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Mar 8, 2021
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in that locker room anymore and so uh
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they decided here
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just ahead of an all-star game in
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atlanta
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yo that's the voice of power right there
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man power 40 under 40
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it lives for johnson media and back in
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uh before that she was the top 30 under
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30 auc magazine she's here with us today
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come on host reporter actress ryder
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sports anchor for espn and mom the one
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and only l duncan is here
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hello hey y'all
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[Applause]
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hey l how you doing
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i'm doing man i have um two kids now
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yeah and uh i am doing well if i get a
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shower before noon
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and so i'm just living that life at this
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point y'all just making it i live with a
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domestic terrorist who's two years old
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um so this is a nice driver i get to go
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downstairs and talk with y'all and this
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is great
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okay so the babies are upstairs and
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while you're downstairs right
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correct hiding yes well welcome back
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i know you came back to espn it must
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feel great you know uh to be back
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at work right how's that feel how was
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your first day
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it was good it was um it was time i
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think that you know
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a lot of mothers and fathers too but
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especially mothers sort of feel
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a lot of anxiety and hesitancy about
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coming back to work once they've had
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a baby but i knew it was time when my
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husband
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sort of called me out on my attire and i
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had ordered something
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online and i was like you know isn't
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this an adorable sort of activewear set
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and he was like babe that is pajamas
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and i was like no it's not but jay was
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like that is a matching pajama set
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so i have been buying pajamas and
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wearing them out in public and at that
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point i was like it's time to be a
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grown-up again put on real close and go
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back to work so it was good
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a lot of anxiety but i feel good after
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getting sort of the first one
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out of the way well it's an honor to
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have you on the show you guys follow her
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at elle duncan you can check her out at
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6 p.m
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um eastern edition of sportscenter on
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espn hb
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i know you want to talk sports whatever
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let's get to it i do want to talk sports
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with elle and i love the fact that the
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clip that we have actually
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speaks of the atlanta hawks and actually
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with the head coach changing
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that's going on right now so nate
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mcmillan is now
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you know subbing in his coach but
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atlanta has a game tonight
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um they're taking on the miami heat what
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you think is going to happen elle with
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this game tonight with everything that's
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going on
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you think the hawks will win i mean
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honestly with what's been happening to
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the hawks through the month of february
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probably not um yeah
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it's really it's really tough because
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lloyd pierce was
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he was fired and it it felt like it was
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not his fault and i know that sounds
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great right because you just played the
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clip and i said his record
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but the problem is when the hawks hired
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him y'all they had
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a young team filled with kids and he was
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a first-time coach
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and they felt like a young you know sort
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of fresh perspective would work well
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with kids well this offseason they just
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went and paid
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a whole bunch of veterans right like
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rajon rondo was not a kid and so
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his voice and sort of his ability to
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resonate with the team completely
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changed so now he's trying to coach a
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team
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that he was not built to coach um they
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hired nate mcmillan in the off season
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sort of
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knowing that lloyd pierce was on the hot
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seat uh so he
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you know they have a great respect nate
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actually checked with lloyd pierce to
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make sure it was okay that he took over
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his interim head coach
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mcmillan obviously has a great track
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record as a head coach
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with indiana um i don't we'll see i'm
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never very confident when it comes to
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atlanta teams and you all know why
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if you watch any atlanta sports um but i
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think it's
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i think it doesn't despite the fact that
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it didn't work out
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uh for him on the court i i think we'd
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be remiss to not mention the impact boy
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pierce had
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on this election on voter suppression on
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the city of atlanta because lloyd pierce
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was instrumental in securing state farm
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arena
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as a voting site and after they did that
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the rest of the sports world
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took notice and they started opening up
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their arenas and stadiums to voting and
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we were
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able to see sort of you know record
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amounts of people vote so i think that
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no matter what happens in terms of his
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career he can always rest assured
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that he made a huge impact in this
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country very very well said so don't
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forget the hawks tonight
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taking on the heat along with five other
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games on schedule serious channel 215
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will be covering these games live
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i want to go back to elf last night sway
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and i have an
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ongoing battle going on and let's be
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clear l
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sway is not faithful he has a main team
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because he's from the bay
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so the golden state glorious that's his
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main shorty that's his that's wifey
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then he has the side chick which are
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called the brooklyn nets because he's
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the season ticket holder now
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once he moved to new york to do the
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shows and mtv and everything like that
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so my team l san antonio spurs last
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night the brooklyn nets
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took on the san antonio spurs the game
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went to overtime
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and damn it l the brooklyn nets ended up
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winning
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124 113 and over time james harden
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on fire he dropped 30 and it's
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interesting that kyrie irving
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just made the the statement that people
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just have to start
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getting used to james harden and what
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he's going to be able to do it's crazy
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huh
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yeah hb i wish that i wish that i i
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i felt like i saw this coming because i
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saw this stat yesterday and thought it
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was crazy you might notice as a spurs
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fan
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the nets had not won in san antonio
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since 2002. it's so
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right 19 years since they had one down
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there
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um it's listen the fact of the matter is
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is that the spurs are are certainly in
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rebuild mode
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if you will and they took one of the
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best teams um
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in the nba you know right down to the to
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the wire
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um despite the fact that we're missing
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kevin durant james harden
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i think got seven triple doubles now
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with the net like he's
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he's if he can control his ability to
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turn the ball over
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and him and kyrie can continue to sort
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of have the
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the back and forth that they're having
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now where kyrie is being very
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deferential in terms of letting him
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um you know be the ball handler once
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they get kevin durant back it's
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so crazy to me sway too like when you
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think about it like
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basketball in new york is that you have
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the nets and you have the knicks
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like how improbable is it that the
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knicks are good
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in march
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[Laughter]
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you know hey l can i ask you a question
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um because uh
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i am from oakland i am a golden state
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warriors fan
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and you know i took offense to people uh
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feeling like the warriors had stacked
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the deck
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uh and created a super team because
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kevin durant went over there i argue
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often when mark jackson was was
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assembling this team
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people didn't know who clay was they
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didn't know who draymond green was they
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may have known steph curry
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but it wasn't a super team it was a
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great team that had perfect chemistry
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and then they went on to become who they
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became when kevin durant came okay
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may have been a super team but prior to
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that do you think it was a super team
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oh no no no no i mean i no it was it was
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the
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true purest definition of incredible
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drafting because to your point
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none of those guys were highly touted
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you know they were they were named
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somewhat you know steph curry made a
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little name for himself in the
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tournament
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up start davison sort of i think they
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made it to the sweet 16 that year
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but nobody really knew him as anything
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but del sun
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and draymond same like he had even more
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prominence because he was coming from a
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big school at michigan state but clay
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like
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unless you were sort of an inside
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college basketball fan you didn't really
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know these guys and they just
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they had the perfect storm of um really
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understanding
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complementary basketball and bringing
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all those guys in together you think
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about it like
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you got to give credit you know you go
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all the way back to okc who really
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essentially did the same thing
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that golden state did when they had at
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some point russell westbrook james
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harden and kevin durant on the same
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roster
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they drafted those guys you know
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obviously katie came over
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from seattle when they moved the team
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they just they ponted on it i think a
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little bit too quickly and golden state
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really saw it through and i you know
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missed me with this idea that like
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kevin durant is somehow weak because he
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decided to join golden state
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the man had accomplished everything he
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wanted to accomplish personally
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right and he wanted a championship and
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there's nothing
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people have been joining super team
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since the beginning of time
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yes the heat hadn't won a championship
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the year before
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uh or or two years before they won but
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lebron went down to miami and dwyane
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wade and chris bosh were no slouches and
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no one called him weak for that like so
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you know this idea that he should he
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should just
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you know waste away in okc and never try
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for a championship to appease us is
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ridiculous i'm tired of hearing it
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honestly
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thank you l duncan that's why you see
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we're aligned in our thoughts right here
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you know
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we're lying thank you elle i've been
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saying that for years but when you say
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it
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it means something it means something
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when elle says it there you go
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thank you because then she's not
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bringing in town business and all that
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kind of stuff sway
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spoke professionally yet passionately
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without mentioning town business so you
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got to love it
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i got to switch over really quickly in
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the latest episode of
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you know ho my beer when it comes to
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russell wilson yesterday we spoke
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l about russell possibly jumping in the
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saints uniform
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actually cam jordan today said he can
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envision russell in the saints uniform
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but today
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i'm literally been watching your station
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espn all morning
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and now this conversation is coming up
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possibly russell
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wilson in a cowboys uniform my goodness
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l what are you thinking what are your
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thoughts wow
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um well i think that for russell wilson
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it would be an upgrade because
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for some asinine reason the seahawks
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just refused to protect this man he
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all he's asking for is protection that's
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where
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the contentious sort of relationship has
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gotten to because they won't protect him
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he's been stacked almost 400 times in
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just nine years that's absolutely insane
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and so dallas understands the value of a
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very good offensive line in fact
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dallas's o-line
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have pretty much dominated that space
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for years even when they're bad um
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so i think it would work out really well
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for him i guess if you're if you're you
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know jerry jones you're sort of trying
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to weigh
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you know what russ is you know what he's
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capable of he's 32 years old
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versus what you have in back you don't
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quite know maybe what you have in back
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at least he doesn't
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seem to know what he has in that because
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he won't pay the man and he is coming
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off a significant injury
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um i mean i think it would be great as a
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pug plug and play
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uh for sure for dak you don't want to go
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to seattle because again they've got no
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o-line help but you just came off a
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catastrophic leg injury
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um but i could see it you know you team
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up with ezekiel elliot he's got like a
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legitimate
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you know running game um dallas defense
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sort of started to round and deform
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towards the end of last year but they've
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got a lot of work to do as well i still
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think seattle is better positioned
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to win despite the fact that the
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division is a lot harder uh but
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you know i could definitely see russ in
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a cowboys uniform i'm not sure that
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that that jerry would like sort of this
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new persona that russ is taking which is
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one of being very vocal about
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um you know right like being very open
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and vocal about
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social injustice and equality i'm not
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really sure that plays well
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uh for jerry um but i could definitely
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see it
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yeah i i was thinking the same thing out
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i'm so glad you brought that up that's
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crazy i was literally thinking the same
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thing as this cowboy talk started to
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happen
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this morning and finally l we wrap up
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our sports every single day with a
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moment in sports history and on this day
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sports history we're talking about march
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2nd going back to
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1962 none of us were born but yet we all
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know this story philadelphia center
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wilt chamberlain scored 100 points it's
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the most ever by nba player in a single
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game
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during warriors 169 147 win over who
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else the new york knicks
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in hershey pa absolutely insane the
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numbers were 36
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of 63 from the field and 28 of 32 from
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the free throw line it happened today
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1962 will chamberlain with those 100
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points
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i absolutely love too looking at the
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videos of like wilt playing because
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everyone's like running around in their
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hot pants and he looks like yeah
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short shorts in his daisy dukes like so
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distracted
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by the athletic feet but you're like but
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he's doing it at boomer shorts
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uh yeah will one of the greatest of all
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time man despite the fact that
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competition wasn't great he just
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dominated everybody
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dominated wow thank you you you dominate
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everybody too give it up for elle duncan
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i love you guys so much hey what you got
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coming up bill
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yeah um please check me out on uh the
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sportscenter at 6 p.m
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it's my new sort of gig so uh with kevin
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nagandi excited to do that and as always
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i contribute on hq and around the horn
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on espn thank you guys so much for
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having them big fans of the show
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and hp i can't wait to see the reboot of
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the real world like
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that was my growing up i loved that
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specific real world i was 11 years old
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when you guys
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i just uh thinking you are all so grown
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and mature
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and to find out you guys are basically
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all 19 and 20 years old is banana to me
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uh but i can't wait to see it
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thank you and i want to say to you
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before we sign off i watch you on every
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single one of the shows that you
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participate in on sportscenter and i
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admire you sway we were talking about
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women in hip-hop and women in reality
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television earlier sway tracy and i
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in the show and the fact that women are
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able to do what we love to do and
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maintain integrity
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physically verbally it's just social
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everything
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i love it and you have always
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represented that i'm so glad
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that i finally have opportunity to talk
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to you and i can't wait until we meet
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one day and give each other a big hug
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so thank you thank you so much sis i
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agree thank you so much
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hey l you a citizen okay yes girl in the
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morning baby
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yes
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have a beautiful day that's el duncan
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man y'all make sure y'all follow her at
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