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Plane stories, there's a bunch of
them. Huh. There's some directive

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out there to report more on things
that happen on planes. I don't know.

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I do know. Also, Alyssa
Milano's go fund me did it.

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It's goal. They're over eleven thousand
dollars to send her kid to in their

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whole baseball team at Cooperstown. She
got her golden Yeah, that was the

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whole point of it. I'm sure
she made a big donation as well.

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I'm sure these kids are really gonna
appreciate everything that Cooperstown has to offer.

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Yeah, learn about Jackie Robinson.
They don't be looking at their phone,

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Roberto Clemente and Josh Hamilton when they
walk by Ousie Smith's jersey. They won't

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be just looking at their phone playing
Candy Crush. Yeah, the kids love

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candy Crush. You. I play
some dumb games on my phone to waste

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time. Ain't gonna lie, but
that's not one of them. I don't

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play candy Crush. It's candy Crush
anymore. What dumb game do you play

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on your phone? Two and four
seven one? Hey, this is hell

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man. I love Angry Birds.
You'all like Angry Birds hot titled Danny What

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I am Myriel? No shame?
Tell us what dumb games you play?

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Please? I'm playing some match game
right now. Merge, some merge game.

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It's bad that it's read books man. Time. I've been playing this

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game called Tender. It is hard. Really Yeah, keep going right,

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Yeah, nothing ever happens. I
do know Mistink Goose Morning News every day,

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Yes, morning show. It is
at eight thirty. This morning,

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nine o'clock. Katie's got some food
stories for us from the Metroplex. A

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guy strutting around telling us what restaurants
are good and what ain't. Did you

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want to get a hamburger this weekend? Did you go to Herbie's? I

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ended up not going and it was
just just not where the day led me

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there, you know, but it's
it is on the a list of places.

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I'm fascinated by this Keith Lee fellow
who's in town. I'm actually I

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want to learn about it. Yeah, because I've heard the name pop up

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and I don't I know Ben's gonna
talk about I haven't heard the story,

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so I need your education. The
power of an influencer. Is it a

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good or bad thing? I think
it is a conversation. He's out here

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trying to do good good, but
it's it's interesting. He's put some places

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up, some polls of restaurants,
and we like talking about food and restaurants

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things like that. So we'll talk
a little bit about that at nine tomorrow

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at nine ten, Chris Catan will
join us from Saturday Night Live. I

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have a bit of a primer for
that interview to play for you a little

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bit later before we get to the
Luca thing. Breaking golf news, Mike

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Go Go. This is thirty seconds
on Golf Go World number sixteen. Terrell

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Hatton joining the Live tour, Gon
joining ROMs team John Rams Team John Rams

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Teams. Y'all want to guess what's
the payout for for Terrell Hatton? Terrell

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Hatton under sixteen, sixteen of the
world. He's a britt He's one of

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you, one of you. He
is one of you. You just got

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thirty five million, higher, fifty
higher, whoa sixty sixty million dollars.

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Damn to get Terrell Hatton, who's
good. He's a very good player.

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Again, sixteenth in the world is
saying something. So that's about I mean

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the other big name that had been
like if there was an idea that maybe

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Feenal had been offered and turned it
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there's all top twenty golfers here,
so hat and gone over to live and

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another one down PJ tour is boy, that is a I mean, that's

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a big way. It's big.
It's not no, it's not household the

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highest highest level, but dude,
yeah, that is a long time stud

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and he's one of those dudes who's
kind of fun to watch because he gets

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super pissed out there, the guy
most loan to yell f words and you

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can be able to pick it up
on TV. Yeah, so there is

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that Friday night it's MAVs and it's
hawks Kyrie out again and Lucas said,

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don't worry guys, I'm gonna go
ahead and handle this one. Hey Tim

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McMahon, are you watching? And
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Chamberlain with the number seventy three on
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It was sort of one of those, uh, maybe I'm missing Look,

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there's been national media that bitches a
little bit about Luca's dealings with the

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referees, but I mean this is
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he was not the national story maybe
or at least the NBA story of got

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a fan kicked out. I mean
that's the big thing. Yeah, and

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he went on you know, NB
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and sort of kind of walked it
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he's like, I'm gonna, you
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kind of kind of walked it back, Yes, But it's just interesting that

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he kind of was on near the
front pages of sports websites for doing something

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that maybe he regretted, and then
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walk out on the court again,
got confrontational a little bit in his postgame

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interview after that. After that Phoenix
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all it would take for Luca.
And I understand that English is not his

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first language, it's not even a
second. But if he would come to

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the table with some transparency or humanize
himself, because when he's interviewed a lot

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of times, he's kind of robotic
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speak, if he could just say, look, man, I am incredibly

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competitive. I want to win a
ring more than anything that I want in

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this world, other than maybe the
health of my new child. And sometimes,

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yeah, I probably do things that
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I do ride the refts, just
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it all based on the premise that
you want to win so bad that you

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have a hard time containing your emotions, but you're working on it. He

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would be left alone. I really
believe that if he would just admit I

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want to be a champion. I
want to bring a to Dallas, I

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want to be a world champion.
I want to be the best in the

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league. That's a lot of pressure
I put on myself. And yeah,

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sometimes I rag the refs too much. Yeah I yelled at a fan,

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I got him thrown out. And
probably not my most shining moment. But

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it's all because I want to win, and I'm trying to learn how to

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to use my emotions and channel them
in more positive ways than then these other

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ways. I'm a work in progress. Bear with me like that. If

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he said that, I'm telling you
this would not be a story. And

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you know what, he could do
it in Slovenian. Sure like he could

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do it with his stock Franco or
you know, or one of these Slovenian

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people who cover the maps and think
about it. It's because you're right.

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The language barrier I think hurts him
on that. But yeah, if he

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did a do it in Slovenian and
transcribe it, or if it was to

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read that, if it was important
enough to him, he would get together

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with someone who could echo those sentiments
and and help him be able to express

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that in English. I think he
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will not. He may not actually
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he might not. He might not. He's like, I'm I'm kicking ass

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every night. But I do kind
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I he would never call it a
teammates or anything. He's like, I'm

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kicking ass every night I'm one of
the best players in the league, and

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I've got like very like that's what
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I don't know, but I would
say I didn't think he was robotic on

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or last week, last Thursday night
or whatever night that was when he was

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going back at Tim McMahon. It
was Wednesday night. He's going back at

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Tim McMahon and saying, your first
one to writes something bat about me.

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That was a dude, just being
real and frustrated. So like, I

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think, I think we will find
like all these good things qualities about Luca

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that you're kind of looking for if
the Mavericks start winning and going a deep

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run again. Yep. And he's
hanging out in the pool with Porzingis when

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they were in the bubble, you
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times and things that we think about. We've seen for the last couple of

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years now, frustrated Luca, lots
of technicals with Luca and things like that.

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It's a little different, and I
think you're right. I think it's

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fueled by losing. We need to
win and we need to be consistent,

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and you know what, I think
I love Kyrie, but I'm not sure

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he's the best Robin anymore, because
here we are sitting here forty five games

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to a season, and he's missed
twenty of them. And that's where it's

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like, Uh, it's hard to
be consistent when your second best player doesn't

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play much. Now, I do
take offense to anyone who says, see,

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Kyrie's never available when he had stepped
on his ankle and literally legit had

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to miss two or three weeks,
Like that's a real injury. And now

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we're talking about a thumb injury right
now, that's a real injury. But

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still that is like the last two
Robins we tried to get for Luca are

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the highly unavailable por Zingis and now
the highly unavailable Kyrie Irving. And that's

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a bummer to me because I think
Kyrie's awesome. I was watching the King's

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game the other night and I was
just thinking, I don't know how this

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works. And NBA is impossible to
work trades in your head because there's so

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many financial implications. It's like,
could we trade Kyrie and Josh Green for

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Demantas Sabonas because we're just too guard
heavy. We need some big boy.

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He does some damage and Lively's nice, but if you had a creative dude

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like Sabonis but then sacrominary, you're
like, why wouldn't And they don't need

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you know, they have Daron Fox
and they don't need another guard, and

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then they'd be in our boat.
But just a very surface level like option,

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you know, to to turn Kyrie
into something gold. I love Kyrie,

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I really do. And if they
figure it out when he is healthy,

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how to you know, how to
how to utilize both them, maximize

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both them. They'll be fine,
but frustrating for sure when he's rarely on

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the floor. Yeah, well that
game too, they won one hundred and

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forty eight to one hundred and forty
three. They lose that game if Luca

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doesn't give them seventy three points.
Seventy three points by the way, same

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night, Devin Booker scores sixty two
for Phoenix Don't Watch You, and they

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lost. You know, as it's
coming off the Karl Anthony tan Well was

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it sixty two for him as well? Yeah, and they lost. You

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know, Luca that Mavericks ended up
winning and a big reason they won.

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God sham god, I think was
doing did a couple of interviews about this

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and he was like, the coolest
thing about it is when he had a

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chance to go for Kobe's eighty one. And this is also on the night

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the four year anniversary of Kobe passing
away too, there's another element to this

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thing. And he was like he
was making smart plays because Atlanta had basically

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they were selling out on him and
he's passing out of the double team and

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things like that. So I mean, he could have gone for eighty one.

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Maybe he hardly had the ball in
the second half, and he sawed

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the ball like a normal amount for
Luca, but like they were taking the

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ball out of his hand and other
people were having to score because he had

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forty one in the first half and
for him to get to seventy three,

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he took a lot of fouls and
things like that to get me. He

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still scored then thirty two in the
second half. Yeah, like we had

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scored his season average in the second
half. So if we're gonna ask that

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we did last week when Embiid and
Karl Anthony Towns both hung sixty and he

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was on seventy, right, that
was on yeah sixty plus that was on

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Kobe's eighty one anniversary, remember,
and at the time, we were like,

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is this something that players maybe talk
about and like it's because Kobe is

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a freaking god to them? Yea. Is that something that maybe in the

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day they're like, dude, today's
the day, it's Kobe eighty one day.

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One of us is gonna we're going
for it. Just have somebody go

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nuts because the scoring has been wild. So can we also say maybe on

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Kobe anniversary of his passing day,
that Luca may have done the same thing,

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maybe subconsciously. I don't. I
almost think consciously, you really think

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that I'm going out there tonight.
I almost wish that a quiet whisper,

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not among coaches, but in the
league would be on I think it's maybe

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more appropriate to do it on Kobe
eighty one day to all the big dog

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score, take your shot, just
go And it's something that you know,

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the coaches don't know about the coach
the players just kind of go, all

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right, that's all well and good, but you do still have to make

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it work, you know. And
Luca was feeling it from the start of

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the clock in the first quarter.
Yeah, you know, it was happening

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early for him. They said he
was terrible in pregame. Yeah, really,

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yeah, Daryl Armstrong said, he
was like, you're gonna have a

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good game because you sucked in pregame. And it is weird like that,

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you know, you get that the
first couple of buckets, and I bet

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those players know when their stroke is
perfect and they know it's gonna be a

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big night for him. But yeah, I'm sure that was in the back

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of his mind. Look at this, Wilt one hundred, Kobe eighty one,

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Wilt seventy eight, Wilt seventy three, Wilt seventy three, David Thompson

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seventy three, Luca seventy three,
So technically a top five scoring performance in

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NBA history, But our little Luca. Only two people have ever scored more

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than he scored on Friday end.
I mean, what in the world is

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it too? Kobe and Will?
Will and Kobe? Jeez, I mean,

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what are you thinking? Seventy seven? That makes every conversation at eighty

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one for a minute, That makes
every conversation that was had last week on

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this effing station and in this town
about him, And is it better?

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Like no, you make it work
with him, like no, no matter

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what, And you know what,
you tolerate some bitching. We're all gonna

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just need to tolerate some bitching because
like it's're awesome. There's people in all

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sports that are way worse than Luca
that we're willing to tolerate some bitchin and

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some weird behavior. Like when you're
on that level, he can do whatever

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he wants. He's fine. I'm
not saying that good. I'm gonna say

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Trey Young can't go score seventy three
because he could get hot one night and

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drain ten threes. And he's got
the same amount of technical fouls as Luca

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does, Like Jason Tatum's got a
bunch of technical fouls. The technicals are

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bad. We see it. We're
very close to it. But it ain't

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like he's collecting those and then not
performing every night. He's carrying this entire

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franchise up and down the court and
they're just trying to be competitive and he's

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worn down from playing forty minutes a
night, and they've got to get to

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a point. They make comments about
it every year the last three years.

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They've made comments in November. We've
got to watch his minutes. We got

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to keep him down, we got
to protect him. So he's got something

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left in the playoffs, and here
we are again. He's worn down and

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he's got to do it. And
I don't know if Kyrie's gonna play tonight.

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They need that. They need the
balance of Luca is able to put

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up thirty and Kyrie puts up twenty
five. They've got to get back to

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that because the only way this team's
gonna win a bunch of games. And

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you saw it on Saturday night.
No one felt that we're gonna win that

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game because it was a back to
back. But like tonight, the Magic

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are a decent team. They've got
a chance to make the playoffs. But

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they're around five hundred team, and
that's kind of what you are right now,

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kind of a bat around five hundred
team. You haven't been good since

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the first month of the season.
I'm really curious to see if they go

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wipe them out tonight. They got
at Minnesota on Wednesday. That's be tough.

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So we've had the last month or
so of last season, granted they

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weren't on the floor a ton together
due to injuries, which is kind of

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the same this year. And here
we are nearing the midway point. Has

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anybody definitively come out either somebody that
watches this team closely, like McMahon or

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skin has anybody on the team said
this that you've heard that that Luca and

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Kyrie have finally figured it out or
cracked the code or solved the mystery of

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how they're supposed to coexist on the
floor together. I don't feel like we're

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even there. I think they have, but I think we just don't see

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it. Well, you haven't seen
it because they don't play together, because

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they did, but it's hurt this
year, like they want some big games

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with them playing together this year.
That's why I think it works. But

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you're right. I mean we're talking
about a small a very small percentage of

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game they've played this year now of
them both playing so and then there's a

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part of it's like, as long
as it's working in the playoffs, Yeah,

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if don't you get it healthy in
April, you got to get there,

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which was the problem for him last
year, and that might be where

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we're at this year. Do you
think Luca, consciously or not, kind

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of demands being acknowledged as the head
of the table. I don't think he

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has to. I don't think he
has to. I think he might even

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be subconscious. I think Kyrie acknowledges
it too, you know, but Kyrie

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acknowledges that Luca is. Yeah,
and Kyrie has been the second best player

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and still one of the best players
on Earth on multiple teams in his career,

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and a lot of people felt that's
why he was always on the move.

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And he gets here, he seems
happy, he seems freaking awesome.

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Like who doesn't love if you only
knew Kyrie from the minute he landed here,

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He's like, perfect, I'm glad
you say that. Can I play

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this for you? Yeah? This
is after the game. Luca's going to

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the tunnel. You're gonna hear Kyrie
because they've got the camera, like the

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man social media camera, and Lucas
just tired from playing forty five minutes and

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scoring seventy three points, and Kyrie's
like, dude, you got to talk

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to the camera. He just scored
seventy three And then they go into the

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locker room and you hear the kind
of the screaming camera. Something he'll discord

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amazing. I'm just tired, and
I started dumping a lot of ottom and

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stuff. Okay, So Kyrie's like, dude, give the camera something you

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just scored seventy three and Lucas just
like Luca is not thinking about I want

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to do this thing for social media. He's what I think what a lot

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of fans probably want, head down
and play. He wants to go win

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games. Yeah, he's not dating
the biggest pop star in the world looking

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for attention. Please let me win, give me good players around me.

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I want all that. It's really
amazing that in all it took was one

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game, because look, he followed
up the next night with an absolute stinker

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by his standards offense offensively though his
percentages were horrible and he's freaking tired.

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Uh yeah, But all it took
was one game for us to be so

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critical on Friday. We're coming here
today and we're basically saying, let him

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bitch. Who cares? I didn't
love let him bitch to Tim on Thursday.

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But it's like the first time we've
ever really seen that out of Luca,

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and I think I was that was
also coming from a place about being

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like almost more concerned about his happiness
and well being and does he want to

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actually leave? Yeah, That's what
I'm concerned OBOI Yeah, because I can

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hit I'm used to the bitching a
little bit. Did Dirk bitched a lot

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back in the day A ton not
like this, not constantly, but it's

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not ever gotten close to the point
of should we consider options because we rebuild

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the team. No, figure it
out with this guy, and figure it

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out fast. Probably. I want
to play this one from bo One.

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Oh go ahead, No, no, go ahead. This is Bobon real

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quick. I thought it was funny. Tonight is a wonderful night. It's

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a great night. That was lacing
my brother Luka for an amazing night,

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me and him together to night seventy
six points core Goo Jon seventy six.

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Bobon had a big three spot for
Houston to get the greatest does that laughter?

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Is he truly Coveton? Maybe we
didn't Bobi back too, Yes,

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just have him at the end of
the bit happy Luca's wooby. Yes,

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give the man his Woobi. Yeah, bring Bobi and we need the Drogics

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boys in here. Yeah. Well
any Slovenian whatever makes him happen. Yeah,

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I just can't. I'm looking at
MAVs all time scoring best games.

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Luca seventy three. That was the
greatest ever. I mean the second is

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sixty and it's Luca thirteen points,
so that is blowing it out of the

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water. He's going to shatter all
of Dirk's records maybe and five years less

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playing time. Number one seventy three, Number two, Luca sixty points.

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Number three Luca fifty three points.
That's tied with Dirk who had fifty three,

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and then Luca fifty one, Luca
fifty one, Dirk fifty one,

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Luca fifty, Luca fifty Do the
other guys? How about the only two

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other players to score fifty as a
maver Michael Finley No, Jamal Mashburn Yes,

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Jim Jackson BAM. Jim Jackson and
Jamal both had fifty. But other

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than those two, your name was
either Dirk or Luca if you scored fifty

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plus, they were two out of
the three js. Mikey Yes, good

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