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Speaker 1: All Star Events participants have been announced, but things are

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Speaker 1: different this year. The Hawks played their first game since

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Speaker 1: letting go coach Pierce, so are they good now? And

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Speaker 1: MVP candidate NICOLEI Jokich is chasing Will Chamberlain for one

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Speaker 1: particular record. Hey, I'm Tasmelus and this is what you

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Speaker 1: need to know in the NBA. All right, So the

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Speaker 1: lineups for All Star Sunday events are here. Everything taking

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Speaker 1: place on Sunday, including the All Star Game this year,

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Speaker 1: and the three point field is fantastic. It's down to

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Speaker 1: six from eight, but it is packed with Steph Curry,

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Speaker 1: Devin Booker, Donovan Mitchell, two Celtics Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown,

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Speaker 1: plus Zach Lavigne rounding out the field. We missed it

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Speaker 1: Klay Thompson, but that is a star studded three point lineup.

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Speaker 1: As for the dunk contest, the names not in it

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Speaker 1: are the bigger headline than the ones in it because

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Speaker 1: Ion Williamson, Anthony Edwards, and Miles Bridges declined invites. According

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Speaker 1: to Yahoo's Chris Haynes, that would have been ridiculously good.

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Speaker 1: Zion Anthony Edwards, who had the dunk of the Year,

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Speaker 1: and Miles Bridges, who's been throwing it down on passes

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Speaker 1: from lamellow Ball. He could have been there throwing aloops.

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Speaker 1: That would have been incredible. Even Alex Caruso turned down

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Speaker 1: an invite, according to Bill orm of The Athletic Alex Caruso,

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Speaker 1: that's a shocker. There are only three participants this year.

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Speaker 1: That's down from four. I guess they're trying to speed

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Speaker 1: things up a little bit now. These guys can all

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Speaker 1: throw down, even though they're not big names. Nick's rookie

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Speaker 1: Obi Toppin is the big man dunker of the three.

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Speaker 1: The big man dunker can be hit or miss. Obi

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Speaker 1: Toppin has been thrown down this year for the New

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Speaker 1: York Knicks in limited minutes. PACER's second round rookie pick

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Speaker 1: Cassius Stanley out of Duke, a name many don't know,

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Speaker 1: but had a higher vertical than Zion at Duke. He's

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Speaker 1: kind of the medium size guy in this competition at six',

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Speaker 1: five SO i guess they got the better guy Than Zion, williamson,

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Speaker 1: Right Kasha, stanley that's sarcasm for. You And Blazers Anthony

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Speaker 1: simons rounds out this. Lineup he's the little guy at six'

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Speaker 1: three obi top And cashas Stanley And. Anthony simons it

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Speaker 1: just takes one to have a good night and make

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Speaker 1: it a. Good show good luck to. Those, guys also

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Speaker 1: there's a. Skills challenge i'm not going through. The lineup

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Speaker 1: you know how. It goes they throw through. The hoops

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Speaker 1: it's bigs, versus smalls smalls. Versus bigs moving on to a.

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Speaker 1: Little Basketball. The hawks they Beat The miami Heat in

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Speaker 1: atlanta's first game since firing Head Coach. Lloyd Pierce the

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Speaker 1: heat scored only, eighty points, and Yeah the hawks were after.

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Speaker 1: It Defensively trey young was hitting the floor getting after,

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Speaker 1: it defensively as was. His team teams often do this

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Speaker 1: when a coach. Is fired they want to, show, that

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Speaker 1: hey it's his fault that we weren't a, good team,

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Speaker 1: Not us look, at us we're. WORKING hard i don't

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Speaker 1: think that this is A sign atlanta will automatic be a,

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Speaker 1: better team even though They held miami to. Eighty, POINTS

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Speaker 1: okay i take, that back because they are going to

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Speaker 1: get better because they're getting some of their. Guys Back

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Speaker 1: Bog down bogdanovic hadn't played in. Two months he played

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Speaker 1: in this one he was a huge offseason acquisition fourth

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Speaker 1: year players several teams wanted in. The offseason Interim coach

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Speaker 1: nate McMillan will benefit. FROM that i Thought the athletic

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Speaker 1: article outlining The Way lloyd pierce butted heads with some

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Speaker 1: of his, young players Produced BY. SAM. A M chris

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Speaker 1: Kershner And, david aldridge was. Very interesting but to me

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Speaker 1: it was outlining a guy's a bunch of young guys

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Speaker 1: who just kind of feel Entitled And, lloyd pierce whether

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Speaker 1: he's stubborn and wasn't held or didn't hold himself accountable

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Speaker 1: for some of. The losses as the article, pointed out

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Speaker 1: it indicated to me that the young guys weren't ready

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Speaker 1: to be good players or weren't ready to be championship

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Speaker 1: level players and hold them. Cells accountable now that may

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Speaker 1: change Under coach. Nate McMillan maybe this shakeup will just

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Speaker 1: force the guys to. Grow up in, This Game trey

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Speaker 1: young played Like coach nate McMillan did With The, seattle.

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Speaker 1: Sonics distributing he wasn't a shooter for much of, the

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Speaker 1: game he was. A playmaker he only scored, eighteen points

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Speaker 1: but got hot in the fourth hitting three big threes

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Speaker 1: turned the game around Against The miami heat team that

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Speaker 1: Didn't Have. JIMMY butler i Think The orlando magic Game

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Speaker 1: on wednesday For the hawks will be more of an

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Speaker 1: indicator as to how Good this atlanta team, will be

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Speaker 1: Even though orlando is further down in the standings Than.

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Speaker 1: THE hawks i think, those games, you know after this

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Speaker 1: first game shine is kind of off Of, the hawks

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Speaker 1: is a better indicator of what this team. Will be,

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Speaker 1: moving On the grizzlies Mop. The Wizards the grizzlies are

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Speaker 1: having a good season despite a ton. Of injuries memphis

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Speaker 1: is backup Point Guard anthony melton had six Threes. Versus

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Speaker 1: washington maybe you don't Know De, ANTHONY melton, i UNDERSTAND

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Speaker 1: but i bring him Up because memphis has been so

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Speaker 1: impressive and a model for how front offices should build

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Speaker 1: small market teams IN. The nba melton was not Excelling.

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Speaker 1: In Phoenix the grizzlies knew he was a, better player

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Speaker 1: so they plucked them in a trade and got that

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Speaker 1: former second round pick on. Their roster so how do

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Speaker 1: you build a small market team IN? The, nba well

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Speaker 1: a big part is. The Draft the grizzlies, were bad

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Speaker 1: so they were able To Select john morant at the

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Speaker 1: number two Spot And Jaron jackson junior at the number.

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Speaker 1: Four spot then they got good At Drafting dylan brooks

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Speaker 1: in the. Second round they made draft day trades For Rookie,

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Speaker 1: Desmond Baine, Brandon Clark, xavier tillman another second. Round guy

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Speaker 1: they used the cap. Really well they were able To

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Speaker 1: Trade andre Egodala For justice winslow because they had cap

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Speaker 1: room To ingest igodala's big salary in the. First place

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Speaker 1: They Got jonas valanchunis in. A trade They Got grayson

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Speaker 1: allen in, a trade and the only free agents they

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Speaker 1: were able to sign as a small market team that

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Speaker 1: can't really signed big free Agents Or kyle Anderson And.

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Speaker 1: Tias jones and they're sixteen and fifteen despite all. THOSE

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Speaker 1: injuries i mentioned to some of their best players a

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Speaker 1: great story This year Clippers. And boston boston has been

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Speaker 1: up and down, this Year But kemba walker continued his

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Speaker 1: climb back from injury to his excellent water bugging self.

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Speaker 1: Out there kemba had twenty five had, six threes a

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Speaker 1: season high. For him best news For, The Celtics marcus

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Speaker 1: smart is working out and should be back after This

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Speaker 1: Weekend's all star breaks sometime next. Week hopefully also Good

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Speaker 1: News robert williams at the, center spot finishing games for

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Speaker 1: them as their. Backup center fun to watch that guy

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Speaker 1: get after it on. The boards they will be looking

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Speaker 1: for a trade at the deadline coming up later, this

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Speaker 1: month and From the, CLIPPERS side i get that achy

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Speaker 1: feeling about them watching them unable to. Close games it

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Speaker 1: feels like last year where they. Lacked chemistry, of course

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Speaker 1: they Didn't Have kawhi lah, this game who was out.

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Speaker 1: With backspasm SO am i being. A hater it's just

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Speaker 1: hard not to watch this team and get those feelings

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Speaker 1: of last year when they crumbled in. The postseason they

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Speaker 1: started the season twenty one. And eight they're three and

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Speaker 1: five over their last. Eight games it's probably just me

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Speaker 1: getting those bubble feelings back after watching them last Year.

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Speaker 1: In orlando they now sit forth In The western conference

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Speaker 1: Because the suns continue to rise in. The Standings the

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Speaker 1: suns have passed the clip after knocking off. The champs

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Speaker 1: speaking of, good stories first playoff appearance since twenty ten

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Speaker 1: coming Up. For Phoenix the suns are fifteen and three

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Speaker 1: over their, last eighteen And Despite devin booker getting ejected Versus,

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Speaker 1: the lakers their depth, was enough more than enough against

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Speaker 1: A depleted. Lakers squad The Skilled dario sharich comes off

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Speaker 1: their bench and led their team in the fourth Without

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Speaker 1: book Ten of dario's twenty one came in. THE fourth

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Speaker 1: i Love watching, dario PLAY and i Love Saying Dario

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Speaker 1: sharich lebron Thirty eight but With No, Anthony davis marcus

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Speaker 1: Sol or Kyle, kuzma Ah the sons were just too deep.

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Speaker 1: For Them the lakers Want The all star break now

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Speaker 1: with all of their INJURIES and covid related, protocol problems

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Speaker 1: only one more game for them before. The break It's

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Speaker 1: the Kangs. On wednesday Speaking, Of Kings Denver's nikolai jokich

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Speaker 1: is a king on the. Basketball floor denver Destroyed the Bucks,

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Speaker 1: and yannis who Mimed putting lebron's crown on his own head.

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Speaker 1: Last season remember that was that LAST season I said

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Speaker 1: I take jokich, for, granted recently it's hard. NOT to

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Speaker 1: i gotta, be honest it's hard. Not to, thirty, seven eleven.

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Speaker 1: And ten he just makes the game look. So easy

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Speaker 1: his fiftieth career. Triple double that is the second most

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Speaker 1: for a. Center ever the, first Well, it's wilt, Of

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Speaker 1: Course will chamberlain had seventy eight career. Triple doubles nikoli

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Speaker 1: okch gonna, pass that maybe even. Next season What A

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Speaker 1: Jared Dudley bucks nuggets. Game was it was the best

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Speaker 1: showing Of The denver. Nuggets season They. Destroyed milwaukee they

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Speaker 1: have won three in a row and our five games

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Speaker 1: above five hundred for the first time. This Season The

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Speaker 1: western conference finalists from last year finding. Their, way, Finally

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Speaker 1: finally i'm done with. That Story the spurs Beat. The

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Speaker 1: Knicks Canadian trey Lyles Led san antonio with. Eighteen points

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Speaker 1: lyles is the ninth player to Lead the spurs in scoring,

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Speaker 1: the Season tying memphis for the most in. The League

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Speaker 1: the spurs quietly five games above five hundred and tied

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Speaker 1: for fifth In. The west that's it. For me make

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Speaker 1: sure you check out The Full not dunks episode Here.

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Speaker 1: On wednesday i'll be Back on thursday to give you

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Speaker 1: the news as FAST as i. Possibly can i'll see

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