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Guaranteed Human.

Hey, welcome in.

I'm Doug Gottlieb, and this is all ball, all basketball all the time.

And as much as I'd love to review for you, what's wrong with the Washington Wizards?

They stink.

I mean, look, the big thing with the Wizards stinking is that once you start playing the non-playoff teams,

that's when you have to start winning games.

And at the time of this recording, it's Wednesday morning right after we saw Duke smash, Kentucky,

and Kansas hold on to beat Michigan State.

Right before this recording, they just lost to the Dallas Mavericks, a team that faint playoff hopes. And now the sudden you start to go, okay, there's major problems in that locker

room. I'll get to that. I'll get to some, some LeBron and Lakers thoughts.

And I'll get to some of what I've seen from the Toronto Raptors as well as the Boston Celtics

and the controversy, non-traversy with Jamal Murray dropping, what was it, 48, but going

for 50 as the buzzer expired. We'll get to that in a second.

But first, let's take a deep dive in to the Champions Classic. First, we saw Kansas, and they did

so without DeSuzza. They got out to a huge lead and held on against Michigan State. And look,

Michigan, part of what happens is we become very result oriented.

We do this every single year, every year in the Champions Classic, in the Maui Invitational,

in the Bahamas.

We overreact to results instead of watching the actual game itself.

I'm going to get to Zion.

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