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And welcome, you are locked on at the NBA.

My name is Nick Ankstead, host of the Lockdown Mavericks Podcast,

and joining me, as as always my co-host

contributor to Mabs.com my co-host of lockdown Mavericks what you got for me Isaac Harris

I mean it's just I mean the most exciting basketball we've seen in how long I mean I think you can

legitimately make an argument that that fourth quarter was more exciting than anything

that happened in the finals I mean is that like an exaggeration if I just in the It's amazing this all-star game the format change. There's just so many elements that made it work and what we're going to talk about in this first segment is just the all-star game. We'll talk to

We'll talk to Doug Branson later about the Rising Stars game.

We'll talk to Philip Rossman Reich from Lockton

Lockton, Slam Dunk contest.

We'll talk all about that later in another segment.

But for this first segment, Isaac and I are going to talk about the

all-star game and the changes in the format. I'm sure you guys have all seen it by

now. You've all heard, read the stories and seen things, but the change in the

format to make it basically first to this number wins. Brought out so many things in these guys but the key for it and we we

both agree on this is the kids being there. The kids with the different shirts like you literally have the energy from the

audience with these kids you could hear on the broadcast and I'm sure you could hear

even better on the court you have these energy from these sections of kids that these two teams are

representing because of these charities going back and forth and when one team

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