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I have two of the best with me as always from the Lockdown Nuggets podcast,

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It's Matt.

We're going to be talking about Anthony Davis here in a little bit.

So in a related bit of news, my daughter informing this morning that there are six

different species of flamingos in the world.

Can you name them? I cannot. That will do that for, that's my homework for Monday. From the Lockdown Bulls podcast, he's also a Bears and Bulls creator for Bleacher Report. It's Hayes. It's been a good week. It's been a good week. I just want to say this to my co-host here, Matt Moore. Potting with Matt Moore has made me a better podcast over the last year, and I appreciate you, sir. Oh, he's saying this before he's about to absolutely tear into me. That's not going to fall for it. Don't fall for it, folks. Buttering you up. We'll see where this is going to go. But we're going to start today's show with a segment called

the real question, where we take NBA headlines and answer the real question behind them.

What is real? Can anybody name where that sound effect is from?

Was that Morpheus? It was Morpheus.

Okay. What is real? Very good. There you go. I don't know if you saw this stat making the rounds yesterday, guys, but this is from Bobby Karala, who, Karala? It doesn't matter. Who tweeted a graphic from basketball reference that shows that the Mavericks currently have the worst relative offensive rating in NBA history, relative offensive rating, basically just taking the Mavericks offensive rating compared to the average offensive rating

for this season and they kind of just do that for every year. So it normalizes offensive

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