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Speaker 1: James Harden makes his Nets debut, Luka Doncic passes Michael

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Speaker 1: Jordan in one particular category, and Zion Williamson shows jay

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Speaker 1: E Skeets that he is quite capable of producing some

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Speaker 1: glorious highlights. Hope everyone is enjoying their MLK day. I'm

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Speaker 1: tas Malis and this is what you need to know

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Speaker 1: in the NBA For Monday, January eighteenth, on a weekend

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Speaker 1: where football overshadowed basketball, it was a man who has

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Speaker 1: been casting a very large shadow in the NBA because

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Speaker 1: people say he's overweight. James Harden definitely had a pregame

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Speaker 1: meal that had the biggest storyline in basketball. James Harden

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Speaker 1: made his Brooklyn Nets debut and he did not disappoint. No, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: He's not overweight. He looked like that old MVP candidate.

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Speaker 1: James Harden was great without a practice for the Brooklyn Nets,

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Speaker 1: just showing up on the floor against the Orlando Magic.

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Speaker 1: He had thirty two points, twelve rebounds, and fourteen assists.

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Speaker 1: But he didn't just show up on the floor. His

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Speaker 1: new teammate Joe Harris said he was calling out plays

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Speaker 1: that we have been running on this team. Throughout the season.

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Speaker 1: He knew the playbook and he knew how to work

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Speaker 1: with his old teammate Kevin Durant. KD and James Harden

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Speaker 1: didn't skip a b KD had forty two points in

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Speaker 1: this one. The chemistry between them, it's quite evident, those

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Speaker 1: two guys working together. Joe Harris on the other side

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Speaker 1: of the floor, who hits every second three pointer he takes,

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Speaker 1: It's going to be hard to stop them defensively. KD

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Speaker 1: said after the game, Man, it was incredible playing along

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Speaker 1: James Harden. Again, you might say, hey, if they're that good,

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Speaker 1: why did they go down to the wire with an

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Speaker 1: Orlando Magic team that was six and six coming in

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Speaker 1: reasonable question? Their defense still leaves something to be desired.

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Speaker 1: My biggest concern with the Brooklyn Nets is Kevin Durant

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Speaker 1: getting worn out having to play the five, because beyond

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Speaker 1: DeAndre Jordan in this rotation, they don't have a big

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Speaker 1: man they can rely on. Reggie Perry, a rookie out

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Speaker 1: of Mississippi State, is one of Kevin Durant's favorites. But

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Speaker 1: he's six 's eight and he's a rook He's gonna

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Speaker 1: get time. But they definitely need another big and Sean

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Speaker 1: Mark's GM of the Nets said they will go and

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Speaker 1: get somebody else. This roster is not done. But man,

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving, if you want to come join this party,

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Speaker 1: you can. Those two and Kevin Durant and James Harden

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Speaker 1: seem like they like playing with each other. Hopefully the

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Speaker 1: same will happen on Monday night when Kyrie Irving is

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Speaker 1: questionable against the Milwaukee Bucks. Oh baby. In my opinion,

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Speaker 1: the two best teams in the Eastern Conference, when all

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Speaker 1: is said and done, will meet on Monday night, and

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Speaker 1: hopefully Kyrie will be playing after missing six straight games.

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Speaker 1: He is questionable as I record this on Monday morning.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of great teams in the Eastern Conference, the Boston Celtics.

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Speaker 1: They got Camba Walker back. He made his season debut

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Speaker 1: versus the New York Knicks. He hadn't played since the

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Speaker 1: playoffs last year because of knee issues. The knee looked

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Speaker 1: good to me. A lot of side to side movements,

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Speaker 1: those harky jerky Kemba Walker movements. Even though his stat

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Speaker 1: line was not so good nine points, five turnovers, I

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Speaker 1: thought he was moving pretty well in a game that

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Speaker 1: was horrendous. Couldn't stand watching this game. It was one

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Speaker 1: hundred to seventy five for the New York Knicks. When

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Speaker 1: all was said and done in this afternoon tilt, all

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Speaker 1: he could think of was late great Celtics broadcaster Tommy

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Speaker 1: Heinson rolling in his grave watch in this game. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure Tommy Heinsen would have been complaining on the broadcast

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Speaker 1: with the early start and they just a bad play

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Speaker 1: from the Boston Celtics play by play man Mike Gorman.

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Speaker 1: He got in a few tummy like cracks on the call. Though.

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Speaker 1: Kemba Walker a great quote after the game. He said,

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Speaker 1: it felt weird not to be in pain. Great to

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Speaker 1: hear Kemba is feeling better and hopefully for the Celtics,

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Speaker 1: Jason Tatum comes back and shuts me up as to

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Speaker 1: who the best teams in the Eastern Conference are. Jason

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Speaker 1: Tatum has been out recently because he is positive for

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. This season is strange. Moving on to the

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Speaker 1: Chicago Bulls, finishing up a six game road trip in Dallas,

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Speaker 1: they got a w. They had lost their last four

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Speaker 1: games by four points, two points, three points, and two

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Speaker 1: points respectively, but Lowry Markinen came back. He had twenty

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Speaker 1: nine points, a season high for him. He had missed

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Speaker 1: seven games because of virus protocol. Yeah, I said, this

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Speaker 1: season is strange. Luka Doncic needed some more help for

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Speaker 1: the MAVs. He had thirty six points, sixteen rebounds, and

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Speaker 1: Doncic was mad at himself for being selfish, especially in

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Speaker 1: the second half. He had a one for nine third quarter.

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Speaker 1: But sometimes you gotta be like MJ and just shoot.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of MJ, Luca passed Michael Jordan on the triple

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Speaker 1: double list with his twenty ninth career triple double. Luca

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Speaker 1: better than Michael Jordan. I'm just saying Michael Jordan for

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Speaker 1: the aggregators. Aggregators, please aggregate that coronavirus protocol has made

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Speaker 1: the mass very shorthanded the last four games. But when

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Speaker 1: Garrett Temple has scoring twenty one for the Bulls and

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Speaker 1: fifteen in the second quarter alone, you're gonna lose. MAS

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Speaker 1: Head coach Rick Carlyle. Rick Carlisle after the game said,

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Speaker 1: right now, we're entering the most difficult seven days of

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Speaker 1: scheduling in Maverick's history. Whoaa, I know, this is a

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Speaker 1: strange year. I don't have to be so dramatic, coach.

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Speaker 1: The Bulls are five and eight, the MAVs are six

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Speaker 1: and six. The New Orleans Pelicans snapped a five game

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Speaker 1: losing streak. Zion Williamson was phenomenal against the Kings in

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Speaker 1: a day where football was the big story in the US.

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Speaker 1: Zion looked like a running back out there, shedding Rashawn

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Speaker 1: a wide receiver, ca errant passes and thrown it down.

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Speaker 1: He looked like a lineman coming up with loose balls,

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Speaker 1: like he was a fumble out there. He always looks

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Speaker 1: like a linman. But he had a huge dunk, a

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Speaker 1: big jam for the big man. My goodness. Sending Tremezi

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Speaker 1: Metu back to the G League. Hopefully Metoul stick around

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Speaker 1: called his game at the Summer League. It was a

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Speaker 1: good time. Got to see the shot chart from Zion Williamson.

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Speaker 1: He was thirteen of fifteen, all of the shots at

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Speaker 1: the rim. He did not take a jumper and he said,

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Speaker 1: eat it, skeets. Check these highlights baby. He looked great

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Speaker 1: flying to the rim Man. It's just fun watching him jump.

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Speaker 1: His highlights are just him jumping. It looks phenomenal when

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Speaker 1: a refrigerator can jump like that. Oh that's another football reference.

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Speaker 1: Zion Williamson's thirty one point performance upstage de Aaron Fox's

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Speaker 1: forty three for the Sacramento Kings. A couple more games

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Speaker 1: to update you on. Denver and Utah continue to play

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Speaker 1: some wild ones. The Nuggets lost the game they should

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Speaker 1: not have. They got thirty five from Nicolokic, thirty from

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Speaker 1: Jamal Murray. They took twenty four more shots than Utah,

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Speaker 1: They got twenty offensive rebounds, every single player who played

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Speaker 1: Will Barton didn't have it go and just couldn't find

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Speaker 1: missed nine straight games. Again COVID related again this year

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Speaker 1: eighteen Pacers Clippers in the nightcap. The Clipper finally getting

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Speaker 1: back healthy Marcus Morris, who signed a four year sixty

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Speaker 1: I wonder if twin Markief gets any of that money anyway.

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Speaker 1: But this is a team this year, so yeah. Marcus

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Speaker 1: Morris had twenty, but they do it by committee. Luke

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Speaker 1: George had a throwback moment against his old team when

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Speaker 1: he threw down a huge, huge poster jam. Exuberant Clippers

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Speaker 1: owner Steve Balmer must hate wearing masks. Paul George probably

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Speaker 1: felt like he could roam free against Indiana because Miles

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Speaker 1: Karris Lavert's physical as part of the four team trade

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Speaker 1: revealed something worrying. Lavert has been playing all season for Brooklyn,

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Speaker 1: but an MRI displayed a mass on his kidney. The

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Speaker 1: Pacers accepted the physicals findings, consummated the trade, and now

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Speaker 1: we'll look to help LeVert get back on the court

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Speaker 1: this season. But it's too early to discuss how they'll

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Speaker 1: deal with what the exam showed and win he'll be back.

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Speaker 1: Prayers up for Karris Lavert That's it for me. Make

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Speaker 1: sure you check out the full No Dunks Monday episode,

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Speaker 1: winners and losers of the weekend, including two wedgies, the

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Speaker 1: seventy six ers flailing a little bit, John Morant returning

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Speaker 1: to the Grizzlies. I will be back tomorrow to potentially

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Speaker 1: talk about Kyrie Irving addressing his team and then hopefully

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Speaker 1: taking the floor against the Milwaukee Bucks. Cannot wait. I'll

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