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File this one away as a case of the NBA doing NBA things on the night or the morning before.

What could be the final game of the NBA finals, no one even focused on that, instead focused on what happened at the beginning of the weekend.

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We started a new week together again here, and it was the kind of a game that had all the people whispering.

Fix.

I think they were whispering it lower than that.

But this was being said.

Now, I don't want to get ahead of ourselves here.

I know we're getting set for game five of the NBA finals, and the Warriors are a rather

large favorite in that game for what it's worth. And they were a big favorite.

In fact, the biggest underdog LeBron James has been at home in a decade in the game on Friday

night. Now, you know what happened. You know what happened. The Warriors, 48 minutes away from ending all reasonable debate about who the best single-season

post-season team was in post-season history.

You go 16-0, you are not going to lose arguments when you go 16-0 in the postseason.

And finishing off the championship

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