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On today's episode of the Mark Titus show, the Boston Celtics are officially on the brink, a shocking, shocking loss to the Sixers at Home in Game 5.

Or was it? I don't know.

Joelle and Bede finally playing like the MVP, that PJ Tucker pep talk at the end of game four, if Philly goes on to win the title, and that's a big if, and we can talk about it in a second, there's a lot of basketball left to be played, but if they do, that, that PJ Tucker speech, I mean, he PJ Tucker deserves his own banner, just for that speech alone, just, Joelle and Bede and the snap of a finger after that was locked in for the red

to game four was locked in a game five, big win in Boston, the Celtics fans are booing their own team, just absolute pandemonium in the garden, the other garden, I should say, the TD garden, not the real garden, so maybe we'll talk about that a little bit, also in the real garden, meanwhile, the nicks are not dead yet, Jalen Brunson 38 points, nine and seven to go with, very slow start for the nicks out of the gate, talking about like vibes and whatnot, like we thought Julius Randall was waving the white

flag, and that's not to say he wasn't Jalen Brunson was not, was not ready to wave the white flag certainly, but, but the nicks coming out tonight, looked like they were ready to go on vacation, looked like they were ready to, to have their season end, kicked it into high gear in the second quarter, had a, had a really big lead and it looked like the heat we're going to do what they did to the box, and just not die and dig their way back in Duncan Robinson in these big shots, but in the end too much Jalen Brunson, the nicks, the nicks survive, and as expected, the warriors also stayed alive in game five,

kind of a ho-hum game with the Lakers, looked like the warriors could have maybe pulled away, and the Lakers just refused to go away, but at no point, and really in the second half that I think the, the warriors were not going to win this game five, really the only interesting thing coming out of this is that the Anthony Davis wheelchair watch is officially on the Anthony Davis, I saw the replay 30 times, I didn't, I'm not saying he's faking it, I understand I'm just like buying, it's only because it's Anthony Davis is a, feels another player,

I wouldn't even say anything about this, but I watched that replay 30 times, and I'm thinking this man was, was wheeled off in a wheelchair for that, but also I don't know, I don't know what happened, I don't know, I gotta, I gotta put all, this is, this is the point in the series where we all like start scratching our heads and we're like, is Anthony Davis faking it or not faking it, how many times can this boy cry wolf, I don't know all I know is that Chris Andrew reported that this man went off in a wheelchair, and suddenly the warriors Lakers series is as juicy as we expected it to be, before the Lakers

went up the rewind, I'm gonna do some fraud power rankings as well today, they're fun, there's a fun, fraud power rankings, a hard patch of stuff going on, not all NBA related, it's a very broad, fraud power rankings, and those are always the most fun, all that coming up, let's get into it.

Alright, before we get started on the NBA stuff, some quick thoughts on the Trump Town Hall on CNN tonight, so I thought that, I just wanted to see TJ's face, I just wanted to see what TJ is, I just wanted to see what he's doing.

So I was saying we're getting, are we getting takes off this early into the broadcast, TJ and I are still in the feeling out process, so I just tried to sneak one past you and see if I can, like this moment of like, is this, is this motherfucker for real, is he really gonna do this?

The time slot is open all of a sudden if you're looking to make that pivot.

That's true. No, we're not going to talk about that, we're not going to talk about that at all, but the only reason I knew that was even going on, to be honest with you, is because all the commercial is going on during the NBA playoffs, which now that I'm bringing that up, now that I'm bringing up the commercials that are being shoved in my face, which as of like, up until today was this Trump Town Hall on CNN,

it is now dawn on me, TJ, I don't think I've seen a Dr. Pimple Popper commercial since I bitched about it on the show. I'm not saying I'm the one that made the change, but if other people are saying it, I'll not alone.

But I genuinely don't think I've seen a single commercial since I came on the show and was like, why are we seeing all these Pimple Popper commercials, and then it went away.

Thoughts and prayers to Dr. Pimple Popper, I hope they're doing well. I hope the show's not canceled. I hope they're still popping. Is it a woman?

It's a woman, right? It might be, it might be due to the writers strike, honestly, they probably, they write out of science fiction writers to scheme up the monsters that live inside some of these people's like next.

All right, so NBA action tonight, warriors beat the Lakers, oh, home game, like I said, I mean, the score was kind of close throughout the game. Like the Lakers just wouldn't go away.

The Lakers had no desire really to give much of an effort. This was this felt like a game one from the Lakers and that like if not game one of this series, but just like a general game one where it's like a feel it out game.

It felt like they they were just kind of going through the motions for most of this game and then they would look up every so often see they weren't down that much and then decide to start trying.

But then inevitably make like a stupid play or the the warriors would hit a big shot or something, but the warriors obviously you're playing with a sense of desperation, you're at home, you're just a must win game.

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