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  Speaker 1: Well, if you liked the NBA Finals, you're bummed out.
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  Speaker 1: sooner state. And if you had the NBA Finals having
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  Speaker 1: a classic Game seven, you are a loser. Now. Much
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  Speaker 1: of the chatter that people are excited about is not
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  Speaker 1: Game seven. It's the Kevin Durant trade. Durant every three
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  Speaker 1: years is traded. This time he goes to Houston. More
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  Speaker 1: buzz on that we'll talk about as we go through
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  Speaker 1: the overnight. But it was the end of the road
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  Speaker 1: for pro bouncy ball. That's all she wrote. The NBA
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  Speaker 1: regular season, I went back and I looked began two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty four days prior to Sunday, two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and forty four days. It began with the Knickerbockers playing
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  Speaker 1: the then reigning champion Boston Celtics back in October October
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  Speaker 1: twenty second before Halloween of last year, and it ended
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  Speaker 1: 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 there
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA Finals, Game seven, Small Market Small Market
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  Speaker 1: NBA Finals. Were you watching? Were you no? You were
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  Speaker 1: 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 three to ninety one turn out. The last the
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  Speaker 1: 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
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  Speaker 1: points 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 see jogis
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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 some one's
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  Speaker 1: face if you want. I don't care. So a to
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  Speaker 1: answer the question, the Championship for Oklahoma City yay or nay?
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  Speaker 1: The Shay jogis Alexander Championship for the thunder downgraded because
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  Speaker 1: of the injury that 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 Finals, that the moment Tyrese Haliburton 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 as 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 mallnet 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 just kind of fades
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  Speaker 1: away and you'd have to like type it into chat
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  Speaker 1: GPT to kind of get the right answer and 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?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: They don't bring it up, But the moment it happened,
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  Speaker 1: people brought it up. They're like, well, that's not legit.
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  Speaker 1: You know, way back twenty some years ago, the Pistons,
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  Speaker 1: the Four Pistons with Rashid Wallace and those Cats playing
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers, and Karl Malone was playing for the Laker.
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  Speaker 1: He got hurt, he messed up his knee, if I
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  Speaker 1: 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 know about it. Now. The other part of
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  Speaker 1: this page two, which blows me away, They shiver me timbers, right,
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  Speaker 1: there are those out there morning after quarterbacks, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: the morning after This was moments after the injury, who
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  Speaker 1: were going on and on and on by well tyrees.
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  Speaker 1: Halliburton should have never been allowed to play, should have
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  Speaker 1: never been allowed to play for the Pacers. It's malfeasance
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  Speaker 1: by the Indiana basketball team. They should never have allowed
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  Speaker 1: him on the court. He had a pre exist condition.
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  Speaker 1: Bad job by them. Oh no right, oh no, he
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  Speaker 1: popped his achilles in the first quarter. So where are
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  Speaker 1: you at on this one? Where are you at on
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  Speaker 1: those that are screaming this is on the Pacers. They
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  Speaker 1: should not have allowed him to play. Haliburton should not
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  Speaker 1: have been out there. This is one of those things
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  Speaker 1: that blows me away. And now I think some of
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  Speaker 1: this is actually just people just busting balls and just
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  Speaker 1: probably Boughty counts on those social media channels because it's
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  Speaker 1: the freaking finals, Like, what are you even having that coming?
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  Speaker 1: It's a chance to win a championship. No one, no one,
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  Speaker 1: misses that game. And if you miss that game, you
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  Speaker 1: might as well retire. If Halliburton had said I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna play, I might pop my achilles. You might as
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  Speaker 1: well go get a real job. You can't show your
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  Speaker 1: face in any gymnasium anywhere from Maine to Maui. It's over.
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  Speaker 1: You have to play in that game, game seven of
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  Speaker 1: the finals. You've got to do it. And Halliburton and
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  Speaker 1: he made some shots, so he had nine points. He
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  Speaker 1: made three three point shots early. He got hurt. That sucks,
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  Speaker 1: and that's part of the game. And all these morons,
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  Speaker 1: I can't. I really hope this is not legit like
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  Speaker 1: all this is just like people trolling and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, come on, if there's anyone that actually believes
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  Speaker 1: that you have the greatest loser mentality of all time,
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  Speaker 1: science should study you. You are such a loser that
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  Speaker 1: people should study how big a giant loser you are
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  Speaker 1: and how you got to that particular point where you
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  Speaker 1: wear the giant l on your forehead because you're a loser.
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  Speaker 1: Right again, no ifs ants or but you got to play.
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  Speaker 1: If you're Haliburton, you cannot not play. You can't. They
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  Speaker 1: they have to amputate you let you gotta play like
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  Speaker 1: there's no's no, you can't even in this soft modern
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  Speaker 1: world we live, and you've got to play in Game seven.
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  Speaker 1: And for those that are, you know, grumbling and again,
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to think this is all nonsense. You should
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  Speaker 1: have played in the game. Why he wasn't one hundred percent,
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  Speaker 1: I would argue, I don't think I'm wrong on this.
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  Speaker 1: What do I know, though? I do the overnight show
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  Speaker 1: that nobody is one hundred percent. By the time you
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  Speaker 1: get the Game seven of the Finals, you've been playing
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  Speaker 1: for eight months of basketball, although many of the players
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  Speaker 1: take a lot of time off et cetera. It's one
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  Speaker 1: of those things. You patch it up, you rub some
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  Speaker 1: dirt on it, get some dirt, get some mud, rub
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  Speaker 1: it on there, and you go. And that's what you're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to do. That's you gut it out Game seven
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  Speaker 1: NBA Finals. That's what you want Halliburton to do. What
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  Speaker 1: he did it. Now, there is a dimension in the
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  Speaker 1: multiverse where Halliburton goes out there and he doesn't pop
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  Speaker 1: his achilles, same scenario leading into the game. He goes
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  Speaker 1: out there and plays and plays well, and the Pacers
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  Speaker 1: end up winning Game seven, and rah rah, And there's
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  Speaker 1: a parade in Indianapolis in a couple of days and
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  Speaker 1: 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 Rich Horrera and others James Washing 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 hear what this is. This is the spreadsheet warriors
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  Speaker 1: 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 Tyree's I'll dare him, And
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  Speaker 1: to that, I say five. Wait, fright is what I
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  Speaker 1: say again, Haliburton, if he hadn't played, he'd be healthy
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  Speaker 1: right now, he wouldn't have a pop Achilles and he
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  Speaker 1: would have been haunted by the Kulda woulda should have
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of the man's Indiana. He's not getting
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  Speaker 1: back here. It's not like the Pacers. It'll be another
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  Speaker 1: generation before the Pacers get back to the NBA finals.
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  Speaker 1: And you're telling me he shouldn't have played, all right,
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  Speaker 1: tell me you dumb without telling me you're dumb right now.
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  Speaker 1: Last word, So let's address the Komodo dragon in the room. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what is the Komodo dragon in the room? Well, the
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City Thunder have just won their first championship as
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  Speaker 1: the Oklahoma City Thunder. Now some will say, well, I'll
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  Speaker 1: go back to the Sonics. I don't count the ghosts
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  Speaker 1: of Seattle because I believe it, in the next couple
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  Speaker 1: of years, the Sonics will be born again. They will
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  Speaker 1: have the SuperSonics back in Seattle, and all the championships
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  Speaker 1: and all the glory will go back to Seattle and
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  Speaker 1: all that so those ghosts I leave behind. The team
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  Speaker 1: unceremoniously hijacked out of the Pacific Northwest and they abandoned
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  Speaker 1: Seattle because of the oil tyrant that bought the team
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  Speaker 1: from the Starbucks dopes and then moved it to Oklahoma City.
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  Speaker 1: But now we're hearing the whispers and we've seen the
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  Speaker 1: comments on social media and the gas bag gasps. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they've already been labeled dynasty. It's they won 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 and let the confetti hit you, and
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  Speaker 1: then let it hit the ground. At least it can
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  Speaker 1: hit you and then hit the ground and all that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and you can probably hold off on building a statue
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  Speaker 1: for 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 Celtics.
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  Speaker 1: Winning the championship. They're on their way now. The Celtics
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  Speaker 1: are going to control the NBA for years to come
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  Speaker 1: because they have Tatum and Brown and oh my god
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. Now, one ring does not become
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  Speaker 1: the forecast for three or four or five and one finals,
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  Speaker 1: MVP Award, you don't become the face of the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: You're not catapulted up to that level. And Sam Presty,
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  Speaker 1: my god, he's got the cleanest ass in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: Every TV guy, every media guy in the NBA has
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  Speaker 1: been kissing Sam Presty's ass, going on and on the
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  Speaker 1: executive for Oklahoma City. But they suddenly the new gold
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  Speaker 1: standard and all that stuff makes me want to puke
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  Speaker 1: in my mouth. The dynasty stuff is rather ridiculous. Those
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  Speaker 1: acquire something called repetition, which is a problem relevance over
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  Speaker 1: the period of time more than I don't know, one year,
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  Speaker 1: and they are earned because of overcoming injury like surgeries
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  Speaker 1: and players getting you know, getting unhappy. They're in a
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  Speaker 1: small town. They want to go somewhere else. You also
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  Speaker 1: have the salarycap. You've got to juggle because everyone's gonna
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  Speaker 1: get a lot more money and all that. So I
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  Speaker 1: just don't see it. For the Thunder, I don't I
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  Speaker 1: don't see it. I maybe I'm wrong. I don't see
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  Speaker 1: them as a dynasty. They can prove me wrong if
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  Speaker 1: they want, you know, 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: do it when you're being targeted and you're not the
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  Speaker 1: fresh faced under dog, upstart team and you have nothing
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  Speaker 1: to lose and all that. Now, as for the building
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  Speaker 1: of the roster, I would like to address that. Have
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  Speaker 1: the Thunder crack the code? Have they given us the
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  Speaker 1: blueprint that all the other NBA teams are gonna copy?
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  Speaker 1: That would be a no, no way. The Thunder. I
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  Speaker 1: look at them like in baseball, the Tampa Bay Race.
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  Speaker 1: These are two teams that can do what they have
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  Speaker 1: done because of where they are right. The Thunder are
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  Speaker 1: like the Tampa Bay Rays in baseball. It's Frankenstein's Lab
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. You've got no media pressure. It's
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  Speaker 1: a po dunk 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 in a
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  Speaker 1: big league city. Right in a big league city, there
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  Speaker 1: will be pressure to have star players. There will be
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  Speaker 1: pressured to have success, and you will become irrelevant because
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  Speaker 1: the word apathy will apply. If you try to do that,
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  Speaker 1: people will come apoplectic, they will not watch your product.
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  Speaker 1: You will become irrelevant. You can't do it. You can't
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  Speaker 1: get away with it. But in time like Olahoma City,
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  Speaker 1: you can do it. Just like the Tampa Bay Race,
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  Speaker 1: they don't nobody cares. They just they have a good
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  Speaker 1: team every year, but they don't have stars. And they
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  Speaker 1: get stars, they get rid of them and that's it.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: That's that. Now, what about the dopes and I'm getting
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: some of this crap. They're like cockroaches. They come out
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: here and they're like, oh man, this gotta be a
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: tough day for the Clippers. You know, ripping like somehow
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: I'm the spokesman for the Clippers, which I'm not. I
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: don't trust man. I don't go to those games much
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: anymore I used to back in the day. I hope
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: the Clippers do well, but the idea and we'll just
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: address it like this. The dopes that are out there,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: what do you make of this? Wow, the Clippers, this
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: should have been their championship. They traded away SGA. This
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: is embarrassing for the Clips. My god, Now I understand
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: where this is coming from. Listen, I love busting balls
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: as much as the next person. I know that's all
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: you're doing. I get it. You know, who Miller, you
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: should feel so bad. You know, it's low information trolling
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: at its finest, and that's really what social media is
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: all about. I get it. You know you're just busting chop.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: You know you couldn't name two guys on the Clippers
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: or the Thunder. It's revisionist history. And to say that
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: the Clippers shouldn't have made that trade. I would have
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: made that trade one hundred out of one hundred times.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Even after Oklahoma said he just won the championship, right
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: as Emin m crooned, no regrets, right, Kawhi Leonard was
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: the player everyone won. Every single team in the NBA won,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: and Kawhi Leonard the price of admission. It was a
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: claw game to get the claw. He said, I want
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Paul George, which is a dumb decision, but that's his choice.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: That's his choice. Kawhi Lenners says, I want Paul George,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Paul George Blouse, but that's who Kawhi Leonard wants. So
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: you trade Sga. That's it. That's the price of admission
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: fresh off a title in Toronto. That's what you had
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: to do. You do it every single time. You don't
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: look back. That's it. And you make that trade, and
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: you know the Clippers they're still relevant and they'll be
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: a contender for the foreseeable future. They have a legit
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: owner and all that. But of course you'd make that
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: trade and Sga hasn't become what he became with the Clippers.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: He would never become that with the Clippers, so it's ridiculous.
• 20:27
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• 21:49
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• 21:52
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• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Wire the Chatterbox. Kevin Durant. He's on the move again.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Oh boy, Kevin Durant. We've become Rhodes Scholars at Kevin
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Durant trades. So if you have not heard, if you
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: were out doing stuff on Sunday, he didn't pay attention.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: We learned the Phoenix Suns are saying bye bye to
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: the Slim Reaper, unloading the aging Kevin Durant to the
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Rockets for a trade package that includes Jalen Green, Dylan Brooks,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: the number ten overall pick in this week's draft, and
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: not one, not two, not three, not four, but five
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: second round picks. So using Malormath, that's an eight for
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: one swap. Eight for one. Sun's got eight players, well
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: really two and then six other draft players and the
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: trade will be formally completed when the new league year begins.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I always get excited about this, the new league year
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: that'll be July sixth. Was on stage at something called
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: fanatics Fest, where they jack up prices and get fans
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: to pay exorbitant amounts of money for memorabilia in New
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: York and the trade was announced and Durant gave his
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: immediate reaction. He said, being part of the Houston Rockets,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it. Durant said, crazy, crazy, Last
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks. But I'm glad it's over with close
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: quote all right, so let us discuss the question. Kevin
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Durant headed out, headed out of Arizona and headed to
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: the Rockets. At first glance, what stands out? What stands out?
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: So I've got brat, Instagram and pot luck and we
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we are
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: going to put the WHAMMI on the zami is what
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: we're going to do. So number why I said number?
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: So Kevin Durant has done it yet again. Bravo to
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant. Way to go as he continues to move
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: locations out, foxing authorities yet again, one step ahead of
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: the NBA law. Kevin Durant the all time master of
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: migration K and D. You never know where he's gonna be.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: You don't really want to learn where he is because
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: it's just going to change. The Slim Reaper the traveling
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: circus now heading to the Lone Star State as he
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: will play for the rock Cats there. Now, since his
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: days in Oklahoma State was in Seattle, they moved to
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City. Since he left there, Durant has been a brat.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: He's been like a military brat moving to a new
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: base in a different state or a different part of
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: America every three years or less. That's not my opinion.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: It's a fact. Three years in Golden State. Check, he
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: went to Brooklyn. Three years there, one of them hurt
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: from his days in Golden State. Three years in Phoenix. Check.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: So nine years, three and three and three, and now
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: he goes to Houston. The Malor report card the only
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: report card that matters on trades, the Malor report card.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: The Roquettes get a B. The Suns get a C.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Not an overwhelming trade. Not an overwhelming trade. This didn't
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: get me all excited. I was like, that's fine. Durant's
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: a name, we know who that is. But from a
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: business standpoint, the reason I'm giving the Rockets a B
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: is not because I think Durant is in the peak
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: of his superpowers. He's a diminishing asset. However, from a
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: business standpoint, it makes sense. Duran is still box office.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: He's got the fifteen time All Star on his resume,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: the Great Finals performances with the Golden State Warriors. He's
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: got that. So that moves the needle. So that from
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the business side of it, for the casual fan, the
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: dumb fan that buys the tick. It's the casual, it's
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: not really a sports fan. But hey, we got this
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: guy named Durant. Let's go buy some tickets. Yeah, he'll
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: bring that, he'll bring some eyeballs, he'll be some bring
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: some curiosity to see if it actually works this time.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: It didn't work the last couple of times he put
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: these super teams together in Brooklyn and in Arizona, and
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: so he said, well, maybe it's time will work. Now.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: This will be different, right, this will be different. And
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: as for Phoenix, like, you know, they gave up a
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: thirty seven player. Thirty a guy who's gonna turn thirty
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: seven this year. Is a declining asset of a player.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: And it's not like they got that much in return.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: And they're mopping the floor essentially in a flood, is
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: what they're doing here. They swung from the heels with Durant.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: They whiffed. They didn't get anywhere close to what they
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: thought they were going to be get. In we're close
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: to where they thought they were going to be now
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Page duo. The Kevin Durant Tray to the Rockets, the
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Championship Odds on Draft next season have gone from plus
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: twelve hundred prior to the trade for Houston to plus
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: seven point fifty. That means now the Rockets, as a
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: direct result of this trade, now have the second best
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: odds to win the championship next season. Is this an
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: over reaction? Is this an over reaction to the Kevin
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Durant trade based on the odds on DraftKings? So I'm
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: nodding my head. Yes, this is a classic overreaction. Is
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: a defensive move by the books. It's a defensive move
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: because the casuals will see Durant and he'll be introduced here,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: They'll hold up the jersey with his name on it,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: and then it'll be a lot of chatter on social
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: media about the urrant and this, that and the other thing.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: And so you look at that, you say, okay, here
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: we go. So people are gonna loss money on Houston
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: to win the championship, so you have to cover that.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: And this is a proactive move, not a reactive A
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: proactive move by the sportsbooks there cover themselves just in
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: case lightning hits and catches in the bottle there for
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant and Houston. Does anyone expect that to happen
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: raise their hands. No, I don't see anyone anyone raising
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: their hands, So I don't hold your breath on that.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: And here's why. After a minutes long deliberation on the
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: career of Kevin Durant post Golden State, post Golden State,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant is like an Instagram model, Right, looks a
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: lot better on your smartphone. Right, it looks really good
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: on the smartphone, and then you take all those filters
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: away and you're like, oh man, I mean it's not
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: that pleasant. You know, it's not bad, but it's just
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: not that not that. There's a lot of stuff going on.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of deception. There's camera angles, there's makeup,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: there's clothing option choices like all of that, and the filters.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: So it's like an Instagram model, Durant. You know, you
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: put them on there. It looks pretty good. Then but
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: upon further review, it's like, eh, you know, Durant will
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: get some numbers, he'll score some points. You can still score.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: And he has proven with Brooklyn, he has proven with
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Phoenix that his ability to build a super team is lacking.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: He's got some kryptonite in that area. It is an
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: issue he is not the final piece to the jigsaw
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: puzzle unless the puzzle includes Steph Curry, Draymond Green, and
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Klay Thompson and spoiler alert, spoiler alert, I looked at
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Houston's roster. They don't have that, So they don't have that.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be electric or explosive or maybe like putting
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: a electronic device in a bathtub. Not a good idea.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: We're already hearing about the bromance. All what a bromance
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: between Kevin Durant and Eme Udoka that they bonded at
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: some international basketball tournament the I think it was the
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Olympics And to that, okay, great, I'm glad they're buddy
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: buddy and all that stuff. I'll believe it when I
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: see it. And it doesn't matter what they do in
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: regular season, Durant, it will be judged in the playoffs.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: That's how this works. Nobody pays attention to the regular season.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: It's all about what you do in the playoffs. You
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: have to validate yourself in the postseason. So we will
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: not know until next summer. That's it all right now,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: final point, So how are things looking in the Phoenix
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: part of the equation? How are things looking in Phoenix
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: with the hall the Sun's got for Kevin Durant eight
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: for one, eight for one. So I would not call
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: it a hall. Let's start with that. I would not
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: call it a hall. That is being delusional and overly
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: optimistic to say it's a hole it. This is more
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: of a pot luck dinner type situation.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: You got some deviled eggs over here with the suns.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: You got some of that. You got a little brocoli salad.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Nobody likes broccoli salad, but somebody brought brocoli salad with
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: to the pot luck. So you've got some broccoli salad
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: over here, and then you've got some chicken cash roll
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: over on this side. And then you've got some mac
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: and cheese. And that's all kind of in the middle.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: It's a quantity play, not a quality play. And Jalen
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Green was the star of the trade. He just was
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: the star of the trade. He's a high, very athletic,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: high scoring guard. He led the rockheats and scoring last
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: season he had to be traded. He rode the vomit
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: comet to the next level, to the moon and beyond
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: in that playoff series when he had one if I
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Remember he had one really good game and the rest
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: of the time it was like less than ten points.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: He was gun shy, he froze. They had to trade him.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: He bought himself a trade. Now they end up getting
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: to rant for him. Jalen Green could not come back.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: He was That was absolute malfeasance by Jalen Green in
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, he went a wall. Guilty of going to
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: a wall. They had to get rid of him. And
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: three years into his NBA care effort, a lot of chat. Well,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: that's a great player whatever I mean. His son's got
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: a super good player. He was the second pick in
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: the tra But if you look the numbers here the
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Basketball Reference comps on Jalen Green, his career at this
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: point is similar to Tim Hardaway junior, not the old man,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Tim Hardaway Junior, Rodney mcgruegor whoever that is, and Quincy Pondexter.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: So that's it. Now you know Dylan Brooks, Now he's
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: a glue guy. Dylan Brooks is a glue guy. He's
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: a pass he's an instigator. From his days in Memphis.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: His nickname Dylan the Villain, so he lives up to that.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: And those guys are nice when you're really about to
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: win a championship, you think you're about to win, and
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: you get a player like that, and we expect Phoenix
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: to regift Dylan Brooks and possibly even Green They're gonna
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: have to get. They got to give Rid to Bradley Beal.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: The guard situation is a mess. Bradley Beal's got a
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: no trade clause. They got to find a way to
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: unload Bradley Beal to convince him to be traded, so
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Devin Booker will be there with more empty stat for
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: the Suns. And then you got Dylan Brooks and he
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: could be traded. But the green's the other one, Green,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Devin Brooks, Devon Booker, and then also the guard Bradley Beal,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: who put up numbers for the Wizards back in the day. Now,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: as for Kevin Durant leaving, the argument is this is
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: addition by subtraction. It just didn't work out and all
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: this stuff, And it is true that the Durant experiment.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: You don't fault the Suns for going for it. The experiment,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: though in hindsight we didn't say this at the time,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: but in hindsight, it didn't feel like it was gonna work.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: But in hindsight, it was doomed from the very beginning.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: The super team that had the chemistry of like a
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: wet sock and a toaster, it just did not It
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: just didn't work, and it sounded good. Devin Booker and
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Bradley Beal as players that could score a lot of
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: points alongside Durant. Durant would open things up for Bradley
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Beal to shoot three point shots and for Devin Booker
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: to slash the basket. And then it turned out that
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: they formed a band with three solo artists, right, three
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: solo artists, and they tried to play a symphony and
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: it just would not work. The notes did not work.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: The only thing they orchestrated in two seasons was a
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: single first round playoff elimination. They didn't even make the playoffs.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: This passing. You know how hard it is to not
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: make the playoffs in the NBA. They try to get
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: every team in. They had that Fugasey playing thing, which
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: is like half the playoffs. The Suns were so bad
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: they couldn't even get in the postseason. So they made
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: it to one postseason. They were swept in four games.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Didn't even qualify. This past year, and so now they're
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: going a different direction. They hired some no name guy
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: as the coach, and so that's where we are.
• 34:54
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• 34:56
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• 35:02
  Speaker 1: We got that to the third degree. Here we go,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: and think that gets grilled, gooblo.
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: It was reported over the weekend that Jalen Ramsey would
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: prefer to be traded to the West Coast, specifically, either
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: the Chargers or the Rams. Ben, would you want Ramsey
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: back on the Rams or is he a falling star?
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: All right? So first of all, I don't I'm not
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: like dying to get jail. If the Rams get him,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. But he's thirty years old. He's
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: thirty years old, and you know how I feel. I
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: think he turns thirty to thirty one early in the
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: NFL season, So he's at that point where he's at
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: the very end of his athletic prime, if he's not
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: already past his athletic prime. So, like I know, he's
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: a veteran. He's not a falling star yet, but he's
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: teetering on the brink of being a falling star.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: Next, Robert Sala is back with the forty nine Ers,
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: and with his return, George Kittle has a warning for
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: the rest of the league.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Oh I got to hear this. He said, violence is coming.
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: Really, yes, Ben, Do you think Sala's return will make
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: a noticeable impact in Santa Clara?
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Well, the only thing about Robert Salah is you could
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: not watch a Niner game with this guy was the
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Shenanigans when he was the defensive coordinator before the smooching
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: that took place from broadcasters desperately trying to get him
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: a head coaching job was so over the top, like
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: the TV guys Robert Selzer, all the jumping up and
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: down the South ultimates players. As we learned when Robert
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Salad coached the Jets and had suck players, he was
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: suddenly a suck coach. So the Niners have some decent players,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: not as many good ones as they had before. They'll
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: be okay, But it's not that I'm not expecting a
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: master class by Robert Salad.
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: Next, the Tampa Bay Rays won two out of three
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: games in their series against the A leading Tigers, and
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: they did some in blowout fashion. But you think the
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: Rays are legitimate ken tenders in the American League.
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  Speaker 1: Well, are they regular season contenders? Yes, it's like a
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  Speaker 1: during the regular season. Yeah, it works during the regular season.
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  Speaker 1: It's the inside advice line unscreened radio. The safety net
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  Speaker 1: I think we're pretty much on the same line of
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  Speaker 1: thinking here as the NBA Finals came to an end.
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  Speaker 1: needs our advice now, Alfie alien Opiner said Tyrese Haliburton's Achilles.
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking just Pacer fans in general, on how
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  Speaker 1: to deal with getting to a Game seven, getting all
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  Speaker 1: fired up. You got all the party goods right, you
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  Speaker 1: got a big thing of booze, you got food, right,
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  Speaker 1: you're grilling the whole thing. The weather's good, you're excited
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  Speaker 1: about your team. You got shot to upset and win
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  Speaker 1: Game seven. And then in the first quarter, kaboom goes
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  Speaker 1: to the Achilles. So advice to Pacer fans, and if
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  Speaker 1: you want to give advice to Tyrese Haliburton's Achilles, you
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  Speaker 1: warm milk. All right. Line two your advice please, Line two,
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  Speaker 1: that was solid advice. Advice to the Pacer fans. Line two,
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  Speaker 1: all right, thank you for that. We'll go to line three.
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  Speaker 1: Line three. You are on the air. What is your
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  Speaker 1: advice to the Pacer fans? Line three? Yeah, in morning time,
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  Speaker 1: just tell them to go watch the movie Troy.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Hey for the fild party. And even though we did.
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  Speaker 1: Lose, there you go celebrate good times. They're probably at somewhere.
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