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Set 1: Jalen Brunson Changed My Life · Stugotz and Company

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  Speaker 5: it's true. But I don't want to start with any
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  Speaker 5: of those things. I want to start with the beef
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  Speaker 5: that Frank I Solda finds himself in tonight. Taylor, please
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  Speaker 5: explain to me, to Izzy, to mikey A, what's going
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  Speaker 5: on with I?
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  Speaker 4: Sola.
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  Speaker 1: I'm team I'm team Frank alright, well.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't even finish a sentence, and as well, yes,
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  Speaker 5: I don't care who he's fighting. What if he's fighting
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  Speaker 5: Tim Kirchin, though it's.
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  Speaker 1: A good name to bring up. Then I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: So frank I sools Beef is frank I Sole and
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  Speaker 6: Brian Skalbrini have a a radio show on Serious XM.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, they have a radio show on Sirius XM. They
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  Speaker 6: cut their radio show by an hour to give it
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  Speaker 6: to Kenny Beacham. And if you guys aren't familiar with
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  Speaker 6: Kenny Beacham, he's like a digital voice for for this
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  Speaker 6: next generation of NBA fans. He's he is massive with
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  Speaker 6: the younger crowd.
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  Speaker 7: Can we define that? When you say next generation? How
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  Speaker 7: young are we talking? Because a good decade younger than me?
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  Speaker 7: And I'm are you in this generation or is it
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  Speaker 7: even younger than you?
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  Speaker 6: It's it's probably my generation and younger. Anybody in that
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  Speaker 6: like thirty, like mid thirties is probably the cutoff for
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  Speaker 6: even knowing who Kenny Beacham is. Yeah, about twenty, so
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  Speaker 6: it's everybody who's still on their parents Serious XM.
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  Speaker 1: Plan, that's what you're saying, Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, so actually NBC just brought in Kenny beacham too
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  Speaker 6: to do more stuff for them. Like again, he is
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  Speaker 6: massive on social media. He got famous by doing He
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  Speaker 6: would take like this shows how new he is. He
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  Speaker 6: would take bad teams in the NBA video games NBA
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  Speaker 6: two K and rebuild the teams into championship level contenders,
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  Speaker 6: and that's how he got big. Like people wanted to
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  Speaker 6: see him rebuild the Chicago Bulls. Yes, it's it's that
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  Speaker 6: whole like twitch error. But anyways, they cut Frank Iola
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  Speaker 6: and Brian Scalburny show by an houral.
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  Speaker 3: To give it to Kenny Beach.
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  Speaker 6: They give Ay give a copy to frank I Sola
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  Speaker 6: to promote the show, and the copy says, Monday's just
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  Speaker 6: got a whole lot better.
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  Speaker 5: Ooh no wayoo no, because there's one less hour of
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  Speaker 5: Frank and there's more Beach him.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, my god.
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  Speaker 6: So that's the copy they want frank I Sold to read. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: and you guys know frank I Sola. Yeah, you guys
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  Speaker 6: know frank.
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  Speaker 4: I sol It and the iceman frank I sol It.
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  Speaker 6: Couldn't have been more defined, being like this is what
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  Speaker 6: they want me to read. I'm not reading this, and
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  Speaker 6: everybody was. I would say if the beef ended there
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  Speaker 6: and Frank I Sola just kept his beef with Sirius XM,
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  Speaker 6: no problems. The problem that Frank I Sol ran into
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  Speaker 6: is that for the next like two minutes after that,
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  Speaker 6: he went into the hole who is Kenny Beacham? And
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  Speaker 6: then Kenny Beacham quote tweeted it on Twitter and being like,
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  Speaker 6: don't hate the player, hate the game man. And now
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  Speaker 6: now the younger crowd is after Frank I Saw who
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  Speaker 6: I'm not even sure Frank I Saw knows that the
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  Speaker 6: younger crowd is after him.
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  Speaker 5: Frank I Sola has no idea who Kenny Beacham is,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, and so therefore he has no idea that
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  Speaker 5: the younger generation is coming after him right now? What
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  Speaker 5: do you make of this? Is he I side with Iceman?
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  Speaker 7: Well, let me read some more quotes from Frank There
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  Speaker 7: are quotes.
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  Speaker 8: Well, just from the radio show.
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  Speaker 7: He said to the NBA Games in a second, I
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  Speaker 7: promise that Kenny Beacham oyer with Kenny Beacham aptly named.
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  Speaker 7: Frank said, God forbid, we name it the Frank Is
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  Speaker 7: Sola Bryan Scalabrini Show. But we've only been doing this
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  Speaker 7: show here for about what how many years now fifteen?
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  Speaker 7: But you walk in first day, they're going to name
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  Speaker 7: a show after you.
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  Speaker 4: And then.
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  Speaker 7: I think my favorite part of it was basically Frank
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  Speaker 7: just giving his bona fides.
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  Speaker 8: He Beacham.
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  Speaker 5: He was told, Beacham, you know, is fatal, So he
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  Speaker 5: gives his bona fides and Beacham gives his followers and.
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  Speaker 3: That's really well.
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  Speaker 7: Basically he was told how many followers Beacham had and
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  Speaker 7: Frank said, bull, he does PTI I don't want to
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  Speaker 7: hear about Twitter by followers?
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  Speaker 8: Who is he? Who is he? Where he's taking an
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  Speaker 8: hour from our show?
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  Speaker 3: Wait?
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  Speaker 5: Did Frank say the actual word bull? Like there was
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  Speaker 5: no shit after it?
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  Speaker 8: It was just according to awful announcing, he said bull.
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  Speaker 5: Right, it's why he doesn't know who Kenny Beacham is
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  Speaker 5: because he's still using bull.
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  Speaker 7: And let me tell you, okay, where I stand on this.
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  Speaker 7: It's starting to reckon. It's starting to hit home that
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  Speaker 7: this is a little personal now too, right because over
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  Speaker 7: the last couple of seasons, I randomly, not randomly, but
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  Speaker 7: whenever they needed it fill in for Frank Iola or
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  Speaker 7: Brian Scalabrini, usually for Brian's Galabrini, which he's on the.
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  Speaker 8: Road, which means, you know, a couple extra dollars in
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  Speaker 8: my pocket cutting an hour off the show.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, and that's one third, that's thirty three percent less
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  Speaker 7: opportunity for me to potentially fit in. And so there
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  Speaker 7: Kenny Beacham is now also taking money out of my
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  Speaker 7: pocket potentially.
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  Speaker 4: Right. I am so proud of you.
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  Speaker 5: You have figured out a way to make this beef
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  Speaker 5: all about you, that is well done by you. You
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  Speaker 5: cannot if you're Sirius XM asked Frank I Sola to
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  Speaker 5: read something that promotes these days just got better because
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  Speaker 5: there's an hour less of me. You can't ask him
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  Speaker 5: to do that, I Sola, his beef your right tailor
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  Speaker 5: should be with Sirius XM. It should not be with
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  Speaker 5: Kenny Beacham. Kenny Beacham didn't write the promo, although if
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  Speaker 5: Kenny Beacham were given the opportunity to write the promo,
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  Speaker 5: I guarantee you he would have run something similar to
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  Speaker 5: that because he does think that every day is now
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  Speaker 5: getting better.
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  Speaker 7: At SIRIX that was just the beginning of my I
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  Speaker 7: wasn't gonna make it all about myself. My point was
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  Speaker 7: more I thought I did have more?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 8: Is that okay?
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  Speaker 4: Sorry?
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  Speaker 8: Oh yours, it's okay.
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  Speaker 5: I just thought I thought you were dumb when you,
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  Speaker 5: yah know, you talked about how it's going to affect
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  Speaker 5: your pocket.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, no, no, not done.
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  Speaker 7: I do think it was ridiculously disrespectful to ask him
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  Speaker 7: to read that, Absolutely ridiculously. It's lacking of self awareness
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  Speaker 7: from whoever wrote that and asking him to read it.
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  Speaker 7: And also like, look, I don't know about the people
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  Speaker 7: by followers. I don't know about the younger generation having
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  Speaker 7: you know, more power than others, or the you know,
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  Speaker 7: the viewing power of listening power. But I literally didn't
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  Speaker 7: know who he was. And I'm not trying to be
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  Speaker 7: insulting or whatever. I don't watch Pat McAfee show. Apparently
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  Speaker 7: he's been on the Pat McAfee show. Pat McAfee show
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  Speaker 7: might be even more popular than PTI these days. I
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  Speaker 7: don't really know, so it might be that he's more
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  Speaker 7: popular than Frank. But to have him, I mean, there's
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  Speaker 7: no other way to read that other than they're taking
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  Speaker 7: an hour off my show. That's a demotion, and now
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  Speaker 7: you want me to celebrate this demotion publicly.
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  Speaker 8: That's absolutely ridiculous.
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  Speaker 5: Right, Well, and you want to say the entertainment value
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  Speaker 5: has gotten better because I'm mom one less hour.
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  Speaker 7: Right, I'm not going to say that. I don't know
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  Speaker 7: what he does. He could be widely entertaining or he
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  Speaker 7: could be terrible.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know, right, And just for context, on Kenny
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  Speaker 6: Beachrim has two channels on YouTube, one where he does
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  Speaker 6: like NBA commentary and one where he does like video
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  Speaker 6: game NBA commentary. He's gotten six million views the past month.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, how many views? I don't know, right? How many
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  Speaker 4: views does I Sola have?
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  Speaker 8: I mean, how does that translate to radio?
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  Speaker 1: How many people are watching PTI every day?
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  Speaker 5: Well, the thought is, if he has that many people
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  Speaker 5: checking out his YouTube stuff, some of those people will
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  Speaker 5: will translate over to radio.
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  Speaker 4: I would guess, right.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not talking about the listeners the viewers.
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  Speaker 7: I'm talking about how whatever he does visually transfers to
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  Speaker 7: radio or however he started going, you know, with the
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  Speaker 7: rebuilding of.
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  Speaker 5: Two K teams, how that necessarily I understand exactly what
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  Speaker 5: it is you're asking. I'm just saying I think the
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  Speaker 5: way Sirius XM does this I could be wrong. Is
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  Speaker 5: this guy's got a ton of followers. He gets this
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  Speaker 5: many views, and if we could just get a third
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  Speaker 5: of them over to Sirius XM to listen to his
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  Speaker 5: radio show or less, by the way, he doesn't need
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  Speaker 5: to be that many, then we're gonna be fine. And
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  Speaker 5: that's it's probably a good way of thinking in this
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  Speaker 5: day and age.
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  Speaker 9: The problem is, it's not even Beacham who's that fault here.
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  Speaker 9: It's Serious ExM. Beacham is just, hey, they offered me
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  Speaker 9: an hour of radio and I'm gonna do it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 9: And Serious XM is like, hey, cool, we're gonna take
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  Speaker 9: it from you, and you go ahead and celebrate it
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  Speaker 9: like Serious XM is the one that we should be
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  Speaker 9: beef and win.
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  Speaker 7: But Taylor, if you could speak for the young delegation
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  Speaker 7: one more time.
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  Speaker 8: Here are they moving to radio like they have enough.
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  Speaker 7: To watch already, Like you're talking about like twenty year
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  Speaker 7: olds gonna be like, oh, I'm gonna find Kenny Beacham
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  Speaker 7: on radio now.
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  Speaker 8: They probably get enough of them already.
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  Speaker 6: There's a chance that they at least subscribe to Kenny
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  Speaker 6: Beachum's radio hour just to hear what it's gonna sound
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  Speaker 6: like I think there is some worry for that, like
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  Speaker 6: oversaturation with him ye in content. But I think if
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  Speaker 6: like Stu mentioned, if if they even get five percent
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  Speaker 6: of his audience to convert over to a free trial,
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  Speaker 6: and then I know I do it all the time.
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  Speaker 6: I subscribe to free trials left and right. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 6: probably forget to cancel about eighty percent of them, and
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  Speaker 6: that would be a win for serious.
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  Speaker 5: I guess yes, I get sucked in every single time.
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  Speaker 5: Get Kenny Beacham on the show.
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  Speaker 4: Should we have Beacham and I Sola on the show?
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  Speaker 5: By the way, I Sola or ala sirius xm asshole.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you don't make Frank read that. You just
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  Speaker 4: don't do that.
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  Speaker 5: I want beach him on the show, and I would
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  Speaker 5: like I Sola on the show, and I want to
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  Speaker 5: settle the beef.
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  Speaker 4: Good luck the beach terrible joke.
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  Speaker 5: So I don't know who Kenny Beacham is, but I'm
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  Speaker 5: certain he's very good at his job. And I'm also
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  Speaker 5: certain that you cannot put Frank I Sola in a
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  Speaker 5: terrible spot like that where he has to criticize his
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  Speaker 5: own performance.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway, big win for the Mecca last night.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, the Hawks had no shot. Oh they stink, Like
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  Speaker 7: what happened there?
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  Speaker 4: Like?
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  Speaker 8: How did they even lose the two games? Taylor? Because
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  Speaker 8: it seems like CJ.
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  Speaker 7: McCollum must have just had like the gate the back
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  Speaker 7: to back games of his life, Because it doesn't feel
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  Speaker 7: like the Hawks have much of a chance at all
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  Speaker 7: in this one.
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  Speaker 3: The answer to how did the Knicks lose two games
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  Speaker 3: is simple? Mike Brown, Yeah, yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: Is he the Knicks played like a team that was
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  Speaker 6: embarrassed that this series even has to go back to Atlanta.
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  Speaker 6: We've been saying it for the most part, like on paper,
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  Speaker 6: this Knicks team is way better than Atlanta, and it
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  Speaker 6: feels like a validating win from the sense that on
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  Speaker 6: nights like this, when the Knicks are playing their best basketball,
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  Speaker 6: it does feel like a roster that's that's more than
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  Speaker 6: good enough to make it to the NBA Finals and
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  Speaker 6: potentially win the NBA Finals, depending on who that matchup
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  Speaker 6: is going to be against.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I feel like I watched Jalen Johnson and I'm
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  Speaker 7: just like, I wonder if the Hawks might have made
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  Speaker 7: a mistake giving you basically going all in as him
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  Speaker 7: as their leader. Right, because you know, obviously CJ's old
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  Speaker 7: and the Kaile Alexander Walker has been a revelation this
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  Speaker 7: year and he is obviously a great pickup. But I mean,
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  Speaker 7: is that the cornerstone of your franchise right now, Jalen
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  Speaker 7: Johnson and Kile Alexander Walker, Because that's not taking you
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  Speaker 7: that far.
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  Speaker 5: It's so only how the NBA playoffs work, is he
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  Speaker 5: Because at two.
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  Speaker 4: To one Atlanta, Jalen Johnson was the right guy.
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  Speaker 5: And now that they're down three to two headed back
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  Speaker 5: to Atlanta, we now start to questioned the roster construction.
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  Speaker 7: Even then it was even then it was like CJ
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  Speaker 7: carrying them right. It was a guy that picked up
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  Speaker 7: on the cord of the season. So it just it
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  Speaker 7: feels odd and he just doesn't. This is where you
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  Speaker 7: look at like experience and stuff. Right in the regular season,
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  Speaker 7: you can just go from game to game figuring out
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  Speaker 7: however you're gonna score in that game or dominate that
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  Speaker 7: game and go, but you have to have go to spots,
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  Speaker 7: you have to have go to offensive situations that it
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  Speaker 7: feels like Jalen is just kind of floating around and
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  Speaker 7: doesn't really know where his you know, where his offense
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  Speaker 7: is supposed to come from.
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  Speaker 6: Is he the player that I think is flying under
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  Speaker 6: the radar this series? For me, at least, it's it's
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  Speaker 6: Ogann Andobi. When he's been the player of this series
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  Speaker 6: for me, where he's averaging twenty to nine on fifty
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  Speaker 6: seven percent from the field and fifty four percent from three,
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  Speaker 6: it does feel like the contributions he makes sometime go unnoticed.
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  Speaker 7: He's gotten so good as three point shooting, particularly from
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  Speaker 7: the corner, that it feels like if he is, you know,
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  Speaker 7: even a decent shot, he's going to make that shot.
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  Speaker 7: But Taylor, You've been tricked a lot of times when
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  Speaker 7: it comes to Og right, because when things get really
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  Speaker 7: tough and you don't have an entire defense collapsing on
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  Speaker 7: Jalen Brunson because he's dominating you, and you don't have
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  Speaker 7: an offense at a half court offense that's really working,
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  Speaker 7: you try to give the ball to og and it
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  Speaker 7: says there's nothing there, right, Like he almost has to
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  Speaker 7: be a complimentary piece, and when he's hitting like this,
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  Speaker 7: he's one of the best complimentary pieces in the league.
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  Speaker 5: But is he if he's your third option in playing
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  Speaker 5: well and he needs to be the third option after
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  Speaker 5: Brunson and Karl Anthony Towns. And Brunson was amazing last
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  Speaker 5: night and Karl Anthony Towns.
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  Speaker 4: Was great as well.
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  Speaker 5: If he's your third option, chances are you're going to
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  Speaker 5: be a pretty good basketball team.
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  Speaker 8: Sure, But what do you mean by option right?
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  Speaker 7: Because when I say third option, I mean like, hey,
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  Speaker 7: I can give this guy the ball. He can go
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  Speaker 7: get me a bucket. Even if it's the third best
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  Speaker 7: option on the team.
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  Speaker 8: I can't.
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  Speaker 7: I have no trust that I can do that for Ogna. No,
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  Speaker 7: I again love to see it kicked out to him.
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  Speaker 7: If it's basically either a jump shot or you know,
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  Speaker 7: pump fake and drive, you know that's fine.
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  Speaker 8: But there's not a whole lot of variety to his offense.
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  Speaker 7: So if he is my third option and I can
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  Speaker 7: and for some reason my first option is taken out
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  Speaker 7: of the game, second option is not having a good game.
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  Speaker 8: It's not gonna look pretty if you have to turn
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  Speaker 8: to og.
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  Speaker 5: I guess I'm just saying, you know, I could bank
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  Speaker 5: on Jalen Brunson. I feel like for now, at least
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  Speaker 5: until they play the Celtics or the Sixers, that they
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  Speaker 5: that they could bank on Karl Anthony Towns. And if
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  Speaker 5: Og can give you seventeen to twenty two points every
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  Speaker 5: night and it's five of eight from the field or
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  Speaker 5: five of ten from the field, the Knicks are gonna
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  Speaker 5: be in good shape, that's all.
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  Speaker 8: They'll be fine.
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  Speaker 7: But the problem is is there you have some duplication, right,
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  Speaker 7: So it's Og Ananobi and Michale Bridges. They're kind of
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  Speaker 7: supposed to give you the same thing. OG's given it
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  Speaker 7: to you. You gotta find something else then from McHale Bridges, like,
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  Speaker 7: you've got to fight. He can't just give you seven
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  Speaker 7: points and be a non factor.
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  Speaker 6: So I had this take one time. I believe it
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  Speaker 6: was after like one of those live streams during the
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  Speaker 6: Pacers during the series, maybe two years ago on The
• 15:01
  Speaker 6: LeBatard Show where it was the game Dante DiVincenzo hits
• 15:06
  Speaker 6: that big three and I hug ten day Tony and
• 15:09
  Speaker 6: I say, Jalen Brunson has changed my life. And Tony
• 15:15
  Speaker 6: when I said that, Tony laughed and like that was
• 15:17
  Speaker 6: one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. But
• 15:21
  Speaker 6: the more we see Jalen Brunson play basketball in Madison
• 15:25
  Speaker 6: Square Garden, the more that I truly believe Jalen Brunson
• 15:28
  Speaker 6: has changed my life where there's gonna be nights where
• 15:32
  Speaker 6: he has the rare off night like Game two where
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: he shoots under forty percent. Sure, right, but before Jalen
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: Brunson came to New York, we would have been spending
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: our April stew praying to the draft lottery gods for
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: a chance at aj Debonsa. And now the flip side
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: of that, Jalen Brunson is as close to a lock
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: for me on this current trajectory he's on when it
• 15:55
  Speaker 6: comes to getting his jersey retired at Madison.
• 15:56
  Speaker 7: Square, they were like a few years from pray for
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: Zion and now look at this.
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: I know, no, no, listen, He's been a savior, He's
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: been a blessing. I love Jalen Brunson. He just needs
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: to be more consistent. But he hasn't changed your life.
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: I mean to say that he's changed your life and
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: have it accompanied by a hug with to ten day
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: Tony is a bit strange.
• 16:16
  Speaker 8: I believe him a bit much.
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: If you decide you could say it to Tony, but
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: to do it with.
• 16:22
  Speaker 8: A hug is But he's the point.
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: If you decide in public to hug Tony right sports moment.
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but don't you think there's Patriot fans who look
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: back at the start of that dynasty with Tom Brady
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: and Bill Belichick and being like, you know what, tom
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: Brady kind of changed my life. Bill Simmons probably thinks
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: Tom Brady changed his life.
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: Yes, with six Super Bowls. I mean so your life
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: hasn't changed at all. The Knicks haven't gotten any further
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: than they ever have in your entire life. When they
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: make it to the NBA finals, could Jalen Brunton change
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: your life?
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: In fact, when they do make it.
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: To the NBA Finals, I want you to find ten
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: day Tony, give him a hug, I tell him again
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: that Jalen Brunson has changed your life.
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: No, I totally. Right now, your life is unchanged.
• 17:04
  Speaker 8: I buy it one hundred percent.
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: He's just recognizing that it's changed while it's changing, right,
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: not waiting until after the championships and be like, wow,
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: looking back, Jalen Brunton really changed my life.
• 17:14
  Speaker 8: He's just recognizing it as it happened.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: Stu.
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: If if Jalen Brunson, for some reason after this postseason retired, yes,
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: what would his legacy be changed my life the guy,
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: the guy that dragged the Knicks back to relevance.
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna say, the guy that was too short to
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: bring the Knicks all the way back to relevance.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: But Taylor, you know how this works.
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: Unless Jalen Brunson takes them all the way to the
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: NBA Finals, he's going to get criticized. They got to
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: the Eastern Conference for me, not for me from everyone else.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: Though.
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: This is what I've realized about Taylor, and it is
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: very refreshing to see. It's also very positive to see. Right,
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: I could use I could use him to compare to
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: any other sports fan. He is the purest of sports fan,
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: no doubt. It's like one hundred said. His life is
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: still very much affected by sports. He loves every time
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: he's either involved or talking about sports. It's one hundred
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: percent a pure hearted situation. And so I absolutely believe
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: that Jalen Breston has that level of impact on his life.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: He was so excited about Jalen Brunson changing his life.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: He hugged the Heat fan.
• 18:19
  Speaker 8: I mean not just any Heat fan. He doesn't want
• 18:23
  Speaker 8: to be hugged by a man in public.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: Now had a good look at I have.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: A shocking revelation that I don't know if I've ever shared.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: I used to play Fortnite with Jalen Bronson.
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: So you share it with Jalen Huh, yes, one, so
• 18:40
  Speaker 8: I have.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: I've never talked to him since he's made it to
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: the Knicks. This is when he was on the Mavericks
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: because in my Carolina days, I was good friends with
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: Marcus Page and Justin Jackson on the basketball team. Justin
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: Jackson then went to the Kings, and then he went
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: to the Dallas Mavericks where he was teammates, which Jalen Brunson,
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: and they would all take their PS five's on road trips,
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: and I would play Fortnite with Marcus Page and Justin
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: Jackson and the fourth person in our squad was Jalen Brunson.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: He was terrible. He was one of the worst video
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: game players ever. But he was just as bad.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Right he was focused on basketball, thankfully, because.
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: I honestly thought Taylor was going to stop at I
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: used to play Fortnite and that was gonna be his big.
• 19:27
  Speaker 8: Now you don't, so you focus more on sports.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: What do you want us to do with that.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: So wait, So so when you play Fortnite with Jalen Brunson,
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: do you get his contact?
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: Demfo, how does his work?
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: I mean, uh, we are friends on PlayStation, so I
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: could see you like whenever he's on PlayStation. And I've
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: I've never even like considered reaching out since he's blown
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: up on the Knicks because it's like I'm writing like
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: weird songs about how much I love him. It's just
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: a it's just a very strange dynamic, and it's like
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: I don't have his number, so I would have to
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: message him through the PlayStation.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: Do what you have to do, Mike wrong.
• 20:03
  Speaker 8: I'm just about to say, I'm gonna ask him to get.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna start, I'm gonna start playing. I mean, I'm
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: a big gamer.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Playing the Four Nights.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Taylor, can you come over and turn this on?
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: What did he call call of duty on the show
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: the other day? Call to Duty?
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: I did that? Anyway, The next season is the Hawks
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: season is over? Is that fair?
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: Is he?
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Do you expect that to go back to the Mecca
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: for a game seven?
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: Or you think they wrap it up in six?
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: I think they wrap it up in six. I think
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: they realize the advantages that they have over the Hawks
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: are just too great. And you know you're not gonna
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: get c J to save you. You know they could
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: go ice cold, and Nicks could and have just a
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: bad shooting game, but their approach to the game.
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: I just don't think the Hawks have a chance.
• 20:53
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  Speaker 4: Don't know what's going on in Boston. That series is
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: so confusing. We were ripping Joe Elpindid yesterday and today.
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  Speaker 4: He's one of the greatest bigs we've ever seen play.
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: I don't think it's very confusing at all. I think
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: I mentioned it after the Boston lost that first game.
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: Is just in the playoffs, specifically, if they're not hitting
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: their threes, it's gonna be tough.
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: It's gonna be tough. And in the playoffs, of course, you're.
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: Gonna get some better defensive efforts and you're gonna have
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: less three point opportunities.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Kelly, you know what they said, Live by the three,
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Die by the three.
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: You and Joel Embiid was very like.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: So.
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: I was complaining the other day about why do you
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: have to come back and take all the shots?
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: And then he came back in this game.
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: It's like, this is why, because I am a superstar
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: and you can't stop me. And it's just like, man,
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: when he's hitting those little mid range fades, and it's
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: just like, man, I miss this guy. I want to
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: see him out there all the time, but he's not
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: out there all the time. I like him better than
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: Jason Tatum, which is crazy because Tatum's, you know, been
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: such a I don't know, he done everything right right
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: for the league. He's been a great superstar by anyone's standards,
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: but all he does is complain to the refs all
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: the time, and it drives me up a wall. And
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: so yeah, I want to see the Sixers make this
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: team very nervous.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: Is he is right about the Celtics Lived by the three,
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: died by the three? Last night?
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: They were not very good from three point range. They
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: were I believe eleven of thirty nine. But is he
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: One of the concerns that we discussed yesterday about having
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: Joel and b back is what it would do to
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: Tyrese MAXI what it would do to Edgecombe as well.
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: And Bee didn't care about Edgecomb, but he did get
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: Maxie involved. Like Maxie still had twenty five points ton
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: of eighteen shooting on Paul George shipped in with sixteen points.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: I mean it's tricky man, and B George and Maxie
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: if all healthy, that's pretty good.
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: I mean right, yeah, not only pretty good, but pretty
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: necessary because uh, don't look at the bucks, go right now,
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: look straight at the camera. I am how many points
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: did the Philadelphia bench score. I'm gonna say like forty
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: two seven? What seven of the one hundred and thirteen?
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: So Joel Paul, George Tyres, maxivj Edgecombe very important if
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: this team's going to succeed, This one I think is
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: going to come back to Boston for a Game seven,
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: and man, I love the nerves of a Boston garden
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: when it's you know, everything's on the line.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Yes. By the way, tell you see what T and
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: T and the networks have done with this series.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: The Knicks are now the seven o'clock game on Thursday
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: because they feel like it's not nearly as attractive as
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: Boston in Philadelphia, which is now the eight o'clock game
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: on Thursday night.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: How about that is?
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Yeh?
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: I saw the stat where from optostats the Sixers trailed
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: by one entering the fourth quarter. They ended up winning
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: by sixteen. That's the largest road playoff win in NBA
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: history by a team that trailed entering the fourth.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: It feels like the East is as wide open as ever.
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it kind of is, especially when you look at
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: I mean, the Pistons are probably the best example of
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: you know, playoff experience really matters, and so when you've
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: got the teams that are experienced, like the Celtics, I mean,
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: like the Cavaliers, even like the Knicks through what three
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: games in this series struggling, It's just like, yeah, it
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: doesn't feel like it feels like anything is possible. Usually
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: things sort of straighten themselves out as the as the
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: series go along. Usually the first game of every series
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: is the most you know, most potential anomaly of the series.
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: But then once a team gets into a rhythm, finds
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: its opponent, they'll you know, settle into what they really are.
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: But right now it seems like we're finding out Detroit Man.
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: We talked about it yesterday. If kid Cunningham's not on
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: that team looks average at best.
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: Does anybody else feel like there's no reason there should
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: be three playoff games on simultaneously?
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean you get too often, does it? Well?
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: You get two well first rounded though, you get two
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: in the early window, and then you get you know,
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: you get typically one late game.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: Right, That's how it works.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: Last night at eight o'clock, at a ten o'clock right
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: two days ago, they did.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: And you know how I know that?
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Where I got that? Take from? Where Kenny Beacham, poor.
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: Frank no longer take you to find it?
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: Listen, I feel like all these conversations are rendered meaningless
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: because Victor Webbin Yama is going to win the next
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: ten NBA Championships.
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: Well, I mean I've been saying this like the last
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: couple of weeks. Like everything that we talk about when
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: it comes to the NBA comes with an understanding that
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: we are just putting okay See to the side because
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: nobody really wants them to win outside of Oklahoma City.
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: But also nobody can really tell you why they're not
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: gonna win.
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: Because they're that good. I have a reason, no, yes, yeah,
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: well it'd be it is you know, the career.
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: It is exactly what you need, right to bring down
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: this hated villain, right, this superpower that is okay See immediately.
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: Comes with this.
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: I guess you want to call him a superhero. If
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: they're the villains, that's what you want to see. It's
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: kind of sad that you can't see it in the finals,
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: but if that ends up being, you know, the Western
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: Conference finals, that think it's exactly what everybody's hoping for.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, is it.
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: Do you feel like the NBA is looking at the
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: Thunderer like we have a problem with the way this
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: team plays or do you think the NBA is kind
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: of viewing it as if this is a problem for
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: the short term, eventually something is gonna take care of it,
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: whether it's salaries or team likes. Do Gods mentioned the
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: Spurs just overwhelming them?
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: No, I think.
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: Okay, So he's a dream franchise for the NBA because
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: it's showing you, right off the bat first and foremost,
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: a small market or mid market team.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: Anyone can do absolutely run the league.
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: And they also have done it after the league seemingly
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: has fixed the CBA to where because obviously every single
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: time they have to redo the NBA, they're tweaking this
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: and moving that, making sure that teams can't, you know,
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: find loopholes, and all these teams just can spend more
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: money and be good like what happens in baseball. It
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: seems like they've done a great job with that. That's
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: all the aprons everywhere really have affected, you know, the
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: way teams can operate. And so if you have that,
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: then you have an example of which dude just said,
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: anybody can do this right now, it's this team. One
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: day it'll be a big market team like the Lakers
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: or the Knicks, and the next it could be the
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: Indiana Pacers.
• 29:12
  Speaker 8: But this is exactly what they want.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: But the NBA, so, yes, they like Oklahoma City being
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: this good, and they would like them to remain competitive,
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: but they would prefer a champion that plays a more
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: esthetically pleasing style of basketball.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: Is that fair? Meaning?
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: If OKC could be a team that's consistently Western Conference finals,
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: NBA Finals, win a couple of championships, great, But what
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: the NBA would prefer is someone like Wendy.
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah, if this was happening in Minnesota, if Minnesota was
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: the you know, Sam Presty was running the Timberwolves and
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: their centerpiece was Anthony Edwards.
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think that would draw in more people. I
• 29:47
  Speaker 8: think that's probably the one knock on them.
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: But in terms of examples of franchises, yeah, that's a
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: pretty much dream franchise.
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: Is he what do you think Boston and Philadelphia in
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: Game six? So you think that's going back to Boston
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: for a Game seven and oh, Celtic fans are gonna
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: be on edge.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: I hope that happens.
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: Yes, Well, it just feels like the South of the
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: seventy six ers and Joel have reached the I don't
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: give a bleep mode, and it's just like the nerves
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: are out the window. And so if Joel can just
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: you know, keep his game the way it looked yesterday,
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: it was composed, yes was you know, he was basically
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: controlled the offense.
• 30:24
  Speaker 8: Everything was the best player on the floor, and it
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: was it was surprising to see.
• 30:28
  Speaker 7: And so I think that is him basically saying to himself, Look,
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: there's only one way I lose this reputation. It's by
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: winning and by being healthy and by performing. And so
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: if I'm out here, give me the ball, I've got
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: to be me. And if I can't bring us to
• 30:43
  Speaker 7: the next round, into the round after that, it's.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: All on me.
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: And so I feel like when you when you've come
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: to that realization and you're just like, all right, I'm
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: just gonna go.
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  Speaker 8: He can play at his best.
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  Speaker 5: Is he?
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  Speaker 6: There's two Game five's tonight, the Magic at the Pistons
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  Speaker 6: and then the Rockets at the Lakers LA.
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  Speaker 4: There's another one just no one cares about it, but anyway,
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  Speaker 4: go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Oh okay, So I meant to preface it.
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  Speaker 6: There's two where the series is three to one, Orlando
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  Speaker 6: leading three to one against the Pistons, the Lakers leading
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  Speaker 6: three to one against the Rockets. If I told you
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  Speaker 6: those two series, the team down three to one is
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  Speaker 6: going to come back and win? Which one would you pick?
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  Speaker 8: It's the Rockets easily. And this is my favorite take
• 31:22
  Speaker 8: of the playoffs.
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  Speaker 7: You're ready for this, Like, first of all, but what
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: what was the predictive when they were up six points
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  Speaker 7: with thirty seconds left?
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  Speaker 8: It where they had ninety nine point.
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  Speaker 4: Seven winning that game?
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  Speaker 7: You could say that they should have won that game, right,
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: they should be coming back to LA two two right,
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: And again you've got Alpi Shangoon kind of thinking a
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: little bit like Joe l Embiid, like, look, I've got
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: to perform. There's nope, just give me the ball. I'm
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: just gonna do my thing. I think they can bring
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: this to seven games. I think if you like you're
• 31:56
  Speaker 7: you're reintroducing Austin Reeves two, in which if he's super
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: were healthy and he's you know, gotten his five on
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: five's a lot on you know, on the practice courts,
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: then great, he's probably gonna come in and have a
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: good start.
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  Speaker 8: But if he's rusty and things aren't going that well.
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  Speaker 7: The Rockets take game five. Game six is in Houston. Obviously,
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: that Lakers look terrible the last time they played in Houston.
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  Speaker 7: Say what you will about why maybe their their minds
• 32:19
  Speaker 7: weren't in it because they were up three to oh.
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  Speaker 8: I think not only could they take it to seven.
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  Speaker 7: And if let's just say, hypothetically, the Rockets win and
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: become the first team to come back from three to oh,
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: how great would it be that Lebron James is on
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: the other side of that history Like that, Lebron James
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: is gonna all the things that he's done in this
• 32:38
  Speaker 7: in this NBA world, and he will also be the
• 32:40
  Speaker 7: leader of a team who lost after taking a three
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  Speaker 7: zero lead.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but he's phenomenal.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but he could say, listen, Luca and Reeves, they
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: came back, We're better off without them, just fine when
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: it was just me, I mean, we're up three to one.
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  Speaker 8: About he could just say, not my fault, I got
• 32:56
  Speaker 8: us up three to one.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, and all of a sudden we have help, and
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: all of a sudden, out my fault. And so yeah,
• 33:01
  Speaker 7: he would be free, but still.
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  Speaker 4: Part of history.
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  Speaker 5: This is a classic win win situation for Lebron right now.
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: And he's the reason they lose. It's somebody else's fault.
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  Speaker 6: How about that, Stu, I have you on the Mount
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  Speaker 6: Rushmore of Thank you Sports Takes? Yeah, where would you?
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: Where would you have Skip Bayless? Because Skip Bayless said
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: something that made me laugh. But I'm curious your thoughts
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: on where Skip Bayless in the sports take game?
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: Is he on my Mount Rushmore? Is that what you're asking?
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Would he be?
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  Speaker 4: I mean Steven A is on there, Christopher mad Dog
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  Speaker 4: Russo is on there. Man, I'm not going to put
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: myself on there. I'm humble.
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: You guys know that I am good, So I'll put
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: I'll put Francessa on there as well, and perhaps Sid Rosenberg.
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: I'm joking about Sid.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I can't think of what. Yeah, I'll give it the Skip.
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: That's why Skip's good.
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  Speaker 6: So I feel like part of a good sports take
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: is when others are Z and you got a zag.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: So Skip Bayless, like.
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  Speaker 6: The rest of America, watched the Knicks absolutely destroy the
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: Hawks yesterday and Skip Bayless's take from that game. Hawks
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: have the Knicks right where.
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  Speaker 8: They want, meaning what.
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  Speaker 4: Listen?
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: If he was on the outside looking in before last night,
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: he is now firmly entredged on my Matt Rushmore of
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: sports Takers. Okay, Mikey, did Taylor say before that he's
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: not gonna rip Jalen Brunson.
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter. He doesn't care about the results.
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: Because if you have a fake piece of paper like
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: Taylor does and a fake pen, I want you to
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: write down the day that he said that, because I
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: guarantee you big spot against Boston in a Game six
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: or a Game seven, and Brunson comes up lame, I
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: guarantee you. The next day on the air, Taylor is
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: ripping Brunson and he no longer has changed Taylor's life.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: How about that?
• 34:57
  Speaker 10: Nope, Jalen Brunson misses a wide open layup and it's
• 35:00
  Speaker 10: Mike Brown's fault.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: That's where Taylor's at right now.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so Mike Mikey is a lot closer with his
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: take than you are, Stue, because this is kind of
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: the same thing with that. Now, Derek Jeter had the
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: World Series, but the same thing that happened with Derek
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: Jeter later in his career where people are like, oh,
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: Derek Jeter's this this poor defensive shortstop. I'm like, give
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: me a break, Like, Derek Jeter has given me so
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: many positive moments in my Yankee fandom, that he is
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: so far above criticism for the for the remainder of
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: his playing career, and that's that's very close to where
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: Jalen bruns I know.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: But he gave you like the greatest moments.
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: He gave you the greatest moments you could possibly have.
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: He gave you world championship after world championship after world championship,
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: and made amazing historical plays while winning those world championships.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: Brunson hasn't made it to the finals yet.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Brunson gave you a three to two lead on the
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Hawks in the first round.
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  Speaker 3: He said should have been over yesterday