Bro, I hope I never have to meet the dude that owns his Kia, because I knew a couple

badasses in my day, mostly my cousin Terry, but locally hated, bro, literally the king of

darkness and misery.

So I hope that he does not come out of the cracker barrel before I can ski battle.

Good morning, sweet world.

And welcome to the No Dung's podcast on the Athletic Network.

It's Wednesday, December 11th, 2004. I'm Jay Skeet here in the Classic Factory and alongside me, as always, Tass Melis. Fans of meaningful December basketball games, that's us for you. Next to him. It's the bearded one. A top shot hot boy, Trey Kirby. Hey, yo. And over yonder, making the magic happen, super producer JD. Hello.

There it is.

Here we are.

On today's pod, we're going to get into the up-down report to talk some Jimmy Butler trade rumors.

Oh, a juicy Shams inside pass.

And we'll have a little mini preview for tonight's two quarterfinal games.

But before we look forward, we look back.

And let's start with the Bucks beating the Magic 114, 109. I was wrong. I thought it might be

all blowout. It was a really close game. And Milwaukee returns to the NBA Cup semifinals. They are headed

back to Vegas Tass. We had this on playback.

What jumped out to you? What were your main takeaways from Milwaukee advancing over Orlando?

Well, the Orlando Magic staying in this game without their top two scores,

their all-star and their soon-to-be All-Star, Bencaro and Franz Wagner And then Jalen Suggs goes down with a thumb injury in this game.

And it sure looks like, my goodness, are they going to be able to keep up?

But their defense was so good.

Suggs comes back and they hang in until the last few possessions when some of that

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