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Welcome to a fresh hour. First take. Let's go to the NBA here. Cooper flag out dueled LeBron James

as the Mavs took down the short-handed

Lakers 134-128 on Sunday. Flag finished with 45 points, nine dimes, eight boards, becoming the first

rookie to ever score 40 or more points in a game against LeBron. James had 30 of his own, 15 assists and

nine rebounds in the loss. LeBron and the Lakers were forced to play shorthand, of course,

as Luca Donchich and Austin Reeves will both now miss the rest of the regular season with injuries.

Here's LeBron on his reaction to learning about Reeves' oblique injury on Saturday.

Took my nap after practice and I woke up with that news.

It was like another shot to the, and I was like we knew we, you know, it was a shot to the heart, obviously, and to the chest and to the mainframe with Luca understanding that. You know, AR, you know, it's kind of dealing with the pain. We see, you know, okay, see whatever the case may be. We knew he was going to get an MRI, but, yeah I woke up for my nap yesterday and then saw all that news.

I was like, that was literally my tone.

Yeah, timing really could not be worse for the Lakers, who obviously were on a role and really pushing for the playoffs.

There's a handful of games left in the regular season. So now it falls on the king.

How far can LeBron carry these Lakers without A.R. and Luca?

They're going home in April.

Without Luca and without AR, the Lakers are going home in April.

Ladies and gentlemen, they couldn't stop a cold against the Dallas Mavericks.

They couldn't stop anybody.

And when AR and Luca Donchik are looking like better defenders than the people you had on the floor,

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