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Welcome to the slam and jam here on The Athletic MBA show.

Hey, go to theathletic.com slash MBA show and get The Athletic for $1 a month for six months.

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It's a great website with a lot of great writers, including Fred Katz, Anthony Slater,

Sam Amick, who you can hear all in the same podcast

yesterday. They recorded a really fun episode of tampering. So if you're listening to this now and you

haven't listened to that, go listen to it. They kind of pop around the NBA. They talk to

John Krasinski and Mike Vorkinov. And it's just, it's a very, very fun show.

Very fun show where there's bounce around the NBA.

So go check that out with me as always.

This is my good friend, Alex Spears.

Alex, tell me what happened in the NBA this week.

Well, Andrew, it all started last Friday night with the biggest win of the Doc Rivers

era in Milwaukee, a 112 to 107 win over the Timberwolves in Minnesota. Janus had 33, 13, and 5,

while Dame was one rebound shy of a triple double. After weeks of strange quotes and weird losses,

this was the week things started to get back on track for the Bucks,

who have now won four in a row and six of their last eight.

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