March 14, 2026

Spurs Taking Over the West?! |Pistons Slump & NFL Free Agency Chaos - PAIN POINTS EP 15

In Episode 15 of Pain Points, Christopher (C-PAIN) Davis, Bryanna Sompayrac & Derrick Thompson break down the biggest storylines shaking up the sports world right now.

🏀 San Antonio Spurs – Are they the new favorites to come out of the Western Conference? With the way they’ve been playing, they might be the hottest team in the NBA.

🔥 Detroit Pistons – Just weeks ago they looked like the team to beat in the East. Now they’ve hit a slump while the Boston Celtics look ready to take control with Jayson Tatum back.

👀 Los Angeles Lakers – Are the Lakers actually playing better without LeBron James? The guys debate whether the team has found a new rhythm.

🚨 Surprise Playoff Team – Every year a team shocks the NBA in the playoffs. Last year it was the Indiana Pacers. So who could be this year’s breakout team?

🏈 NFL Free Agency Frenzy – We break down the biggest moves, the worst moves, and the wild situation involving Maxx Crosby and the Baltimore Ravens that had everyone talking.

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00:00 - 49ers Injury Risk And Receivers

00:33 - Spurs Surge And West Playoff Fears

08:37 - Suns, Lakers, And Seeding Chess

10:16 - Pistons Reality Check In The East

16:29 - Are The Lakers Better Without LeBron

29:59 - NFL Free Agency Winners And Headaches

34:32 - Lions RB Swap And Team Building

38:32 - Panthers Upgrades And Max Crosby Chaos

43:24 - 49ers Mike Evans Bet And Ravens Backout

47:25 - Kyler Murray Rumors And Wrap-Up

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Remember when we called the Clippers of the beginning of the season?

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The unction?

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That's what they're that's what they're building in.

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It's it for it.

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It's it's the untruth.

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Because you got yeah, Kittle, who got hurt this year, Fred Warner, Bosa.

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Then you also got McCaffrey.

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McCaffrey had a and every time Christian McCaffrey has a great season, guess what happens?

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Never been.

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You get a receiver in their 20s that doesn't have an injury history.

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Can you maybe do that?

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Rugley Dobbs is with the Petri.

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Got him.

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DJ Moore was available.

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Like there's getting done something.

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Okay, welcome back to another episode of King Points.

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We have a lot of topics to cover today.

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We're gonna talk about the Spurs, we're gonna talk about the Pistons, we're gonna talk about the LA Lakers, and then we're also gonna talk some NFL because there's been a lot of trades and people signing and a lot of crazy things.

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So let's first jump in with the Spurs right now.

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They're on fire.

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What's going on?

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Listen, um, Wemby is coming into his own one, Stefan Castle turning into one of the better guards, Dylan Harper having a phenomenal season as well.

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I'll just for the people who stayed down with San Antonio during the taking, during their like roughs, rough period, I'm happy for that man because they have a squad, and to me, I do think that they can make it out of the West.

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I do think though, Wemby is going to have to have some series because you're either gonna have to deal with Jokic, you're gonna have to deal with some combination of Anthony Edwards and the Wolves, Jokic and the Nuggets, or the Thunder somewhere during the playoffs.

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So that's my concerning thing is are their young guards gonna be too young for the moment?

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Because yes, Wemby's gonna be Wemby.

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I I at this point, I'm stole.

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I think we're going to see we're gonna see something special from him.

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And I've been I've been waiting to see this ever since he got he came into the league.

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I was like, I need to see playoff Wemby.

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I'm gonna see what happens, I'm gonna see how they guard him, what they try to throw at him.

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Because honestly, with everybody being like, at what what can you do at this point, especially the Rockets game, was there was just a moment of like it felt like the Rockets were powerless, and you had a team with Kevin Durant and the rest and all that talent, it they shouldn't feel like that.

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So I don't know.

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I'm very excited about the Spurs.

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I I know that they were your championship pick, Derek.

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I just I uh that was Diego's man.

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Yeah, man.

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So I'm rocking with Diego.

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Diego having that pick, but I'm not gonna lie.

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Uh I still got OKC, you know.

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I still got OKC.

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I think it's close.

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I think they're gonna make a deep run.

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If they get to the I wouldn't be surprised if they ran it to the conference finals, but OKC, just because of the experience that oh my goodness, Shay, yeah, Shay's Shay's on a different level right now.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, I still have, I still have OKC.

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Like, I need my hat.

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I had the OK shoot OKC shirt on earlier today.

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Uh still got my championship hat, still celebrating from the championship.

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And uh, yeah, man.

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I mean, the Spurs, you know, they're doing well now, just like the Pistons were doing great uh a few weeks ago.

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Yeah now, you know, seeing red, like you said, we'll talk about that next segment.

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Can't wait to talk to Mike Sims, the Detroit apologist, about the fade that's going on there.

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But, you know, Spurs are doing well this regular season.

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They're finally playing hard for a whole regular season, not low managing and doing all the stuff that Greg Popovich had them doing.

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So I I I think a lot of their um they could, I feel they could have been doing a lot of this the last two years.

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Um, and the fact that they've got a new upstart coach that's actually trying to win uh has a lot to do with this.

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But I don't know, man.

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I mean, Wimby.

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So let me let me just tell you because I think a lot of people are it's gonna sound crazy.

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Nah, I'm not trying to have a hot take.

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You know me.

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I'm not trying to have a hot take.

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All right, but I think people are kind of overrating a little bit what Wimby's doing this regular season.

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I agree with that.

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I agree because I've I've seen him play and I'm like yeah, it and again, can he does he have the potential to be a be the GOAT?

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Yes, I absolutely.

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I mean 7-5, yes, but the skills he has, yes.

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But what do you think?

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Just we don't look at anything.

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How many points do you think he's averaging a game?

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I know he's average.

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I know he's averaging just like 25, like 24, 25.

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Like 24 and 11.

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23.9, 23.

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23.9.

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He is 18th in points right now.

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I never would have thought that.

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Yeah, you know what I mean?

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I never would have thought that now, but okay, uh, points.

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Oh, but he's a he's a great, you know, they have like that because he is the blocks leader, unquestioned.

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There, he's had six blocks in certain games, he's averaging, I believe, three blocks a game.

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Yeah, he's averaging my five number, not for points.

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He's averaging exactly three blocks a game, yeah.

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But but this was the other stat that really tripped me out.

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Hold on, I just saw it.

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Okay, where do you think now?

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This is Victor Wimbin freaking Yana, right?

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7'5 at least.

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Where do you think he ranks in rebounds?

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And how many rebounds do you think he's getting a game?

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I would say don't wait it because I'm asking you.

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Just what what what would you have just said?

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I would have said 10.

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10 or 11.

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10 or 11.

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10 or 11.

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So yeah, he's averaging 11.1, 11.1, but that ranks, yeah.

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That's fifth in the NBA in rebounds.

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Okay, so Joker's number one, 12.5, Carl Anthony Towns, 11.9, D Klingan, a dude from Portland, 11.5, um, Gobert, 11.4, and then Wimbiana is fifth, 11.1.

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Okay, but to be sure, Jokic, that's literally like his true.

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He's under the basket more, Wimby's out, sometimes on the perimeter and whatnot.

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True.

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But, dude, okay, if you're somebody that we're all saying is it next person supposed to take over the league, I'm gonna need more than 23.9 and 11.1.

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Okay, that that that's not gonna win you a championship, not not with the rest of that roster.

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We're gonna we we need to see Shaq first championship numbers in order for them to win the championship.

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Now, is he capable of that?

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Hey, he's got the physical tools, yeah.

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But when do you see somebody's numbers?

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You have some people's numbers who goes up in the playoffs.

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Jordan's numbers went up.

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I think Shay's actually goes up like a lot of the top players, their numbers go up.

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But that's a big jump to go from 23.9 to where I think he's gonna have to be in order for them to win the title.

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That's what concerns me.

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Can he put up a lot more numbers in order for them to do it?

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Yeah, he has some room to grow for sure.

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But I mean, he's already changed like their franchise this, and he's like branding to new.

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So he has a lot more to work on.

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Yeah, we're gonna see come playoff time, y'all.

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Let's I listen, I want the legend of playoff one beat to start because I listen, that's it's where you it's where you make your money.

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It's where you know, it's where because again, Jimmy Butler's been living off of two finals runs for for forever.

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So, you know, a good minute.

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So I do think that like, I mean, even Rayon Ronda like lived off of like his playoff moniker.

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So I think that like come playoff time, I've seen how hard he's playing.

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Again, I saw you see the passion of him like coming when they came back from down 25 versus the Clippers.

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You weren't able to see all of that, so it shows that there's hunger to it.

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Now, again, in the West, you need you to average 32 because you got because you got either Shea and or Jokic over there.

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Like, that's uh that's a tall task.

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You got Ant-Man, forget about him.

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Yeah, no, I said Antwortes.

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Yeah, I said Aunt Man.

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Devin Booker, yeah.

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Devin Booker, my bad, my bad.

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I'm gonna get to Devin Booker.

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I make sure you know because you know, I'm always repping.

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There we go.

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There we go.

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Repping, love it.

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Yeah, yeah.

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All right.

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Well, actually, since we talked about the West, we are on it.

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And the Phoenix Suns, the Lakers.

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They're they're close, right?

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The Suns, they want to get there, but they're the seventh seed.

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Um, but you know what?

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And Devin Booker, he just hit 30 points, right?

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So it's just the Suns, they're hurt, you know.

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Dylan Brooks is hurt, Jordan Goodwin.

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They have a lot of people that are hurt, but Dylan Green, he stepped it up, he's been stepping it up.

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And Grayson Allen was hurt.

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Just I'm like, what is going on?

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So it's a very the West is very tough.

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I feel like every year.

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The Lakers got worried.

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Just kidding.

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I saw them play and I was like, yeah, I know, I know.

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We'll get to that later, Brevus, but there are but the the seedings are gonna be very important because I think everybody has a kryptonite in the playoffs, you know.

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Yeah, like the Sunset the Nuggets, right?

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Right.

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I need us to play the Rockets like I need oxygen in my lungs.

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I just I I that's the only team, the only team I think we can be in the West.

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I like the Celtics are of course very scary, you know, but the Knicks matchup is interesting.

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If they were to match up, that'll be interesting.

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So there's there's different matchups that are gonna, you know, kind of determine it.

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So we'll have to see how all that checks out before the uh playoffs start.

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Yeah, I'm just excited for it.

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And March Madness.

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Yeah, yeah, March Madness is gonna be sick.

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Now we can move to the east and talk about the pistons.

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Yeah, man.

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Um cade's carrying him out all he can at this point.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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Because now that the Celtics are fully back healthy, that's that's really my concern.

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Because JT, JT, you know, swinging back, looking like still he's still getting his C legs under him because he was missing the first couple shots, but then as the game went on, you saw him become more comfortable.

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So I'm excited to see what that looks like.

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But Cade Kade can't do it all.

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And with the Sar being out, now you lose your best defender.

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It's I don't know how it's gonna look come playoff time because in some moments it's like okay, they have great shooting nights, and then Cade's special, or it's like Cade has to be special, or we're gonna lose, and then Cade just has to empty the clip, and it's just not gonna go well.

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So I'm I'm hoping I don't know.

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I would say that like the thought of them representing the East in the finals, I think that thought is slowly fading.

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Because again, the Celtics, it's it's the playoff experience.

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And even if JT is a real player, Jalen Brown's still, you know, gonna do his thing.

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You still have Azulan who's been there and done that.

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So that's why I'm like, I do think that the Pistons, and even with the matchups too, because let's say that if the Hornets somehow make it out, and you know, they're the AC of the Detroit Silver One scene.

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I that their fight and that whole like rivalry between them.

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I don't know if some emotions can get ahead of people, some objections can happen.

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We don't know what could happen in that series.

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That's a series I am very worried about.

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So I would say, yeah, I don't know.

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I don't know anymore about the Pistons, man.

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I'm at this point because I know what the Celtics are, I would just say the Celtics, the Celtics are the only team that I think outside of the Spurs, if Webby has like a shag series, I think the Celtics are the only team that could probably beat the Thunder just because of their experience, because of the whole being there and doing that.

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You feel me?

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You feel me?

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That's I feel like the Thunder.

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Everybody else is like, ah, you know, yeah.

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Yeah, yeah, valid take validation.

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Yeah, yeah, that's that's that's yeah, that that's definitely valid.

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I think that that's one that's an interesting matchup.

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Minnesota's a wild card for everybody.

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Uh, because they match they'll match up with the Spurs.

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Because they got freaking Gobert, who's however tall he is.

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You've got um the other center coming off the bench, you know, Nas Reed.

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Yeah, Nas Reed, you got Julius Randle, they got defense, like they got a lot of pieces.

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So I don't think I I don't think um I don't think the Spurs can beat Minnesota in the series my myself.

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I I think that's a bad matchup.

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Um, so yeah, yeah, it's definitely all about matchups there.

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But um, yeah, Detroit, I wasn't when they were hot on their streak.

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Again, I I was loving what I was seeing, but I'm like, hey, unless they're gonna go into Puerto Rico and get Malik Beasley, like, hey, I'm not like it's not, I just don't see it.

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They don't have enough scoring, enough shooting, uh, enough offense outside of Cade.

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He can't, he can't carry them.

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You get into that slowdown playoff grind, like, nah, he's not he's not gonna be able to do the same thing.

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Everybody's playing hard in the playoffs.

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So I think some of their you know wins at least early on was from them just grinding and playing hard.

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So um reminds me a lot of you know Thibodeau teams that would have these great regular season records just because they're never taking a night off.

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So you know that's a lot of what I what I see there.

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But nah, they gotta they need to add another piece at least.

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Um the only two teams that I see they can come out of the east are Boston, who is who I would pick at this point, or the Sixers.

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I wouldn't sleep on the Sixers.

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Sixers get healthy.

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That's the only other team I think they could do it.

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You got Embiid who's sitting out, you got Maxie, you got um, you know, all the other other guys.

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I I know that they have good young players, but it's just MBU being healthy is always the thing.

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Like it's always going to it's always gonna be the elephant in the room every single time.

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And it's the it's so frustrating.

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Because it's like big walk.

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Yeah, it's I don't know.

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Well, his knees he can't play a whole regular season right now.

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So I mean, they're they're kind of doing with him what the Clippers are trying to do with Kawhi a few years ago, and just pretty much saving for the playoffs.

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They're playing them in spurts, just trying to have him healthy enough for the playoff run.

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I believe that's just their strategy, and hoping that he then just you know doesn't get hurt where he's out for the playoffs.

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So I think that's what they're trying to do.

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But they've got enough.

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That's that the that's the wild card team.

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Uh I feel there.

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I think they got enough talent to to surprise people.

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So yeah, but pistons, no.

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I don't I don't see it with the pistons.

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No.

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Yeah, I agree with that.

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I mean, I like the Pistons, obviously, but I don't know.

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I feel like the East is obviously more stacked than the West, in my opinion, too.

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So if they're trying to beat other people, then I think they're gonna get beat out from like the Sixers, maybe even the Knicks, but I don't know about the Knicks, they're not very consistent.

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So I hate to say it, but you know, we're not very consistent.

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No, no, not not at all.

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Not at all, not at all.

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I mean, I feel bad because I like Kate Cunningham.

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I've met him before, so yeah, and and hey, all circle.

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Oh, okay, that's right.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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That's just right.

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We're gonna circle back to that towards the end of the episode.

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We're gonna ask me about that, you know.

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So, yeah.

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Yeah, just well, back to the West.

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Is the Lakers better without LeBron?

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Listen, I've said I needed this man off of my team.

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Yeah, you see how confident Austin Reeves is when he's not on the floor.

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I literally like look, it's it's been cool.

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You've got your rings, we've gotten the Hollywood script.

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We got Space Jam too.

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It's been real.

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You got the run rig, we got Space Jam too.

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That's all you're gonna be done for for your title running LA.

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Great.

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Please just just go.

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Just go have your farewell tour next year and just go.

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Like, dog, I need I'm tired.

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I'm tired of feeling like the Dallas Cowboys.

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I'm tired of it.

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Where we have star players, where we have rehearing, we have the names where we're in the national media all the damn time, and we're not winning.

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It's been six years.

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Yeah, we'll both took 10 years for us to win it in between, and that was because we were bad, we were bad.

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Kobe was hurt, all this stuff.

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I get it.

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We have LeBron James and Luca Doncic and Austin Reeves.

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Whatever, what most people would say you have three, at least three, two top 15 players, one maybe top 30, top 25, depending on you as player.

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And again, it's because we can't sign defenders because you're taking up 50 million dollars, and then on the other hand, is you're old, you're not the same version of yourself, and you can't defend.

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I love you.

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You know, you're my favorite player.

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It's time, it's time to wrap it up.

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Like, it's and this is for cash face reasons, it's not because I don't want to keep seeing you play basketball, it's simply because we need to afford defenders.

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Because the reason the way that Luke and Kyrie made were able to make the finals was because Luke and Kyrie they hooped, but they had a PJ Washington, they had a Daniel Cafford, they had all these players that could defend, they had Derek Libre, they had a great center that actually put it after.

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I'm not even gonna talk about DeAndre Aiden.

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That's gonna get me even more bad.

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Like, yeah, Brady, I now know, I now don't am experiencing what you experienced.

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I don't know why we were having beside him.

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I have no idea.

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I should have listened to you.

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I yeah, you told me that.

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I I like mind-boggling.

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Like, we are too good of a team.

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We're too no, we're too much of a national, we're too much of a national franchise, and we're still like a five, six seed in the West.

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That's not that's not good enough for me anymore.

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It's not good enough to just be like flirting with a play and or being a five seed, and then we're getting first rounded by a team.

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That's obviously better because we have an aging superstar who we can't and we can't fight anybody else because of how much money he's commanding.

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I love it again.

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It took a while for me to get on this boat, you know, Derek.

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Like, you know, I've been like, I'm gonna talk about rank five for a second over.

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I'm done.

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I need I want to win.

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I need him off of my team.

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I need him off my team.

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Well, man, you know who would be the perfect fit for the Lakers, like to like take LeBron out and put this player in.

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Bree's guy, Dylan Brooks.

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Yeah, he would be, he would be the perfect fit.

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He's a scorer, like and he can defend.

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Listen, I listen, I'm not gonna say he's a perfect fit for a lot of teams, but yeah, yeah, but he's a perfect fit on the suns.

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Career high on the suns.

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Are we joking?

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Trust, I love what Dylan Brooks is doing, phenomenal.

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I get it, but like we gotta do something.

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I like LeBron, have the pharewall season be next year.

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If you want to do a pharewell season, you might not have to do it in Lane, but it back in Cleveland, go back home, you know, do a little fair road tour back at the crib.

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Do something.

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I just need you to figure out how to get us more money so we can surround Luca with more pieces.

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Because this needs to be Luca and Austin Reeves tape.

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I'm sorry, it's been real, it's been fun, but it ain't been real fun.

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Well Bron, we we've had our we've had our good times, we've had our bad times.

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Is yeah, it's time.

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Like let's let's wrap it up.

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Because the worst thing to be in the to be in any sport is in the middle.

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It's either you gotta be best, you can get high draft picks, so you can get these players to think you build something like a Spurs or Thunder, or you become the Spurs and Thunder, and now you're the top seeds of the West.

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You can't see you're at the butt, you can't be in the middle.

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So, and especially as the Lakers, I'm tired of being in the middle.

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That's worse than when we were trash because it's like, bro, it looked we got the pieces, but we just don't have uh, it's it's it's interesting.

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I I don't see him going to Cleveland, like I get the narratives for it, but that would be messy.

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Like, I don't know if I don't know if um Mitchell and Hardin would a 42-year-old LeBron, like who can't play defense as well.

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Like, okay, if you can't make the Lakers better with Luca and Reeves, how how you gonna make you know like them better?

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Like, I don't I don't see that.

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Like, I think that's just messy.

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I actually it's funny, it's it's two places I could I could see them.

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One, I've already said I could see the Warriors, right?

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I could I I could see that the other place I could actually see I'm not trolling.

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I'm not trolling.

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I could see him in Phoenix.

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Actually, this is the worst I've ever heard in my life.

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You don't really know.

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under the cap, right?

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And again, I don't think he'd be going for you know Max Outs.

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He'd be a lower number.

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Sun is in uh his son is in Arizona, right?

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Um Phoenix was the only other team that I believe they let Bronny even like do a workout for.

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So I think there's some alliance there and whatnot.

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It's close to LA, close to the home.

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They like you know being on the West Coast now.

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I don't think that's a team it it clearly would be a package deal probably for him and Bronny.

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So I could I could actually I could actually see if like Cleveland is a no then it's like okay well where that's one of the destinations I could actually see him ending up at well I feel like him going on any team it's just for a year.

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I feel like that's just such a waste for other teams so I don't think Phoenix would do that.

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They've been making smart moves I don't know but I get it like it's LeBron they're gonna bring in a lot of money with LeBron but it's going less yeah yeah I don't know I think he needs to just leave he just gets to pick and choose when he wants to play he never plays against good teams he sits those out but then but then but hold on but then Brie if he comes to fit then you can get the LeBron interview and and and then we have to buy all the best stuff we said I don't want to interview him right now in my career I need to I need to mature a little bit more than don't get me wrong he's a great player of course I just think he needs to retire and he's he's a big baby on the court I don't like that that's like that's not how the game should be played he invented flopping pretty much I mean I know it was like a saying back then but everyone does it every single time and it's really annoying to see over it he created that and that's why I just cannot stand him oh my god I cannot I cannot so I guess we we we will not be getting to LeBron and we have all right it's been great love you got to say you know I'm gonna take some of your old clips Chris and we're gonna put that out that's what we got I got have the propaganda machine behind it.

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Don't LeBron ignore this episode specifically for the Lakers stuff bro I promise I got you I got you later bro but like you know what I'll say this he is the greatest player of our generation okay but and overall it's Michael Jordan in my opinion and it's Loki kind of fact based a little bit okay but I'm I it's not that I don't think he's a great player he's an outstanding player he's one of the best of all time but he's he's he needs to retire it's not fair to his teammates Luca I when they played the Suns I was at that game it's Luca's team and it's so clear that it is but he had 41 points that night and they still lost you know 41 points that's his team that's why they got Luca in the first place because he LeBron's retiring and leaving the team they needed someone younger who has an amazing player to replace him that's Luca's team whether LeBron's still on it or not it's it's Luca's team since he got treated there.

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Yeah yeah and I like Luca you know I'll I'll interview him yeah I'm good with Luke interview I'm good with Luca interview yeah no doubt I'll make it up all right a little Slovenians pull it up a little Slovenians pull it up all right so no no leBron no KD interview I like Kevin Durant I love Kevin Durant I just didn't like him on the suns it was just in general it just the whole situation was terrible okay he's I love Kevin Durant since I was a little girl okay all right for a while you know okay all right trust sorry now the playoffs all right let's see the team that I think could be this year's pacers Bree you're gonna like this if you guys are fully healthy or Dylan Brooks I don't know I don't know I'm not saying all the way to the finals but I'm saying they get a good matchup especially with Book and Dylan Brooks I can see a surprising run I can see something surprising I would say honest I'm not gonna say the Hornets because I'm I'm I'm too scared to hedge my bets on anytime a Charlotte a team in North Carolina is doing very well hedging your bets you know we're gonna get to my you know the Panthers later but right now hedging my bets on the team from North Carolina I am very worried y'all so I'm like hey yeah I like what I see I need to see more I've been scoring before um listen the last time we saw they were getting packed out by Miami in the playoffs so that's uh yeah and I just watched them play against Phoenix I was there and I that's right there's something's off with that team right now I feel like like they weren't very on defense as much as they should have been yeah they had a really good streak good run a good 20 game run and I think they're kind of you know yeah it's like the Spurs they had their what was it 14 games or 11 and the next no more right so that's just what happens with those teams and then they're burnt out because they played so hard for all that time yeah that's what happens that's why the teams that you don't expect come on up true yeah I think the the the Suns can make can make some noise uh they'll they'll be a tough out for sure so I'm excited to see them um again but it's hard for me to call them a dark horse just because of the names that they have but I'd say the Sixers are probably the most likely team that could like get to the finals like the Pacers did as far as the team that didn't make the playoffs last year and you know are in this year and I'll have a pretty low seed I could see them the other team that I would say that could make a run they've got some of the pieces to make the run if they put it together would be the magic would be Orlando that that that's probably the most comparable team especially if there's some injuries and kind of what the Pacers faced as they you know made their run I could see I think that's probably the best apples to apples comparison would be uh the Orlando magic so I love that we're talking about injuries yet the Halbert Achilles thing happened I just I just listen y'all always try to you're always gonna try to water down the Pacers take last year again you're always gonna try listen man injuries happen in every championship run and literally uh what if that we now have is if Tyrese doesn't get hurt though do they still win that game I know you don't think that me eh I think he they would have they had a cute first half cute first half that was nice but nah the defensive screws are about to be tightened SGA about to do his thing uh which is a whole nother segment man we'll set it for another show but we gotta dive into SGA man because with everyone else coming on the scene if we look at the numbers of what he's doing is getting a little overshadowed with the points and the field goal percentage and all of that I think we're gonna look back we're gonna look back at this time and go dang he did what you know so again whole nother segment for another time let's start so NFL free agency frenzy Bree why don't you kick us off with some of your favorite movies okay my well I'm gonna start with my least favorite I know that's not what that says but I made a video about it we all know what I'm talking about.

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Okay we all know and it starts with an L the Lions getting rid of Montgomery yeah I don't know what that was so he's a great player obviously he wasn't RB1 right obviously we know that but he has potential to be that at some point and just play and whatever but I mean even on the where he go the Texans yeah yeah he's not gonna be RB1 over there there's no way Woody Marks and Nick Chubb I mean he can they they do a little more committee over there but you know well okay okay on a happier note though because we got rid of Montgomery we got Isaiah Pacheco you know Chris I don't want to hear that younger but worse at what at what David Montgomery does like he does the exact same thing Bonti can do but he's worse at it and he it's you know what worse at it he was on the Chiefs Patrick Mahomes most of the time anyway he didn't really get to shine that's why Patrick Mahomes was a leading rusher because with who he's with the lions now he's oh I I did not know that I didn't know that it happened today I I I like that I actually like thank you I like that I like that actually thank you he's gonna shine with the lions like seriously the lions they're going up after that isaiah pacheco he's a great great running back and i i can't wait for it to I can't wait for the season to start and see him shine because Patrick Mahomes the dude most of the running anyway that's that's do you do you know Bree what what they got him for Pacheco yeah it's one year yeah or and it's like only like a million or something yeah yeah I I love that's why it's smart no I love it because so Pacheco again any give me any NFL player on a prove it deal with a little money that's right take that I mean that was Kenneth Kenneth Walker the third right it's no coincidence like he was on my do not draft lift list for fantasy forever always get hurt and then lo and behold the contract year he loses his mind and is a Super Bowl MVP like exactly so yeah it's either a fail or he's rising to the top so Pacheco he's this is his career his NFL career is on the line it is and you know he's gonna be the change of pace back he's not gonna get a lot of carries so we already know how hard he tries to run can you imagine how hard that mug's gonna be running up in Detroit with those couple of carries yeah and we got and we got Jameer Gibbs still and same round I like that and Laporta we I'm not saying I'm not saying you don't add nothing to your team but like yo like we're gonna act like Monty wasn't like putting up like really at times he was really really hooping like he was okay I would say Montgomery yes he was you could you couldn't pay Montgomery you couldn't pay I'm not saying pay him I'm just saying like oh that that's not how the Lions do business like they like you have to be for them to keep you like if if if giv let me tell you if Gibbs was a little worse they wouldn't keep him like but he's so extraordinary they're like okay yeah they'll sell for less they're like okay we we got to keep Gibbs but yeah Montgomery had to go and again remember a couple years ago they had the two great backs and they let them both go and we're like what are they doing what are they doing what are they doing and they got Gibbs and Montgomery it was like oh okay you know so I I I trust the Detroit GM they know how to do that because they know what positions they got to pay they got to get the line they got to pay Hutch they got to pay uh Amon Ra they got to do that Montgomery was just the odd man out they just couldn't they just couldn't pay him and I love the pickup of Pacheco they got to find value when you are that loaded you got to find the diamonds in the rough and it's just like fantasy you know yeah you you know you have your top picks but what ultimately wins it are is the you know the 12th round pick that 10th round pick that pick that's the diamond in the rough is going to get you those points so I like I like what they're doing.

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I like what they're doing well you know there was a certain team in Carolina who addressed their two biggest needs an edge rusher and a linebacker we got an all-pro for 15 million dollars per year for three years meaning he didn't even break the bank then we now we overpaid Jalen Phillips I'm sorry give it Jalen Phillips who has had like the ACL and an Achilles injury two years before he got traded to the Eagles yeah two years before he got traded to the Eagles we gave him 30 million dollars um he's a good pass rusher though like the Eagles fans were like hey he revitalized our defense when we didn't have a real pass rush so you know I'm happy but like 30 million here was a little huh I'm glad we got Devin from 15 though because Devin really could have gotten the 20.

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So I'm listening we need pass rush hopefully he can bring Dickordin along and we have a phenomenal and again we draft let's draft another linebacker because I'm sorry I I don't I didn't like Rose Boom during that playoff game I'm not gonna lie to you JC Horn and Mike Jackson are still doing their thing now JC listen when you see Chris Olave in front of you next year and this is because my best friends game this way I need you to actually hoop because every single time you play Chris Olave this year JC it was bad it was bad.

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He was yeah it got ugly like I think he kind of like at least it was one go-ahead one that he had it was just it was just a bad time JC playing crystal lava every every other time it was fine and that's the thing Mike for all the crab physics give mike jacks Mike Jackson will show up and like make a key play JC is great but there's sometimes where I'm like hey dude just don't don't make a key play so that's what I'm excited for is this revamped defense addro ever you have no excuse we finally have a competent person in the linebacker room and you need to draft one more edro ever this is this is his final his final thing I'm sorry because after we left the most points in NFL history and we played pre-vent defense versus the MVP of the NFL I'm sorry we like the defensive mind thing um doesn't make any sense to me anymore dog we got it we atlanta's gotten worse tampa just traded Mike Evans the Saints we don't know what they're gonna be you feel me we could repeat this as division champs if y'all really lock in towards the rest of this off season so I'm excited to see what other moves we're gonna make I'm excited for the draft but hey this is well Chris man your Panthers I mean you need defensive help Max Crosby's still available I mean shoot hey listen if we would have switched the 30 mil over real quick I wouldn't be mad at that I would not be mad at that so the question is anybody else gonna back out of their deal to try to get them if if if the cowboys can now get what they were offering for match because they were offering a number one and a number two if if uh the Raiders accept that well then the cowboys back out of their deal for the uh for the Gary I don't know if they just Gary Munter what did they trade for him or what no they traded for him for a I think it was like a fifth or something.

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So they traded for him I don't know I would say we try to get a pairing at least if you can't get a pairing because the one thing that Dallas Dallas's best defense are always when they have two great ends it can't just be one because it was Demarcus Lawrence and Michael Parsons and even back in the days of like Demarcus Swear and then the other pass rusher on the opposite side like that that's gonna work a little bit better than it just being you know just Rashawn Gary and then even so like Daron Williams good in the secondary but Trevon Diggs is now gone.

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So who's gonna play that other role as a quarter like that's that's what I have more question questions with with Dallas I would say Chicago a they already offered the first round picks and they were like we need a pass rusher but they were the team that was the closest in contention to get Max Crosby Bear Chicago and they haven't made a move yet that's what I'm saying they haven't made a move for edge rusher Chicago listen they backed out put Ryan polls me on that phone right now saying hey we need a pass rusher y'all already y'all up your secondary in your linebacker room get that one edge rusher I know Bree you are a Lions fan I apologize for saying asking Max Crosby to be in your division especially with all the offensive line movement that is happening in Detroit I am so sorry I do not wish that on you however I want to see Max Crosby in a winning spot so Chicago make the call that's that's why it could be a winning spot with the Lions I don't want him and Hutch that's disgusting too him and Anthony and Aiden Hutchinson oh no perfect duo that would be crazy now you've got um the receiver from Tampa that went to the 49ers yeah Mike Evans my Mike Evans yeah Mike Evans three year deal I don't know how much of that's guaranteed so I don't know if that's really a one year deal I haven't looked at some details it's a three years for 60 bow I'm like oh a 32 I don't I I don't like that move I don't like that move a okay the 49ers who is an injury prone team okay can't keep anybody healthy then brings on a guy that has chronic hamstring problems every single year and gives him a three year 60 million dollar deal who's at the end of his career I'm like I this just screams yeah it's it's what I remember what we call the clippers of the beginning of the season the unction that's what they're that's what they're building in it's it friend it's it's the unction because you got yeah kittle who got hurt this year Fred Warner Bosa then you also got McCaffrey McCaffrey had a and every time Christian McCaffrey has a great season guess what happens I have stopped working it's listen as a Panthers Purdy was hurt this year too look so yeah it's either y'all they're gonna go all in and they're gonna go crazy or injury bugs gonna catch him again and Mike was just hurt last year too like he was out for a period of games so talking about how great the move was I'm like no they need receiver help but it's like okay Ricky Pierce all your receivers get hurt Ricky Piercefall was hurt jaw jennings was hurt for periods it's just like what I don't know what it is with that training staff in San Francisco it's either we go to a Super Bowl or everybody's hurt it's never it's never in the middle it's never been you get a receiver in their 20s that doesn't have an injury history something maybe do that yeah Romeo Dobbs is with the Patriots that you could have got him DJ Moore was available like there's could done something I don't know I don't I don't I don't get that man yeah that does not look and then kittle because I know he was hyped and let's go and all that I'm like didn't he like tear his ACL or like Achilles he had an Achilles yeah it was even worse Achilles I'm like dude and that was late late in the season I mean I know people are coming back from injuries faster now but that is yeah it was insane I don't know another team and even and again back to the Max Crosby of it all Baltimore hey what's going on what is what is happening with EDC what is happening with everything because you lot first off you paid the worst tight end on your team lost two of the better young ones right that's cool you gave up Keaton Mitchell your backup for Derrick Herry which you're just praying to see whatever time Derrick Harry falls the cliff he's the angels wonder but you don't know when he's gonna fall off the cliff you don't know what's gonna happen with that you lost a bunch of you lost linger bomb so now you have an issue at one of your key spots on offensive line and now you you just didn't trade for Max Crosby who would have made all of that kind of worth it made all that wound easier to deal with I just I don't know what's happening with EDC and everyone's like oh Jesse Banner is there they're going to the Super Bowl they're gonna be dog what is happening what is I've never seen this before I've never seen a team get a star pass rusher promote like oh yeah we got said star pass rusher we're gonna we're you know him doing the video saying hey I'm going to the Ravens he did a goodbye video to the Raiders yeah and now they're like hey see we're physical I was gonna say so stuff is coming out now hold on um yeah because I thought yeah it had to be something with the physical so now there's a report they're saying Ravens next trade for Crosby due to medical concerns.

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So they announced they backed out of the agreement no further details were provided but yeah they're trying to say apparently they saw something in the physical that's like

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When they said Luca was, you know, Luca was that's what I say.

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Well, Luca was too big for Dallas.

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I'm sorry, make it work, make it work.

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It's Max Crosby.

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Make it work.

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It's like Luca was unhealthy for Dallas.

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That's why we had to trade him.

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Y'all, hey, hey, hey.

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Uh figure out something.

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I don't know.

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Like, I don't know.

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That's a lot of that's a big that's a lot of money, though.

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That's a big move.

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I mean, I know, but like, how bad does that have to be for you to not have yeah, like a top like again, a top, like what, three or four player at his position?

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How bad was the physical?

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That's what I want to know.

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How bad was it where they were just like, yeah, we gotta nix this trade, we can't do it.

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So it's either max is like the knee injury is a lot worse than what we think it is, or something, but like I just I don't know.

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Uh uh, I get it because again, two first round picks is huge, specifically in this draft, especially because the Ravens are picking 14.

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So I get it.

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And next year is another phenomenal draft class, so I understand why that's like a heavy cost, plus having to pay Crosby, but you need a pass rusher at the end of the day.

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So it's like it even still like all the best ones right now have already been like you know sought after, or they're already on teams.

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So, what are you guys gonna do for the rest of the offseason?

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So yeah, because Odante Oway, who like turns up with Jesse Minner is now with the commanders, so it's like that was the only other pass rusher who I think would have been, unless they somehow get Trey Hendrickson, that's that's their best bet.

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They had to get Trey Hendrickson, and there's no way Trey Hendrickson, who's a Bengals, would want to go to the Ravens.

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Yeah, and it's interesting.

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So the Ravens have a history of this, so they're saying in '97, Baltimore backed out of a deal with Cowboy safety Brock Marion minutes before he was the sign because the team discovered a potential problem in his left shoulder.

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2018, they voided its four-year 29 million agreement with Ryan Grant after he failed a physical over an ankle injury.

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In 2020, the Ravens deal with defensive lineman Michael Brockers fell through after an independent doctor expressed concern over his left ankle.

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So they've got they've got a history of seeing stuff that uh and I don't remember.

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I'm looking through here.

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I don't know of any of these guys where they called out issues of them going on to do anything big.

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So yeah, I don't know.

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I kind of yeah.

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I trust the Ravens, man.

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