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Off and rolling on a Tuesday edition of Beeson by the books, Jetson Lewis,

alongside the Moose, Mark Belousice is in for Super Dave Ross.

Dave will be back next week, a well-deserved vacation at home in Virginia Beach.

A lot to get to in this hour.

Greg Peterson will jump on with us next segment talk, all things NBA play in as well as a big.

He's got a lot of plays for the baseball docket today. Also, that daily

docket will tackle some of the games of the night. And Marty Herney will join us, of the

GM shuffle podcast on Draft Kings Network, get you prepped for next week's NFL draft. If you're just

waking up and joining us, we appreciate you making us a part of your morning. Let's dive right in

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Win and in, Mark, that's where we are as the second season begins on the hardwood in the NBA tonight. It will be the heat

and the hornets as well as the Trailblazers and the Suns. We will have at least one of the top

eight matchups settled after this one as the Suns and the Trailblazers. They represent the

seven and eight seeds.

Winner gets to go on to play the Spurs in round one.

For people just joining us, we got a take on the side in the total tonight.

What do you like in the Valley of the Sun later on tonight?

Yeah, I'm going to be chalky.

I like Phoenix laying the three. I can't get there with Portland. You know, we ran through and listen, we understand that, you know, they struggled on the road better at home this season. You'll see that a lot with teams in the NBA, but still when you look at it, I have a hard time envisioning Portland going into Phoenix tonight, coming away with the victory. Now it's interesting where you look at the line movement. Yesterday when we were doing this program,

Jets in the line was four, it's down to three. So there's been a little bit of money coming in on

the Portland Trailblazers and this one. But I still land on the sun's side. I'd probably

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