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Speaker 1: Happy Friday, everybody starting this show off a little differently

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Speaker 1: because basketball seems a little pointless right now. We'll get

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Speaker 1: to the NBA news and games a little later, but

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Speaker 1: the basketball community was rocked while all those games were

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Speaker 1: happening on Thursday by the news that Terrence Clark, a

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Speaker 1: Kentucky Wildcat's freshman guard who was entering the NBA Draft,

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Speaker 1: died in a car accident. Terrence Clark was nineteen years old.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know a lot about Terrence Clark, but with

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Speaker 1: the outpouring of love that happened immediately, it's clear how

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Speaker 1: great a person he was, how much he was adored

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Speaker 1: by everybody who knew him. He was a Boston kid,

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Speaker 1: grew up dreaming about playing for the Celtics, and the

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Speaker 1: Celtics players knew him. He was a part of the community.

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Speaker 1: He was one of theirs. Celtics head coach Rad Stevens

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Speaker 1: was emotional and he mentioned that his son really looked

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Speaker 1: up to Clark. Kemba Walker talked about how good a

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Speaker 1: kid he was. Postgame. The team was so supportive of

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Speaker 1: Clark achieving his dream, and that dream was going to

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Speaker 1: be achieved in just three months. At the NBA draft.

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Speaker 1: It was just the day before the car accident that

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Speaker 1: he signed with Clutch Sports as his agency. According to

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Speaker 1: the Athletics Jay King, he started his Boston high school

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Speaker 1: career as a real project, became such a long way

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Speaker 1: in his high school days and was going to make

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Speaker 1: the NBA leap. I'll take you back. In twenty fourteen,

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Speaker 1: Baylor's Isaiah Austin was entering the draft, but was forced

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Speaker 1: to retire because he was diagnosed with Marfan syndrome. Adam

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Speaker 1: Silver made him an honorary draftee at that NBA draft.

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Speaker 1: After Clark's passing, many hoping the same happens for him.

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Speaker 1: Clark's mom was with him when he passed. According to

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Speaker 1: s n's Adrianvojonrowski, a parent having to bury their child.

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Speaker 1: Many thoughts with the Clark family. Terrible, terrible, terrible news. Okay,

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Speaker 1: moving on a little basketball for you. The Celtics beat

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Speaker 1: a very good Sun's team before learning about that news.

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Speaker 1: Phoenix didn't have their legs coming off a back to back.

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Speaker 1: They shot six of thirty one from three and were

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Speaker 1: still in this game. Shows how good they are. It

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Speaker 1: was the third game of their road trip. They beat

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Speaker 1: the number one and number three teams in the East

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Speaker 1: in their first two games Philly just the night before Milwaukee.

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Speaker 1: Before that, check this that Phoenix had eight guys averaging

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Speaker 1: double figures over their last seven games coming into this one.

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Speaker 1: This team well rounded, doing very well for themselves. They

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Speaker 1: did a good job on Jason Tatum, holding him to

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Speaker 1: three of seventeen, but a nice bright spot for the Celtics,

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Speaker 1: Kemba Walker had what was likely his best game of

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Speaker 1: the season, thirty two on five threes, just six miss shots.

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Speaker 1: On the evening seventy six Ers were in the exact

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Speaker 1: same boat versus Milwaukee on Thursday night. Tough game night before.

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Speaker 1: As I just mentioned, they just couldn't put up enough

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Speaker 1: of a fight defensively. The Bucks had seventy seven first

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Speaker 1: half points against a really good defensive team. They could

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Speaker 1: have used Ben Simmons, though Simmons was out for his

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Speaker 1: third straight game with an unspecified illness. The Sixers keep

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Speaker 1: telling us Ben Simmons' defensive player of the year. As

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Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned, if you tell the media that

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Speaker 1: enough and it's a pretty deserving player, you just get

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Speaker 1: the award. You want it bad enough, And I think

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Speaker 1: Doc Rivers guys would always win if those were the circumstances.

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Speaker 1: Doc does a great job of talking up his guys,

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Speaker 1: and we will talk about those awards on the No

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Speaker 1: Dunks Drop episode Friday's Daily Show. Today, Anthony Davis returned

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Speaker 1: after missing thirty games for the Lakers versus the Dallas Mavericks.

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Speaker 1: Now people think of him as a player who gets

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Speaker 1: injured all the time, but those were all fairly minor injuries.

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Speaker 1: Thirty games was the longest absence of Davis's career. Unfortunately

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Speaker 1: for the MAVs, they lost their big man in this game,

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Speaker 1: Chris tops Porzingis in the third quarter sprained ankle. No

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Speaker 1: word on the severity at this point. They beat LA,

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Speaker 1: which limited Anthony Davis to just sixteen minutes. It's a

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Speaker 1: race in the West. The MAVs and Blazers trail LA

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Speaker 1: by two and a half games for fifth in the conference.

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Speaker 1: Just too many good teams in that conference, and we'll

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Speaker 1: talk about the outlook of those standings and other questions

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Speaker 1: as well, like I just mentioned on the No Dunks Drop. Oh,

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Speaker 1: and good news on the injury front for Atlantis Trey Young.

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Speaker 1: He'll only miss approximately two games with an ankle sprain

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Speaker 1: that he suffered the other day. The other three games

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Speaker 1: on Thursday's sked ended up being double digit wins for

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Speaker 1: the Pelicans over the Magic, the Spurs over the Pistons,

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Speaker 1: and the Bulls over the Hornets. Last note here. Last

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Speaker 1: week I compared members of the Utah Jazz to members

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Speaker 1: of the hit boy band in sync. Sean Cruz on

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Speaker 1: Twitter saw a Backstreet Boys photo of them in Hornets

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Speaker 1: gear and asked me to do the same for the

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Speaker 1: Hornets in due time. In due time, Sean Cruise, I'll

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Speaker 1: be back Monday to give you the news or some

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Speaker 1: Backstreet Boys comps, and I'll be on Friday's drop. I'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you then