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00:00Let's go to Dallas and Boston first, Joe.
00:05Of course, Game 1 of the NBA Finals is tomorrow night, finally, in Beantown.
00:12And Luka Doncic, of course, will do the zinger first here, Joe.
00:15The zinger, Kristaps Porzingis, is going to be back for Boston.
00:20He has not played since early in round number one.
00:23He has been injured.
00:24He's been resting.
00:25But he is ready to go now.
00:28And he's got some history, as we know, with Luka and the Mavericks.
00:32We've talked a lot about Kyrie's history with Boston.
00:36What about KP's history with Dallas?
00:39Here is the zinger.
00:40I think it's going to be great.
00:41Oh, great.
00:42I've played there for two and a half years, and I'm happy for everybody in Dallas.
00:47Yeah, you're so happy.
00:48A lot of, like, great relationships I have there.
00:51Yeah, yeah.
00:52You're showing them roses.
00:53And, yeah, I cannot say, like, I think they deserve to, you know, to have some success
00:59like they've had this season.
01:03And it's going to be fun going up against my old team, going back to Dallas, playing
01:07some games there.
01:09So I'm looking forward to it.
01:11Yeah, OK.
01:12I hope we smash him.
01:14Smash him.
01:15That's a P.J.
01:16Washington.
01:17Get a body on it.
01:18Smash him.
01:19I can't say he's such a nice guy.
01:24Well, if Dallas is so great, then stay there.
01:26Why'd you want to go to Boston?
01:28You played your way right out of Dallas into Boston.
01:31To be fair, to be fair, Joe, Dallas ran, you know, they ran him out.
01:37He didn't want to be there probably, but they, I mean, they sent him to Washington of all
01:41places.
01:42I mean, that is the last place you want to go in the NBA.
01:45It wasn't like he was lightening up in Dallas, though, Carver.
01:48I mean, he was the best player.
01:50He had the same problems he's had everywhere.
01:53He don't play enough.
01:54That was his problem in Dallas.
01:55He never played.
01:56Well, hire a different trainer.
01:58Whose problem is that?
02:00Now, the stories of, like, once again, have been kicked around this week about how him
02:05and Luka didn't get along, right?
02:07Him and Luka didn't get along.
02:09Luka said yesterday, that's completely not true.
02:11I don't know why anybody would think that.
02:12I got along with him just fine.
02:14I got no problems with K.P., me and K.P. are tight.
02:18Believe that for whatever you want, Joe.
02:20But here is Luka, not talking about that, but talking about his Maverick team gelling
02:27together here in the spring and getting themselves to an NBA Finals.
02:30I always say that 2022 run, you know, we got great chemistry.
02:35We stayed together.
02:36And I feel the same thing with this team.
02:38You know, we've been together for five months, four or five months, and we made the NBA Finals.
02:43You know, like I said, it's been really hard.
02:46It ain't over yet, Luka.
02:47Don't start, you know, fighting.
02:48Like I said, we deserve this.
02:49We deserve this.
02:50And our chemistry is great.
02:51And we stayed together.
02:52Why are you getting on him?
02:53He's going to carry us home, Joe.
02:54Why are you getting on Luka?
02:55Kyrie's going to carry us home.
02:56Kyrie's going to carry us home.
02:57All of a sudden, he looks like Bright Lights, Big City.
02:58Hell, we made it to the NBA Finals.
02:59That's only half the battle.
03:00You got to win it now, guy.
03:01J.S.
03:02Jason Tatum.
03:03How it's like.
03:04You know, he's still trying to win something.
03:05Two players have added to the roster.
03:06in their playoff career.
03:07Luka is 9-1 to score 30 or more in every game.
03:08Now, me and you have that, Joe, for Kyrie, for 25, to score in
03:09every game.
03:10So, you know, we're going to win.
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03:57If Dallas wins and it's because of Luka, you'll be okay too, Joe.
04:02I'm just saying.
04:03You'll be all right, as long as Dallas wins.
04:05I know that you're loaded up with a lot of Kyrie stuff, but our main objective is getting
04:09Dallas across the line, isn't it?
04:11Isn't that our main objective here in these NBA finals?
04:14That's a quarter of the work.
04:18I mean, we have to count—
04:20That's a no.
04:21That'd be a no.
04:22Joe's—
04:23Yeah.
04:24He wants the Kyrie stuff.
04:25That's it.
04:26He wants the Kyrie stuff.
04:28Kyrie for me at 24-1.
04:29Yes.
04:30I want Kyrie.
04:31I have Kyrie for game one, 40-plus tomorrow night.
04:36Yes.
04:3740-plus.
04:38I think it's 25-1.
04:41This has not changed as I didn't think that it would.
04:43Six and a half and 214 and a half.
04:46That is for tomorrow night.
04:47Finally, game number one.
04:49Series has not changed either, Joe, at this point.
04:54As they're still going, minus 225 and plus $1.80 for the Mavs.
05:00We said last night, and I was saying to Coach before, the X-Acta, Dallas in six, which is
05:06at, I believe, plus—correct series result—Dallas in six, plus 400 now.
05:13I got it at five last week.
05:14It's plus 400, Joe.
05:15That's not bad.
05:16I like Dallas in six.
05:17I think that's it.
05:19Again, I know that in the regular season, Jalen Brown and Tatum made against Luka and
05:25Kyrie, but now all the chips are in the middle of the table.
05:28I sort of like Jason Kidd in terms of Missoula.
05:32We don't bring that up, I don't think, enough.
05:34I know Missoula beat Indiana, but there were some games he was a little spot—okay.
05:39All right.
05:40You're going to shake your head no.
05:44No.
05:45Here's why.
05:46Here's why.
05:47It's a similar thing as what I—kind of what I brought up with you yesterday with—what
05:51was it?
05:52Skinner we were talking about?
05:53Yeah, Skinner after the first series, the second series.
05:56The problem was they weren't tested in the first three series.
06:00Yeah, but I thought that he would get severely outcoached by Carlisle in the Indiana series,
06:08because Carlisle, obviously, been around a very long time.
06:10He's won an NBA title.
06:11I thought that he would run circles around Missoula, and it was actually, Joe, precisely
06:16the opposite.
06:17I thought that Carlisle did a bad job, especially late in the game in that series, and Missoula—now,
06:22maybe he was just autopilot, Joe, and he didn't have to do much, and Carlisle made the mistakes.
06:25If you want to say that, that's fine, too.
06:28I don't think there's that big of a gap between—in the coaching aspect, between Jason Kidd and
06:36Joe Missoula, and I also don't think coaching means as much, Joe, in this league, in this
06:42championship series, as it does in maybe some others.
06:44I don't think it's that big of a deal.
06:47You got the blueprint already written out.
06:49I mean, there you go.
06:50Yeah, play is play, Joe.
06:51Play is play.
06:52You got the answers to the test.
06:53I mean, why even take it?
06:54More in the NBA than anywhere else.
06:56I think it matters more in the NFL.
06:58You bashed Missoula.
07:00You were bashing Missoula for how long?
07:03All right.
07:04So now that we—
07:09The way that he outcoached Carlisle in the last series was impressive to me.
07:12I thought that he outcoached.
07:14I thought those players for Indiana were gutless.
07:16How about that?
07:17They were gutless.
07:19That's another way that you could look at it.
07:21I know they were gutless as well.
07:23Once they lost that overtime game, they were deer in the headlights.
07:27Big mistakes.
07:28Right.
07:29Big mistakes, but the players caved after game one.
07:32You know that.
07:33I think the coach means the least in the NBA.
07:37The least.
07:38I think having star players in the NBA is more important than having a star coach, as
07:43far as I'm concerned.