Funny man, Dogged the Road yesterday. It highly entertained wild, I'll tell you that much. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to first things first on a Friday morning. Jenna Wolf, Nick Wright, Kevin Wilde, Chris Broussard. Oh, a lot happened last. I don't know where anybody is. Wow. Some of us are on Wi-Fi, some of us are to our left and to our right. I don't know.

Some of us have electricity. Some of us don't spend a long morning. But we've got a great show coming up.

Ben Simmons is now out indefinitely. Does that alter the future of the 76ers? We'll talk about that.

Did the Clippers convince Nick that they're for real after last night?

And has the clock finally run out on Tom Brady?

We will hear from Tom Brady himself coming up.

But we got to start in the NBA in the bubble last night with the marquee matchup.

Well, it could have been the marquee matchup.

Lakers, Rockets, but LeBron was out for the Lakers.

Russ was out for the Rockets. And so James Hardin was your one-man show, 39, 8, and 12 for the beard as the Rockets cruise to a win.

That's another loss for the Lakers. So if that guys wasn't the marquee matchup, might I suggest Blazers

Nuggets? Because Wilde, what time is it? Well, it's Dame time. It's Dame time now. We'll also

be Dame time at the end of the show. It's always Dame time. Damien Lillard, 45 points, 12 boards,

and 11 three-pointers last night. So Blazers

get another win. They're now just a half game back of the eight seed. Here is Dame on the state

of his Portland Trailblazers. You all know that I'm always optimistic and I always see the best in situations, especially a

situation like this.

And it was also why I said what I said, you know, months ago when I said, we don't have a

chance to compete for a playoff spot.

I don't want to play.

Because I knew that if we did have a chance to play for a playoff spot,

you know, it would look something like it looks right now.

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