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Tatum's Injury, Playoff Jimmy Without Curry, Finals Predictions and NBA Playoff Discussion #124 · The Grounded Show

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Speaker 1: What a do little baby, We back again, Yes, sir,
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Speaker 1: with some old and familiar looks.
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Speaker 2: You hear me a little.
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Speaker 1: Pot from home vibes, doing a little WFH vibes.
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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. Do it. Let's just zoom
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Speaker 2: it today, buddy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, for real. But yeah, the other format doesn't mean
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Speaker 3: the other format stopping.
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Speaker 1: Just yeah, yeah, facts, man, you know, just just a
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Speaker 1: very busy time right now.
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Speaker 2: Wanted to definitely get this.
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Speaker 1: Uh, there's a lot of a lot of information and
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Speaker 1: things going on out there in the in the world
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Speaker 1: that you know, the Grounded Show gonna tackle, man, because
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Speaker 1: it's sure it's a lot of good a lot of
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Speaker 1: good juicy stories.
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Speaker 2: They yo.
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Speaker 1: But man, the first thing that we're gonna start with
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Speaker 1: this week is Michael Jordan becoming a special contributor to
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Speaker 1: NBC's coverage of the NBA.
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Speaker 4: What does that mean though, So basically they haven't Necessarin
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Speaker 4: Saroly specified exactly what he's gonna do, but basically they're
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Speaker 4: saying that when NBC takes over the regular season.
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Speaker 1: Broadcast, which they haven't done in a while. They used
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Speaker 1: to broadcast games from nineteen ninety to two thousand and
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Speaker 1: two and then you know, the rights or whatever. They
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Speaker 1: haven't done it in a long time, So the coverage
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Speaker 1: is going to start again in the fall, and they're
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Speaker 1: gonna have Jordan as part of the crew.
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Speaker 2: Basically, they haven't.
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Speaker 1: Really announced what he's doing specifically, he's just being called
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Speaker 1: a special contributor. It's unclear what it means. It's unclear
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Speaker 1: how many times he's going to be on or what
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Speaker 1: he's gonna do, but obviously it's a big announcement even
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Speaker 1: just having Jordan be a part of it in any
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Speaker 1: kind of way. You know, it's kind of like it
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Speaker 1: kind of even made me think of how people were
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Speaker 1: kind of kind of confused, slash caught off guard when
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady went kind of like straight into the broadcast
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Speaker 1: moue and people were kind of like, Dann, that's kind
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Speaker 1: of weird, like, you know, for somebody to be like
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Speaker 1: a goat like that and just go to that kind
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Speaker 1: of role because you don't really see those guys in
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Speaker 1: those roles, you know what I'm saying. So I think
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Speaker 1: that kind of like threw people off guard, like trying
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Speaker 1: to imagine like how Jordan would, you know, give his
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Speaker 1: feedback or just him being part of a show like that.
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean? And I do believe that
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Speaker 2: with the.
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Speaker 1: Way the inside the NBA show is changing, is that
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Speaker 1: gonna overlap like Jordan and Barkley gonna beer together and stuff.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Bro, it's like I was thinking about it.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, there's kind of like a lot of shakeup
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Speaker 1: as far as like networks go and who's involved in
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Speaker 1: what with the NBA. I wonder if that's going to
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Speaker 1: open the door for them to finally hash it out.
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Speaker 2: Man, you know, it's.
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Speaker 3: Crazy, that's what. Maybe they're trying to keep the fans hooked.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe it's crazy dark as like us growing up
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Speaker 1: like eighties nineties. Baby, He's like when we was younger,
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Speaker 1: Jordan and Barkley was homies dog Like they was like
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Speaker 1: best friends. They hanging out together, you know, they have
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Speaker 1: like they'll do interviews together and stuff like they was
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Speaker 1: homies dog and like they fell out, like they're not
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Speaker 1: cool no more. I think what Charles Barkley said was
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Speaker 1: that it was when Jordan became an owner of the
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Speaker 1: Hornets or the Bobcats, whatever that terrible team was. But
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Speaker 1: when Jordan became the owner of that team, I guess
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Speaker 1: Barkley was like criticizing him and just you know, Barkley's
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Speaker 1: an analyst TV analyst, so now he's talking about Jordan
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Speaker 1: as an owner, and apparently Jordan didn't like that and
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Speaker 1: they kind of fell out over that.
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Speaker 2: Dame.
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Speaker 3: I think it's going to be major. I think they're
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Speaker 3: trying to keep everybody hook now that the you know
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Speaker 3: them for they're not going to be together, Barkley and
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Speaker 3: and Shack and Yeah and Kenny and j and Kenny.
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Speaker 3: It's like they're trying to keep the fans looking forward
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Speaker 3: to something that'd be crazy if he appears on on
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Speaker 3: that show with them or just with Barkley alone. But
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Speaker 3: I think I did compare it to the Tom Brady
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Speaker 3: crossing over into commentary. I mean, one of the greatest
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Speaker 3: in the sport commentating in some form or manner. You
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Speaker 3: want to hear that, just like when Eli and Peyton
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Speaker 3: have Belichick on there. It's like hearing these people watch
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Speaker 3: other games and give their opinions on it at the
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Speaker 3: level of greatness they are. It is something that people look.
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Speaker 1: Forward to, no facts, And like I said, it's going
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Speaker 1: to be interesting to see if we kind of get
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Speaker 1: that Barkley Jordan thing with this situation that's going on.
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Speaker 1: I'm really interested in seeing Jordan like really talk basketball,
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Speaker 1: like as far as like modern NBA goes, and him
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Speaker 1: really give his analysis, because, like you said, Bro, we
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Speaker 1: don't really hear that. So just to kind of get
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Speaker 1: inside his mind as far as like his thoughts with
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Speaker 1: certain players and teams and stuff.
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Speaker 2: That's going to be dope. Man. Since we since we're
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Speaker 2: on the.
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Speaker 1: Topic of the NBA, Man, we in the middle of
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Speaker 1: playoff season right now. We're gonna start dropping these clips
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Speaker 1: as soon as tomorrow, so we'll be pretty much up
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Speaker 1: to date. But the Pacers took out the Calves in
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Speaker 1: five games.
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Speaker 4: Man.
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Speaker 1: I was actually in a session last night, little creative
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Speaker 1: session with just cooking up some vibes with a couple
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Speaker 1: of the homies, and the game was on and they
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Speaker 1: was like, oh, man, who you think is gonna win?
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Speaker 2: I'm like, and the game that.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about is Pacers Calves game five. Uh, Pacers
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Speaker 1: were up three to one, Calves are at home. Everybody's like,
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Speaker 1: Calves gonna push it to six. I'm like, bro, no,
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Speaker 1: this was like the score was like two to zero,
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, bro, I've watched most of these games
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Speaker 1: pretty much all the all the games of the playoffs
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Speaker 1: this postseason, because this postseason has been super dope.
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Speaker 3: Man, I think it's been one of the best in
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Speaker 3: the minute and that it kind of gives me hope
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Speaker 3: because usually these are the best game that leads up
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Speaker 3: to like whackass conference finals series. But I think this
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Speaker 3: one's leading up to whatever these teams win. It's gonna
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Speaker 3: be a great.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be epic regardless, just because of the
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Speaker 1: teams involved and who's.
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Speaker 2: Already out, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, Like, so I'm watching Pacers Calves game five.
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Speaker 1: Calves are at home, Calves number one seed, and the
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Speaker 1: people I was winning the studio, they was like, yo,
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Speaker 1: I think the Calves going to push it to six.
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Speaker 1: I think the Pacers gonna win, but the Calves gonna
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Speaker 1: push it to six. I'm like, Bro, Calve's gonna lose tonight. Bro,
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Speaker 1: Like I just if you watch these games, dog the
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Speaker 1: Pacers have had the Calves number like in a ridiculous fashion,
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Speaker 1: like the way that they took them first two games,
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Speaker 1: just like literally outdogged them in the fourth quarter both
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Speaker 1: games and just took those games. It was insane. They
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Speaker 1: did the same thing in the third game that they won.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the Calves got a game, but they the
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Speaker 1: number one. See yeah, yes again it's different.
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Speaker 2: Bro.
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Speaker 1: I think in like the second quarter, they was down
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Speaker 1: by like twenty bro By Like I think, like.
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Speaker 2: The beginning of the fourth, Pacers was back up.
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Speaker 1: I was like, because the dudes, I was like, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: the Pacers gonna win. Huh.
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Speaker 2: They were getting spanked. Bro.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, bro, I'm telling you, they just already got
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Speaker 1: their number.
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Speaker 2: Bro.
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Speaker 1: And lo and behold, they was down by like twenty
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Speaker 1: points by the time, like it's the end of the
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Speaker 1: third quarter. They like tied it up. Then they was
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Speaker 1: up in the fourth and basically sealed it in the
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Speaker 1: last two minutes. It's like, I wasn't surprised, man, I
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Speaker 1: always say, and I probably said it on the podcast.
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Speaker 1: From the beginning, the Calves gave me Atlanta Hawks vibes. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and I'm talking compared them to and I'm talking about
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Speaker 1: that twenty you know twenty tens Atlanta Hawks that it
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Speaker 1: was like there was one seed, two seed whatever. You know,
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Speaker 1: they hit in the playoffs, but you knew they wasn't
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Speaker 1: gonna do nothing because that was a regular season team.
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Speaker 1: And that's the thing with the Calves right now, Bro,
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Speaker 1: they are a regular season team. I've heard little inkling
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Speaker 1: of a possibility, a small possibility, a little idea of
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Speaker 1: floating out there, of Lebron returning to the Calves team
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Speaker 1: they have in place and try to make one more
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Speaker 1: push under the career there.
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Speaker 3: That would be nuts.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that cops fan brouh and honestly, Bro, like, it
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Speaker 1: really only takes Lebron's to say, like, y'all, I'll take
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Speaker 1: a huge bay cut.
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Speaker 2: That's all. It takes.
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Speaker 1: All it takes for him to accept less than what
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Speaker 1: he's worth, and he could really make that happen. He
8:31
Speaker 1: could pretty much make anything happen if he decided to
8:34
Speaker 1: take less money. Speaking of goal, speaking of Tom Brady,
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Speaker 1: Jordan and all that, do you think he's dumb for
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Speaker 1: always taking the max and not taking less to let
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Speaker 1: them get players?
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Speaker 3: No? But I thought he took he's been taking pay
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Speaker 3: cuts in order to get these role players that he's
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Speaker 3: been wanting.
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Speaker 2: I thought, you know he no, no, no, he was
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Speaker 2: he said he was willing to.
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Speaker 3: Okay, but that's what I'm thinking about.
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Speaker 1: But what happened was the Pacers I mean, the Lakers
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Speaker 1: didn't end up sealing any deals and they were like
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Speaker 1: and he was like, all right, then I'm taking the
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Speaker 1: whole thing, you know what I mean, which is like, Bro,
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell somebody don't get their money.
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Speaker 1: But it's that famous argument, bro, Like, you got somebody
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Speaker 1: like Carmelo Anthony that went with the bag every time,
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Speaker 1: But what is his legacy and how much his legacy matter?
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Speaker 1: If I'm Carmelo, I'm looking at it like, Bro, I
9:27
Speaker 1: don't care what nobody thinks about me. I played in
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Speaker 1: the NBA X amount of years. I was one of
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Speaker 1: the greatest players, and I got super paid. A ring
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Speaker 1: ain't going to define my life, you know what I'm
9:37
Speaker 1: saying that whole I get it as a competitive guy
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Speaker 1: because I'm super competitive when it comes to stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: But I'm also not like obsessed about it, you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Like when you talk about Jordan and
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Speaker 1: when you talk about not seeing him in shows like
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Speaker 1: that and stuff, it's because he's that guy that's super intense, bro, Like,
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Speaker 1: you can't imagine him just like Calme talking about it
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Speaker 1: because you see him in these other interviews and stuff,
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Speaker 1: and he's still like mad competitive, you know what I mean,
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Speaker 1: And it's like brouh. I feel like they be trying
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Speaker 1: to take away from Lebron just because he just didn't
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Speaker 1: care about winning the most out of anything, you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like.
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Speaker 3: Everybody still got four, you know, yeah, but he's still.
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Speaker 1: The the what's it called the continued greatness?
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Speaker 2: Bro.
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Speaker 1: It's definitely overlooked by the haters on the Jordan's side.
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Speaker 1: And I'm definitely one of those I think Jordan's better
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Speaker 1: than Lebron, But I'm never gonna try and act like
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Speaker 1: it's like a huge disparity or like it's disrespectful, disrespectful
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Speaker 1: to even thinking. And I'm one of those that like,
10:42
Speaker 1: if you think Lebron is better, I don't have a
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Speaker 1: valid argument to tell you. You're you know what I'm saying, Like,
10:48
Speaker 1: I can't say anything logically to disagree with.
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Speaker 2: Somebody if they think Lebron is better than Jordan. You
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Speaker 2: feel me like.
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Speaker 3: People always talk to championships, you know, but everybody you
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Speaker 3: can always compare the teams that Jordan and be in
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Speaker 3: the finals to win the championships, but then think about
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Speaker 3: Lebron and coming back from three to one against the
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Speaker 3: seventy three and nine team bro Robert on Town. Like,
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Speaker 3: that's one of the craziest, craziest championships anyone could ever win.
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Speaker 1: The Robert Horry got seven. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: What's his name?
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Speaker 2: Uh? Bill Russell had eleven? Was that how many he had? Eleven? Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Damn yeah, I know it's double digits.
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Speaker 1: Like, come on, if you're talking about rangs as what matters,
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Speaker 1: and those are the guys you need to be talking about,
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Speaker 1: but nobody talks about them because they people know they're
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Speaker 1: not the goats, you know what I mean?
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Speaker 3: I think I think with the possibility of you know,
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Speaker 3: the MAVs got the number one pick and the possibility
11:43
Speaker 3: of Gianni is final being open to leaving Milwaukee, the
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Speaker 3: teams that stand today are not going to be the
11:51
Speaker 3: teams that stand next season for the playoffs. So it's
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Speaker 3: gonna be a team that really mixes it up and
11:56
Speaker 3: does something major, makes a major move that's actually gonna
11:59
Speaker 3: make a difference in the playoffs because these are young
12:01
Speaker 3: teams that are playing no fact, he's a young teams
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Speaker 3: that are dominating right now.
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Speaker 1: And the crazy thing right now is like there's there's
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Speaker 1: so much like mobility and so many good players on
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Speaker 1: so many teams, you know what I mean. Like the
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Speaker 1: NBA is like pretty insane right now. It's like it's honestly,
12:21
Speaker 1: like on a different level. And even the way that
12:23
Speaker 1: things have been going, it's like they were having that
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Speaker 1: big conversation about the NBA losing fans and we we've
12:29
Speaker 1: talked about it recently, just them having to change the
12:31
Speaker 1: format of the season maybe, but when it comes to
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Speaker 1: the playoffs, especially this year, they're definitely hitting it out
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Speaker 1: the park.
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Speaker 2: Bro.
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Speaker 1: Like, you know, we're still not even in the conference finals,
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Speaker 1: and it's like we're looking at possibly seeing the Pacers
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Speaker 1: and the Knicks in the conference finals.
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Speaker 2: Because Tatum went.
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Speaker 1: Down he already had you know, they didn't even announce
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Speaker 1: what happened to Tatum.
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Speaker 2: They just announced that he had the surgery, Bro, and
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Speaker 2: he's out.
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Speaker 1: That was that was insane, Like the way the way
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Speaker 1: they kept that under wraps, and then once it came out,
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Speaker 1: it was like, yeah, he already had the surgery like that.
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Speaker 1: That's bro. That's a super sad situation there, dog. I'm
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Speaker 1: not I've said it on the podcast. Not a fan
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Speaker 1: of Jason Tatum as far as like a top ten
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Speaker 1: or top five player. Not a fan of the Celtics
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Speaker 1: and their Brandon basketball, but Bro, seeing a dude go
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Speaker 1: down in the prime, in his prime and what's probably
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Speaker 1: going to be the last season of that team because
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Speaker 1: they got so much money on the books that there's
13:26
Speaker 1: no way they're.
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Speaker 2: Coming back, that team's not coming back.
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Speaker 1: And for him to go down like that, Bro, and
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Speaker 1: them having to kind of enter like a rebuild in
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Speaker 1: that kind of state and just uncertainty. And he's twenty seven,
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Speaker 1: So it's like when he comes back, like what agent?
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like he's in his prime?
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Speaker 1: Is he Is he twenty seven? Or is he going
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Speaker 1: to be twenty seven when he comes back? Let me
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Speaker 1: just confirm because I don't really remember what his age
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Speaker 1: is exactly.
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Speaker 3: But you know a lot of players has come back
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Speaker 3: from major major.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he is twenty seven right now, twenty seven, so well, basically.
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Speaker 2: He's twenty seven.
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Speaker 1: This kind of injury, you can come back in a year,
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Speaker 1: but you're not necessarily you Well, Kay came back later.
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Speaker 3: KD came back without missing a beat.
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Speaker 1: No, No, he came back without missing a beat, Like
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Speaker 1: he missed a little beat because you always have that
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Speaker 1: first year where you're kind of whipping yourself back into shape,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like and Kat was a
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Speaker 1: little his numbers dipped a little. But he's a little
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Speaker 1: different because step no, no, he had ankle problems, but
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Speaker 1: he never had the acl yeah, or the achilles or anything.
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Speaker 2: But dog him.
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Speaker 1: Going down like this and not not knowing that you're
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Speaker 1: not going to see him one hundred percent him again
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Speaker 1: for another two years.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be twenty nine thirty by then.
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Speaker 1: Who knows, like how he's going to bounce back, because
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Speaker 1: even though a lot of players bounce back right nowadays,
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Speaker 1: which KD is one of the ones that I was like, Bro,
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Speaker 1: I was skeptical about that one.
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Speaker 2: Bud.
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Speaker 1: He's said, man, seven foot with that kind of injury,
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Speaker 1: just the track the track record is not good.
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Speaker 3: Bro.
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Speaker 1: For Tatum, it might be a little better. He's a
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Speaker 1: he's a little smaller, dude, he's a little younger, so
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Speaker 1: it might work out, but I mean, you're still talking
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Speaker 1: about a climb back, even just getting your team back
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Speaker 1: to that level, especially like missing him for a year, Bro,
15:21
Speaker 1: because they're.
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Speaker 3: Gonna have to build a team around him being on
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Speaker 3: the bench. They can't trade him on exactly. Bro.
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Speaker 1: It's just, man, it's super unfortunate. Sucks, sucks for that
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Speaker 1: franchise and the fans. Dog. That's something you never want
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Speaker 1: to see. Man, that's real, terrible man.
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Speaker 3: All serious as a side though, the side to side
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Speaker 3: clip Paul Pierce going down the wheelchair and Jason Tatum
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Speaker 3: going down the wheelchair and they said Jason Tatum can't
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Speaker 3: do nothing.
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Speaker 1: Originally, Oh my god, I don't even see that.
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Speaker 3: That's all I felt bad, Like all serious a side
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Speaker 3: that was funny though.
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Speaker 1: That's crazy though this in this case, Jason Tatum did
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Speaker 1: the real one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because Paul Pierce said, yeah, to take a ship.
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Speaker 1: When he went to do his He's like, man, I'm
16:02
Speaker 1: gonna be to take a ship like dirty bag.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, man, Internet, Yeah, so you got you got
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Speaker 2: that going on in the East. I know you're going
16:13
Speaker 2: for the Knicks against right now the second quarter as
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Speaker 2: we speare.
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Speaker 1: That's gonna be. That's gonna be a tough series Knicks Pacers. Bro.
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Speaker 1: I have to see them play like a game game
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Speaker 1: and a half for me to really say which way
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Speaker 1: it goes.
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Speaker 2: I really can't call it either way.
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Speaker 3: Burns nice man, other birds nice. He's a playmaker. He
16:30
Speaker 3: knows how to come through and lift up the team
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Speaker 3: and keep them playing.
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Speaker 1: The thing is that Knicks got more stars like the.
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Speaker 2: Calves. They have Mitchell and that's it.
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Speaker 1: Garland is streaky, Jerry Allen's a role player, Mobley's a
16:45
Speaker 1: defensive guy. They they that's why I didn't like them
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Speaker 1: from the beginning. Bro All y'all got. All y'all got
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Speaker 1: is Donovan Mitchell and y'all hoping Garland fills that second
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Speaker 1: slot and it's not gonna happen, and it didn't happen
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Speaker 1: like you've seen.
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Speaker 2: But with the Pacers, they got guys I like a yo.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: They got them Hart, they got Buddy Nie Smith that
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Speaker 1: was on the Celtics matter of fact, that I didn't
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Speaker 1: like when they let him go, and it looks like
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Speaker 1: he should have still been on the Celtics. The Pacers,
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Speaker 1: I like that team. Man, their center is name escapes
17:19
Speaker 1: me right now. But the dude that he could shoot
17:22
Speaker 1: threes too like and he's a tough inside players. Myles
17:25
Speaker 1: Bridges I think is his name. I might be tripping
17:28
Speaker 1: turn Miles Turner. There we go but yeah, I like
17:33
Speaker 1: that team. But dog, you're talking about the Nick Scott
17:38
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson. They got cat you know what I'm saying.
17:42
Speaker 1: They got bridges.
17:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, they got bridges.
17:45
Speaker 1: That's playing og like I think it's just too much firepower,
17:50
Speaker 1: like and just they're just a little better and they
17:52
Speaker 1: got heart exactly and their dogs to their dogs too,
17:56
Speaker 1: Like it's a whole different situation, man, like they I
17:59
Speaker 1: could I could really uh, I can really see it going.
18:02
Speaker 1: Seven games are going either way, like being a lot
18:05
Speaker 1: of people.
18:05
Speaker 3: Think we have a better chance against the Pacers then
18:10
Speaker 3: we did the Calves.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that was just paper and I think
18:15
Speaker 1: it was because maybe no, no, I think it was
18:19
Speaker 1: the Pacers that gave Yeah. Yeah, So the Pacers gave
18:23
Speaker 1: the Calves trouble during the regular season, and the Calves
18:27
Speaker 1: gave the Knicks trouble during the regular.
18:29
Speaker 3: We wouldn't be any of the top teams in the playoffs.
18:31
Speaker 2: We went, Oh, but this is the playoffs. This is different.
18:34
Speaker 1: I never never, never, never give any stock to the series,
18:38
Speaker 1: the season, you know what I'm saying, the season record,
18:41
Speaker 1: because it's like, bro, there's players that take it to
18:44
Speaker 1: another level in the playoffs and you can't account for
18:46
Speaker 1: that on a random Tuesday on NBA TV. You know
18:49
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like it just don't work, like I
18:51
Speaker 1: play energy, different facts. But the West, Bro, the West
18:56
Speaker 1: kind of wide open too. You got Denver looking a
18:58
Speaker 1: little is crazy too. Yep, three to two right now,
19:03
Speaker 1: Dev's trying to push it to seven. Oh, that's gonna
19:06
Speaker 1: be interesting. I'm rooming for Denver. But I could see, okay,
19:09
Speaker 1: see pulling it out.
19:10
Speaker 3: Yeah. I would like to see Rusk get close to
19:13
Speaker 3: it at least too.
19:13
Speaker 1: Man. I want to see Rusk get a ring man
19:15
Speaker 1: in the West right now, that's my only story. I'm
19:17
Speaker 1: invested in the Nuggets winning, so Russ could get the
19:21
Speaker 1: ring and shut everybody up.
19:22
Speaker 2: Even Aaron Gordon had.
19:24
Speaker 1: To address some comments that Ramona Shelbourne put out that
19:27
Speaker 1: saying that people on the team are saying Russ is
19:30
Speaker 1: immature and that they can't stand dealing with him and stuff,
19:33
Speaker 1: and he addressed it, like, Bro, we love Russ. We're
19:36
Speaker 1: like a family. He's been like a loved guy in
19:39
Speaker 1: the locker room. Like they keep having a Defenders dude
19:42
Speaker 1: Like bro, like this dude is an NBA first ballot
19:45
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, a great player.
19:47
Speaker 2: He's made every team he's been on better.
19:50
Speaker 1: Like when you really like when you don't just go
19:53
Speaker 1: with the narrative and really look at the numbers, he
19:55
Speaker 1: makes every team he's been on better. So, man, I
19:59
Speaker 1: really do want to see Russ went if they don't win,
20:02
Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind seeing the Timberwolves.
20:05
Speaker 2: Get a too early one.
20:08
Speaker 1: And what I mean by too early one is like,
20:11
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like the Timberwolves should win this year. Seems
20:14
Speaker 1: like they need a little more seasoning. But with the
20:17
Speaker 1: way the you know, Steph Curry going down, Jason Tatum
20:21
Speaker 1: going down, that's two big people that.
20:24
Speaker 2: Are out of the playoffs that you don't got to
20:25
Speaker 2: worry about.
20:26
Speaker 3: Lucas already going, Steph got a chance to come back
20:29
Speaker 3: if they could extend the series a little bit.
20:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Jimmy Butler's faltering a little bit. But it's
20:35
Speaker 1: like bro, y'all, they brought him in there to be
20:37
Speaker 1: a very very very very excellent second option and now
20:41
Speaker 1: he's the first option. So it's like, you can't you
20:44
Speaker 1: can't get mad when you know this is not the
20:46
Speaker 1: role he's there for.
20:47
Speaker 2: Bro.
20:48
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, said he said, He said that game's a
20:50
Speaker 3: lot easier when Stepson.
20:51
Speaker 1: And I was literally going right in that direction, like dog.
20:54
Speaker 1: When you got the best shooter of all time on
20:57
Speaker 1: the court with you, where everybody's worried about him, it's
20:59
Speaker 1: a lot to get your game going. It reminds me
21:02
Speaker 1: of a Juju and Antonio Brown, Remember Juju went, I
21:06
Speaker 1: want to be a number one wide receiver. It's like, yeah, bro,
21:10
Speaker 1: it's kind of not easy because you in the NFL
21:13
Speaker 1: and you a good receiver, but it's it's a little
21:15
Speaker 1: easier when you got a B on the other side,
21:18
Speaker 1: and AB is like pound for pound, like might be
21:21
Speaker 1: the best receiver.
21:21
Speaker 2: Of all time type shit, you know, definitely.
21:24
Speaker 1: So it's like when you got Steph out there, the
21:28
Speaker 1: game comes a little easier than when Steph is gone
21:30
Speaker 1: and they're literally just zoning in on you.
21:32
Speaker 2: You the only one that they worried about.
21:35
Speaker 3: You be able to make plays na that, And that's
21:37
Speaker 3: exact I think that's exactly what the strategy when they
21:39
Speaker 3: picked up Jimmy Butler. They put him in a position
21:41
Speaker 3: where he can make his plays and be that type
21:43
Speaker 3: of player. But when he's the main focus and they're
21:46
Speaker 3: locking him down and he's not able to do any
21:47
Speaker 3: of that.
21:48
Speaker 2: Hopefully they can.
21:50
Speaker 1: They can eat this one out. But like I said,
21:52
Speaker 1: I want to be mad to see the Timberwolves take it,
21:54
Speaker 1: you know. But we're gonna transition out of the sports
21:59
Speaker 1: talk up pretty much shit everything we wanted to talk
22:01
Speaker 1: about until next time, because I'm definitely excited about the
22:06
Speaker 1: NBA and what's going to continue happening