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Speaker 1: Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to a bonus episode

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Speaker 1: of the No Dunks podcast on the Athletic Network. It's Saturday,

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Speaker 1: April fifteenth, twenty twenty three. Happy NBA Playoffs day to everyone.

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Speaker 1: It's going down. I'm eling Demur. Shout out to Pipul,

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Speaker 1: Shout out to all you sickos joining me live here

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Speaker 1: on a Saturday. I am Jay Skis running a solo

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Speaker 1: mission here in the yard, bringing back the weekend shift

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Speaker 1: to keep everybody up to date. I believe we really

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Speaker 1: started this last year at the start of the playoffs

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Speaker 1: as the play in games wrapped up. I'm also off

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Speaker 1: a little bit next week, so I thought, hey, let's

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Speaker 1: clock in for a weekend shift. We'll go over the

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Speaker 1: play in games from last night. We'll look ahead to

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Speaker 1: today's schedule. And we had the NBA finalists also announced.

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Speaker 1: So I have a weird theory about that. I think

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Speaker 1: ten Bontemps of ESPN may have spoiled all of the results.

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Speaker 1: haven't posted it yet. I think we decided on either

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Speaker 1: late tonight or maybe very early on Sunday morning. We're

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Speaker 1: re releasing the next installment from our old summer podcast

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Speaker 1: series Fast Friends, where for some reason we decided to

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Speaker 1: Fast X coming up, so Fast and Vurious six. I

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Speaker 1: believe we'll be dropping in the next let's say, twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours, all right. So I don't know how many

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Speaker 1: of you are re listening to that, maybe catching it

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Speaker 1: for the first time. But they were a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: Me myself, me myself and I, NO, Me, JD and

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Speaker 1: TK is what I meant to say. All right, So

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Speaker 1: these are little mini podcasts again just me. We'll go

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Speaker 1: over these games from last night just quickly. I don't

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Speaker 1: think I have a whole lot to say about them,

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Speaker 1: but we did have the Miami Heat unfortunately, let's say,

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Speaker 1: eliminating Trey Kirby's Bulls one O two ninety one, and

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Speaker 1: Miami will face the Milwaukee Bucks in round one on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Where do we want to start here? This was the

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Speaker 1: more entertaining game from the two last night. Jimmy Buckets

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Speaker 1: or die game, got to the line like ten times,

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Speaker 1: he's their primary playmaker when you think about it, too.

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Speaker 1: He was pretty impressive down the stretch where you know,

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Speaker 1: the heat got back into it, and I think it

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Speaker 1: was Kobe White hit a three with like let's say,

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Speaker 1: the way was Miami fifteen. Chicago won one point. I

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Speaker 1: thought Zach Levine had a terrible couple of final minutes,

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Speaker 1: really a bad game after that signature performance against my Raptors,

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Speaker 1: Levine followed it up with fifteen points on sixteen to

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Speaker 1: midway through the final quarter. The Bulls played a good game,

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Speaker 1: a good enough game until clutch time. And it shouldn't

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Speaker 1: have come as a surprise to anyone if you've watched

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Speaker 1: a lot of Heats games this season. They play a

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Speaker 1: NBA defines clutch games as those that are within five

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Speaker 1: I thought from Billy Donovan. You know, Kobe White was

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Speaker 1: playoffs three times. Those matchups twenty thirteen, twenty twenty, twenty

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Speaker 1: obviously having won this game and moving on. Yeah, I wish,

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Speaker 1: Nuggets in their winning matchup on Sunday. Karl Anthony Town's

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Speaker 1: good night for Giddy to be ice cold and Sga

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