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look I don't think Paul George is a bad
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guy I just think he's incredibly
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delusional I think he's blind self
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unaware and unfortunately I think that
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that's also a mirror of a lot of modern
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athletes and a lot of the NBA
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unfortunately and I think that that's a
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real problem let's talk about it coming
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up here now before we do that though
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George says on his podcast I'm going to
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take some time away to focus on
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basketball okay got to finish out this
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season strong want to make sure that I'm
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focused and not distracted for the
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basketball season it is comical it is
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truly comical okay because you've got a
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million to do basketball that's the job
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and he has a podcast well trafficked
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because he plays basketball it's not the
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other way around okay he didn't get his
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basketball job because he's a great
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podcast host so to announce on the
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podcast it's time for me to step aside
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I'm going to put this to the back burner
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as I focus on basketball that's in
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inherent in your priority scale of how
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you get paid of who you are of what you
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do so it's completely absurd and
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ridiculous to have to announce on one
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broadcast platform I'm going to have to
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take a pause here to focus on the other
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thing I do you know the
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basketball unbelievably self unaware but
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also it does give us this incredible
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window into the brain of the modern
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athlete who looks at both the
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sports and the brand as equal he looks
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at these two things as two things he has
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to do and that's pretty mindblowing we
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don't have to go back very far imagine
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going back to the early 2000s and
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telling Alan Iverson or Kevin Garnett or
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Kobe Bryant that their media
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responsibilities are equal to their
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basketball responsibilities they would
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laugh and that's yes one generation ago
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but it's not that long ago the idea that
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before that Michael would be distracted
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because of local television spots he
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might do in Chicago to tell Larry Bird
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or Magic Johnson that their basketball
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might slip because they're doing too
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much media is laughable absolutely
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laughable but in today's world these
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athletes look at The Branding of
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themselves with all their business
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Partnerships their podcast their social
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media presence their All-Star Game
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meetings Allstar Weekend meetings they
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look at all of that as an equal part of
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the job and that being on social or
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being heard is just as vital to their
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existence or just as inherent to their
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existence as as the basketball as the
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sports and that's where it is just mind
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numbing here because they always say
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keep the main thing the main thing the
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main thing the main thing the main thing
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the main thing and yet here is a player
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letting us into his brain and showing us
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forget keeping the main thing the main
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thing it took him until late February of
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a lost basketball season to realize I
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should probably Focus just on basketball
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here maybe not even because he thinks
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it's a distraction but because it's a
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bad look the season is lost Paul it's
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been lost for a long time Paul the
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season has been going sideways on you
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for four months now Paul and today today
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is the day you pull up the nose on that
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airplane and say I you you know what
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we're actually we're heading down fast I
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should probably reassess now now now now
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the season is gone the season is lost
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the season is over now is when you want
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to focus on the basketball which always
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focus you have a generation of athletes
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just like a generation of young people
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that are not athletes that have grown up
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with social media as another appendage
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it's like having a right hand it's like
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having a left ear that having your life
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displayed on social media and the likes
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and the retweets the reposts and the
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friends and the followers all of that is
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just part of you it is obviously so
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inherently part of you that you cannot
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imagine a world without it and so that
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when you distance yourself from anything
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like that such as hosting a podcast it
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is so significant to walk away from it
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you have to announce you're walking away
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from it instead of just walking away it
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is a terrifying reality truly a
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terrifying reality the idea that a
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season could be so far gone such as the
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76ers and then that realization now you
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know what maybe I should walk away from
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my media responsibilities to focus on
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the basketball when a it's already far
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gone and B use the platform to announce
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that you're focusing on the basketball
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it doesn't need to be said it should
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just always be that way and you look at
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LeBron LeBron goes dark famously during
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the playoffs but LeBron every year has
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carried a team through the regular
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season to some type of high seating with
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standings here is a guy in the middle of
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a completely lost campaign a
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dysfunctional awful horrible Sixers
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campaign who who has basically whistled
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past the graveyard for four or five
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months nothing to see here just going to
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keep doing the Pod until finally we hit
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late February and there's a month and a
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half left in the season and it's yeah
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you know what maybe I'll just focus on
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basketball now time to just kind of
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grind now is the time to
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grind it is such a Lost Generation and
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lost opportunity for everybody who
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believe that social media media
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podcasting Etc is equal to whatever
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their truest purposes in life and that's
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all of us we're all consumed by this but
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specifically for an athlete who is paid
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for one thing and one thing only to be
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great at that sport there's very few
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athletes that are being paid a sum of
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money because they're famous there's
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mostly athletes being paid because they
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need to be great at the sport they're
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being paid for it is scary very scary
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that those athletes such as Paul George
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might not be able to differentiate
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over now now now how bold of you Paul
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George that's going to do it for us here
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