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So the first weekend of the playoffs has come and gone, and we have some storylines already that are brewing.

What I'm going to give you is my three things that I found interesting from each of the series,

beginning out West, ending with my breakdown of the Warriors and the Kings,

because as you know, I'm in the grind, and I am in Sacramento.

But I did want to get you caught up first.

So let's start out West, where three the four series got interesting, really fast.

Let's start in Memphis.

Lakers, Grizzlies.

Fascinating game.

Fascinating game full of good, bad, and mostly ugly for the Grizzlies.

They end up losing to the Lakers, 128, 112.

So it was a blowout, folks. They pull out a row win. They steal home court from the number two team in the West. And yeah, I think a lot of people saw that coming, right? I think a lot of people said the matchups don't favor the grizzlies because there's no

Stephen Adams, there's no Brandon Clark, and what is Xavier H.man going to do?

He's going to get eaten alive by Anthony Davis.

But the way that it ended up happening was in a way that nobody did see coming.

So here are the three things that I took away from this game.

First, the Lakers beat the Grizzlies on their home court despite the fact that Anthony Dada Davis got

injured in that game. It nullified him essentially in the second half. That was huge.

Everybody says that if Anthony Davis isn't healthy, this team is cooked.

They were not cooked when Anthony Davis could not lift his arm.

He was out there in the second half, barely able to function,

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