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So let's get into the first big story here today Kyrie Irving.

There have been rumors speculation throughout the course of the summer and I've heard every last shred of it that Kyrie wants to play with Jimmy Butler and this is the only mention of Jimmy Butler that's going to happen in this podcast by the way so that we're our Butler free podcast unless he gets traded in the middle of it, and then we got to stop recording to it again.

But for now, it is a Butler Free Podcast, other than Kyrie Irving has been mentioned as a he and Jimmy Butler want to play together and blah blah blah blah.

So Nick's fans have seized upon this especially because both Kyrie has had the Nix on his radar in the

past and Jimmy Butler reportedly had the Nix as one of his teams but Kyrie poured a whole lot of cold water on that over the

past few days, telling Jackie McMullen that, yeah, he talked to Jimmy Butler, but like not since 2016,

and then saying to everybody at Media Day that this is the

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