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seventy six ers winning overtime Tyrese

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Maxi goes for forty six calves

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last night at Madison Square Garden.

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Well, we might as well start at Madison Square Garden.

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If you are a Knicks fan. The most frustrating

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part of last night's ending was

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not that did okay h

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fouling on the three, not fouling

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on the other three or missing free throw.

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Well, if you make your free throws, the

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other stuff won't matter. If you're

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going to foul on a three, then really

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foul on a three, and don't

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let him get the shout out. Then the other three

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foul before he takes the three.

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I'm watching and I go, no, no, no,

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no, no, there's no reason

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to be crowding MAXI when he's

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shooting the three. No, no reason. Three

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doesn't kill you. And then Maxie

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comes and he gets to half court. Embiid

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sets a moving screen. MAXI

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then pull up logo bang, I

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can't let him shoot the three. I

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foul him as soon as he gets

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even remotely close to half court.

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Before the playoffs, there had been

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only three games in the last twenty five

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years that had seen a team recover

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from a deficit of at least five

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points inside the final thirty

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seconds and win the game. We've

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had two in the same series

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in the last ten days.

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trading cards for the Dan Patrick Show. So

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for forty seven minutes and thirty seconds,

4:05

it seemed like the Knicks had done more than

4:07

enough to win the series and advance

4:10

to the Eastern Conference semifinals. Too

4:13

much, Tyrese Maxi in a good

4:15

way for Philly, too much Jalen Brunson

4:17

in a bad way for the Knicks in that

4:19

final two minutes or so. But Tyrese

4:22

Maxey it's his team now because

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Joe l ENBII. He was a detriment to

4:27

the seventy six ers, certainly in the fourth

4:29

quarter. But I have to give him credit though. He was

4:31

least out there and nearly

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had a quadruple double and that includes

4:36

turnovers. But he's

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not effective. They pulled him out. He's

4:41

trying at least, and

4:43

I think Nick Nurse did the right thing that

4:46

as great as he can be, he's battling

4:48

an awful lot to be out there and

4:50

Tyrese Maxey was like, I got this, I'll

4:53

take over here. But the back and forth between

4:55

Maxie and Brunson certainly a whole

4:57

lot to watch. And now you got Thursday

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night back in Philly nine

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o'clock, who you

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got? Can you just wash

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this away? If you're Philadelphia,

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do you say, hey, Okay, that game

5:11

is over, let's focus on this game

5:14

right now. And if you're the Knicks, you definitely

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go. I don't know, we've moved past

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that. We're not even talking about it. Here's

5:20

the Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeaux.

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Yeah, it's a.

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Tough way to lose because you know, you get up, you

5:26

know, six eight, and then

5:29

you know, we had a couple of turnovers

5:31

and we got to just you know, be better, play tougher

5:33

with the lead, use good judgment, fourth quarters,

5:36

different understand what you know, the difference,

5:39

so we can do better and we will.

5:41

I just don't know why Mitchell Robinson

5:43

was close to tyre SPAXI, you're

5:46

I mean, he wants you in the air, he wants to get

5:48

found a four point play or at least

5:50

he's going to be shooting three free throws. And

5:53

then the worst case scenario gets

5:55

you in the air and then he

5:57

bumps you, draws contact and you

5:59

make three. Either just

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be there and contested.

6:03

That's it.

6:03

You're six nine, six ' ten. It's okay.

6:06

It doesn't kill you. A four to

6:09

four point play now, all of a sudden, we got

6:11

a game. And then as he dribbling

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up and I thought, okay, they're going to

6:15

fail him. So you're down three,

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they're down three just fouling

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two free throws, you get the ball, best

6:24

case scenario for you. Okay, he

6:27

still made two free throws, we got the ball.

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We're still leading by one.

6:32

You can't let him have and I know

6:34

when he took the shot, I was like, well,

6:37

he's got like six seconds left. But

6:39

it was an open look for him

6:41

because if he got any closer than

6:44

maybe they were going to foul or he's going to get

6:46

a more contested three. But you're

6:48

going to take a thirty three foot jumper or

6:51

heave whatever it was. And

6:54

this was a play. Here's the seventy

6:56

six ers head coach Nick Nurse.

6:59

Well, you know we had to get

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up the floor quick

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and get a three ball up right.

7:06

I'm glad that we didn't mess

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around and try to keep working for something

7:10

or whatever. We had a little

7:13

little play called that has a counter to it,

7:15

and one of the options is him just pulling up.

7:17

Now, I know that was a deep one, but he raced

7:19

it up there and took his chance.

7:22

Yeah, it was a play, and Embiid sets

7:24

the pick at half court. He

7:26

knew that he was going that. Maxi

7:28

had made up his mind. You set the

7:30

pick, I'm shooting it. And the Knicks

7:33

were slow to respond to that with the

7:35

pick and Maxi pulled up and hit

7:37

it. And the way he was out of his mind in

7:39

the last fourth court, in the fourth quarter,

7:42

I mean, you can't let him have the

7:44

ball. That's

7:46

the only guy I worry about on the floor. That was it.

7:49

I didn't worry about Embiid, no one else.

7:52

And you can't let him have the ball. And if you

7:54

do, you must foul him. Make him

7:56

make two free throws. But man, the

7:58

pressure got to the Knicks. Josh

8:01

Art free throw. O, Man,

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it got tight. You short that's

8:06

nerves, Yes, sure, yes, when you short

8:08

it, that's nerves. And

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I was like, whoa, It

8:14

got real in the garden. But

8:17

give credit to the sixers. I

8:19

thought they were dead but then go back

8:21

to Game two where I thought that the Knicks

8:23

were dead and then they had the miraculous

8:26

comeback. But

8:28

last night, back and forth. You got

8:30

celebrities in the garden. Patrick Ewings

8:33

there, John Starks is there,

8:35

you had all the stars there, Ben Stiller's

8:38

there, and then all of a sudden,

8:41

Wait, what what happened? Wait,

8:44

we're going into overtime? No, no, we

8:46

got this, we got Wait were the

8:49

Knicks fans remember me? Yeah?

8:54

But man, oh man, oh man, you got

8:56

a lot of guys. I think four sixers played

8:58

over forty seven minutes here, and

9:01

what can you expect out of Joe Ellenbiid as

9:03

the series goes back to Philadelphia? Yes,

9:06

Mark, I like.

9:07

The Knicks and Game six they got another home game. I

9:09

think they'll get rid of

9:11

it.

9:12

Are they going to have another home game in Philadelphia?

9:14

Oh?

9:15

Easily?

9:15

Wait, you don't think the Sixers are Now the

9:18

fans are like, you know what, maybe we don't

9:20

sell those tickets to.

9:21

The Knicks, but if the Knicks fans are willing to pay

9:23

double, then I'm selling O's

9:25

And I'm gonna watch in the Bessie in the house and that's on

9:28

my living.

9:28

Room and then the Oh, by the

9:30

way, the other two games it went great

9:33

finish with the Cabs and the

9:35

Magic, great finish.

9:38

So now Cabs up three to two in the Magic

9:40

and the Bucks without their stars beating

9:42

the Pacers. Huh.

9:45

But here's the thing, and we've seen this

9:47

before. Star player goes down or

9:49

star players go down, the other guys

9:51

go, hey, I get to shoot. Bobby

9:53

Portis is like, yeah, hey, I used

9:56

to be a good scorer. You know, they

9:59

all used to be something. And then all of a sudden

10:01

you realize they're guys who will played better than you. And

10:03

now all of a sudden you're going, hey,

10:06

I might get fifteen twenty shots here. And

10:09

the Pacers are like, they don't have Dame, they don't

10:11

have Giannis, No need to worry.

10:13

Until you got to worry and give credit

10:15

to Milwaukee. I did not see

10:18

that when coming. All right,

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what other poll questions do we have their seaton?

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Well, if you were Lebron James, which would.

10:26

Be more important to you.

10:28

Playing on a winner or playing with your son?

10:30

All Right, I'm gonna save this for a little

10:32

bit later on, but Lebron did put out

10:35

a tweet last night that he's

10:37

heard the reports about his future, and

10:39

he said it last night. He'll say it again that

10:42

he doesn't know what he's going to do. He's just going to

10:44

spend time with his family and friends. When

10:46

I know after speaking with family, my counsel

10:49

as well my representation. I'll let

10:51

you guys know. The only thing

10:53

I thought of was WOJE put out

10:55

that Lebron says playing

10:58

with his son not as important, Okay,

11:03

And the only thing I thought with that is who

11:06

leaked that? Because

11:08

I would think Lebron pretty tight quarters

11:10

there. How many people know that

11:12

information? And

11:15

did Lebron want that information out? Is

11:18

That's what I thought. Hey, I

11:20

think you know, whatever I do or stay

11:22

with the Lakers or it's not dependent on playing

11:24

with my son. How did that

11:27

get out? Unless Lebron

11:29

wanted it out?

11:30

All right?

11:31

Phone calls, we'll get to those coming up. Any other

11:33

poll questions, We'll get to the Lebron topic

11:35

a little bit later on.

11:36

Yeah, Yeah, we got a few others. I think we're

11:39

going to jump right off with the Knicks though, and so

11:41

and everybody's hot on.

11:42

All right, by the way, Ryan Reynolds and Rob

11:44

mclahaney, the actor hot

11:46

Yes, welcome to Wrexham.

11:49

That's a new season for them, So we'll

11:51

talk to those two coming out a little bit later

11:53

on show. Yeah it is. I've

11:56

done a really good job with that and the fact that the

11:58

team is winning. You know, it

12:00

was a novelty and the locals wanted

12:02

to know if those guys really cared about their soccer

12:04

club. And then all of a sudden they do care,

12:07

and we'll ask them about

12:10

that that they didn't know anything,

12:12

they didn't know what they were doing, and all of a sudden,

12:14

you buy a soccer club. Well,

12:17

okay, you're buying something, but that's

12:19

that means everything to that community. They

12:21

want to know, do you really care about this soccer

12:24

club?

12:24

And it's crazy too because they're just about they're

12:26

like on the brink of going out of business,

12:29

and here come these dudes that are like, we're gonna pump all this money

12:31

into it, and they're still like, I don't know if we trust

12:33

you though.

12:34

NBA tonight, the Heat are getting

12:37

fourteen against the some I

12:39

don't remember. Maybe we could find

12:41

out when's the last time a team

12:44

was you know, double digit underdogs

12:47

in just about every game. It feels like because

12:49

I think it's been like ten and a half, ten and a half

12:52

now fourteen against the Celtics, who

12:54

are without Christops Porzingis. It

12:56

says for a couple of games the

12:59

MAVs they are giving

13:02

three to the Clippers tonight. In

13:04

case you're wondering over under for Luca

13:06

is thirty two and a half. I

13:08

don't know if I guess Kawhi's

13:11

not playing again. They should just let us

13:13

know when he's playing, because

13:15

then I'm like, oh, Kawhi's playing,

13:19

I just assume he's not playing. Man.

13:22

They're saddled with that contract. Didn't

13:25

they just extend him. Did he get one

13:27

of those five for two

13:30

hundred and fifty million? Oh?

13:34

I know, yeah, Paul, I.

13:36

Think he got three years,

13:38

one hundred and fifty million dollars. Oh so, and

13:40

every penny is guarant it's.

13:42

Still fifty million dollars a year.

13:44

Yeah. So he's under contract for the

13:47

next three seasons at fifty

13:49

million dollars and there's no way out.

13:52

Yeah, yeah, yes,

13:54

Marv.

13:55

They needed to start a kind to be there when

13:57

they open up their new arena in Englewood.

14:00

Hey, he's kind of here.

14:01

He'll be there for the game all Yeah, he's going to be there.

14:04

He'll be on the cover of the Media Guide, ribbon cutting. Yeah,

14:07

it's going to be in street clothes, smiling. Yeah.

14:10

Yeah, that k me. It ain't getting

14:12

better unless you get a new one. If

14:15

you get a new one, you're not playing basketball anymore.

14:19

All Right, we'll take a break. Tim

14:21

Bontemps, he covers the NBA for

14:23

the Mothership. He was there at the garden last night.

14:26

How does the how

14:28

do the New York Knicks recover from this? Going

14:31

back to Philly? What can we expect out of

14:33

Joe lmb And He covers

14:35

the NBA so we can talk to him about a couple other topics

14:38

here, including Lebron who says

14:40

I haven't made a decision yet on if

14:42

he's going to stay opt out, wants

14:45

his son to play? Is he going to go where his

14:47

son's drafted? So a lot of

14:49

that is kind of in a state of flux. Here, take

14:51

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15:39

Tyrese Maxi scored seven points

15:41

in the final twenty five seconds of regulation,

15:44

finished with forty six as the

15:46

seventy six ers surprise the New York

15:48

Knicks in overtime. Tim

15:50

Bontemps, ESPNNBA reporter

15:53

covering the series late night at

15:55

the Garden early morning on The Dan Patrick

15:57

Show. Tim, thanks for joining us. How

15:59

would you described the atmosphere pre

16:02

game or right before tipoff?

16:05

I mean, Dan, I would say from then up

16:08

until the time out twenty

16:10

eight point nine seconds ago, there was a NonStop

16:12

party at the garden. It was

16:14

the first time in twenty five years,

16:17

if they had won the game, that the Dicks had closed

16:20

out a team at home in the playoffs

16:22

since Game six of the conference finals

16:24

in nineteen ninety nine when the last went to the

16:26

finals. Everybody there felt

16:28

like it was going to happen last night. And

16:31

when deucemit Bride hit that jumper to go up six

16:34

with twenty eight point nine seconds ago, Nick

16:36

Nurse called timeout, and the entire time

16:38

out, everybody in the building was on their feet. The

16:41

press box was shaking, People are going

16:43

crazy. Seemed like the whole

16:45

thing was in the bag. And then when

16:48

the game ended and Tyres

16:51

had hit those shots and it went to overtime, the

16:53

only noise in the building was the PA system

16:56

through the entire three minute time out until

16:59

overtime started, because everybody wasn't even

17:01

doing They just all look like John Stewart

17:04

in that picture he tweeted out of

17:06

him with Tyre's Maxy going by

17:08

him, of everyone just standing there with their mouths open,

17:10

going how did we just see this happen again?

17:12

In reverse from what happened in

17:14

game two ten days earlier.

17:16

How do you explain this loss?

17:19

I don't know how I explained the series, Dan, Honestly,

17:23

the two teams are separated by two points.

17:25

Over five games, the Sixers have outscored the

17:27

Knicks by two. Every game has been

17:29

close, every game has had something

17:31

crazy happen in it. When

17:34

Tyre's hit the first shot, I actually

17:37

tweeted, is there a world where this could

17:39

happen again? Because we had literally

17:41

just seen the Knicks come back from

17:43

down five with twenty eight seconds to go. And

17:46

to put this into context for people, there's been there

17:48

had been three times in the last twenty five years

17:51

that a team had come back from down five and the final

17:53

thirty seconds and won a playoff game. And

17:55

then it's happened twice in the same building in the

17:57

same series in ten days. Sums

18:00

up how absurd the series has been. And

18:02

as a Neutron, is glad that it's still going

18:05

on because it's been incredibly fun

18:07

to cover, and I'm excited for Game six and Philly

18:09

tomorrow night.

18:10

But I'm looking at the Knicks and we

18:12

can all agree they're will coached. But I would

18:15

think you would say, you

18:17

know, can test the three. Don't

18:20

try to block the three, right, Like,

18:22

that's all, that's just common sense. There

18:24

can test, but don't don't, you know,

18:26

encroach on him, don't get close to him, don't let

18:28

him draw contact and then

18:32

foul him. You know, when he's coming

18:34

up and he can take a three, he makes

18:36

two, we get the ball. We're

18:38

still going to win this game. So, like

18:41

which coaching decision, I don't know if it

18:43

was a coaching decision. I'm assuming these

18:46

things are said in the timeout. Yeah,

18:48

of course.

18:49

I mean, look, if you're going to have a game and

18:51

like this, a lot of things have to go wrong.

18:54

So Mitchell Robinson should have just let

18:56

tyres Ma actually shoot a three. Basically, right,

18:58

you're up seven with twenty eight seconds go. Who cares

19:00

if you even makes a three. He's got they have to score

19:02

three times in theory to

19:05

come back and get in the game.

19:09

So Tyre, you know, he hit, they're up six, he

19:11

fouls them, he makes the foul shot. Then

19:13

they come down, they trap Josh Hart,

19:15

they foul him. Josh Hart's just got to make two free

19:17

throws. He splits the free throws, just

19:19

like last week Kyle Lowry split the free throws

19:21

to forty five seconds ago set up all the other craziness.

19:24

Then Timms was yelling for the

19:27

Knicks to foul. But I give

19:29

them some sympathy on that because

19:31

Tyrese is super fast, is coming flying up the

19:33

court and frankly he pulled up from forty feet

19:36

and hit an insane shot. But and

19:38

even then, the Knicks had the ball with

19:40

eight seconds left, chance to win the

19:42

game. And the underrated

19:45

thing and everything that went on is Janaln

19:47

Bruntsey gets isolated on Nick Batoomb and

19:49

Batum makes a fantastic play and blocks

19:51

his shot clean, doesn't foul him, doesn't

19:53

come close, and make

19:56

sure that the Knicks don't get the game winner. Baron sends

19:58

the game to overtime. And actually like the fact that

20:01

Tips did call time out there, because with all the

20:03

craziness that was going on, they had

20:05

a lot better chance of getting a clean look just letting Jalen

20:07

take the ball and go. So yeah, look,

20:09

the Nick's had a lot of things they would like to take

20:11

back in that stretch, but they even

20:13

came out in overtime and hit Jalen

20:16

brunsonhead five or six points in the first minute

20:18

and they were up five or six, it looked like they were going to recover

20:21

and win the game, and the Sixers just found a way to

20:23

fight back again and somehow

20:25

extend the series.

20:26

Joe ellenbi It's tough to

20:28

even say this with a guy who had a triple double,

20:30

but I give it was kind of a hollow triple

20:33

double, nearly a quadruple double

20:35

with turnovers there. It

20:38

felt like he was a detriment to this team

20:40

late in the game. But I have

20:43

to be respectful of what he's playing through

20:45

to even get to this point. So what

20:48

do you expect out of Joe Ellenbiid as

20:50

the series goes back to Philly.

20:52

I expect the bay Fell is going to be quite tired because

20:55

he's only got one day between these games. He was

20:57

very tired after the game last night. I mean, he played forty

20:59

eight and it's and look, he had a horrible stretch

21:01

in the fourth quarter where Nick Nurse again left

21:04

him in to start the fourth quarter. Think that's a mistake.

21:07

When Embiid gets tired, he starts to make

21:09

a lot of careless decisions with the ball. He was flinging

21:11

the ball over the place. To your point, almost

21:13

had I think he had nine turnovers in the game, But

21:17

look, the guy's playing through he's

21:19

coming back from this knee injury. He's

21:21

dealing with Bell's palsy, which people don't know means

21:23

that basically half your face is frozen. Not

21:26

a permanent thing, but it's obviously

21:29

not ideal for somebody trying to play basketball

21:31

that their eye doesn't close all the time. And

21:34

you know, he's also he had a migraine yesterday,

21:37

and he's just a huge guy

21:39

that's not used to playing forty eight

21:41

minutes in games. So look,

21:44

he thought he played terribly yesterday,

21:46

he was the first person to say that, but

21:48

he was able to summon it and make three

21:51

fantastic defensive plays in the final ninety

21:53

seconds of overtime that helped clinch

21:55

the game for Philly. And I think

21:57

the biggest thing after the game when

21:59

I talked to him was for years, Joel

22:02

has sort of jokingly lamented he

22:04

hasn't had a Jamal Murray next to him, right,

22:06

it's always been jokichen Embiid who's the

22:08

better player. And he's always said, look, I don't

22:10

have a guy that's going for fifty in playoff

22:12

games. And there's also been a lot

22:14

of debate about what his future is going to be over the years.

22:16

Where is he going to play? Is he going to be in Phillies. He's got to

22:19

go somewhere else. I would say after this series,

22:21

and especially after Game five, I think

22:23

all that stuff could be put to bed. And Joel

22:25

Embiid, who has loved play with Tyres MAXI has

22:27

been his biggest supporter for years now, is

22:30

very happy to have a young, precocious

22:32

superstar next to him who's

22:34

putting up forty six at the Garden in

22:36

Game five, reprising the role of Reggie

22:38

Miller, and you looking like a guy

22:41

that should be able to play with him for a

22:43

long time to come and be, frankly, a pretty perfect

22:45

partnership for the Sixers.

22:46

Tim Bontemps covers the NBA

22:49

ESPN NBA Reporter covering the

22:51

seventy six Ers and the Knicks. Can

22:54

either of these teams go to the NBA

22:56

Finals?

22:58

Yeah?

22:59

I think they can, Dan,

23:01

but that's more because I think there's

23:03

some chance that the Celtics could falter,

23:06

rather than I would say they're going to be

23:08

favored to get there. Whoever

23:10

wins this series should win the next round. I mean,

23:12

obviously the Bucks are if they're able to

23:14

come back and beat the Pacers after the Pacers somehow

23:16

let them get back in the series last night, We'll

23:19

see where their health status is at. But the Knicks or Sixers,

23:21

I think would be favored pretty clearly to

23:23

beat the Bucks or Pacers in the next round. Then

23:26

you're in the conference finals and you're

23:28

one your four wins away from the finals. And

23:30

as we saw in Miami the

23:32

other night, Christas Porzingis messes

23:34

up his calf, that's a tricky injury. He could

23:36

be out for a while and he's a

23:38

critical part of what Boston does Without him

23:40

on the court. They get back to the team

23:42

they've been the last few playoffs, which is very isolation

23:45

heavy, taking a lot of threes, not

23:48

a lot of other options on offense. And

23:50

while that certainly should be good

23:52

enough for Boston to win, it's not a guarantee,

23:54

as we saw last year with Miami's, we've seen in the past

23:57

with Celtics, and especially if

23:59

they play one of either a Philly team

24:01

that's gone through the fire a couple rounds and maybe

24:03

exercise and Demons, or this nixt

24:05

team that is just big and physical

24:08

and super tough mentally and plays really

24:10

hard. Both of them I think could give

24:12

Boston a lot of trouble inside and potentially

24:14

make that a very competitive series.

24:16

Before I let you go, everybody seems to have

24:18

an opinion on Lebron. Lebron says he

24:20

doesn't have an opinion yet, but somehow

24:22

that information got leaked,

24:24

which I'm thinking it got leaked by Lebron

24:26

that it doesn't matter playing with his son.

24:29

Your thoughts on Lebron's future

24:32

what makes the most sense?

24:35

I mean, I don't think

24:37

there's really much the debate whether it makes sense

24:39

or not. I think he's clearly going to be

24:42

with the Lakers. I'd be very surprised if he's

24:44

elsewhere. And look, the Lakers

24:46

have spent the past few years, you know,

24:48

not putting all that good of a team

24:50

around Lebron. They've let a lot of talent out the door.

24:53

They lost to cacp two years in a row. They could

24:55

have had Coatavious Cabo Pope's stay on their

24:57

team. They traded him in

24:59

the Russell Westbrook trade, which is one

25:01

of the worst trades in recent memory.

25:03

They could have kept Alix Caruso and did it You

25:07

know they've made a lot of personnel mistakes.

25:09

They could have got Mike Conley in the trade they got the ends of the Russell

25:11

Mike Conley would have been a huge difference maker

25:13

for the Lakers. So I think what

25:16

makes the most sense for Lebron is probably to stay

25:18

with the Lakers and for the Lakers to make some smart

25:20

personnel decisions this summer and upgrade

25:22

the roster around him, because if you have him and Anthony

25:24

Davis, that should be good enough

25:26

to be a contender in the West. And instead,

25:29

as we've seen over the last couple of years, the

25:31

Lakers are still a clear level below

25:33

Denver. And as you look at Minnesota in

25:35

Oklahoma City and these other younger teams in

25:37

the West, they're only going up and the

25:40

Lakers are either flat lining or going the other

25:42

way.

25:43

Good stuff, Save travels to Philly. Thank you,

25:45

Tim, Thanks Dan. That's

25:47

Tim bond Temps covering the NBA for

25:49

the Mothership and he'll be going to Philly

25:52

Thursday night, game five. Give

25:55

me an idea of what it's going to cost to get into

25:57

the seventy six ers next game in

25:59

Philly.

26:00

Okay, this is vividseats

26:02

dot Com. You you can. The get

26:04

in price is a one hundred and fifty eight dollars. That's

26:06

the best price. Those are nosebleed seats. But

26:08

right now there's I'm looking at least

26:11

a couple thousand tickets are available

26:13

for sale. Right now, over two thousand

26:15

fans are shopping for tickets. Those are likely

26:17

Knicks fans now Game seven

26:19

if it goes back to the Knicks at MSG the

26:22

get in price, the lowest get in price is four hundred

26:24

and fifty two dollars. How

26:26

much for court side seats? Game

26:29

six seventy six ers Nicks?

26:32

Well, are those for sale? Because it

26:34

feels like those are celebrities.

26:35

I've got Yeah, they

26:37

mostly are saved for celebrities, but there are some floor

26:40

seats in the baseline behind

26:42

the basket. Two baseline seats

26:45

cost one five

26:47

grand. Pretty close, it's

26:50

forty four hundred.

26:51

Okay two. I was

26:53

wondering about this as I'm looking at the celebrities

26:56

there the Knicks game. At what

26:58

point can you tell all a celebrity

27:00

they're not as big of a celebrity as

27:02

they once were. Therefore, somebody else

27:05

might be taking their seat where you don't

27:07

get front row because

27:09

somebody. That's somebody's job. When somebody's

27:12

now you don't have John

27:14

Stewart doesn't call, you know,

27:16

his assistant calls or his agent

27:19

manager calls. But

27:22

at what point can you say that in a

27:24

delicate way of somebody

27:26

court side or used to sit court

27:28

side. You know, we can't

27:31

have you know what, all the seats

27:34

are taken up. Hey, we have some

27:36

seats up in the loge area.

27:39

Yeah.

27:40

Yeah, it's like we have tickets for you

27:42

and then when you get there you find out where

27:44

they are.

27:46

They're like, oh, you know, I don't know if we have any

27:48

court side left because that's where you now.

27:50

They have a special green room for

27:52

the court side people. You get to go back

27:54

and have drinks and you know, it's a it's

27:57

a little fraternity back there if

28:00

you go, oh now I go back in the green excuse

28:03

me? Wait wait, wait, no, no, I'm

28:05

always in here.

28:06

M not tonight?

28:07

Yeah yeah, Paul right.

28:09

And you could get court side for the

28:11

Hornets game, but you can't get court side

28:14

versus the Celtics. Like it's like a sliding

28:16

scale of a tougher opponent, harder to get

28:18

court side. We had David Spade the comedian

28:20

on a couple of years ago, and you asked him about this, and

28:22

he said, it's like a litmus test

28:25

of where your career is, because if

28:27

you call and you don't get a callback, you

28:29

might be between series. Then you get

28:31

a new hit series and now they're calling you to

28:33

appear at Lakers games, or you breeze

28:36

right into front row seats.

28:37

Well, I remember when we were

28:39

going to get tickets to the knixt game, and

28:42

then I wasn't going to go, and then all of

28:44

a sudden we suddenly didn't have tickets to

28:46

the Knicks game. PAULI has

28:48

the email correspondence there.

28:50

Very nice gentlemen said he had five seats for

28:52

us too. It was a regular season good next

28:54

game. It was during the Carmelo Anthony era, okay,

28:57

and I said, oh great, great,

29:00

and he was going back and forth and the

29:02

last email was just want to assure

29:04

you that Dan is with you, guys, correct like

29:07

he's doing his best. He'll likely be there, and

29:09

then they went radio silent, He's

29:11

gonna be there in spirit.

29:13

Which it wasn't like we asked for five court sides

29:15

seats. It was just like any five seats in the

29:17

building. Doesn't matter.

29:19

It's not like I went from you were going to be in the lows, then

29:21

we were kicked up to the upper reserves.

29:23

There's no seats at all.

29:24

Yeah,

29:27

that's odd.

29:27

Oh so Dan, well Dan needs to pick

29:29

them up personally.

29:30

Yes, I know, and then I go, Okay, I'll give

29:32

you guys my driver's license. You

29:35

can pick up the tickets there, Yes,

29:38

Marvin.

29:39

For court side seats, So save you're Tracy

29:41

Morgan and Timothy Shallomey

29:44

who's on fire right now, says hey,

29:46

can I get a court side

29:48

seat? Do you go to Tracy Morgan

29:51

or do you just go to one of those other celebrities that

29:53

have him like he's a staple at

29:55

the garden. Yes, Do you go to somebody else

29:57

and say no, not Tracy, not Spike, not Ben's,

30:00

not Chris Rock.

30:01

You just got some of the sometimes

30:03

guys.

30:04

Well, Timothy Chaloma is going to get tickets.

30:08

He'll be courtside last minute. Even Yes,

30:11

he could walk in, you know and just

30:13

say hey, uh sorry, uh

30:15

got a seat for me? Yes, we do, Yes, we do. Uh

30:18

you get up, yes, Paul, that seems.

30:20

Like a fascinating job. The person who is the

30:22

last line of defense for Nicks

30:24

or Lakers tickets.

30:25

It sounds like it would be an interesting

30:27

job because you get to talk to

30:30

the person who talks to the celebrity.

30:31

You have a ton of power. Yeah, but the sliding

30:34

scale of uh, you know, it's

30:36

an hour before game time. All my I have to

30:38

save two tickets in case blank

30:41

blank calls.

30:42

I had asked Sandman. I said, hey, you

30:45

know, I'd love to go to a Laker game. And

30:47

then he said, I, Danny, you tell me.

30:49

And then I said all right, you pick one. And then Sandman

30:51

out of nowhere goes, uh, Danny,

30:54

Tomorrow night Lakers, and

30:56

I go, wait, you got to give me more of a heads up

30:58

here not in LA. He

31:01

goes, all right, I'll get somebody else as

31:03

sam Man was courtside, and I was like, all

31:05

right, that guy's in my seat there. Yeah.

31:07

I did love the idea that like, not in LA. And it's

31:09

like, so, yeah, get here,

31:11

So just get here, go to the game, go home.

31:12

Yeah. Well, it's like getting invited to

31:14

Tom Brady's roast. And then I said,

31:17

well, I'm not going to be in

31:19

LA. And

31:21

then I realized I'm just going to be in the audience

31:24

there which is fine, don't I didn't want

31:26

to roast Tom Brady, but I was trying

31:28

to find out if they wanted me to

31:30

roast, therefore they would want me

31:32

in New York and it was this Sunday

31:35

night. Then I would go, but

31:38

I don't want to be on the dais. I saw who's

31:40

going to be up there.

31:41

Now.

31:41

I got information two weeks ago

31:44

with a person who's involved in this, and

31:46

she reached out and I've known her a long time

31:48

from the days of the Spies, and

31:52

she just said, Hey, Tom's getting roasted.

31:54

It's going to be live. Do you want to go? And

31:56

I'm like, wow, that'd

31:59

be awesome, but I won't be in LA.

32:01

She goes, Okay, no worries, just wanted

32:03

to reach out, thought of you. And then

32:06

I realized who's going. You're going to have Gronk

32:08

there, and Edelman's going to be there. Belichick,

32:10

I believe, is going to be there, so the right

32:13

people are going to be roasting him. And

32:16

so I'll watch it like I'm curious

32:18

what Belichick says in a

32:20

roast about Tom Brady

32:23

because is he going to have his own material?

32:28

Like I don't know. And then

32:30

if somebody's going to have a joke and Beuncheck's

32:33

delivering it. It just seems

32:35

really odd. Edelman is going to crush Brady.

32:38

I already know that Edelman will. Of

32:41

all of those guys, Edelman's the one, he's

32:44

the sniper.

32:45

That's a fellow too, who knows where

32:47

the bodies are buried, so to speak.

32:48

Yes, but he will be great.

32:51

Gronk will be Gronk. It's just I

32:54

think Drew Bledsoe is going to be there

32:57

as well. So

32:59

I think you know that kind of the grouping there.

33:01

Yeah, poem.

33:01

What's awkward though at these roasts are maybe not

33:03

awkward but great is they

33:06

make fun of each other too as they Yes,

33:08

they go up there, they roast the roasters

33:10

before they get to the main target. Yes, that's

33:12

where Belichexi might have a hard time.

33:14

I just can't imagine Bill going.

33:17

And I remember the time that Tom

33:20

deflated the football and

33:23

the guy was named the deflator.

33:28

I mean, did you see that picture at the combine

33:30

too?

33:31

Look at that?

33:33

Who would draft that chubby loser?

33:35

Look at that? And you call that eye candy?

33:40

Yes, well, they give him fake laps like the Patriots

33:42

media would out.

33:43

Of a of

33:45

course, of course, yes,

33:47

yes, marm Does Nick Foles get an

33:49

invite? Oh no,

33:53

Eli Manning, he's in I heard is

33:57

if sources they have

34:00

to have Eli bring both those Super Bowl trophies

34:02

out. Just put them on the days

34:04

su Yeah, have

34:07

maybe a cape, you know, and

34:09

he walks out. He's got both those Super

34:11

Bowl trophies. Just put him right there on the day.

34:13

Is t shirt that says two and oh on it nothing

34:16

else.

34:17

Well, he had pants on too. Well, doesn't

34:20

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34:22

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34:48

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34:50

ninety seven, ninety four season on the

34:52

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34:55

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34:56

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34:58

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35:00

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35:33

Looking at some numbers here, So in each of the

35:35

last three games in this series, it's

35:37

featured at least one forty point score

35:40

EMBIID at fifty in Game three, Bruns

35:42

in forty seven in Game four, Maxian

35:46

Bruns and forty in Game five. The

35:48

last time there was a series that

35:50

featured three different players scoring forty

35:53

or more in consecutive games,

35:55

it wasn't that long ago. It

35:57

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36:00

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36:25

Good morning, Doug. What's on your mind?

36:28

Well, Dan, I have to tell you how you inspired

36:30

me. Yesterday afternoon here

36:32

in the office, I put on the Best of Billy Joel.

36:35

I streamed the best of Billy Joel, and maybe the third

36:38

or fourth song was Alentown, which I

36:40

haven't heard in thirty or forty years,

36:42

and I wanted to ask, and

36:44

forgive me, I'm going to answer ask an answer.

36:47

I know that's a pet peeve of you, but just so I can

36:49

hang up and listen, I wanted

36:51

to ask, what do you think is the best song with

36:53

a city or state in the

36:56

title. I'm going to nominate

36:58

walking in Memphis.

36:59

Oh, Mark Cohne, pretty

37:02

good, got my feet

37:04

ten feet off a bill? Well,

37:07

it's on short notice here. The best

37:10

city or state like Sweet Home,

37:12

Alabama, would be one that you'd

37:14

put in there. Yeah.

37:16

Yeah, you could keep it with Billy Joel and do New York

37:18

State of Mind. That's a great song, New

37:21

York. That's a good song.

37:24

Yeah, Paul Detroit Rock City by Kiss. I

37:26

know it's niche, but that that song is pretty awesome.

37:28

Yeah.

37:29

Viva Las Vegas, Elvis, of

37:32

course, that's a big one.

37:33

Yeah, I know we're

37:35

missing a ton of that

37:37

California love. Yeah,

37:39

it's good. It's good.

37:42

If you want to play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band.

37:44

That was a good country song. I think that's Alabama.

37:46

All my exes live in Texas.

37:47

Okay, sweet Home Alabama, huge

37:50

song.

37:50

Yeah, Mo Town Philly back again?

37:53

Mmm? Okay.

37:55

London Calling by the Class Okay, straight

37:58

out of Compton.

38:00

All right, now we're getting there.

38:01

Crazy mother gram from

38:03

the gang called.

38:04

People with Attitude.

38:05

Here's one for you, Dan that I know you like, which to Lineman

38:08

by Glenn Campbell. Oh that's one of your old schools.

38:10

Yeah it's good. How about OHI

38:13

oh, Crosby Steels, Nash and Young.

38:16

Huge Town Blues. That's a good one that.

38:18

Sounds Come on, does exists, DoD You're better

38:20

than that. It's called h

38:22

Town. I don't know about that Houston.

38:25

And Todd's like, yeah, hey, huge

38:28

town. I go it's it's not.

38:30

A huge I did it to the crowd. You're

38:32

like, this is cool.

38:33

Look we're there at the super Bowl. Hey,

38:36

huge Town. I go, shut up, it's

38:38

h any other.

38:41

We're going to get a flood of.

38:42

These Philadelphia freedom, very popular song Elton

38:45

John.

38:46

Yes, California Girls, California dreaming.

38:48

There's all kinds of California.

38:49

Yeah, yeah, yes, Paul one

38:51

of my personal favorites. Streets of Bakersfield,

38:54

Dwight yoakam okay great so yeah.

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Bruce Springsteen, Streets of Philadelphia.

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Street he recognizing

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usself? Yeah?

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Is that for the Philadelphia soundtrack?

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Yeah? Okay, yeah, all right? Uh,

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Luciano in Brooklyn, Luciana.

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Hey, good morning, coup. But they took the copy how are

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you today?

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Good? Good good?

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All right, and look at that handsome everything

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came taste care what I said? And

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of course to the good fellaw's Todd Seeking

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and the street muscle behind the damn Patrick

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Show, Pauli Pats aka Pauli

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the Paddle. What's going on?

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Baby? All

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right?

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Listen now, first of all, Todd, I'm very disappointed.

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No sleep to Brooklyn.

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Oh boys,

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dang.

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Yeah, I mean that's been that's been no energy

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all season long. I'm not gonna lie about all

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right, So all right, cap so listen,

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I got a doozy for you today. This

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weekend, we had it

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got very heated in the barbershop, so

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much so that we almost had to give

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this poor young man a terrific

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beating because he got so emotional that he was

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getting out of line about it. Right, So, you,

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being the arbiter of the black barbershop debates,

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I figured I'll call you so you can

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de escalate the situation expeditiously.

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All right, Here we go, Here we Goore you do that.

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Before you do that, I need to make it the Jerry

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trow and I need to have a

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private members only conversation with

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Marvin and all the brothers and sisters.

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Listening really quick? All right, and just

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in case you're one Ding James from Virginia, you're

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my plus work.

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You're running out of time, Lyciano.

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All right, listen up here is Cappo

40:49

and the best of ten? Who wins

40:52

on two and two? Steph Curry and Tim

40:54

Duncan versus John Stalking and

40:57

the Joker.

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That old question, all of that for

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that I don't even have time

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to answer it stocked in the joker.

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They just passed to each other.

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No you take it, no, no you take it? No, no

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no you you hour

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two on the way, Ryan Reynolds

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Hill join us and Rob McElhinney