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Kawhi Leonard Traded To The Toronto Raptors · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 1: The twenty twenty six offseason, y'all, it's gonna go down
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Speaker 1: as one of the greatest. I don't know if it
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Speaker 1: is the greatest just yet, because twenty nineteen was kind
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Speaker 1: of crazy.
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Speaker 2: But free agency don't start for a whole another.
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Speaker 1: Two hours, and we've already seen guys like LaMelo get
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Speaker 1: traded out of nowhere, Yannis finally get traded, Jules Rendo
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Speaker 1: gets traded, Tyler Herro is a part of a big trade,
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Speaker 1: and then Nicholas Classic gets traded. That's five All Stars
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Speaker 1: and future All Stars.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: We find out that Kawhi Leonard's going back to Toronto.
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Speaker 1: That's another one of them guys. And then earlier today
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Speaker 1: we find out that Lebron James era in La is over.
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Speaker 1: And the sneaky greatest part about that is Sean Sharani
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Speaker 1: has said in his report that Lebron is not motivated
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Speaker 1: about money this time around, which means that that opens
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Speaker 1: up the opportunity for Lebron to end up on some
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Speaker 1: left field team. It could be the Golden State words
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Speaker 1: because they've been trying to make some things happen, or
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Speaker 1: it it could be anybody.
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Speaker 2: This offseason is actually ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know if you get credit to Adam
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Speaker 1: Silver because of the second apron so teams have to
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Speaker 1: maneuver a little bit differently, or you give credit to
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Speaker 1: the fact that this is the parody era and every
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Speaker 1: single team think they have a chance to Toronto Raptors
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Speaker 1: are one of those teams that looked at their roster
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Speaker 1: from last season and even though it only netted them
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Speaker 1: a couple of playoff wins, this year, they look at
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Speaker 1: it and say, hmm, we think we have a chance,
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Speaker 1: so let's make a trade. Brandon Ingram Grady did two
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Speaker 1: first round picks a pick swap in two seconds as
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Speaker 1: the final final thing. Kawhi Leonard is thirty five years
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Speaker 1: old yesterday. Shout out to him. Happy belated birthday, Kawhi Leonard.
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Speaker 1: And he was great last season. He played sixty five games.
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Speaker 1: Was a great amount for a guy like Kawhi Leonard.
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Speaker 1: And that's something we're gona talk about little bit later.
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Speaker 1: He has just twenty eight points per game, six rebounds,
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Speaker 1: four sists. Ultimately just terminator mode from fifty percent in
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Speaker 1: the field, thirty eight percent from three. You know, the
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Speaker 1: numbers are the numbers, but I think the eye test
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Speaker 1: tells you a different story, not different story, a better
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Speaker 1: story about.
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Speaker 2: How good Kawhi Lennard was.
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Speaker 1: Obviously under a bunch of controversy when you talk about
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Speaker 1: getting paid under the table, maybe not getting paid under
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Speaker 1: the table, whatever, whatever. Last year was his best year
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Speaker 1: as a Clipper, you know what I'm saying. And we
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Speaker 1: talked about it with Mouse Bridges, where you never really
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Speaker 1: know exactly what the players about you is until they
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Speaker 1: eventually get traded. Obviously, Kawhi Leonard and Miles Bridges are
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Speaker 1: two different tiers of playing. Kawhi Leonard's seven tiers above
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Speaker 1: Miles Bridges as a player. But since we knew that
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Speaker 1: the Raptors were interested again, I'm gonna keep checking the
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Speaker 1: phone because you never know if something else is breaking up.
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Speaker 1: We knew that the Raptors were interested in Kawhi had
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Speaker 1: mutual interest with them because they want to resign him
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Speaker 1: at all. It gave us an opportunity to mess around
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Speaker 1: with the trade machine, and in my mind, I didn't
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Speaker 1: think it was gonna cost them many this much draft capital.
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Speaker 1: It might be worth it.
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Speaker 2: At the end of the day. Kawhi is older. But
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Speaker 2: I've always said.
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Speaker 1: This, and I think we all can agree that Toronto
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Speaker 1: Raptors as an organization have to run differently than most
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Speaker 1: teams across basketball. If you think about traded for brandon
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Speaker 1: Ingram and extending him before he plays a single second
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Speaker 1: on the team, for them extending yakapurdu early to the
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Speaker 1: man you quickly contract. They are the type of org
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Speaker 1: that maybe have to overpay to get super talent into
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Speaker 1: the door, and once they're in the door, they may
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Speaker 1: have to overpay to keep them there. And it says
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Speaker 1: nothing about the team itself. It says nothing about the
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Speaker 1: city or the organization. It's just I don't know geography.
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Speaker 1: And then I remember Stadius Young, former Bull legend Tagic Johnson.
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Speaker 1: He talked about his time in Toronto and he said
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Speaker 1: it was great, but it was the hardest places ever
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Speaker 1: had to play for. And they were like why, I mean,
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Speaker 1: the facility is great, the fans are great. He's like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: but it had a lot to do with some of
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Speaker 1: the logistics going through customs every single time you want
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Speaker 1: to come back from a road trip, like just different
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Speaker 1: stuff like that. So I've always said if I was
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Speaker 1: an NBA player, damn it, I would love to play
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Speaker 1: for the Raptors because I know I'm getting an extra
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Speaker 1: bag on top of what them already worth.
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Speaker 2: And Kawhi Leonard saw that too.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they took very good care of him his
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Speaker 1: one year while he was there, and they told him, hey,
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Speaker 1: if we trade for you right now, we work on
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Speaker 1: this negotiation. So I'm assuming whatever it is eligible to
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Speaker 1: go out, he will sign a multi year extension at
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Speaker 1: the age of thirty five years old. So two first
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Speaker 1: round picks a swap in two seconds. As I started
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Speaker 1: filming this. There has not been any note about what
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Speaker 1: the value of these picks are. We don't know what
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Speaker 1: years if they're protected, so just take that. I mean
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Speaker 1: we'll get that eventually, but that may change the evaluation
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Speaker 1: just a little bit. But this is a lot for
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Speaker 1: a guy like Kawhi Leonard. I absolutely love it from
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Speaker 1: the Clippers perspective. I mean, we'll go back to talk
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Speaker 1: about the Raptors as they get the star player here,
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Speaker 1: but I love it from the Clippers perspective. You think
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Speaker 1: about where they were as a team. I never am
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Speaker 1: gonna fault them for doing the Kawhi Leonard and Paul
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Speaker 1: George staying thinking about where both of those players were
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Speaker 1: in their careers when they teamed up with Kawhi Leonard
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Speaker 1: literally coming off a championship and Paul George coming off
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Speaker 1: of top three IVP and DPO WI type of season.
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Speaker 1: I don't fault them from trading all of that, even
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Speaker 1: though in net it okay see a championship and an
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Speaker 1: all time great in shag Yield just Alexander, but those
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Speaker 1: guys who are peak of their powers, and the Clippers
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Speaker 1: as just one of those organizations that been shooting for it.
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Speaker 1: Shooting for it was multiple years within the kawhil And and
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Speaker 1: Paul George era where I came on this platform and
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Speaker 1: one of my podcasts and I said, that is my
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Speaker 1: team to win a championship. They're too complete and it
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Speaker 1: never really worked out. I think in netted them one
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Speaker 1: conference finals appearance in the entirety of the Kawhi Leonard era,
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Speaker 1: which is not great, but they had never been to
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Speaker 1: the conference fight what hapened to con fighters a gazillion years. So,
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Speaker 1: like I'm sure you're going to see a bunch of
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Speaker 1: different podcasts and YouTubers talk about the kawhala And era
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Speaker 1: and with the Clippers as a whole, especially with the
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Speaker 1: Asciration thing going on and maybe not going on. I
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Speaker 1: have no idea where that investigation is going right now.
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Speaker 1: But I don't fought the Clippers for taking that chance.
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Speaker 1: What I will give them credit for is recognizing that
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Speaker 1: that window with Kawhi, that window with Paul George, that
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Speaker 1: even that window with Zubots had closed, right and they
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Speaker 1: had a fifty to fifty coin flip when it comes
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Speaker 1: to the Zubos trade, and boom, and that's them keing Woggler.
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Speaker 1: We'll see what Keen Wogler turns into in his NBA career.
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Speaker 1: And now you have an opportunity to trade an aging
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Speaker 1: star who's damn good still. By the way, he was
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Speaker 1: just All NBA second team, he was seventh in MVP.
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Speaker 1: He was amazing last season. But trade an aging star
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Speaker 1: to to recoup draft capital, it's something that you don't
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Speaker 1: really have a ton of. I love this trade completely.
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Speaker 1: Now I've read that the Clippers are also going to
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Speaker 1: be aggressive and signing and free agency as well.
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Speaker 2: Well. I don't know exactly what that looks like.
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Speaker 1: Brandon Ingram had just signed Extenson just a year ago,
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Speaker 1: so I don't know how that money changes their plans
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Speaker 1: and free agency.
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Speaker 2: But I absolutely love it from the Clippers.
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Speaker 1: This is not a completely clean slate necessary if they're
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Speaker 1: gonna retain brandon Ingram and so on. But they have
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Speaker 1: a little interesting team over there that can be like,
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Speaker 1: not a playoff team, I don't think, but feisty enough
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Speaker 1: where it's like, oh, that's a cool league pass team
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Speaker 1: from you know, Deers, Garland, King, Wogler, brandon Ingram, Yanni,
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Speaker 1: Nina Codenhauser having a hill you says some interesting stuff
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Speaker 1: going in there in Clipperland. And they're always a team
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Speaker 1: that tries the back door when it comes to trying
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Speaker 1: to acquire another superstar. So I don't know if that's
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Speaker 1: gonna look like don't I don't think it will be
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Speaker 1: this offseason. But like they're always trying to put that
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Speaker 1: foot on the gas. You got to think about who
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Speaker 1: their owner is.
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Speaker 2: Taking a fly on.
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Speaker 1: Grady Dick is pretty interesting. The idea of Grady Dick
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Speaker 1: has been a lot better than the actuality. Having a
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Speaker 1: six foot seven sniper who he ain't sniped anything just yet,
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Speaker 1: but that's a flyer I would be willing to take
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Speaker 1: a chance on. But two first round picks are swap
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Speaker 1: in two seconds is a great, great net for a
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Speaker 1: guy like Kawhi Leonard now going back to the Toronto Raptors.
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Speaker 1: Though again I think this is an overpaying draft capital.
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Speaker 1: I'm not mad at the idea of bringing an agent
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Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard back. The Knicks just won a championship and
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Speaker 1: they were so goddamn dominant along the way. But think
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Speaker 1: about where the Raptors just were. They get to their
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Speaker 1: first round series. Let me let me give y'all exactly
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Speaker 1: the way things went down. They get to their first
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Speaker 1: round series last season, and they performed very well. Right,
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Speaker 1: they lose in seven to the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Cavs
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Speaker 1: go on to the next round to play against the
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Speaker 1: Detroit Pistons, which they beat in seven as well, and
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Speaker 1: then they get to the conference finals to who we said, Knicks,
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Speaker 1: and they lose. I bet the people in the front
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Speaker 1: office for the Toronto Raptors said to themselves, if we
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Speaker 1: had a healthy Kawhi Leonard in last year's postseason, we're
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Speaker 1: in the conference finals.
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Speaker 2: Right. They beat Cleveland. I think they beat Detroit in
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Speaker 2: the second round too.
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Speaker 1: If it was just Kawhi Leonard added to the same
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Speaker 1: instead Brandon Ingram, who was Listen, we're nice on this channel,
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Speaker 1: but he was let's just say not matter of fact,
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Speaker 1: what are the exact numbers? Say he was not good
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Speaker 1: in the postseason? Whoa he he evers twelve points per
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Speaker 1: game or thirty two percent. So imagine, imagine those minutes
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Speaker 1: being taken by Kawhi Leonard. They can tell themselves that
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Speaker 1: we can bet we can win two series and we'd be.
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Speaker 2: In the conference finals.
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Speaker 1: Now that's what we're thinking to think that next season
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Speaker 1: they'll be able to replicate that and for Kawhi lin
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Speaker 1: to be completely healthy along the ride.
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Speaker 2: But that's not a bad bet in my personal opinion.
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Speaker 1: There's already speculations on Twitter that one of the reasons
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Speaker 1: there's an extra first round picking this is because they
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Speaker 1: really valued keeping the guys like Jamal Shed and keeping
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Speaker 1: guys like Jamis in Battle. And I don't know if
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Speaker 1: those guys are worth a true first round pick, but
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Speaker 1: I'm not, again, not mad at the idea. Here's a
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Speaker 1: look at what the depth chart is going to look
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Speaker 1: like in going into next season. Again, Quickly didn't even
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Speaker 1: play in the playoffs last year. Forgot that as a
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Speaker 1: little domino, So Quickly RJ Kawhi Scotti and Yaka Perl
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Speaker 1: is a really solid unit. Yeah, a lot of these
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Speaker 1: guys are making more money than they than they're probably worth.
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Speaker 1: We already talked about that. Jamal Shared is one of
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Speaker 1: my favorite role play basketball. Jakobe Walters had a couple
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Speaker 1: of really good shooting performances and make you feel like
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Speaker 1: he's really a guy that you can trust. In the
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Speaker 1: playoff series. Kyler Murray Boyles was amazing in the postseason,
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Speaker 1: especially on the defensive side of the ball. Tray Jackson,
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Speaker 1: Davis Jamison Battle gave them a game as well, and
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Speaker 1: they still got some decisions to.
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Speaker 2: Make when Mamu and so on.
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Speaker 1: I would hope and assume that they can bring back
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Speaker 1: Mamu because he was also really solid for the season.
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Speaker 1: I like this roster enough for me to look past
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Speaker 1: the draft capital that they gave up time with tail
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Speaker 1: Right if Kawhi Leonard goes into back to Toronto and
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Speaker 1: he struggles to stay healthy and you're like, oh, we
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Speaker 1: gave up two first round picks for this, sure, but again,
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Speaker 1: I just the Raptors just have to operate a little
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Speaker 1: bit differently. There's gonna be lineups this season that has
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Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard, Scotty Barnes and Cala Murray boils and why
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Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard is not I don't know. Twenty seventeen version
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Speaker 1: of him. Defensively, he still could get that shit done.
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Speaker 1: The Raptors have a couple like fluid lineups that could
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Speaker 1: just scote nuts, especially with Scotty Barnes continue to get
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Speaker 1: better as a ballad as a decision maker. We're like,
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Speaker 1: there's gonna be closing line up, so they may not
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Speaker 1: need a man you quickly unless this jump shot is
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Speaker 1: really working that night and they can run some super
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Speaker 1: big death line up. This is a big ass team
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Speaker 1: and size is going to matter in their quest to
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Speaker 1: go on to you know, the Eastern Conference.
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Speaker 2: Finals next season. I like it, man, I like it. Yes, again,
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Speaker 2: it's a lot, it's a lot of draft capital. But
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Speaker 2: mckel Bridges just proved fucking picks. You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: When you if you got a guy, sometimes you gotta
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Speaker 1: say fucking picks.
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Speaker 2: And maybe Kawhi Leonard is gonna be that type of guy.
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Speaker 1: And also a contention on what type of extension you
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Speaker 1: get Kawhi is it gonna be one of them big
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Speaker 1: ass fifty million dollars a year extension. Is he gonna
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Speaker 1: take a little bitless because again he's thirty five years Oh,
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Speaker 1: I don't really know one thing about Kawhi Leonard and
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Speaker 1: his team.
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Speaker 2: They be bad chasing.
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Speaker 1: They know how to get the most out of the
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Speaker 1: out of their money, and out of opportunities. And that's
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Speaker 1: one of the reason why he's like, I'll go back
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Speaker 1: to Toronto because I know if I go back there,
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Speaker 1: they gonna let me. I saw Drake put some of
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Speaker 1: his Instagram story, Oh you set, my guy. If Drake
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Speaker 1: is is endorsing the return, you may never never leave.
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Speaker 1: And Sean said in his support as well that part
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Speaker 1: of him going back to Torontos that he wants to
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Speaker 1: retire there, which is pretty It is pretty cool. I
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Speaker 1: remember when Kawhi Leonard originally left, when Kawhile Liond originally left,
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Speaker 1: and they saw they followed them pictures of him at
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Speaker 1: home depot getting those boxes, and we made a lot
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Speaker 1: of fun about fun of that. They still got Chris
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Speaker 1: done on the team. Dere Jones Junior is still on
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Speaker 1: the team. So like the Clippers can make some things happen,
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Speaker 1: make it real interesting.
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Speaker 2: Brandon Ingram.
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Speaker 1: I think this is kind of what Brandon Ingram is
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Speaker 1: gonna be, by the way, as far as like, he's
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Speaker 1: always gonna be a guy that's that's good, but not
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Speaker 1: good enough for him to not.
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Speaker 2: Be involved in trades, if that makes sense.
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Speaker 1: He was an All started season, even though I didn't
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Speaker 1: love his play necessarily, he was an All Star this year.
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Speaker 1: And then he got to the postseason. Again, it wasn't
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Speaker 1: his greatest thing. He's had a lot of rockie rocky
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Speaker 1: times in the postseason. I remember he had the one
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Speaker 1: really great series. Let me figure out which that he
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Speaker 1: had that one really great series versus the Sons when
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Speaker 1: the Suns are really good, where he have twenty seven,
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Speaker 1: six and six on great efficiency. And then he went
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Speaker 1: against Okay see a few years later, and that is
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Speaker 1: when he was just coming off of injury. Like he
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Speaker 1: had played only a few games if my history is correct, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he had missed one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
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Speaker 1: nine to eleven, twelve thirty fourteen. He had missed fifteen
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Speaker 1: fourteen that last fifteen games before at the end of
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Speaker 1: the regular season, got to the postseason, went against OKC
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Speaker 1: and lou dort Ate his lunch and then in this
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Speaker 1: one versus Toronto or versus Cleveland, it just wasn't pretty.
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Speaker 2: So I don't know.
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Speaker 1: He's just he's gonna be one of those guys and
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Speaker 1: can give you a lot of stats. But teams are
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Speaker 1: gonna be completely okay with saying he's our salary in
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Speaker 1: order to go get somebody better, which is like, I
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Speaker 1: guess it's not the worst job to have if you
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Speaker 1: can make forty million dollars while doing it.
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Speaker 2: But missus Sliderman, tiny Dog's on.
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Speaker 1: He's on the move again. Also in the intro, and
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Speaker 1: I was talking about how crazy so I've seen this.
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Speaker 1: I didn't even mentioned John mrankat. Also he also got
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Speaker 1: traded and now as of today, Trump Blaze just got
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Speaker 1: thirty six guards and all of them are like really good.
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Speaker 2: It's great. So that's pretty interesting stuff.
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Speaker 1: I think the biggest winner of all of this is
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Speaker 1: gonna be Scotty Barnes. And he showed you how amazing
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Speaker 1: of a ball player he is. Even in that postseason
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Speaker 1: series he was the you know, the best player on
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Speaker 1: the court for the majority of that series.
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Speaker 2: But we know that he is.
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Speaker 1: I don't use the word limited, but there is at
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Speaker 1: least based on last season, a couple of years of
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Speaker 1: his career, a ceiling of what he can do as
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Speaker 1: a true offensive one, and Kawhi Leonards like truly is
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Speaker 1: a terminator, alpha offensive guy and that just helped Scotty
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Speaker 1: Barnes be able to do all of the ancillary things
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Speaker 1: that make him a great player. So he's a huge
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Speaker 1: winner in this one. The city of Toronto could and listen.
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Speaker 1: I'll be the first to tell you I'm not I'm
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Speaker 1: not against letting you know. The nostalgia might cloud my
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Speaker 1: judgment on an initial trade like this, Right, Kawhi Leonard
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Speaker 1: hit one of the biggest shots.
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Speaker 2: In the history of the sport in this jersey and
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Speaker 2: got that team of championship.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm kind of hyped to see him go back,
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Speaker 1: even if the guy might play forty games next season
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Speaker 1: and thirty games ye after that. Again, I recognize the risk,
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Speaker 1: but I'm excited for it because of nostalgia, you know,
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Speaker 1: Like I remember why I was when Kawhi Leonard hit
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Speaker 1: that shot. I was in my little ass apartment watching
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Speaker 1: on the little ass screen because for whatever reason, we
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Speaker 1: have power that day, Like I would never forget I
14:10
Speaker 1: would never forget that memory of watching Kawhi Leonard hit
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Speaker 1: that shot on the own, like on a little phone.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, big risk for the Toronto Raptors. But if
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Speaker 1: all plays well, this is a team that is contending
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Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference and at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: in the in the parody era, being in the contendered
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Speaker 1: tier is really important. So cool, a lot of draft capital.
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Speaker 1: We'll see what the protections are. Shout out to the
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Speaker 1: Clippers because I think they went as well. One of
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Speaker 1: the rare initials.
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Speaker 2: I like it. I like it, I like it, I.
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Speaker 1: Love it, and I love it for the Clippers and
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Speaker 1: I like it for the Raptors, even with the risk involved.
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Speaker 2: You let me know, uh, Kawhi Leonard back in Toronto. Wow,