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Welcome in to the newest edition of the Justin Time Sports Podcast.

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I am your host, Justin Jackson.

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And in today's episode, we'll be talking about the conclusion of the NBA finals.

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We'll be reacting to game five, kind of give an outlook on the NBA season.

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Talk about especially how the Mavericks are going to look to continue on.

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The Celtics as well, they look to next season.

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We will also be discussing some basic league news.

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Talk about what's going to happen probably in the next 48 to 72 hours going down in the

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NBA.

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easy we just came from the pavement I might be controversial but I like to nick my statements

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this is just a time sports come and get your weekly takes his opinion from the heart he

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can never show you face if you win it or you lose it he gonna tell it to you straight

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welcome into the

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show the NBA season is officially over the score went final about a minute ago the Boston

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Celtics are your 2024 2023 2024 NBA champions defeated the Dallas Mavericks in game 5 106

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to 88 with an epic bounce back after they got absolutely trounced in game 4 none of

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the starters played the fourth quarter in game 4 in Dallas it was bad but the Celtics

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bounced back they secure record number 18 NBA record they secure the first championship

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in the Jalen Brown Jason Tatum era they secure Joe Mazzullo's first title as a head coach

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Al Horford narrowly misses being the NBA record being the play with the most playoff games

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played without a ring the Boston Celtics kick off a lot of demons a lot of stuff in this

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group that had been in them for a while a lot of stuff that was gone they would have

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lost this maybe something bubble to the surface this is Danny ain't not in angels this is

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the first title that doesn't have Danny angels footprints on it since Bill Russell and he

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drafted Tatum and Brown so his footprints in it but he's not he's not getting a ring

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from this team at least ownership is nice this is Brad Stephenson's Brad Stevens creation

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whether it was working with the players and then he went upstairs and got Edoca and then

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he went up state then he got Joe Mazzullo after Edoca had his incident so this has got

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Brad Stevens fingerprints all on it this has drew Holliday his fingerprints are all over

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this championship before we dive too far into congratulations and all the other stuff and

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we'll keep you guys posted on who's finals MVP and etc when it is announced so you'll

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get my instant reaction to that I at the moment think is Jalen Brown he was the most consistent

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over the five games I would not be mad at drew Holliday but I think it's gonna end up

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being Jalen Brown for his work on Luca there's no stopping Luca there's only slowing Luca

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and I think Brown's gonna get it for his work on Luca so that has a 10.04 p.m. Central Standard

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Time 11.04 in the East Coast with the city of Boston I'm sure is going insane they're

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gonna have the parade down the river like the tradition does they have a parade down

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the river so they're gonna have to pray down the river again but again before I dive too

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far off into that I want to congratulate the Dallas Mavericks man they had the harder road

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there's no doubt about that I won't dare sit here and try to make excuses for Dallas they

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played dumb some moments Jason Kidd frustrated me a lot I was telling my wife actually right

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after halftime of this game that man like Jason Kidd's frustrating you know it was like

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I made a lot of jokes about Darvin Ham being a bad coach and that was mostly true and mostly

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just showing him the fun I'm gonna admit but Jason Kidd frustrates me I put him I put Jason

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Kidd on the mantle for game two I believe it was game two where they were Charlie were

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down 20 something and he charged 21 and he charged all the way back to make it down one

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and then there there are there are 20 to 2 run and then he calls a timeout when the Mavs

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had the ball and it looks like on these are semi fast break now I spoke about the last

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podcast it was a couple of snubs game three yeah it was in Dallas it was a couple of frazzled

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possessions back and forth Dallas the little off Boston looked a little off but both sides

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were off Dallas still had the ball down like either one or three I believe they're not

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again they also said one I thought it was three but regardless within one possession

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Dallas has the ball they're coming down your best player has it it's not like PJ Washington

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offense to him is taking off the court dribbling like it's not like you know one of these um

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felt like Derek Lively trying to take it to the court like no they've your best player

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had it your leader had it it's in it's in your building you have the momentum and you

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kill it with a timeout you get a bad shot Boston hits a great shot and the air comes

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out of the crowd so one possession goes to two it feels like it's three or four the air

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is out of the crowd and now you feel like you know especially with um especially with

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your best player as vocal I will say as Luke Adonchis is and as cerebral as he is you know

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you had to be thinking man we had him and coach called the timeout right um because

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I was saying it I'm like man you got him you got him like you got and then j kid calls

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the timeout kills momentum so in this game end of the first quarter Celtics are up I

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can't think of the exact score but they're up it's very it's a small lead shot gets hit

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so it goes from I think from six to nine or somewhere that nature and shot three gets

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hit now I'm watching the game doing the timeouts and be like timeout just as a guy who's going

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for Boston this series um I'm just doing timeout there's no timeout so I'm looking I go okay

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it's like 40 something seconds left in the first I'm okay you gotta stay tethered um

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you gotta stay tethered because what you didn't want was you didn't want a team like a Boston

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in their building a lot of pressures on them and a lot of um a lot of pressures on them

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and a lot of pressure can be lifted off of them if they get out early which you didn't

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what Boston had to avoid was like how they started in Dallas and even in one of the Boston

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games they look up and they were down 19 9 and Mazzou was calling timeout you couldn't

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have that because now the crowds quiet you know Kyrie trying to hit a couple shots like

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you you just didn't want that to happen right but instead it's like 48 seconds left um

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give or take and um j kid doesn't call a timeout Boston comes back stretches the lead the lead

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was nine it goes to 15 like he stretches out frustrated I'm okay whatever you get to the

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exact same scenario almost to a tee at the end of the first half this time it's like

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two minutes left again Boston makes a baby run um and I'm look okay again I'm doing

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the um I'm doing the timeout simple again I'm doing a timeout simple no timeout again

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the lead goes from I think Dallas had it at 12 down 12 Peyton Pritchard hits a hit so

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another half court buzzer beater and it makes 21 and it's okay like that was that was the

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game you you could have had an opportunity you lost four ish minutes of game time by

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about 15 points that's the ball game because now at that point you're fighting from down

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21 even if you say call the timeout and Boston still hits you okay well you tried to me j

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kid watched his team flounder tonight um I don't know if that was some sort of overcorrection

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from what happened in game three that he felt like okay I may have yanked the reins on I

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should let him play it but um that's a different situation I think when you're you have the

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momentum you let your guys play out a couple of bad possessions when you don't have it

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when you're losing it I think you stop them um and so to me that was an error by Jason

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kid um in these two games I think that you know I said we bag a lot on Darwin Ham situationally

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I thought Darwin Ham wasn't bad in terms of timeouts I thought he wasn't bad now he was

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slandered on Twitter oh Darwin 12 to run what you doing it showed like Arthur with his hand

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in his pocket it's like there was jokes like that on Twitter um but in general for the

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most part when I felt like a timeout should be called I'm no I mean you know I'm not a

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basketball NBA head coach but I felt like just from what I've watched the game a timeout

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should be called he called it let him play he kind of let him play for the most part

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like so that cool other stuff but it was like three noticeable incidents in this series

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uh killing your own run and then not killing any of the either of the touches runs tonight

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to me were three big blunders j kid had in this series but shout out Boston man they

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were the best team all season um they made two big moves before the season started that

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end up being deciding factors in the series and in their championship run they traded

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for drew holiday and they traded for Chris that's poor zingas um effectively for nothing

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in both trades uh said Brad Stevens has his fingerprints all over this he learned from

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Danny Ainge um make it work Brad Stevens is quickly becoming one of those guys or if he

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isn't one of those guys he should be now um he should be one of those guys that if he

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calls your phone hang up because he basically got drew holiday and Chris that's for zingas

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for nothing i can't remember either trade in terms of value what the other person um

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what the other team got or i can tell you what Dallas got for actually no grant Williams

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is what uh Dallas got for Chris that's for zingas he's not even on the Dallas Mavericks

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roster drew holiday was part of the Dame trade was part of the Dame trade officially and

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they just extended it and brought in Boston which at no point i question Milwaukee on

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that one because i'm not i'm not letting drew holiday come back east so if you're gonna

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if you're gonna go um if you're gonna redirect drew holiday he's not coming back east but

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that's either here nor there uh Danny Ainge has his fingerprints all over this title uh

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just gone actually official as well Jalen Brown is your 2024 uh finals MVP um like i

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can say i i thought so at 10 on 4 at 10 18 it was confirmed um so that was one situation

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where he's been the best player all series it came down to him and drew uh in my opinion

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i didn't see the voting but it came down to him and drew and i just felt that he did more

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um on both sides the ball especially defensively than drew holiday did um because drew didn't

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have a lot of the switches um but Jalen Brown took responsibility of guarding Luca and to

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me when you already have such an offensive situation taking their responsibility of guarding

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Luca was huge um and that's what Jalen Brown did so congratulations to him for winning

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finals MVP um but now let's look at both teams what's next of course for boston to pray for

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dallas it's a quiet flight home i'm not a lot of you for dallas is a quiet flight home

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actually what's weird is for boston this may be one of those teams with a party scene isn't

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that crazy like i'm sure the organization may have set up a party but you're like miami

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had like a little wayne and the live club um and then they was in vegas like yeah i

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spent the shirtless for like a week uh when when the calves won um you know you hear about

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these legendary parties i'm looking at boston i don't see the party um in terms of i look

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at jason tatum like he's probably going home with deuce um i think he's i think he's still

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elemy like they're about to have a private celebration jalen brown's a quiet no offense

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nerd i don't i don't see him going out clubbing um drew holiday is potentially flying home

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to his family or flying his family in maybe his family's already in town like you know

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i'm saying like al horford's like 70 poor zingas is hurt uh payton pritchard doesn't

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strike me as a party animal neither the sam hauser so he's talking about derek white feels

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like guys gonna go home this family like i don't see the big party uh that a lot of the

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teams i always talk about the legendary you know they fly um they fly to this one and

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they fly to this city and then they fly to this club and like i mean their head coaches

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are devout christians shout out him shout out joe mazzullia like i don't see this team

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being the big party type um but there's no bad there's not even a bad guy to carry the

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party like who's the bad guy on boston who's the guy that's like oh he's known for getting

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on partying like nobody like i don't see the big party happening with dallas with boston

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rather but uh like i said they're gonna have the parade they're gonna parade down the river

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celtics tradition um and then at that point what's next okay so let's let's start off

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with the challenges i started with tnf and then second the dallas mavericks so now everything's

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about luca donchich right getting luca donchich to sign a long-term extension jason kitt is

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resigned for a long term uh gm i can't think of his name nico harrison he signed on for

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a long term career ever has a multi-year deal he signed last offseason the last piece of

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the puzzle truly is luca donchich and it's not like the piece in the middle you remember

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um from our basketball heads when the calves was winning the title in 2016 they made a

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puzzle and it was 16 pieces you need 16 wins in the playoff to win a title it was 16 pieces

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and the final piece was pretty decent sized shape of ohio right that was you know that

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was the centerpiece it was right in the middle the top of the larry o'brien because i remember

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like it was yesterday um and there was you know the piece of ohio missing luca donchich

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it just picture the larry o'brien luca donchich is the base the ball and the net so if it's

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not one of those three things that's how much that's what's left for the rest of the mavericks

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like that's how important he is to the dallas mavericks franchise um he is the franchise

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if luca donchich decides tomorrow i'm looking for green and pastures dallas is screwed um

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and so that's the situation in dallas everything turns to being luca donchich like i said they

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did a lot of their offseason work early kairi was last summer um j kid was earning the early

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in the playoffs nico harrison resigned at the same time as he did um one of the big

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things they're gonna have to do is they're gonna have to lock up lively well lively is

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a rookie they're gonna have to lock up gaffer they're gonna have to lock up washington i'm

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not sure what their contractual situation is if they're extension eligible they're gonna

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come knock at the table the new owners have a lot of money that is one thing i will never

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be as the nba on they don't get broke new owners um there's rumors about the lakers not having the

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best um cash flow which is why um they lose out on coaches and stuff like that because they're

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talking about the lakers don't have the best cash for the kid with these new owners um because

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the lakers are a fairly wealthy franchise okay so i'm looking at it 2024 just ended so pj watch has

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two more years left okay so pj washington um is still on the contract who as i said derrick

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like with pj washington who's the other one um that i mentioned pj washington who's the other big daniel

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gafford um gonna look up his contract really quickly he signed a four-year four-year deal

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with the wizards but when was that in 2021 and that's sports key them looking for spot rack

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there we go um kind of get a lot behind the scenes here guys so he's on the contract two more years

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as well so all their bigs are on the contract that was huge you know carriere situation he's

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got two more years on his deal as well so i can say everything looks look at donchich think about

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everybody have name the way that was him think about everybody that was important in this series

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unless josh green's deal is up which i don't know his contractual situation unless his deal is up i

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like him if he goes to free agent he's gonna he's gonna get some money um no and dad has already

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paid him he has two he has three more years left on his deal because he signed a three-year four

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to a million dollar deal um with the math's uh his rookie extension so he's got three more years off

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so kudos to him because i was like man i was watching him play this series like somebody's

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gonna pay him but he he's a guy that like if i was in new orleans pelicans i would go get him

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like he he's a guy that can play san Antonio spurs looking for people around wimby they could

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have had derrick whitey said they hit no there but looking for people around wimby

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uh josh green is the kind of guy you'd want around wimby um so yeah so kudos to dallas so everything

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revolves around luca everything revolves around luca at this point um

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um because his contract extension decides the fate of the franchise um it's just that simple

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um it's not even it's not even a debate his contract well he can sign his contract extension

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so he's on the contract the next two years automatically he has a player option three

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years from now but they can get rid of the player option and he has two years left and sign him to

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the supermax extension um believe this off season and so because tatum's about to do the same thing

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tatum's about to negotiate and sign his as well um but everything's about getting luca to at minimum

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be committed enough to be a dallas maverick long term that's every that's all that has to do is

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off season they've done everything else really really well flip it to boston boston has some

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issues i think our horford's last basketball game was with whom we just watched i do i think our

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horford's done it wouldn't shock me if drew holliday says this has been fun now drew is playing at a

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much higher level than our horford is our horfords played 17 years a lot of people said the last two

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or three years he kept playing because he really wanted the title um now he has a championship

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who knows if our horford ever laces basketball shoes up again in a competitive nature um

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i would disagree but i mean i would i would say horfords done right so that takes horford out the

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mix porzengis and drew holidays contract extensions kick in next season brown's on a supermax tatum's

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gonna sign a supermax is off season or at first available opportunity he's gonna ink a supermax

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um and so that's your roster your roster is what you're looking at it's your pay it's them four

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plus your payton pritchards plus your sam housers plus your derrick whites like they're gonna have

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a really good team next year but you're gonna pull out horford out okay we don't know what porzengis

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has to get done on his body if anything but horfords coming out of the group and you can't

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replace that you can't go sign of it because once you over that second aprin in the collective

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bargaining agreement you can't participate in the buyout market i believe you can't you can't

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only sign minimum contracts you can't participate in the buyout market you can't get second round

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picks you gotta go play off playing dollar for dollar in trades like it's very very restrictive

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do i think boston has a shot to win it next year yes because again the only person i know you're

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losing it's horford am i and could horford come back next year maybe um but you played 17 years

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um he's been on i think he's been on three teams huh but definitely two teams dylan for a long time

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knock at the door boston for a long time knocking at the door um and he was on philly for like an

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hour or because he kept bothering him b till philly signed him for like an hour um and then he was

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back on boston and you get the title so i said i just don't see horford coming back next year

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you know when somebody wins executives and coaches start getting picked off

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whether that's sam cassel goes and be a lead assistant somewhere whether that's guys lower

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than brad stevens or maybe other guys on the bench we don't know from joe mazzolla start getting

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higher assistant or higher management positions it happens every time somebody wins a championship

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and then i'm looking at the east boston's probably gonna be in the finals again next year

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i'm just i'm just looking at the east unless paul george is the sixer which i'm pretty sure

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paul george is gonna be a philadelphia 76er then that changes everything then it's maxi paul george

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and mb that changes everything out east presto chango to buy his hair to paul george that changes

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a lot in these um but a little barring that um i don't really see because philly to me can beat

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him because of imbede there's nobody i'll never imbede um new york just doesn't have the raw talent

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indiana had him dead to rights so indiana could do it but it's a different level trying to beat a

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team that has one as opposed to beating a team that can win um so indiana had a dead to rice three times

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um trying to think what else i'd eat orlando's got some growing up to do

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miami's always there so i mean melwalki so i mean you know they're gonna have a battle next year

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um but if i had to pick right this second i'd pick boston to be back in the nba finals next year

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against who knows who out of the west but i picked them right back i picked them to be right back

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in the nba finals um next season just the way they're put together like i said barring

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a lot of poaching organizationally um i would definitely uh pick the celtics to be right back

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next season all right so we've talked about the two teams we talked about the ball and

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celtics we congratulated them um we talked about the mavericks how they look for the next season

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both teams the mavs were built for the future right boston was built to win now with a little

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bit of a runaway that's why they make sure they sign porzingis long term they make sure they sign

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johad a long term they're gonna give uh jason tatum um his supermax extension they said they're

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starting five returns horford was a bench guy when porzingis showed up and then due to porzingis

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injury porfer came back into the starting lineup now porzingis you know i'm saying healthy for next

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season they're starting five returns but they're gonna have two supermaxes there's a lot of money

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being paid in boston and porzingis is injury prone so porzingis gets hurt is your next guy

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xavier tillman like that's gonna have to be something boston is gonna have to consider this off

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season getting in a couple of vet men centers that can do a little damage just in case uh

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porzingis has some bodily issues which is prone to do and drew out he's older as well so guard

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depth is going to be important dallas is built for the future because talk about all three of their

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bigs have two two years left luca has two plus one left kairi has two left um you know so i'm

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thinking like those are the important guys they're three bigs and their two guards like that was the

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important people um they all have at least two years left on the contract so dallas has got a

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lot of runway left in this in this window of opportunity all right so real quickly though

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we're going to shift to the off season so rule change that happened i always talk about the cba

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the rule change that happened the last cba was that players can negotiate with their teams the

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second the season ends if they're already on that team well justin could they do that in house

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anyway technically no technically no technically the season would end in the regular season and

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so the contract would end if they made the playoffs great you kept playing if you didn't

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make the playoffs you were technically out of the contract because your obligation to the team was

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over so they couldn't technically negotiate with you until the moratorium period yeah legally

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no they couldn't do that common sensely yes of course i would negotiate you all season um

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whether you're going to extend or not like i'll be imagining or negotiating or setting up the um

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free agent deal i want to offer you anyway like just practically right but rule tampering is a

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messy business um and so the mba decided hey bright idea bergen idea got this guy's idea

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we're gonna do is we're gonna let you negotiate with your team as soon as season ends

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and you'll be allowed to sign a contract pretty early because brian winhorse um

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um brian winhorse talked about he expects multiple deals marcus smart got shipped out in the um

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drew out a trade to memphis yeah i remember memphis marcus marcus involved in it somehow he has to be

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sick right now grant williams got shipped out for prisingas marcus smart got shipped out for drew

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and they were both on the team in 2022 that lost in six to golden state and they both end up being

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the pieces that was traded in 2023 for them for both pieces were traded last off season for them

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to win this season so that that uh that is uh that's tough if your mark is smart and grant

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williams right um but anyway so brian one horse tweeted out right before the game if it were to

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end tonight he expected several deals to be official within the next 20 40 40 dollars at the game

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because once the season ends everybody's contract is free if you are a returning player

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to your team so let's say you are a celtic your tatum tatum could sign his supermax tomorrow

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morning instead of technically having to wait till july 1 that sort of thing if you're donovan

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mitchell in cleveland he could sign his deal tomorrow morning instead of um having to wait until

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july 1 that sort of thing so free agency technically now remember the lakers coined the term

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pre-agency when they signed when they got when they traded for guys right around the trade deadline

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with the intent of resigning them in the off season and they called it pre-agency now there's

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literally a pre-agency where teams are allowed to go in and negotiate and sign their own guys back

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before july 1 um so that is an interesting wrinkle um as far as big fish that could move

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the bulls hold a couple of cards of course they have the cruiser on the d'orosian card new

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orleans has brandon ingraham uh i don't see the trey young de jante and mary backcourt combo

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playing for the hawks next season so one of them have to go um i don't see calling anthony towns

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rudy gobert and naz read all being on the same team next season so one of them would have to move

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i've been saying it for weeks if not months now paul george is a sixer

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i don't read i don't see donovan mitchell resigning in cleveland i think he's moving

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um i don't know what the clippers are gonna do because if paul george dips does james hardin

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then try to assert his power for the max or the joins hardin say let me slide out myself like

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what are the clippers gonna do then move into that big all cash arena from um

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the bomber so i don't know he wants to pack it he wants to make it a show he wants to provide

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a product worth watching so they're gonna have to do something um what is denver gonna do

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denver is in the spot they're gonna have to figure out something um so it's it's a lot of move lakers

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are they gonna go third star are they gonna go you know three role players you know they're gonna

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have to a lot of movement i think is possible i think my biggest high chance of movers are

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brandon ingraham donovan mitchell and paul george would be the three names i'd almost

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lock into new locations i could lock in paul george to philly almost brandon ingraham and um

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oh man i just brain cramped but brandon ingraham is a guy i think is gonna move

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duchante and trey are gonna split up so there should be a lot of name movement we've had a

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couple of dry free agencies um but hope i believe this will be a good move uh based free agency so

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keep your eye on that if you're a fan of the nba if you're a fan of the drama keep your eye on that

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but that is all i have for you guys today i appreciate you guys joining me rock with me

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during these nba finals um definitely this is the first time we've done this in terms of instant

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reactions of finals games i enjoyed it uh definitely something i look forward to doing again next season

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um yeah definitely something i look forward to doing again next season um this is till we're

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gonna take our break you know guys we need to take a break um right after the finals to free agency

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so we'll take a break um you should see me on the justin timesports youtube page between now and

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then but the audio show uh will be on break from now to next season so i'm excited to see you guys

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on the show uh will be on break from now uh probably until right after july 1 which actually let me

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check to see what the calendar is for that july 1st on a monday although the moratorium period

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probably starts that saturday 29th um so you guys probably hear from me that second or third of july

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um probably that third of july you'll probably hear from me if not the fourth of july you'll hear

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me famously kevin durant signed the words on fourth of july um but that is something that you will

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definitely hear from me then so about two three week break of the audio show but again that is

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all i have for you guys today i hope you guys enjoyed the nba season again congratulations to

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the boss in celtics for raising banner number 18 in the td garden arena they did it in at home which

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is the first time that's i feel that's happened in a while i feel like there's been a lot of road

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victories at least a majority of them lately have been on the road but congratulations again to the

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seltzers congratulations to jaylen brown on winning his first finals abp this shows jesson jackson

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signing out

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Do you have?