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Speaker 1: Hey, I'm tas Melis, and this is what you need

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Speaker 1: to know in the NBA for Monday, January eleventh. The

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Speaker 1: first thing you need to know is that the Clippers

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Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard is finally looking like his old basketball dominating self.

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Speaker 1: He's looking that way because he finally got to remove

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Speaker 1: that mask he's been wearing for a couple weeks since

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Speaker 1: being hammered in the face by his teammate Serge Ibaka.

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Speaker 2: He hated that thing.

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Speaker 1: It's really hard to tell I Kawhi Leonard hates anything,

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Speaker 1: but he very much hated that mask he was wearing.

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Speaker 1: Took it off for the first time. Had thirty five

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Speaker 1: points against the Bulls on Sunday. That's a season high.

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Speaker 1: He had seven threes that tied a career high. He

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Speaker 1: looked great in that third quarter when he had twenty

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Speaker 1: one points, and he has surpassed ten thousand points for

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Speaker 1: his career. This is his tenth year in the league.

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Speaker 1: He's twenty nine years old. Just a reminder, and they

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Speaker 1: need Kawhi to be that great because they lost on

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Speaker 1: Friday when they had a twenty two point lead late

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Speaker 1: in the third against the war Looking like that Clippers

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Speaker 1: team in the playoffs last year against the Nuggets that

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Speaker 1: gave up that three to one lead. This was Kawhi's

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Speaker 1: quote after that loss. We just have to change pretty much.

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Speaker 1: We've got to change it. We've got to get better.

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Speaker 2: I agree. One guy who has.

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Speaker 1: Been playing amazingly well, I don't know if he can

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Speaker 1: get any better is Zach Levine at the Chicago Bulls.

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Speaker 1: He hit ten threes on Sunday against the Clippers, forty

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Speaker 1: five big ones in a loss. Coming off a thirty

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Speaker 1: eight point night. He is averaging thirty four over his

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Speaker 1: last five games. Lavigne balling, although the Bulls now sit

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Speaker 1: at four and seven. Speaking of Raptor greats like Kawhi Leenderd,

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Speaker 1: Kyle Lowry reached in on the Warriors Damian Lee when

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Speaker 1: he was shooting with four seconds left. The Raptors had

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Speaker 1: this game until Damian Lee sold that little quick grab

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Speaker 1: from Kyle Lowry. And man can Damian Lee sell because

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Speaker 1: the referee had no idea Kyle Lowry was grabbing Lee.

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Speaker 2: He was behind the play.

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Speaker 1: But man, they can see things the human eye cannot.

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Speaker 1: The right call. Raps go the other way. Pascal Siakam

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Speaker 1: shot Rims out although Pascal Siakam has started to look

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Speaker 1: like his all MBA self the last few games. I

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Speaker 1: bring this game up because I want to talk about

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Speaker 1: Kyle Lowry briefly. The Raptors are now two and seven,

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Speaker 1: as Kyle Lowry nears thirty five years old in a

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Speaker 1: couple months, and Massioujeri never been shy about making a

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Speaker 1: shrewd move. If they have to tear it up, I

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Speaker 1: think MASSIOUGERI will now. I say tear it up, I

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Speaker 1: just mean create Kyle Lowry. Kyle Lowry the best Raptor

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Speaker 1: in franchise history. If he wants to go somewhere else

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Speaker 1: midway through his thirties, if this team continues to go

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Speaker 1: sideways the way it's going, maybe Lowry moves on. Maybe

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Speaker 1: it's a conversation between Lowry and messiou Jeri. I don't

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Speaker 1: know either way. Lowry writes his own ticket. If he

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Speaker 1: wants to stay in Toronto, the Raptors will enjoy him.

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Speaker 1: If he wants to leave, he leaves, although the Raptors

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Speaker 1: will miss his hilarity as he made Steph Curry chortal.

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Speaker 1: After the game, they had a little brief talk. I

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Speaker 1: think it was Kyle Lowry saying, Hey, your brother in

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Speaker 1: law really sold that fricking call.

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Speaker 2: Huh. Always be closing.

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Speaker 1: Toronto struggling Moving on to the only other city I've

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Speaker 1: ever lived in, Atlanta, I am officially a curse. The

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks season going kind of sideways right now as well.

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Speaker 1: They had a fantastic offseason, but all those players are

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Speaker 1: now injured, including bogged down Bogdanovic acquired from the Kings.

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Speaker 1: A right knee evulsion has set him back. He'll be

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Speaker 1: evaluated later this week, but it doesn't sound like his

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Speaker 1: absence is going to be short, and he joins the

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Speaker 1: injury list with Danilo Gallinari a right ankle sprain, rug

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Speaker 1: On Rondo.

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Speaker 2: Right knee maintenance. He's going to be out a while.

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Speaker 1: Chris Dunn hasn't played a minute for this team either,

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Speaker 1: has their number six pick on Yeka on kong Wu.

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Speaker 2: But I think the biggest.

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Speaker 1: Worry for this Atlanta Hawks team, who have lost four

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Speaker 1: in a row, is that their leader, Trey Young does

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Speaker 1: not look like himself whatsoever. He is just not being

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Speaker 1: aggressive Trey Young. There's a fantastic article in The Athletic

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Speaker 1: last week which outlined a film session where John Collins

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Speaker 1: voiced his displeasure with how Trey Young specifically was running

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Speaker 1: the offense. This team that started so well just is

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Speaker 1: not looking right. Trey Young has gotta be more aggressive.

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Speaker 1: He's got to be Trey Young. Hawks head coach Lloyd Pierce.

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Speaker 1: It's got a big task to bring this team together

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Speaker 1: that's lost four in a row. Although the short handed

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia seventy six Ers play the Hawks on Monday, so

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Speaker 1: maybe the Hawks can get a w there and right

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Speaker 1: the ship. Because the Sixers, due to COVID related issues

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Speaker 1: and injuries, they don't have a lot of guys right now.

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Speaker 1: They only dressed eight on Saturday against the Nuggets, which

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Speaker 1: is the league minimum. They played seven though, because one

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Speaker 1: of those guys, Mike Scott, was actually injured. They lost

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Speaker 1: to the Nuggets on Saturday. Hopefully some bodies come back

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Speaker 1: for Doc Rivers and the Sixers against Atlanta. Some more

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Speaker 1: COVID related news, Jason Tatum has tested positive for the virus,

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Speaker 1: definitely the biggest NBA name who's contracted the virus this season.

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Speaker 1: He'll be out ten to fourteen days and his team

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Speaker 1: had their game canceled on Sunday. The Boston Celtics and

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Speaker 1: Miami Heats game was postponed. It wasn't because the Celtics

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Speaker 1: didn't have enough guys. It was because Miami lacked the

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Speaker 1: minimum eight players to play because of ongoing contact tracing.

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Speaker 1: The Celtics were ready to go with eight players, the

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Speaker 1: league minimum after nine of their players were ruled out,

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Speaker 1: but the NBA decided to postpone it. This is the

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Speaker 1: second game this season which has been canceled. More COVID

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Speaker 1: related news, Bradley Beal missed his game on Saturday because

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Speaker 1: he had a conversation with Jason Tatum. On Friday night,

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Speaker 1: Wizards lost their now two to eight. Terrible news for

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Speaker 1: them in this one. Starting center Thomas Bryant's season ended

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Speaker 1: because of a torn left acl and who knows how

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Speaker 1: long Bradley Beal will be out. They've got a tough

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Speaker 1: scat ahead. Monday they get the four Real Phoenix Suns,

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Speaker 1: and Wednesday they get the Utah Jazz, one team that

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Speaker 1: has been hit by the COVID tracing bug pretty hard.

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Speaker 1: The Dallas Mavericks some good news for them. Christaps Porzingis,

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Speaker 1: who hasn't played a game this season, is listed as

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Speaker 1: questionable for the first time for Monday's game, and he's

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Speaker 1: being included in the MAVs likely starters in the team's

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Speaker 1: media notes. Whatever that means, it looks like he's going

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Speaker 1: to play. Last thing I wanted to say is that

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Speaker 1: NBA players, you got to learn that you can't move

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Speaker 1: to Marcus Cousins. It is impossible. What do you try

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Speaker 1: and hear Mark if Morris players have tried in the past,

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Speaker 1: you can't move him, just like you.

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Speaker 2: Can't take me off the No Dunks Full Show. I'll

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Speaker 2: be there on Monday.

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Speaker 1: To talk about Nikola Jokic doing something special, doing something

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Speaker 1: an NBA center has never done in the history of

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Speaker 1: the league. I'll be here with you tomorrow to tell

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Speaker 1: you the news as fast as I possibly can.

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Speaker 2: I'll see that the