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Speaker 1: On today's show, Steph Curry finally cools off, but he

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Speaker 1: still thinks he should be MVP. The Knicks win their

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Speaker 1: and there was a wild ending in Portland. It was

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Speaker 1: a twelve game night, a lot of wild things happening everywhere.

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Speaker 1: I'll break it down for you. I'm tas Malus and

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Speaker 1: this is what you need to know in the NBA

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Speaker 1: for Thursday, April twenty second. Here we go, Good morning, everybody.

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Speaker 1: Let's jump into a twelve game sked Warriors Wizards. We

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Speaker 1: got to start talking about Steph because he has been

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Speaker 1: the talk of the NBA the last month or so.

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Speaker 1: Top two scorers in the NBA meeting Steph Curry recently

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Speaker 1: scorching hot month. But Curry finally had a bad game.

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Speaker 1: He is human the day he told Rex Chapman, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I should be MVP. He finally had a bad one,

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Speaker 1: only four points in the first half. Warriors and Wizards

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Speaker 1: commentators both saying He's not gonna have a half like

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Speaker 1: that again. Curry didn't think so either. Heat check after

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Speaker 1: heat check after heat check in the second half. But

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Speaker 1: it just wasn't his night. Two of fourteen from three,

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Speaker 1: seven of twenty five overall, he had eighteen points. His

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Speaker 1: streak of eleven straight games with thirty plus points ended.

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Speaker 1: His first rough night in a month. Imagine being amazing

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Speaker 1: perfect as you can get for one month. All that,

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Speaker 1: and the Warriors still had a chance to tie it late.

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Speaker 1: Golden State has had some heartbreakers during Curry's streak. They

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Speaker 1: Beazmore missed late free throws versus the Celtics against a

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Speaker 1: played by Beal after Wiggins followed him late. So the

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Speaker 1: second loss to the Wizards in thirteen days. And Russell

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Speaker 1: this season. Listen to a reporter ask him about his

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Speaker 1: field goal percentage in close games, and Westbrook's sarcastic response,

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Speaker 1: I love that. Yeah. Oh, we love sarcasm here on

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Speaker 1: what you need to know. We're Canadian after all. Some

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Speaker 1: better news than expected after the Wizards, Denny Avdia suffered

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Speaker 1: had an angry Joel Embid in this one. I loved it.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't happy with the officiating. Then he had little

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Speaker 1: had thirty eight points, thirty eight and seventeen boards. Embiid

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Speaker 1: Bucks last season, I say so. Hawks visiting the New

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Speaker 1: New York Knicks. They came out firing. They hit their

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Speaker 1: Nuggets continue to get it done without Jamal Murray. Jamal

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Speaker 1: Murray has undergone surgical reconstruction of his ACL. He posted

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Speaker 1: a photo of him in the hospital, just a reminder

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Speaker 1: the bubble. Apparently the twenty one year old has grown

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Speaker 1: back from down eighteen early to win this game. Timberwolves Kings.

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Speaker 1: This game was like the Spider Man meme, just looking

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Speaker 1: although quick story Cavaliers coach JB. Bickerstaff missed the game

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