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Speaker 1: Devin Booker is Anthony Davis's All Star replacement on the court.

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Speaker 1: LaMelo Ball gets under Devin Booker's skin, the NBA's best,

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Speaker 1: the Utah Jazz thrash, Lebron and the Lakers, and Kyrie

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Speaker 1: Irving wants Kobe Bryant's image to be the new NBA logo. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm tas Malus and this is what you need to

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Speaker 1: know in the NBA for Thursday, February twenty fifth. I

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Speaker 1: have never seen an All Star injury replacement named this

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Speaker 1: quickly since I've started watching basketball. There's probably no analytics

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Speaker 1: to back that up, but just gotta go with the

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Speaker 1: heart test on this one, because a mere twenty three

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Speaker 1: hours to be exact, after Devin Booker was snubbed as

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Speaker 1: an All Star reserve, well, he was named to be

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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis's replacement. When the King speaks, Adam Silver listens.

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Speaker 1: Lebron James spoke this into existence on Twitter, and I

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Speaker 1: assumed we were going to get an angry book in

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Speaker 1: his next game after being snubbed, and we did. But

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Speaker 1: you can blame LaMelo Ball for that. The Hornets rookie

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Speaker 1: does some high step in, some high dribbling, some high fullutin.

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Speaker 1: That's how he plays, but he backs it up. It

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Speaker 1: angers his opponents, and it angered Devin Booker so much

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Speaker 1: late in the game that book just tossed LaMelo to

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Speaker 1: the floor as he drove late in a Hornets win

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Speaker 1: in Phoenix. Phoenix is a legit playoff team. Charlotte went

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Speaker 1: in there and got contributions across the board and efficient

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Speaker 1: twenty for Melo. Gordon Hayward, back from an injury scare,

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Speaker 1: had twenty himself. Cody Zeller passing Bismack Biyondbo blocking Malik

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Speaker 1: Munk was the key though, twenty nine points off the

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Speaker 1: bench for the fourth year player out of Kentucky who

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Speaker 1: hasn't really been able to find his role in the NBA. Well,

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Speaker 1: the way he just fires every time he touches the ball.

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Speaker 1: The six man role is perfect for him having his

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Speaker 1: best season. He's shooting forty seven percent from three this year.

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Speaker 1: It's a good story. He violated the NBA's substance abuse

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Speaker 1: policy last year, So oh, if he can be a

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Speaker 1: part of this offensive squad, They're just getting contributions from everywhere.

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Speaker 1: Maybe the Hornets can be legit. Are we ready to

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Speaker 1: talk about the Utah Jazz being legit because they showed

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Speaker 1: the Lakers they are. Utah handled LA easily. It was

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Speaker 1: a blowout win, and they've been doing that a lot recently.

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Speaker 1: The Jazz have won twenty two of their last twenty

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Speaker 1: four games, and get this, twenty of those twenty two

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Speaker 1: wins were by double digits. The three ball is their

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Speaker 1: weapon of choice. The league is taking notice. They now

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Speaker 1: have a comfortable lead a top both LA teams in

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Speaker 1: the Western Conference, but it should be said the Lakers

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Speaker 1: were not at full strength with Anthony Davis and Dennis

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Speaker 1: Shruder out. Shrewders should be back Friday. Lebron continues to

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Speaker 1: log a lot of minutes. He's playing more than he

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Speaker 1: was last year, and he says he's not sitting anytime soon.

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Speaker 1: Is this to help his MVP narrative? Yeah, partly sure,

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Speaker 1: But like last year when the Lakers were celebrating the

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Speaker 1: championship and he said, quote, I want my damn respect,

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Speaker 1: he has been the best player of his generation and

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Speaker 1: a fifth MVP would be very respectful the Lakers. They

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Speaker 1: respect the Jazz. I think they do. They would still

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Speaker 1: be a favorite in that series against Utah, but they

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Speaker 1: are most definitely unnoticed that the Jazz can play with them,

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Speaker 1: just like you had to take notice of Shae Gildos

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Speaker 1: Alexander a career high forty two points after being snubbed

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Speaker 1: for the All Star Game. A kowinki dink, I think not.

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Speaker 1: He also had six threes, another career high. You know,

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Speaker 1: when a guy comes out and sort of plays out

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Speaker 1: a character shooting threes when he doesn't usually shoot that

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Speaker 1: many threes, you know, he's just saying to the world,

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Speaker 1: I can do anything. Although a lot of those were open,

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Speaker 1: and Shay Gildess Alexander can hit open shots. It was

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Speaker 1: a nice battle of two young guards in this league,

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Speaker 1: him versus de Jontay Murray of the San Antonio Spurs,

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Speaker 1: who doesn't get talked about a lot in this league.

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Speaker 1: Those two guys should be playing against each other for

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Speaker 1: a long time. That he had the youngies in this one,

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Speaker 1: he also had the oldies. A flashback Al Horford game,

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Speaker 1: and he made the pass to Lou Dort for the

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Speaker 1: game winning shot as lou Dort banged home with three

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Speaker 1: for OKC. Unfortunately, it wasn't a Shay to Lou pass

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Speaker 1: that would be the Canada connection. But anyway, Shae a

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Speaker 1: great name. Hopefully he becomes a one name guy in

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Speaker 1: the NBA, and he will with the way he's playing.

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Speaker 1: Another snub Jimmy Butler. He came into the game against

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Speaker 1: Toronto on Wednesday having hit four to threes all season,

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Speaker 1: and then against the Reps he hit three in one game.

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Speaker 1: You see guys do extraordinary things when they're told they're

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Speaker 1: not good enough, although this was pretty ordinary. Jimmy Butler

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Speaker 1: had fourteen in the fourth quarter as part of his

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Speaker 1: twenty seven. He always operates late, although he wakes up early.

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Speaker 1: This guy does it all. No first All Star honor

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Speaker 1: hangover for Zach Levine. He had thirty five points against

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Speaker 1: his old team at Chicago beat Minnesota. Same old for them.

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Speaker 1: They lost another close one despite having a new head

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Speaker 1: coach in Chris Finch and the same old for the

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Speaker 1: Boston Celtics as well well, Same old the last two

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Speaker 1: weeks anyways. In the last two weeks, the Celtics have

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Speaker 1: lost to many sub five hundred teams, including Detroit, Washington,

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Speaker 1: the Pelicans, and Atlanta twice, the latest coming on Wednesday night.

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Speaker 1: The Hawks hit a franchise record twenty three to three pointers,

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Speaker 1: including ten three pointers from Danilo Gallinari, which was a

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Speaker 1: career high for him and a franchise record for the Hawks,

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Speaker 1: breaking Steve Smith's old record of nine in nineteen ninety seven.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to Smitty. That's it. I'm done here. 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. Make sure you check out the

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Speaker 1: full No Dunks episode here on Thursday, and make sure

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