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Speaker 1: For Thursday, January twenty eighth, Laker seventy six ers was

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Speaker 1: the game of the night on Wednesday. Were we witnessing

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Speaker 1: a preview of a finals rematch twenty years later two

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Speaker 1: thousand and one. We had Shaq and Kobe versus Alan

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Speaker 1: Iverson and to Kevi Matumbo. No tylu jokes allowed. I'll

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Speaker 1: take it. This was fun. Things got testy. The Lakers

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Speaker 1: seem like they're destined to be there. And Joel Embiid

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Speaker 1: while he's leading the Sixers and they are having their

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Speaker 1: best season, and he got the best of Marcas sol

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Speaker 1: in this one, overcoming the Joel Embiid stopper. Marca sol

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Speaker 1: Embid had twenty eight points, six boards, four assists and

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Speaker 1: two blocks against that guy who used to stop him,

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Speaker 1: and Gasol paid Philly a very high compliment after the game.

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Speaker 1: He said, I think all the players accepted their roles

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Speaker 1: and want to excel in them. They know what they

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Speaker 1: want to live by offensively and defensively, and that's what

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Speaker 1: appears to make this Sixers team the best version of

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Speaker 1: Embiid Simmons we have seen. Although there was a scare

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Speaker 1: in the third quarter. Embiid went up for a dunk

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Speaker 1: and Lebron put two hands on Himbiid he put hands

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Speaker 1: but he stayed in the game. Flagrant one for Lebron

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Speaker 1: with an elbow on the other end, another flagrant one.

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Speaker 1: It looked like they were about to give up a

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Speaker 1: fragrant loss at the end of this game as well, Sixers.

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Speaker 1: That did make sense. Sixers were up twelve with three

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Speaker 1: both ends. The Lakers went on a thirteen to ozer

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Speaker 1: Lakers lose their first game on the road this season.

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Speaker 1: They're ten to one, not going to catch the Warriors.

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Speaker 1: Record of fourteen straight wins on the road to start

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Speaker 1: looks like the Lakers can turn it on whenever they want,

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Speaker 1: they get a little bored here in the regular season. Understandable.

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Speaker 1: Let's get to the team that LA faced in the finals,

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Speaker 1: the Miami Heat. They do not look like they can

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Speaker 1: coronavirus had to do their thing protocol for Heat fans

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Speaker 1: The Heat are so shorthanded right now and have been

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Speaker 1: for weeks. Great sign though, Jimmy Butler joined his team

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Speaker 1: the first time in nine games, but the Nuggets were

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Speaker 1: they're MVP candidate. Booied this team while they tried to

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Speaker 1: Gotta be a battle in the Western Conference playoffs. Lakers, Clippers,

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Speaker 1: the MAVs front line. Twenty nine points and twenty rebounds.

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Speaker 1: a great night from Joe Ingles. He had a season

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Speaker 1: into this season the Sweetheart Calves. They got back to

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Speaker 1: five hundred beating Detroit. Piston's head coach Dwayne Casey sees

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Speaker 1: He had fourteen Former Piston Andre Drummond gave it to

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Speaker 1: The Pistons have won twenty two percent of their games.

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Speaker 1: They're four and fourteen Pacers, Hornets, Pacers. Demantas Sabonis is

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Speaker 1: The Brooklyn Nets are still learning each other. James Harden

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Speaker 1: He had thirty one on the night. Head coach Steve

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Speaker 1: Nash really looking forward to some off days coming up

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Speaker 1: to get practices in thanks to the AP for that reporting.

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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant had thirty two points himself. The Nets just

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Speaker 1: DeMar DeRozan just talked about him. He hit a jumper

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