2023-24 Season: SC vs LSU Showdown, Adrian Griffin Out and Doc Rivers In, KD Goat Convo and More News

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Greetings my peeps and welcome to the all things basketball podcast with your boy GD.

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In this episode week 14 recap guys.

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I'll give you all the action that happened for week 14.

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Some college women's basketball I'll talk about that.

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Talk about Tara Van De Veer as well.

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Talk about Adrian Griffin being fired from the Milwaukee Bucks.

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Doc Rivers coming in has his replacement.

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Then we'll talk about the scoring that happened last week guys.

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Also Kevin Durant talking about the goat conversation.

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Also trade last week and some other news as well.

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So just sit back relax and enjoy the show.

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Okay guys it's your boy GD back with the all things basketball with GD podcast.

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And guys we're doing our week 14 recap.

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We'll go through that week and all that transpired.

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As far as the all star stuff I did a separate episode for that.

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Talk about the starters.

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The possible reserves and my predictions.

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You can go check out that episode that I did.

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But this week it's a lot of news actually so without further delay let's get right into

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it guys.

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As always we start with the players of the week and we'll do just that.

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We'll start with the West.

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Devin Booker of the Phoenix Suns.

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Last week you had Kevin Durant.

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Now it's Devin's turn.

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His team though went 2 and 2 for the week.

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They beat Chicago.

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They went to Dallas and beat them.

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A game where Devin Booker had 46.

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They lost at Indiana.

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A game where Devin Booker had 62.

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I'll talk about that later.

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And then 47 in a loss to Orlando in Orlando.

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But for the week Devin Booker averaged 42 points.

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Wow.

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With 5 rebounds.

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3.7 assists.

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1.3 steals in a block per game.

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The average from the field guy is nearly 64%.

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Now you gotta think that's pretty amazing given that he's mostly a long distance shooter

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so definitely kudos for that.

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Shot at 50% from 3.

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That's amazing as well.

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And then at the free throw line he went 35 times.

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He missed only 6 so although the team went 2 and 2 but Devin had a fine week individually

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at least.

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And then you have Giannis Antitocumpo for the Milwaukee Bucks.

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A team that has had an interesting week.

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We'll talk all about that.

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Giannis.

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He went 3-1 for the week.

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They beat the likes of Detroit at Detroit.

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They beat Cleveland.

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Actually played Cleveland twice this week.

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Lost to them once.

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And then the other win was against the New Orleans Pelicans.

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Giannis for the week.

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25.5 points.

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14.5 rebounds.

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8.3 assists.

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A steal and a half.

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Over a block per game.

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60.5% from the field.

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And then of course you know he struggles at the free throw line.

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Only 60% for him.

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So Giannis Antitocumpo getting player of the week for the Eastern Conference.

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Alright so that's your players for the week.

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Now let me turn my attention actually to women's college basketball for a quick second before

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I get into the NBA news.

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There was a showdown in the SEC guys.

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It was the number one, the South Carolina Gamecocks led by Dawn Staley.

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And they went to Baton Rouge to face the defending champions, LSU Lady Tigers.

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Of course coached by Kim Mulkey.

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It was a tough game guys.

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I watched it from pillar to post.

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But in the end, South Carolina gets the win.

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76 to 70.

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In a very physical game guys.

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But like I said in the end, South Carolina they hung around, hung around.

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And then in that four quarter they just took over.

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To me guys the difference in this game was actually two fold.

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The bench points.

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South Carolina had 16.

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LSU only four.

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In fact they only went to two bench players in the game.

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It's a game where Angel Reese she played well but she ended up fouling out with about four

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minutes to go in the four quarter.

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And they just couldn't put it together to match South Carolina.

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So they end up losing.

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And then the other key factor was the back court.

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Mainly Michaela Williams, the freshman.

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I thought this would be a game where she was at home, she was comfortable.

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But that wasn't the case guys.

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She shot at 5 for 18 from the field.

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And 1 for 10 from 3.

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Ouch.

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Now if she had made at least half of the shots there.

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That's a eight point swing there for the LSU team.

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But the freshman under the hot lights she didn't bring it guys.

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Haley Vanlif she had a decent game.

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Shot at 5 for 13.

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2 for 5 from 3 so that's fine.

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But I think it was more the freshman there kind of getting cold feet there.

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And those are shots she usually knocked down guys but not in this game.

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So LSU takes the loss and South Carolina remains undefeated guys.

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And this was a game ironically enough where they held Camilla Cardoso and Tahina Pow Pow

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actually held those two ladies at bay.

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Flau J Johnson I thought she did an amazing job on Pow Pow.

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But you had others that would step up like Chloe Kitts.

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You also had Raven Johnson, Bre Hall.

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In the end South Carolina team still undefeated so props to them.

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And then you gotta give major props to Tara Vandevere of Danford as she sets a all-time

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wins record for college coaches with 1203.

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Passing coach K. Maicheshetsky in a home win versus the Oregon State team.

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Tara Vandevere one of those names you know about the Geno Rimas.

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Of course you know about the late great Pat Summit.

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But Tara Vandevere is a name you don't hear prominently put out there.

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But she's been solid year in year out.

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She's won three NCAA titles back in 1990 she won her first one then two years later in

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92 and then most recently 2021.

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She's coached for 42 years guys.

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37 NCAA tournament appearances.

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28 conference regular season titles 16 conference tournament champion.

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And then also she coached that iconic 1996 ladies team that won the gold in Atlanta.

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And the players that she coached throughout the years players like Jennifer Azee who

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was on that first championship team Molly Guttenbauer Val Whiting Kate Starbird and

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then in the later years Nekka and Shanae Awumake.

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So she had the twins there Keanu Williams Haley Jones and of recent note Cameron Brink

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who's the senior there now.

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So Tara Vandevere you got to take your hat off and give our props.

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So kudos to Tara Vandevere for setting the record for all time wins for a college coach.

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All right guys so that is the coverage of women's college basketball.

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Let us move on to Milwaukee Bucks.

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They decided that you know what Adrian Griffin.

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Thanks for all you did for the team.

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They did get us to a 30 and 13 record but your services are no longer required.

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So they fire first year coach Adrian Griffin 43 games in guys.

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One of the major reasons the team was 22nd in defensive efficiency which remember in

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order to get Damian Lillard you had to deal one of your best defensive players in Drew

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Holiday.

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So you know the defense is going to suffer.

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We know Damian is the greatest defender we understand that but at least bring somebody

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in who can sub and kind of or somebody you could put next to him to kind of shield him

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but they weren't able to do that.

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So it was that it was also rumors of a disconnect in the locker room between Griffin and the

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players and that seemed to be his undoing.

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And then this is what I got to say in terms of Janice Santa-Tacumpo a player who was well

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liked amongst the players amongst the fans.

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But Janice has to be really careful guys.

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Janice has played 10 years in the league.

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He is now on his sixth coach in his 10 year career.

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Think about that guys.

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He's had six coaches in 10 years as a player.

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Get out with Larry Drew and then Jason Kidd who was there for three and a half years before

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he was Jettison and then you had interim coach come in after that.

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Then you bring in Mike Bouton-Hoser who was there for five years.

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We know how it ended with him that first round lost to Miami then being the number one seed

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and then all that Bouton-Hoser experienced off the court with his brother passing away.

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So you have that.

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You bring in Adrian Griffin and then now you hire Doc Rivers who was a consultant actually

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with the team.

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So he was doing the ESPN working doing a little consultant on the side which Gilberterinas

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blast him on the nightcap show with Shannon Sharp.

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I heard him blasting them for that.

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But getting back to Yonis he has to be really careful because from the outside looking in

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he kind of having the look of a coach killer.

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I'll just say that.

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And then the fact that very next game because they fired him after the win against the Detroit

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Pissons the worst team in the east you barely got by them.

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So that was when they fired Griffin.

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And then that following day you and your guys go out there and do that little silly dance

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there.

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That was not a good look.

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Not a good look at all.

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And then the press conference with you where you told the press you had no idea what was

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going on so forth which we know is a flat out lie.

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They're not going to make that kind of move without talking to their top tier player.

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And that's you Yonis.

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Well I'm going to say again Yonis be very careful.

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Be very careful that you don't get a reputation as being a coach killer.

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I'll just leave it at that.

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And then you had the GM John Hearst who said the urgency to win a chip pretty much led

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to Griffin's firing.

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It wasn't anything the players said anything the players complained about.

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None of that was the case supposedly according to John Hearst.

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We can take that with a grain of salt.

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So with Griffin out you have Doc Rivers in Doc Rivers resume 1097 wins.

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Three more wins he'll have 1100 against 763 losses giving him a win percentage of 59%.

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He spent five years with Orlando nine seasons with the Celtics where he won the championship

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seven years he spent with the Clippers and then with the Philadelphia 76ers he was there

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for three seasons.

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So we know his regular season record.

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Postseason 111 wins 104 losses so that gives him a win percentage of 51.6%.

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With Doc Rivers your pluses you get a guy who's won a championship.

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Maybe it has been quite a few years now since he's done that and you get a guy who knows

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how to coach star players.

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On the minuses you have a guy who has 10 game seven losses on his resume which is the most

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of any coach in NBA history and also a guy who has missed the conference finals nine

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times and five straight times.

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So that combines the time he had with the Clippers as well with the 76ers.

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He is amongst the top 15 greatest coaches of all time.

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Again those minuses are pretty glaring guys we have to make mention of that.

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He's won a coach of the year he's been coached a month 14 times.

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You're getting a mixed bag here but I heard it said also this is probably his last hurrah

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in terms of coaching.

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If he doesn't get it done with this loaded squad that he has that's pretty much it for

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him.

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So we'll see what happens with Doc Rivers now the coach of the Milwaukee Bucks.

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Alright so let us move on.

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Before coaching news guys Washington coach Wes Unsell Jr is actually going upstairs

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to the front office so he's no longer the head coach of the team.

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He coached them two and a half seasons his record 77 wins 130 losses including this season

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where his team was 7 and 36 which was second worst in the east.

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In the interim assistant coach Brian Keith will now coach the team for the rest of the

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season.

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So you now have Wes Unsell Jr. moved upstairs and you know this season I thought they should

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have a better record than what they have but you know when you got this team here bunch

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of young guys pretty much Kyle Kuzma probably being the older player there and what's crazy

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is they have two players there that has one NBA championships not as the main guys of

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course but as key contributors and with that you still couldn't get anything together although

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one guy you can make the case he's pretty much a he's getting a bad reputation around

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the league as being a guy who shoots off his mouth and so forth.

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So you have those two guys there you got Attias Jones you got a young big and Daniel Galford

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Diney Avajay and you just acquired Mark van backley the third so you got some young talent

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here you just got to be able to mold it and get the most out of what you have there.

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Washington in a rebuild mode that's for sure guys so we see how they'll play down the stretch

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for the season.

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Alright so that is your coaching news let's move on a lot of big scoring this week guys

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the two nights I want to highlight Monday January 22nd and then Friday January 26 on

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that Monday Joel and B guys this is what he did he played 37 minutes and scored 70 points

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guys also grabbed 18 rebounds five assists and a 133 to 123 win over San Antonio Spurs

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and again where he scored the 70 he did it on 24 of 41 shooting and he went to the line

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23 times making 21 so Joel and B they total destruction of Victor Wimbayama who actually

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had a pretty good game but it was overshadowed by the 70 points here Wimbay had 33 points

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seven rebounds and two blocks but he was out done by MB guys so MB becomes the ninth player

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to score 70 points in a game and he actually beats Wilts record of 68 points that he scored

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and I know a lot of people saying wait a second wait a second Wilts Chamberlain scored 100

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points he did that with the Philadelphia Warriors and not the Philadelphia 76ers big difference

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there actually I will actually explain that next month when I do my player spotlight on

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already given way to farm but Wilts Chamberlain I'm going to do a player spotlight on him

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anyhow Joel and B sets a franchise record on Monday and then across the country in Minnesota

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Karl Anthony towns he goes out and in 38 minutes he scores 62 points for the Minnesota

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Timberwolves which is a franchise record and he did that in a loss though 128 to 125

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loss to the Charlotte Hornets in a game where he shot 21 for 35 from the field he made 10

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threes in this game guys and then he went to the free throw line 14 times and made 10

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so Karl Anthony towns with a monster game franchise record 62 points but in a loss guys

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so that's Monday that's what happened Monday on the 22nd let's move to Friday Luca Donkage

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he becomes the 10th player now to score 70 or more points when he scores 73 points in

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45 minutes of play guys and his 73 points is the fourth highest point total in a game

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by a player which he's tied with both David Thompson and with Wilts Chamberlain of course

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and in this game he shot at 25 for 33 guys eight threes he made on 13 attempts he went

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15 or 16 from the free throw line so it's the most efficient 73 point game in NBA history

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and also add to that 10 rebounds and seven assists which was actually a rivalry game

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guys 148 to 143 on the road versus the Atlanta Hawks now remember the Atlanta Hawks and the

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Dallas Mavericks made that swap of Luca Donkage for Trey Young so they count this as a rivalry

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game and actually Trey Young for the game 30 points 11 assists and three steals but obviously

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overshadowed by Luca and I'm sure the Atlanta faithful there were like man we could have

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had this guy but Luca goes absolutely ballistic guys and becomes the 10th player who scores

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70 more points in the game and then you have Devin Booker I had mentioned earlier the 62

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points he scored did in 38 minutes he did it on 22 of 37 shooting made six threes out

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of 12 attempts and he was 12 or 13 from the free throw line add to that five rebounds

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four assists two blocks but it's in a road loss to Indiana 133 to 131 in a game that

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saw newly acquired Indiana Pacer Pascal Siakam scored 31 points with seven rebounds six assists

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and two steals in that game so Devin Booker goes off but in a loss which ironically two

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62 point games in the week two losses go figure guys so that is the scoring that I wanted to

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cover guys and then speaking of Phoenix Kevin Durant he's always good for a good laugh or

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a good mention Kevin Durant was axed by Arizona Republic reporter he was asked why isn't he

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mentioned in the gold conversation and this is what Kevin Durant's response to that reporter

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was because I went to the Warriors why shouldn't I be in that that's the question you should

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ask why not what haven't I done so he cites his tenure with the Golden State Warriors

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as a major reason why he's not in the gold conversation let me preface this first by

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saying I've said it before I'll just echo it again I think the gold conversation in

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the NBA is the most ridiculous argument going in sports today again I think the reason different

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errors different styles of play just different so to have a go I don't indulge in that conversation

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I don't even bother with that conversation but for the sake of argument I'll talk about

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it here just to kind of clear the air so Kevin Durant wants to know why he's not in that

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conversation let's look at his resume 15 years in the league 13 all-star appearances 10 all

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NBA's six time first team four times on the second team so that's pretty good four time

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scoring champ he's 10th in point scored all time and you know what's funny about that

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him being the fourth time scoring champ him being 10th on the all time scoring lists his

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game high is only 55 points guys you would think a guy of his talent when it comes to

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scoring would have at least a 60 point game on his resume no he hasn't had that he has

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the two championships that he won in golden state two finals MVP also with golden state

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to all star MVP's he has he has one MVP league MVP that is rookie of the year he made the

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75th anniversary team and rightfully so and he's a three time gold medalist so those are

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pretty good accolades guys very good accolades why isn't he in that discussion I think it's

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actually two fold you want to say probably him going to the Warriors is probably a reason

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I think probably so but I think it's even bigger than that if you took away what he

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did in golden state I know Draymond says you can't really take that away but just for argument

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sake let's wipe that off his resume that would lead him to have probably three less all star

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appearances three less all NBA's and you would have to look at his body of work with Oklahoma

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City Thunder where he did get them to a finals but they ended up losing to Miami and then

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look at his stops in Brooklyn which was an absolute failure and with the Phoenix Suns

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which is still a work in progress so if you were to just look at that yeah probably he

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would be mentioned but throwing the Warriors now because he has that like I said that's

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on this resume but that still puts him on the outside looking in in that conversation why

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because the guys mostly mentioned in that conversation are multiple time MVPs I think

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the fact that he only has one actually hurts his case in that regard again the go conversation

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to me is ridiculous we beat it as nauseam in the basketball community football is only

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talked about in terms of quarterbacks baseball you don't even hear that discussion at all

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hockey you don't even go there because we know who the guy is in hockey and that's Wayne

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Gretzky we don't have any debate about that so it's just basketball where it's this back

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and forth Jordan LeBron they even squeeze Kobe and Karim is mentioned so again to me

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as a ridiculous argument but for the sake of this discussion I had to bring it up so

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Kevin buddy yeah you're on the outside looking in in terms of that conversation and then

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the thing with those guys to our leadership you cannot question any of those guys leadership

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qualities Kevin Durant we can question his leadership qualities and various stops it

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seemed like he's a guy who just wants to hoop he even said so but those other guys their

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teams look to them for leadership so I'll just leave it at that alright so let us move

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on from that there was a trade last week guys the Miami Heat Acquire guard Terry Rose there

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they get them from the Charlotte Hornets and in return they send Kyle Lowry at his expiring

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contract as well as a 2000 and 27 lottery protected first round pick which can convey

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if of course that pick is a lottery pick and it's unprotected in the year of 2028 so the

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Miami Heat looking to add a piece they do that and Terry Rose there Terry Rose is a

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guy who can light it up make no mistake about that in 30 games this season he average over

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23 points per game 6.6 assists nearly four rebounds and over a steal per game he also

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shoots it nearly 46% from the field nearly 36% from three and 85.5% from the free throw

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line so Terry Rose there a guy who would definitely help them that's for sure he's a guy who

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I guess now will be the point guard over there I think it's going to take him some time to

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get acclimated with the team over there but Terry Rose there definitely a good pickup for

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them but I don't know I think Miami needs something else as well so we'll see what happens with

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Miami and of course you need Jimmy Butler healthy for crying out loud and of course Tyler

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hero as well so Miami makes a move in terms of the Charlotte side you know they get that

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first round pick it could convey it could not depending on how Miami finishes in a few

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years from now but Kyle Lowry they're saying that they're not going to buy him out they're

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going to hold on to them maybe try and move him at the trade deadline maybe somebody wants

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that expiring contract that money there so we can follow the books next year so we'll

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see what happens so that is your trade for last week couple more items and then we're

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done to Reese Holly Burton he's set to miss the next three games after he made his return

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back to the lineup guys he did that against Portland but now he's going to be out three

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more games with that hamstring so the seems like the hamstring always seemed to bother

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Holly Burton we'll see how things go with that and then the last item Tristan Thompson

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I even know he was still playing guys but he's there with the Cleveland Cavaliers he's

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going to be suspended 25 games without pay for using a band substance so Tristan Thompson

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he gets the 25 game ban definitely a hit to his pockets so we'll see what happens with

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Tristan when the dust settles alright guys so that is it for me week 14 is in the books

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now looking ahead all star reserves should be announced this week so I'll cover that

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I'll see how many of my predictions guys I predicted how many of them make the squad or not we'll

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see and we're coming up on February which is black history month guys so I got kind

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of a lineup there I'm looking at will chamberlin right now as one person I'll cover Alex English

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will be another person I want to cover one other person I haven't decided yet and then

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I will have one lady baller I think right now I'm leaning towards Tamika catchings yeah

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so they'll be those three and then a surprise player maybe I'll leave the surprise player

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for the end of February alright guys so that is it I thank you for listening as always

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