Game on! Welcome to the No Dunks podcast here on the Athletic Network.

It's April 8th.

There are six nights left in the NBA regular season.

It's happening very quickly.

I'm Tasmels beside me, the man in the middle, because he plays basketball in the middle,

and he's sitting directly in the middle of JD and I today.

It's Trey Kirby.

Hey, oh.

Hey, yo. And J.D., as I mentioned, making the magic happen over there. What's up, J.D.? Hello. There he has no J.E. Skeets today. He's running a marathon. A good time from what I saw in Las Vegas. Better than my time. Better than... Still incomplete for me. Trying to get up to 26 miles of running lifetime at this point, you know? Yeah, you said that you're never going to do it. We talk about it sometimes and you say, nah, I'm not just not going to do it because you're very fit guy. I feel like I'm one of those guys who'll never run a marathon. There's many of us out there.

But who knows?

Who knows?

Things change as you get older. Maybe I'm unable to jump, so I just take to running. Seems unlikely, but weirder things have happened. Yeah. I'm with you. I'm with you. I'm not going to run, though. I do. I do run halves. but I'm with you.

I'm not going to do it,

but I think maybe, who knows?

Things may change.

Before we get to the winners and losers, this is a very general question. It's probably a non-answerable question. Is the NBA drunk right now? I mean, there's just so many things happening. M. B comes back, then he sits. Bucks can't beat anybody. We get kicks to the head this weekend. What's going on? It's weird. I think it's because of March badness coming in. Obviously, we're into Angry April at this point, but it's like one night you've got 13 games, the next night you've got four games. Then you're back to 13. It's just weird for everybody. We all know we can't go outside right now because we can't look at the eclipse, so maybe people are going stir crazy. I don't know what it is, but the NBA, they're jamming in like a lot of weird content and memes into the last week of the season while we still got 30 teams going. Memes, that's true. So many memes out there. Well, let's get started. We'll get to the losers a little bit later, but there are so many winners. What is your first one? The winner of the weekend? Winner of the weekend for me, the Dallas Mavericks. Two beauties this weekend. Two clutch wins for Dallas on Friday against the Warriors. No Luca

Donchrich in this one. PJ Washington goes for 32 points the most he's scored since joining

the Mavericks. Hit a game winner as the Mavericks survived a Warriors comeback. Some big shots

by Steph Curry. That was an awesome game. Also of note in this one, Luca Dantritch, like I said,

he wasn't playing. He was wearing a hat on the sideline. Yeah, of note in this one, Luca Dantritch, like I said, he wasn't playing.

He was wearing a hat on the sideline. What? Yeah, I don't know if I've seen Luca wear a hat since draft night, but definitely something I noticed. The NBA is drunk. He puts on a hat? No, I can't believe it. We're all feeling funny right now, so Luca Dantzic wore a hat on Friday. Friday hats for everybody.

Another win, though, on Sunday for Dallas against Houston. Kyrie Irving goes for 48 points. Luca Donchich, 37, 9 rebounds, and 12 assists. That's the most points they've scored in a game together on the Dallas Mavericks. I think maybe the first time they've both scored over 35 as well.

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