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lupica mitch alb and bob ryan i'm mike lupeka m lb dot com and the new york daily news i'm mitch alb

of the detroit free press and i am Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press.

And I and Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN

and we heartily welcome you to the Monday morning edition

of the Sports Reporters podcast.

We also heartily, heartily, heartily welcome back

our cohort Mitch Album, who spent an exciting week

or so in Haiti.

And we're very glad that Mitch is back with us,

safe and sound.

Yes, you too.

I am here to tell you, gentlemen, and the world at large, that this large young man who was born in Greece and has an enormous amount of athleticism is a pretty good basketball player and now is working on

back-to-back 40-point games in the NBA finals and he has propelled his team back into these

series as the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Spenic Suns 120 to 100 last night behind 41 points and 13

rebounds by Janus Ante Tukompo And I'll just finish my little spiel with this.

It's a 2-0 series going in. They're back home. I expect that team to win. I mean, I don't care

about numbers. I don't care about stats. I don't care about it. I just expect that team to win if

they're any good at all. And they did. And that's all this was to me. It just is just a normal NBA

procedure. The methodology, though, was very interesting. And that Yantus Antequambo did all that.

And I don't think guys, he made a single shot outside three feet. And that's fine. Bob, I will tell

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