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Shawn Marion on Why He Never Won a Championship in Phoenix | Real Ones

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4.29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

After a quick conversation about Kyrie Irving’s return to the Nets (0:01), four-time NBA All-Star and NBA champion Shawn “The Matrix” Marion joins Raja and Logan to talk about his playoff runs in Phoenix (9:00), the trade to Kobe’s Lakers that almost was and the trade to Miami for Shaq that ended the Seven Seconds or Less era in Phoenix (45:00), and being on the Cavaliers for their 2015 Finals run against the Warriors (59:00).  Hosts: Logan Murdock and Raja Bell Guest: Shawn Marion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's pop a rule is this is Logan Murdock. I'm here with Roger Bell

0:03.2

Who quite honestly just wanted to get some stuff off of his chest

0:06.6

So we're gonna do this top of real quick. We're talking about the Brooklyn nets and Kyrie Irving's return

0:13.0

playing alongside Kevin Durant and

0:16.8

James Hardin for the first time and to do just straight up bald out Roger

0:21.6

What did you think of Kyrie's play?

0:24.1

That's how you're gonna set this up huh? So like okay, I got it. Well listen first of all

0:28.4

I don't know how I said it. I don't know what I don't know what to do. This is what we were saying

0:32.6

He said you know how to do things man

0:34.6

Kyrie did Kyrie things when he had the ball in his hand like he did what you expect a phenomenal

0:39.8

Gifted ISO player to do with the ball. He got buckets

0:44.5

You know the loss. I don't I don't you know you shouldn't be losing to Cleveland giving up as many points as you go to Cleveland

0:50.9

But because Colin Sexton went berserk like in late in the game

0:54.6

So sometimes you're gonna lose a game like that when a great player just gets hot

0:57.7

I'm not I'm not so super concerned with the loss itself. I do think there's some interest in stuff going on there like

1:04.3

Not not it

1:06.0

It manifests itself

1:08.4

On the court in terms of how many shots Kyrie got versus how many shots you know Kevin got versus how many shots James Harding got

1:15.2

But I just think the it's really interesting like the psychological like

1:19.6

Battle that must be going on there when you you've been absent right like most people when you've been a wall for five or six games

1:28.9

and

1:29.9

You see a new guy like Kevin I mean, I'm sorry like James Harding come into the equation and you've got Kevin Durant and they're playing this really really good

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