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Zion ate himself out of the league, all right, and Wimby, just like most people that size, is not going to stay healthy throughout his career.
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So it's none of these guys.
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Gentlemen, it's not even close.
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The next face of the NBA is going to up the score.
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Touchdown.
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This is not a field goal.
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We, the winning team champions.
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When you walk through the halls, you can play spread with us, because you know we're going to win them all.
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Yeah, this is a major play.
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We do it big in a major way.
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Diego, be having the pick of the day.
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Here we come, don't care if you ready.
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All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back.
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You know who it is, I am Derek Thompson.
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And I'm Diego.
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Thompson.
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I'm C-Pain Christopher Davis.
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Yes, sir, and who are we Pick'em Pros?
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We are the Pick'em Pros coming back at you in the house with a special episode of who you Got Father-son dynamic duo and our main man, c-pain.
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How y'all doing on this lovely Friday evening.
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I'm doing good, I'm doing really good yeah just doing good Okay.
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How you doing C-Pain.
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Yeah, good, valentine's Day was good, birthday coming up in a couple weeks, so I'm excited.
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I'm excited, it's been good, it's been good.
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Birthday Still a baby.
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What's your turning man?
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23.
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Ironically, that's the number of a guy in Chicago.
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All right yeah.
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Okay.
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I don't know if I'll say I'm celebrating the Jordan year.
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The Jordan year.
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Yeah.
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I like that.
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I might just have to do it for the post one time.
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Okay, just for the one time.
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Just for the one time.
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All right, I like it.
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I like it, yes, yes, well, man, hey, we're going to have a fire show for you today.
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Tons to get into.
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So we got a lot to cover.
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A lot of NBA action.
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March Madness, luka does he fit in LA?
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He's been up and down, mainly down so far.
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So we're going to talk about that.
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The NBA All-Star Game that was last week, but we've got to give you our take on that, on how we would fix that.
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We've got the West Stars.
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Are they going to rise in the playoffs?
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Suns should they trade Booker?
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That was recently brought up.
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So we want to talk about that.
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With March Madness, we're going to go into the women.
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They're very exciting.
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A lot of parody.
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You've got USC.
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You know Juju.
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You got UConn.
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You got South Carolina.
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A lot of action going on there.
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We're going to talk about the men NFL, fantasy football, just the action packed show.
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So we got a ton to dive into.
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All right, y'all ready, I'm ready, all right.
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Well, thank you again everyone for checking us out.
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We also special thank you to Mashika and Trey.
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We know you watch every show.
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So much love to you.
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Thank you very much and let's get into it every show.
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So much love to you.
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Thank you very much, and let's get into it all right.
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Well, chris, man, um, let's start with you on this one with, uh, luca in la.
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Oh, yeah, does, does he?
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Does he for diego's rocking the throwback maverick jersey?
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Here is the throwback at this point, which is funny to say.
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But, uh, you know the lakers, they thought they had had gold right, but, like I said, when something seems too good to be true, oftentimes it is right.
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We said that, called that out.
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Yep, so, uh, but, man, cp, since this is your team, why don't you, uh, start us off, man all right not to be hyperbolic, but uh, you know, luka, he's still working himself back it.
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It's a little alarming that it hasn't been a real Luka Doncic game yet.
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The performance against the Hornets gave a lot to be desired.
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A lot to be desired, not going to discount that.
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But you know, my favorite player again having 40 points, austin Reeves having 32.
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Hey, we just we're like I said, I'm focused on the future.
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I just can't have Luka looking like this in like two to three years.
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I need the Luka Dodgers that we saw take the Mavericks to the finals.
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Now understand he's still working himself back.
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So you know, I'm just going to hold out optimism now.
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If we, like, really get towards the end of the season and he still looks like this, it's gonna.
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It's gonna get weird, it's not gonna be good.
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It's not gonna be good, okay, all right.
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What's your take, diego?
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Well, uh, I'm just saying this right now it's looking like luca is the lakers third best player right now.
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I'm just, I mean lebron and you got um.
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You got austin reeves, who dropped 32.
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He's been balling, so I mean I just don't think it's a great fit.
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You know, I just don't.
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I just don't.
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I mean he's averaging like 14.
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He shot five for 18 from the field against the Hornets and he didn't play the last game against the Blazers.
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So yeah, I just don't like the fit.
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You're getting small sample size.
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So we're going to see, we're going to see.
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I'm holding out hope.
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But uh well, like everybody's now saying, after everybody was poo poo and Nico Harrison.
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Now he's being called a genius at this point, even though Anthony Davis is still out for an extended period of time with that injury.
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I just want that to be mentioned.
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But we'll see, we'll see.
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Okay.
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All right, well, hey, man better hope, because we're hearing rumors.
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What are the rumors, diego?
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The rumors are that he's going to go to Denver to play with his buddy, jokic yeah.
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Okay, oh man, that would be wild.
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I hope not.
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Oh, so now, when he goes to the Nuggets, that's when it's cool for him to drop 30.
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When he's off the Lakers, all of a sudden oh wait, no, he's going to suck it.
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He's going to suck it.
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It's like it's terrible, but let him get with Jokic, and all of a sudden, oh, he turns up.
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I hope that doesn't happen, because I feel like that would be the Lakers fans' worst nightmare.
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Like is Luka going to never?
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Not great, Not great at all.
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Man.
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Well, I tell you what.
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Let's move on to the next topic here.
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Let's move on to LeBron and the All-Star game.
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Okay, so got a couple of topics here as far as the All-Star game goes, because I know a lot of folks have been waiting for our take on this, so we're going to talk about how we would fix the All-Star game.
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Of course we're going to go into that and the dunk contest, all that.
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But before we go into that, diego LeBron didn't play in the All-Star game.
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Announced it about an hour before.
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There's been a lot of talk about selfish or this or that.
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What's your take on LeBron not playing in the All-Star game and the announcement coming out about a week before?
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I didn't like that.
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I didn't like him announcing it that late in advance, because then, if he announced it earlier, then you would have got someone to be able to take his place.
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It would have just been better.
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But yeah, I just, and you saw him come back the day of the, the day of the, when they came back from the All-Star break and he dropped like 26, and then he dropped 40.
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And it's the Blazers.
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So yeah, I don't like it.
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Yeah, okay, what's your take?
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Oh no, I think just like, ah, you know, on one hand it's like, oh, baby's ankle was feeling really bad that game.
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But come on, man, you could have announced it earlier.
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Somebody else could have gotten a deserving spot.
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It was a weird move and I understand that.
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You know he's again the aging superstar, but again, if you can drop 40 last night, just you know, put up a couple shots, man.
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You know it's not like you gotta, you know, go out there and like dunk the ball and go really crazy.
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So because again, y'all aren't gonna put an effort anyway.
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So why?
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What would even be?
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What would even be the point, and that's like to the greater point of the all-star game.
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But I'm like if y'all already did not put an effort, yanko wasn't going to feel that bad compared to like right now.
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So that was.
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I do see that criticism of LeBron.
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I'm like you know what?
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That one's valid, that one is fully valid.
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I do agree, it was a weird move.
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Yeah, Well, you know, I think he had a hall pass for that one.
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I really do.
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I feel that the NBA knew.
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I think they didn't want to announce that until right before because they didn't want to diminish the game and whatnot, but I think they were all in cahoots for that.
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I don't have, and I think you guys probably agree with this.
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I don't have a problem with him missing the game because again 20-year vet and all that, okay fine.
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But the missing the game because again 20 year vet and all that, okay fine, but the problem universally was more with how it was.
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How it was.
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Yeah, yeah, but I think most people put that on lebron.
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I'm actually gonna take up for lebron.
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I don't think he waited until an hour before.
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I think that's just how they jointly decided to message that.
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I think they already knew.
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I I doubt he waited until an hour before to just go ahead and announce that, so I have no proof of that, but that's that's my gut feeling on that.
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And now we see he's just played back-to-back games and it's looking amazing.
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So that ankle or foot or whatever I think was, was okay.
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Yeah, he just didn't want to fight.
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Yes, exactly.
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Yeah, yeah, okay, let's get into the fixes.
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I already see brandon made a suggestion, um out of the corner of my eye through the comments, that I'd have the same thing.
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He said uh, east versus west, let's have home court advantage in the finals, or team usa versus team world.
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So, and that's what I've heard a lot of people say, diego, how would you fix the All-Star game?
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I mean I like the format how it was now.
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I mean I like putting the rising stars in there because they were going to play hard and then kind of force some of the older guys to play hard.
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But I think USA World would be the best, because that's more of like a pride thing, sort of what you see with the nhl.
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They had the countries go at it and they were like fighting during the all-star game.
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Yeah, I think I think that's that's the best, that's the best option okay, all right.
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How about you see bang?
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I would say usa world and then bringing back the elam ending like they had and the one the first year that they had, it actually worked to perfection and just like seeing the fact that, like you're playing for your charity, you're playing for like, let's say, they're given to a global charity or one that's specifically like catered to, like fans, like it would just be really cool being able to see that.
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I just again, I feel like it is an effort issue, but there's no pride in the all-star game and everybody and I don't want the all-star game to turn to what the pro bowl became, because you know, the pro boy used to be like, oh, this is exciting.
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And now people are more so caring about the all pros and all nba instead of just actually enjoying, like, this exhibition for fans to just see their favorite players for a little weekend.
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So you know, I think that, yeah, that'd be that's the biggest problem with the NBA.
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The All-Star game is just, it's lots of pageantry.
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It's a nostalgia issue too, because everybody wants to go back to how it was in 2016,.
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But that's not how it's going to be, unfortunately.
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We had different cats.
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You had Kobe.
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He wasn't going to let them just come out and mess around and it's funny that everyone claims that they, you know, love Kobe so much and the Mamba mentality and all that, but nobody has the Mamba mentality.
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When it's time to show it, then show it Right, right.
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So that that's very interesting to me.
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I love the OGs verse, the young heads.
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I really liked that.
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I think they have been having the rising stars.
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I get it because that would make of course the all-stars play harder because they don't want to lose to the rising stars.
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But it was nostalgic to me a little bit to see the OGs on one team and then have the young guns on another.
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So I felt that that was pretty neat.
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So a couple of things I would do.
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I would either go east-west but let the winner get home court.
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Do you want to say something?
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Yeah, my last thing was bring a 1v1 tournament to the All-Star Game.
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I'm sorry, because if you watch the clips of WNBA Unrivaled and the clips they are cooking and it looks wonderful.
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Yes, they have unrivaled and the clips they like they are cooking and it looks wonderful.
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Listen, I they have to bring.
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It is so exciting just seeing, like all these different players and I don't want it to be like the one issue with the wmba versus.
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They have guards going up against biggs.
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Honestly, I don't see kairi versus jerry jackson like let's have kairi versus steph, let's, let's, let's get make it interesting.
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I think that bringing a 1v1 tournament, regardless of how NBA players might feel of just like, oh, we might get cooked or it might be embarrassing and fans might be using it against them, it's for the All-Star game.
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This doesn't count.
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This isn't like a Finals MVP at this point.
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It's just your pride at this point.
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So maybe that'll make them show up Okay.
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So yes, a 1v1 tournament would be amazing.
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That would be off the charts.
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Bringing the NBA back would be amazing.
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But, diego, is there any chance and you know what that these modern-day players are going to play 1v1 at the All-Star game?
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Nope.
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That's not going to happen.
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That's not going to be happening If they won't do the dunk contest.
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Are they going to really do 1v1?
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There is no way.
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Way now, yeah, like nationally televised for everyone to see, because you know some of these players that are top players not every top player is the best 1v1 player right, they don't want to be exposed on national tv for everyone to see.
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That's summertime stuff they don't again.
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I would love to see that you make a great point as far as how.
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That would be amazing.
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That would be game changing, that would be game-changing.
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There would be nothing like it.
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But these players, no, there is no way.
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I would bet all that I have.
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Michael Jordan and Kobe.
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Yeah, they would do it Right.
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Exactly.
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But no, there's no way that would happen.
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But yeah, I think if you have the OGs versus the Young Guns that would happen.
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But, um, yeah, I think if you have the ogs versus the young guns that would be intriguing and I feel that they will play harder for that money doesn't matter.
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They have all the money in the world, so money's not paying them more than doing anything you know.
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And then you could do um, usa versus the world.
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But I, I kind of don't really want to see that as much.
