locked on NBA Thursday Edition.

Sam Amick joins us.

The Athletic NBA writer and we'll review last night's game.

Run around some of the James Hardness performances and look at

the two massive games that are taking place tonight.

There's actually three good games with two massive ones tonight.

Sam, happy holidays, hope you're well.

David, happy new year, happy holidays, doing great.

Thanks for having me buddy.

It's been a little while.

Let's look at last night's action, you know, the tendency when we do daily shows is to kind of overreact.

But are we beginning to see any Western conference separation?

New Orleans falls on the road at Brooklyn?

Minnesota should probably lose at Boston. that's not a big deal.

Memphis loses it home to Detroit that has the fight with

Omri Kaspi and Garrett Temple due to evidently reports of lack of bench

enthusiasm. It's a new one, are we beginning to see any separation in the Western

conference?

A little bit, I think at the bottom, it's funny you ask that today of all days because in my neck of the woods because you know I'm living near Sacramento and locally the folks around here have been very you know ambitious and excited about the idea

of the Kings ending their playoff drought going back to 2006 and you know as much as they've made

progress you look at it right now and you know they've dropped a couple games there a game and a half out of playoff position so that kind of grouping I think we've had some separation know, you got that game and a half gap

between the Kings and Lakers and then, you know,

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