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NBA Playoff Chaos, Anthony Edwards Injured & Fernando Mendoza Starts a New Era of Raiders Football · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, it's Joy Taylor, and I am so excited
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  Speaker 1: to be doing the daily play with Urban one Radio.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to be a recap of some of
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  Speaker 1: the top stories in sports every single day. I'll give
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  Speaker 1: you my opinion and get into all the details of
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is that you missed and whatever everyone is discussing.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm really excited to be here.
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  Speaker 1: And what a great time in sports right now with
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  Speaker 1: the NBA playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: We just had the NFL Draft, lots of.
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  Speaker 1: Big stories, lots of things going on, and I'm just
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  Speaker 1: going to get started.
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  Speaker 2: In the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about Frenanda Mendozo, We're going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about the NFL Draft. We're going to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the Miami Hurricanes in the NFL Draft. But let's start
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  Speaker 1: with the NBA playoffs. So they've delivered all of the
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  Speaker 1: excitement that the regular season may have lacked.
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  Speaker 2: This weekend games were no exception.
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  Speaker 1: If you follow me on social you saw me talking
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  Speaker 1: about how excited I am that there's actually some animosity
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  Speaker 1: in this first round.
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  Speaker 2: The playoffs has been incredible.
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  Speaker 1: We've gotten to see teams that were underdog, teams that
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  Speaker 1: were missing players come out and have really really great performances,
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  Speaker 1: and that is what I want to see in the
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  Speaker 1: first round of the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to start with the Wolves.
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  Speaker 1: On Saturday, they pulled off an impossible one twelve ninety
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  Speaker 1: six win over the Nuggets, despite oh tragically losing Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Edwards for multiple weeks with a knee injury and Dante
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  Speaker 1: deep Intenzo for the rest of the year with the
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  Speaker 1: dreaded achilles injury. But Io Desumo filled in and he
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  Speaker 1: was incredible forty three points and led Minnesota to an
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  Speaker 1: unlikely win. And of course there was a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of drum at the end of the game, which I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure they're still going to sort out if there's going
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  Speaker 1: to be any suspensions for that situation. I overall was
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  Speaker 1: just really impressed with how the Wolves played.
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  Speaker 2: Their defense was incredible.
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  Speaker 1: I was a little disappointed in the Nuggets not taking
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  Speaker 1: the advantage of the situation with Anthony Edwards and Dafekei
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  Speaker 1: Vincenzo going out early. I want to see what this
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  Speaker 1: next game looks like. It obviously feels a little hopeless.
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  Speaker 2: For the Wolves. I mean, you're losing two starters.
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  Speaker 1: I can't imagine that that is a recipe for success
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  Speaker 1: long term in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: Even though they did have a really nice win, they're
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  Speaker 2: going to need a heroic.
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  Speaker 1: Effort in fantastic defense for the rest of the series
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  Speaker 1: to even make it past the Nuggets at this point,
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  Speaker 1: even though they are up, and what they do in
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  Speaker 1: the next rounds will likely be impossible if they don't
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  Speaker 1: get Anthony Evers back and it seems like he's going
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  Speaker 1: to be out for a couple weeks, so.
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  Speaker 2: That's pretty disappointing.
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  Speaker 1: Then on Sunday, the Raptors battled back to win their
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  Speaker 1: second straight in Toronto, tying the series with the Cavs
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  Speaker 1: up two games apiece. The Spurs one Vickery Minyama was
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  Speaker 1: back from a concussion, and san Antonio has taken control
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  Speaker 1: of the series three to one, leading the Portland Trailblazers.
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  Speaker 2: So I assume that that series will be done pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 1: And the Celtics roll the Sixers in Philly really just
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  Speaker 1: overwhelming when to take a three to one lead in
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  Speaker 1: that series. Jason Tatum incredible back like he never left
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  Speaker 1: thirty points, eleven assists, and we're just less than a
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  Speaker 1: year out from his achilles tear against the Knicks and
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  Speaker 1: last year's playoffs, so it's really incredible stuff to.
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  Speaker 2: Be watching them.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's somebody They're a team that we are
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  Speaker 1: going to be watching throughout the rest of this playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Really really impressive stuff from them, and that series is
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  Speaker 1: going to be very quickly as well. Now the Rockets,
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  Speaker 1: so the Rockets held off a suite.
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  Speaker 2: The real story of the series is, of.
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  Speaker 1: Course Lebron James. He has just been incredible. It's astonishing
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  Speaker 1: to watch him do what he's doing at his age.
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  Speaker 1: But night in and night out, to be the leader
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  Speaker 1: of the team when you have Austin Reeves and Lukadants
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  Speaker 1: out has has really made me. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: say rethink my allegiance to Michael Jordan, but it's becoming
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  Speaker 1: almost impossible to not talk about Lebron as the greatest
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  Speaker 1: NBA player and one of the greatest, if not the greatest,
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  Speaker 1: athlete of all time. And I really don't think I'm
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  Speaker 1: being crazy here. So to preview Monday, we have an
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  Speaker 1: NBA triple header. The Wolves will look to close out
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  Speaker 1: the Nuggets in Denver. I do not believe that that's
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  Speaker 1: going to happen. The top seeded Pistons will avoid try
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  Speaker 1: to avoid going down three one to the Orlando Magic,
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  Speaker 1: and the Thunder will try to finish off their suite
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  Speaker 1: of the Suns in Phoenix.
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  Speaker 2: All right, moving on to the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations to all the two hundred and fifty seven young
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  Speaker 1: men and their families life changing weekends. I love the
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  Speaker 1: draft for that reason. It's so cool to see the
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  Speaker 1: players with their families having their dreams come true getting
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  Speaker 1: that call. Obviously, I had the honor of sitting with
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  Speaker 1: my nephew last year when he was called by the
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  Speaker 1: Jets in the sucond Round to go to New York.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't know, my nephew is Mason Taylor's tight
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  Speaker 1: end for the Jets.
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  Speaker 2: And it really gets me excited because NFL season is
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  Speaker 2: so close.
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  Speaker 1: It's not really, but you know, we're kicking into gear
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  Speaker 1: and that's what's exciting about it, and we're getting to
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  Speaker 1: see now what some of our favorite rosters are going
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  Speaker 1: to look like now. Obviously, one of the biggest stories
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  Speaker 1: of the weekend, if not the biggest story of the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: is Fernando Mendoza, the first overall pick going to the Raiders.
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  Speaker 1: The Raiders' last three picks for Fernando Mendoza, Aston Genti,
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  Speaker 1: and Brock Bauers, so I do like the trend in which.
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  Speaker 2: They are going.
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  Speaker 1: They also picked up Kirk Cousins this off season, so
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  Speaker 1: they don't have to put Mendoza out there right away.
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  Speaker 2: I just really.
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  Speaker 1: I hate the idea of Fernando Mendoza being put in
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  Speaker 1: a position where he has to be the savior of
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  Speaker 1: this franchise immediately. The Raiders have been down bad for
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  Speaker 1: so long. We know the Raiders are bad. Obviously they
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  Speaker 1: have been front of a brall pick. They are bad,
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  Speaker 1: but it just seems like they can never get right.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that for NEWDA, Mendoza.
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  Speaker 2: Has has the.
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  Speaker 1: He has the capacity to be a franchise quarterback that
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  Speaker 1: can turn an organizathing around.
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  Speaker 2: He is going to need help. I'd like to see
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  Speaker 2: them build in the trenches.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to see them take things slow, have the
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  Speaker 1: expectations be reasonable.
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  Speaker 2: It's a tough division with really great coaching.
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  Speaker 1: I liked what I saw from him in the National
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  Speaker 1: Championship Game. Obviously, maybe my family hurricanes and that was heartbreaking,
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  Speaker 1: but he was really tough and was really a star
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  Speaker 1: in that game. So I think he has the juice,
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  Speaker 1: but the Raiders need a lot of help and he
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  Speaker 1: is going to need a lot of help. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to put that kind of pressure on a
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  Speaker 1: young quarterback when they're going into a situation like the
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  Speaker 1: Raiders where you know you're you're you're essentially starting from scratch.
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  Speaker 1: Even though they have those two picks and brock Bauers
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  Speaker 1: and Ash and Genty, they need real pays.
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  Speaker 2: They need to build over time.
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  Speaker 1: They need to build in the trenches and allow incremental
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  Speaker 1: change as opposed to trying to throw a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: stuff at the wall. That's going to you know, switch
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  Speaker 1: a culture of losing around overnight. That being said, the
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  Speaker 1: other exciting thing from this weekend, where's the lightly Hurricanes.
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  Speaker 2: I loved seeing my brother at the draft with Ruben Bain.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so excited for Mesador.
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  Speaker 1: They had three picks in the first round, really really impressive. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know they did not win the National Championship game,
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  Speaker 1: but them being there was an incredible journey for me.
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  Speaker 1: It's so cool to see these guys have their opportunity
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, now the fun starts.
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  Speaker 2: They get to go and show what they they're capable of.
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  Speaker 2: Doing in the NFL, and I'm really looking forward to that.
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