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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. The man who ate way too much Italian food and he is hurting this morning and that man is Brady Quinn. That's true. What's also true is I went down just to spray a little WD 40. You know, I kind of put some on my wife looks. I mean she goes. One God's name are you doing and why do you smell like WD 40? And I just looked at our said. Do you like it?

What do you think she's like she just shakes her head and walked out of the room? Okay. So I think it was Ned Nebraska will just call Ned. Yeah. I know he said the girls in Nebraska like it. My wife does not so unfortunately I'll just have to keep WD 40 tall the work around the house or whatever else is going on because clearly my wife does not appreciate it. Well, I was going to say I mean, you know, I was expecting her to her to like the scent and nine months from now we'd be celebrating baby number 40.

Yeah, I'm going to take this segment off. I'll be right back. Yeah, they're very good. WD 40. Did it? Listen, I've told you. In that instance, right? It's it's a it's a there it is. Round of applause, everybody. You're just scared to even touch that.

Yeah, just a a class act through and through here on FSR. Let me just I just think that this should be pointed out. There's a large percentage of the sports media world that was picking the Brooklyn nets to either at least get to the finals or win the NBA championship. Is that fair? Fair to say. Oh, that's dead on.

So what what if you just had to guess what percentage of sports media pundits pick the Brooklyn nets to win the NBA championship like just a percentage ball. I would say half because if we're talking about at the beginning of the playoffs. Yeah, you most likely at some teams who want to go to the Lakers.

I'm sure there's some people who are working on the show right now who probably picked the Lakers given that they were the defending champs from the the bubble last year, which by the way, if you were curious as to if the the bubble at any impact on this year's playoffs.

Four of the teams if I'm not mistaken, it was the final four teams, but at least four of those teams, final four. Yeah, they're all gone. They're all out. So I would I would think there was the net says one heavy favorite.

The Lakers might have been the other and then you know, varied after that, but probably not many people picking anyone outside of those two.

And so that leads me to point out that if this continues to go the way that it's gone the past couple of games. And obviously James Hardens dealing with this hamstring injury, which he dealt with during the regular season.

And then it popped up again in the post season and then Kyrie Irving suffered a nasty looking ankle injury in the game yesterday.

They've lost too straight to Milwaukee. Everybody thought the bucks were dead on arrival. And so it appears that this is going to be Kevin Durant trying to pull the entire team on his back.

Not saying he can't do it, but it does create a bit of a problem. And I think you're going to as we preview into the future, maybe be hearing from a lot of people in the sports media world who are going to say, well, yeah, I mean, I picked the nets, but you know, the injuries or what did us in.

Listen, man, this is part of the game. All right, nobody takes away. Coise championship in Toronto, because the Warriors dealt with all those injuries like this. Like part of the deal when you when you make a long run like this is who's standing at the end of this whole thing and health is part of it.

And this was always my one concern about Brooklyn. This is the only thing that concerned me. We've seen Kevin Durant deal with injuries. We've seen Kyrie Irving deal with injuries. People forget Cleveland was up to one in their first match up against the Warriors in the finals. You know this is a cab fan.

Kyrie Irving suffered the injury. I think he like shattered his kneecap. It was a nasty looking injury. And they fell apart. I think Kevin love at a shoulder issue.

And LeBron was trying to carry the weight of the entire team. And they ended up losing three straight games and they lost those finals.

This has been a storyline throughout Kyrie Irving's entire career, which is why anytime you want to get in bed with Kyrie Irving when it comes to a contract standpoint, there's a couple of things you got to get a keep an eye on.

A, he's a weirdo. All right. Let's just call what it is guy guys a little bit, you know, he's a beer short of a six pack. Some flat earther. I believe there's flat or this used to just just just weird. There's weird things going on. He just, you know, he like I told me this all the time Kyrie Irving's type of guy who reads a book in the middle of the party.

It's like, what are you doing? Like, what? Why try so hard? All right. Like go do a beer, Bong. Have a shot. Like to act normal, but he a little bit of weird.

That's going to be one of the top 10 things that's weird to admit to other people, right? Like I still think the earth is flat. Like if you're a prominent in society and you say that publicly, that's got to be up there. I mean, there's some other things that I think you could you could say.

But at this day and age, given that we've got stuff on Mars, it's got to be a little odd to go, no, I still believe there is flat. Like you're in a, you're in a, there's a small minority that might still believe that. And those people, I don't know that they're going to be in existence for as long.

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