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And we're joined by Washington Post National NBA columnist Ben Goliver every Thursday I'm David Locke

Radio Voice of the Utah Jazz host of lockdown jazz. Ben we're gonna run through

at least six of the 12 games not the 13th because that one didn't happen around the NBA but let me start with that 13th just what's your thoughts on the fact that the rockets and Oklahoma City Thunder get canceled tonight and don't happen.

No we're like perfectly in sync.

I was going to say we had some crazy games to discuss,

but the biggest news was the one that didn't happen, right?

I think ultimately James Harding's decision to, you know, go to the club. He admitted that he went there a couple

nights before their opening night game gave the NBA no choice but to find him

and to basically not clear him for that game.

You look at the other situation totally separate from Arden.

You had a number of players either test positive

or return inconclusive tests, which puts them in a situation where obviously they can't play and then the

NBA went about its contact tracing program which is something that we didn't

have to see them do in the bubble because there was never a positive test in the

bubble but clearly they determine that there was a number of players on top of that initial group who had been in close contact with them in kind of an extended format and so all their ability, you know, availability's got put into question.

So I think ultimately the decision was

made to err on the side of caution because Houston simply didn't have enough players

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