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Speaker 1: Lebron James answers all the haters, Joel Embiid helps his

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Speaker 1: MVP case by sitting out, and Jason Tatum, another MVP candidate,

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Speaker 1: makes his return. So many stars to talk about. I'm

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Speaker 1: Tasmelos and this is what you need to know in

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Speaker 1: the NBA for Tuesday, January twenty six, all the feels

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Speaker 1: as Lebron went back to Cleveland, opening the night with

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Speaker 1: the old powder toss like he used to do. Then

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Speaker 1: he scored like Calves Lebron, or like last year Lebron,

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Speaker 1: or like whenever Lebron, because he's that amazing. He looked

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Speaker 1: very good in the first three quarters, scoring twenty five points.

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Speaker 1: But what really motivated him late was a guy who

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Speaker 1: questioned him yesterday. Gordon Hayward is the new Lebron James. No,

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Speaker 1: not that guy. Someone sitting courtside cheered when Lebron missed

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Speaker 1: at the end of the third quarter, and he told

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Speaker 1: reports after the game he said it was a Calves exec.

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Speaker 1: I know who he is. He was questioning about it

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Speaker 1: a little more, he said, a front office exec. I

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Speaker 1: love how he basically named him without naming him. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure that guy has been doxed already. It was a

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Speaker 1: twenty one point fourth quarter for Lebron. He outscored the

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Speaker 1: entire Cleveland Cavaliers team, and he did it oh so beautifully.

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Speaker 1: He had a logo three like he had earlier this

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Speaker 1: season against the Grizzlies. Then that shot from the corner.

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Speaker 1: My goodness. Lebron had forty six points on the night,

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Speaker 1: a season high, his first point total in the forties.

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Speaker 1: This says year eighteen for him. Lebron loves those little

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Speaker 1: extra things to motivate him. That's why I think the

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Speaker 1: Lakers are a perfect ten and zero on the road,

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Speaker 1: while they're just a Jham nothing to motivate me here

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Speaker 1: four and four at home. Moving on to another MVP candidate,

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Speaker 1: Nicol Jokich had a quiet twenty points against the Dallas

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Speaker 1: Mavericks while their future MVP Luka Doncic he had allowed

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Speaker 1: thirty five points, sixteen assists, and eleven rebounds. But it

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Speaker 1: wasn't enough. They couldn't get it done in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: Rikarala went to the Luca Christops won two game. They

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Speaker 1: just couldn't close it out. They've been a mediocre fourth

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Speaker 1: Doncich needed to board in the double digits because his

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Speaker 1: bigs Willie Calle Steins Porzingis combined for nine boards while

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Speaker 1: he had eleven himself maxically, but Josh Richardson Dorian Finney

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Speaker 1: Smith it feels like they haven't played forever. While the

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Speaker 1: Nuggets are getting healthy. Michael Porter Junior returning recently because

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Speaker 1: of COVID protocol, thirty points off the bench his season high.

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Speaker 1: The Nuggets tried to give this thing away. Jamal Murray

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Speaker 1: was ejected in the third quarter when he hit Tim

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Speaker 1: Junior below the belt. Looked like this game was turning,

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Speaker 1: but the Nuggets did it the hardaway. That seventy point

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Speaker 1: first half buoyed them just enough to beat the Dallas Mavericks.

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Speaker 1: How about an MVP candidate that strengthened his case without

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Speaker 1: playing at all. Joel Embiid sitting out with back tightness.

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Speaker 1: Always a little bit of a worry with his injuries.

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Speaker 1: But again, then the Sixers lose, so that helps zero

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Speaker 1: to four without Joel Embiid in the lineup this season.

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Speaker 1: Imagine the parade if Joel Embiid wins MVP. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be fun. Tobias Harris had twenty five against his old team,

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Speaker 1: the Detroit Pistons, and they got plenty to beat the Sixers.

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Speaker 1: In this game. They got twenty five from Jeremy Grant

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Speaker 1: twenty from Wayne Ellington. Could he be a hired gun

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Speaker 1: at the trade deadline? He is thirty of fifty from

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Speaker 1: beyond the arc in his last six games. Could those

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Speaker 1: numbers be any rounder? That's beautiful. Philadelphia twelve and six,

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Speaker 1: Detroit a league worst four and thirteen, Heat and Nets.

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Speaker 1: MVP candidate Kevin Durant had twenty points against the Miami Heat.

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Speaker 1: He has scored at least twenty in every game this season.

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Speaker 1: That is very impressive and that's why he's second in

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Speaker 1: the NBA in scoring, although against Miami he was just

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Speaker 1: six of twenty one shooting. Kyrie Irving also didn't have

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Speaker 1: a great shooting night. It was James Harden who buoyed

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Speaker 1: this team. Gosh love that word, booed. I'm gonna sit

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Speaker 1: every single recap here. Harden had a tight twenty points set.

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Speaker 1: He only missed three shots, seven to ten and eight assists.

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Speaker 1: He leads the league and assists. I had aspirations for

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Speaker 1: Nikola Jokicic leading the league in assists at the center

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Speaker 1: spot doesn't look like it's gonna happen. How much more

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Speaker 1: efficient will harden Bed not having to handle it as much?

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Speaker 1: I think that will happen this season. Bam Adebayo twenty six,

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Speaker 1: although I do believe it will step up when it counts.

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Speaker 1: They continue to look for a big What about Mike

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Speaker 1: Muscala from OKAC. Now not a very sexy name, but

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Speaker 1: he plays ridiculously hard. He comes on the cheap, he's

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Speaker 1: a little too old for Okac's timeline, and he can

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Speaker 1: had twenty six points, but it wasn't enough, as OKAC

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Speaker 1: that Damian Lillard was releasing a shoe in OKC colors.

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Speaker 1: What commemorating the shot that he hit over Paul George

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Speaker 1: the bye bye shot to send Okac home in the

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Speaker 1: first round. A couple of years ago, a guy releasing

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Speaker 1: a shoe in the other team's colors. Has this ever

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Speaker 1: been done? This is savage Damian Lillard and that is

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Speaker 1: a freaking beautiful shoe. I guess he likes Okac's colors.

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Speaker 1: I do, They're very nice. Jason Tatum, he's back. I

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Speaker 1: thought he was going to be a leading MVP candidate.

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Speaker 1: Then he contracted COVID nineteen. He missed two weeks. He's

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Speaker 1: come back. He's looked good. He can still be an

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Speaker 1: MVP candidate. Twenty four points in over thirty minutes as

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Speaker 1: the Celtics took care of the Bulls. But Jalen Brown

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Speaker 1: has stepped into the lead role for the Celtics very

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Speaker 1: very well in Tatum's absence. He had thirty three points

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Speaker 1: against Chicago and he will be an All Star lock

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Speaker 1: it in. Speaking of the All Star Game, there might

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Speaker 1: be one. This is shocking news. No one thought that

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Speaker 1: there would be a game where everybody came together to play,

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Speaker 1: but according to ESPN, there may be one in Atlanta

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Speaker 1: during the quote All Star break between March fifth and tenth.

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Speaker 1: I thought this would be a game at break where

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Speaker 1: they could make up other games because there has been

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Speaker 1: over twenty games canceled. But things should hopefully look different

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Speaker 1: in March. Normalcy sounds very good right now. Andrew Wagan's

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Speaker 1: playing against his old normal team, Warriors versus the Timberwolves.

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Speaker 1: It was the first time Andrew Wiggans suited up against

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Speaker 1: It was a battle of the number one and number

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Speaker 1: the bench for the Wolves and James Wiseman playing his

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Speaker 1: Allen Golden State wins. They're at nine to eight, the

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Speaker 1: Wolves a West worst four and twelve Pacers Raptors. Pacers

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Speaker 1: He had twenty one overall. Jeremy Lamb matched his season

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Speaker 1: They're waiting for Karris Lavert to get healthy. While Demonte

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Speaker 1: Sabonis left this game hurting his knee x rays negative

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Speaker 1: Anthony the rook a career high twenty one points. He

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Speaker 1: had four threes. He's filling in admirably for Markel Foltz.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon, returned from a one game absence, had a

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Speaker 1: to oh was finally cooking at nineteen points in this one.

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Speaker 1: And for the first time in NBA history, two female officials,

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Speaker 1: Natalie Sago and Jenna Schroeder worked the same game. Hornet's

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Speaker 1: head coach James Barrego said quote, it's a special night

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Speaker 1: for our league and for women, and I look at

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Speaker 1: somebody like my daughter who will be watching and it's

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Speaker 1: a big step. I love that I'm part of a

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Speaker 1: league that's breaking barriers, and tonight I'm proud to be

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Speaker 1: a part of that game. Here here, that's it for me.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you catch the full No Dunks episode here

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Speaker 1: On Tuesday, I'll be back to give you the news

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Speaker 1: as fast as I possibly can, as you can hear

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Speaker 1: me speaking as fast as I possibly can. On Wednesday,

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