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Well, it is a weeping Wednesday edition of the Hollinger and Duncan podcast last night, which we will talk about.

We will talk about something that was awesome.

We saw the absolute best of the NBA with Kevin Durant and now with injuries and COVID

absences and coaching changes and GM changes. We are seeing a different side of the NBA.

But I think we probably need to start here with the news in L.A.

that Kauai Leonard, your colleague, Champs-Tirani, reporting it at the athletic, has suffered a

quote-unquote ACL injury, at least as the fear right now.

That doesn't necessarily mean a torn ACL completely.

It could be a sprain.

It could be partially torn.

But, I mean, obviously we can talk about what this means for the rest of the series.

If he has any kind of an ACL injury, it's hard to imagine that he's going to return in these

playoffs no matter what the severity is.

Exactly. Yeah. I think that is safe to say. And I think that is where the War of Attrition

from the Dallas series really caught up to the Clippers that playing Kauai 40 plus 40 plus every other

night for two weeks on end, know then minute 35 of game four against

the uh jazz basically the 10th game in a row in like 21 days that that you're doing this and it just

gave out on them yeah now it was an acute play.

Like, he did get pushed by Joe Ingalls to where, you know, seemed pretty innocuous,

but he did get pushed by Joe Ingalls.

I was obviously trying to go into him to draw a foul as well.

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