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San what? What, J.E. Welcome to the No Dunk Podcast. I'm Tassmellis, here with my colleagues, J.E. Skeets, Trey Kirby, Lee Ellis, and J.D. Say what is when we hear some of the

fantastic work by NBA broadcasters, but we won't hear it in all cases. Let me explain.

The NBA's play-by-play, color announcers, and sideline reporters are entertaining, informative,

and sometimes they can be a little wild,

so much so that it's hard to believe some of the things that come out of their mouths.

What will happen in this show is J.D. and I will act out conversations from the broadcast teams

that may or may not have actually happened. It's your job, Skeets, Trey, and Lee, to tell us if the conversation we're having was real or fake. If it's real, you'll hear the actual game soundbite as well. Are we ready? You guys in the right line space for this? Yeah, we did okay the first time we did this, this season, I remember. I think we squeaked it out at the end, a victory,

if you want to call it that. So yeah, we're ready. Let's go, boys. Yeah, boys. Yeah, we generally have an odd number of say what's just so we can have a victory. So we can give you the ding or the X, all right? So first one, let's get her started. Rockets Nuggets, Denver's Nikola Yokic is being tended to during a break in play,

and the Nuggets broadcast Denver's Nikola Yokic is being tended to during a break in play,

and the Nuggets broadcast crew of Chris Marlowe and Scott Hastings, it goes a little off the rails.

J.D. will be Marlowe and I will be one-time NBA champ, Scott Hastings.

Yokic has something going on with his left elbow, we think.

The last turnover, the last travel, you see Hardin reach in and slap him.

That may have been where the contact happened.

You see his arms cut and scratched right here.

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