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USMNT’s Dramatic World Cup Run, NBA East Shake-Up, and the Post-LeBron Lakers Era · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to The Daily Play with Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for you you subscribe balls on
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  Speaker 2: social at the Daily Play Joy Taylor. It has been
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  Speaker 2: It has been a World Cup, y'all. It's been a
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  Speaker 2: World Cup. It has been stars, it has been controversy,
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  Speaker 2: it has been conversations about the refs.
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  Speaker 1: But let's check in on the US men's national team.
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  Speaker 1: They're doing their best to be as successful as the
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  Speaker 1: women's team.
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  Speaker 2: They have a way to go, but they have made
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  Speaker 2: great progress in this World Cup on home soil. They
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  Speaker 2: had an incredible start to the tournament with four goals
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  Speaker 2: and a dominant opening win over Paraguay in La So
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  Speaker 2: the momentum and the expectations started building from there. Went
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  Speaker 2: up another level with a two nil win over Australia
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  Speaker 2: in Seattle in game two, and by the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day the US had one Group d so the
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  Speaker 2: third game gave a chance for some other players to
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  Speaker 2: get some run and for the players on yellow cards
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  Speaker 2: to avoid getting a second. The result was nine new
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  Speaker 2: starters battling back and forth with Turkey a for a
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  Speaker 2: three to two loss. A little disappointing, but thankfully they
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  Speaker 2: battled back to a win in the round of thirty
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  Speaker 2: two matchup with Bosnia and Rzegovina. Of course, a wildly
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  Speaker 2: controversial red card after flow Ballagoon goal that they got right.
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  Speaker 1: Before the half.
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  Speaker 2: He is our leading goal scorer in the tournament and
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  Speaker 2: this has changed the outlook for the US dramatically because
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  Speaker 2: we lost him for the half and we'll lose him
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  Speaker 2: for the next game.
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  Speaker 1: But the boys battled ten men.
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  Speaker 2: The US men's national team stood strong and lak Tilman
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  Speaker 2: struck a beautiful free kick that songs will be written
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  Speaker 2: about depending on how the rest of this tournament goes.
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  Speaker 2: But now they have Belgium, the ninth best team in
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  Speaker 2: the world according to the most recent FIFA rankings. The
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  Speaker 2: World Cup is the last for Belgium's Golden generation, which
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  Speaker 2: haven't been able to deliver on expectations. So it will
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  Speaker 2: be a great one, a serial one, a dramatic one
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  Speaker 2: on Monday. So enjoy the weekends of football as we
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  Speaker 2: lead into one of the biggest matchups, if not the
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  Speaker 2: biggest matchups in US men's national team history on Monday
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  Speaker 2: after the holiday.
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  Speaker 1: Can't wait for that. So the NBA is in motion.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot that has gone on in this off season,
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  Speaker 2: some really dramatic big moves. There are stories that are
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  Speaker 2: still in motion, but mostly my biggest takeaway is the
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  Speaker 2: Eastern Conference looks completely different from the way that we
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  Speaker 2: left it just a few weeks ago in the NBA
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  Speaker 2: Finals with the Knicks winning it is it is completely changed. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: the Heat have landed Giannis to pair with bam Adebayo.
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  Speaker 2: They are going to be a team that has huge
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  Speaker 2: expectations this year, which was not the case last year.
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  Speaker 2: The Bucks are a completely different looking thing now. The
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  Speaker 2: Sixers landed Jalen Brown, and there's a lot of fallout
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  Speaker 2: from that, a lot of conversation and of course about
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  Speaker 2: who Jalen Brown is and why they did not want
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  Speaker 2: him there because there are obviously a lot of questions
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  Speaker 2: about why you would get rid of your second best
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  Speaker 2: and in some people's opinion, best player. So the Sixers
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  Speaker 2: have him now and only gave up Paul George and
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  Speaker 2: some picks. The Celtics clearly making big changes added Mitchell Robinson,
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  Speaker 2: and that takes away from the Knicks, who obviously just
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  Speaker 2: won a championship, so they're going to look a bit different.
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  Speaker 2: They had some financial situations to sort out, which is
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  Speaker 2: why they already had to let go of Mitchell Robinson.
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  Speaker 2: The Raptors, who were the fifth seed this year quietly
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  Speaker 2: obviously they went out in the first round, but they
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  Speaker 2: were the fifth seed this year just got Kawhi back,
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  Speaker 2: coming off of a healthy year and one of the
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  Speaker 2: best of his career. So we all know how things
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  Speaker 2: ended with Kawhi the last time he was in Toronto.
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  Speaker 2: I know this is a completely different situation and a
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  Speaker 2: bit of a different organization, but they will be better
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  Speaker 2: this year with Kawhi if he remains healthy. Tobias Harris
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  Speaker 2: is leaving the Eastern Conference entirely. He is going to
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  Speaker 2: this which I think is an incredible addition for the Spurs.
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  Speaker 2: The Pistons, who won the most games in the East,
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  Speaker 2: are on shaky ground. They've lost some pieces, but they're
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  Speaker 2: going back and forth with Jaylen Duran about a contract.
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  Speaker 2: They've added John Collins, and after one of the franchise's
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  Speaker 2: most exciting seasons in recent memory, the Hornets have moved
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  Speaker 2: on from LaMelo and are focusing on kN Kinneppel and
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Miller and the Wizard's got the number one overall
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  Speaker 2: pick in Ajdavensa and have a bunch of veteran stars
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  Speaker 2: around him, and the Cavs and the Heat are in
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  Speaker 2: the Lebron sweepstakes.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a whole lot of information.
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  Speaker 2: But the overall point is the East is going to
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  Speaker 2: be a completely different place. The West hasn't necessarily been quiet,
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  Speaker 2: because we'll talk about the Lakers in a second, and
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  Speaker 2: I do like the Tobias Harris move for the Spurs,
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  Speaker 2: who are obviously just in the finals and need to
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  Speaker 2: add some more pieces around Wemby. But the Eastern Conference
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  Speaker 2: is going to be wild this year. All of those changes,
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  Speaker 2: all of those shifts, all of the subtractions from the
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  Speaker 2: West additions to the East. The top teams in the
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  Speaker 2: East looking completely different. As far as what the Sixers
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  Speaker 2: and the Knicks just did, the Heat adding Yannis, the Pistons,
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  Speaker 2: what are they going to be back at the top
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  Speaker 2: of the East, What the Calves will look like.
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  Speaker 1: It's really really, really.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting all of these shifts, particularly at the star level,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that the East will be an absolute knockdown,
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  Speaker 2: drag out fight to the very end of the conference finals.
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  Speaker 2: Like that's going to be fascinating to watch. Finally, let's
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  Speaker 2: talk about the Lakers. Let's go to the West. The
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  Speaker 2: Lakers are no longer going to have Lebron James there.
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  Speaker 2: We are all waiting with baited breath to see where
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  Speaker 2: Lebron James ends up and his choice of leaving money
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  Speaker 2: on the table to go somewhere else. But Luka Dancic
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  Speaker 2: is the future, and now the dominoes are falling round.
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  Speaker 2: Lebron is gone, well will be gone. Austin Reeves now
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  Speaker 2: the richest undrafted player contract ever. They got a center,
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  Speaker 2: big man Walker Kessler, bea trade a new contract worth
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty million over four years from the Jazz.
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  Speaker 2: They also signed free agents to multi multi year eight
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  Speaker 2: figure contracts called Sexton, Quinton Grimes, and Sandro.
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  Speaker 1: Mamushkala Vili kylash Vielee.
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  Speaker 2: And they will fill the minutes of Marcus Smart and
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  Speaker 2: Luke Knard.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to look completely different.
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  Speaker 2: The goal of the Lakers in acquiring Luka Doncic was
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  Speaker 2: to put a team around him that can serve and
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  Speaker 2: play the roles that Luca cannot. Luca is an incredible superstar.
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  Speaker 2: We have seen him take a team to the finals.
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  Speaker 1: There are deficiencies.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to say holes, but there are deficiencies
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  Speaker 2: in his game. We know that his body is a
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  Speaker 2: big conversation. We know that his defense is a big conversation.
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  Speaker 2: We know that his temper is a big conversation. This
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  Speaker 2: is a moment now in Los Angeles where things are
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  Speaker 2: going to shift. Lebron is no longer there. You can't
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  Speaker 2: blame it on Lebron. Even though Lebron was spectacular last season,
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  Speaker 2: especially at his age, you can't blame it on Lebron.
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  Speaker 2: They're putting pieces around you. The expectations are going to
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  Speaker 2: change for the Lakers eventually, and this is a year
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  Speaker 2: where it's going to start to ratchet up because what
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  Speaker 2: happens with the Luca exit from Dallas was a lot
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  Speaker 2: of drama and a lot of jobs and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of shifts. And I don't know that everyone jumped immediately
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  Speaker 2: to expecting the Lakers to perform right away. Well, as
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  Speaker 2: you start to put together the pieces that are solely
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  Speaker 2: for Luca, things are going to have to get figured
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  Speaker 2: out by the time that Christmas rolls around and all
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  Speaker 2: the eyeballs are on the Lakers. No matter what we
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  Speaker 2: say or do, or how people try to argue for bigger, smaller, markets.
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  Speaker 2: Those things are just still going to remain a part
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  Speaker 2: of the conversation. I know I talked about the East,
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  Speaker 2: that's gonna be fascinating, where Lebron goes, that's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: fascinating at Vance with the Warriors.
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  Speaker 1: Cool cool, cool, cool cool.
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  Speaker 2: But we are going to be talking about the Lakers
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  Speaker 2: and what is expected of Luka Doncic, somebody who was
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  Speaker 2: in the MVP conversation this year before he got injured.
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  Speaker 1: So they've made major, major shifts.
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  Speaker 2: They brought in a center, which was a big part
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  Speaker 2: of the conversation around the Lakers this year, and it's
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  Speaker 2: now Luca's team, So what's he going to do?
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  Speaker 1: Can't wait to see. Have a great holiday weekend. For
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