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Today we're going to talk about the the thunder and the rockets the thunder without SGA

Poku and Tidrome going to the bubble and then we'll finish up with Ken SGA becoming all star

So we'll start with

Shagel's Alexander is going to miss the game tonight

He has a left knee sprain. He injured it in the middle of the rockets game, which was kind of a weird moment

because Shay clearly went down

Got up and was limping. He limped for probably two possessions and Degnaut pulled him

And Shay was pretty peeved about being pulled out of the game and

he

Went to his seat for maybe

Five seconds and then got back up and then went back in the game. It was a very just odd moment during the game

And then played the rest of the game, but I guess he actually was injured

And to be clear like after the game

Shay was asked about the situation and Shay was like yeah, he's just looking out for me

So there's not like any like beef between Shay and in coach Mark, but yeah

it's

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