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Speaker 1: On today's show, the champs are in danger of losing

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Speaker 1: their playoff spot, the Nets are having their worst stretch

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Speaker 1: of the season, and the former champs, the Raptors, are

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Speaker 1: having their worst stretch of their season, which is really

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Speaker 1: just their entire season.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I'm Das.

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

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Speaker 1: the NBA.

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Speaker 2: For Friday, May seven. What's up? Everybody? Happy Friday.

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Speaker 1: If I were to say the following statement before the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty twenty twenty one NBA season, you would probably

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Speaker 1: think I'm a madman, But it's true.

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Speaker 2: You're defending champion.

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Lakers are very much in danger of headed

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Speaker 1: to the play in Tournament, where they would have to

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Speaker 1: win one of two games to advance to the opening

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Speaker 1: round as visitors versus Phoenix or Utah. Six games left,

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Speaker 1: the Lakers currently don't have their starting super duper duper

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Speaker 1: duper star in Lebron James, their starting point guard in

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Speaker 1: Dennis Shrewder, and a solid bench piece in Taylor Horton Tucker,

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Speaker 1: and their biggest game left is tonight in Portland, who

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Speaker 1: they're tied with for sixth. It looked like they wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have Anthony Davis for it either. He left the Lakers

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Speaker 1: lost Thursday versus the Clippers when he said his back

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Speaker 1: quote locked up pretty bad in the first half. Ad

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Speaker 1: has had back issues a few times in his career,

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Speaker 1: as recently as last year's bubble. But he's ready to

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Speaker 1: go Friday to try and stay in their spot so

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Speaker 1: they can avoid the play in. Anthony Davis said postgame

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Speaker 1: the tournament wouldn't be bad for the group at all.

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Speaker 1: He looked at it as an opportunity. They need more

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Speaker 1: reps together playing well well, that was really what his

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Speaker 1: point was. But ideally he would like to avoid this scenario.

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Speaker 1: The playing starts in eleven or twelve days. They got

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Speaker 1: to get it together, and it starts Friday in a

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Speaker 1: game which is for the tiebreaker between LA and Portland.

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Speaker 1: When all is said and done, the Blazers just finished

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Speaker 1: a long six game road trip. Though sometimes when teams

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Speaker 1: come back from long trips for their first game home,

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Speaker 1: they're a little sluggish in that game. You know how

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Speaker 1: it is coming back from a long trip. Trips You

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Speaker 1: remember them now, You don't mean neither positive spin for

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Speaker 1: the Lakers. Anthony Davis does want to play, though he

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Speaker 1: doesn't want to rest and get fully healthy, along with

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Speaker 1: Lebron who could miss the next one, two or three games,

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Speaker 1: or Shrewder who needs another week ad wants to get

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Speaker 1: after it on Friday. If they do lose to Portland,

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Speaker 1: the team they would be lined up to play in

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Speaker 1: the first game of the play in tournament is the

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Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors. Lebron versus Steph Curry, the guy who

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Speaker 1: just grabbed a stronger grip on the scoring title lead

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Speaker 1: with a thirty four point game Thursday versus ok See.

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Speaker 1: The Warriors move the ball beautifully around Steph. They notched

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Speaker 1: thirty six assists on forty two field goals, and they're

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Speaker 1: home the rest of the way. They don't have to

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Speaker 1: leave Chase Center until the play in turn, so they

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Speaker 1: should be rested and spry and fresh.

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Speaker 2: Or maybe you'd.

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Speaker 1: Rather be the Brooklyn Nets, who are going through their

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Speaker 1: toughest stretch of their season right now. They suffered their

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Speaker 1: season high fourth straight loss versus Dallas on Thursday, and

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Speaker 1: they're losing grips on the two seed in the Eastern Conference.

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Speaker 1: But they all took the position of this is good

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Speaker 1: for us. It's happening now adversity. I can see them

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Speaker 1: on a motivational poster adversity, and there isn't a problem

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Speaker 1: when James Harden comes back.

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Speaker 2: I'm with these guys. This is good for them.

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Speaker 1: James Harden also said yesterday the plan is to return

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Speaker 1: for a game or two before the playoffs. There's been

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Speaker 1: a lot on Kyrie irving to playmake and score and

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Speaker 1: close recently, and Harden.

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Speaker 2: Just makes that overload go away.

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Speaker 1: Kyrie did have a season high forty five versus Dallas

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Speaker 1: that took advantage of turnovers and offensive rebounders offensive rebounds

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Speaker 1: like a team playing well tends to do. Dallas is

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Speaker 1: ten games over five hundred for the first time this season.

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Speaker 1: Back to the Nets, though head coach Steve pointed out

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Speaker 1: that the available bodies are the most they've had all year.

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Speaker 1: They have missed a lot of guys. It is a

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Speaker 1: sturdier situation than the Lakers, and yet they're losing now,

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Speaker 1: which is fine. They want to face some adversity before

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Speaker 1: the postseason because they haven't had to all season long.

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Speaker 1: In their first season together, Maz legend Dirk Novitsky was courtside,

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Speaker 1: and so was former president George W. Bush and former

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Speaker 1: First Lady Laura Bush. Luka Doncic took a picture with

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Speaker 1: the former president. Had to show that to you. I

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Speaker 1: don't know why I find it so funny, but it's

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Speaker 1: a hilarious photo that the mass posted there. I'm currently

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Speaker 1: wearing a Raptor shirt because it's the end for the

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Speaker 1: Toronto Raptors. They lost in perfect heartbreaking fashion versus the

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Speaker 1: Wizard's Thursday. Here was the Canadian tragedy, not playing their

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Speaker 1: franchise player in Kyle Lowry to start the game, but

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Speaker 1: the guy who was supposed to be their next franchise player,

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Speaker 1: Pascal Siakam, tied his career high with forty four points.

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Speaker 1: Fred van Vleet sends the game to overtime with a

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Speaker 1: triple and then they come up short. They're almost done

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Speaker 1: mathematically from the plan. Although they're all alone for seventh

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Speaker 1: in draft lottery odds. I heard the draft was deep

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Speaker 1: this season. Just a note on Pascal Siakaman is forty

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Speaker 1: four and he's painful. Painful season. He is the hero

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Speaker 1: that took the fall in this season long tragedy. The

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Speaker 1: game winners that went in and out so unlucky, the

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Speaker 1: pressure of being the guy having to change his mailing

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Speaker 1: address from Toronto to Tampa. It's been tough. He takes

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Speaker 1: the blame, but he has battled. Anyways, looks like it's

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Speaker 1: over for Toronto.

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Speaker 2: It was a run.

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Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook continues his run. He had a triple double

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Speaker 1: and is now only one away from tying Oscar Robertson

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Speaker 1: for the all time lead. Raps appear done. And even

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Speaker 1: though the Bulls got Zach Levine back from an eleven

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Speaker 1: game absence, I can't believe it's been that long. Looks

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Speaker 1: like the Bulls are done to Lavine had thirteen and

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Speaker 1: the guy he's gonna want to get to know down

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Speaker 1: the stretch here. Nikolovucevic had twenty nine and fourteen in

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Speaker 1: a win over Charlotte in what looked like a nineties

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Speaker 1: throwback game.

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Speaker 2: Bulls classic whites.

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Speaker 1: On the hornets teal court, but they would have never

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Speaker 1: worn white on the road back then.

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Speaker 2: No way.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, the Bulls are three and a half games back

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Speaker 1: of the Wizards for the final playoff spot or the

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Speaker 1: play in spot.

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Speaker 2: I guess we should call it.

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Speaker 1: With six games to play, the Pistons beat the Grizzlies,

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Speaker 1: who dropped to eighth in the West, and the Pacers

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Speaker 1: beat the Hawks, led by Kris Lvertz nine points in

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Speaker 1: the final two seventeen. It was a wild week in Indiana,

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Speaker 1: with an assistant coach getting suspended for yelling at a player,

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Speaker 1: extensive reports about the locker room and what's going on

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Speaker 1: and there. We will get into it on the drop

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Speaker 1: here on Friday. Make sure you tune in for that.

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Speaker 1: I will be back Monday to give you the news

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Speaker 1: as fast as I possibly can. Have a great weekend.

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