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unsaid an institution for sports talk and information this is the sports reporters here's mike

lupeka and bob ryan i'm mike lupeka mlb dot com new york daily news and my new novel is out today. Robert B. Parker's Fool's Paradise.

He's a busy fellow, folks. And I am Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN. And we welcome you to

the Tuesday edition of the Monday edition, because yesterday you may have heard was a holiday.

But we are generally with you on Mondays and Thursdays. But week we're here this on Tuesday and we welcome it to the sports

reporters and oh boy you can just think back to those months Mike when we were struggling and

making up crap and and you know and making not fictionalizing things and we were make we were

telling stories and given our life's

history and and oh now now it's boys at all our cup runneth over. And we will begin with the

National Basketball Association in the bubble where there are just so many storylines,

so many interesting things. I'm telling you, a series, a team that won 53 games in peril

of being eliminated, et cetera. But we will start with the Los Angeles Clippers, a team that

has knocked on the door in recent years, but really has never been able to push it open,

and who had a bad start, but they've gotten themselves on track, I think, and they beat

the nuggets to go up two to one yesterday, behind the play of a quiet assassin.

A man, and we can equate his game. I think it's more like Michael. You think it's more like

LeBron. In any event, that's pretty good comparisons, Michael.

You know, Bob, when I compare him to LeBron and call him a slightly smaller version of LeBron,

I'm just talking about all of the different ways he can influence a game, which it's actually almost more ways than Michael could.

And we all know that Michael's the goat, okay?

But he forces his personality on the game, but he doesn't do it in a big showy way. No.

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