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Welcome to the S and jam here on The Athletic Invea Show.

I'm your host, Andrew Schlect.

With me, as always, is Alex Spears.

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and you go to the athletic.com slash NBA show. It's wonderful. With me, as always, Alex,

tell me what happened in the NBA this week. Well, Andrew, it all started last Friday night with two teams we haven't talked about in a

while, the Brooklyn Nets and your Washington Wizards.

The Wizards got their sixth win of the season, beating Brooklyn 110 to 104, behind 26

from Kyle Kuzma, and 21, 13, and 6 from Denny Obdia. The Wizards continue to be a team

playing in the NBA. For the Nets, things aren't looking great. They're currently on a five-game

losing streak and are two in ten in their last 12. And if that doesn't sound bad enough to you,

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