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Hello and welcome to Group Chat. The ringer's weekly NBA group discussion where maybe a Kyle Mann

sorry ass was on our team it'd be tough, but I think Rob Mahoney and I will be just fine.

I am Justin Varyer joining me the man the myth the post player Rob Mahoney call him out call out Kyle.

He deserves it. We all know it. Yeah. Kyle will be joining us in the back half of the show as well as Danda Vine

to talk about the top 25 players in the NBA list that we published on the ringer calm today.

But first we have to talk about something way more important especially to one of the two members of this podcast.

Three of four were including Kerm. Marcus Saul is back Rob are you a lady or how a lady are you I will say.

I'm I'm like Kyle Kuzma level of a lady which is like he was openly campaigning for Marcus Saul to get back into the rotation before this happened.

I'm with him we can all use more Marcus on our lives and the Lakers have delivered my friend.

Yeah. So the Lakers beat the nuggets last night they were in a bit of a crisis mode going into that game.

LeBron turned his ankle again and his first game back he had those comments about not wanting to play in the play in tournament

which we should touch on at some point but Gassal rises from the ashes specifically from the ashes of one Andre drumman

who got toasted multiple times against Nikola Yokech during this game.

Gassal comes in late and then stays there he finishes with 10 points three for four from three which was just chef's kiss.

Seven rebounds plus 17 and 17 minutes.

So I guess the big question here is should this be a permanent thing for the Lakers going with Gassal and less drumman.

Well, I think there's kind of two questions right there's does Gassal need to play more minutes right now which I think it would help them but is probably not the most important thing.

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