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this is the best of the herd with colin cowherd on fox sports radio hello and welcome to the

herd it's me jason mackintyre in for a vacationing Colin Cowherd. I think he's on the East

Coast doing things that I probably would not be doing on my vacation. I am joined today, as always,

by the great Alex Curry. Alex, how are you on this fine Thursday morning? Oh, I'm great,

Jay Mack. This is my birthday weekend. So I'm like,

vibes are high this whole week into next week. We're going to have a great time the next two days. Indeed. A birthday weekend. Is there Vegas on the horizon? What do we do? You know I work on weekends. I have my Fox Sports radio show on Saturdays. I work baseball on Sundays. And yeah, birthday Monday. Wow, everybody's excited. Alex has the birthday and my Dallas Mavericks come through last night. How about that? We're going to start the show talking NBA finals. Yes, I will get to the quarterback of the Jets who said some more extreme things yesterday. Nothing wrong with that. He's an extremist. We'll get to it. But I need to start with the Mavericks. And Luca Donchich and Kyrie Irving, Jason Kidd. What a performance that was. Listen, NBA playoffs have been thrilling. And I, you know, I want to be a positive guy. You know, Alex even said the vibes are fluent. I need to be positive. So I'm not going to start the show going after Aunt Edwards, aka the next Michael Jordan.

Come on, folks. Dwayne Wade's a much better example. But I'm not going to go after him, right?

I'm not going to take a shot at, you know, Rudy Gobert, struggling mightily against Luca

Donchich. I'm going to start positive. I'm going to start with Kyrie Irving. I need to apologize to Kyrie Irving. I'm sure you guys saw after Minnesota Dispatch Denver in game seven, the cocksure Anthony Edwards said, oh, I put, I had the cuffs on Jamal Murray. Jamal Murray had 35 points. And next up, I want all the smoke from

Kyrie. I'm going to guard Kyrie Irving. Well, Kyrie Irving came out in game one last night and had 24 points in the first half. Out of character for him is he had been kind of a slow starter letting Luca lead the way early. Kyrie went off. You could see in the video there on FS1. anytime Anthony Edwards was on him

barbecue chicken. I'm going right to the

basket and Kyrie went off. You could see in the video there on FS1. Anytime Anthony Edwards was on him,

barbecue chicken.

I'm going right to the basket.

And Kyrie Irving talked to Charles Berkeley and company

about that last night.

You at home minding your business the other night.

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