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Speaker 1: Zion Williamson has his best game of the season, Joel

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Speaker 1: Embiid continues his MVP run, and Bradley Beale passes Michael

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Speaker 1: Jordan for a modern day record. And I'm not really

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Speaker 1: even forcing this mjstat aggregate that please. Hey, I'm tasmelus.

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Speaker 1: It was a ten game night in the Association. This

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Speaker 1: is what you need to know for a Thursday, February fourth.

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Speaker 1: But I'm gonna start in Sacramento, where the young Kings

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Speaker 1: are ready to break some hearts again. You know what

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about, Kigs fans. They have broken your hearts

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Speaker 1: oh so many times. Are you ready to do it again?

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Speaker 1: Are you ready to be vulnerable? Let them in? Let

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Speaker 1: them in so they can shatter your hearts. Because the

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Speaker 1: Aaron Fox and Tyrese Haliburton, who they're taking you for

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Speaker 1: a ride. They've now won five in six after beating

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Speaker 1: Boston on Wednesday night, and after the game, Celtics head

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Speaker 1: coach Brats Stephen said, Fox and Halliburton are a handful.

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Speaker 1: That's what you want to hear. What you also want

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Speaker 1: to hear is that they did it with defense. They

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Speaker 1: grinded it out in the fourth quarter while on the

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Speaker 1: other side, the Aaron Fox continued his fourth quarter heroics,

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Speaker 1: doing it in spectacular fashion, scoring half of his game

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Speaker 1: high twenty six in the quarter, and Haliburton Rookie of

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Speaker 1: always in the right place at the right time. A

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Speaker 1: great play to end the third quarter, Buddy Healed heaved

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Speaker 1: He's just great all the time. Five threes in this

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Speaker 1: one for his twenty one points. Now, the Celtics played

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Speaker 1: without ball handlers all over the place. Kemba Walker resting

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Speaker 1: let's not spoil it for Kings fans. That was a

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Speaker 1: blast speaking of rest, just like Kemba Walker there. I

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Speaker 1: thought the Wizards were going to lose again when Russell

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Speaker 1: No dunks has got to get their hands on those.

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Speaker 1: This is not David Stearns dress code. Anymore, No, sir,

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Speaker 1: But the Wizards fought back from a thirteen point second

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Speaker 1: half deficit. Bradley Beal had thirty two and Miami only

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Speaker 1: had thirty two points the entire second half. As Tim

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Speaker 1: Reynolds pointed out, the Heat missed seventeen of their final

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Speaker 1: twenty one threes, went one of nine from deep in

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Speaker 1: thirteen in the third where Bradley Beal wasn't exactly hot

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Speaker 1: in the second half. Jimmy Butler said after the game,

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Speaker 1: We've got to be who we say we are. He

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Speaker 1: had a heat. Their offense continues to struggle. Bradley Beal

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Speaker 1: his offense not struggling. He has now scored twenty five

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Speaker 1: plus points in seventeen consecutive games to begin the season,

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Speaker 1: which passed Michael Jordan for the longest such streak to

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Speaker 1: begin a year since the merger. Rick Barry was the

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Speaker 1: last to do at least seventeen games in nineteen six

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Speaker 1: Sun's Pelican's Chat with a finely manicured zion Williamson's stat

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Speaker 1: you know one of those are you picking? You choose

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Speaker 1: which compares him to Michael Jordan. But even for me,

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Speaker 1: know is that Zion had his best game of the

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Speaker 1: season as Nolin's blew out Phoenix. He was so efficient

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Speaker 1: night and it showed on the floor. Philadelphia Shallotte Joel

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Speaker 1: Embiid dominated with thirty four points for Philly and it

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Speaker 1: That was a blast. A team that Philly is holding

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Speaker 1: the Bucks hit twenty threes in a game just four

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Speaker 1: After doing it to Indiana on Monday, Jannis again zero threes,

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Speaker 1: the MAVs just decided to get the ball out of

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Speaker 1: its part for the Atlanta Hawks. They lost Rajon Rondo's

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Speaker 1: Marta Rozen had thirty for the Spurs, and Yaka Pearl,

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Speaker 1: COVID testing news out of the NBA via the Athletics

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Speaker 1: Shan Sharanya. Zero NBA players tested positive for coronavirus out

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Speaker 1: January twenty seventh. Adam Silver did say January was going

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Speaker 1: to be difficult, but February was hopefully going to be different.

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Speaker 1: So far, so okay. Here for the NBA, although I

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Speaker 1: in my city of Atlanta, which is scheduled to sort

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