Hello and welcome to the Hoot Collective podcast.

We talk about the NBA in which we are doing on Thursday afternoon, joining us from Dallas,

Texas where we attended Dirk Novitsky's Jersey Retirement Ceremony on Wednesday night out

of COVID protocols in Band-McMahon.

Eddie Partners and the Mad Max with a defensive performance to honor Dirk that is suddenly defensively

dominant Dallas Mavericks.

82 points.

Hey, five straight opponents, five straight opponents under 103 straight under 90.

Mavericks on a four game win streak.

When I saw that 82 points by the Warriors, I thought it was a half time score.

It was and look, obviously Steph feels like he had better looks than 524.

He's in a pretty nice little funk.

He's got a quad injury.

I think he's going to sit for at least a game.

Yeah, banged.

It got a knee to the quad last night.

So not the Warriors' finest work, but a heck of a night for the Mavericks, both during

and certainly after the game.

And joining us from New York City where he is going to the Nix tonight, is that right,

Tim Bontemp's?

That is correct.

I'm looking at Madison Square Garden right now.

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