Marcus Smart is suspended for the final pre-season game. What does that mean for Emil

Doca's plan? Plus, a couple of your mail-back questions right now on the lockdown

Selfies podcast.

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johncorales.com. Today, it's all about Marcus Smart in the first two segments. Markets gets

suspended for the Friday pre-season finale in Miami. I'll tell you the nuts and bolts. What

Emil Doca said, what Marcus Smart said, then the second segment. What that means for this

pre-season game, which was supposed to be a dress rehearsal. And later on, some of the

mail-back questions, including Josh Richardson, Ennis Cantor, and just to empty out some of

that, people are sending me mail-back questions through my website johncorales.com slash mail-back.

If you go to johncorales.com, it's all right there at the top. Just send me a question

and when I get a chance to get to it, I will pop it in when it's relevant. So please

do that. So let's start with Marcus Smart here. Marcus got suspended for a game, one game,

pre-season game, right? Not a big deal. This is, I think, a great opportunity for Emil Doca

to dish out a little bit of discipline for Marcus Smart, sitting him down for essentially

what became a meaningless game. I'll talk more about this in the second segment, but no

Jalen Brown, no Al Horthford already. So the plan is already out the window. So Marcus

Smart missing this game one way or another, not the biggest deal in the world, not great,

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