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Speaker 1: On Today's show, LaMarcus Aldridge shocked the basketball world by

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Speaker 1: announcing his retirement after fifteen seasons. The list of presenters

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Speaker 1: at this year's Hall of Fame ceremony were announced, and

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Speaker 1: Boston's Jalen Brown did something that hasn't been done since

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Speaker 1: the NBA merger. I just wanted to say merger. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm Tasmellis, and this is what you need to know

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Speaker 1: in the NBA. For Friday, April sixteen, Hey, what's up everybody?

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Speaker 1: Good morning. Let's jump right in because there was some

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Speaker 1: shocking news on Thursday. LaMarcus Aldridge announced his retirement. The

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Speaker 1: seventh time All Star, five times All NBA had experienced

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Speaker 1: in a regular heartbeat during his final game with the

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Speaker 1: Nets on April tenth, and it got worse after the game.

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Speaker 1: And since then he had been dealing with medical or

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Speaker 1: he had been getting medical advice. Excuse me. It's something

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Speaker 1: he's dealt with his entire career, since he was diagnosed

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Speaker 1: in his rookie year. And Aldridge made the decision for

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Speaker 1: his family, putting his crew first before basketball and the

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Speaker 1: potential to get a ring with the Nets. This season

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Speaker 1: six eleven, Aldridge came into the League in two thousand

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Speaker 1: and six with a reliable jumper because he worked at it.

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Speaker 1: And this is a neat story, so I'm going to

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Speaker 1: go through it here. He heard his hip during his

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Speaker 1: first year at Texas and that knocked him out for

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Speaker 1: the season. But even though he was in all sorts

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Speaker 1: of pain and couldn't stand, he sat on a chair

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Speaker 1: and refined his release point on the shot. He went

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Speaker 1: with a higher release point. The patent did release point

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Speaker 1: we've seen for fifteen years in the NBA. Now, there

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Speaker 1: may be some romance, so that story, sure, but there's

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Speaker 1: also some romance now that we're celebrating his career, so

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Speaker 1: let's just get into it. But you know, it was

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Speaker 1: a bit of a complicated career. Throughout his years in Portland,

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Speaker 1: drafted in six alongside Brandon Roy, and Brandon Roy always

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Speaker 1: got a little bit more of the shine there in

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Speaker 1: port Lynd and Aldridge felt that all throughout his career.

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Speaker 1: Lots of reports about Aldridge not being entirely happy. Then

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Speaker 1: there was the Greg Odin draft and he also felt

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Speaker 1: that there in Portland, despite being an incredible player. As

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Speaker 1: I said, a seven time All Star, five time All NBA.

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Speaker 1: Then Damian Lillard came along and became the number one

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Speaker 1: guy on the team. Even in twenty fourteen when LaMarcus

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Speaker 1: Aldridge had those incredible two games against the Houston Rockets

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Speaker 1: to start that series where he was a beast forty

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Speaker 1: plus points in the first two games. Damian Lillard kind

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Speaker 1: of took the spotlight at the end of the series

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Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen against the Rockets by hitting the series

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Speaker 1: ending shot. So the next year, Marcus Aaldridge said, I'm

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Speaker 1: out of here. He had had enough. The departure wasn't

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Speaker 1: There was that story about him leaving Memphis on his own,

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Speaker 1: getting his own flight, if you remember that. In twenty fifteen,

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Speaker 1: he went to San Antonio. We found more peace there

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Speaker 1: playing with Tim Dunk and then Kawhi Leonard, where he

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Speaker 1: found his most playoff success as well. They went to

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Speaker 1: the Western Conference Finals. If you remember twenty seventeen, that

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Speaker 1: was his first Western Conference Finals appearance. Game one, They're

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Speaker 1: up twenty plus points in the second half in Zaza

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Speaker 1: Pachulia stepped under Kawhi Leonard and that was the end

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Speaker 1: of the Spurs run that season. Everybody celebrating all his career.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people discussing if he'll be a Hall

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Speaker 1: of Famer. We'll discuss that on today's No. Dunk's Daily

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Speaker 1: Show here on Friday. Speaking of the Hall of Fame,

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Speaker 1: the list of presenters for this year's May fifteenth and

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Speaker 1: Shriman were announced and incredible class this year includes Kobe Bryant,

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Speaker 1: Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, Tamika Catchings, Patrick Bauman, Eddie Sutton, Rudy,

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Speaker 1: Tom Johonovich, Barbara Stevens, and Kim Mulki. Michael Jordan will

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Speaker 1: be presenting Kobe Bryant. Not to speak for the deceased,

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Speaker 1: but I assume Kobe is smiling somewhere hearing that news.

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Speaker 1: Congrats to Kobe and the Bryant family. David Robinson will

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Speaker 1: present Tim Duncan, Isaiah Thomas the Original will present Kevin Garnette,

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Speaker 1: Alonzo Morning and Don Staley will present Tamika Catchings. I

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Speaker 1: love Timika Catchings, got to talk to her once. She

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Speaker 1: is great. Speaking of the Hall of Fame, two time

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Speaker 1: MVP Yiannista Kumpo returned after missing six games. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: going there with left knee soreness, and it had been

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Speaker 1: bugging him even before those six games that he sat out.

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Speaker 1: He played twenty five minutes, had a quiet night by

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Speaker 1: It was a nice balance attack for the Bucks, just

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Speaker 1: like coach Bud likes it. PJ. Tucker had eight points

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Speaker 1: as he's getting acclimated with his new team. Two threes

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Speaker 1: and a hook shot. PJ Tucker hit a hook shot.

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Speaker 1: You know it's a good night when Pj's in the lane.

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Speaker 1: Thing I hated about this game. There were fans in

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Speaker 1: It's like the pendulum has swung the other direction. As

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Speaker 1: I hit my mic, here the pendulum bangs the mic. Sorry, JD.

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Speaker 1: They piped in sound where no fans and now the

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Speaker 1: other direction. It's just so so quiet. We gotta find

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Speaker 1: a balance here. Bog Don Bogdanovic twenty eight points six

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Speaker 1: threes on the night he stays hot, but Trey Young

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Speaker 1: injury three of seventeen. The Hawks are sixteen and six

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Speaker 1: since Nate McMillan took over as head coach, but they've

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Speaker 1: struggled with playoff teams. Of those sixteen wins, only three

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Speaker 1: Miami was missing Jimmy Butler, Lakers know Anthony Davis and

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Speaker 1: Lebron got hurt in that game. The Hornets were without

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Speaker 1: Gordon Hayward or LaMelo Ball. It beat some teams on

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Speaker 1: the periphery of the playoffs, like the Spurs, Warriors, and Pelicans,

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Speaker 1: but can they upset a good team in the postseason.

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Speaker 1: They gotta get better if they're gonna do that here.

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Speaker 1: Over the last twenty ish games, speaking of the Hall

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Speaker 1: Cleveland easily. Steph had thirty three. He scored over thirty

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Speaker 1: for his ninth consecutive game, the first time he's done

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Speaker 1: that in his career. They're relying on now, especially with

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Speaker 1: the news that James Wiseman season is officially done after

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Speaker 1: undergoing right knee surgery. The Warriors have won four in

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Speaker 1: a row. Speaking of the Hall of Fame, Lakers coach

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Speaker 1: Frank Vogel says Anthony Davis has been cleared to return

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Speaker 1: to on court activity, with his official return to the

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Speaker 1: lineup to be determined. Yeah, I'm going. I'm going there

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Speaker 1: with everybody. Everybody's making the Hall of Fame. It looks

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Speaker 1: like Anthony Davis will be back next week because he

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Speaker 1: has defeated his achilles tendont and CAF issues. The Lakers

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Speaker 1: continue to show some fight without Anthony Davis and Lebron

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Speaker 1: they're trading water, but they could have used Anthony Davis's

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Speaker 1: rim presence against Boston on Thursday. Jalen Brown was a

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Speaker 1: pleasure to watch. He had a forty point night for Boston,

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Speaker 1: seventeen of twenty shooting. He was getting the ball on

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Speaker 1: Nice setups from Brad Stevens getting him moving around, picks

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Speaker 1: Forty points, nine rebounds, seventeen of twenty shooting. He is

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Speaker 1: the first Celtic with a forty point game on eighty

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Speaker 1: five percent shooting since the NBA merger. Thanks to stat

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Speaker 1: News for that stat The Bulls zach Lavine will miss

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Speaker 1: several games after entering the NBA's health and safety protocols.

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Speaker 1: According to ESPN's Adrian Woljnerewski, I'm not going, not going

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Speaker 1: with the hall of Fame talk for zac Lavin. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: I just can't do it. And the Suns moved to

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Speaker 1: forty and fifteen in a win over the Sacramento Kings.

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Speaker 1: What a year for the Phoenix Suns. Forty and fifteen

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Speaker 1: to start the season. Fantastic news. Join us for a

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Speaker 1: fantastic show on Friday. The Drop coming at you from

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Speaker 1: No Dunks. I'll be back on Monday to give you

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Speaker 1: the news as fast as I possibly can. I'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you that school experience, at school and