Hour 2: MVP Form

First Take

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🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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On a second hour of First Take, Peter Rosenburg, Stephen A. Smith and Marcus "Swagu" Spears debate who is being more petty: Micah Parsons or DeMarcus Lawrence. Joe Fortenbaugh joins the show to debate who is MVP: Jokic or SGA? The guys respond to the Mavericks owner defending his trade. Lastly, we ended the show with some fun! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Place a head-to-head bet and select US basketball games this week.
0:03.4	And if your team is up by 12 plus points at half-time, get paid as a winner.
0:07.1	Even if they go on to lose.
0:08.7	Download the betcha app and bet it out.
0:10.6	First-350 staked, head-to-head single-bets only.
0:12.8	Tis and Cs apply.
0:13.7	R-18, bet responsibly.
0:16.9	Quick take, Duke, Coach, John Shire said it's a real long shot.
0:26.9	That freshman star Cooper Flag will play in the ACC tournament semifinals tonight versus UNC on ESPN because of an ankle sprain.
0:28.2	He suffered yesterday.
0:30.5	I'm fortunate against Georgia Tech.
0:35.2	As a how cautious should do be with Flag, the potential number one overall pick?
0:38.7	Well, I think this would be very, very cautious. First first of all he shouldn't be playing for the rest of this uh uh conference tournament it doesn't matter we're trying
0:43.9	to win a championship you're to do blue devil you're trying to win the national championship
0:48.2	so you certainly want to um you want to you want to rest him you know he can't he probably can't
0:53.1	play doesn't need to play
0:54.4	etc and we understand that um so definitely sit him out um but if he is available at any point
1:01.8	and i'm talking about 70% or better if he is available okay you're trying to win the national
1:08.5	championship you play that man during the NCAA tournament that's what you do You play that man during the NCAA tournament.
1:11.5	That's what you do.
1:12.5	You play that man during the NCAA tournament if a national championship is online.
1:15.9	I'm not talking about you as a number one seed versus another 16 seed or something like that.
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