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Speaker 1: On today's show, the NBA is strange right now, six

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Speaker 1: and eighty pounds, Zion Williamson is starting at point guard,

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Timberwolves are being sold to Alex Rodriguez, and

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Speaker 1: there are about three Dunk of the Year nominees on

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Speaker 1: one day.

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Speaker 2: There could have been more. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: There are ten games in the association on Sunday. It's

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Speaker 1: hard to keep track, but we will touch on every game.

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Speaker 2: Let's get to it. I'm Tasmellus and this is what

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Speaker 2: you need to know in the NBA for Monday, April twelve. Hey,

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Speaker 2: what's up, everybody?

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Speaker 1: Raptors in Madison Square Garden to take on the Knicks. First,

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Speaker 1: let's go back. Do you remember a couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: ago when the Timberwolves beat the Knicks, and Wolves rookie

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Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards was asked how they defended New York's game

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Speaker 1: winning attempt. Will listen again, gladly RJ.

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Speaker 2: Barrett caught it in. You know, if he would have

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Speaker 2: made a shot, we would live with it. I mean,

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Speaker 2: because that's what we wanted taking a shot. We didn't

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Speaker 2: want anybody else taking it.

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Speaker 1: Arschia Barrett may have been listening in this game versus

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Speaker 1: the Raptors, Barrett got the ball in a late game situation,

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Speaker 1: got an open three in the quarter with thirty four seconds.

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Speaker 2: Left, buried it.

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Speaker 1: Knicks fans can thank Ant for rejuvenating Barrett his last

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Speaker 1: five games twenty one points per game, sixty one percent

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Speaker 1: from the floor, nearly seventy percent from three, although he

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Speaker 1: was pretty decent even before Ant revealed the game plan

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Speaker 1: against the Knicks. This is what the Knicks we're hoping

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Speaker 1: for with that number three pick in a second season

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Speaker 1: to be Julius Randalls go to man. The Knicks are

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Speaker 1: hanging on to playoff hopes despite a tough second half schedule.

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Speaker 1: They're now back to five hundred.

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Speaker 2: Maybe RJ. Barrett is getting ready for Canada basketball this summer.

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Speaker 2: Cool story.

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Speaker 1: Canada basketball bought the floor the Raptors won the championship

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Speaker 1: on in twenty nineteen. The championship floor was in Golden State.

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Speaker 1: But they're taking that floor, rejigging it, putting all the

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Speaker 1: Foeba decals on it, and playing on it this summer

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Speaker 1: when they try and qualify.

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Speaker 2: For the two Tokyo Games.

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Speaker 1: Canad Basketball basically all Raptors fans have to look forward

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Speaker 1: to because the Raptor season still could make the play

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Speaker 1: in tournament. But Yaka bad loss even in those pretty

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Speaker 1: purples to the New York Necks. Moving on, Bulls Wolves.

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Speaker 1: Sunday was the one year anniversary of Carl Anthony Town's

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Speaker 1: losing his mom. The Timberwolves dedicated a seat in the

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Speaker 1: arena to Jackie, who was at every game cheering on

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Speaker 1: her son, with the Jackie Wolves jersey and some flowers

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Speaker 1: dedicated to her. It was only fitting. Towns hit a

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Speaker 1: big shot with forty five seconds left and sealed it

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Speaker 1: with free throws to beat Chicago. He had twenty seven

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Speaker 1: to twelve and eight assists. Another key maneuver, head coach

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Speaker 1: Chris Finch, had D'Angelo Russell coming off the bench. Russell

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Speaker 1: had a fantastic game twenty seven points on sixty nine

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Speaker 1: percent shooting. He was locked in. After years of being

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Speaker 1: in sales talks, Minnesota Timberwolves appear to have been sold.

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Speaker 1: Glenn Taylor met with baseball legend Alex Rodriguez and his

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Speaker 1: business partner Mark Laurie only weeks ago and they have

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Speaker 1: signed a letter of intent to sell the team.

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Speaker 2: Wow. Now it's still to be worked out.

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Speaker 1: All the details, the pricing and all that, so it

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Speaker 1: isn't totally locked in, although Alex Rodriguez and Mark Laurie

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Speaker 1: will be in the building on Monday night when the

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Speaker 1: Wolves take on the Nets. Now everybody asking will they move.

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Speaker 1: Alex Rodriguez played baseball in Seattle. The Seattle Sonics have

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Speaker 1: since moved, and people yearning for a team there. But

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Speaker 1: it will be part of the contract that the team

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Speaker 1: will not move. Of course, the contract can be torn

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Speaker 1: up and they can do what they want in the

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Speaker 1: later years, but appears that part of the deal is

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Speaker 1: that the team will not move. Karl Anthony Towns told

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Speaker 1: the story after the game about getting an Alex Rodriguez

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Speaker 1: jersey when he was younger at a Walgreens, a real

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Speaker 1: jersey that you know, it was a replica jersey that

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Speaker 1: just wasn't all that all that accurate, But he told

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Speaker 1: a great story. So Alex Rodriguez can't leave now. He

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Speaker 1: cannot leave. Interesting situation there in Minnesota. They need new

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Speaker 1: ownership and hopefully it's happening. Pelicans Calves watching a Pelicans

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Speaker 1: game is a little surreal. This mammoth man is bringing

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Speaker 1: up the ball for them. Hey, Zion, you're our best player.

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Speaker 1: You do everything better than everyone else. Doesn't matter if

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Speaker 1: you're six seven, two eighty or whatever you are. Just

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Speaker 1: bring the ball up. Zion Williamson literally bringing the ball

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Speaker 1: up to court. He was getting it in half court

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Speaker 1: sets earlier this season and acting as a decision maker,

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Speaker 1: but now he's just a point guard. With Lonzo ball out,

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Speaker 1: stan Van Gundy is letting Zion Williamson do everything. Doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter if Eric Bledsoe was also starting. Zion's the guy.

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Speaker 1: He scored twenty five in the first half first the Calves,

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Speaker 1: the most he's ever scored in a half. He finished

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Speaker 1: with thirty eight. He went sixteen of twenty three from

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Speaker 1: the floor. Typical Zion in a comeback win. They're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to rethink how they surround Zion and in the

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Speaker 1: offseason now that they have this very, very very unique

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Speaker 1: player playing at this incredible level. Great situation for David

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Speaker 1: Griffin and the Pelicans Atlanta Charlotte. Big win for the

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Speaker 1: Hawks without a couple big players, No Trey Young, no

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Speaker 1: Daniela Goallinari, no John Collins, no other guys DeAndre hundred

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Speaker 1: down the list. They're now featuring, bogged down Bugdanovic. He

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Speaker 1: had eight threes for the first time in his career.

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Speaker 1: Nate McMillan definitely doing that a little bit differently than

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Speaker 2: Also, Bugdanovic is getting healthy.

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Speaker 1: The Hornets didn't have a couple of their big guys,

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Speaker 1: but really the big story in this one was Miles

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Speaker 1: Bridge's going kaboom with a monstrous dunk of the Year candidate.

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Speaker 1: It was huge on Clint Capella. I didn't think Anthony

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Speaker 1: Edwards dunk from earlier this season could be topped. We'll

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Speaker 1: probably debate this on the Daily Show today, but oh.

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Speaker 2: My, that tops it. Right.

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Speaker 1: I'm in Miles Bridge's corners. That was a detonation on

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Speaker 1: Clint Capella. Moving on Pistons, Clippers, just wanted to note

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Speaker 1: how well Paul d has been playing recently, because right

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Speaker 1: now Kawhi Leonard is getting the guy he signed up

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Speaker 1: to play with. Simply, Paul George is playing like a superstar,

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Speaker 1: taking over, setting up teammates, hitting threes at a ridiculous clip,

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Speaker 1: and he absolutely detonated himself on rookie Isaiah Stewart.

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Speaker 1: This was Indiana Pacers. Paul George. He used to dunk

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Speaker 1: on people him, obviously, the Miles Bridges Lonnie Walker had

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Speaker 1: one in San Antonio. It was a strange night for jams.

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Speaker 1: Dunk of the Year candidates all over the place, although

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Speaker 1: let's not put him in the same category. Milesbridge tops

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Speaker 1: that Anthony das Man. There's too many. The Clippers beat

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Speaker 1: the Pistons on the back of thirty two from PG.

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Speaker 1: They also got thirty three from Marcus Morris, who is

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Speaker 1: scorching hot. The Clippers have won five in a row.

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Speaker 1: They're technically the hottest team in the league. They now

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Speaker 1: sit third in the West. Denver Boston. It was a

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Speaker 1: strange night on Sunday. Strange Day as well. The Celtics

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Speaker 1: were down fourteen late in the third, then they went

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Speaker 1: on a thirty one to three run. The Nuggets had

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Speaker 1: won eight in a row. They were the hottest team

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Speaker 1: in the league no more. Michael Porter Junior hurt his

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Speaker 1: fingers on a jam. Hit his fingers on the rim.

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Speaker 1: Strange day, Strange day. He still played with him. Had

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Speaker 1: a bad shooting night though. Nuggets finally lost, snapping a

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Speaker 1: streak of eighteen straight games with twenty five assists at

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Speaker 1: least in each game. The Nuggets got smoked when Nikolea.

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Speaker 1: Jokic sat in this one. Sorry Jokic, you just can't

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Speaker 1: sit man, You gotta play. The Celtics have won five

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Speaker 1: of six Spurs MAVs. Always nice to see a vintage

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Speaker 1: Damar DeRozan game. He had thirty three thirty three excuse me,

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Speaker 1: including the game winner, a side staff game winner. Let

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Speaker 1: the kids do it, Damar stepping into one beating the MAVs.

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Speaker 1: The Bucks beat the Magic without Yanni, said Gumbo. He's

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Speaker 1: missed five straight with a troublesome knee and the Bucks

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Speaker 1: do not have a timeline for Yannis to return. Is

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Speaker 1: it time to worry about that knee? Or are the

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Speaker 1: Bucks just being cautious? That could definitely just bet they

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Speaker 1: could be cautious. It just kind of came out of nowhere,

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Speaker 1: and they're being quiet about it. So I'm speculating, what

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Speaker 1: are you hiding there, Milwaukee, But it's probably just nothing,

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Speaker 1: because he did play through it a little bit as well.

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Speaker 1: They're probably just being safe just when teams are quiet,

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Speaker 1: I speculate. Miami Portland, the heat absolutely took Damian Lillard

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Speaker 1: out of the game and forced others to beat them,

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Speaker 1: and it worked. Lillard made just three shots and heat

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Speaker 1: victory as they held Portland under one hundred points. Indiana Memphis,

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Speaker 1: the Pacers are getting healthier. They got thirty four from

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Speaker 1: Karroslvert and got a victory despite Jonas Valancunas with thirty

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Speaker 1: four himself, to go with a beefy twenty two rebounds.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll touch on that on the Daily Show.

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

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Speaker 1: as fast as I possibly can.

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Speaker 2: I'll talk to you that experients, the Chile Exporting Experience,

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