Hour 1: Game 4 Guarantee
First Take
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🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Breaking news into first take this morning that our own Shams Tarania broke earlier today on Get Up for the first time in his 12-year career. |
| 0:10.2 | Janice onto Dekumpo is open-minded about his future, meaning taking his talents elsewhere. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome into first take. I'm Malik Karam alongside Stephen A. Smith. Shams Tr, here with us now. Shams. Good morning. Thank you for the time. What more can you tell us about Yannes? |
| 0:28.6 | Molly, there's no firm decisions that Yannis and Tadacompo has made. But like you just said, for the first time in his NBA career, he's exploring what the best fits look like outside of Milwaukee. |
| 0:40.4 | So whether that's staying as a buck, but potentially leaving elsewhere. |
| 0:44.8 | And this combine week is essentially the summit of Janice Indycunpo. |
| 0:48.8 | All 30 NBA decision makers are here. |
| 0:51.1 | Agents are in town. |
| 0:52.2 | There's going to be some substantive conversations that are going to be taking place this week that could determine where he lands. |
| 0:58.5 | Of course, tonight is lottery night. We'll see where Cooper Flagg could end up. We'll see which team out of several of them in the lottery that are trying to be contenders, trying to compete where they end up in the lottery. |
| 1:10.6 | But around the league, everyone's eyes are all on Janus It's Diccumbo. |
| 1:14.5 | This is a 30-year-old player in the prime of his career for him to be potentially available |
| 1:18.7 | or even open-minded to thinking about leaving Milwaukee is a domino that this league is waiting |
| 1:24.8 | on. |
| 1:25.3 | All 29 other teams are waiting on this domino. |
| 1:28.6 | And he has said repeatedly what he wants out of his career is to be in the best long-term |
| 1:33.7 | sustained winning environment. |
| 1:35.4 | And I'm told that's going to be at the forefront of everything he's going to be thinking |
| 1:38.8 | about this offseason. |
| 1:40.3 | He has a lot of equity in Milwaukee though, Molly and Stephen A. |
| 1:42.6 | As you guys know, he's played 12 years there, won a championship in 2021, finals MVP, two-time MVP in the regular season. |
| 1:50.3 | This is someone that's very accomplished in Milwaukee, homegrown there, but he said it on his |
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