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Speaker 1: On today's show, Steph Curry's April has been insane. What

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Speaker 1: a show again, Nikola Jokic will not let go of

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Speaker 1: the MVP no matter what Steph says. And some good

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Speaker 1: news on the injury front. Finally, it was a nine

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Speaker 1: game night. We had a playoff game in Milwaukee. We

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Speaker 1: had a player blowing kisses to the fans. Let's get

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Speaker 1: to it. I'm Tes Mallis and this is what you

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Speaker 1: need to know in the NBA for Tuesday, April twenty.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, everybody. It was a fun Monday night in

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Speaker 1: the Association, so let's jump into it. Actually it didn't

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Speaker 1: start that fun. It didn't seem like it was gonna

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Speaker 1: be fun for me anyways. Golden State on the road

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Speaker 1: in Philly. Steph has been scorching hot, but he started

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Speaker 1: off slow, missed his first couple shots, and had three

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Speaker 1: turnovers in the first six minutes of the game. It's

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Speaker 1: like one of those Steph games where he's just a

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Speaker 1: little sloppy, but the ball Steve Kurt's gonna get mad.

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Speaker 1: I could hear the disappointment in the Great Mike Breen's

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Speaker 1: voice on the broadcast. He wanted to call a big game. Well,

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Speaker 1: am I reading into it? Was Mike Breen disappointed? Am

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Speaker 1: I projecting my own feelings? Perhaps because I wanted a

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Speaker 1: big game and then it started happening. Maybe it was

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Speaker 1: because Seth Curry was on the other side of the floor,

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Speaker 1: but Steph started raining down threes. Ten threes. Ten were spoiled.

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Speaker 1: Those numbers are just happening. He was in his zone

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Speaker 1: many ways. Of course, he comes off those downscreens. Draymond

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Speaker 1: Green's setting a slightly moving pick so he gets open.

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Speaker 1: Then you try and switch her soft double. Well, he's

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Speaker 1: just gonna dribble away behind the back, through the legs,

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Speaker 1: if you trap him like they did at the end

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Speaker 1: of the game, he just dribbled away from it and

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Speaker 1: just fired it up because he was so hot. Forty

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Speaker 1: nine points for Stephan Curry. April has been nuts. He

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Speaker 1: has hit ten threes in four games this month. Ten

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Speaker 1: threes and four games. That is more than any player

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Speaker 1: has done in their career, aside from Klay Thompson ten

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Speaker 1: threes in a game. Only Klay Thompson has done it

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Speaker 1: more than four times in their freaking career. He has

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Speaker 1: done it now twenty one times for his career April

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Speaker 1: forty points per game on fifty percent shooting through ten games.

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Speaker 1: That's the first since Wilt Chamberlain to do that. According

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Speaker 1: to ESPN, a lot of these numbers jumble together, but

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Speaker 1: when you hit the forty point mark, that's different. That

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Speaker 1: is definitely different. His thirty point streak is at eleven

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Speaker 1: straight games, taking the scoring title lead at thirty one

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Speaker 1: points per game, shooting forty nine from the floor, forty

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Speaker 1: three from three, and ninety two from the free throw line.

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Speaker 1: This season, those numbers looking like the year he was

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Speaker 1: the unanimous MVP. They absolutely are Draymond Green looking like

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Speaker 1: that year where Steph was the united unanimous MVP. Guarding

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Speaker 1: Joel Embiid, even though he took a huge hit early

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Speaker 1: from Embiid, he kept guarding him, did a really good job.

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Speaker 1: Embiid had a subpar shooting night, did have twenty eight points.

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Speaker 1: Kevon Looney started on Embiid, did a really good job.

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Speaker 1: Kevon Looney a little flashback to the Warriors run. He

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Speaker 1: had fifteen rebounds and they're doing some of that stuff

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Speaker 1: where they're doubling staph giving it to Draymond Green at

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Speaker 1: the free throw line. Defense had to collapse on Dremond Green.

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Speaker 1: Here comes Cavon Looney from the weak side for an alley,

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Speaker 1: but looked like those old Warriors, at least a few

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Speaker 1: of them there. Exciting stuff. We will see Golden State

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Speaker 1: in that play in tournament. At the very least, they're

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Speaker 1: not going anywhere. No Ben Simmons or Tobias Harrison. This

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Speaker 1: one for Philly. George Hill making his seventy six ers

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's given it up. Nikoli Jokich had

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Speaker 1: My god, he is so so good as well. And

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Speaker 1: so let's give a little good news here. Let's sprinkle

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Speaker 1: exciting games. The Hornets LaMelo Ball has been clear to

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Speaker 1: ten days. He was initially expected to miss the rest

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Speaker 1: He will come back to take the Rookie of the

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Speaker 1: Chris Ball passed Magic Johnson for fifth on the all

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter was the perfect ending for his night.

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Speaker 1: Chris Paul time in the fourth leading the comeback, but

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Speaker 1: the Bucks offseason pick up at point guard showed why

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Speaker 1: they got him. Drew Holiday, of all people, had a

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Speaker 1: big dunk late in the fourth a two hander surprised himself,

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Speaker 1: guess DeAndre Ayton was banged up late guarding Yannis, but

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Speaker 1: really intense game. Okay, see Washington. I cannot believe that

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Speaker 1: this came true. Immediately. We talked about lou Dort yesterday

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Speaker 1: the Athletics said, you know, they're gonna find an excuse

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Speaker 1: this three game run prior to last night sit against Washington,

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Speaker 1: it for the Washington Wizards Chicago Boston. No Kemba Walker,

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Speaker 1: concise still a homer reminded me of the late Tommy

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Speaker 1: this one, wrapping up to night a few quick ones.

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Speaker 1: The Spurs never say die. They got to win in

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Speaker 1: Indiana despite Indiana not having their big boys. No Demontae

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Speaker 1: Sibonis had a back thing. Myles Turner out indefinitely with

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Speaker 1: a partial tear in his toe. Tough season for the

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Speaker 1: Pacers continues. No Jimmy, no Bam, no Tyler, no problem

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Speaker 1: to He beat the Rockets, who were completing the always

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Speaker 1: the Rockets or just the loss. The Jazz beat the

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Speaker 1: this ending. In Detroit, former number four pick Josh Jackson

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Speaker 1: Then he had to seal it from the line. His

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Speaker 1: He got lucky. They were heckling him in Detroit. I

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Speaker 1: don't know who was there heckling him. So as soon

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Speaker 1: as he hit that second one, he blew a kiss

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Speaker 1: to him. Yeah, Josh Jackson, he's got the personality and

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Speaker 1: Make sure you check out the Fulton No Dunk's episode

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