I'm goingner, I'm Devon Givins, and again.

Alongside Derek Bodner, I'm Divine Givens. And again, happy Monday to you. Bree is here. Kyle Newbeck from the arena later on. It's MLK Day, some early basketball. Good to be with you. Derek,

what's going on, man? Not much. I enjoy a good afternoon game, in part because I'm fully awake by the time we do this show.

Yeah, yeah.

So boring basketball today just because it was an easy win. But sometimes you need those and when you're good, you get those types of wins over the basketball team. So we have a lot to break down and Bede is back. Maxie closes the game. Tobias Harris doesn't take as many shots today as they take care of business,

really controlling this one there from front to back with this game. Tobias Harris doesn't take as many shots today as they take care of business, really controlling

this one there from front to back with this game.

Never really anything to worry about and control the entire time.

Yeah.

And obviously the headliner here is Drell Meads 41 and 10 and 31 minutes of play, came back, shot 12

of 21 from the field, went to the free throw line 17 times as the Rockets

could not contain him without fouling.

There was a little question whether or not he would continue that 30 and 10 streak, which

I think that reaches 16 games.

Do I have that right?

Because he only had four rebounds at halftime, so that was a little bit in doubt.

But he was scoring with ease. And the game of basketball is easier when Joel Embed is on the floor. Yeah, pretty much, man. I mean, and it was something I wanted to ask a question later on. So I'd get to it a little bit later in regards to the way that they play. Of course, the difference between when he's on the floor, when he's not on the floor uh they did have no d anthony melton today no mo bamba it sounded like it might be

could it be a solid week or even more without d anthony because of the back injury yep yeah so

what was nicknors saying before the game we'll start there real fast i actually did not make it

there before the start of the game uh we'll ask Kyle that afterwards, but it just sounded like they want to be cautious with it, that it has been nagging him for a little while now, and that they are going to give him about a week. It sounded like Nick Kerriss wasn't completely short of the timeline, so that will be something we'll ask Kyle when he does come on later in the show. But yet, I mean, that's a, that's a loss. Look, he is a good two-way player, a good catch-and-shoot player, one of their better players with gravity. So that is certainly a loss, more than offset, obviously, by Joel's return. But yeah, you need to get him right. Have to get him right. Have to get him right. So maybe a few games that he will miss. But right now, again, some important basketball still yet to be played with him out. Kelly Ubrae getting the start. I presume that that will be the way that Nick Nurse will go going forward since that's pretty much been the starting shooting guard whenever he has been out. So that will take care of itself and we'll see how everything else goes. And we can even ask Kyle a little bit later about Daniel how it's falling at the end of the game. He felt pretty hard on his hip and had to run off the floor, didn't even go to the bench. So to get checked out. So we'll see about that because he actually played pretty good this afternoon.

No, he came out. He made a quick three. He was hitting the offensive glass and won off an offensive rebound. He was giving them some good energy. Yeah. And you're right. When he hit the floor, he got up. I took him a little couple minutes to get up. Once he got up, he pretty much ran to the locker room without any help without anyone even looking at him.

So you're a little concerned what that could mean.

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