: Bay Area too as well, a place where I have
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  Speaker 3: some success and win a championship and lived for three years.
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  Speaker 1: Man, it's a special weekend, Katie. I'm gonna go back.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I've been around the game a long time.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna gloss over thirty thousand points. Take me
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  Speaker 4: to that kid to now that scored thirty thousand points
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  Speaker 4: in the NBA.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Man, It's something I didn't really dream about or
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  Speaker 3: think that I can accomplish. Man, because so many great
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  Speaker 3: players and so much gotta go right in your career
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  Speaker 3: to get to this point. And I'm just great throw
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  Speaker 3: off all the people that invested in me and teammates, coaches, France,
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  Speaker 3: family that was always there for me to help.
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  Speaker 1: Me get better. And you know I got more to do, man,
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  Speaker 1: I want to keep going.
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  Speaker 4: Hedie, you know what I look at it. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we know injuries play a part, but no injury. We're
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  Speaker 4: talking about thirty five thirty four. I mean, I'm just
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. We can play the hypothetical. For sure,
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  Speaker 4: we can play it. So take me through For the
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  Speaker 4: young kids who idolize you. You've always been a great player,
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  Speaker 4: but to sustained greatness, tell me what.
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  Speaker 1: Do you do?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's about routine and falling in love with that
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  Speaker 3: routine every single day. As you know, it's all about
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  Speaker 3: improving and trying to, you know, make adjustments to who
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  Speaker 3: you are as a player. Every single day is NonStop,
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  Speaker 3: even through the season. I know we hear about all
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  Speaker 3: season how that's important and how we need to get
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  Speaker 3: better in the off season. But I really take pride
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  Speaker 3: and getting better throughout the season as well, putting in
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  Speaker 3: work in between games and.
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  Speaker 1: Having that transfer over the games.
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  Speaker 3: And I think just having that consistency in that routine
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  Speaker 3: is while I'm here today and where I can still
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  Speaker 3: do the things I do know.
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  Speaker 2: There's been discussion about potentially adding one on one the
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  Speaker 2: NBA All Star Weekend. If they did that right, One,
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  Speaker 2: do you think you would win the one on one
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  Speaker 2: versus everybody?
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  Speaker 1: And two?
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  Speaker 2: Who would be the toughest person to face a one
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  Speaker 2: on one in the league?
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  Speaker 1: Man?
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  Speaker 3: That would be tough. Of course, I would have to
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  Speaker 3: go with myself. But it's so many great one on
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  Speaker 3: one players in our league. I don't think it'll be
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  Speaker 3: easy to predict who will come out on top. But
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  Speaker 3: if I had to say, one guy'd probably be winby
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  Speaker 3: I add Tatum in there too, the long athletic guys,
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  Speaker 3: you know. So I just I just feel like it's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of guys that can come out here and
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  Speaker 3: put a show on in the one on one. So
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  Speaker 3: that would be a cool addition to All Star Weekend.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see what happens to you.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I remember your first All Star now you're
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  Speaker 4: an og take me too through. What the advice would
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  Speaker 4: you give some of these guys that their first All
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  Speaker 4: Star game, you know, getting a chance to play it
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  Speaker 4: in this type of atmosphere with the guys that they
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  Speaker 4: looked up.
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  Speaker 3: To yeah, I would tell them to experience. Try to
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  Speaker 3: experience big part of every event age like you can.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I remember Dame was in every event for
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  Speaker 1: the first few times he was an All Star. You see,
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  Speaker 1: Vic just said he's gonna be playing, and you're doing.
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  Speaker 3: The Skills Challenge tonight, and so take advantage of just
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  Speaker 3: the weekend itself as a player and immersing yourself in
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  Speaker 3: the culture All Star Weekend. You know so I did
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  Speaker 3: a three point contest Sports Championship playing.
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  Speaker 1: In the Rookie Game.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 3: So, as much as you can't get into these events,
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  Speaker 3: it's pretty cool and it's a memorable experience, all right.
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  Speaker 2: From one future Hall of Famer to the Hall of
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  Speaker 2: Famer Reggie Miller.
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  Speaker 1: What you got, my friend, Katie?
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  Speaker 5: Your team name says it all the Ogs. Now, you
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  Speaker 5: guys are on a lot of these younger teams Mount
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  Speaker 5: Rushmore and you know they're coming for y'all's neck. What
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  Speaker 5: is going to be the mentality that the Ogs take, like,
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  Speaker 5: we're not losing.
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  Speaker 1: To some of these young teams.
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  Speaker 3: Well, when you look at some of the OG's what
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  Speaker 3: they did before All Star Break. James Harden at thirty
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  Speaker 3: five playing fifty minutes against Utah the other night. You
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  Speaker 3: see Dame, you see Steph playing back to backs, playing
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  Speaker 3: high minutes.
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  Speaker 1: So we got high energy too, man. So they got
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  Speaker 1: to match us, you know. So you come out there
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  Speaker 1: on the court with us. We got experience and energy.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be a fun match up. And this is
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  Speaker 1: a reunion in Olympic reunion for a lot of you guys.
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  Speaker 5: Some experience for you guys as well going into this
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  Speaker 5: new format.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we got some you know, guys that've been teammates
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  Speaker 3: before on this on the Ogs, you know, so our
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  Speaker 3: chemistry is gonna be there. You know, we're looking forward
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  Speaker 3: to putting the show on in front of the fans, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, Katie looking now, let's let's fast forward for the
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  Speaker 4: second half of the season. What the Phoenix Suns have
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  Speaker 4: to do to get into that Mix's just to get
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  Speaker 4: in that mix where we've seen you guys, you know
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  Speaker 4: where you supposed to be, wherever we thought before the season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been disappointed for sure, and don't want to
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  Speaker 3: hide from that fact. I think fundamentally, if we become
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  Speaker 3: a better rebounded team and defense, that that will help
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  Speaker 3: our defense more. I think we do a good job
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  Speaker 3: of initially getting stops in it. But it's hard for
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  Speaker 3: us to you know, when it's hard for us to
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  Speaker 3: he bound, it's hard for us to finish plays and
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  Speaker 3: become a good defensive team.
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  Speaker 1: So if it's one thing I had to.
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  Speaker 3: Pinpoint as that, and you know, and and you know,
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  Speaker 3: once we get that in under control, I think the
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  Speaker 3: rest of our game will started to flourish.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Katie, you're going down as one of the
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  Speaker 2: greatest scores in NBA history, but before that, you're one
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  Speaker 2: of the greatest.
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  Speaker 1: Hoopers in d m V history.
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  Speaker 2: So before we let you go, give me your top
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  Speaker 2: five d m V hoopers of all time. You're ready
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  Speaker 2: on the list. So I just need four more.
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  Speaker 4: Go.
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  Speaker 3: Grant Hill, we talked about this all summer and see
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  Speaker 3: d m V or that, and I would put him
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  Speaker 3: in that in that category, even though he's from Northern Virginia.
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  Speaker 3: Lamn Bias, I would throw lam Bias in there. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's one of the first guys to kind of set
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  Speaker 3: the tone from that area of PG County. I would say.
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  Speaker 3: I would say Steve Francis too. I would throw him
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  Speaker 3: in there. He's, you know, one of the first All
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  Speaker 3: Stars multiple time All Stars man, then an underrated name
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  Speaker 3: have to go somebody like Adrian Danley Man. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I know that might take some of the audience back
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  Speaker 3: a little bit with a few of those names, but
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  Speaker 3: those are the guys that set the foundation for me,
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  Speaker 3: that I looked up to and that had incredible long careers.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Katie, My last question for you seventy more years, four, five, six, listen,
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  Speaker 4: you can always be.
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  Speaker 1: Able to score?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean I want to go to the
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  Speaker 3: wheels fall off, man.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be able.
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  Speaker 3: To continue to intact the game as much as I
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  Speaker 3: can in any road that's asked to me. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: having fun, you know, getting better and going through the
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  Speaker 3: grind man.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll see Hoopers recognized Hoopers.
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  Speaker 2: KD appreciate you spending some time with us.
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  Speaker 1: We got to give props to my man three D.
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  Speaker 2: Two, also a DMB hooper who is just outstanding through
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  Speaker 2: his time in the DMV, through the NB Chris Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Detroyed Hoopers versus d MV Hoopers DMV bro we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about that.
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  Speaker 4: Wait a minute, you from New York, so than your Hey, I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Working d C. Who you got your starting five right now.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we got George Garb Yeah, Derek Coleman, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: Spencer Haywood, Chris.
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  Speaker 1: Webber and you're knowing you in there that Jalen, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I got a deep team. You know, I'm taking
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  Speaker 1: us though, man, D M B. Troy.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's what we're going with, all right, Kreia always
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  Speaker 2: spending some time with us,