We're going to get to that in just a moment. Good morning, everyone. Welcome into first take. Thank you for being with us on this. What is it, Steve?

And I oh, it's a Friday Eve. How are you from the West Coast? Good morning. I good morning. Good morning. Good to see you. Melo. Yellow. What's up, Jay? I will tell you this. I have never ever said Friday Eve because that implies that there's the end of the week.

And I don't know anything about the end of the week because I work weekends. So I never say Friday.

65. That's what it is. SA set the standard. All right. By the way, how's when you're the man? I know. Yeah, baby.

Turnie time. How's Duke doing? Really? Yeah. Okay. Well, you constantly we got a big game because I've been talking to

that green bird. I'm here to help break that down. Well, that'll all that on. So we're going to we're going to get into that

Stephen A and I have brackets. We have a bet going so people can follow that online. Currently, Stephen A is beating me, but it's close.

So people can check that out. Our first take group. What's the best? The SPN bracket challenge. If the what's the winner get a gift?

Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. In her case, the pier shoes, I mean, that's what she want. That's what she said. She wants, you know, I'm saying, you know, do mess it up

because I'm switching into a purse. I just want to say this. Molly Holdon. I just want to say this about his blue,

Duke blue devils and I'm not throwing shade. It's not what it used to be. The days of Shashvsky,

Jay, Jay, Reddick, Jay Williams and the Bobby Hurley's and the Christian leaders. I mean, this this culture,

man, I did not like I just I did I watched them all year long. I didn't like what I was seeing. It's different. It's

different. Jay, Jay, Reddick, ahead of me. We can handle that next debate with Jay, Jay. Okay. Um, Stephen A, I'm actually changing it to a purse,

but we can talk about that another time. Mel Kipers, also going to be here. We're going to break down CJ Stroud, Bryce Young's

pro days in boxing hall of Famer, Layla Ali live joining the show as well. So we're going to have some fun today. We

ready to do this. Gentlemen, ready. Let's do. Okay. We'll begin with that controversy. We showed you off the top in the NBA.

So the Mavericks will file a protest after a disputed possession by the Warriors in the third quarter of last

night's lost Dallas. Thought they were awarded the ball out of a timeout, which would put them out of position leading.

Kevin Looney to make an uncontested shot off an uncontested inbound play. The Warriors went on to win the game

by two after the game. Mavericks owner Mark Cuban took to his Twitter to give his side, saying in part the rep called

Mavericks ball. The announcer announced it. Then there was a timeout during the time out the official change to the call and never told us.

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