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on NBA, your daily NBA podcast, part of the Lockton Podcast Network.

I'm Wes Goldberg, host of Lockton Warriors here with Dave Vermill, the host of Lockton

Heat, and Ben Gulliver from the Washington Post.

Monday night's games were a showcase for the league's young talents,

Donovan Mitchell and Jamal Murray battled in the first game of the playoffs in the bubble.

Jason Tatum scored 32 points for the Celtics

and Luke Adonjich was confident in his first ever playoff game.

But let's start with the Nuggets win over the Jazz

to start the bubble playoffs.

Donald and Mitchell went for 57 points,

but the nuggets led by 36 points from Jamal Murray,

managed to get the win in overtime.

Mitchell had an historic night,

but did commit a late eight second violation that allowed the

nuggets to tie the game with less than two minutes to go and David I know they

lost but I like Utah's chances in the series the nuggets didn't have an

answer for the Mitchell-Gold

pick and roll, and they needed to make more than 50% of their threes to get the

win, and the jazz probably still could have won. What do you think about all

this? Yes, there was a chance that Utah could have pulled off the upset in game one. I mean, they're missing significant parts of their starting lineup there with Bogonovich and Connly, but the fact that they also needed 57 points from Mitchell something that he's not likely to replicate

just to get within a few points of Denver. I mean I know obviously Denver was able to make

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