Hey, I'm Tasmelis, and this is what you need to know in the NBA for Monday, January 11th.

The first thing you need to know is that the Clippers, Kauai Leonard, is finally looking like his old basketball dominating self.

He's looking that way because he finally got to remove that mask he's been wearing for a

couple weeks since being hammered in the face by his teammate Serge Abaka.

He hated that thing.

It's really hard to tell if Kauai Leonard hates anything, but he very much hated that mask he

was wearing.

Took it off for the first time, had 35 points against the bulls on Sunday that's a

season high he had seven threes that tied a career high he looked great in that third quarter when

he had 21 points and he has surpassed 10,000 points for his career this is his 10th year in the league

he's 29 years old just a reminder and they need Kauai to be that great. Because they lost on

Friday when they had a 22 point lead late in the third against the war is looking like that

Clippers team in the playoffs last year against the Nuggets that gave up that 3-1 lead. This was Kauai's

quote after that loss. We just have to change pretty much. We've got to change it.

We've got to get better.

I agree.

One guy who has been playing amazingly well, I don't know if he can get any better,

is Zach Levine of the Chicago Bulls.

He hit 10 threes on Sunday against the Clippers.

45 big ones in a loss coming off a 38 point night. He is averaging 34 over his last five games.

Levine Ballin, although the Bulls now sit at 4 and 7.

Speaking of Raptor greats like Kauai Lender, Kyle Lowry reached in on the Warriors Damien Lee when he was shooting with four seconds left.

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