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Happy Monday, everybody. Welcome to the herd. It's me, Jason McIntyre in for, yes, vacationing once again, Colin Coward.

I'm joined by Rachel Nichols, and I'm just going to say right out the gate, holy cow,

we have a monster show. It is an incredible week. You need to match my energy, people. There is so much

happening. I just learned of a huge NFL trade. Fine,

not huge, but involving my jets and the team I dislike the most. The Kansas City Chiefs,

we got March Madness starting Thursday. Rachel Nichols, I know you're fired up. I know your

Northwestern Wildcats did not make the tournament, but you still love March Madness. Absolutely.

I used to be a silent reporter for March Madness, but CBS, I love that gig. I remember. March Madness, World Baseball Classic. I mean, folks, we are just so blessed to these sports fans. I'm going to start the show by turning back the clock a couple of days to Saturday night. My family, you know, we had plans, so I couldn't go to the Lakers game, the Lakers Nuggets game. I mean, I'm not embarrassed to say, you know, we went to the cheesecake factory. You haven't done that in a decade. Took the kids. It was great. But I had to queue up Lakers Nuggets because it was arguably one of the biggest games of the season. And folks, I don't know, two weeks ago maybe on this show, other shows out there, people

were saying, Lakers are not a championship team.

What are you guys talking about?

You can't win a title with Luca.

Well, here we go.

Lakers in overtime stunned the nuggets for their third straight, impressive win.

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