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Happy Monday, everybody.

Hope all of you guys had an incredible weekend.

Got a jam-pack show for you guys today.

The Houston Rockets, after getting a season-defining win on Saturday in Denver against the Nuggets,

have sandwiched that with two losses to two of the worst teams in the Western Conference,

involving crunch time issues, which I want to dive into. After that, the Minnesota Timberwolves got their season defining win on Friday night against the Oklahoma City Thunder. I want to dive into that game. Jalen Brunson's leap into top tier superstardom I want to talk about. And then as always on Monday, we have our weekly power rankings.

Also, a little bit of a funky schedule this week because of Christmas, as you guys can tell,

I am in Tucson.

I am no longer up in Colorado visiting for Christmas, kind of an unusual thing there.

But I'm very excited to be here to see some family and see some friends.

And our schedule is a little bit tricky this week because of the holidays.

So because we have Friday being a day that we're going to be reacting to the Christmas Day games, we will not have a mailbag on Friday. So we're going to have a mailbag coming out tomorrow. So obviously today's episode, mailbag tomorrow, no show on Wednesday and Thursday for the holiday, and then back on Friday to react to the Christmas Day games. You guys know the drill before we get started.

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and we'll get to them on Fridays throughout the remainder of the season.

All right, let's talk some basketball.

So kind of a weird week of Houston Rockets hoops. They go on the road on Saturday.

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