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Speaker 1: Good morning, everybody. It was an eleven game night in

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Speaker 1: the Association that was riveting, including the forty ninth wedgie

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Speaker 1: of the season. So let's jump into some real good action.

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Speaker 1: We'll start with the Suns Warriors, number two versus number

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Speaker 1: eight in the West. The Golden State Warriors beat the

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Speaker 1: top two Western Conference teams twenty four hours apart after

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Speaker 1: beating Utah on Monday. The Suns came out with the

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Speaker 1: game plan, let's take the ball out of Steph's hands,

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Speaker 1: a strategy I'm sure we'll see next week. In the

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Speaker 1: play in and Curry couldn't find his rhythm, hitting only

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Speaker 1: one of eleven threes. So who stepped up when Curry

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Speaker 1: moved it along? Well? Second year Warrior Jordan Poole and

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Speaker 1: the extremely talented and recently very very capable Andrew Wiggins.

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Speaker 1: On a sequence with under two minutes left, Poole hit

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Speaker 1: a three to give the Warriors their first lead to

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Speaker 1: the second half. Curry poked the ball from Devin Booker

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Speaker 1: on the other end, doing what he could to help

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Speaker 1: out on this night. Van Curry was triple team and

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Speaker 1: Wiggins drove and hit a little baseline fade to make

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Speaker 1: Chase centers four thousand plus go nuts. Little flashback to

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Speaker 1: the Warriors elite days, Wiggins ended with thirty eight to

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Speaker 1: go along with pools twenty. Wiggins was seventeen of twenty

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Speaker 1: four from the floor, and of course you can't expect

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Speaker 1: that every night, but his production has been overlooked recently,

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Speaker 1: including by me. Steph has taken all of my attention,

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Speaker 1: and it's not a short stretch at all. Wiggins last

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Speaker 1: twenty nine games over twenty points per game on forty

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Speaker 1: eight percent from the floor and thirty eight percent from three,

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Speaker 1: and the Warriors continue to play great defense. Does anyone

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Speaker 1: want to see this team? Speaking of teams they could

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Speaker 1: see in the playoffs, some quick news about the number

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Speaker 1: one seeded Utah Jazz. Donovan Mitchell will sit out the

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Speaker 1: rest of the regular season with an ankle injury. The

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Speaker 1: play attorney gives him several more games to get it

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Speaker 1: right next week. But I'm a little more concerned about

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Speaker 1: Mike Conley and his hamstring injury. He'll hopefully be back

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Speaker 1: soon for Utah. Hopefully he's been out nearly three weeks.

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Speaker 1: Moving along, some sexy ball in the Association yesterday Nuggets

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Speaker 1: and Hornets and Nuggets put on an absolute show in

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Speaker 1: an impressive and enjoyable win over Charlotte. The passing of

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Speaker 1: this team, of course, led by Nikola Jokich, who had

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Speaker 1: another marvelous baseball pass, swinging it along the floor, then

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Speaker 1: a sidearm whipping type of skip pass. But Facundo Compazzo,

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Speaker 1: the thirty year old Argentinian rook who's been starting since

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Speaker 1: about the time Jabal Murray went down, had a beautiful

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Speaker 1: lead pass the Aaron Gordon. The spin on that thing.

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Speaker 1: The trekery other than spoiling us, Faku and Jokic out

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Speaker 1: there really elevate Gordon and Michael Porter Junior with their

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Speaker 1: willingness to pass. Jokich and Porter Junior had thirty points

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Speaker 1: each on this night. I can't wait to find out

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Speaker 1: if the Nuggets guards without Murray and Faku, Compazo, Austin

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Speaker 1: Rivers and Monte Morris filling in will make enough shots

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Speaker 1: to win in the playoffs. That should be a blast.

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Speaker 1: The Nuggets will start at home, though they clinched home

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Speaker 1: court advantage in round one with the win over Charlotte,

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Speaker 1: They currently sit fourth in the West. The Hornets clinched

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Speaker 1: a play in spot with the Bulls losing to the

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets. A successful season for the Charlotte Hornets, no

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Speaker 1: doubt Knicks, Lakers, no Lebron James, He's waiting another game

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Speaker 1: to get his ankle right. And still no Dennis Shooter

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Speaker 1: for the champs either. I see a comment here from

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Speaker 1: Sidney Irving passmante here on YouTube that it was like

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Speaker 1: a playoff game, and it was. It was a battle

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Speaker 1: with the Knicks. The Knicks led by their two best

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Speaker 1: players besting the Lakers early. Julius Randall had you know,

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Speaker 1: one of the game's best defensive bigs guarding him and

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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis, but Randall had no problem going right at him.

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Speaker 1: He was just bullying and getting to his spots in

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Speaker 1: the first half some bully ball, some bubble bat, bully ball,

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Speaker 1: derreck Rosse continued dropping his array of shots to give

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Speaker 1: him sixteen first half points, but the Lakers Kyle Kuzma

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Speaker 1: to make it a close game at half, and the

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Speaker 1: Lakers needed every bucket they got out of their role

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Speaker 1: players because the Knicks front line defense did a real

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Speaker 1: nice job on Anthony Davis, shout out to Tibbs, and

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Speaker 1: this looked like the next game until Wesley Matthews had

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Speaker 1: a put back score to send it to overtime. This

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Speaker 1: winning three in overtime. THHD, that guy is talented. Two

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Speaker 1: great defenses in this battle. This game went to overtime

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Speaker 1: and only got to two hundred points combined. The Knicks

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Speaker 1: are now in a three way tie for fourth in

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Speaker 1: the East with the Hawks and the Heat. The Lakers

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Speaker 1: still trying to get out of that play in tournament.

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Speaker 1: We'll stick with the East here for a sec. Miami

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Speaker 1: and Boston. I cringe every time I say, if you squint,

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Speaker 1: you can see the bubble heat in this year's heat.

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Speaker 1: But screw it, it's happening right now. There's regular season

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Speaker 1: Rondo and there's regular season Spolstra. Head coach Eric Spoltra

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Speaker 1: is getting all his guys ready for the postseason. Here,

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Speaker 1: so many contributors, so many contributors, excuse me. Goran Dragic

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Speaker 1: representing for the gray Haired fellas Tyler hero Ten of

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Speaker 1: fifteen versus Boston. Same for BAM. Out of Bio ten

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Speaker 1: between seventeen and twenty four points. Just squint you can

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Speaker 1: see it. And that's without Jimmy Butler, who left the

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Speaker 1: game after being poked in the eye. Butler definitely squinting

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Speaker 1: after that one. The Miami Heat have clinched and Eastern

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Speaker 1: Conference playoff berth and will not be in the playing tournament,

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Speaker 1: while the Boston Celtics most definitely will be sticking with

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Speaker 1: one more game here in the East Philly and Indy.

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Speaker 1: The seventy six ers came in with a chance to

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Speaker 1: clinch the best record in the Eastern Conference. That commendable

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Speaker 1: accomplishment will have to wait another night, mainly because of

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Speaker 1: Karis Lavert and his late game heroics. Both teams were

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Speaker 1: shorthanded no Joel and beat for Philly, but Lavert was

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Speaker 1: the best shot maker and playmaker for either team down

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Speaker 1: the stretch. He was their closer. And he's done one

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Speaker 1: other thing and this is just selfish and personal. After

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Speaker 1: learning Boston's Jalen Brown is out for the season, I

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Speaker 1: was starting to sour a bit on the Eastern Conference

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Speaker 1: play attorney, but Karris Lavert reeled me back in along

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Speaker 1: with Domas Sabonis, who had sixteen, thirteen and fifteen assists

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Speaker 1: and is averaging twenty six points, fifteen rebounds, tenn assists

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Speaker 1: in May. Plus TJ McConnell's scrappiness. I'm in on the

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Speaker 1: Pacers and the play attorney Celtics, but then he got

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Speaker 1: the Pacers, Wizards, and Hornets. It's almost official. Those four

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Speaker 1: teams will be in it. Let's do this thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Bulls couldn't beat the Nets, slimming down their already

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Speaker 1: slim chances to play past the regular season. Scary moment

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Speaker 1: for Kyrie Irving in this game, rebound up in the air,

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Speaker 1: Kyrie was reaching up for it, and the much much

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Speaker 1: taller Nikolovucevic glided close to Irving to grab the ball,

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Speaker 1: and his elbows smashed hard into Kyrie's face. Kyrie left

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Speaker 1: he needs because his team has Kevin Durant on it.

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Speaker 1: Durance shots in this game, so buttery smooth. This guy

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Speaker 1: is ready for the postseason. He's just perfecting his craft

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Speaker 1: out there. He only took thirteen shots but only missed

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Speaker 1: four of them. Zach Lavine tried to match him. He

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Speaker 1: had forty one points of his own, but not enough.

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Speaker 1: Other good news for the Nets after essentially being out

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Speaker 1: since late March with the hamstring injury, James Harden will

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Speaker 1: be a game time decision tonight Wednesday versus San Antonio

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Speaker 1: Clippers Raptors. Los Angeles is spending their last four games

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Speaker 1: on the road, while the Raptors can't wait to end

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Speaker 1: their season long road trip and just get home already.

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Speaker 1: Clippers in a route nothing more to say. Timberwolves Pistons.

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Speaker 1: This was an entertaining team game between two teams looking

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Speaker 1: towards the future. Wolves Rickie Anthony Edwards game has been

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Speaker 1: quite loud this season, and he made a very skillful

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Speaker 1: move that you've probably seen before. That was a dribble hartstop,

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Speaker 1: half spin, fake come back and fade that Greg Kelser

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Speaker 1: called Kobe esque on the Pistons broadcast, and that was

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Speaker 1: definitely grabbed directly from Kobe Bryant. Karl Anthony Towns asks

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Speaker 1: after the game about his favorite Anthony Edwards moment this year,

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Speaker 1: and he said, every day is a moment. He's a

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Speaker 1: moment every day or a mom, as it's called in

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Speaker 1: the NBA Top Shot World. No time to say the

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Speaker 1: entire word, but you can spend hours and hours to

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Speaker 1: wait for a pack drop if you're in the mood.

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Speaker 1: Piston's rookie Killian Hayes has had more of a quiet

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Speaker 1: season than Anthony Edwards, but he has been great recently

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Speaker 1: since returning from an injury. Hayes now has thirteen straight

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Speaker 1: games with five plus assists. He can just flat out

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Speaker 1: play the point guard spot him Isaiah Stewart, Saban Lee

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Speaker 1: and Sadik bay who now has the most third most

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Speaker 1: threes for a rookie in NBA history with one hundred

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Speaker 1: and sixty nine, behind only Donovan Mitchell and Damian Lillard,

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Speaker 1: make a solid future in Detroit MAVs Grizzlies. The Grizzlies

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Speaker 1: put up one hundred and thirty three points on the MAVs.

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Speaker 1: I know we're just kind of to those numbers, but

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Speaker 1: that is a lot of scoring. Check the efficiency fifty

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Speaker 1: seven percent from the floor, forty eight from three to

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Speaker 1: ninety three from the free throw line. Johmmaran had a

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Speaker 1: big game with twenty four seven rebounds and eight assists.

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Speaker 1: The mass Christops Porzingis was in pregame warm ups, but

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Speaker 1: missed his seventh straight game with Ni sore in its

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Speaker 1: magic Bucks. The biggest thing to take from this game

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Speaker 1: is that Yanni Siepkumpo really doesn't like Mo Wagner. Actually,

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Speaker 1: bigger news Milwaukee will increase fan capacity at Pfizerforum to

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Speaker 1: fifty percent or approximately nine thousand fans. Home court advantage

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Speaker 1: is definitely something that Bucks missed in last year's Bubble,

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Speaker 1: like every team did. But let's see how much it

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Speaker 1: really did affect them. They are currently third in the East.

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Speaker 1: Thunder Kings last game here. The Kings kept their very

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Speaker 1: slim play in tournament hopes alive by beating the Thunder,

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Speaker 1: which also got the win by losing their eighth straight.

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Speaker 1: episode to take a look at that forty ninth wedgie

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Speaker 1: of the season. We're nearing fifty. This is ridiculous. I'll

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