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Speaker 1: On today's show, the next nine game win streak was snapped.

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Speaker 1: There were celebrities courtside, AH Normalcy. The Wizard's eight game

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Speaker 1: win streak was snapped. Washington loses AH Normalcy and Kevin

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Speaker 1: Love is extremely frustrated and he takes it out on

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Speaker 1: the court, AH Normalcy and I'm a curmudgeon, Uh normalcy.

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Speaker 1: I kid, it was a fun eleven game night in

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Speaker 1: the Association. Let's get to it. I'm tas Mellis and

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Speaker 1: this is what you need to know in the NBA

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Speaker 1: for Tuesday, April twenty seven. Good morning, everybody. It was

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Speaker 1: a blast in the Association. Eleven games. Let's get to it. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The hottest team in the NBA, the New York Knicks,

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Speaker 1: were hosting the West number two seed, the Phoenix Suns.

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Speaker 1: Yeah you heard all that right. The Knicks win streak

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Speaker 1: was snapped at nine games. Everything has been turning up

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Speaker 1: Knicks recently. Nick's legend Charles Oakley even said Julius Randall

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Speaker 1: was better than Zion Williamson earlier before the game. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this loss was nothing to hang their heads about against Phoenix,

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Speaker 1: though their streak ended admirably. The game went down to

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Speaker 1: the wire, with the very talented Suns and the Knicks defense,

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Speaker 1: which operates with such precision. Mom Toms decided to take

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Speaker 1: the ball out of Devin Booker's hands, who had thirty

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Speaker 1: three points on the night, So Chris Paul said, I

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Speaker 1: got this. He scored the final seven Phoenix points on

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Speaker 1: very tough shots, and you could tell Chris Paul was

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Speaker 1: enjoying himself playing in the garden. He then went over

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Speaker 1: and shook Ll COOLJ and Chris Rock's hands. John Stewart

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Speaker 1: had just left when the outcome was decided. I guess man,

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Speaker 1: I hope the Knicks keep this up in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: It's just so great watching Thrillers in Madison Square Garden.

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Speaker 1: They're shooting almost seems fairytale like, but they play so

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Speaker 1: hard and they know the roles behind Randall, who averaged

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Speaker 1: thirty points, nine rebounds, and six assists during the streak,

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Speaker 1: it's hard not to believe they'll be in games at least.

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Speaker 1: As for the Suns, they went out East and beat

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Speaker 1: three of the top four Eastern Conference teams on their

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Speaker 1: road trip. They're one game back for the top spot

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Speaker 1: in the West. Spurs Wizards another win streak snapped Washington

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Speaker 1: had their eight game win streak snap in what was

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Speaker 1: an enjoyable game late watching DeMar Derosen versus Bradley Beal

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Speaker 1: and Russell Westbrook go at each other and the defense

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Speaker 1: is not offering enough resistance. I know the Wizards have

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Speaker 1: been playing better defense during their streak, but even I'm

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Speaker 1: not gullible enough to really believe in it. It went

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Speaker 1: to ot. Damar had a little more clutch shooting and

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Speaker 1: playmaking in his bag, thirty seven points and ten assists

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Speaker 1: for him as the Wiz ran out of gas. It's

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Speaker 1: great seeing Damar so comfortable in that role. In San Antonio,

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Speaker 1: Bradley Beal had forty five hello on twenty of thirty

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Speaker 1: five shooting, Westbrook a fourteen point fourth quarter. There was

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Speaker 1: just a lot of talent in this league, even at

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Speaker 1: the bottom of the Eastern Conference. In this battle for

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Speaker 1: the play in tournament, let's go to that Calves Raptors.

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Speaker 1: The shorthanded thirteen placed Caves were no match for the

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Speaker 1: best twelfth place team in NBA history. Yeah, I said it.

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Speaker 1: I know it's bold. The Calves weren't in the mood

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Speaker 1: to win this one. Kevin Love said, effet not doing

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Speaker 1: it tonight, he just declined to inbound a ball, giving

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Speaker 1: the Raptors two free points. It will be compared to

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Speaker 1: last season when he fired the ball at his teammates,

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Speaker 1: but this was more directed at the Rest for not

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Speaker 1: calling a push in the back. I'd say eighty percent

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Speaker 1: ref hatred on that one and only twenty percent teammate hatred.

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Speaker 1: Kevin Love didn't talk to reporters after the game. The

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Speaker 1: Raptors definitely still alive for the play in tournament with

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Speaker 1: the Wizard's loss, but their schedule is tough the rest

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Speaker 1: of the way. Kyle Lowry was asked about his chemistry

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Speaker 1: with Newish center kem Birch, and he said, I just

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Speaker 1: want to get him paid a lot of it, love

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Speaker 1: the honesty. Sticking towards the bottom of the East there

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Speaker 1: Bulls Heat. The Bulls match the rough and tumbleness. That's

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Speaker 1: not a word of the Miami Heat, playing as many

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Speaker 1: seven footers as they could down the stretch, plus Daniel Tys,

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Speaker 1: who will never have a poor game again. Bulls out

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Speaker 1: rebound in Miami by seventeen. After a slow start, Nikolovutrich, Lowry,

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Speaker 1: markt It and Tyson's ten fourth quarter points got it

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Speaker 1: I think this is the final hurrah for dab Bols.

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Speaker 1: Bulls play only one losing team amongst its last eleven games,

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Speaker 1: and they struggle against the plus five hundred teams to

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Speaker 1: the top of the West. This is wild Utah, Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: The Minnesota Timberwolves have won two in a row, and

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Speaker 1: both against the best team in the NBA, the Utah Jazz.

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Speaker 1: This season. Somehow, the t Wolves, who have the second

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Speaker 1: worst record in the NBA, have beaten the team with

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Speaker 1: the best record in the NBA three times and overall,

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Speaker 1: it's their first time winning consecutive games since the first

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Speaker 1: two games of the season, and both against a good team,

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Speaker 1: in fact, the best team it is nuts. Utah, led

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Speaker 1: by eighteen, got out to that big lead, but D'Angelo

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Speaker 1: Russell's smoothness brought them back in the second quarter. He

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Speaker 1: hit six threes in the half, tying a franchise record,

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Speaker 1: and his smooth layup was also the game winner, as

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Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert just playing oh left them wide open underneath

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Speaker 1: on an inbound. Sometimes good teams just overlook the bad teams.

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Speaker 1: Happened a lot in the Association yesterday, silver lining for

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Speaker 1: the one seed Jazz, though, if they drop to the

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Speaker 1: two seed, they can avoid the Lakers until the conference

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Speaker 1: finals and rumble instead with the Clippers at tal instead

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Speaker 1: Grizzlies Nuggets. As someone who talks about basketball every day

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Speaker 1: of his life, I kind of just want to write

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Speaker 1: off the Nuggets in all honesty. It would be easier

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Speaker 1: for me not to think about their chances in the West.

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Speaker 1: There are so many other teams with championship aspirations in

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Speaker 1: the conference. The Nuggets have lost their incredible weapon, Jamal

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Speaker 1: Murray for the season. It's just a lot of teams

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Speaker 1: out there. I know, I know, I have a tough life.

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Speaker 1: I just need one less team to think about. But

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Speaker 1: the Nuggets will not go away. And on a night

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Speaker 1: when Michael Porter Junior got hot, hitting twelve of his

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Speaker 1: when his teammate Facundo Campazzo was asked about Porter after

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Speaker 1: the game, I wasn't sure if he was talking about

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Speaker 1: Porter or my lousy attitude. Listen, he's a terrible, terrible,

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Speaker 1: terrible terrible is good right, No, no, no, terrible. They

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Speaker 1: opposite of terrible. He's a great shooter. Hawks Pistons trap

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Speaker 1: game for Atlanta. The Hawks had their third lowest scoring

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Speaker 1: game of the season, eighty six points, hit only four threes,

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Speaker 1: and a loss to hard playing Detroit. Atlanta beat the

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Speaker 1: number three seed in Milwaukee Bucks the night before and

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Speaker 1: then have two games with number two seeded Philly following

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Speaker 1: the Pistons. No. Tray Young with the ankle issue lost.

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Speaker 1: The guy who's taken his spot in Brandon Goodwin, who

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Speaker 1: left the game with three seventeen left after suffering a

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Speaker 1: serious injury he was taking out on a wheelchair. X

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Speaker 1: rays were negative, though Hawks are saying he has a

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Speaker 1: left ankle impingement. Chris Dunn made his first appearance of

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Speaker 1: the season. He's been injured all year. A lot of

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Speaker 1: stuff going on with the Hawks. Kevin Herder left the

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Speaker 1: Young tweeted because he wasn't playing he was allowed to

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Speaker 1: do that and said wait till we're all healthy. Lakers

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Speaker 1: Magic Anthony Davis called it a must win. His minutes

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Speaker 1: restriction was lifted. He had eighteen points, and the Lakers won,

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Speaker 1: snapping their three game losing streak. Maybe it was driving

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Speaker 1: around the Orlando area as we near playoff team time.

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Speaker 1: Here seeing the Disney Hotel where they stayed at for

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Speaker 1: last Summer's Bubble when they won this ship that got

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Speaker 1: them going. Orlando got one step closer to their championship.

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Speaker 1: With the loss, combined with Detroit's win, they moved into

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Speaker 1: last place in the Eastern Conference standings for the first

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Speaker 1: time this season. When they blew it up at the deadline,

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Speaker 1: they had this exact scenario in mind. They have the

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Speaker 1: third worst record in the NBA and have lost six

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Speaker 1: straight Okay see Philly. Ben Simmons returned after missing four games,

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Speaker 1: all Philly losses with an illness. The future Defensive Player

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Speaker 1: of the Year helped lead Phillies defense to twenty seven

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Speaker 1: oka see turnovers. After the game, Simmons declared, we want

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Speaker 1: that number one seed. Their one game back of Brooklyn

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Speaker 1: and have a fairly easy schedule the rest of the way,

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Speaker 1: and they own the tiebreaker. It's going to get interesting.

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Speaker 1: The thunder have now lost fourteenth straight. Mavericks Kings. The

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Speaker 1: Mavericks took the darn Fox list Kings lightly, that got

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Speaker 1: Dallas considering they could have made some room between themselves

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Speaker 1: and the seventh place Blazers to stay out of the

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Speaker 1: play in tournament. Luka Doncic was questionable with the left

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Speaker 1: elbow bruce, but he played. Probably should have just sat

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Speaker 1: considering the way his team played. There was a lot

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Speaker 1: of that in the Association. As I mentioned last game here,

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Speaker 1: the Pelicans blew out the Clippers, who took their talented

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Speaker 1: counterparts quite lightly. And one note before we go, the

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Speaker 1: Rocks John Wall will sit the final eleven games of

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Speaker 1: the season with a hamstring tweak. The Rockets are looking

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Speaker 1: for that number one spot in the draft lottery as well.

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Speaker 1: They currently have the worst record in the NBA, but

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Speaker 1: injuries have hurt them this season. They've used thirty five

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Speaker 1: different starting lineups well over half their games, and twenty

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Speaker 1: different players in those lineups. That's it for me. Make

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Speaker 1: sure you check out the full Nodunks episode here on Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: I'll be back to give you the news as fast

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Speaker 1: as I possibly can. On Wednesday, I'll see that