It is locked on NBA the Thursday Sit Down Edition. I'm David Lock and our guest is E.S. B N's Kevin Pelton.

He's such a brilliant mind. We'll talk about the variability of three-point shooting long trues at the end of the game

value of defense John Wall's return is his big piece on the ESPN right now all of those

things coming up plus rapid fire about the east and the

west in the third segment of the show that's all next on today's edition of

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Take a quick look around what happened in the NBA last night.

There were just four games. the marquee game was the Washington

Boston game went to o-T crazy finishes Washington ends up with the 125

124 overtime double overtime win and Boston not any bit of a seating problem for them.

It was just a great basketball game. Lots of late game took forever.

But it does put Washington now, just a game behind Cleveland

for that fifth spot.

Washington got 34 from Bradley Beale.

They're waiting for the John Wall return. We'll talk about that coming up with

Kevin Pelton. Elsewhere, Milwaukee, a bad loss in Orlando, 126, 117. They allow 18 three-point shots including seven from Jonathan Simmons and

Six from DJ Augustine a problem from Milwaukee will touch on that in this upcoming conversation with Kevin as well.

On a decumbo, 38 points, 10 rebounds, 7 assists, and 3 steals in the loss.

Milwaukee and Miami are tanking to play Toronto.

I don't know if that's the case,

but Miami lost and slipped back into the 8 spot

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