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00:00Let's get over to the association.
00:01How about all the champagne bottles that were popping in the Sacramento Kings locker room,
00:05lighting the beam after losing 16 straight games, finally beating the Memphis Grizzlies?
00:09They're not going to go on the road to take on the Rockets show.
00:11And look at that overnight line, minus 14 and a half.
00:13It's actually rising.
00:14Some outlets showing this morning, Joe, minus 15 and a half as a favorite towards the Rockets
00:19and a total of 223 and a half.
00:21Let the good times roll for the Kings or now we got our victory staved off that ridiculous
00:2517 game losing streak we could have had.
00:27And now we're ready to get beat down again tonight.
00:30What's that spread line tonight in the association?
00:32Well, Houston has been burning money this year, Donnie, as a double digit favorite.
00:38They had not been good.
00:39And then, of course, they were a double digit favorite on Monday against Utah.
00:43And what did they do?
00:45Well, they won by double digits and covered the spread there.
00:48But now now they got a back to back opportunity here.
00:52Only this line is higher than it was against Utah here.
00:55So call me crazy.
00:57I still don't trust the Houston Rockets to get up enough to take on the bottom feeders
01:03here and cover games.
01:04They haven't done it over the last two months, Donnie.
01:07I think they were two and eight in their last 10 as a double digit favorite.
01:12Listen, you mentioned that the Kings actually showed a little bit of a fight there.
01:16They still have some veterans on that team.
01:18It feels like maybe this might be too big a number for the Rockets who really just have
01:23to win, Donnie.
01:24And that's really the end of it at that point.
01:26Exactly.
01:27Just win and advance here.
01:28Getting closer and closer to the playoffs here.
01:30Let's go over to the Memphis State Grizzlies.
01:32Memphis State.
01:33How about that?
01:33They might as well should be the Memphis State Grizzlies.
01:34They played basketball.
01:36Golden State Warriors here.
01:37The favorites on the road, Joe, overnight.
01:39Minus two and a half.
01:40We now sit at three and a half across the board as a favorite for the Warriors.
01:43The road team here and a total of 229 and a half as that number continues to increase
01:48here, Joe.
01:48Warriors, Grizzlies.
01:49What are we looking at from a spread line advantage here?
01:52I mean, this is a, these two teams, I don't even know why they're playing.
01:55They're walking mass units here is basically what they've got going on.
01:59Both teams have injuries up and down.
02:02Still not going to be any Steph Curry or anything along those lines.
02:06Watching that game against New Orleans last night was like watching paint dry here for the
02:12Warriors.
02:12So it's going to be tough.
02:14I mean, Steph hasn't played since January 30th with that knee issue.
02:18He's expected to miss his ninth straight game here.
02:21You got Porzingis still hurt.
02:23Butler out.
02:24Who is scoring in this game?
02:26Donnie is what I want to know.
02:27I have no idea.
02:28It feels like an under to me.
02:31Pajemski.
02:31That's who's going to score, Joe.
02:33Lean on Pajemski.
02:34And by the way, Celtics Nuggets, 10 o'clock start tonight.
02:36Maybe the game of the night.
02:38Topics in the NBA that we get passionate about.
02:40Well, and a lot of times in the regular season, it's passionate about just hammering the NBA for all their,
02:44you know, shortcomings and insecurities that they have, which they do.
02:47And then we ramp it up for the playoffs.
02:48Like, man, the greatest athletes in the world playing in the highest level of competition.
02:51Why can't we get this all season long?
02:54But, Joe, as you know me, when I look around the leagues, I've always had a staunch passion for.
02:58I don't believe outside of, let's just say, Babe Ruth, Wayne Gretzky, Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, that anybody's jersey should
03:05ever be retired.
03:05There will never be another one of these players for our franchise.
03:08Well, it seems like every day there's millions of people for a franchise.
03:11The team I always like to get on is the New York Yankees.
03:14I say to myself, like, do the Yankees operate as an organization where they don't think baseball is going to
03:18be around another 50 years,
03:20where they eventually have to go to players that are wearing number 322 on the back of their jersey and
03:24say,
03:24I always grew up looking at Derek Jeter, and I want the number 2, but that was gone.
03:29Then 22 was gone.
03:30Then 222 was gone.
03:31Now 2222 will be my number in the year, I don't know, 2146.
03:36But that's not the issue here.
03:37I'm drawing the fire here at the Golden State Warriors.
03:40Did they have a great run, Joe?
03:42Absolutely they did.
03:42They won a lot of championships.
03:44And I tell you right now, boy, if they didn't have Kevin Durant on a couple of those championships, maybe
03:48they don't win it.
03:49Could be a possibility, right?
03:50Well, if they didn't have Steph Curry on those teams, maybe they'll win a championship.
03:53Or even Klay Thompson in his prime, maybe they don't win one of those championships.
03:57But I guarantee you this, as you watch this television screen right now, they would have won all four of
04:02their championships,
04:03whether or not they had Andre Iguodala or not.
04:06Play the tape here.
04:07Let me get to it, Joe.
04:11You see this radio?
04:12Like, this is not AI, people.
04:14Like, this is not AI coming to your screen.
04:17Oh, look, Andre Iguodala, what is this?
04:19Ha-ha!
04:19What is this, NBA 2K?
04:21We just get to pick and retire a guy's jersey on career mode at this point.
04:23No, this is the Golden State Warriors, Joe, hanging Andre Iguodala's number nine jersey.
04:31And I ask you this question.
04:33For what, Joe?
04:38Is this a joke?
04:40Do they just have to celebrate something?
04:42Is it, like, penciled in automatically?
04:44Like, and they're just, they're running out of guy?
04:46Like, I don't, Iguodala, I mean, like, don't get me wrong, one of the best, you know, six men, but
04:52he was the guy there.
04:55He was clutch.
04:55Don't get me wrong.
04:56But is he retiring the jersey kind of player for them?
05:02Never.
05:03What does that say about everyone else?
05:05I don't get it.
05:06Never.
05:06Golden State.
05:08Wow.
05:08Golden State wins every championship in every game with Iguodala or without Iguodala.
05:14Maybe you can't say that against, like, Derek Jeter or Michael Jordan, right?
05:16Some of the better players in the game.
05:17But also understand this.
05:19People might point out as well and say, well, Donnie, he was an MVP of the finals the year that
05:23they beat Cleveland here.
05:24Let me understand what that means.
05:26He was the primary defender on LeBron James.
05:29LeBron James went for 36, 13, and 9 in that series.
05:33He was fanatical on defense here.
05:35All he did was foul every time up the floor.
05:37And you can't call every foul.
05:38LeBron James had one of the greatest finals in the history of the sport.
05:42And his primary defender won MVP.
05:44So you might say, well, what did he do on offense?
05:45He was decent.
05:46Why?
05:46They left him wide open every time down court because everybody was a much better option than Andre Iguodala.
05:54Like, this shouldn't get me so angry on a Wednesday morning.
05:58And if I wasn't surfing Twitter this morning and found that, it never would have came across my desk.
06:02You have got to be kidding me.
06:04Iguodala's number retired?
06:06Maybe for a G League team at this point.
06:08I can't even believe we're having this conversation.
06:11And I think he played the first eight years for your Sixers, too, didn't he?
06:15And he stunk.
06:17And then he gets to Golden State and you team up with Steph Curry and Klay Thompson.
06:22And all of a sudden now he's getting his number in the rafters there.
06:26Just unbelievable, Donnie.
06:28But, hey, listen, they take care of their own, apparently, at Golden State.
06:32So, kudos to Iguodala.
06:35Nobody will wear, what, nine again?
06:37Is that it?
06:37Just hanging the jersey up there?
06:39Wow.
06:40Hanging the jersey up there.
06:41And by the way, Philadelphia 76ers fans will always remember this moment as well.
06:44AI has been an absolute legend.
06:46Not Andre Iguodala, the wrong AI.
06:47The real AI.
06:48Alan Iverson was a Philadelphia 76er, got traded away.
06:51Came back eventually to the Philadelphia 76ers.
06:53And there was a lot of passion in the building that night.
06:56And I can't wait to see Alan back in the Sixers uniform and run out of that tunnel and get
07:00introduced here.
07:01Alan Iverson always got introduced last.
07:03But you know who put the kibosh on that?
07:05Andre Iguodala.
07:06Now, this is my team.
07:07Alan's not going to get introduced last.
07:08It's always going to be me at this point.
07:10You got to be kidding me.
07:11Get him out of the fake AI.
07:13Andre Iguodala.
07:14Let's move on to other pressing needs at this point, Joe.
07:16One of those pressing needs, Utah's doing it right, man.
07:19Joe, they're doing it right.
07:20Sam Sharani, a tweet, Utah Jazz guard Vince Williams Jr. has been diagnosed with a season-ending torn ACL.
07:27We don't even know if this is true or not.
07:28We don't even know if he's ever going to get surgery.
07:30They're like, we're not getting fined.
07:32Everybody, you have an injury, whether basically you have it or not.
07:36Unbelievable.
07:38Another 10.
07:39I don't know what it is with Utah with guys needing surgery.
07:42But there we go.
07:43I mean, that happened early in that game against Houston, too, there.
07:47So, I don't know what it is.
07:49I don't know what's going on with Utah.
07:51But yet, it seems like everyone is getting shelved and needs surgery and rehab and everything else.
07:56So, they're going to have to – you think the 49ers got problems?
07:59Try being the Utah Jazz here.
08:01Yeah.
08:03Here's another good story as well, which when you read the initial reports, we always like to say,
08:08and we're right, Joe, nine times out of ten, let's wait for the check to clear to see how this
08:12one turns out.
08:13TMZ reported here.
08:14And again, Patrick Beverly says the ordeal has made his family stronger after his assault case was dismissed.
08:19And believe me, you say, well, what assault case was this year?
08:21It was explained by TMZ in this previous tweet.
08:24And it says, from them, as we previously reported, Bev's sister told police that she left their Texas home in
08:29the middle of the night on November 14th
08:31without permission to see her boyfriend in a nearby park.
08:33She said when she returned, Pat was called to the home, and things turned physically,
08:37with Beverly allegedly grabbing his sister by her neck with both hands and picking her up off the floor.
08:43And Patrick Beverly's response once again to that is, yeah, it made her family stronger.
08:46What?
08:47I can't do it anymore.
08:49Yeah.
08:50Yeah.
08:51But, you know, Guy was always just a few fries short of a happy meal here, Donnie.
08:55I just – beyond me here.
08:57But, you know, he kept finding work, though, didn't he?
09:00NBA teams kept giving him a roster spot here.
09:03But I think that is coming to an end here in the near future.
09:07I'll tell you this.
09:08Last night, the Cavaliers and the Knicks, they squared up in Cleveland last night.
09:11New York Knicks came out at halftime like, we're ready to go, and then scored 11 points.
09:15And they got hammered by the Cavaliers, 109-94 last night.
09:19Double-double for Allen, 19-10 points here, cruising to a victory over the Knicks.
09:24Yeah, it wasn't a great spot for the Knicks last night.
09:26It was their third game in four nights, and you could kind of tell there at the end of the
09:31first half
09:31that maybe the legs were getting a little bit tired there, Donnie.
09:35And you saw it in the third quarter, and then that was all she wrote from there.
09:39So, not great, but big win by the Cavs there to bounce back after that horrific loss there
09:46to a depleted Oklahoma City team a couple of nights earlier.
09:50So, kudos to the Cavs and Harden for getting back one.
09:55The aliens going north, Joe.
09:58That's the San Antonio Spurs.
09:59Victor Webiniam is going to take on the Toronto Raptors today.
10:01They are a 7.5-point favorite, up from a 6-point favorite overnight here.
10:05Total is at 229.5.
10:07The Raptors let me down yesterday, losing to OKC.
10:10Now on a back-to-back, maybe going to lose again to the Spurs, Joe.
10:13Yeah, I mean, again, second of a back-to-back for both of them last night, Toronto and OKC.
10:20Only Toronto had everybody available to them.
10:23OKC had, you know, all the backups available there.
10:26So, maybe, and still didn't show up.
10:29So, maybe the Raptors were looking forward to this game tonight against San Antonio.
10:33Maybe they were saving it for San Antonio tonight and lost in the meantime to Oklahoma City last night, Donnie.
10:40Boston Celtics-Denver Nuggets in elevation tonight.
10:4310 o'clock star, 3.5s across the board as a hometown favorite for the Denver Nuggets
10:47and a total of 230.5 Celtics-Nuggets tonight, Joe.
10:51What can we look forward to here?
10:53Yeah, well, the Celtics didn't have to do a whole lot to beat the depleted Suns last night.
10:58A 97-81 game there where guys didn't have to do a whole heck of a lot.
11:03So, the Celtics will have some rest here, even though it's a second of a back-to-back.
11:08But there is absolutely no way you can play an under in any Denver Nuggets game right now.
11:15They can't stop a nosebleed, Donnie.
11:17It's over for me, that's for sure.
11:20Roster already thin for OKC.
11:22Now in a back-to-back to take on the Detroit Pistons.
11:24Overnight, Joe.
11:24The 5.5s, they've disappeared.
11:26The 7s and 7.5s now across the board.
11:28And a total of 219.5.
11:30Thunder Pistons.
11:32What are we looking forward to tonight there?
11:34You're going to learn a little something about this Detroit Moxie, right?
11:37Because they got thoroughly beat by San Antonio.
11:41You can be the best in the East, but unless you beat one of these top teams from the West,
11:47yeah, not looking good, Detroit.
11:49They better show up tonight, Donnie.
11:51NBA MVP on Polymarket here.
11:53Shea Gilgis-Alexander trading at a 56% chance, followed by Jokic and Kay Cunningham at 16%.
11:58You saw that chart, Joe, that was out yesterday.
12:01Expectations are SGA, Nikola Jokic won't have enough games under their belt to actually qualify.
12:06So maybe you should go with Kay Cunningham.
12:08But trust me, when you're trying to win an MVP, you'll play extra games down the stretch,
12:12if you can, for guys like SGA and Jokic.
12:14Interesting finish to the season, Joe.
12:17Who, for you, should be the NBA MVP that you want to invest your money in?
12:21Listen, I think the guy that stands to benefit from all of it is Kay Cunningham.
12:25I think that a lot of these other guys may not have enough games under the belt to qualify for
12:32it.
12:32He is going to, without a doubt.
12:34So, wouldn't shock me at all if Kay Cunningham ends up pulling this one out.
12:40NBA MVP at this point.
12:41Victor Webb and Yama only trading at 4%.
12:43And again, it's one of those sports where, Joe, it's not sometimes what you're doing on the court.
12:46It's how many games that you play.
12:48Hey, look at that, man.
12:49The best player is SGA.
12:50Oh, no.
12:50I only played 64 games and isn't actually eligible.
12:53That could trip you up in the end.
12:55Hey, Coach, take a look at this in the NBA.
12:57I'm known to fade teams here and use some bad basketball teams to my advantage.
13:01The Cleveland Cavaliers coming in all high and mighty.
13:03They're going to take on the Milwaukee Bucks.
13:05They're basically playing for ping pong balls at this point.
13:07That line opened up nine overnight.
13:09It now sits at eight and a half.
13:10Coach, only 30% of the tickets, though, coming on the Milwaukee Bucks.
13:13Hold your nose tonight.
13:15They're taking the Bucks that they don't lose by double digits at home.
13:18Got to lay down with the fleas to get the chicken, Coach.
13:20What are you thinking tonight?
13:22Second leg of a back-to-back big win by Cleveland.
13:24I think Nick's proven to be a fraud right now.
13:27I'll take the points.
13:28Milwaukee guys have been playing better since the all-star break.
13:32Take the points at eight and a half.
13:33I agree with you guys.
13:34Well done.
13:34Well done.
13:35Well done.
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