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2:25Hopefully, you'd never find yourself in the opposition. Welcome back, veteran GM the night westward one sports on path oil phone number to join the show is 3 1 0 8 4 0 49 10 That's 3 1 0 8 4 0 49 10 Thanks again to John Howell-Bauer who joined us at the beginning of last segment It's talked to players championship Collin Moore Colle your gone withdrawals of the back injury Roy McElroy dealing with a little bit of a back flare up. He shot plus two today So it feels like it could be anybody's tournament Scotty Shuffler lurking five shots behind the leaders after one round So hopefully the best of that action is still to come any of your thoughts on Duke barely surviving Florida state Three at the buzzer from Robert McRae goes begging the seminals were nearly 20 point underdogs and nearly win the game Duke goes on to the semifinals though, and I believe they play the winner of North Carolina and Clemson which is coming up very shortly here. Let's double check when we pull up the ACC Barack it

3:26Yeah, Virginia's gonna play Miami all of them won today That'll be a good one tomorrow number two verse number three in the conference tournament and then Duke We'll get the winner of North Carolina Clemson So we might get Duke UNC part three Tomorrow night if North Carolina can win, but again Playing without Caleb Wilson. That'll be a tall task their best player who's gonna be a top 10 pick in the NBA draft That'll be a tall task for the Tahrheels and we talked about Houston surviving BYU Despite a great game once again from AJ DeBonza the last game that he will play in the well, I wasn't well They got the big dance so scratch that Sometimes you speak too fast So Houston beats BYU. They'll get the winner of Kansas and TCU Which is tip it off shortly and then in the semifinals tomorrow You'll have Arizona versus Iowa State that should be absolutely Electric because you look at when they played each other in the regular season

4:28They only met that one time. Yeah, it was 10 days ago In Tucson and Arizona Pretty much dominated that game they beat the cyclone 7357 But Iowa State's defense has ratcheted up to another level here these last two days in the big 12 turning Let's talk a little NBA though here. Let's let's get you caught up on some scores going on right now And then I'll give you a preview for Celtic Thunder, which is going to tip off in about 10 minutes from now Spurs and the nuggets in the early going in San Antonio We talked about that game earlier on in the show massive one for both of these teams Victor Wembenyama out for this game So that was that news came down right before the game started We were wondering when we were gonna get that news, but Victor Wembenyama missing just his first game since January 3rd Apparently had some right ankle soreness and shoot around he's out for the game Aaron Gordon is out for the Denver Nuggets So all of a sudden this was this spurs were favored by about six or seven points now

5:29Right before the game tipped off they were only a three point favor. This is a big one for Denver You know, I talked about the nuggets needing to get going here down the stretch and they're as healthy as they they've ever been this season Now granted Aaron Gordon not playing in this game tonight But still the way to Jamal Murray and Nicola Yokech have been playing if they get their other guys like Christian Brown Who battled injuries early of this year mr. Chonka time cam Johnson who you know kind of it's been a disappointment this year They got him in that Michael Porter trade in the offseason where they basically kicked Michael Porter to the curb And yeah, he's doing everything he can for the freaking Brooklyn nets But the nuggets right now going into this game Tied for fifth in the Western conference standings But they're only a half game back of both the Rockets and the Lakers who are three and four in the West And they got the same record as the T Wolves who are Sixth technically tied for fifth with them and they're both a half a game and a half up on Phoenix So that three to seven spot in the West remains a log jam

6:32And then the spurs are two and a half games back at the thunder for the top seed in the West So anything can happen every team's got about 16 games left to go until the playoffs or only a month away So it's a back-to-back for Denver third game in four nights But no Wemba Nyama and I expect that we'll get Denver's best punch here tonight right now It's 21 18 the spurs lead it with four minutes left to go in the first quarter Chokers already got ten points and three rebounds and it's Devin Vaselle Who we gave out a play before the game. I said Devin Vaselle three threes was my play He's got two of them already in the first quarter. He leads the way for San Antonio with nine points other results to keep an eye on I You know, I do the Arbit the books promo every day or I basically you know give you a bet and if you'd like to Fade it or tell it whatever's up to you and I said look I think the sixers are just in a bad bad way right now Missing Joelle indeed Shocker missing his 12th game in the last 14 games tonight with an oblique injury

7:33Paul George pop for P E D's he's just suspended for another two weeks Entire East Maxi's out for another three weeks here with a pinky injury. Oh my pinky Meanwhile Lindsey Vaughn in the Olympics was skiing with a torn ACL And I said well, I think the pistons win this game by 30 tonight I think the spread of fin it closed at 15 or 16 points and the pistons just finished off a beatdown of the sixers 131 109 so they win it by 22 and the pistons who had lost four in a row Last week they beat up on the Brooklyn that's they beat up on the injury ravaged 76ers So that's a big win for the pistons tonight to get back to winning ways and try to separate themselves From the Celtics and the rest of the eastern conference. We're trying to chase them down Sons went into Indianapolis they beat up on the pathetic loser Pacers And yes, I'm calling them that because I'm a diehard nix fan and they knocked the next down the eastern conference finals last year, but Just garbage disgusting tanking from the Pacers this year and so you know they get their they get smashed the night by the sons

8:37Devon Booker 43 points and Jalen Green who they got in the trade in the offseason for Kevin Durant 36 points. So a massive knife for those guys the sons win that one 123 108 A game to keep an eye on is the heat and the box Miami right now They have vaulted themselves with a cup with some hot streak Six wins in a row. They have vaulted themselves all the way up to number six in the eastern conference And then remember of course Bam out of bio on ethically scoring 83 points the other night and that went over the wizards Which is I mean put an asterisk next to that one what a freaking joke that was and Bam out of bio He's got 112 points tonight. So he's followed up that performance by scoring triple digits. No, just kidding He's got 12 points 12 There's eight minutes left to go in the game about the heat duly the bucks 94 88 Uh Milwaukee's dead. I mean their seasons dead. They are They're five and a half games back of the hornets for the final spot in the play in tournament

9:40They're not making it yana says 26 points right now, but Doc Rivers needs to get fired at the end of the season It's over from Milwaukee. They tried to hold on to yana's he's been hurt for half the season and it's just been a disaster They're just not they're a bad team. They're just a bad team That's that's all there is to say they can't score They can't score and even when yana's the couple of games yana's has been back for they got nobody outside of him You know, they made a splash this off season they sign Miles Turner and I'm the season Miles Turner's averaging 12 points and five rebounds That's just not good They're just not a good team Doc Rivers. I don't know if he gets another NBA job after this honestly. He might want to retire Uh, so the heat holding on right now with under eight minutes to go in the fourth quarter And then you got the lakers and the bulls coming up tonight. That might be the first to 140 with two teams that don't play a lick of defense um We'll see if that one the laker should win that one comfortably So let's do a quick preview here on the game of the night

10:40You got the champions from each of the last two seasons the thunder number one in the west at 51 and 15 The Celtics number two in the east at 43 and 22 And again with that pistons win tonight Now the Celtics are three and a half games back in the eastern conference for that number one seed And we mentioned that there was some injury news to keep an eye out on Jason Tatum ruled out is the first game He's missing since coming back from his uh torn Achilles and Tatum has been awesome in the first uh Three games that he's played averaging 20 points and seven rebounds per game Just basically not missing a step and he's played about 29 minutes per game So it's not even like they have them on a strict minutes limit Uh, but he's out tonight and Their point guard Derek White is out as well the cola vuchavitch who they got in the trade deadline from the bulls continues to Nurse that broken finger. So no Jason Tatum no Derek White Jalen Browns got to try to put the team on his back. We'll see if we get some heroics from the reigning six men of the year in patent

11:42Pritchard, but the thunder should they should cruise here The thunder should cruise Even with even with the injuries that they currently have Isaiah Hartnstein their starting center He's got a calf injury. This is going to be his third straight game that he's missed and fourth in the last five games And then their second best player jaydom jalen Williams Who is still out with a hamstring strainy hasn't played since february 11th and he only played two games in february Uh after he missed you know basically a month as well with a hamstring injury so And remember he missed the first like month of the season So it's just been they haven't been able to find chemistry. They have not played I think they've played like Ten games with their entire starting lineup if that and yet for everybody that wants to doubt the thunder They're 51 and 15 with all those injury concerns and sga in my opinion has already wrapped up the mvp He's got a chance to bolster that tonight I think he'll have a big game even as good as Boston's defense is

12:44Missing Tatum missing Derek white. I expect sga to make a another statement in this one But I did say the play that I liked whenever we would whenever we would get the player props for it was jalen Williams The other jalen Williams that's right the thunder have two jalen Williams is The one is the guy that scored 40 in the mba finals and mba finals game last last year That's the jade up that has been hurt with the hamstring. So jalen Williams. They're back up center He's been a big spark off the bench for them And I'm going to continue To roll with him And let's see let's see His rebounds for tonight because that's the way I want to play it I don't know how effective he'll be scoring he said a bunch of threes lately But that's you know that could easily come back You know, you could have some regression to the mean there. So jalen Williams rebounds five and a half But it's minus 150 on bed mgm So that's not something that I would be interested in playing nor would I advise you to play it

13:44And if you want to take five bucks and put it on jalen Williams to grab 10 rebounds at plus 600 I think that would probably be a good idea But I mean the thunder should win this game. It's eight and a half points now Boston has you know, they played most of the season without Jason Tatum So it's not like this is new territory for them now. They're missing Derek White as well though I would say see how the first half goes and if it's close maybe Okay, see runs away from them in the second half, but uh It's a big one because we'll see what happens in the nuggets in the spurs if the Nuggets if the spurs lose and the thunder win Then the lead in the western conference goes up to three and a half games And if the Celtics lose this game that means the pistons will have a four game cushion At the top of the eastern conference again with only about 16 to 17 games left to play So a couple of big games in the NBA will keep you posted on those Uh throughout the rest of the show will take your phone calls anything you want to talk about open lines

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