Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Busiest day of the year for Danny and me.

We've got about 13 hours worth of basketball

to discuss five games on Christmas.

We will discuss all of them,

but I think we need to start with the battle of LA,

Lakers and Clippers.

I did the third and fourth quarters of this for the NBA cast.

We did not watch it together.

So Danny, curious to hear some of your overarching thoughts

on this one.

Considering how, especially in the first half to me,

I mean, considering he was good in the third quarter,

how limited LeBron looked at moments in time during this one.

I actually think despite them losing,

I would actually feel pretty good as the Lakers.

I thought that, well, it was not a perfect performance

from them.

It was so much better than opening night as well.

So, you know, the Clippers pulled it out,

and I thought they were the deserving victors,

but the Lakers having that 15 point lead,

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