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Welcome to point of contention.

It's five subjects.

It's five minutes.

It's five points of contention.

I'm your host, Zach Harper.

In this corner, the esteemed author, the Bay Area legend, Marcus Thompson, Marcus.

With NFL starting Thursday night, should the NBA avoid having games on Sunday the rest of the playoffs?

Man, what kind of like scared is that? Like, no, go head up with the NFL. Stop being some marks, man. Go straight up. Matter of fact, don't even do them on Sunday night either. Sunday at kickoff. Like, see where you stand. You know what I'm saying? Like, forget all this duck in the NFL business. You know what I'm saying? Like, no, I'm going to be at the, I got to cover to NFL. I'll be at the 49ers game. I want to look up and see NBA on the press box TV. Have some heart, NBA. Yeah. For one of those million subscribers, you can check out Marcus' NFL coverage because the Warriors are a bunch of bums right now. And speaking of ratings, we go to. Wait, that's not Ethan.

Sitting in for Ethan Strauss, it's the athletics, cultural anthropologist, the Haitian

sensation, Wazni Lambre, was. Did Novak Djokovic get vilified unfairly for smacking some

lines person with a ball in the throat?

No.

Um, I don't think he was vilified probably enough when you consider that time

Serena yelled at the line judge or whoever and said, I'm a mother.

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