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Welcome to locked on NBA on a Tuesday everybody I'm West Goldberg from the Mercury News and host of Lockdown Warriors here with

the host of Lockdown Heat, David Rimmill, and on today's show, Steph Curry passes Wil Chamberlain as the Warriors all-time leading score and we take a

look at the playoff race in the Eastern Conference but we begin today in Minnesota

where the Timberwolves game against the Brooklyn Nets was postponed following

the police shooting of Dante Wright on

Sunday night resulting in protests and heightened security in the area.

Now this is a very serious and important subject and I implore you to learn more about it and

specifically read those journalists and who are on the ground there working for

local papers and media outlets because we are not those people and so we'll try to

focus on the basketball of it all so as we awkwardly shift here to basketball the

point that I wanted to make today, David, but can't, was that I wanted

to slam Kyrie Irving. I wanted to spend the opening of this show slamming Kyrie Irving for taking

yet another game off for personal reasons and the media covering the nets for not doing more reporting around that and honestly David I'm a little ticked off because I was really looking forward to Slamming Kyrie. It's one of my favorite things to do on this show.

Stephen A Smith got to slam Kyrie on ESPN

because he's on television 24 hours a day.

But I didn't get to do it because we had to wait until tonight

to record so I don't get to talk about the fact that Kairi Irving treats

his job as a star for the title contending Brooklyn Nets, the same way that I treated my college

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