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Speaker 1: scary good here in year two, and Steph Curry is

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Speaker 1: a freakin' inspiration. Hey, I'm Tasmelis and this is what

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Speaker 1: you need to know in the NBA for Tuesday, January nineteenth.

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Speaker 1: We are honest here on what you need to know.

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Speaker 1: And in all honesty, the league's nationally televised games have

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Speaker 1: not been that good this season, and that's got to

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Speaker 1: be a little concerning for the league, especially with their

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Speaker 1: on Monday, the MLK Day tripleheader was phenomenal. It was spicy,

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Speaker 1: so let's get into it. Bucks, Nets. It looked like

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Speaker 1: both these teams really wanted this Eastern Conference tilt. They're

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Speaker 1: playing their starters heavy minutes. He had Kevin Durant getting

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Speaker 1: into DeAndre Jordan's face when he got to stop. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: do need him. James Harden was having intense conversations with

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Speaker 1: where to go these one on one conversations, but it

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Speaker 1: went down to the wire because these offensive Juggernauts could

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Speaker 1: the ball was in Chris Middleton's hands late. It seemed

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Speaker 1: Miami Heat. Middleton was beating Kevin Durant over and over

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Speaker 1: and over again. They're asking Kevin Durant to do a

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Speaker 1: lot defensively, guard the wings, guard the biggs and all that.

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Speaker 1: But Middleton missed one shot when DeAndre Jordan finally pushed

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Speaker 1: after an offensive rebround from James Harden. Of all people, Yes,

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Speaker 1: he's in Chape. He played forty one minutes more than

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Speaker 1: anybody in the NBA in this game, I should say,

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Speaker 1: thirty seconds left, gets the ball to Durant, Big three,

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Speaker 1: it's over the Brooklyn nets. They still don't know each other,

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Speaker 1: to get better, to learn. Yeh had James Harden rehabbing

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Speaker 1: his image right before our eyes. No Kyrie Irving in

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving still revamping his conditioning. That's the word out

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Speaker 1: of Brooklyn's camp. Harden had thirty four points, twelve assists,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant had thirty points, his tenth straight game with

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Speaker 1: twenty five or more. That is phenomenal and that is

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Speaker 1: a NETS franchise record. Golden State LA East Coast wouldn't

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Speaker 1: blame me if you went to bed, but you can't

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Speaker 1: when healthy Steph Curry is around. It looked like LA

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Speaker 1: ninety six percent in the fourth quarter when they were

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Speaker 1: Warriors got loud, especially Draymond Green, who was miked up.

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Speaker 1: I told you you can catch up all right down mcplay.

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Speaker 1: I didn't see it, but you didn't see it. That's

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Speaker 1: on open space against Marcasol. I like that. You see me,

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Speaker 1: Come on, always mike him up, please, Tanty. He was

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Speaker 1: phenomenal and then he set up Steph Curry for a

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Speaker 1: huge three that sealed the game a minute left. Dre said,

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Speaker 1: He was two of eleven from three before that shot.

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Speaker 1: That's how confident he was. And I totally, totally, totally

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Speaker 1: by having Kevin Durant and Stephan Curry healthy and doing

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Speaker 1: And I just wanted to mention Steph's balance on that

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Speaker 1: in year two, old Baby. The Grizzlies closed out the Suns.

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Speaker 1: The Grizzlies won it, and it was all because of

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Speaker 1: this week. In our Whoopsei's segment. Booker rough night five

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Speaker 1: for the Grizzlies because as Jonas Valanciunis was unavailable. Rookie

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Speaker 1: and Tilman said, quote, me and my wife were in

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Speaker 1: nine of twelve, nine rebounds, seven assists. Luka Doncic needs

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Speaker 1: Rick Carlisle said about this stretch that the matters are

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Speaker 1: seven days of scheduling in Maverick's history. Yeah, I said

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Speaker 1: They're five and eight. And Chris Bouche Capes balling off

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Speaker 1: the bench Spurs Blazers. Spurs beat the Blazers by twenty one,

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Speaker 1: for the Blazers because CJ McCollum, who's having a career year,

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Speaker 1: is year eight for CJ. McCollum. He changed this shot

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Speaker 1: and McCollum is making him. He leads the league in

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Speaker 1: Blazers aren't able to do defensively. So the Blazers are

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Speaker 1: Dame had thirty five, Rodney Hood got his first start

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Speaker 1: and had twenty one points in McCollum's absence, But they

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Speaker 1: still lose. As is my fantasy team, it's going to

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Speaker 1: lose very very badly. The Knicks beat the Magic magic

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Speaker 1: You don't need to know anything about that game, and

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Speaker 1: Victor Oladipo made his debut for the Houston Rockets. It

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Speaker 1: was a good one. He had thirty two. Christian Wood,

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Speaker 1: gonna go do some yoga. No, I'm not. Make sure

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