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Joy Taylor is joining me BJ Armstrong will play with great MJ will be joining us

So good to be here on a fresh week is just flying by so I got a couple of thoughts here I got a bunch of stuff I want to get out before we get to BJ Armstrong Joy we're both wearing blue to that

I know I just noticed that really I don't know what team we're celebrating so I was singing about LeBron this morning and I grew up in the Pacific Northwest I can remember the first time I had Starbucks

I was in a Ford Explorer I was in Las Vegas and I'd heard about it it was in the 80s and Starbucks started 1971 in Seattle the first stores by Pike Place Market

And but it wasn't until the mid 80s were exploded and I you know Vegas is not exactly a coffee market it's 110 you know scorpions or say like let's simmer down the heat

So I remember pulling into a Starbucks I heard a lot about it for my friends and I went to a Starbucks and I ordered it and it was the best coffee there was nothing else to compete with like it was the best coffee like it was they it was just everywhere like McDonald's it was everywhere in every corner

But now because the quality of coffee making in America it is such a gigantic industry has improved and this is no shot at Starbucks I haven't been to a Starbucks in years

It's just not it it is more iconic than its coffee is good they're just better coffee I live in up the road there's a place called Alfred's significantly better coffee everybody in our family is like it's better coffee

Peats better coffee so shot but I watched LeBron last night LeBron's legacy and iconic stature is now better consistently that his game is like he disappears in games he doesn't have the leverage he doesn't get his height now

By the way the Frappuccino I get at Starbucks is still great like I don't drink it but people love it and LeBron has his moments but you do get to a point where like the stature is better than the reality like Peyton Manning at the end

Denver's defense won that Super Bowl it wasn't Peyton although he's all time great top five but but I do feel that you do get to a point when somebody's legacy is better than their actual work

I kinda feel that the second thing in the NBA playoffs here's who's getting a huge break and nobody's talking about this so you toss been good for years with quince night

They've always had one issue they're very good at guard and they've got a great defensive big they're not good in the wings they're not they can score they're not super athletic in the wing

LeBron was a nightmare co-ease a nightmare a great win Kevin Durant would be a nightmare LeBron's out and tonight co-e could be out

Huge huge break for Utah the teams they would face what's Phoenix Phoenix is about guard play and a big well what is Denver well yo-kitch you know they're a big they can defend the big you start looking around the NBA now

And even even Milwaukee's got like the great big and you drew hold it your guard play like now again Brooklyn I think would beat you talk that's not a great match up they they just could not handle Kevin Durant

But in the west Utah's been good now for years they do not match up with LeBron at the wing they don't have anybody that can stop it it doesn't matter they just got they can't do it and co-ean Paul George is a nightmare they're built to compete with Luca might conley don't I mean they can put bodies on him

I mean Lucas gonna get Lucas stuff but but Dallas I mean Dallas has subsise and Dallas has the great Luca but it's like they're in hard away but they'll match up fine with a Dallas better than Dallas than the Clippers

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