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All right, welcome to Hips tonight here at The Volume.

Happy Friday, everybody.

Hope all of you guys had an incredible holiday break.

We had an incredible showcase for the NBA yesterday.

Christmas Day is kind of like that first big day that the NBA takes center stage.

The NFL was graced us with an awful slate, thanks to a bunch of teams

kind of being out of the playoff hunt leading to some bad football games. But the NBA

stepped right into that gap and provided some awesome basketball. I thought the best way

for us to hit on all the games would be to go with one major takeaway from all 10 teams from that slate yesterday. Can't wait to dig it into it with you guys. You guys know the drill before we get started. Subscribe to the Upsenite YouTube channel so you don't miss any more of our videos. Don't forget to like this video. That helps us a lot. And then lastly, if you want to get mailbag questions, drop them underneath this video. Put mailbag with a colon and write your question. and we'll get to them on Fridays, starting next Friday, throughout the remainder of the season.

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So like I said, Christmas Day, first major showcase of the NBA season.

It is revealing.

And it's funny because we've actually been going forever.

We're over two months into this thing.

We've had a whole in-season tournament. Every team has played like more than a third of their games already. But in this environment, everyone's playing about as hard as you'll see them play in an NBA regular season game, at least for most of the teams. We'll get to the Lakers later on. But it can be revealing in a lot of ways. And so I thought this would be a good chance to bounce around. Let's start with their first big takeaway. Number one, the San Antonio Spurs are the best team in the NBA right now. You don't have to take my word for it. Shea Gildes with Alexander basically said as much after the game yesterday. He said, quote, we have to get better as a group.

You don't lose to a team three times in a row in a short span without them being better than you.

Now, we'll get to some of the specifics that the Thunder have been struggling with in a minute.

But I want to focus on this particular matchup, why the Spurs thrive in this matchup, and why the Spurs as a team

have been better than everyone else in the league to this point. First of all, some stats.

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