Welcome to Oddball. I'm Charlotte Wilder, and that over there, as always, is the one and only, Amin El-Hasson.

I mean, we have a great show for everybody today. We have to talk about those first playing games, Lakers,

Pelicans, Kings, Warriors. And is this the end of the Warriors Dynasty? Yeah, coming up soon on

Oddball. Get ready to say some RIPs everybody yeah but they're late them all the rest but

first we're going to start with Lakers pelicans the Lakers beat New Orleans 110 to 106 this was the

7-8 game so the pelicans have one more chance to still stay alive. They did. Zion played an

amazing game. He tied the score up 93, 93, he had 40 points, 11 rebounds, five assists, and then he

left the court with what appears to be a left hamstring injury. But I mean, I'm most interested

in how he left the court after the, which granted, this was a devastating moment. His first

game with stakes, real game with stakes. Remember, when the Pelicans made that playoff run a couple

of years ago, he was hurt. He didn't play in that. And when they lost in the play in last year, he was hurt. He didn't play in that and when they lost in the

play in last year he was hurt he didn't play in that so this is the first time zion

has an opportunity basically since 2019 since the the NCAA tournament to play in a game that

has stakes playing the game with meaning uh with progression or perhaps one step closer to

elimination and he answered the bell like no other I mean he came out 20 points in the first

half and shack and Barclay and the guys at halftime said okay now you got to do it again the

second half and he said okay and he went on he did it in the second half and then went about three minutes to go.

It's a tied game.

It's a close game.

He tweaked something.

We don't really see it.

But what we do see is him head off into the locker room.

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