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Speaker 3: So no better guests to bring on than this guy
Speaker 3: right here, Raheem Palmer, betting analyst from The Ringer. NBA
Speaker 3: season is over, OKC claims the Crown. Do you take
Speaker 3: anything at all away from their championship because of the
Speaker 3: injury situation, the way that it went down in Game seven?
Speaker 3: Are you simply saying let's give them their flowers? They
Speaker 3: were as good as advertised all year long.
Speaker 4: I do think it's a little bit of both. And
Speaker 4: I think they were the best team all year long.
Speaker 4: You were absolutely dominant, and then ultimately if it wasn't
Speaker 4: for them, but been in Game one, this is over
Speaker 4: in Bob. But I mean, we're all gonna look. Can
Speaker 4: wonder what would have happened if Tyre's Caliburton didn't get hurt?
Speaker 4: Because I truly believe that would have been anyone's game.
Speaker 4: We know Game sevens are historically ugly. I mean, besides
Speaker 4: this one, you haven't seen a Game seven which wasn't
Speaker 4: decided by and by more than seven seven points, so
Speaker 4: this would have been a close game. So it's very unfortunate.
Speaker 4: Oklahoma City. They got it done. So they were They've
Speaker 4: been the best team all year long. It's well earned
Speaker 4: and well deserved.
Speaker 3: Let's move to the offseason, Boston shaking things up. Indy
Speaker 3: obviously has major injury concerns because Tyre's Halliburton is gonna
Speaker 3: miss next season. The East feels like it's right for
Speaker 3: the taking. Who do you like as your early early
Speaker 3: lean for a team that can run the conference or
Speaker 3: maybe even a team that can come out of nowhere.
Speaker 4: So I mean a couple of weeks ago they asked
Speaker 4: me this on East Coast bias, and I gave out
Speaker 4: the Orlando Magic at like thirty to one or something
Speaker 4: to one or forty to one. And it's before the
Speaker 4: Band trade. And then you know, obviously they trade the
Speaker 4: Ban to get some shooting in there. Obviously they're gonna
Speaker 4: have Stugs back next year, and they're down to twelve
Speaker 4: to one at this point in times, So you know,
Speaker 4: I don't want to give off the Magic right now.
Speaker 4: I think you got to be looking at a team
Speaker 4: like the Detroit Pistons. You know the other day when
Speaker 4: I checked the eyes out, they were sixty five to one.
Speaker 4: They're down fifty to one now, So you know, I
Speaker 4: think a lot of teams can con and owhere. And
Speaker 4: then obviously you have the Atlanta Hawks. I mean they
Speaker 4: traded for Christash Brazingis and now they get you know,
Speaker 4: one of the best players back in Johnson, and who
Speaker 4: knows what can happen with them. I mean right now
Speaker 4: they're what one hundred and ten to one. So the
Speaker 4: Atlanta Hawks should be a lot better. And I think
Speaker 4: this may be the last year for Trey Young. I
Speaker 4: think this is really an audition year for him. So
Speaker 4: I think they go for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I like the starting five of Trey Young, Dyson Daniels,
Speaker 3: Zachary resa Che who was a number one pick, Jalen
Speaker 3: Johnson is a stud and Kristaps Porzingis that can win
Speaker 3: games in the NBA.
Speaker 4: I like that, Yeah, without a doubts. So I think,
Speaker 4: you know, that hundred to one, you know, maybe that's
Speaker 4: one of two what you take a shout on, but
Speaker 4: I think, you know, ultimately Cleveland is the cream of
Speaker 4: the crop there. Running back, you know, follow up by
Speaker 4: New York. But I mean, I think, you know, after that,
Speaker 4: he's definitely got to be looking at Orlando, Detroit in Atlanta.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know how big of a prospect guy
Speaker 3: you are. I don't think that's necessarily your world. But
Speaker 3: everybody's got an opinion on Cooper Flag. He's going to
Speaker 3: be the number one pick tonight quite obviously. What impact
Speaker 3: do you expect him to make with Dallas out of
Speaker 3: the gate and what kind of player do you expect
Speaker 3: him to be.
Speaker 2: Is he somebody that's just going to be.
Speaker 3: Rock solid across the board or do you think he
Speaker 3: actually has more upside than that where he can be
Speaker 3: an MVP type player. We have a specific read on
Speaker 3: what you think he's going to do in the NBA.
Speaker 4: I think he's going to be rock solid across the board,
Speaker 4: But offensively, I don't know if he is there. Like
Speaker 4: I think right now, Dylan Harper might be better than him. Offensively,
Speaker 4: I think like Dylan Harper is a guy I'm looking
Speaker 4: at like, Wow, you know, he has the playmaking and
Speaker 4: scoring ability. I don't know if Cooper Flag necessarily has that,
Speaker 4: but I think he's rock solid. I think he's you know,
Speaker 4: incredible defensively. I mean, there's a reason they brought him
Speaker 4: on when he was seventeen, eighteen years old to play
Speaker 4: with the US Olympic team, and they said he was
Speaker 4: working guys. But I still don't know if he's there Offensively,
Speaker 4: He's not a guy I want to veto will be
Speaker 4: the Year? To be honest with you, I think he's
Speaker 4: going to be overpriced. I saw him like minus four
Speaker 4: hundreds of other day, and he's also going to be
Speaker 4: in a bad position with all the vets around him.
Speaker 4: So I want to look elsewhere for will be the Year?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I tend to agree with that. We're talking about
Speaker 3: Raheem Palmer betting analysts from the Ringer. Anthony Davis is
Speaker 3: going to mop up so much of that production in
Speaker 3: terms of the front court with Dallas.
Speaker 2: So I think that's a good way to look.
Speaker 3: Where do you stand on the most controversial pick in
Speaker 3: round one of the draft, Ace Bailey, who continues to
Speaker 3: turn down meetings, seemingly sticking up his nose at the process.
Speaker 3: Some could look at that and say, hey, it's smart.
Speaker 3: Try and orchestrate where you want to go, because this
Speaker 3: might be your only shot to be where you want
Speaker 3: to be. And then I think a lot of NBA
Speaker 3: vets are looking and saying you can't do that.
Speaker 2: I saw Paul George came out.
Speaker 3: And said, you're not even in the league yet, So
Speaker 3: acting this entitled is a really bad look.
Speaker 2: Where do you stand on the Ace Bailey issue?
Speaker 4: If you don't want to go to one specific place,
Speaker 4: I'm cool with that, But to go out there and
Speaker 4: not work out for anything, like how do you not
Speaker 4: work out for anything?
Speaker 2: Dead?
Speaker 4: I mean, like I don't know, that's a fit in
Speaker 4: me of entire and let's just say you just want
Speaker 4: to go to book, go work out for books at
Speaker 4: least like somebody see you. Like, so I think I
Speaker 4: just think he's being mismanaged properly. And then you know, apparently,
Speaker 4: you know, the team managing him was like Sharif Cooper's five.
Speaker 4: I mean, Sharif Cooper is not even an NBA player
Speaker 4: at this point in time. So you know, if it
Speaker 4: was Rich Paul, they wouldn't know how to handle this,
Speaker 4: Like you just gotta go to right people. So you know,
Speaker 4: c AA, Rich Flaul, somebody, I don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 4: This is this is absolutely actually good joke to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's probably gonna land him outside of the top
Speaker 3: five tonight. Is there a bet that you like tonight
Speaker 3: of you taking a stab at anything just for the
Speaker 3: fun of.
Speaker 4: It, Jeremiah fears. And it's unfortunately, because it's unfortunate because
Speaker 4: this just got bet down heavy. I liked him to
Speaker 4: go a top five pick, and you could have got
Speaker 4: that plus money, you know, that's all. I think that's
Speaker 4: minus one twenty five now. And I also like them
Speaker 4: under six and a half, which means, you know, he
Speaker 4: has to be taken before it. I like those, I
Speaker 4: mean those stood out to me. But you know, these
Speaker 4: draft markets, I mean, he gets beat up pretty quick,
Speaker 4: even like a guy like Contain Nipple, you know, into
Speaker 4: the top five, you could have got that, you know,
Speaker 4: like plus money or so, and you know, and how
Speaker 4: that's pretty much gone. So you know a lot of
Speaker 4: these two they just they just get bet bet up
Speaker 4: really quickly and all these numbers disappear.
Speaker 3: Because exactly, it's an information game and if you're on
Speaker 3: the inside, you can get a jump on this stuff.
Speaker 3: U CA Nipple looks like he's definitely gonna go to Charlotte,
Speaker 3: and I'm assuming Jeremiah, here's top five. If he goes
Speaker 3: top five, that's probably a Utah pick. Is uh, is
Speaker 3: there a team before I let you go? How much
Speaker 3: have you been betting the w n B A And
Speaker 3: and if so, is there a team right now that's
Speaker 3: just out there printing money that we need to get
Speaker 3: in on.
Speaker 4: Actually haven't been much w NBA, to be honest with you,
Speaker 4: I really haven't. I mean, obviously the New York Liberty
Speaker 4: they were printing money because they turned off the seatons.
Speaker 4: They didn't move until like last week, so you know,
Speaker 4: obviously with them. But this is probably the least I've
Speaker 4: done with w NBA more baseball.
Speaker 2: Is there a reason for that? Because you've been betting
Speaker 2: the w n B A for years?
Speaker 4: Be honest with you, I'm just tired. And then also I.
Speaker 2: Love then this is why I ask you these things.
Speaker 4: I mean, this year, more than any I've been, like
Speaker 4: really really really betting foreign basketball, like I mean, I've
Speaker 4: bet more foreign basketball, like I've been been foreign basketball
Speaker 4: for years. But I mean, you gots saw I don't
Speaker 4: know if you saw it, but I literally gave everybody
Speaker 4: in your league future and it hit like I mean,
Speaker 4: and you know what you with foreign basketball yeah, we
Speaker 4: have the best. You have the best European teams and
Speaker 4: in the euro League, but then they also play in
Speaker 4: our domestic league. And right now as we speed, you know,
Speaker 4: you have the domestic league championship, like you have the
Speaker 4: Spanish League championship, got the French League championship, which India yesterday,
Speaker 4: you have the Turkish League championship. So I've been following
Speaker 4: more leagues than I ever followed in my life, and
Speaker 4: I'm just I'm kind of spent. Like yesterday I had
Speaker 4: Paris basketball against as Monaco. You know, Thiago Switter, who
Speaker 4: actually was the coach for Paris Basketball, He's headed back
Speaker 4: to the plays that to be their assistant coach. So
Speaker 4: I've been filwing so many different leagues, like I've probably
Speaker 4: bet twelve thirteen different basketball leagues. The ship.
Speaker 3: I mean, Rahim's out here playing four D chess ladies
Speaker 3: and gentlemen five steps ahead. Rahiman Palmer vetting analysts from
Speaker 3: the Ringer at I am ross for Damis to follow
Speaker 3: him and his plays on social media.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for him. Yes you too. In Minnesota
Speaker 2: Links by the way, twelve and two best team in the.
Speaker 3: W NBA, and I've been watching a lot of Indiana
Speaker 3: fever basketball because I'm a casual WNBA fan like anybody
Speaker 3: else that likes the league.
Speaker 2: They're clean, seven and seven.
Speaker 3: It's not exactly the They're not exactly the ATM that
Speaker 3: you would think with how good Caitlin Clark has turned
Speaker 3: around to be. And how about those Chicago Sky I
Speaker 3: turned that game on for a minute last night. Boy
Speaker 3: was that a rough watch. They are four and ten,
Speaker 3: only to be outdone by the team they were playing
Speaker 3: last night, the Los Angeles Sparks.
Speaker 2: This is how you know.
Speaker 3: This is how you know what time of year it
Speaker 3: is that I'm watching two teams in the WNBA that
Speaker 3: are seven games under five hundred.
Speaker 2: But this is where we're at.
Speaker 3: Coming up next, I'm going to pitch some of my
Speaker 3: draft notes the way of Tyler Karen.
Speaker 2: We'll see how that goes. The home buying process is
Speaker 2: a bear to deal with.
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