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So it was a night of silence in the NBA.

Now, normally this time of the year, it's pretty predictable.

If there's a basketball game, you know the drill.

And Golden State made quick work of Portland, Portlandia, not in the NBA playoffs anymore.

So that saved us from breaking down what would have been Game 5 of Golden State and Portland.

Guess what? Portland in game five had a big lead and blow it.

Just like every other game.

If they had played that game, then that's how that would go.

I'm really confident that, you know, as a distant relative of the great Nostradamus,

that that is how that would have ended.

That that is how that game would have ended.

And so here's the, let's go back to Game 4.

We have an NBA gift.

It does not involve a player, but it involves an agent and a celebrity.

Who?

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