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Now coming to you live from the Pick'em Pro studio.
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Here are your Pick'em.
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Pros.
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Yeah, yeah, oh man, another episode here.
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So, diego, you are out.
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You're Warriors man.
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Sorry, man, you didn't make it.
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Christopher C Payne Davis, your Lakers lost about a year ago and so I'm the last man standing.
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You know, brianna, we didn't hear Brianna's pick.
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So I know she got OKC, but that was late, so that doesn't technically count.
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So I'm the champ, I'm the default champion man with my Celtics.
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We got a clip here of our guy, Diego, and then we're going to start the show.
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Pick them pros.
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Okay, we're on record, diego, who you got in the finals facing off and who's winning.
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I got the Golden State Warriors versus the Boston Celtics, just like 2022.
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And just like 2022, we're going to beat them Because we got both of their owners in the team.
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Steph owned them three years ago.
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Bm in the finals beat udoka, beat all, all the crew.
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Jimmy butler two years ago beat the boston celtics in seven to go to the nba finals.
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You pair both of those guys together.
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Oh boy, that's just you.
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You can't stop that.
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You just can't stop it.
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I don't see how you stop it.
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We're going to submit you to be drug tested.
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We just beat them two weeks ago.
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They're too small, they can't mess with us.
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They're too young, they don't have enough experience.
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We beat them and you're too old.
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We have all the experience and we have two amazing playoff players.
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Okay.
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So the Warriors, it's going to be Warriors.
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Celtics repeat 2022.
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Warriors win the championship is what you're saying.
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Okay, easy.
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Easy.
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He says oh boy, Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back.
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You know who it is.
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I am Derek the champion Thompson, and I'm Diego Thompson.
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I'm C-Pan Christopher Davis.
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And who are we, the Pick'em Pros?
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We are the Pick'em Pros coming back at you in the house with a special episode, episode 135 of who you Got.
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Oh man, beautiful day man, it's just the weather's great.
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You in the house with a special episode, episode 135 of who you got, oh man, beautiful day man, it's just the weather's great.
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Uh, we got uh joe running things here in the studio.
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Shout out to joe.
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Shout out to summer behind the scenes.
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Shout out to brandon behind the scenes.
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Everyone that makes pick and pros go, everybody watching the show.
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Thank you, so, so, so, so much.
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Diego, my man, you don't have aau today, so so happy to have you here.
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How you doing, man?
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man, I'm doing good.
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Y'all expect me act all sad and stuff.
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I mean, sure we lost that, that's not what we wanted.
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But I mean we didn't have curry and we all knew if we had curry we would have won the championship.
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So I mean I'm I mean all the stuff I said in there is not.
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I wasn't lying.
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We would have beat all those teams and we still own the Celtics.
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I was going to ask about that second-best playoff player that you had, jimmy Butler, and his shot attempts.
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You know him.
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Him was not really acting like him.
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He was a little shy.
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He was a little gun shy.
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Him, he's Robin.
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Okay, he said himself that he's Robin.
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He was a little shy, he was a little gun shy.
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Him, he's Robin.
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Okay, he said himself that he's Robin.
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He was without Batman.
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See, when Robin fights off Batman, he's always going to lose, just always going to lose, because they need Batman.
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You know, they didn't have Batman.
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I wish I'm a comic nerd up here, but you got to turn into Nightwing sometimes, man, you got to pull you got to heal it when.
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Batman go.
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You going to need to turn to Nightwing Red Hood somebody.
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You can't be Robin, off the top you got to do something.
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No Nightwing, just Robin.
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All right All right, man, man, yeah, man.
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So let's stay on this for a little bit, because we are an NFL playoff, we got games.
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This is such a beautiful time of year to have games every night, Isn't it?
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Chris?
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It is.
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It's just so great to have games every single night, especially those of us that pick teams that are still in it.
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It's great to have you only got a few more hours left.
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Yeah, clock ticking Pumpkin is about to Two days Two days.
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Yeah, yeah, yes, I'm the champion, no matter what happens, my team has gone the furthest, so I have yet another, another ring on my.
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Technically it's a tie, though, because we both like, because we both lost in the same round.
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You didn't advance farther than me.
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Have I lost you're good.
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Am I missing something?
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once you lose.
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You wouldn't have advanced farther than me.
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We both lost in the same round.
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If you advance, that mean you would have won, but you didn't.
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So this is the same.
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It's the same.
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If, for some reason, the Knicks get lucky tonight, I still would have gone further, okay, so yeah.
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I got it, so you lost the same amount.
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We lost the same amount of games.
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Okay, lost the same amount.
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Stop trying to hang on to my championship.
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This is my championship.
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It's mine, mine and only mine.
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If we had Curry, Curry would win his fifth championship and be in the GOAT conversation.
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He'd be right there with Jordan, I tried to In that clip.
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I said you're too old.
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I said you're too old, just like I told C-Pain.
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You know when something looks too good to be true.
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See all this wisdom.
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This is this father and uncle wisdom that I am imparting on you, young bucks man.
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You guys are going to be there.
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One day, man, you're going to have all this wisdom and you're going to be spewing it, but right now, you just learn it, just learn, learn, peep gang, Peep gang.
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All right.
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Appreciate you for that, but fly jersey on.
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That's football season.
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It's football season.
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Already.
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That's football season, yeah.
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Schedule release.
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Football season is long way away.
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The schedule's out.
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The only people playing football right now is Clayton High School.
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Those are the only people playing football right now.
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That's it, that's it, that's it.
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They're working on those run players, jet sweeps.
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That's what they're working on.
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We ain't passing All right, all right.
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So let's go, man.
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Let's get into this first topic here.
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Let's get into the injuries.
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Yes, the injuries, see that Injuries.
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Here's the cop out.
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Here it goes, here it comes uh, let's get into these injuries here.
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Okay, because there have been a lot of injuries.
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Okay, steph curry pulled his hammy, for those of you that don't know.
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Okay, uh, jason tatum okay, he had an injury toward his achilles, although boston stepped up and won and swung the ball, but that's neither here nor there.
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I don't know why I brought that up.
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Damian Lillard he getting toward his Achilles and it's just been a lot of injuries.
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Even before the Cavs dealt with a lot of injuries, diego, have the injuries tainted the NBA playoffs?
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I wouldn't.
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I mean the playoffs still been really entertaining, but as far as, like, who's advancing, this definitely affected it.
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Like I mean we all know Curry would have, you know, carried them to win that series or the championship, I mean that was affected.
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The Celtics would.
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I think the Celtics would have came back from 2-0 if they had Tatum and beat them Milwaukee if they had Dame.
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I think the Pacers would have been gone in the first round and the Cavs.
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They had three starters, two all-stars out and that cost them to lose to the Pacers.
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So yeah, they've definitely affected it, but the playoffs they've still been entertaining.
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There's still been a lot of good games going on, okay.
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All right, I never want to be a contrarian on this, but again, in NBA history, injuries have been a part of literally every single playoff race, every playoff journey.
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I mean shoot Draymond even came up after the series and said hey, listen, I won the finals with Kevin Love and Kyrie.
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I would think that we would still win, but because of those injuries it did swing it.
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One thing I'm sorry to cut you off, but, LeBron, he had the injury also, right he?
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got an ACL in Game 5.
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Game 5 was something.
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Game 5, yeah, so that was it man, my bad.
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We forgot about LeBron.
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Y'all just blew my mood.
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I was happy, I was in a good mood.
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We wasn't talking about the lakers, we were just gonna focus on the warriors, listen.
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But now you had to bring me back here anyway.
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But with that like injury and with everything that's gone on during these playoffs, it's still been entertaining.
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It still has been fun seeing up and coming teams.
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I did want to ask how do you think the calf series was shaped?
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Because Because I'm of the opinion of A you were up by eight in game two, even with Donovan Mitchell doing his full thing, having an all-time Donovan Mitchell game.
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How do you forget to do an inbounds pass four straight times?
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You feel me.
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How do you not get the rebound?
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And let Tyrese Halliburton get the rebound, you feel me, and let him get you for game?
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So that contributed to why they lost that series more than them being hurt.
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And again Darius Garland was not himself and that that was tough.
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But again, I don't trust Darius Garland in those big moments, I'm sorry.
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I trust Evan Mobley was showing me something.
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Jared Allen was showing me something.
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Deandre Hunter he ain't do much except get the guy ejected.
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So it's like did that really contribute or were the Cavs fake?
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What do you think?
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Man, I think it was injuries and I don't like how everybody is not giving the Cavs a pass for that.
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Everyone is saying that you know the Cavs lost that series.
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They're giving Indiana a whole lot of credit for that series.
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I personally feel that the Cavs are going to be back next year and I'm buying all the Cavs stock for next year because if the East is going to be in the state that it is right now and the Cavs come back whole same roster, I'm putting the Cavs in the NBA Finals easily because any tell me another team that loses three starters that's going to win the series.
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I don't know of anything and so it's baffling to me that they don't get a pass for having three starters hurt.
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But every other team that had injuries golden state loses one player, one hall of fame, all-time top 10.
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You, you know great player, but still they lose three starters and you know, all of a sudden they choked and this and that I think that's totally unfair.
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I'm buying Cavs stock for next season.
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If there is any place I can go and put something on it, I will put something on it right now.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Also the Cavs yeah, they definitely, definitely would have beat the Pacers they had.
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They were healthy.
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Easily, yeah, easily, yeah.
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Nba finals.
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I like that take for next year NBA finals Cavs yeah, they got.
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They got a lot to prove and Mitchell's one of the best playoff performers in the leagues.
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Yes, definitely happened.
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Mitchell man, I saw that fire in Mitchell's eye.
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He was looking, looking serious man.
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A shout out to him because he played his heart out Again was hunched over, looking like Luka.
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He was so tired at the end of those games.
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But no, he's going to be ready.
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He's going to be ready next year and guess where he and Luka are at on the couch Because again it was not enough.
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And listen, I'm not going to talk bad about Donovan Mitchell because he shows up every playoffs, but I'm just getting more and more concerned with the fact that he hasn't gotten past the second round, which again it's like, but again to me it's like it's the East, like I get it.
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When you were with Utah, you feel me, you were running into some dogs and I'm like, listen, it's the East, and you're like a one seat typically, like there's no way you're not getting past some of these guys.
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This is the first year he's been a one seat Like the like.
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Last year they ran to Boston.
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Even before that it was, it was the Knicks.
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I mean they could have got that, I mean last year you can.
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If you're going to get on him, I'd say that series against the Knicks.
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I think that's more of an indictment than this year or any other year, definitely.
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But yeah, I I believe in them, I believe in Mitchell, I believe in them and he's one of the few teams, he's one of the few players, I should say, that can carry his team to a second round appearance, his team to a second round appearance.
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Many of these, the freak, can't even carry his team to the second round anymore.
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So you know, and we all put freak in, you know top top five, but let's bring in Brianna, our athlete correspondent, because we've got to get her take on this.
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And she said Nixon five, okay.
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So okay, nickix, you might be okay with that, but definitely not nixon five no, not in five, but if they win tonight, they could win.
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It could be something you got, so, so it is your guy, okay.
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So which?
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Which bridges, which nikhil bridges, are going to show up tonight?
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All right, is it going to be the one that's all brash talking junk, hitting shots, talking about we here, we ain't scared, and all of that?
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Or is it going to be the one that showed up in the last game when the Knicks got blown out?
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Which one are we getting today?
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Bree, the first one.
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He's going to be there.
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He's going to be ready in his defense.
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He's going to be ready in his defense.
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He's going to get all the rebounds.
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He's going to be amazing.
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Going to be on one.
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All right, so that New York Knicks crowd.
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They're going to have the battery back in his back and he's going to be doing his thing tonight.
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Yep, they're all going to be good supporters and they're going to help him be the best he can tonight.
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Okay, all right, all right.
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What do you guys think?
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Yeah, I got the Knicks tonight.
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Listen, they got to win tonight.
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It can't go back to Boston because again we're on the precipice of history.
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Everybody's joking about what's going to happen if New York can potentially win the finals, because now it's looking like, I mean, I don't even know.
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We're talking about this Nuggets Thunder series.
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Who's going to come on top of that?
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But like I mean, if they play the Wolves, I don't think it's possible.
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I don't know.
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I'm very intrigued to see what the Knicks can do.