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It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here?

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Hey, it's Ben.

I hope you're having a wonderful day today.

This is our next to last, next to last edition of the show for this year. For me, and the show will be on every night, but I am going

on sabbatical, so we have one more show after today, and then I am, Astalevista, Sayanara,

Rivera, Riva, see you later, homie, all of that. But on today's show, we take a look back

at the Lakers. They had a 14-game road winning street come to an end, and we examine the Lakers

and why they are a paper tiger.

It involves Anthony Davis.

I got a lot of blowback on this from my producers who are, I believe, PR people for the Los Angeles Lakers.

So we'll talk about that.

Also, the greatness of the Raiders, John Gruden isn't happy.

And if John Gruden isn't happy, nobody is happy in Raiderland.

Chris Paul, he's not happy.

Oklahoma City trying to get him out of a Thunder uniform.

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