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Hour 1 - It's All Over · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: hour number one the NBA Finals Game seven, the star
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Speaker 1: of the show yay or nay on Oklahoma Cities Championship
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Speaker 1: for Shay jogis Alexander's Thunder downgraded because of the Tyres
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Speaker 1: Halliburton achilles injury early in game number seven. Also, now
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Speaker 1: we're getting the morning After quarterbacks saying that Halliburton never
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Speaker 1: should have been allowed to play for the Pacers. Oh no,
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Speaker 1: he popped his achilles aware are you on this one?
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Speaker 1: The Thunder also just winning their first championship since since.
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Speaker 1: Now we'll count the sonic days. Now there's whispers and
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Speaker 1: there's gonna be a dynasty. This, that and the other
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Speaker 1: thing how do you see it? We'll talk about that. Also,
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Speaker 1: have the thunder become the new blueprint, the model for
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Speaker 1: other NBA teams to copy. And what about the dopes
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Speaker 1: ripping the clippers for trading SGA, the trolls crawling out
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Speaker 1: from behind the refrigerator. We'll talk about all that and more.
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Speaker 1: Right now, settle in for our number one. If you
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Speaker 1: liked the NBA Finals, you're bummed out. There's no more games.
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Speaker 1: It's all over. Stick a fork in and it's done.
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Speaker 1: if you had the NBA Finals having a classic Game seven,
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Speaker 1: you are a loser.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Much of the chatter that people are excited about is
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Speaker 1: not Game seven. It's the Kevin Durant trade. Durant every
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Speaker 1: three years is traded. This time he goes to Houston.
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Speaker 1: More buzz on that we'll talk about as we go
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Speaker 1: through the overnight. But it was the end of the
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Speaker 1: road for pro bouncy ball. That's all she wrote. The
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Speaker 1: NBA regular season, I went back and I looked, began
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Speaker 1: two hundred and forty four days prior to Sunday, two
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Speaker 1: hundred and forty four days. It began with the Knickerbockers
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Speaker 1: playing the then reigning champion Boston Celtics back in October
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Speaker 1: October twenty second before Halloween of last year, and it
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Speaker 1: ended exactly eight months later to the day. Eight months later,
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Speaker 1: the thunder and Pacers brought the curtain down. They didn't
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Speaker 1: bring the house down. They brought the curtain down on
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Speaker 1: there in the NBA Finals, Game seven, Small market, Small
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Speaker 1: Market NBA Finals. Were you watching? Were you no? You
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Speaker 1: were not watching. I've seen the ratings. No one was watching.
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Speaker 1: There were seven people watching. That's it. But we watched.
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Speaker 1: It's our good mits for the day. We checked it
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Speaker 1: out so you would not have to. And what happened
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Speaker 1: well in game seven. The thing everyone's talking about is
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Speaker 1: not the game itself, something that happened early in the game.
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Speaker 1: But in the end, Shade jogis Alexander. He was inefficient,
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Speaker 1: but he had twenty nine points and ends up winning
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Speaker 1: the Finals MVP award as OKC pulls away in the
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Speaker 1: third quarter and cements the lead in the fourth quarter
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Speaker 1: and they zoom passed a short handed Pacer team one
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Speaker 1: to oh, three to ninety one turn out the last
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Speaker 1: the parties over for Indiana and for Oklahoma for that matter.
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Speaker 1: Game seven of the NBA Finals in the books now SGA.
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Speaker 1: He needed twenty seven shots to get to twenty nine points.
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Speaker 1: In game seven. I'm told that is not particularly good,
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Speaker 1: but it didn't matter. He still won the MVP eight
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Speaker 1: of twenty seven. That's my computer like brain tells me.
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Speaker 1: Twenty nine point six percent from the floor, nineteen misshots
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Speaker 1: in game seven, and he still ends up winning the
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Speaker 1: finals MVP, which is the full body of work. But
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Speaker 1: the story here is the injury and how it impacts
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Speaker 1: the outcome of this game. So let us discuss yay
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Speaker 1: or nay? The Oklahoma City Thunder Championship for Shay Jogas
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Speaker 1: Alexander downgraded, downgraded because of the Tyrese Haliburt and achilles
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Speaker 1: injury in the first quarter of the close out final
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Speaker 1: game of this series. So I've got tears for fears, spreadsheet,
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Speaker 1: and prison camp and we will combine all of these
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Speaker 1: things together and we are going to make a nice
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Speaker 1: banana cream pie that you can throw in someone's face
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Speaker 1: if you want. I don't care. So a to answer
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Speaker 1: the question, the Championship for Oklahoma City yay or nay?
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Speaker 1: The Shay Joggis Alexander Championship for the Thunder downgraded because
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Speaker 1: of the injury to Tyrese Haliburton, pop goes the Achilles
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Speaker 1: is it yay or nay. So the error on this
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Speaker 1: one's pointing the direction of yay as in yes as
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Speaker 1: in absolutely sorry, not sorry. I know how these things work.
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Speaker 1: We understand how these things work. It is not invalid.
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Speaker 1: I am not saying that the championship of Oklahoma City
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Speaker 1: is invalid. That is not what I am saying. Do
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Speaker 1: not misquote me. What I am merely saying is that
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Speaker 1: it is diminished. That is my point, okay, And you
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Speaker 1: can't fight me on that. That's the reality. Right. Every man,
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Speaker 1: woman and child knows that was paying any attention to
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Speaker 1: the NBA files that the moment tyrese Hali and went down,
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Speaker 1: that's it. It's like taking the engine out of a
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Speaker 1: car and expecting it to win the Indy five hundred
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Speaker 1: right now. Maybe once in a while it'll happen, but
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Speaker 1: normally you need the engine to win the race. And
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Speaker 1: that was the moment, by the way, we went and looked.
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Speaker 1: That's the moment Steven A. Smith started playing Solitaire that
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Speaker 1: he knew the game was all. He picked up the
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Speaker 1: solitaire right there, he said, that's it. That's a solitaire moment.
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Speaker 1: Halliburton is the playmaker. We know that he's the head
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Speaker 1: of the snake and all those things, and so you
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Speaker 1: take him out of the equation, the arithmetic is much
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Speaker 1: different as obviously much to You're not facing the real
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Speaker 1: Indiana Pacers at that particular moment, and so that's the reality.
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Speaker 1: That's not the same test. It's like the questions are
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Speaker 1: easier at that particular moment. And even with that, Indiana
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Speaker 1: still had a very slim lead midway through the game.
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Speaker 1: So twenty four minutes to go, Indiana had a slight lead.
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Speaker 1: But don't tell me that this is the same battle
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Speaker 1: tested Blood Soak Championship Game seven, iron willed win without
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Speaker 1: Halliburton on the court. It's just not. It's simply not
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Speaker 1: true by any way you look at it. It's not
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Speaker 1: true right now. That being said, I know from doing
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Speaker 1: this show over the years, and we've been here when
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Speaker 1: this similar situation has happened, maybe not an achilles injury,
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Speaker 1: but a major injury in the NBA Finals in my
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Speaker 1: watch here at Fox Sports Radio behind these microphones. So
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Speaker 1: we've been here a while. And the thing that I
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Speaker 1: know about this is it's like the old Tears for
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Speaker 1: Fear song memories fade, meaning like right now in this moment,
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Speaker 1: we will bring this up, we will mention this, we
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Speaker 1: will say, hey, listen, that's downgraded. But over time it
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Speaker 1: gets talked about less and less and it just goes
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Speaker 1: to the back of history and he just kind of
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Speaker 1: fades away and you'd have to like type it into
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Speaker 1: chat GPT to kind of get the right answer to that.
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Speaker 1: But just like Kevin Durant injured his achilles and Klay
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Speaker 1: Thompson messed up his knee in twenty nineteen, Toronto won
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Speaker 1: the championship. It's been six years since that happened. Do
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Speaker 1: people still bring that up? Now? They don't bring it up.
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Speaker 1: But the moment it happened, people brought it up. They're like, well,
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Speaker 1: that's not legit. You know, way back twenty some years ago,
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Speaker 1: the Pistons, the four Pistons with Rashid Wallace and those
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Speaker 1: Cats playing the Lakers, and Karl Malone was playing for
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Speaker 1: the Laker. He got hurt, he messed up his knee,
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Speaker 1: if I remember he was injured. They at the time around, well,
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Speaker 1: there you go, that's why the Pistons were able to win.
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Speaker 1: But now twenty some years later, people forget about that.
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Speaker 1: They don't even know about it now. The other part
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Speaker 1: of this page two, which blows me away, like shiver
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Speaker 1: me timbers. Right, there are those out there morning after quarterbacks,
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Speaker 1: if you will, the morning after this was moments after
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Speaker 1: the injury, who were going on and on and on
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Speaker 1: by well Tyree's Halliburton should have never been allowed to play.
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Speaker 1: Should have never been allowed to play for the Pacers.
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Speaker 1: It's malfeasance by the Indiana basketball team. They should never
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Speaker 1: have allowed him on the court. He had a pre
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Speaker 1: existing condition. Bad job by them. Oh no, right, oh no,
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Speaker 1: he popped his achilles in the first quarter. So where
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Speaker 1: are you at on this one? Where are you at
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Speaker 1: on those that are screaming this is on the Pacers.
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Speaker 1: They should not have allowed him to play. Haliburton should
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Speaker 1: not have been out there. This is one of those
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Speaker 1: things that blows me away.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: I think some of this is actually just people just
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Speaker 1: busting balls and just probably bought accounts on those social
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Speaker 1: media channels because it's the freaking finals, Like, what do
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Speaker 1: you even having that coming? It's a chance to win
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Speaker 1: a championship. No one, no one misses that game, and
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Speaker 1: if you missed that game, you might as well retire.
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Speaker 1: If Halliburton had said I'm not gonna play. I might
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Speaker 1: pop my achilles. You might as well go get a
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Speaker 1: real job. You can't show your face in any gymnasium
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Speaker 1: anywhere from Maine to Maui. It's over. You have to
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Speaker 1: play in that game, game seven of the finals. You've
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Speaker 1: gotta do it. And Halliburton did he and he made
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Speaker 1: some shots, so he had nine points. He made three
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Speaker 1: three point shots early. He got hurt. That sucks, and
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Speaker 1: that's part of the game. And all these morons, I can't.
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Speaker 1: I really hope this is not legit all. This is
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Speaker 1: just like people trolling things like that. I mean, come on,
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Speaker 1: if there's anyone that actually believes that you have the
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Speaker 1: greatest loser mentality of all time, science should study you.
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Speaker 1: You are such a loser that people should study how
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Speaker 1: big a giant loser you are and how you got
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Speaker 1: to that particular point where you wear the giant l
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Speaker 1: on your forehead because you're a loser. Right again, no
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Speaker 1: ifs ads or but you got to play. If you're Haliburton,
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Speaker 1: you cannot not play. You can't. They they have to
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Speaker 1: amputate you. Let you gotta play, like there's no no,
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Speaker 1: you can't even in this soft modern world we live,
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Speaker 1: and you've got to play in Game seven. And for
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Speaker 1: those that are, you know, grumbling, and again, I'd like
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Speaker 1: to think this is all nonsense. Uh play in the game.
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Speaker 1: Why he wasn't one hundred percent, I would argue, I
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Speaker 1: don't think I'm wrong on this. What do I know, though,
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Speaker 1: I do the overnight show that nobody is one hundred percent.
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Speaker 1: By the time you get the Game seven of the Finals,
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Speaker 1: you've been playing for eight months of basketball. Although many
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Speaker 1: of the players take a lot of time off et cetera.
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Speaker 1: It's one of those things. You patch it up, you
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Speaker 1: rub some dirt on it, get some dirt, get some mud,
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Speaker 1: rub it on there, and you go. And that's what
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Speaker 1: you're supposed to do. That's you know, gut it out
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Speaker 1: Game seven NBA Finals. That's what you want Halliburton to do.
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Speaker 1: What he did it. Now, there is a dimension in
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Speaker 1: the multiverse where Halliburton goes out there and he doesn't
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Speaker 1: pop his achilles, same scenario leading into the game. He
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Speaker 1: goes out there and plays and plays well, and the
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Speaker 1: Pacers end up winning Game seven, and rah rah, And
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Speaker 1: there's a parade in Indianapolis in a couple of days
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Speaker 1: and all that. So when you dig a little deeper, though,
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Speaker 1: I had an epiphany as I was cruising over here
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Speaker 1: to the hallowed hallways of Fox Sports Radio where legends
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Speaker 1: like ritur Era and others James Washington used to work
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Speaker 1: back in the old days here and I was walking
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Speaker 1: in from the parking lot and I walked by the
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Speaker 1: trash which hasn't been picked up since Friday. It's a
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Speaker 1: nice smell, nice aroma. So I walked in there and
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Speaker 1: I you know what this is. This is the spreadsheet
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Speaker 1: warriors that have taken over yet again, another example, another example.
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Speaker 1: It's been about fifteen years or so since this has
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Speaker 1: become prevalent in modern sports. That is, the spreadsheet warriors
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Speaker 1: have led to the brain rot among a segment of
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Speaker 1: sports fans, the analytical Nerd Society of North America that
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Speaker 1: have said, hey, I've got a graph that shows injury assessment,
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Speaker 1: injury risk assessment, and this guy I cannot play out
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Speaker 1: of an abundance of caution, cannot do it right, and
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Speaker 1: they're all up in arms and it's not right. He
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Speaker 1: didn't follow the probability model. Tyrese Haliburton, I'll dare him
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Speaker 1: add to that, I say, five. Wait, right, is what
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Speaker 1: I say again, Halliburton. If he hadn't played, he'd be
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Speaker 1: healthy right now, he wouldn't have a pop achilles, and
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Speaker 1: he would have been haunted by the Kulda would have
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Speaker 1: should have for the rest of the man's life. In
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Speaker 1: the end, he's not getting back here. It's not like
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Speaker 1: the Pacers. It'll be another generation before the Pacers get
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Speaker 1: back to the NBA files. And you're telling me he
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Speaker 1: shouldn't have played, All right, tell me you're dumb. Without
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Speaker 1: telling me you're dumb right now. Last word, So let's
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Speaker 1: address the Komodo dragon in the room. Now, what is
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Speaker 1: the Komodo dragon in the room? Well, the Oklahoma City
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Speaker 1: Thunder have just won their first championship as the Oklahoma
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Speaker 1: City Funder. Now some will say, well, I'll go back
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Speaker 1: to the Sonics. I don't count the ghosts of Seattle
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Speaker 1: because I believe it in the next couple of years,
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Speaker 1: the Sonics will be born again. They will have the
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Speaker 1: SuperSonics back in Seattle and all the championships and all
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Speaker 1: the glory. We'll go back to Seattle and all that.
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Speaker 1: So those ghosts I leave behind the team unceremoniously hijacked
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Speaker 1: out of the Pacific Northwest, and they abandoned Seattle because
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Speaker 1: of the oil tyrant that bought the team from the
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Speaker 1: Starbucks dopes and then moved it to Oklahoma City. But
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Speaker 1: now we're hearing the whispers and we're seeing the comments
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Speaker 1: on social media and the gas bag gasps. Well, they've
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Speaker 1: already been labeled dynasty. It's they went one championship dynasty.
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Speaker 1: Here we go, dynasty in the making. Is that how
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Speaker 1: you see it? So I'll go first here. I look
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Speaker 1: at this like a prison camp. Okay, team wins title
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Speaker 1: and everyone and their mother becomes hypnotized and mesmerized. Prisoners
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Speaker 1: of the moment, prison camp, prisoners of the moment. Slow down,
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Speaker 1: have your little champagne there, have you a little parade,
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Speaker 1: knock yourself out. The confetti hit you and then let
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Speaker 1: it hit the ground. At least it can hit you
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Speaker 1: and then hit the ground and all that stuff, and
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Speaker 1: you can probably hold off on building a statue for
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Speaker 1: SGA at least not yet. It's a classic recency bias.
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Speaker 1: We heard the same things last year with the Boston
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Speaker 1: Celtics winning the championship. They're on their way now. The
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Speaker 1: Celtics are going to control the NBA for years to
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Speaker 1: come because they have Tatum and Brown and oh my
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Speaker 1: god and all that stuff. Now, one ring does not
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Speaker 1: become the forecast for three or four or five and
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Speaker 1: one finals, MVP Award, you don't become the face of
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Speaker 1: the NBA. You're not catapulted up to that level. And
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Speaker 1: Sam Presty my got he's got the cleanest ass in
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Speaker 1: the NBA. Every TV guy, every media guy in the
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Speaker 1: NBA has been kissing Sam Presty's ass, going on and
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Speaker 1: on the executive for Oklahoma City. But they suddenly the
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Speaker 1: new gold standard and all that stuff makes me want
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Speaker 1: to puke in my mouth. The dynasty stuff is rather ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: Those require something called repetition, which is the problem. Relevance
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Speaker 1: over the period of time more than I don't know,
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Speaker 1: one year, and they are earned because of overcoming injury
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Speaker 1: like surgeries and players getting you know, getting unhappy. They're
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Speaker 1: in a small town. They want to go somewhere else.
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Speaker 1: You also have the salary cap. You've got to juggle
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Speaker 1: because everyone's gonna get a lot more money and all that.
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Speaker 1: So I just don't see it. For the thunder, I
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Speaker 1: don't I don't see it. I maybe I'm wrong. I
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Speaker 1: don't see them as a dynasty. They can prove me
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Speaker 1: wrong if they want. You'll run it back, do it again.
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Speaker 1: But even that's not a dynasty. You gotta do it
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Speaker 1: at least a couple more times, and do it when
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Speaker 1: guys get hurt, go out and win again with injuries, right,
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Speaker 1: and when contracts expire and players demand, hey, I want
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Speaker 1: more money. The disease of me. Pat Riley used to
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Speaker 1: talk about that egos getting away all that stuff, and
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Speaker 1: when you're being targeted and you're not the fresh faced underdog,
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Speaker 1: upstart team and you have nothing to lose and all that. Now,
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Speaker 1: as for the building of the roster, I would like
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Speaker 1: to address that. Have the Thunder crack the code? Have
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Speaker 1: they given us the blueprint that all the other NBA
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Speaker 1: teams are gonna copy? That would be a no, no way.
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Speaker 1: The Thunder. I look at them like in baseball, the
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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Race. These are two teams that can do
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Speaker 1: what they have done because of where they are. The
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Speaker 1: Thunder are like the Tampa Bay Rays in baseball. It's
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Speaker 1: Frankenstein's Lab, is what it is. You've got no media pressure.
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Speaker 1: It's a podunk town Oklahoma City you've got that small
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Speaker 1: town fan base that's just happy they have pro sports there.
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Speaker 1: You've got zero pressure and you can trade away and
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Speaker 1: just play the lottery game, lottery ball for years to come.
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Speaker 1: I can do that. That playbook will not work in
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Speaker 1: a big league city. Right in a big league city,
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Speaker 1: there will be pressure to have star players. There will
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Speaker 1: be pressured to have success, and you will become irrelevant
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Speaker 1: because the word apathy will apply. If you try to
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Speaker 1: do that, people will come apoplectic, they will not watch
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Speaker 1: your product. You will become irrelevant. You can't do it,
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Speaker 1: you can't get away with it. But a time like
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Speaker 1: Oklahoma City, you can do it. Just like the Tampa
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Speaker 1: Bay Race. They don't nobody cares. They just they have
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Speaker 1: a good team every year. But they don't have stars.
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Speaker 1: And they get stars, they get rid of them and
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Speaker 1: that's it. That's that. Now, what about the dopes and
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Speaker 1: I'm getting some of this crap. They're like cockroaches. They
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Speaker 1: come out here and they're like, oh, man, thiss, gotta
19:43
Speaker 1: be a tough day for the Clippers, you know, ripping
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Speaker 1: like somehow I'm the spokesman for the Clippers, which I'm not.
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Speaker 1: I don't trust man, I don't go to those games
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Speaker 1: much anymore. I used to back in the day. I
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Speaker 1: hope the Clippers do well, but the idea and we'll
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Speaker 1: just address it like this, the dopes that are out there,
19:58
Speaker 1: what do you make of this? Wow, the Clippers I
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Speaker 1: should have been their championship. Ain't traded away? SGA. This
20:03
Speaker 1: is embarrassing for the Clippers. My god, Now I understand
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Speaker 1: where this is coming from.
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Speaker 2: This.
20:08
Speaker 1: I love busting balls as much as the next person.
20:11
Speaker 1: I know that's all you're doing. I get it. You
20:13
Speaker 1: know who, Miller, you should feel so bad. You know
20:17
Speaker 1: it's low information trolling at its finest, and that's really
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Speaker 1: what social media is all about. I get it. You
20:24
Speaker 1: know you're just busting chop. You know you couldn't name
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Speaker 1: two guys on the Clippers or the Thunder. It's revisionist history.
20:31
Speaker 1: And to say that the Clippers shouldn't have made that trade,
20:33
Speaker 1: I would have made that trade one hundred out of
20:35
Speaker 1: one hundred times. Even after Oklahoma seid. He just won
20:38
Speaker 1: the championship, right as em and m crooned no regrets? Right.
20:43
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard was the player everyone won. Every single team
20:47
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20:50
Speaker 1: It was a claw game. To get the claw. He said,
20:54
Speaker 1: I want Paul George, which is a dumb decision, but
20:56
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21:01
Speaker 1: Paul George Blouse. But that's who Kawhi Leonard wants. So
21:04
Speaker 1: you trade Sga. That's it. That's the price of admission
21:08
Speaker 1: fresh off a title in Toronto. That's what you had
21:11
Speaker 1: to do. You do it every single time. You don't
21:14
Speaker 1: look back. That's it. And you make that trade, and
21:19
Speaker 1: you know the Clippers they're still relevant and they'll be
21:22
Speaker 1: a contender for the foreseeable future where they have a
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Speaker 1: legit owner and all that. But of course you'd make
21:27
Speaker 1: that trade. And Sga hasn't become what he became with
21:29
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21:31
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Speaker 1: King Rory right since says the Pacers were never going
24:10
Speaker 1: to win the NBA Finals even if Tyreese Halliburton wasn't injured.
24:13
Speaker 1: The NBA was going to let the Thunder lose. Wasn't
24:17
Speaker 1: going to let the Thunder lose the NBA Cup and
24:19
Speaker 1: the finals, Plus the NBA wanted the home team to win.
24:24
Speaker 1: Black Magic doesn't work on Sundays. Well, you'd argue that
24:27
Speaker 1: black magic didn't work, that somebody used a voodoo doll
24:31
Speaker 1: and did in Tyreese Halliburton. That someone went out and
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Speaker 1: See you later. Jeremy says, do you think the Rockheads
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Speaker 1: gave up too much for a slowing down Kevin Durant?
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Speaker 1: He says, we'll have more on that, Jeremy an ho
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24:51
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Speaker 1: There you go. Brian says the Curse of the Lakers
24:58
Speaker 1: benefits OKC. He points out that mister Alex Caruso, former Laker,
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Speaker 1: helped them win their first ever championship. That's correct, Brian,
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Speaker 1: what a dumb decision by the Lakers to get let
25:12
Speaker 1: Alex Caruso go back in the day. Nature Boy rights
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Speaker 1: and says the haters are just jealous about the Clippers,
25:17
Speaker 1: especially if their team is just watching the playoffs like
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Speaker 1: the rest of us. A fer dog right since says
25:23
Speaker 1: fully agree on Okse's title being diminished due to Haliban's injury,
25:28
Speaker 1: but it's not diminished nearly as much as the Lakers
25:31
Speaker 1: Mickey Mouse Championship. No title will ever be worth less
25:35
Speaker 1: than that one. Well, that is correct because that was
25:38
Speaker 1: the easiest of all time to win. You had four
25:40
Speaker 1: months off before the playoffs. Easy, no travel, right, no
25:44
Speaker 1: late night flights, no hotels you got to check into.
25:48
Speaker 1: You were at a resort. You ad a Mickey Mouse resort.
25:51
Speaker 1: The only thing that could have stopped the Lakers is
25:54
Speaker 1: if Goofy had gotten out in the court and trip them.
25:57
Speaker 1: That would have been a problem. Let's see who else
25:59
Speaker 1: do we have a page? And Shane and de Moyes says,
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Speaker 1: now the NBA Finals are over, let's discuss the Liberty
26:05
Speaker 1: versus Storm and I'll I'll let Jason Smith and harming.
26:08
Speaker 1: Those guys handle that. I'm good. They can take that.
26:11
Speaker 1: I'll give that content to them. See super marg Steve says,
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Speaker 1: Lebron said he should have a statue in front of
26:17
Speaker 1: Staples Center and he only has a half championship. Well
26:20
Speaker 1: that's true, he does only have a half championship. Why
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Speaker 1: doesn't Lebron build his own statue. I just build his
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Speaker 1: own statue and that's it. And well it is appropriate
26:29
Speaker 1: Lebron would get a statue because the Lakers play on
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Speaker 1: skid row, So you build that statue right there on
26:35
Speaker 1: skid row in La. Let's see. Uncle Mark says, should
26:39
Speaker 1: the Clippers give James harden and the contract extension, He's
26:42
Speaker 1: going to ask for one. I wouldn't, but they will.
26:45
Speaker 1: He'll stick around. He's not going anywhere. Let' syllo to
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Speaker 1: a man who is beating and broken as he is
26:50
Speaker 1: a longtime Indiana Pacer fan, and he would have given
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Speaker 1: up his achilles, but they didn't ask for it. Our
26:57
Speaker 1: friend Shawn the hood Guy. Hello, Sean the hood Guy.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I know you want to dance on my gram.
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Speaker 1: No, No, never do that. You know, I'm not like that.
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Speaker 1: What music would you like? Ben? How about some polka music.
27:08
Speaker 1: Do you have any polk I'll do a nice polka
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Speaker 1: the song there a little Poka day.
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Speaker 5: Already, know, man, listen, I.
27:19
Speaker 1: Wanted the Pacers to wait. I was hoping they wouldn't win.
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Speaker 1: You know, Hey, kick your legs in the air, right
27:25
Speaker 1: on the grave of the Pacers. Shot in, Fred, shot
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Speaker 1: in Floyd, shot in Foyd. Go the Pacers.
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Speaker 5: Okay, I get it, man, I gets a good night
27:36
Speaker 5: for you. But if he went to win down, man,
27:38
Speaker 5: it'd be a different story. I guarantee that, you know.
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Speaker 1: But well, he had he had to play. He had
27:43
Speaker 1: to play right. Well, you got hurt. He had to play. People,
27:45
Speaker 1: you shouldn't play this dumbased the dumbest thing I've heard
27:49
Speaker 1: in months. And I heard a lot of dumb stuff
27:51
Speaker 1: every day. I hear dumb stuff that's so stupid.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, he had to play, like you said, would have
27:56
Speaker 5: started been circling around him. So he had to do something, man.
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Speaker 5: But he went out, and we never know. Man, it
28:03
Speaker 5: took us twenty five years to get back to the finals.
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Speaker 5: You know, I don't know if the Pacers got a
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Speaker 5: curse on them, because we could have won the finals
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Speaker 5: and O five. But the whole team got suspended. Then
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Speaker 5: when it first started, our Regi Miller couldn't get past Chicago.
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Speaker 5: Then we just had bad luck with the Lakers too much,
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Speaker 5: Shaq and Kobe. So it's hard, man, It's just not
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Speaker 5: easy to get back there. So we're not even guaranteed
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Speaker 5: to make it back there next year. Nobody's guaranteed.
28:28
Speaker 1: Well you're not. I mean, Halliburn's would be out pretty
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Speaker 1: much all next year, so you're not even make the
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Speaker 1: playoffs next year.
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Speaker 5: He played a great game. They should keep that guy.
28:38
Speaker 5: They should bring the team back, but add one more
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Speaker 5: piece to the team because it I only seen a
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Speaker 5: big two. Okay, okay, see had a big three. You
28:45
Speaker 5: need a big three nowadays in this time of area
28:48
Speaker 5: to win the games.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how about medium size three. I don't
28:52
Speaker 1: know that I'd go big three.
28:54
Speaker 5: If something some guys with some hearts, you guys with
28:56
Speaker 5: some dog in him or some kind of you know,
28:58
Speaker 5: some kind of mama mental. That's what we need sometime, man.
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Speaker 5: So I don't know. I'm not gonna guarantee we're gonna
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Speaker 5: get back next year and win.
29:05
Speaker 1: It all, but I'll guarantee you won't get back how
29:07
Speaker 1: about that. I'm garm right now. I guarutee, I guarutee.
29:12
Speaker 1: The Pacers will not sniff the finals.
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Speaker 5: I'm not guaranteeing either, but I'm gonna tell you like
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Speaker 5: this I can get. I'm gonna get my revenge from
29:20
Speaker 5: football season.
29:21
Speaker 1: So you, oh yeah, well what kind of revenge a
29:23
Speaker 1: you're gonna get? I gotta hear about this here.
29:25
Speaker 5: We don't get revenge because everybody downs us. They didn't think, oh, well,
29:28
Speaker 5: you know he's gonna come He might come in and
29:30
Speaker 5: get hurt, but we gotta pass.
29:32
Speaker 1: You're talking about Aaron Rodgers. For those that doesn't know
29:34
Speaker 1: Sean the Hood guy, he likes the Pacers, but he's
29:37
Speaker 1: also a big Steeler guy.
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Speaker 5: Thank you, sir. We're gonna be talking more heavenly all listen.
29:42
Speaker 1: I'll be I'm here every night. You know where to
29:44
Speaker 1: find me.
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Speaker 5: Many but tomorrow night I probably call back and get
29:48
Speaker 5: you an exclusive Tails from the Hood tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: All right, good see that's something to look forward to.
29:52
Speaker 1: Tails from the Hood. I love it. All right, thank you,
29:54
Speaker 1: gud all right, I gotta go, but thank you. There's
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Speaker 1: get Sean the Hood Guy checking in.
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Speaker 5: Thank you.
29:59
Speaker 1: Start out with it a pacer guy. Why not absolutely super?
30:05
Speaker 1: Marcus Steve says, I hate to touch up your work man,
30:07
Speaker 1: but the O four Pistons won because Kobe decided that
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Speaker 1: he was the star and he didn't want Shack to
30:12
Speaker 1: win another MVP. Karl Malone played just fine. Now, Karl
30:15
Speaker 1: Malone was hurt the entire series. He missed the final game.
30:18
Speaker 1: And it's it's not just my opinion. Gary Payton, you asked,
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Speaker 1: Gary pay I remember Gary Payton, He said, listen. If
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Speaker 1: Malone didn't got hurt, they would have won. Gary Payton,
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Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, said that. Scrooge says that bet Fine
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Speaker 1: avenues Si because he was hurt. Coop Yeah, fad the
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Speaker 1: entire series. So if he had been able to be healthy, right,
30:36
Speaker 1: if he had been healthy and played like car like
30:38
Speaker 1: he was older at that point, the Lakers would have
30:41
Speaker 1: would have won, that said Scrooge, says Ben after listening
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Speaker 1: to the Fifth Hour podcast every weekend, Uh, will you
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Speaker 1: be bringing your son Ferg Dog on? Uh? Bring your
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Speaker 1: kid to work day? I don't know. I've never met
30:54
Speaker 1: Ferg Dog, so I don't know I've invited Ferg Dog.
30:56
Speaker 1: He can come in here anytime he wants he's more
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Speaker 1: than welcome. Let's go back to the phones. Will say
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Speaker 1: hello to Eenie Meenie miney mo. Let's say hello to Brett,
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Speaker 1: who's in Nashville. Hello, Brett, Welcome, what's up Benny.
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Speaker 2: It's good to have you back, Bud.
31:11
Speaker 1: Thank you. I've been I've been here. The phones haven't
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Speaker 1: been working, but I've been here.
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Speaker 2: Oh I missed your actually you know photos closure, I
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Speaker 2: missed you, malamnologue. I just got back in the office
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Speaker 2: for like twenty five after and I heard what.
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Speaker 1: You what are you getting to the office at this time?
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Speaker 1: For what kind of work do you?
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Speaker 2: This is this is the this is the calls given
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Speaker 2: high time because it's like once a year. But I
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Speaker 2: work at the prison.
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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I I remember you. I got you. I
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Speaker 1: like that. You call that an office. I like that.
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Speaker 1: That's quite the office you work out.
31:39
Speaker 2: I actually have an office. Yeah, but it's it's it's
31:42
Speaker 2: not I'm not on the unit. I just got around
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Speaker 2: and do some stuff, pick up paperwork, make sure everything's fun.
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Speaker 2: And then I came back here and I'm like, oh,
31:49
Speaker 2: Ben's back. I got a call and say welcome back.
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Speaker 1: You go well, thank you?
31:54
Speaker 2: Yeah man, yeah, it was it's good. Good to hear
31:56
Speaker 2: you work. Good to hear back on the air, very entertaining.
31:58
Speaker 2: I do you know, I heard what you said, mister monologue,
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Speaker 2: but I heard the last caller as far as you know,
32:03
Speaker 2: he did have to play. And you know, I just
32:05
Speaker 2: obviously heard that on the radio, you know, I was
32:07
Speaker 2: following along, actually listened to the same station FSR, and
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Speaker 2: they were just giving tidbits here and there, and they
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Speaker 2: said when he got hurt, he was three for four,
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Speaker 2: had nailed three threes in the first seven minutes. And
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Speaker 2: it's like, you can't help but think if he would
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Speaker 2: have played, they would have had a hell of a
32:22
Speaker 2: chance to win, you know, And it's it's it's disappointing.
32:26
Speaker 2: But when he did have to play, But those calf injuries,
32:29
Speaker 2: it does seem like in every sport Jalen Phillips with
32:32
Speaker 2: the Dolphins, that these calf injuries when they just juice
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Speaker 2: them up with anti anti inflammatories and tell them to
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Speaker 2: go play, a lot of them lead to Achilles ruptures,
32:42
Speaker 2: you know. I mean, we see it and it's like, God,
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Speaker 2: it's Game seven, you gotta play. But it's like, how
32:48
Speaker 2: many times are we going to see these calf injuries
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Speaker 2: turn into Achilles ruptures, you know, without well those.
32:56
Speaker 1: Great experts of medicine who are on social media who
32:58
Speaker 1: claimed that if there's certain exercise as you can do
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Speaker 1: and you will avoid the the calf injury. Of course
33:04
Speaker 1: they're on social media, so who knows if they're actually
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Speaker 1: right or not, but they swear are there's certain exercises
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Speaker 1: these guys aren't doing. And if they just did those,
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Speaker 1: you wouldn't have it. Because I don't recall this being
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Speaker 1: a regular thing. Like we have had three players in
33:16
Speaker 1: the NBA postseason now that's over, Snap, crackle pop. You
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Speaker 1: had Tatum Halliburton and Dame Lillard all suffered popped achilles.
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Speaker 1: Three three star brand players in one postseason. A problem.
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Speaker 2: Do you remember if if they had calf strange prior,
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Speaker 2: because yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well Lillard, I know Lillard did, and then I don't
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Speaker 1: know for sure with Tatum, but he did before he
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Speaker 1: got hurt. He was kind of dinged up and then
33:43
Speaker 1: he was kind of grabbing his leg a little bit
33:45
Speaker 1: and then he and you.
33:46
Speaker 2: Know, you remember Jalen Phillips ND for the Dolphins eat
33:50
Speaker 2: same thing. Calf strain kept playing and then pomp did
33:53
Speaker 2: and what happens when you do when you strain your cap.
33:55
Speaker 2: It's a little tear.
33:56
Speaker 1: Well, I want you to know, and I want this
33:58
Speaker 1: to be clear, Brad. I've done talk and I've had
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Speaker 1: a calf, a sore calf, and I have not popped
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Speaker 1: my achilles. I've done four hours of talk radio with
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Speaker 1: a achilles with a calf injury, my calvel, little pain
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Speaker 1: in there.
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Speaker 2: The level of agility that it takes is amazing.
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Speaker 1: It's mind blowing, he said, not mind blowing to sit
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Speaker 1: here and just be a gash bag all night. It's not.
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Speaker 1: This job is not that easy.
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Speaker 2: I enjoy it. I know.
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Speaker 1: Well, thank you all right, well appreciate I have a
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Speaker 1: safe night there, and thank you for enjoying your office.
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Speaker 1: At the prison there, there's a Brett checking in. He
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Speaker 1: used to have this guy called from Illinois, older guy,
34:32
Speaker 1: years ago and he's retired. I don't know what he
34:36
Speaker 1: still listens. He's still around. I don't know. I spent
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Speaker 1: a long time and he said. I remember asking him.
34:41
Speaker 1: I said, what do you do as I work at
34:42
Speaker 1: a prison? I said, well, okay, what are you doing?
34:43
Speaker 1: I'm an adult, I'm an adult babysitters What he said that
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Speaker 1: was I babysit adults to keep getting in trouble. Yep,
34:51
Speaker 1: that's what he was saying, keeping eye on the Do
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Speaker 1: you think you'd like that job, to be a prison guard? Yeah,
34:57
Speaker 1: that's not high on my list. Uh, you know, I
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Speaker 1: would hit my baton on all the bars.
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Speaker 2: Ding ding.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's like that though. I don't and
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Speaker 1: that's only the movies they did it. I don't think
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Speaker 1: that's I don't think it's like the real life. They
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Speaker 1: like doors, Yeah, I don't think they do the thing there. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's the way. Oh, I got to get to play
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Speaker 1: for the payoff on the who Am I? Game? Oklahoma
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Speaker 1: City and former Clipper Shay jogas Alexander three hundred sixty
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Speaker 1: That's the ninth most ever in pro bouncy ball history.
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Speaker 1: suffering Bears fan in Nebraska says, Lebron James. Who else?
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Speaker 1: Minnesota's going with Tom Brady is his answer, Juan Berengere.
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Speaker 1: Great name from mister nice guy eighties and early nineties baseball.
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Speaker 1: Frank Lucas from mister Luciano. Not a bad name either.
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Speaker 1: Hot Rod Hunley, the longtime voice of the Utah Jazz
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Speaker 1: in Lino Lakes, Minnesota going with Doris Burke, Oh my
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Speaker 1: Nicholas Batoum from Robin, Minnesota. Not a bad name. Clipper legend.
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Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Dick Snyder of the SuperSonics
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Speaker 1: Former Fox Sports radio personality Cedric Sabalos guests by James.
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Speaker 1: That's his answer, Richie Rich from Slim Tim and we
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Speaker 1: have Shaq Prescott from Natron Who else, Kareem Abdul jabong
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Speaker 1: calf injury sounds, I once did an eight hour shift
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Speaker 1: Ben Okay, that's I don't know what that is. Back
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Speaker 1: to okay, I know the correct answer is Rick Barry.
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Speaker 1: Do you know who Rick Berry is? No chance? Well,
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Speaker 1: people used to goof on him. He shot his foul
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Speaker 1: for the Golden State Warriors back in the seventies. Man,
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Speaker 1: long time, who Rick Barry? Who? Rick Barry? I said,
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Speaker 1: the name rick Berry,