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Speaker 1: Hey, I'm Tasmelis and this is what you need to

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Speaker 1: know in the NBA for Tuesday, January fifth. The first

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Speaker 1: thing you need to know is the Warriors. Yes, the

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Speaker 1: Warriors look fantastic. Why am I starting with the Warriors

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Speaker 1: when they beat the Sacramento Kings by thirty one points. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think they deserve a little bit of extra love

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Speaker 1: after people wrote them off when they started the season

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Speaker 1: zero to two. They now sit four and three and

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Speaker 1: they could be the most entertaining team in the league.

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Speaker 1: Of course, Steph Curry leads that entertainment. He had thirty

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Speaker 1: nine and eight against the Kings. Andrew Wiggins put some

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Speaker 1: respect on his name. He is shooting thirty nine percent

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Speaker 1: from three this season, which would be a career high.

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Speaker 1: Kelly Ubray four of six from three in this game.

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Speaker 1: He was two of thirty from three point land, coming

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Speaker 1: in doubling his total. And despite those numbers, he is

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Speaker 1: the most arrogant three point two sho blowing kisses out

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Speaker 1: there like he's Lee Ellis. I gotta give a lot

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Speaker 1: of love to Draymond Green. Green has played three games

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Speaker 1: this season and scored a total of six points. That's

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Speaker 1: two points per game. But he's got seventeen assists. He's

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Speaker 1: setting up guys enough course the defense, as the athletics

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Speaker 1: Marcus Thompson points out, he makes a huge difference on

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Speaker 1: that end, and he brings the fire. He is their

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Speaker 1: heart and soul. Look at him, Look at him bringing

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Speaker 1: that fire. Andrew Wiggins needs that in his life. And

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Speaker 1: speaking of arrogance, he is the most arrogant smoothie drinker

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Speaker 1: I have ever seen. Look at him. That could be

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Speaker 1: the most entertaining clip all year in the NBA and

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Speaker 1: it's just a man drinking as smoothie. This could be

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Speaker 1: the most entertaining team. As I said, it's fun when

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Speaker 1: the Warriors are good, just like what people say about

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Speaker 1: the New York Knicks so far, I think the Knicks

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Speaker 1: are the surprise of the season. They beat the Hawks

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Speaker 1: and now said at four and three. The Atlanta Hawks

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Speaker 1: gave up a double digit lead in this one for

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Speaker 1: the second consecutive game. I'm not sure how it happened

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Speaker 1: because the knickstarters hit one to three combined. Although Julius

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Speaker 1: Randall had twenty eight, RJ. Barrett had twenty six, and

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Speaker 1: they were down double digits in the third quarter and

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Speaker 1: their bench helped turn this thing around. Austin Rivers Kevin

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Speaker 1: Knox in em Manuel Quickly, a rookie out of Kentucky,

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Speaker 1: that Tom Thibodeau was playing the entire fourth quarter. Basically,

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Speaker 1: Tom Thibdau is saying, if it, I'm going for it.

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Speaker 1: I've got a tight rotation. I don't care. Austin Rivers

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Speaker 1: tried to tell us that this team was gonna be good.

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Speaker 1: They might not score enough, but they look like they

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Speaker 1: are going to play hard. They have a top ten

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Speaker 1: defense as advertised for a Tom Thibodeau team. The Hawks

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Speaker 1: also sit at four and three. Atlanta blew a second

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Speaker 1: consecutive double digit lead, But for some reason, I'm not

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Speaker 1: so worried about the Hawks. Maybe it's because they didn't

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Speaker 1: have a bunch of their guys down the stretch. Bog

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Speaker 1: Naan Bogdanovic was hurt, didn't play in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: Danilo Gallinari is out, Rajon Rondo sat on the bench,

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Speaker 1: was a healthy scratch, just didn't play in this game.

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Speaker 1: I think it's just a young team finding their way.

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Speaker 1: One team I am worried about the Toronto Raptors. They

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Speaker 1: lost to the Boston Celtics and it wasn't close. This

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Speaker 1: was supposed to be a marquee game. This was supposed

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Speaker 1: to be a benchmark game for the Toronto Raptors, and

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Speaker 1: it started pretty well. The sixth consecutive game to start

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Speaker 1: the season for the Raptors where they had a double

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Speaker 1: digit lead. But they now sit at one in five

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Speaker 1: and the problems are long. They start with Pascal Siakam,

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Speaker 1: though if Siakam was playing to his capabilities, those other

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Speaker 1: problems really wouldn't matter. Siakam was an All NBA player

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Speaker 1: last season. Doesn't look like it at all. He just

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Speaker 1: doesn't have the confidence. He gets two feet in the

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Speaker 1: lane and is looking to pass a bunch. Although this

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Speaker 1: game was better for Pascal Siakam, he's just not playing

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Speaker 1: to his capabilities. He's playing with two small guards who

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Speaker 1: can't get to the rim, him Ognanobi and Aaron Bains

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Speaker 1: As the front line have gott to do better for

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Speaker 1: Kyle Lowry and Fred Van Vliet, and then the bench

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Speaker 1: comes in and they struggle. The Raptors have the third

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Speaker 1: worst offense in the league. This is how bad it

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Speaker 1: got the second half. Alex Lenz started in place for

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Speaker 1: Aaron Bains. Baines has definitely struggled, and it's official, Len

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Speaker 1: and the Raptors have stole my sunshine. And I'm okay

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Speaker 1: making that joke. I've been in the Alex lenn corner

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Speaker 1: since he was drafted in twenty thirteen, so I'm fine

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Speaker 1: making that until he is retired. Listen, the Raptors don't

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Speaker 1: have a home. They're playing in Tampa. The fans in

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Speaker 1: Emily Arena are more neutral than anything. Some of the

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Speaker 1: thirty seven h attendance were chanting for Boston's tackle Fall

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Speaker 1: to enter the game in the third quarter, not even

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Speaker 1: the fourth in the third thanks to Blake Murphy of

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Speaker 1: The Athletic for that info. They have flown a lot,

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Speaker 1: not playing more than one game in the city, and

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Speaker 1: now they're off for a four game road trip in

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Speaker 1: six nights on the West Coast. As Fred van Vlietz said,

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Speaker 1: and as I just did, the rap can make plenty

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Speaker 1: of excuses, but they're not making those excuses. One thing

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Speaker 1: Kyle Lowry said that he's learned after six games, it's

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Speaker 1: a fine line between being good and bad. Preach man,

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Speaker 1: it is a very fine line. The reps look great

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Speaker 1: and not so great in the same game. One thing

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Speaker 1: that did give me sunshine. Jalen Brown posted a video

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Speaker 1: of his teammate Peyton Pritchard after the game, a former

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Speaker 1: Oregon duck looking like a bit of a duck dancing

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Speaker 1: in front of the fridge. Yeah, there's some duck like

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Speaker 1: qualities of Peyton Prichard right there. That team feeling good

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Speaker 1: on that end. One guy I was a little worried about,

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Speaker 1: which I shouldn't have been. Luka Doncic. Doncic returned after

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Speaker 1: a one game absence and Dallas beat the Rockets in

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Speaker 1: a thirteen point win. We talked about him yesterday here

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Speaker 1: on what you need to know. He isn't in tip

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Speaker 1: top shape, but he looks so good in this one.

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Speaker 1: He had season highs across the board with thirty three points, rebounds,

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Speaker 1: and eleven assists. Doncic now has three of the five

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Speaker 1: thirty fifteen ten performances in NBA history by players younger

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Speaker 1: than age twenty two. The others were Oscar Robertson and

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Speaker 1: Magic Johnson. See now it feels like last year, like

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Speaker 1: normal Luca times, I give you a stat and it

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Speaker 1: just washes over you. Why I included it, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to ESPN and Elias for that. MAVs coach Rich Carlisle.

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Speaker 1: He addressed that Doncic is kind of behind the curve

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Speaker 1: and it just takes one mention on what you need

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Speaker 1: to know for a guy to snap back. MAVs took

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Speaker 1: care of business against Houston. The Rockets effort just wasn't

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Speaker 1: good enough. They're two and three. They could be good

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Speaker 1: with the amount of talent they have, but they are not.

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Speaker 1: Am I jumping to a conclusion after one game? Yes,

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Speaker 1: but they just don't look that cohesive. When is this

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Speaker 1: James Harden trade gonna happen? It's gotta happen soon, right.

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Speaker 1: One guy many thought was gonna be traded, Indiana's Victor Olade.

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Speaker 1: He played a big part in the Pacers wild comeback

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Speaker 1: over the New Orleans Pelicans. Down six under thirty seconds

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Speaker 1: left means a team is usually done. Here's a stat

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Speaker 1: you are actually gonna like. Teams that were up six

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Speaker 1: points with less than twenty five seconds left only lost

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Speaker 1: twice in over eight thousand games the past ten years.

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Speaker 1: Supposed to be a lock, and it happened to the Pelicans.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to ESPN for that stat, twenty seconds remaining, the

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Speaker 1: lead was six when Victor Oladipo made a three forced

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Speaker 1: Victor Oladipo looks real good another year removed from that injury,

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Speaker 1: twenty one points per game, forty five point five percent

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Speaker 1: from three on seven attempts. He's making huge plays. What

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Speaker 1: is this man going to make in the offseason? He

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Speaker 1: just up that free agent class a little bit. Although

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Speaker 1: it seems like Oladipo loves it in Indiana right he

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Speaker 1: seems like he's really enjoying it, but rumors that he

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Speaker 1: is going elsewhere. Stan Van Gundy, Pelicans head coach, blamed

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Speaker 1: himself for the late turnover. All four Pelicans turnovers in

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Speaker 1: the fourth happened in the backcourt. That is a game

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Speaker 1: the Pelicans gotta win. The Pacers are five and two.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of standings, the seventy six ers have the best

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Speaker 1: record in the NBA at six and one. So why

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Speaker 1: haven't I mentioned them until this point? Well, they have

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Speaker 1: no real marquee win on their schedule. Sorry Nicks, not yet,

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Speaker 1: Sorry Raps not this season, and it's disappointing because the

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Speaker 1: Sixers play the Nets on Thursday, but Kevin Durant will

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Speaker 1: not be suiting up. Kevin Durant has been in contact

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Speaker 1: with someone who recently tested positive for COVID nineteen and

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Speaker 1: will miss the next four Brooklyn Nets games. He had

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Speaker 1: the virus in March and is registering antibodies, so he's

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Speaker 1: likely immune, but the NBA's COVID nineteen protocols don't distinguish

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Speaker 1: between those who have had the virus and those who

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Speaker 1: have it. Even though Katie doesn't currently have the virus,

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Speaker 1: He's going to miss the next four, including Philadelphia on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: That's a bit disappointing. That's it for me. Make sure

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Speaker 1: you check out the full No Dunks episode today. I'll

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Speaker 1: be back tomorrow to give you the news as fast

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Speaker 1: as I possibly can. And may the haters fuel you

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Speaker 1: like they're fuel and Paul George this season. Happy voting Day, Georgia,