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Houston, look at a force of game six.

The Lakers looking to end thing tonight.

Welcome back, Austin.

The rocket lead has swelled to 13.

It's a three-point game.

Teams has it ripped away.

Shepard on the steel and the flush.

What a gritty win.

It's so hard to close out of the team in the post, you know, so we got to be better on Friday. Hello and welcome to first take. It's Thursday. We are almost there, Michael Wilbon. We've got like two more days, and then the weekend is finally here. Shea Cornett, Michael Wilbon, here with you. Stephen A. Good morning from Los Angeles, where you witnessed the Houstonets last night took care business. How, I'm sorry. I was going to say,

good morning. How are you? And you know what? You clearly, clearly, just a little tweak,

we got to work with you, Shea. You're talking to two guys in Mike Wilborn and Stephen A

that don't know much about weekends. The Fridays are no different than Mondays to us. And our careers, we just, we don't have weekend, Shea. But I got you. I understand. That's fair. Well, it's in like a day and a half is the weekend. Is that it really? Okay. So let's get excited for that. Okay. You know how whenever Kenny Smith, who comes on later here on first take, he screams Queens

of the building.

Yeah, Queens of the building.

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