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- 0:01Speaker 1: Now it's sevent ten wars Beat on the Street with
- 0:06Speaker 1: Natalie Migliori.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Well, now, our NBA car respondent, Natalie Migleori has been
- 0:11Speaker 2: out on the streets asking people about Lebron James signing
- 0:16Speaker 2: with the Philadelphia seventy six is I'll take it.
- 0:19Speaker 3: The n in NBA this morning stands for Natalie. Okay, Well,
- 0:24Speaker 3: I'm sure it's been the talk of the town by you, right, Larry,
- 0:27Speaker 3: where Lebron signing a two year, eight million dollar deal
- 0:31Speaker 3: with the Philadelphia seventy six ers on Friday, the biggest
- 0:34Speaker 3: pay cut in NBA history and the lowest salary James
- 0:38Speaker 3: will earn playing professional basketball, only making slightly more year.
- 0:43Speaker 4: Compared to his rookie contract.
- 0:45Speaker 3: I think he made just over four million dollars as
- 0:48Speaker 3: a rookie, and with inflation I was reading up on
- 0:51Speaker 3: it this morning, that would be equal to seven million
- 0:53Speaker 3: dollars on.
- 0:54Speaker 5: This is the senior minimum. It is in the NBA.
- 0:58Speaker 5: This is the senior minimum.
- 0:59Speaker 4: They check your and then they decide based on the.
- 1:03Speaker 3: About anyway you're After sweeping the seventy six Ers in
- 1:08Speaker 3: the postseason of the NBA Finals, Knicks fans are reacting.
- 1:13Speaker 5: Well, he cried too much. He's a cry baby.
- 1:16Speaker 6: Bring it, bring it, no witty definish champions until you
- 1:20Speaker 6: till you de throwing us. We're on top. I would
- 1:22Speaker 6: have worried ten years ago. I'm not worried now. I'm
- 1:24Speaker 6: not worrying now. He's not the number one after Jele
- 1:27Speaker 6: Lebron gonna be the number one option. Levron will be
- 1:29Speaker 6: two NB number three.
- 1:30Speaker 7: He still got wisdom, but his body don't move the same.
- 1:33Speaker 7: So I would be scared ten years ago to Him'm
- 1:35Speaker 7: not gonna lie. I'll be scared. But now I got
- 1:37Speaker 7: too much faith in aus. We got young guys, were
- 1:40Speaker 7: better team. I don't think Philly gonna have enough for
- 1:43Speaker 7: what we got.
- 1:44Speaker 1: They said he took like the largest pay cut in history,
- 1:46Speaker 1: but he said he was gonna play for the venom
- 1:48Speaker 1: minimum anyway, So you know, I mean, we won't be
- 1:52Speaker 1: no worse than we was without him. I'd rather him
- 1:55Speaker 1: start than that Deane Wade. Dude, he can come off
- 1:57Speaker 1: the bench.
- 1:58Speaker 2: They'd be much different if he was coming here. No,
- 2:01Speaker 2: they all love him. They didn't think he was a superstar.
- 2:04Speaker 4: No, some guy this morning said we don't need him
- 2:07Speaker 4: on the knicks.
- 2:08Speaker 3: They said that had they had he felt, had he
- 2:11Speaker 3: come to New York, that's really interesting you say that
- 2:13Speaker 3: had he come to New York, he felt it would
- 2:15Speaker 3: have just been a name thing.
- 2:16Speaker 4: It would have just been for the name.
- 2:18Speaker 1: Uh.
- 2:18Speaker 3: People have a lot of confidence still in the Knicks, Larry,
- 2:23Speaker 3: And you know, I know, I know.
- 2:24Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. I looked at the odds. The
- 2:25Speaker 2: Knicks are still above the seventy six ers, even with.
- 2:28Speaker 3: Lebron well because you know he has his senior card,
- 2:31Speaker 3: so it's but if you see him.
- 2:33Speaker 5: Last year, he was still pretty damn good last year.
- 2:35Speaker 8: Yeah, as a sixth man off the bench, there is
- 2:39Speaker 8: no doubt he makes all the difference in the world.
- 2:42Speaker 8: He really does, even if he's flip flopping on the floor.
- 2:45Speaker 5: Oh I've been fat. He's not gonna be a six
- 2:47Speaker 5: man ever, Yeah.
- 2:49Speaker 4: That's what some guy said this morning. He won't be
- 2:51Speaker 4: the butt. He's not the best. He's gonna play.
- 2:53Speaker 3: Yeah, the question is how long or how many minutes
- 2:56Speaker 3: he's gonna get a game. But he's not gonna be
- 2:58Speaker 3: He's not gonna not be starter. That's what That's what
- 3:01Speaker 3: a seventy six Ers.
- 3:02Speaker 4: Fan was saying.
- 3:02Speaker 3: Now with just a month into the offseason and two
- 3:05Speaker 3: months to go until preseason starts, the Knicks have made
- 3:09Speaker 3: minimal changes. We were talking about them having faith in
- 3:11Speaker 3: the team. So do fans think keeping things the same
- 3:15Speaker 3: will lead to a repeat?
- 3:17Speaker 5: We didn't have to.
- 3:17Speaker 6: We're the world champions. They gotta make the changes to
- 3:21Speaker 6: try to beat us. Were would have one on top.
- 3:23Speaker 1: They should stay with the same team. Guys, don't aren't subtrack.
- 3:28Speaker 5: Just keep it like it is. That's for the hopeful.
- 3:30Speaker 6: I see that's in the Eastern Conference finals again.
- 3:32Speaker 5: I don't think it make a difference. The Knicks is
- 3:34Speaker 5: gonna go back to back and.
- 3:36Speaker 3: Next we trust as a seventy six are fan. Do
- 3:39Speaker 3: you think that the Knicks could do it again next year?
- 3:41Speaker 1: Well when the chip again? No, I don't think so.
- 3:45Speaker 1: I mean they had a good run. I mean it's
- 3:46Speaker 1: all about getting hot at the right time, and they
- 3:48Speaker 1: actually did that last year, and hats off to them,
- 3:51Speaker 1: but I don't think they gonna do it again.
- 3:53Speaker 7: They're dangerous. If they all played the right way and
- 3:55Speaker 7: stay healthy, they'd be a dangerous team. I will say that.
- 3:59Speaker 7: But they not gonna be enough for the Knicks.
- 4:01Speaker 5: Wow, there's a lot of Bravado out there. Yeah, with
- 4:05Speaker 5: the champs, Well they have time to go back to back.
- 4:08Speaker 8: Now they know they're gonna be playing against the world champions,
- 4:11Speaker 8: They're gonna try that much harder to beat the Knicks.
- 4:14Speaker 3: Right, Well, there's a lot of heart on the team.
- 4:15Speaker 3: We all know that the Knicks have heart. That's really
- 4:18Speaker 3: what fans have been saying this whole time. It got
- 4:20Speaker 3: the team a ring people, you know, really witnessing this
- 4:24Speaker 3: love that the guys have for each other.
- 4:26Speaker 4: In New York. Rivalries had been brewing between New York.
- 4:29Speaker 3: And Philly for quite some time, especially when it comes
- 4:32Speaker 3: to really any sport between the two now.
- 4:35Speaker 4: But this seventy six.
- 4:36Speaker 3: Er fan, I gave him the chance to bash the Knicks,
- 4:40Speaker 3: and he just he didn't take it.
- 4:43Speaker 1: I can't really hate the Knicks because they got all
- 4:46Speaker 1: those Villanova players on there. Like Jalen Bruns was signing
- 4:50Speaker 1: the Order grad and they try to get him sign
- 4:51Speaker 1: Giants Helm and he like gold Birds. I'm like, just
- 4:54Speaker 1: when I want to hate this dude, man, he says
- 4:55Speaker 1: gold Birds and I gotta And then Makyle Bridges was
- 4:58Speaker 1: at the Phillies game the other down when I really
- 5:00Speaker 1: want to hate these dudes, man, I can't because at
- 5:02Speaker 1: the end of the day, they Philly. So hats off
- 5:05Speaker 1: to them.
- 5:05Speaker 3: Man, what do you think that they're Philly, Larry, but
- 5:08Speaker 3: they don't play for Philly.
- 5:09Speaker 2: Well, they grew up in the Philly area and they
- 5:11Speaker 2: went to Villanova. But they're but they're next now. By
- 5:14Speaker 2: the way, my prediction is they held off putting the
- 5:17Speaker 2: schedule out till they found out where Lebron was going
- 5:20Speaker 2: to play. My prediction is that it's all going to
- 5:23Speaker 2: start in Philly against the Knicks. That's the game one
- 5:26Speaker 2: of the NBA.
- 5:27Speaker 4: What would that signify though.
- 5:29Speaker 2: Nothing except that they want money because it's like they'll
- 5:33Speaker 2: get huge ratings.
- 5:34Speaker 5: It will get immense ratings.
- 5:37Speaker 3: Right because that they want to see Lebron play against
- 5:40Speaker 3: who would be the defending champions.
- 5:41Speaker 2: Absolutely, and they want to see Lebron. They want to
- 5:43Speaker 2: see Lebron on this new team too. I mean, it's
- 5:46Speaker 2: it's a great idea and I'm sure it's going to happen.
- 5:48Speaker 8: And remember he's calling it, at least subtly his final
- 5:53Speaker 8: tour as a Philadelphia seventy, So they're loving it all
- 5:59Speaker 8: over the lead.
- 6:00Speaker 5: Absolutely, this is money.
- 6:01Speaker 3: It's gonna be like the last chance to see quote
- 6:04Speaker 3: unquote King James. Why wherever he is for the next
- 6:07Speaker 3: two seasons, you think he's making it into the second seat,
- 6:11Speaker 3: into the second yearn I do.
- 6:14Speaker 2: I think he wants to play another year. I don't
- 6:16Speaker 2: think he would have signed it to year contract unless
- 6:17Speaker 2: he had plans to do it.
- 6:19Speaker 4: Right, because it's not like it's about the money for
- 6:20Speaker 4: him at this point.
- 6:21Speaker 5: Oh no, No, he's got plenty of money.
- 6:23Speaker 8: Let's hope he stops flopping on the floor and you know,
- 6:26Speaker 8: feul foul foul. Yeah, you know street street games, right
- 6:30Speaker 8: and nobody calls fouls like that.
- 6:32Speaker 5: Come on, guys, a ton you little wosh.
- 6:35Speaker 4: Well, the first guy out of the gate was like,
- 6:37Speaker 4: he's a cry baby.
- 6:38Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree.
- 6:42Speaker 8: Well, anyways, thank you, Natalie Magliori. You'll be down in
- 6:45Speaker 8: the streets tomorrow bringing it up to the streets, same time,
- 6:49Speaker 8: same place, all