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So a full schedule in the NBA.

Tell me you're not excited.

Random Wednesday in February, perfect time for NBA basketball.

And one of the games, as Eddie would say, a game of note, the New Orleans Pelicans paying a visit to Jamestown, would it be the Jamestown massacre?

Would that take?

No, it would not take place.

Close game.

Many lead changes in the game.

In the end, the Lakers actually did something they don't do very often.

They won, still under 500, but they mustered up enough effort to beat the gumbo guys.

28 missed three-point shots for New Orleans.

That is not because of great defense.

In fact, the strategy was to let New Orleans shoot three-point shots

because even against nothing but air, they regularly missed those three-point shots.

Many of them were wide open, and they are so incompetent the pelicans that they miss.

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