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Y f MHD two, Obening Wtwo forty opening, Fox Sports nine eighty
nine. Fact, it's time forthe Top four four with Levac and guys.
Time for the four biggest stories inthe world of sports. It is
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to please you gods. What's thefourth big story? Let's talk New York

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Mets baseball? Why for what reason? That's exact response. I thought you're
gonna I'm sorry, Matts fan,I'm trying my best. They're not doing
well. Marl yesterday we talking about, like mad it could get a lot
worse if the Met's loose to theMarlins. That'd be awful if that happened.
Yeah, I thought. I didn'tthink they would get I thought this
is a team they could beat,Like, this is the team. I

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was like, you know what,You're not bigger than a lot of kids,
but you're bigger than that kid.Go get them. Nope, Nope,
didn't work. You had guys runninginto each other yesterday during the game.
Alvarez was reinstated from the IL.That's exciting, Yeah, not for
him. There so their single aidteam is doing a giveaway for Seinfeld night.

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That's something Hilly Steinfeld nuts. I'mgoing to their game on Sunday.
If you haven't heard me talk aboutthat a bunch. So, uh,
matchup tonight Marlin's Mets series continues sevento ten. First pitch in that matchup,
David Peterson on the mound, thelefty of the Mets tonight. Yeah,
I mean he's he pitched well lasttime he was out. Let's let's
at least last time I paid attention. It's hard to pay attention to them

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because it's it's depressing. I justagain, I think at this point it's
it's not the worst thing in theworld for Mets fan for them to keep
losing. It's just you want someof these guys to start looking a little
better so that you get more forthem. Calvin Bigio for one minor league
pitcher, feels like a light trade, but that's how he was performing.

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So like, at this point,what are you getting for Pete Alonzo?
What are you getting? You know? What are you getting for Edwin?
He is hurt. You're not gettanything for him right now, But you
gotta get something for these guys.Some of them need to start performing a
little bit so you can get Jackof the Price tag. I'm gonna move
on a story number three because that'sabout all I got for the Mets.
Mets, I want to get storylines. I want this to happen. I
don't want to keep beating up onyou guys. I'm gonna change my tune.

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Maybe by Sunday. Michael Tracarrico onemore plug for him. He's gonna
jone us on Friday, give youabout the future of the Mets, Yankees
Royals, That Yankees Royals Tonight eightten, first pitch of Lvaki or Yankees.
If you missed it Apple, Spotify, the iHeart app, you reminded
us how good they've looked in thisseries. The bar can just didn't know
if you noticed. That's why hedid it. Yeah, just in case

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somebody might have missed it. I'ma helper. The bar continues to get
raised in this series for the Yankees. Truly, I'm not even beat sarcasts
going to say that, truly likethe Yankees have played better and better each
game and if continue to improve herein the month of June. What are
your expectations tonight after the beatdown ofKansas City, how much better can it
get? How much more winning canthey do? Lots of it. I

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think eleven of the last fourteen gameshave been winners. They just they're they're
dialed in right now. It's it'sit's a good time. It's very enjoyable.
I know you guys are all enjoyingit. All you non Yankee fans
have got to be thrilled how goodthey're they're playing. I just I feel
like again, I feel like they'redialed in and as you as you mentioned,
like Cole still isn't here yet,two more kids stay games at Boston.

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Boston's pitchers are good. I wouldthat's listen, that's a real series.
Like you you say what you wantuntil you go in there and smash
Boston. You didn't smash Boston likethey're they're pitching is good. They'd be
a way bigger story right now ifthe Yankees neurals weren't so good. This
is an odd storyline, but Ithink it fits our show. Do you
know who the pitcher Chris Stratton wasbefore yesterday? Were you familiar with his

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work, because I'll admit I wasnot familiar with work, like not really
like I've heard the name I've had, you know whatever. I believe it
was one hundred and fifty thousand withinlike the first hour of the social media
post going up that somebody I believeher name was Amberly Bates, had gone
to social media after Judge hit thehome run off of him yesterday and said,
good, I'm glad he hit ahome run off of that guy.

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That guy is a weirdo. Heonce followed me on Instagram to see if
I was hot and then unfollowed me, Well, so you're not. That's
I mean, that's that's why she'sangry. He followed me I was hot,
and then he boiled because she's not, Like, so she's mad.
Imost choked. That's exactly what thecomments said. I mean, I mean

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that that's why that tweet went viralbecause everyone was so quick to engage on
it, like easy, okay,back off if you if you're gonna allow
a soft toss across the middle ofto play, people are gonna swing.
I mean. He once followed meon like that's one of those ones like
did you think before you hit?Said? Did you think on that one?
What a weird try to flex butfailed by her too, Like oh,

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this major League Baseball pitcher followed me, and I tried to following him
back, and he was already goneby, and then he didn't know what
he missed out him. Weird,How quickly did you have your phone out
to see who it was? Andwhy are you branking about somebody who doesn't
follow you on social media now?And you're watching Royal's Yankees rooting against him?
Right, He's like he tried gettingwith you. He sounded a little

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he sounded a little obsessed. ButI believe her name is Kimberly Bates.
I don't know how we know.Her tweet went viral, like reason,
one hundred thousand views and like withinminutes because of that, I will say
no, just because of one tweetand people saw it. I think probably
people took his name and then lookedfor it. Okay, I found her.

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It was hot. Immediately followed me. He deserves this five point seven
million impressions. Oh you found it? Yeah? I found her? Wow?
Yeah? Really? Am I awful? Back? I'm sure for sure
this is what happened, right,That's what she That's what she wrote.

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Yeah, she's not like get eyebrowgames is rough, but she literally like
posts them like there are people behindthese posts and whatever. Oh my god,
that's what you get. That's whatyou get. Sorry, that's funny,
that's funny. I can't make thestuff up again. Five point seven
million impressions Wait, five point seventhat's what it's up to now, five

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point seven million impressions in seventeen hoursfor Kimberly Bates. So I can't make
this up. By her, Iguess I can't make this up. What's
happening right now? So somebody hashacked into our system right now. It
is dialed in during our show,and if you're listening on the app or

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driving around the campit to Rechion andall of a sudden, our stage gets
flipped to ninety nine to five theRiver. Somebody has hacked us. So
I'm gonna talk. Who would doI'm trying to find out, but somebody
has just flipped us over to theriver. So I feel like we're okay
right now. If you're listening,send it a tweeter, a text,
be like you no, no,it's still you guys. Very odd.
What's happening right now on my board? Anyways? Move on a story.

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Number two gave that heavy out somebody'sprobably rocking out to bon Jovi right now.
Uh. Story number two Celtics Maverickseight thirty tip off set tonight,
Levak. We can dive deeper intothis in the next fifteen minutes of what
our impressions will be about Game threeand what overall storylines can be and how
important this game is for Dallas andeverything else. I'm hoping for better basketball.

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I know I sound very spoiled withthat take. Game two was not
good, a lot of misshots,not the best Luca with eight turnovers.
Porzingis wasn't what we saw in gameone. I'm just hoping for a little
better basketball. Will be my earlytake before we dive deeper into Game three
and fifteen minutes. Any hopes,dreams, aspirations, wishes for Game three
of the NBA player, Yeah,he Dallas to win two games. That's

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what I need. I need twogames. I don't know how like almost
wolver I need. I need Bostonto win, but I need two games
from Dallas. Like that's hello,are your mother for? Yeah? I
would like I would like a game. I want to see what happens without
Porzingis. I mean, we gotto talk more about what's going on with
thing? It's a lot of stuff. But yeah, I want I don't
want to sweep for Boston. No, never ever, I don't want them

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to have that much joy. Badenough I had to pick them to win
the whole damn thing. I'm sorry, I'm a little distracted. Oh you
are? You're distracted as my board'sbeing taken over by ninety nine to five
the river. What are you distractedby? Sorry? I didn't have anyone
else to ye, I'm not init. I don't have access to anything

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in this building. I'm a guest, just to ask our engineer, what
are you distracted by? Is itKimberly Bates's tweets. No, my daughters
sent me a picture of like thefront of the one of the kitchen doors
drawers broken off with I might havebroken one of the kitchen drawers based on
the picture, I'd say you did. Is it bad? It's just I

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mean, if they're old, Igotta replace them all anyway. But it's
just but it's just like that,I might have seeus how the front of
the drawer is in your hand andthe rest of the drawer is still in
the the slot where the drawer goes, Yeah, my guess is you broke
the kitchen drawer. I'm so proudof your daughter for that, because that's
me. That's a very gods take. Just you tell me if it's broken.

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I don't know if I broke it, but I'm gonna send you a
picture of it broken. I rememberyou've heard the story about my first apartment
here in Albany, about the doorpotentially being broken and the landlord asking,
do you want to call the cops? Do you think someone tried breaking into
your apartment at one o'clock in themorning. It looks like you didn't know
how to work the key and someonepushed it. Are you sure it's not
you? Is that what? Itwasn't you? Of course it was me.

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My wife was disgusted by me.She goes, what were you gonna
say that you couldn't figure out howto get in your apartment with your key
and you tried just pushing the doorin? Yeah, I said, are
you get drunk? No? No, no, I was having issues with
the key. Huh. We're gonnamove on to story number one, and
that is NBA All time great.Jerry West passed it away at the age

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of eighty six years old if youmissed it. Earlier in the show,
we talked about the the legacy andmore about Jerry West Levec. I feel
the same way I felt when Iheard the news today and hours passed and
more that this is truly one ofthe most influential people in one single sport
in American history. We talk aboutwhat he did as an executive, as

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a player, the impact of thesport, the logo you go through this
a Hall of Famer, but justchanging basketball, and we talk about how
we follow it the United States,Canada, everything else. That's the impact
Jerry West had. Yeah, Imean again, the logo kind of says
it all for me, like youare the symbol of professional basketball, the
symbol of the National Basketball Association.When you look at the list of what

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he has achieved on the court ascoach, executive, all these things,
it's impressive, I mean, andimpressive is an understatement. So I don't
have like a personal recollection, apersonal anecdote or anything like that to share,
but it's just it's kind of it'sonspiring. Like it's like when I

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think of when I think of sports, right, So, so Jerry West
is logo basketball Lombardi is the trophyfor football, Like there's people who are
Babe Ruth is like baseball, likeall time Baseball, Like there's stuff like
that. Jerry West is the guyfor basketball. So you know, rest
in peace. Thank you for everythingyou did for basketball. Absolute legend,

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I'm like the wood glue is overin the living room. I was
using it. It's over where Iwas sitting. Blah blah, heart She's
yeah, I accidentally Hulk smashed it. So I don't know where you get
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you want to share that at theJeff Levak or he nervous had to see
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Okay, I don't care. Idon't care about that. Hey, that's
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in real life before, maybe inwrestling. I want to hold off on
the waging perspective of Game three ofthe NBA Finals. I don't want to
touch on that because that's probably apoorly done tease for me in the next
twenty five minutes of where I wantto go with that. But this game,
Game three, obviously Boston wins.They go three to zero, and
it's not gonna happen. There's neverbeen a three to zero comeback in the
history of the NBA Finals three toone was remarkable enough when the Cams did

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against the Warriors. So the seriescan truly history wise, can end tonight
if Boston beats Dallas, and itjust be a matter of time before the
Celtics are crowned the NBA champion againin their franchise. Is history? No,
no, no. I saw Corey'smessage left you, but I'm struggling

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to find out. Is it justthe potent less than one hundred percent porzingis
is it age? Is it?I can't stand this, but I think
this is the right answer. Boston'sdone this all season, whether it's the
loss of the Cavaliers earlier in thepostseason, whether it's a random regular season
game. I know I've come onhere and said, why did Boston look

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so bad against so and so?Why did Boston look like a team that
doesn't feel like they're gonna win theNBA Finals. We could call it taking
the foot off the gas. Wecan call it checking out load management.
There have been multiple occasions this seasonwhere the Boston Celtics just didn't care.
Is one of these games tonight?Hey, We're gonna get this team again
later on Game three. Is farn'tless important for us than it is for

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Dallas? Are they just gonna pullback tonight and not be the team that
we saw in the first two gamesof the series. That's the only way
it feels like Dallas wins tonight.I mean, I think if you were,
if you're watching with more than justlike the disdain for the lack of
ability to actually do everything you expectDallas to do. They did play better

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in Game two, Yeah, butthey played a lot better. I think.
I think for me that the wayyou win is figure out a way
to get Kyrie away from Tatum oncein a while, Like, because Kyrie
I believe he can still create hisshot even with Tatum on him. I
was that was an amazing performance inGame two from Tatum. But like,
if Kyrie can't create his shot,I'm nervous because it because then you can

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treat Dallas the way you used totreat the old bull old bulls. Oh,
go ahead, Jordan, go ahead, Luca, get whatever you want,
so as we stop everybody else.You're thirty six to forty two points,
ain't gonna ain't gonna beat us.But if you drop thirty six and
and Kyrie drops thirty six. Well, now we got a problem. Don't
laugh when you hear this. You'relistening right now. But at one point
Levac and I did work out togetheror and what I learned during that is

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Levak is very strong. Levak isvery strong. But in this time,
like you can quantify how along Levacis, Like let's say, like,
for instance's bench press was really good. You could put a number on then
say, hey, Lavak can throwup two twenty five for X amount of
reps. He can do this.So there are things in sports, whether
it's a forty yard dash, whetherit's strength. Quantifying it. You mentioned
the defense Tatum played on Kyrie.We could go through the stats, the

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numbers and say, look how goodTatum has played against Kyrie. Here's something
we can't quantify that I wonder isplayed a factor in the first two games.
And I thought you were about tosay it they need to figure out
a way to get Kyrie out ofBoston because mentally we can't quantify this.
But I'm sure this is a storyline. How much did a mental part of

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the game play a factor and howbad Kyrie played in the first two games
like we're the Boston fans in hishead, where all they hate, all
the booing, all the chance abouthow bad Kyrie was, and Kyrie knew
Boston hated him. Is he justone of these athletes that that really affected
his game? Again, hard toquantify, but if someone said, well,
there we go, exactly right.Somebody said, hey, guys,

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I think one of the reasons Kyrieplayed poorly is not just because of Tatum's
defense, was because they really gotin his head. He's a guy who
clearly has some things going on upthere in his past where he's talked about
things off the court that certain thingscan affect how he even views basketball in
life. So you're telling me anentire city can't stand him. They feel

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like he quit on him. Hewas supposed to be the savior of the
franchise and they can't stand it.It didn't have any type of effect on
his game. Probably did exactly right, Levac. We will find out tonight
if Kyrie goes for thirty five andten, if Kyrie's by far and away
the best player on the court inthe second half, he takes over you
and I are probably gonna lead tomorrowshow saying you know that whole mental take

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Gaza at like four thirty yesterday,there might be more truth of that.
Maybe we can't quantify mental reps inthe mental way in which a game factored
into a superstar. Well, Imean Kyrie in particular, Like he's given
you evidence that the mental part ofhis game can can distract him, but
it's always seemed in the past itwas him who was causing that issue.

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Like if if Boston is a fanbase is getting under his skin, that's
a little I feel like that's alittle different because I think he used to
and you can tell me if youdon't agree with me. I think the
Boston fan base definitely got on yourskin when he was a Celtic because they
didn't love him the way he wantedto be loved. Uh Cleveland, he
felt like, you know, hewas second banana, he was second fiddle,

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he was second he was the robinto Lebron's batman. He didn't like
that. But like since he's beenin Dallas, he seems to not get
wrapped up in that nonsense as much. Like, I mean, a career
totally head now with the pressure ofthe finals and and the way he's being
you know, heckled in Boston,but he's got He has a history of

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letting his mind take his body outof the game. So there's it's definitely
believable. And if that the case, somebody big Boston in six, hopefully
they'll get a winner two in Dallasand we'll go from there. But it
is, it definitely needs it can'tbe, it cannot be ignored, and
we'll find out what. Like Isaid, you gotta get out of Boston

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and guess what you are. You'rein Dallas. Been a couple of nights
to shake it off. The waythe finals are structured, there's so much
time in between games, it's annoying. But tonight we'll see it. Can
he go out there? Be Kyrieget thirty plus points? Luca do the
same? Remember Lucas all banged up, wrapped up like a mummy, looking
like Ben Roethlisberger after throwing three pickslike this is? You know, is

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Luca healthy enough to do his deal? Is Kyrie ready to get into it?
Drew Holiday's going crazy for his Celtics. Let's go back to Luca for
a second. He is banged up, he is looking like Ben Roethlisberger.
He is a mummy something. Solet's say Luca plays poorly again saying poorly
after a Game two where he hada triple double, but it was a

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loss and there were eight turnovers.When we talk about the legacy of Luca
in what he is viewed for asthe future of the NBA, no matter
the result of this is like theinjury given him an out, like,
well, that wasn't the true Luca. Like if Luca was at one hundred
percent, maybe Dallas would have beenbetter. He would have been better.
It's almost as if this injury isgiven him an out, like if Dallas
gets pounded by Boston. I don'tknow what to do with Luca. He's

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not gonna face anywhere close to thecriticism that the Warriors did when they blew
the lead, or Lebron his faceor any other player Chris Paul Durant.
Now maybe that's because of those guysbringing that legacy conversation to themselves, but
as of right now, things canhappen far different. In Game three,
Luke could be historically bad. Itfeels like because of the injury, I

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don't view Luca any different no matterthe result of this series, because I
assume now they're gonna lose. Bythe way, I think I should add
to that part, like, now, if Dallas wins and he's historic and
he's crazy, he's wonderful these no, no, no, I will view
him differently. I've accepted that Dallasis gonna lose this series, and I
thought they were gonna win six ifyou if they somehow get to and tie

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this thing up, yeah, yeah, you're gonna be ridiculous. But that's
all right, that's fun. Yeah, I I don't. I don't agree.
I think I think people are startingto judge Luca a little bit.
I feel I feel like there isa little bit of a you know,
a little bloom off the rows forhim. I think people do do look
at him as kind of a nota problem, but more of a little

(28:26):
more of a diva than we thoughtbecause I always just like watching him play.
But the more I the more Ihear the stories and the you know,
he's he's he's tough to get alongwith, and everybody's like, wait
a minute, how are the twoguys who are the hardest to get along
with in the NBA getting along sowell? I'm watching it now, I'm
definitely watching it, because especially ifyou're going to be, you know,
the point guard. You know,if you're the ball is going to travel

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through you, you've got to bea teammate. People gotta you gotta have
some kind of chemistry with these guys, even they don't like you. You
know. I thought was gonna happenin this series too, and it hasn't
unless there's a group of Knicks fansthat have felt this way about it.
At some point, I thought moreKnicks fans were gonna speak up and say
they're rooting against the Mavericks, andmaybe it's just flat out the answers Boston.

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They can't root for Boston, youknow what I mean? But like,
there's the connection here with Jalen Brunsonor that, for whatever reason,
if Dallas wins without Brunson. Youquestioned the value and you brought this up
when the Knicks got knocked out ofwhat the value of Brunson would be the
fact that it was his previous team. They've gone further now without Brunson.
How much, if at all,does that affect the Knicks And how much
will people look at bruns be like, oh, they got better without you.

(29:32):
I mean, we got better withyou, and maybe that's all that
should matter. But if Knicks fanswere gonna root for the Maverick against the
Mavericks because of the Brunson tie,I am rooting against them because they tanked
so that they would have protected draftpick would say with them. That's why.
That's why I'm ready answer that Markhuman and they got lively with the
player they got. You know,it hasn't been good, at least in

(29:53):
game one, but that should havebeen the Knicks pick. It feels a
little dirty, thet'll slimy the wayyou captain. Okay, fine, whatever,
but I'm I mean, if wecould have no winner this year,
I'd feel pretty good. That's howI feel best, because I don't like
either of these franchises at the moment, but all time, I've always liked

(30:15):
the Mavericks a little bit. Justright now I'm a little disgusted by them.
But yeah, I can't root forthe Celtics except for the fact that
I have a monetary interest in what'shappening. But they need to win in
six, not in four, sothat's all I ask. I don't think
i's asking too much. Will jjReddick at some point during a broadcast,
just walk off the set and say, I'm the Lakers head coach. Put

(30:37):
the hat on like Draft day,Lakers hands the Celtics the trophy. By
the way, rips it off.I'm coaching the Lakers. Enjoy it your
last one. I'm a little surprisedas taking this long after Hurley said no,
Well, allegedly, the Jay Wrightthing is is a real thing.
They've been at least feeling it out. So you know, if you're JJ

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Reddick too, what do you wantright now? Because like now you got
to look like you're not the leftovers. The idea that J. J.
Rennick could be the head coach ofthe Lakers and he's doing a podcast with
Lebron is still hilarious to me.Don't stop the podcast. That'd be so
that'd be crazy. Can you imagineif like a team president a head coach
did a podcast together. No,No, that'd be so weird. Hey,

(31:22):
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(31:45):
be more like Darius Prince and coachwhere are doing the show? Darius comes
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Hey, why do you sub meout in the fourth? It would it
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