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Speaker 1: Hey, I'm Tasmellus and this is what you need to

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Speaker 1: know in the NBA for Thursday, January seventh, after a

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Speaker 1: busy eleven game night. The first thing you need to

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Speaker 1: know is that Bradley Beal had sixty points and his

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Speaker 1: team still lost. The Wizards lost to the Sixers one

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Speaker 1: hundred and forty one to one hundred and thirty six,

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Speaker 1: a very wizard's like score. Bradley Beal was twenty of

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Speaker 1: thirty five from the floor, hitting twenty shots in an

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Speaker 1: NBA game. I love to see that. I think he

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Speaker 1: was the most excited though, when his teammate Davis Burton's

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Speaker 1: hit a three midway through the fourth, because he's looking

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Speaker 1: for help from his teammates. He is looking for that assistance,

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Speaker 1: because that look of disappointment at the end of the

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Speaker 1: game after the loss. I don't want to be a

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Speaker 1: body language doctor, but it is hard not to think

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Speaker 1: that Bradley Beial one day dreams of playing on a

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Speaker 1: team that can win basketball games. Because the Wizards are

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Speaker 1: now two and six, and yes, he signed an air

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Speaker 1: quotes extension last year, the one plus one, But how

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Speaker 1: long can he stick around? I thought Russell Westbrook being

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Speaker 1: there would give him at least a full year of

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Speaker 1: hope them pushing for the postseason. But what a terrible

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Speaker 1: start for the Wizards here despite sixty for Bradley Beal.

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Speaker 1: The Sixers on the other side, great star for them

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Speaker 1: seven and one, although no Marquie win quite yet. Joel

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Speaker 1: Embiataz balling twenty five and twelve on the season thus far.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Bradley Beal's former teammate John Wall. He

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Speaker 1: had twenty eight points for the Houston Rockets against the

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Speaker 1: Indiana Pacers, who are a great story this year. Malcolm

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Speaker 1: Brogden of Indiana followed up his game winner versus the

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Speaker 1: Pelicans with a career high thirty five versus Houston. He's

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Speaker 1: got two career highs in three games. He guarded James

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Speaker 1: Harden in this one, who struggled with fifteen points, and

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Speaker 1: it was close down the stretch. Brogden hit a three,

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Speaker 1: his teammate Dematas Sabonis tipped it in. They did it

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Speaker 1: by a committee. That's how they're going to have to

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Speaker 1: The Pacers are six and two. New Pacers head coach

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Speaker 1: Nate Bjorkrin has got to be happy he's not on

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Speaker 1: the Raptors bench as he was last year. I might

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Speaker 1: be putting words in his mouth, but the Raptors now

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Speaker 1: said at one in six after losing to the Phoenix

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Speaker 1: Suns on Wednesday, we've criticized Pascal Siakam for not looking

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Speaker 1: like himself. Well, let's show him some love. He had

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Speaker 1: thirty two points against the Suns, and, as the Athletics

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Speaker 1: Blake Murphy put it, for the first time since the

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Speaker 1: league shut down in March, Siakam looked like the player

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Speaker 1: who played his way to a max extension and All

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Speaker 1: NBA Second Team honors. I couldn't agree more. Get into

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Speaker 1: the front of the rim, making the right pass, picking

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Speaker 1: up those garbage points as Pascal does. But this was

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Speaker 1: a night the Suns were not going to lose. They

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Speaker 1: hit twenty one threes, one fewer than the Raptors have

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Speaker 1: ever had hit against them. The bench had nine threes

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Speaker 1: for Phoenix. Jay Crowder hit six threes, Campaign had ten

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Speaker 1: assists off the bench. He was in Raptors camp last year.

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Speaker 1: Never give up on your dreams, kids. Phoenix six and two,

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Speaker 1: great start to the season for them. Let's stay in

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Speaker 1: the East in a rematch of the Eastern Conference Finals,

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Speaker 1: Boston visited Miami in a game Brad Stevens didn't think

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Speaker 1: that the players would play. The Celtics players contemplated protesting

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Speaker 1: for both the officer not being charged in the Jacob

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Speaker 1: Blake shooting as well as what happened in the capital

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Speaker 1: of the country yesterday. Jalen Brown said, quote sports is

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Speaker 1: often used as a way to lift people up and

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Speaker 1: spread some joy that they did because Boston exacted a

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Speaker 1: little revenge against Miami. Rookie Peyton Pritchard the tip in

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Speaker 1: with zer point two seconds left. You want joy, Let's

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Speaker 1: watch Peyton Pritchard dance again, because this is the clip

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Speaker 1: we love here on the show, jiving in front of

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Speaker 1: the fridge. Jalen Brown shared this the other day. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure he looked at this after the game as well. More.

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Speaker 1: East Pistons Bucks Giannis was bounding up and down during

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Speaker 1: the Bucks Pistons moment of solidarity again against the lack

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Speaker 1: of charges in the Kenosha, Wisconsin shooting. I'm playing body

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Speaker 1: language doctor again, but I think he was ready to

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Speaker 1: lead the best three point shooting team to win. He

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Speaker 1: did just that. The bench DJ Augustine Bobby Portis, rookie,

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Speaker 1: Jordan Warra, Bryn Forbes. I told you Bryn Forbes would

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Speaker 1: be great this season. All hit threes off the bench.

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Speaker 1: The plan is working. The Bucks or five and three,

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Speaker 1: they could be better than that, but the plan of

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Speaker 1: playing three point shooters around Giannis is working to this point.

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Speaker 1: Detroit one and seven, but they're entertaining. I think they're

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Speaker 1: the most entertaining one and seven team in the league.

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Speaker 1: They've got the old heads, they've got the new heads.

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Speaker 1: And speaking of new heads, the Kings. Tyrese Haliburton heard

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Speaker 1: that he was left out of the Rookie of the

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Speaker 1: Year conversation on our mail Bag show on Wednesday. Main

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Speaker 1: reason we left him out he's been injured two games

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Speaker 1: out with the wrist injury, but he came back. Had

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Speaker 1: fifteen of his season high seventeen in the fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: versus the Bulls, and he had the shot to seal

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Speaker 1: it twelve seconds left. Hits a three. It wasn't just

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Speaker 1: but it goes in. Who cares Tyre's Haliburton killing it

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Speaker 1: on the floor and killing it off the floor as well.

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Speaker 1: In his press conferences on Wednesday. He's got double digits

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Speaker 1: in five of his six games he's played thus far

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Speaker 1: the season, only ten and a half points per game,

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Speaker 1: but he's in the conversation. Baby. The Kings are four

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Speaker 1: and full four. Happy to have Tyrese Haliburton drop to

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Speaker 1: them at twelve in the draft of the Bulls are

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Speaker 1: four and five. Speaking of average teams. The Hawks lost

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Speaker 1: at home to the Hornets, the third straight loss. There

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Speaker 1: are four and four. After starting four and one, Gordon

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Speaker 1: Hayward had a career high forty four for Charlotte. I

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Speaker 1: guess he was worth one hundred and twenty million. The

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Speaker 1: Hawks were relaxed in this one. Hayward outscored the entire

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Speaker 1: Atlanta team in the first quarter. After the game, Trey

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Speaker 1: Young said, we're four and four. Any team can win

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Speaker 1: five in a row. Any team can lose five in

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Speaker 1: a row. No, Trey, good teams don't lose five in

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Speaker 1: a row if you play defense. I'm starting to sound

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Speaker 1: like Pelicans head coach stan Band Gundy, because that's what

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Speaker 1: he's sounded like. Wednesday night, the Pelicans lost to the

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Speaker 1: thunder win a last second shot by Canadian Nikhil Alexander

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Speaker 1: Walker rimmed out, Brandon Ingram decided to make the pass

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Speaker 1: to Alexander Walker instead of forcing the shot. It was close.

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Speaker 1: When stan Ban was asked about it, he said, right,

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Speaker 1: the story when the ball is in the air. No,

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Speaker 1: he didn't say that. He said that years ago. He said,

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Speaker 1: I don't think the last play had much to do

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Speaker 1: with anything. The bottom line is we didn't play any defense.

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Speaker 1: Dig in and play the game defensively. If you can't

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Speaker 1: win scoring one hundred and ten points, there's something wrong.

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Speaker 1: It is great to have stan Van Gundy back on

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Speaker 1: the sidelines, and it is great to have Steven Adams

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Speaker 1: dinking and dumping his way to his first career triple double.

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Speaker 1: One of those that just got over the line ten points,

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Speaker 1: eleven rebounds and ten assists here in year nine for

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Speaker 1: Stevie Adams. It appears the Hawks and Pelicans do not

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Speaker 1: have the fight of the New York Knicks. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: heard me right. The New York Knicks know how to battle.

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Speaker 1: They are five and three, They've got wins over Milwaukee,

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Speaker 1: Indiana and then Utah happened on Wednesday night. Austin Rivers

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Speaker 1: was the story in this one, he took over, scoring

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Speaker 1: fourteen straight. In the fourth, he made four to threes.

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Speaker 1: In the final four plus minutes, he had twenty three overall.

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Speaker 1: I questioned, will the Knicks be able to make enough shots?

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Speaker 1: Because they are the leaders in tough shot making. Julius Randall,

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Speaker 1: he is the king of it. He had thirty in

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Speaker 1: this one. I still don't believe they've got enough offense,

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Speaker 1: but I don't care. It's fun to watch them. They

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Speaker 1: were down eighteen in the first half. It is official.

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Speaker 1: The New York Knicks have a lot of fight. The

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Speaker 1: New York Knicks have really nice jerseys. What up is

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Speaker 1: going on in our world? Speaking of tough, Kawhi Leonard

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Speaker 1: played in his first back to back since twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 1: probably his first ever in a mask. I'm assuming the

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Speaker 1: Clippers beat the Hot Warriors. They said at six and three.

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Speaker 1: The Warriors are now four and four. Some terrible news

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Speaker 1: for the Orlando Magic on a night they beat the Calves.

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Speaker 1: Markel Fultz tore his left acl when he drove to

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Speaker 1: the bucket in the first Quartery crumpled to the floor.

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Speaker 1: He is out for the remainder of the season. As

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Speaker 1: our Shan Sharani reports he's twenty two years old. He

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Speaker 1: just signed an extension. He's sort of a beacon of

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Speaker 1: light for this Magic team that hasn't had a lot

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Speaker 1: of great young players come along. Jonathan Isaac as well

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Speaker 1: as out for them for the rest of the season.

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Speaker 1: Bad bad start here for Orlando. Rookie Cole Anthony is

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Speaker 1: probably going to jump into that starter's role at the

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Speaker 1: point guard spot. It's going to be a lot on

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Speaker 1: his shoulders, but I'm looking forward to seeing what he

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Speaker 1: can do. Michael Carter Williams also out for the Orlando Magic,

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Speaker 1: so it's going to be on Cole Anthony's shoulders. That

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Speaker 1: is it for me. Make sure you check out the

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Speaker 1: full No Dunks episode where the guys will dive even

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Speaker 1: deeper into the eleven game. Sked on Wednesday, and last

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Speaker 1: thing I wanted to say before I go. On Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: the world was turned upside down here in the United States.

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Speaker 1: The People's House was invaded, decimated, desecrated. It was really

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Speaker 1: really sad to watch. But in two weeks the people

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Speaker 1: will take over that house and the people in charge

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Speaker 1: will not let that happen again. At least that's the frickin'

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Speaker 1: plan I'll see tomorrow