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Speaker 1: Damian Lillard is out bad man. The Rockets are bad,

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Speaker 1: but there's hope around the corner, and the Knicks are

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Speaker 1: a free agency destination once again. Yes it's true. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm tas Malis and this is what you need to

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Speaker 1: know in the NBA for Wednesday, March seventeen. Good morning, everybody.

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Speaker 1: Damian Lillard is an inspiration. Yeah. I woke up to

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Speaker 1: jumping jacks before jumping on the mic. This morning, another

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Speaker 1: fifty point game for Damian Lillard in a win over

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Speaker 1: New Orleans. He's tied with Lebron for seventh when it

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Speaker 1: comes to the most fifty point games in NBA history.

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Speaker 1: The comeback from seventeen down with six minutes left was inspiring,

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Speaker 1: but Dame the person is the more inspiring part. Make

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Speaker 1: sure you check out his full interview with the TNT

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Speaker 1: crew postgame. I was gonna pull a clip from it

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Speaker 1: listening to. If you have enough time to listen to me,

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Speaker 1: You have enough time to listen to that six minute interview.

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Speaker 1: You know, this was kind of a quiet fifty points

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Speaker 1: watching it this morning. He didn't force it in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter. He just kind of took what came to him.

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Speaker 1: He had only twenty shots in the game to get

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Speaker 1: to fifty points. He was facilitating tenn asists, and he

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Speaker 1: hit all eighteen of his free throws. The Pelicans, on

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Speaker 1: the other side, they're also an inspiration for a movie

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Speaker 1: because they're just so all or nothing. They're interesting that way.

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Speaker 1: Entering Tuesday, teams were two hundred and thirty six and

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Speaker 1: oh when leading by seventeen plus points within the final

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Speaker 1: six minutes of the game. This season not anymore. That

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Speaker 1: from ESPN stats and in po Zion said they stopped

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Speaker 1: moving the ball. Yeah, watching it, they just thought it

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Speaker 1: was over. The only thing Damian Lillard can't do is

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Speaker 1: make gray jerseys look good. I'm an easy mark for jerseys.

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Speaker 1: I love all jerseys. This is probably one of the

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Speaker 1: better gray ones, but I'm not behind it. I tried

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Speaker 1: to work great at try and be cool like Damian Lillard.

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Speaker 1: This morning, Lebron James always cool. He became the oldest

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Speaker 1: player in NBA history to record back to back trip dubs.

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Speaker 1: LA routed the Wolves. Lebron had twenty five, twelve and twelve.

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Speaker 1: Then he took to Twitter and he saw he was

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Speaker 1: the oldest to do it, and he said, I'm thirty six.

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Speaker 1: What is he saying is he's saying I'm thirty six.

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Speaker 1: That's not old or I'm thirty six? Whoa, I'm thirty six. Anyways,

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Speaker 1: tell them Lebron thirty six, ain't that old? Utah Boston

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Speaker 1: Utah Jazz got back on track looking like they're number

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Speaker 1: one seeded sells versus the Celtics, beating Boston in a

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Speaker 1: close one on TNT. They're three all stars of Donovan Mitchell,

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Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert and Mike Conley. All had a hand in

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Speaker 1: closing it out. They know who they are. On the

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Speaker 1: other side, the Celtics do not. I thought Marcus Smart

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Speaker 1: just doesn't really have an identity, especially defensively. They don't

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Speaker 1: play d like the Celtics the last couple seasons. Took

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Speaker 1: the trade deadline eight days from now, but he's not

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Speaker 1: fixing their defense. He helped their team, but this is

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Speaker 1: a bigger problem than just Harrison Barnes and what he

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Speaker 1: can fix. They probably think they can turn it on

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs with Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown. They're

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Speaker 1: probably right for a round or two, but not as

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Speaker 1: a championship threat. Not the way they look right now.

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Speaker 1: The Knicks against the seventy six Ers another scrappy loss

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Speaker 1: for the New York Knicks are moral victory is a

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Speaker 1: real thing. Well, I think even bigger if you zoom

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Speaker 1: right now. They've got a program. Tom Thibodeau is playing

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Speaker 1: Then Carmelo Anthony forced his way there, but no one

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Speaker 1: to be. Atlanta Houston. This one was interesting even though

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Speaker 1: the Rockets came into this one have lost sixteen straight.

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Speaker 1: The Rockets were just playing eight guys. Eight guys including

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Speaker 1: the third quarter and wins it. Well, things are looking great.

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Speaker 1: In the fourth, Houston's Kenyan Martin Junior, they call him

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Speaker 1: Kenyan Martin Senior well, he took to Twitter and said,

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Speaker 1: The Hawks won their sixth in a row. Danilo'gallinari has

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Speaker 1: He had twenty nine, he said, twenty in four of

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Speaker 1: For the Rockets, their seventeen game losing streak started immediately

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Speaker 1: Victor Oladipo turned down an extension a couple weeks ago

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Speaker 1: Chicago rookie Alexey Pokashewski coming off a career high twenty three,

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Speaker 1: Lowry Markinin's dunk a huge one on Moses Brown. Whoo

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Speaker 1: what did Brown do to you? As Stacy King said

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Speaker 1: on the broadcast, Lowry Markinen, this is a guy who

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Speaker 1: also could be traded before the deadline in eight days.

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Speaker 1: Maybe not. It's like the housing market in Atlanta, m

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Speaker 1: I right JD. Too many buyers and not enough sellers.

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Speaker 1: Levine had forty points for the Bulls in only thirty

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Speaker 1: He had forty seven. That's a lot of points. Last

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