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Speaker 1: On today's show, Anthony Edwards displays why the Wolves took

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Speaker 1: him number one, seven to five, Taco Fall pulls out

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Speaker 1: some nimble footwork, and Nikola Jokic tells us what animal

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Speaker 1: his dunks resemble. So much wildlife talk coming up. Hey,

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

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Speaker 1: know in the NBA for Thursday, May sixth Hey, what's

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Speaker 1: up everybody. We're starting with the Grizzlies and the Timberwolves.

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Speaker 1: Because this was the game. It was one of those

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Speaker 1: very special Anthony Edwards games where he shows the whole

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Speaker 1: bag of tricks. The catch and shoot three point shots,

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Speaker 1: the step back three point shots, the driving, absorbing contact

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Speaker 1: and scoring plays, the driving avoiding contact and scoring plays

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Speaker 1: with either a push shot or a euro step. The

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Speaker 1: shooting overall was very very special from Anthony Edwards eight

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Speaker 1: of nine from three, seventeen of twenty two overall, and

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Speaker 1: he attempted only one free throw for his forty two points.

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Speaker 1: The rook has the whole bag, but said he will

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Speaker 1: add something to his game this offseason. When asked what

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Speaker 1: he'd be adding, he said, quote, I ain't telling nobody.

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Speaker 1: I want to come back like Houdini that quote via

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Speaker 1: day More. Yes, he's providing the quotes. What will he

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Speaker 1: bring back next season because he does have it all.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he can make the nickname Ant disappear. It's not

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Speaker 1: going anywhere, but I still don't like it. I'll never

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Speaker 1: be a fan. Wolve's play by playman Dave Ben's repeated

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Speaker 1: this ant theory. I guess one would call it on

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Speaker 1: the broadcast. Ben said, take the fastest ant in the

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Speaker 1: world and make it the size of a human. If

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Speaker 1: it were the size of a human, it could run

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Speaker 1: two hundred meters a second, so a kilometer in five

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Speaker 1: seconds or a mile in eight seconds. I hate would

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Speaker 1: it be that fast if it were human sized? No,

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Speaker 1: its systems wouldn't allow it to even survive. Am I right?

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Speaker 1: I'm not a scientist. Don't listen to me. The Grizzlies

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Speaker 1: hung on to win behind John Morant's very special thirty seven.

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Speaker 1: Brant is so special he's leading his team into the

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Speaker 1: play in tournament. The grizz sit at five hundred and

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Speaker 1: it's going to be a fun mini tourney in the

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Speaker 1: West with these three teams. More than likely the Grizzlies,

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Speaker 1: the Warriors, the Spurs, and Currently, the Blazers would be

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Speaker 1: the fourth team, but Portland is riding high and trying

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Speaker 1: to get out of seventh in the Western Conference. They're

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Speaker 1: going to need to outscore teams to make any noise

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Speaker 1: at all in the playoffs with their sub par defense,

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Speaker 1: and they just had their highest scoring game of the

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Speaker 1: season versus Cleveland, dropping one hundred and forty one on

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Speaker 1: fifty seven percent shooting. Damian Lillard had thirty two and now,

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Speaker 1: for the first time the season, they get to come

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Speaker 1: home to some fans Friday. The Mota Center will be

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Speaker 1: at ten percent capacity and they'll be playing the Lakers,

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Speaker 1: who they currently trail for six in the regular playoff

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Speaker 1: spot by only a half game. The Lakers do have

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Speaker 1: it tough. They visit the Clippers on Thursday and then

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Speaker 1: the Blazers Friday, more than likely without Lebron for either game.

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Speaker 1: Knicks Nuggets. It was a bad night for the Knicks

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Speaker 1: from the jump. They committed three fouls in the first

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Speaker 1: twenty two seconds, and head coach Tom Thibodeau got hit

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Speaker 1: with a technical foul twenty eight seconds into the game.

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Speaker 1: Then it got worse from there. Nikola Jokic outscored the

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Speaker 1: Knicks on his own in the first quarter twenty four

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Speaker 1: to twelve. It was thirty four to twelve overall, and

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Speaker 1: the game was just a blowout from there. Jokic bullied

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Speaker 1: the Knicks in a twenty four point first quarter and

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Speaker 1: he was jamming on him. He had four dunks in

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Speaker 1: the game, and as Nuggets broadcaster Katie Winchy asked him,

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Speaker 1: this was a great quote. She asked him about his

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Speaker 1: dunks after the game. Listen, it was tiger dunks. You

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Speaker 1: know what's tiger dunk? Almost almost? Yeah, I think that

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Speaker 1: makes sense. You know, he just it's in his claws

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Speaker 1: and he kind of just drops it in. Never heard

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Speaker 1: it before, but kind of makes sense. Wizard's bucks. I

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Speaker 1: think you can call Russell Westbrook passes tiger passes. You know,

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Speaker 1: he drives, kind of drops it off and out of

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Speaker 1: his claws from his chest level with his hands open,

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Speaker 1: kind of like a tiger. Ah. The old debate is

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Speaker 1: Westbrook a cat or a dog? That goes way back

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Speaker 1: into our history. He's clearly a dog on the floor.

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Speaker 1: Another triple double twenty nine points, twelve rebounds, and seventeen

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Speaker 1: tiger assists, now only two back of Oscar Robertson's all

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Speaker 1: time triple double mark. With six games to play for

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Speaker 1: Washington this season, the Bucks hung on to beat Washington

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Speaker 1: as they feel good about themselves on the way to

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Speaker 1: the regular season finish line having won four straight, especially

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Speaker 1: feeling good about getting twenty nine from Drew Holiday. An

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Speaker 1: aggressive holiday to compliment Yanni's is what they need. The

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Speaker 1: Bucks hung on despite Bradley Beals forty two and this

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Speaker 1: money quote about his teammate howul netto quote, I call

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Speaker 1: him Wolfman. His name sounds like a wolf. Hou we

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Speaker 1: howl all night. Wow. In fact, Westbrook said he was

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Speaker 1: a wolf when we asked him if he was a

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Speaker 1: cat or a dog way back. Wow. The tie in.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for letting me know. Brad Beal loves puns, Fred Katz.

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Speaker 1: That's why the athletic pays you. The Big Bucks Sons Hawks.

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Speaker 1: The Suns had their five game win streak snapped. That's

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Speaker 1: all right. Despite having the NBA's best road record, there

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Speaker 1: is no shame in losing to Atlanta, especially on a

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Speaker 1: back to back. The Hawks pulled away early in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter, mostly because of their bench. The bench got

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Speaker 1: it done, scoring seventy four points total with the Knicks

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Speaker 1: loss Atlanta is only a half game back from the

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Speaker 1: four seed. The Jazz were happy to see the Suns

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Speaker 1: lose there in Atlanta. Combined with Utah's win over San Antonio,

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Speaker 1: Utah reclaimed the West's top spot, dropping Phoenix to one

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Speaker 1: game back. Jordan Clarkson had thirty and someone by the

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Speaker 1: name of Jack Brizuela got a very lifelike Jordan Clarkson

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Speaker 1: tattoo recently. That thing is spot on. Is that a calf? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I guess it is a caf that looks like a

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Speaker 1: handle in the background. Anyway, the seventy six ers kept

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Speaker 1: the NBA's longest active winning streak going going to the

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Speaker 1: Eastern Conference Here, winning their sixth straight game in a

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Speaker 1: route over Houston Philly is tightening their grip on the

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Speaker 1: one seed in the East. Joel Embiid only had to

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Speaker 1: play twenty five minutes and set after the game. Quote,

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Speaker 1: it's good and bad. You don't get the full conditioning

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Speaker 1: that you need for the playoff run. You want to

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Speaker 1: go into the playoffs upping your load, just to make

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Speaker 1: sure you're used to it when you get there. End quote.

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Speaker 1: That's definitely my number one question about embiid how he'll

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Speaker 1: play in heavy minutes with the most responsibility he's ever had.

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Speaker 1: The Sacramento Kings kept their slim playoff hopes alive behind

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Speaker 1: Marvin Bagley's season high thirty one points, including twenty four

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Speaker 1: in the first half in a win over Indiana, and

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Speaker 1: the Celtics blew out the Magic. Both teams got the

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Speaker 1: result they wanted. Boston's victory cigar seven to five. Big

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Speaker 1: Man Taco Fall got in the game into garbage time.

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Speaker 1: He had four blocks on four consecutive possessions, and he

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Speaker 1: He got into the lane shot fake defender jumped to

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Speaker 1: Footwork and a spin and a score. Celtics bench goes wild.

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Speaker 1: They are in six now in the Eastern Conference, four

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Speaker 1: now tied with the Miami Heat. They're trying to stay

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Speaker 1: in the playoff tournament, but the Hot Knicks and the

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Speaker 1: Hawks are holding off the Celtics and the Heat in

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Speaker 1: a great race. There. That's it for me. Make sure

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Speaker 1: you check out the full Nodunk's episode here. On Thursday.

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Speaker 1: I'll be back on Friday to give you the news

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Speaker 1: as fast as the possibly can. I'll talk to you

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