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Speaker 1: On today's show. In the words of Trey Kirby and

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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis, the Lakers are back. The Knicks have their

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Speaker 1: first winning season in many, many seasons. Russell Westbrook does

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Speaker 1: something only done twice before in NBA history. There was

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Speaker 1: a Marvel Knight in New Orleans. Characters shooting in from

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Speaker 1: all over the place. Trey Young's teammates were shooting it

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Speaker 1: in from all over the place in Atlanta. Let's get

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Speaker 1: to it. I'm tas Mellis and this is what you

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Speaker 1: need to know in the NBA for Tuesday, May fourth,

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Speaker 1: And I didn't even mention the Carmelo Anthony milestone. What

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Speaker 1: an accomplishment. We'll get to that. Good morning, everybody. It

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Speaker 1: was a busy night. Let's start with the Lakers and

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Speaker 1: Nuggets in a potential first round matchup nol Lebron James,

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Speaker 1: who sat with the sore ankle. But in the words

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Speaker 1: of Anthony Davis, we're back, baby, yeah coming in. The Lakers,

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Speaker 1: with eight games to go in danger of dropping into

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Speaker 1: the playoff tourney, were one in five since Anthony Davis returned.

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Speaker 1: But Anthony Davis had his best game since his return,

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Speaker 1: scoring twenty five and three blocks. That was the key

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Speaker 1: with a great one on Facundo Compazo to end the

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Speaker 1: game to really seal it. Great photo by Adam Pantazzi

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Speaker 1: showing Anthony Davis's length back to back nights, showing the

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Speaker 1: length of some freaky, deaky players in the NBA. If

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Speaker 1: you remember on Sunday, yannist At Kompo blocking Kevin Durant

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Speaker 1: on a one on one matchup, that was wild. This

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Speaker 1: was a ninety three to eighty nine win for the

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Lakers. That just screams playoffs right, a low

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Speaker 1: scoring affair. Mark Gasol was key for the Los Angeles Lakers. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Lakers, faithful, It's time to appreciate Mark Gasol. This

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Speaker 1: is when the thirty six year old NBA champion thrives.

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Speaker 1: He was a plus seventeen in this game. He gotta

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Speaker 1: luck deep into the box score to really appreciate Gasol.

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Speaker 1: He was ten and in seven, But really the ten

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Speaker 1: and seven is just that's just gravy. He's gonna play

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Speaker 1: other big centers really, really well. He's played sparingly the

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Speaker 1: last little while. Probably should have played the night before

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Speaker 1: against the Raptors. They could have won that one too,

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Speaker 1: But he's their best answer against Nikoi Jokich, who was good.

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Speaker 1: He had thirty two. But Gasol will have plenty of

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Speaker 1: matchups in the Western Conference playoffs Jokic Gobert eight and Zubat,

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Speaker 1: Sergei Baka and Nurkic, who knows the Lakers though they

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Speaker 1: have the best defense in the NBA for a reason.

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Speaker 1: Jokic can get thirty two. But this team is a

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Speaker 1: scrappy bunch, a sign they're scrapping. They held Aaron Gordon

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Speaker 1: to five points. Aaron Gordon a guy who gets buckets off,

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Speaker 1: slashes and cuts and passes. So we'll see if Lebron

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Speaker 1: in the standings, even if they are in the playoff tournament,

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Speaker 1: the championship goes through them. Not like when Tristan Thompson

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Speaker 1: said the championship goes through Cleveland after Lebron left. The

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Speaker 1: championship literally does go through Los Angeles Blazers Hawks. This

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Speaker 1: was entertaining. This is what the Hawks had in mind

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Speaker 1: Denilo Gallinari looked like his young Nuggets self moving out there,

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Speaker 1: fleet of foot, as they say. He made seven threes

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Speaker 1: young bogged down Bogdanovic when talking about the Hawks, because

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Speaker 1: he had twenty three in the first half, Hello, twenty

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Speaker 1: five overall. He also hit seven big threes. As a team,

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Speaker 1: Atlanta was twenty of forty one from three. Wow. The

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Speaker 1: play in a second. The Blazers four game win streak

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Speaker 1: was snapped despite Damian Lillard's thirty three. Thirty three is

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Speaker 1: absolutely nothing these days. I just have to mention it.

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Speaker 1: because of the threes. The top five most efficient offenses

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Speaker 1: ever are happening this season, and seven of the top

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Speaker 1: eight offenses ever. Thanks to Zach Kram for that tweet,

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Speaker 1: and if you want more unique stats from this season,

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Speaker 1: tune into today's episode of No Dunks here on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: We've got Seth Partner, former Bucks director of Basketball research

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Speaker 1: going to be fun. You want some more numbers. Carmelo

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Speaker 1: Anthony has moved into tenth all time and scoring. Melo,

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Speaker 1: What a couple years it's been for him, How sweet

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Speaker 1: It's crazy to think that only a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 1: he's still too quick for people. He had twenty five

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Speaker 1: the next year and how it all came together. They

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Speaker 1: the godden. Their schedule is tough to close the season,

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Speaker 1: this team that's won twelve of thirteen And if you

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Speaker 1: Knicks history going back to the nineties, you should. It's wonderful. Pacers.

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Speaker 1: going to give you some. Washington wins one fifty four

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Speaker 1: He could get to it this year with seven games

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Speaker 1: The teams meet one more time this season at Indiana

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Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook now has the most twenty assist triple doubles

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Speaker 1: in NBA history with five. The list has one surprising

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Speaker 1: Zion had thirty two but didn't get much help. Lonzo

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Speaker 1: He won this something anyway. Magic Pistons. Let's not talk

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Speaker 1: Here Pistons bright spot this season rookie number nineteen pick

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Speaker 1: The Sixers won their fifth straight game to remain in

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