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Speaker 1: a ten game night in the Association. Hey, I'm tas

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Speaker 1: the NBA for April first, Hello, good morning to you.

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Speaker 1: Let's fire through the NBA stories this morning, because we've

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Speaker 1: got ten games to get through. As I said, no

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Speaker 1: time for April fools jokes. The Nets came back on

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Speaker 1: the Rockets. The Nets are like the Warriors in that

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Speaker 1: way from the last few years. Get down double digits,

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Speaker 1: no problem. We got this. Although James Harden left the

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Speaker 1: game in the third with hamstring tightness against his old

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Speaker 1: team earlier this season, Kyrie Irving told James Harden, Hey,

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Speaker 1: you're the point guard. I'm the shooting guard. Let me

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Speaker 1: take care of that. While Kyrie Irving without James Harden,

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Speaker 1: had to do both thirty one points and a season

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Speaker 1: to Joe Harris who is banging home threes. Will Joe

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Speaker 1: Harris lose minutes to all these guys? The Nets are

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Speaker 1: bringing in Steve Nash many balls in the air, but

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Speaker 1: Durant is still out. Steve Nash did say Harden's injury

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Speaker 1: They've only played seven games as a trio. That's a

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Speaker 1: Either way, the Nets are doing fine. They have moved

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Speaker 1: can sective games. The Lakers don't have Lebron or Anthony

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Speaker 1: He is being proclaimed the starter. I was wrong about that.

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Speaker 1: I thought Marcus sol would still be the starter with

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Speaker 1: could be playing because Andre Drummon. He sustained an injury

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Speaker 1: although it was really really difficult to get through. Drummond's

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Speaker 1: Number one pick Edwards doesn't win games on his own

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