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dame damasheck david is wednesday night i don't know they it was almost a good important

NBA game tonight it was new jersey and the sixers and the line jumped all over the place

and it settled on the sixers winning by six of Of course, the Nets didn't play anybody.

So why should anyone play anyone at this point? I get mad, but then I'm like, oh, of course,

it makes sense. Everybody's set. Let's not, let's not upset the Apple card here.

I wouldn't say that too loudly. You're going to get yelled out by Mad Dog Russo. He's very upset.

He's, uh, he's pining for the olden days when guys would go out there in meaningless games. I don't know. I guess I'm on the offense about it. It comes down to imagine if you're a season ticket holder or worse than that. Imagine, you know, at Christmas time or whatever, you know, the, you know, the old man goes out and gets tickets.

Hey, I got a special one for you. You know, we're going to go see the Sixers in April. It'll be an important game. It's the one I saved up. And this is your big present. It's like, yeah, nobody's playing. It does stink. It's hard to defend. Absolutely. Yeah, unless it stinks for the gamblers too. I mean,

Janus is now on his 11th game time decision where he dropped out or game time decision or

wasn't even a questionable or whatever. I mean, he's the biggest defender of that this year. But I don't

know. I'm just like kind of used to it. I'm like, all right, let's just go through pretend these

games mean anything. And anyway, that line went all over the it. I'm like, all right. Let's just go through pretend these games mean anything.

And anyway, that line went all over the place. It was six. Once we found out nobody was playing, they were minus nine, nine and a half. You got it early this morning. Maybe it minus six, six and a half. And it ended on six. And they didn't cover. Does it feel to you, though, like that there's maybe some strategy behind this?

I don't know.

Sure. and they didn't cover. Does it feel to you, though, like that there's, that there's maybe some strategy behind this? I don't know. I could see Nash and the big three and beyond and they're extended to their big five, their name brand guys that they have on the Nets saying, why are we going to show the Sixers anything? We're going to be playing them again in five weeks in games that matter.

So may as well sit these out.

The good news is, Sal, I know because you're down on one of my favorite puck seasons ever.

And the NBA is is limping into its postseason.

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