Ah, good afternoon, sir, and how are we today?

Better.

Better get a bucket.

I'm going to throw up.

Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dung's podcast on the Athletic Network, Wednesday, January 22nd. I'm Jay Skeets, alongside me, as always, Tassmellis. Hey. We got the bearded one, Trey Kirby. Hey, yo. The International Man of Mystery, taking it to the Max. Lee Ellis. Friend. Wow. Wow. And last but not least, making the magic happen is J.D. Hello. There he is, and here we are, guys. Follow us on social media, Twitter, and Instagram at No Dunks, Inc. You know, we're on Facebook at Facebook.com slash No Dunks Inc. Well, I guess it's official. We're now on Facebook. Hell yeah, Garth. Email us your NBA questions and comments to No dunks at theathletic.com.

We'll be stepping on the beach a little later today.

Back-to-back, Jacks, once again.

And if you're looking for some Raptor news,

make sure you check out yesterday's bonus podcast with the athletics, Eric Corrine.

A lot of fun.

We discussed Norman Powell's emergence, whether the raps would be buyers or sellers at the deadline,

his opinion on that, Kyle Lowry's All-Star case, whether Jonas Valen-Chunis deserved a ring,

who the greatest Raptor of all time is, who's on his Raptors Mount Rushmore? It was a lot of fun.

So whether you're a Raptors fan or even if you're not, I think you'd enjoy that. So go check that

one out. We dropped that yesterday afternoon.

Today, guys, though, we start with some bad news, especially if you're a Canada basketball fan.

According to multiple reports, including our own Shams, the Maverick's Fear that starting center,

Dwight Powell, suffered a season-ending torn right Achilles tendon early in the first quarter of last night's game versus the Clippers. He was injured. He attempted to sort of drive to the hoop and his right leg just gave out. It looked bad when he attempted to push off. He collapsed and, yeah, waiting on the MRI, but not likely going to be good news. You would have to assume that he's probably done for the season.

And I say bad news if you're a Canada basketball fan, not only for the Mavs losing a guy like Powell,

but he likely won't be there come the summertime and trying to help Canada qualify for the Olympics.

He kind of looked back as well as he tumbled down there, which is often a sign because guys who have had

done their Achilles, Achilles before, sort of say it's almost they feel like someone kicks them behind and they sort of look to someone to be there and there was nobody there. So yeah, that was a pretty sad moment there for Dwight. He was in obviously a lot of pain as it happened and we didn't see him again last night and I don't think we'll see him again this season. The tights that everybody's wearing now, you get the super slow-mo of the ripple happening underneath

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