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Set 1: Mother's Day: Survive and Advance (w/ Sal Licata) · Stugotz and Company

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that.
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  Speaker 2: Chuck Norris was chasing the Tyrannosaurus Rex. The rex was
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  Speaker 2: not chasing the jeep. Murray, Murray, you there. You love sandwiches. Huh,
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to eighty.
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  Speaker 3: It was bo.
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  Speaker 1: Wow that Prime time. Maybe I had a crush on
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  Speaker 1: Betty Rubbell.
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  Speaker 4: I honestly, until after the segment ended and we went
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  Speaker 4: to commercial break, had no idea that Jonathan Coachman was black.
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  Speaker 1: He caught them the game last night. Although they won
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  Speaker 1: the game. You're listening to to Godson Company. It is
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  Speaker 1: to Gods and Company, presented by Vanduel.
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  Speaker 4: On those sportsbook. Salacana is here with us. The Knicks
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  Speaker 4: have swept the seventy six ers. Taylor, I gotta tell
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  Speaker 4: you I have no one, and I mean no one,
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  Speaker 4: has been all over these NBA playoffs the way I
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  Speaker 4: have Philly down three one to Boston.
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  Speaker 1: I said, they come back and win in seven. They
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  Speaker 1: win in seven.
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  Speaker 4: I said the E and EMBD stands for everyone knows
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  Speaker 4: he'll be out by game three.
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  Speaker 1: He was out before Game three, he.
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  Speaker 4: Was out in game two. And then on Friday, we're
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  Speaker 4: filling it for Colin. And I said, the Knicks in four.
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  Speaker 4: And then you said, the Knicks in five, they'll have
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  Speaker 4: the gentleman's sweep. They'll go back home to the Mecca
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  Speaker 4: and wrap it up there, and the Nick swept and they.
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  Speaker 1: Won in four games. How about that all over these
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  Speaker 1: NBA playoffs.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, dude, I do have to give you credit there.
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  Speaker 5: You said sweep, I said five. To my credit, I
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  Speaker 5: thought Philadelphia had a bit more pride in them.
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  Speaker 1: Some guts.
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  Speaker 4: To your credit, Sally, you surprised at how easily I mean,
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  Speaker 4: the Sixers they're coming off beating the Boston Celtics. A
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  Speaker 4: lot of people thought the Boston Celtics would make it
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  Speaker 4: to the NBA Finals, not the New York Knicks. The
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  Speaker 4: Sixers come back, they winned seven games. Were you surprised
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  Speaker 4: at how easy the Nicks handled the Sixers?
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  Speaker 6: I was surprised twofold number one that the Knick showed
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  Speaker 6: consistent dominance. I wasn't sure what to believe after watching
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  Speaker 6: them dominated a land in the last three games, So
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  Speaker 6: I'm like, I need to see a little bit more.
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  Speaker 6: And then I thought that the Philadelphia seventy six were
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  Speaker 6: gonna be tough. As a matter of fact, in that
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  Speaker 6: series against the Celtics, I'm thinking, man, maybe I prefer
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  Speaker 6: the Celtics winning this.
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  Speaker 3: I thought the Sixers were dangerous.
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  Speaker 6: They stunk, they gave nothing. The Nick snatched their heart
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  Speaker 6: right from them. They took their soul, just like they
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  Speaker 6: did with Atlanta. So once in Beads started getting banged
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  Speaker 6: up in miss game two and then the sixth. That
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  Speaker 6: game is back and forth, and the next ended up
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  Speaker 6: winning that game. I knew the Knicks were gonna win
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  Speaker 6: the series, but to see them sweep and dominate the
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  Speaker 6: way that.
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  Speaker 3: They did, yes, yes, that is that is surprising.
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  Speaker 4: I tell her there is nothing better, and I'm not
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  Speaker 4: certain when the last time we afforded this luxury, but
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  Speaker 4: there is nothing better than just waiting around to see
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  Speaker 4: who you're gonna play in.
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  Speaker 1: The Eastern Conference Finals. I love it. You get the rest.
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  Speaker 1: It's great.
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  Speaker 5: We are in unprecedented times as Nick fans.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, I don't know what to do with myself.
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  Speaker 5: I really I'm forgetting how to act right now, because
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  Speaker 5: right now I'm like, should I just go ahead and
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  Speaker 5: buy tickets to Detroit or tickets to Cleveland, start looking
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  Speaker 5: for hotels for the Eastern Conference Finals, and then you
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  Speaker 5: know what happens when we get past that should I
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  Speaker 5: start looking ahead to flights to Oka. See So the
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  Speaker 5: Jalen Brunson free agency signing, Yes, I think it's the
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  Speaker 5: best free agency signing in New York's sports history, and
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  Speaker 5: we're inch and closer towards the best free agency signing
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  Speaker 5: in NBA history.
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  Speaker 6: Well, can I ask you guys a question you asked
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  Speaker 6: me a week ago? Would you trade Jalen Brunson for
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  Speaker 6: Victor Wemberiana right now?
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  Speaker 5: I would not.
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  Speaker 6: I told you I wouldn't do it. Look at Jalen Brunton,
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  Speaker 6: what he's done. Yes, he's elbow when people getting suspended.
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  Speaker 6: I'm telling you, Stu, we are this close where we
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  Speaker 6: could taste the championship led by Jalen Brunson.
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  Speaker 3: That to me would be the sweetest thing ever. So
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  Speaker 3: I'm with you.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know what I mean. This is something I've
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  Speaker 6: never experienced in my life before. Is a Nick fan,
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  Speaker 6: this dominance led by JB the greatest free agent signing
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  Speaker 6: in history.
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  Speaker 4: Mikey thinks we're lunatics. We're getting carried away. I would
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  Speaker 4: not trade Jalen Brunton today for Victor webin Yama, But
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  Speaker 4: in a week I would, or in ten days I would,
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  Speaker 4: or in a month I would, or any time I
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  Speaker 4: have to this season, I would. Mikey thinks we're crazy,
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  Speaker 4: because Mikey would do it right now today.
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  Speaker 7: I care about you guys, I really like I care
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  Speaker 7: about you guys, and I don't want to I don't
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  Speaker 7: want the crash.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want it.
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  Speaker 5: The Knicks could crash out of the playoffs. That's that's
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  Speaker 5: not what this is about anymore. With Jalen Brunson. It's
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  Speaker 5: like in twenty thirteen, if the Washington Nationals came to
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  Speaker 5: the Yankees and was like, hey, we'll trade you Bryce Harper,
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  Speaker 5: you give us back Derek Jeter. For some reason, the
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  Speaker 5: Yankees say no, even though Bryce Harper would have been
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  Speaker 5: the logical thing in that point. At some point, loyalty
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  Speaker 5: and who got you there matters more. And that's where
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  Speaker 5: we've arrived with Jalen Brunson being like to Sal's point,
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  Speaker 5: I would rather lose with Jalen Brunton than try to
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  Speaker 5: win with somebody else because it's not a guarantee.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, we might figure this out with
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  Speaker 3: a Knicks.
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  Speaker 6: Win with him, Like, think about eight wins away from
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  Speaker 6: that happening, and I think that the Eastern Conference Final.
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  Speaker 6: I don't want to dismiss just Detroit or Cleveland as
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  Speaker 6: a foregun CONCLUSI you, but at this point, how could
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  Speaker 6: you think that the Knicks wouldn't get to these They
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  Speaker 6: are a team that is playing together. They trust each other,
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  Speaker 6: They're playing unselfishly. They're playing hard, determined, hungry branded basketball
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  Speaker 6: both ends of the floor. The only reason why we're
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  Speaker 6: not talking about them winning the championship is because of
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  Speaker 6: how great the thunderarm.
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  Speaker 3: We could be in the midst of a dynasty.
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  Speaker 6: But it is realistic right now to say that you
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  Speaker 6: could expect the Knicks to legitimately compete even against the
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  Speaker 6: thunder to go win the championship led by Jalen Brunson.
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  Speaker 7: Taylor, who got you where to the Eastern Conference Finals.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's the bar you're setting. I mean, that's where
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  Speaker 1: Tom got you.
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  Speaker 7: There, and I'm sitting there going the last guy that
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  Speaker 7: got you there was fired.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Thibodeaux got you there. He was fired. Yeah, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: you're aware, Mikey, if you're watching this, we're in the
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  Speaker 1: same spot. Tailor, to be fair, we're in the same spot.
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  Speaker 1: We were here. If you were calling him, Mike clown
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  Speaker 1: two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 3: I got that from Sal though I started that. But
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  Speaker 3: he is kind of a clown.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't mean he is.
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  Speaker 3: He's a goofball.
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  Speaker 6: That to me, and it's something that I have to
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  Speaker 6: evolve to because I didn't think that that would work
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  Speaker 6: here in New York with this team where Tibbs built
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  Speaker 6: them up. Tibbs is a hard nose, no nonsense, serious
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  Speaker 6: type guy. Mike Brown comes in, he's a goofball.
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  Speaker 3: He's laughing.
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  Speaker 6: And by the way, it wasn't just me, look at
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  Speaker 6: some of his former players what they were saying about him. However,
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  Speaker 6: this roster is so deep and so talented, and this
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  Speaker 6: team is so hungry and playing well that I think,
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  Speaker 6: even in spite of Mike Brown not being the greatest
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  Speaker 6: head coach, it doesn't matter because they're just that good.
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  Speaker 5: The one thing I don't understand with the Mike Brown
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  Speaker 5: narrative is the people that think that the Knicks got
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  Speaker 5: pushed against the wall. They got backed against the wall
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  Speaker 5: against the Hawks, and then Mike Brown changed his entire
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  Speaker 5: offensive philosophy like he was saving this his ace in
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  Speaker 5: the sleeve. Karl Anthony Towns is playing like a completely
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  Speaker 5: different player.
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  Speaker 3: Right now.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but I don't think Mike Brown was purposely not
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  Speaker 5: putting the offense in the best position possible, like, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: now we're going to break this out. I think they
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  Speaker 5: just kind of stumbled into something working with as the
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  Speaker 5: main facilitator. And you're looking at this seven game streak
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  Speaker 5: for the Knicks right now, where Karl Anthony Towns is
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  Speaker 5: the focal point of the offense for the most part
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  Speaker 5: and he's averaging eight assists a game.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: But mikey A is right where we've merely gotten to
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  Speaker 4: the same place we were at last year. Like you, guys,
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  Speaker 4: this whole conversation could change if Detroit's up two to oh.
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  Speaker 1: These are conference models, and it will change.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, it's it's not a secret that I'm not
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  Speaker 7: a big Knicks fan. I mean it's it's not and
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  Speaker 7: I care about. I want you guys to get where
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  Speaker 7: you're at. I want you to say, Jalen brunts And
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  Speaker 7: changed your life.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to.
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  Speaker 7: Say I wouldn't trade Jalen brunts And for Victor Wembin Yama.
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  Speaker 7: I'm just saying slow down, this slow down, That's all
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  Speaker 7: I'm saying.
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  Speaker 6: You're not wrong and Stu, what you said is exactly true.
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  Speaker 6: Like I'm already getting the stuff. I've been getting it
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  Speaker 6: for a while, but the stuff on social medi How
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  Speaker 6: about Mike clown?
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  Speaker 3: Is he a clown now?
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  Speaker 6: And to your point, like all they did was get
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  Speaker 6: to where they were last year. They're supposed to go
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  Speaker 6: beyond that, Yes, but if you're watching it, it's not
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  Speaker 6: just a team that is in now the Eastern Conference
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  Speaker 6: Finals for a second straight year. They are kicking the
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  Speaker 6: shit out of all their opponents. They are dominating, they
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  Speaker 6: are playing hard.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what more.
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  Speaker 6: You can ask for from a basketball team. It doesn't
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  Speaker 6: mean that they're going to win or get to the finals,
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  Speaker 6: but all those attributes that we talked about before, unselfish play, evolving,
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  Speaker 6: adapting talent all over the place, great depth, playing hard
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  Speaker 6: both into the floor, showing that hunger.
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  Speaker 3: They have it all.
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  Speaker 6: The only thing that's missing is actually winning the championship,
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  Speaker 6: which they're eight wins away from.
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  Speaker 5: Right and after every game, it feels like the narrative
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  Speaker 5: around this Knicks team from the national media and people
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  Speaker 5: not following the Knicks specifically, is like the Knicks can't
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  Speaker 5: keep shooting fifty five percent from three. The Knicks can't
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  Speaker 5: keep shooting these high percentages from three. And then you
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  Speaker 5: get to the next game and you have somebody like
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  Speaker 5: Deuce McBride start off the game on fire. You have
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  Speaker 5: Landry Shammitt, you have the Knicks tie the three point
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  Speaker 5: record in a quarter in the NBA playoffs. Like this,
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  Speaker 5: this shooting right now is sustainable because I don't think
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  Speaker 5: it's it's not like they're taking like this high degree
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  Speaker 5: of difficulty a shot. Like the shots that the Knicks
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  Speaker 5: offense is generating right now are pretty clean looks.
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  Speaker 6: They've done it seven straight games. I'm with you, like
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  Speaker 6: I would look at the numbers like, oh, they're not
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  Speaker 6: gonna shoot sixty percent.
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  Speaker 1: They've done it seven straight games.
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  Speaker 3: And it's different, guys, And it's because of the ball movement.
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  Speaker 3: You're right, it's it's open looks. Look at the way
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  Speaker 3: they move the ball around coll Anthony town Jester. There
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  Speaker 3: was one point he was looking to pass the ball.
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  Speaker 3: He spun around. It was like nobody's garden me, I'm
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  Speaker 3: just gonna shoot it and knocked it down.
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  Speaker 6: Like they're getting great looks because of the Chris Ball movement,
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  Speaker 6: because of the talent. I don't expect any team to
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  Speaker 6: shoot sixty sixty percent consistently, but the Knicks have done it.
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  Speaker 4: I agree with everything you guys are saying. I would
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  Speaker 4: only say this, Okay, look who the Knicks have beaten.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not certain they played a good team, yet they
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  Speaker 4: beat the Hawk. I know you have to play who's
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  Speaker 4: in front of you, tailor. I understand that, But what's
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  Speaker 4: gonna happen when they actually play.
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  Speaker 1: A really good basketball team. They beat the Sixers, who
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  Speaker 1: were like seven games above five hundred this year. The
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  Speaker 1: Hawks weren't much better.
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  Speaker 5: But that was not the narrative going into this series
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  Speaker 5: about the seventy six Ers. Everybody going into the series
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  Speaker 5: was like, the seventy six Ers pose a threat to
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  Speaker 5: the Knicks, Yes, and the Knicks dismantled them pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 5: I think the bigger story from this series is less
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  Speaker 5: about the Knicks, to be honest, and more about Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 5: That was, those two games in Philadelphia were about as
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  Speaker 5: embarrassing as.
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  Speaker 1: Your team can get.
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  Speaker 5: In terms of your fans showing where Joel Embiid's getting
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  Speaker 5: booed at home. Tyrus Max in the post game was
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  Speaker 5: basically looked like he was on the verge of tears
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  Speaker 5: saying about how embarrassing it was. If you ask the
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  Speaker 5: Knicks right now, hey, going forward in the Eastern Conference Finals.
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  Speaker 5: In the finals, you could either play at Madison Square
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  Speaker 5: Garden or you could play at the Wells Fargo Center.
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  Speaker 5: I think they're choosing the Wells Fargo Center.
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  Speaker 4: Put it on the Paul Taylor is the Wells Fargo
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  Speaker 4: Center the new Mecca.
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking about this after that series.
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  Speaker 6: If the Knicks did what they did to the Sixers,
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  Speaker 6: if they did that to the Celtics, like, I think
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  Speaker 6: the perception would be far greater because I do think
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  Speaker 6: they're and I think it's true what Stull brings up,
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  Speaker 6: like you look at the Sexes now, it's like Sixers
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  Speaker 6: aren't that good and I do think there's an element
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  Speaker 6: to that.
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  Speaker 3: They played like crap, but the Knicks dismantled them.
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  Speaker 6: Imagine if the Knicks did this or something close to
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  Speaker 6: this against Boston, even though Boston's not as good as
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  Speaker 6: I thought they were, and certainly, you know, blowing a
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  Speaker 6: three one lead to the Celtics, still, I think the
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  Speaker 6: perception of the Knicks would have been, oh, here comes
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  Speaker 6: the Knicks, because they just took the Celtics behind the woodshit.
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  Speaker 4: I think one of the interesting things you're right about
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  Speaker 4: that we'd be even more ratcheted up than we are
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  Speaker 4: already are if God forbid, they did this to the
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  Speaker 4: Boston Celtics. I think the crazy thing to explore with
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  Speaker 4: Jalen Brunson, because Taylor's right. When you consider Jalen Brunton
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  Speaker 4: and what he was doing in Dallas and what he's
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  Speaker 4: now done in New York, it's one of the best
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  Speaker 4: free agent signings, if not the best free agent signing
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  Speaker 4: in NBA history. Considering where the bar was, it was
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  Speaker 4: pretty low for Jaylen Brunt and no one was expecting this, right.
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  Speaker 1: But I think if you have to, if you're a Mavericks.
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  Speaker 4: Fan, man, you have to be looking at this and
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  Speaker 4: be like, how did you not know we had this
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  Speaker 4: guy sitting on our bench?
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  Speaker 1: How did you not know we had this guy in
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  Speaker 1: our own locker room.
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  Speaker 4: This guy has turned out to be one of the
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  Speaker 4: ten best players in the NBA and you just let.
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  Speaker 1: Him walk out the door. That's crazy if you're a
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  Speaker 1: Mavericks fan.
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  Speaker 6: And they probably wouldn't have given him even if they
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  Speaker 6: kept him, he would not have had the opportunity that
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  Speaker 6: he did with Luca in the way before they traded.
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  Speaker 3: No, they would not have had.
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  Speaker 6: The opportunity for him to be the guy. It's why
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  Speaker 6: I was talking about this this morning. Think about Leon
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  Speaker 6: Rose and how he built this team. They took this
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  Speaker 6: Knix team out of the Abyss. Yes, and they did
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  Speaker 6: it without hoping off the heels of the lottery. They
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  Speaker 6: did it without hoping for the ping pong balls or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't have to tank. They signed Julius Randall, turned.
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  Speaker 6: Him into a star to where they eventually trade him
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  Speaker 6: for another star on coll Anthony Towns. They signed Jalen
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  Speaker 6: Brunton away from the Mavericks. Who nobody, I mean the
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  Speaker 6: Naxtell getting ripped for that. Yes, not only has it
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  Speaker 6: turned out to be one of the great signings, a
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  Speaker 6: lot of people are like, oh, he's gonna be another bust.
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  Speaker 6: So it's been smart drafting later in the first round,
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  Speaker 6: extreme great free agent signings, well done trades, taking RJ.
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  Speaker 6: Barrett and trading and quickly and trading them for og
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  Speaker 6: ananob Like, you look at the way this team has
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  Speaker 6: been constructed.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, it doesn't happen without the signing of Jalen Brunton.
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  Speaker 6: But the foresight for Leon Rose to say this is
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  Speaker 6: gonna be the guy. I'm projecting him to be a star,
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  Speaker 6: and that's how I'm signing him now.
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  Speaker 3: And he's turned out to be exactly that.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it makes Leon Rose as valuable as anyone in
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  Speaker 4: that organization if he has the ability to identify, Hey,
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  Speaker 4: this guy's going to be a star. No one else
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  Speaker 4: thinks he is. I think he's going to be a star.
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  Speaker 4: That makes you pretty damn valuable and great at your job.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: So I just found this Reddit thread from four, four
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  Speaker 5: or five years ago.
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  Speaker 4: This is what petty nick fans do. We go back,
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  Speaker 4: we you know, scatured the Internet for anything.
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  Speaker 5: The question posed on Reddit NBA. This is the headline
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  Speaker 5: is the Jalen Brunson Sweepstakes the worst free agency sweep
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  Speaker 5: steaks of all time. The person goes on to write,
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  Speaker 5: heard this question posed on the Bill Simmons podcast. Brunston's
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  Speaker 5: from Chicago and I root for guys from Chicago. But
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  Speaker 5: the media is making it sound like the Knicks are
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: moving heaven and Earth for Jalen Brunton. Hope for the
• 14:24
  Speaker 5: best for the kid, but he hasn't done a lot
• 14:27
  Speaker 5: to prove he's worth anything.
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: Right, So Bill Simmons said that, or was on the
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: Bill Simmons podcast.
• 14:33
  Speaker 5: I somebody said it on the Bill Simmons podcast. I'm
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: not sure if it was Bill Simmons or a guest.
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: All right, let's say this on the front end, though, Telly,
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: you forgot to say it.
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: You said it on Bill Simmons.
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: I love Bill Simmons, Yes.
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: You love me.
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: He wrote the Book of Basketball. You love Bill Simmons.
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: We respect Bill Simmons, even though he doesn't know that
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: Jalen Williams is hurt from the Oklahoma City thought. He
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: just doesn't know. I don't care what he says. Okay,
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: but we love Bill Simmons. Okay, he's a friend. We
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: respect him. His knowledge of basketball is second to none.
• 15:00
  Speaker 6: I don't know him, but he just had Dave Letterman
• 15:02
  Speaker 6: on his podcast, and that's like my dream guest. You
• 15:06
  Speaker 6: know he's tight with your guy, Doggie. Yeah, let him
• 15:10
  Speaker 6: dog and let him in. Doesn't dog stole you?
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: I mean yeah, yeah, Doggy Joss too, well, let him.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: Has got to be one of those he's doing. He's
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: doing podcasts. Apparently you gotta get Dave.
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: Let Himan on is Doggie? Is Doggie tight with uh?
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: With Dave Letterman? Yeah, he was on there, Yes.
• 15:25
  Speaker 6: Multiple times. I remember going once. Dog took me and
• 15:28
  Speaker 6: Eddie Erickson behind the scenes. We went to the Letterman show,
• 15:30
  Speaker 6: went to let him and so I know he's had
• 15:32
  Speaker 6: him on. They booked him on his show before, so
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: I know that they could get him.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: You'll love this. This is classic dog. He thinks that.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: So we booked his son on the show, Colin.
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: Dog thinks that counts as one of the guests he's
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: getting for us.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: How old did you get him?
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: I sent him a text, so sal the problem we're
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: running into it dog is every guest we suggest. He
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: just throws his hands up and says, I can't get
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: him on the show.
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: Yes if yeah, right, And that's not the point of
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: the bet. The point is, listen, I came on. I
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: had a season for the Ages. The point of the
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: bet is to work. You have to work to try
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: to get Shalo may On. I don't care if he's
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: not coming on your show. You have to pay off
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: your bet and get him AMA show.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: That's the deal, and we know he could do it.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: So it's just Dog, I don't know if I want
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: to do that, he can do it.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: He's just not.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: Willing to do it.
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: Yes, So Stull, I'm glad you mentioned Timothy Shallome because
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: Schallo May was a feature in Philadelphia at these games.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: Apparently Amni Shamalan, who is a Sixer fan, gave his
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: tickets to Timothy Shallo May and that kind of speaks
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: to the problem that Philadelphia has where it seems like
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: all their fans were just selling their tickets to the
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: Knicks fans. Where Mitchell Robinson shooting free throws, he's getting
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: standing ovations, Joel Embiid's shooting free throws, and it's just
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: a bunch of Knicks fans holding up pictures of Mitchell
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: Robinson dunking on Joel Embiid. And they asked Josh Hart
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: after Game four about the amount of Knicks fans at
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: the Xfinity Mobile Arena, and Josh Hart's response to was
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: I used to think Philly was a sports town. I
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: don't know if it is anymore.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: I mean, this is a kid who went to college
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: in Philadelphia, the Balls.
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: But if you were a Sixer fan, wouldn't you like
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't want to go either.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Mets Yankees playing subway series this weekend.
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: I don't want to go to City Field the Mets
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: of the warst team in baseball. You think I want
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: to deal with the Yankee fan dunking on the Mets,
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: like I could understand Philadelphia thinking we're not gonna beat
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: the Knicks. I'm gonna go there and deal with their
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: fans anyway. There's no way. So if half the people
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: have that mentality, at some point, all the people have
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: that mentality, I'm not dealing with this nonsense anymore. Deal
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: with the Nick fans, so I could understand. I don't
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: think that's a knock on the Sixers fans. I think
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: that's a knock on the Sixers for not being good enough.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: So but you're saying, when they're down three to oh,
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: they should not show up, not two. Well, when they're
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: down three to oh, there is no reason to show up.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: Is that what you're saying.
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: I'm saying, even in general, dating back to when this
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: was a big issue in twenty twenty four, the last
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: time these two teams played, and the Knicks fans took over,
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: And I think it's because the Sixers fans don't trust
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: their team, and that's two years ago where they were
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: better and the Knicks one is good. So being down
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: oh two this year with a team that they don't trust,
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: even just down two for Game three, I could see
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: why the Sixers fans and then certainly Game four, like
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: who's showing up for that? So yeah, I blame it
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: more on the Sixers themselves than I do the fans
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: not wanted to go to those games.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: But that's a terrible job by Shalamite.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: I mean, if you're gonna give the tickets, I mean
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: it's a terrible job by m Night Shyamalan. If you're
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: gonna give the tickets away, you don't give them to
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: a Knicks fit. You give them to a Sixers fit
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: you don't want to go. That's one thing. Don't give
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: them the Timothy Shalomey.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: That's time. What you do? I mean, what is he doing?
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: I mean he could see dead people, so he knew
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: the Sixers were dead? But what are you doing giving
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: your tickets to Timothy Shalomey?
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: And seriously terrible job.
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: When they say give that means like no money exchange.
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: How do these guys are they paying for these tickets?
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Are they all on the arm?
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: Like is Greenee going to say court side for free?
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: Is he paying for that? We know Spike has season tickets,
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: but Shalaman whatever his name is, Chalomey Ben.
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  Speaker 3: Still, where are we at with? Like?
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: I want to know how these guys are getting these
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  Speaker 1: I'm waiting for one of us to call them at
• 19:18
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't even know what is.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Shamalan is a director? I mean he's had one good
• 19:28
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• 19:33
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• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Uh, sal, how was How was Mother's Day for you yesterday?
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Did you? Did you enjoy it?
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: When I was on with you last week, I forgot
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: to bring it all but I should have asked you
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: being the better than that you are.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like, because it's a lose lose for me. Is
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: it about my mom?
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: Or is it about my wife who was the mother
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: of my child? So I ended up being okay. But
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: one thing that I noticed as I was driving too
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: long Island to check the box to see my mom
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: and then driving back to Jersey to check the box
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: and make my wife happy, people were out on the
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: golf course.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Golf course, Yeah, two of them were packed with male adults.
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: And I'm thinking, how is this possible that on Mother's
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: Day you can actually find time to play golf?
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Yes, let me address that when you arrive at the
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: place that you arrive at in my relationship, which is
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: you know, a well past twenty years of marriage to kids,
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: my wife doesn't want to see me. My gift to
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: my wife every year for Mother's Day is the gift
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: of not hanging out with me and the gift of
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: silence and the gift of no sex. That's what I
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: give her every year for Mother's Day, and that frees
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: me up to go golfing thirty six holes if I want.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: How about that?
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: How long have you been married? So it'll be ten years?
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: I think nine years this year actually, okay, well day
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: weekend it'll be nine.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: And how old is your daughter five?
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Okay, she still likes you. That's the problem. Your wife
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: still likes you.
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: Even my mother, well I don't know about that because
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: some of the things that still mention in, particularly no
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: sex thing like I'm get there, yeah, but my mother
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: still like even if my wife was to go out
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: and play golf, my mother still wouldn't let.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Me get away it.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: So she's gotta die before I could have a Mother's
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: Day on the golf course.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Nothing you're rooting for that or anything? No, no, right, right.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: So, So I think if I was in your situation
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: and your wife gave you the green light to go
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: play golf, but your mom wouldn't, that's where you tell
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: your mom, I'm spending time with my wife, and you
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: tell your wife you're spending time with your mom.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Right, and then you spend time with your driver. Yes, yes,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: and then you.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: Just have to hope they don't in a mix, Yes
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: you don't. You have to hope they don't talk. But
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: also in this situation, so if I was you and
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: you wanted to go out and play eighteen yourself, you
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: just you you splurge in the morning and be like, hey, honey,
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: here is an all inclusive resort day just for you. Ye,
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: you'll come out smelling like roses.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Yep, you're pushing too hard, tailor.
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: I will tell you that every Sunday, my wife takes
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: care of certain things, like she goes to the grocery store,
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: she she goes and runs errands. And for Mother's Day,
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: what she wanted was to do them alone. No, kids,
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: like I didn't need to splurge on a spa day.
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: All you have to do is set up the morning
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: for your mother or the evening for your mother, and
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: play golf on the other one.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: That's all you gotta do.
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: Yes, Yes, I'm still at the point where I'm trying
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: to survive Mother's Day and the next one, the next one.
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: Once I start forgiving in advance, survive in advanced Mother's
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: Day all right, I got through this year.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Maybe next year, who knows.
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: But I need to elevate to get to the point
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: where I can actually go play golf. Then I could
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: start winning on Mother's Day. Right now, I'm just taking
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: the losses. I'm trying to survive that.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: It's not too bad of a loss, right, I think
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: it's the problem is your kid's age. That's that's because
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: even if you want to give your wife something where
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: she can just go do it by herself, you still
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: have to be responsible for the getting to answer your
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: earlier question, once you get married, you have a nine
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: year all of that. Right, Mother's Day is no longer
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: about your mom. Everything is about your wife, just so
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: weirkily okay, and ye, gay's to deal with that now.
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: I need somebody to tell my mom that because she
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: doesn't want to hear it. My wife will say it, yeah,
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: like I could say it, but it just does you
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: know the Italian mom she's on hearing it. Oh no,
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: what's Mother's Day? It's about me, even Father's Day. Somehow
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: my mother makes it about her. She's always about her.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Yes, Uh, Taylor, do me a favorite ask dog that
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: gets Sal's mom on the shop.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: That count as one of our guests.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but I'll explain it to her.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: Okay, I love that tailor has you doing something where
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: mom and your wife don't communicate at all on Mother's Day.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: It's like they have no idea where Sally is because
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: they haven't communicated. Hey, you know, sal baiton switched me
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: over here. He bait and switched her over there. He's
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: out on the fourth hole right now, and no one
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: has a clue. It's impossible. You can't pull that off.
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: It's not a bad play because some people are like, oh, well,
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: why don't you just spend the day together, Like, yeah,
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: that's what everybody wants to do, spend I'm sure my
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: wife on her mother's they wants to spend the day
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: with my mother. That's exactly what they wanted all day long.
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: My mom be okay with that, My wife maybe not.
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: But Taylor at the right point there lit to my mom,
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: lit of my wife, and away we go dangerous.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: You can't lie to both moms on Mother's Day. You're
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: not surviving, you're not advancing.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: It's so good.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: I'm very excited for this because Sally sent me some
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: topics here before we got started.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: And one of them was a movie review.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: And just the idea of hearing Salakota give any sort
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: of movie review is delightful to me.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: And so which movie are you reviewing?
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: I have a feeling, well, I know the movie, so
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: I'm just playing doing it for the audience. It's the
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: Michael Jackson movie. My kids want to see this movie
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: so badly. My wife wants to see it so badly.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: I want to see it as well.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Did you like it?
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: I thought it was great. It's part of why I
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: was able to survive an advance. Took my wife to
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: see it. She wanted to see it.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: You know what, I didn't realize and this is just
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: on me, maybe my age or whatever.
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: It was a reminder of how great Michael Jackson was
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: as a performer. Like I don't know how, I don't
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: know how you cannot a probably feel that even before
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: the movie or b come out of that movie, which,
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: by the way, it's gonna be a two parter, so
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: at the end it says like more Michael, I didn't
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: even know that there's gonna be like the second part
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: of the story. But how how you cannot watch that
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: and not come over with thinking he is the greatest
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: entertainer that has ever walked the face of the earth.
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: That's my main take and two takeaways. That and that
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: his father was a complete asshole.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: Right, Yes, it's got to be In terms of greatest
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: entertainers of all time, it's it's got to be Michael Jackson,
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: or it's got to be Jalen Brunson.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's right.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: Both Rock and Garden, now the Wells Fargo, but Mecca.
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: Both can do things with their feet. I've never seen
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: other people.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: We are such adios.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: So I'm looking. I'm looking on rotten tomatoes. Sometimes I
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: trust rotten tomatoes too much, but I'm looking on rotten tomatoes.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: And for Michael. The critics gave it a thirty nine
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: percent hold, but the audience gave it a ninety seven percent.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: That's all I care about the audience.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: It wasn't like, was it the best movie I've ever seen?
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: No, But it was a It was an easy, pasy
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: two hours, great music, great dance moves.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: I thought the acting was good, good storytelling. I wanted more.
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: I let and usually, even if it's a good movie,
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: in my geez, two hours is way too long. Two
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: hours and seven minutes. I left that theater wanting more.
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: I'm excited to see the next part of the story.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: So I loved it. It was an enjoyable two plus hours.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I would like to see it. I'll tell
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: you you're interested in you or no?
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: No, not really.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Not to the Knicks.
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: I was gonna say, you got some evenings open now, right?
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: So many? Right, so many? We could have a week
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: golf right now. It's incredible. It really is. Who do
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: you guys want? Detroit or Cleveland? Does it matter to
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: you at this point? Who do you want?
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: I want Detroit? You know why, though it's personal.
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: I bought tickets already to home Game three of the
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: Eastern Conference Finals, so if it's Detroit, that would be
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: Game six, and I think that's gonna be the clincher
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: to get the Knicks in the finals. So I want Detroit.
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: And also I just like the challenge. The better team
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: no more, there's all they got to soft landing with
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: the calves. Give me the Pistons, the team the Knicks
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: couldn't handle, and let that be the warm up. Take Brunton,
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: takedown Cunningham, and then go onto the NBA Finals.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Tell you have a preference.
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: So my reasoning is the exact opposite as sal where
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: I want Cleveland because I want the Knicks to have
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: home court advantage just in case you want Game seven
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: in your building or Philadelphia.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Wells Fargo, Right.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: I think it's smoke the Calves. I don't know.
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: Maybe I'm be disrespectful of Calves, but I think the
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: Knicks would beat the Calves Pistons.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: I think will be a serious good series.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: After ripping James Harden on Friday on National Radio and
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: the Colin Coward Show, filling in for the Herd, James
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: Harden told easy to eat it.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Huh, I mean, yeah, you had two good games.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: I mean.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: I don't care. I think the Knicks are going to
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: the NBA Finals.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: It's whether or not they could beat Oklahoma City or
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: San Antonio or Minnesota. I guess that's It's the only
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: series that's interesting is Minnesota and San Antonio tied at
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: two games apiece.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: It would be a break.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: The Knicks would be fortunate if they got someone other
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: than Oklahoma City in the NBA Finals. Here I am
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: talking about the NBA Finals when we haven't played in
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: the Eastern Conference finals yet. But I don't see the
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: Knicks having a problem with either of those teams, So
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: for me, it doesn't matter.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: I guess I go with home court. I'm gonn tailor
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: on that.
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: For you guys, I was. I was only five years
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: old in nineteen ninety nine when the Knicks lost the
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: finals to the Spurs. But does it have a similar
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: feeling where the Knicks are going to the NBA Finals,
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: but you know that you have this overpowering Spurs team
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: looming that odds are you can't.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: Beat I do sal How do you feel about that?
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: They feel unbeatable. They're not even playing that well. They're
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: winning games by eighteen points. I mean there were juggernaut
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: this team.
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's why I think it is different. I think
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: if you were to asked me this a month ago,
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: I felt like there was the roadblock, the clear roadblock,
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: nothing in the East but the Thunder. Nobody's gonna be
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: able to beat the Thunder. Back then, I remember feeling
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: that the Knick Ewing was banged up.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: If they had Ewing healthy for that finals, I would
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: have given the Nicks.
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: More of a chance, especially against the Towers with Robinson
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: and Tim Duncan. But then that Knicks team wasn't anywhere
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: near as good as this Knicks team. They were fortunate
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: to get there when it was almost like wow, okay,
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: well you tip your cap, they went on the run,
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: they got to the finals. This is different. This team
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: was expected to be a number one seed. So this
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: Knicks team is legitimate. And I without watching the Thunder
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: every single night, and I know how good they are
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: last year's postseason, this year, regular season, obviously the postseason.
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: I can't imagine them being that much better than the
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: well oiled machine that has been the Knicks so far.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: So I would, at least, based on the.
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: Way the Knicks to play in the postseason, give them
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: more of a chance going into a series against the
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: Thunder than I did with the Knicks against the Spurs
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: back in ninety nine.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: I think the closest game Oklahoma City has played. Now listen,
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: it's Phoenix and the Lakers, and the Lakers are depleted
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: because no Luca and Reeves has banged up a little bit.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: But I think the closest game they've played is they
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: beat a team by twelve Like every game they've won
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: by more than twelve points. Oklahoma City and again no
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: Jalen Williams their second best player, and they're not playing
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: that well, like Shay's not even playing that well.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: But I do think the Knicks have a chance. I
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: just I don't know. I feel like they have a chance.
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: One thing that I would say, and this is just
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: we got to watch it play out, assuming that the
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: matchup does happen, the hunger factor.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: The Knicks are hungry.
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: I just think it's to repeat or win three in
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: a row because maybe those teams can lat off the
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: gas a little bit by human nature. SGA and the
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: Thunder are not gonna be as hungry as JB and
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: the Knicks because the Knicks don't have it. They want that,
• 33:13
  Speaker 6: and sometimes you see that happen. We're even the more
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: talented team, the better team in the Thunder, they get
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: caught because the Knicks are the hungrier team, and they
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: take that talent plus the determination and the hunger and
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: it could raise them to another level. So I wouldn't
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: discount that if they do match up, the fact that
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: the Thunder already have theirs and the Knicks want theirs.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: Taylor, are you comfortable with us talking about the NBA Finals?
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: The finals? We haven't you know we're not in the
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: finals yet, but are you comforting? I am? I feel
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: comfortable with it.
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: I did, yeah, because I agree with sal I'm looking
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: at the stats and seeing where how Jalen Brunton's playing
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: this playoffs, how O g and Ananobi and Catter playing
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: this playoffs? And right now I'm seeing it. The Knicks
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: lead the league and.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: Hunger, mikey is just way we do. We lead the
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: league at hunger, and Sala is right. There's no way
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: they're gonna be hungry year than we are. We make
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: it to the NBA finals. They already had some last year.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: You know we have it and therefore, by extension, we're
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: gonna be hungry. Here Mikey A is laughing because we're
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: on cloud one right now, and the higher we go,
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: the higher we get, the tougher the crash is going
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: to be. And Mikey A knows that and that's why
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: he's saying, I care about you, guys.
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: I'm rooting for you. I promise I'm rooting for you.
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: But man, that's gonna be a hard I told you
• 34:27
  Speaker 7: so to give you guys.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: If the Knicks two pull it off, where would you
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: guys prefer the parade to be in New York City.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Or right past the Wells Fargo set up.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: Just keep it going, just keep going, Just keep out
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Down the turnpike,