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Coming up, Luca returned to Dallas.

We talked to Christian Clark about after the game.

The Warriors lose on a buzzer beater and the Nuggets.

Play a game with Nicola Yokic's head coach.

Good morning, everybody.

Good morning, Dave.

Got another wild night, man.

Somehow we're approaching the end of the regular season and every single night is just nuts from here on out.

We got to start with the big news of

the day. Luca Dachich went back to Dallas and just dominated, put up 45 points. What did you

expect coming into this, S? I like obviously, look, it's a huge deal. Yeah.

I, I, I will just say straight up, I didn't think it was going to be as emotional to start with.

Um, I did feel like it was going to feel like a big moment, but I didn't, didn't expect what we started with.

It was really emotional seeing Luca react to the tribute video.

I mean, I got emotional watching it because it did feel like he wanted to be a Maverick

for the rest of his career, to live in Dallas for the rest of his life type of thing.

And you could see in that moment sort of a bit of closure from him, understanding that this is over and this is

just part of the chapter, move on. And now I'm going to drop 45 points on you guys.

Like that's, I thought the way that he kind of channeled that energy into the game, especially

in the first half, he dropped 31 points. It was electric. I honestly think

that's one of those games where you look back on five years from now and say, where were you

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