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Our closer, Jensen Lewis, back home in Cleveland, Ohio. My man, we got a great hour coming up here for everybody watching and listening. If you're watching on Fandoah Sports Network listening, a Sirius XM Channel 158, we appreciate you on this fine Thursday morning. Mike Palm's going to join us from the mothership, circle Las Vegas. That means what's on Mike Palm's mind? Palms pressing three.

Jensen,

I know you'll be prepared for that.

And, of course,

we've got some big time basketball to talk about.

That's where we're going to be in.

Our number two are highlights and headlines.

Help your bottom line with today's highlights and headlines.

If you laid the seven with the pistons last night against OKC 7.7.5, what a roller coaster that was.

My goodness.

At first, you think, boy, this ticket's dead.

They're down 12 after one.

Then all of a sudden, they come roaring back in the second and third.

They're up double digits. You go, this is an easy win. And then all of a sudden you find yourself in a four-point game with seconds ago and you've knocked down four-three throws ended. And you get an eight-point win here for Detroit. It was a short-handed OKC squad. Obviously, you know, Shay Gilgis Alexander in this one. Is there a takeaway? Can you take

something away from this win from Detroit or say, hey, that's not really, truly the reigning

defendings that you beat last night? Well, they had to come back from being down 12 in the first quarter

and a resounding 18 points differential there for them in the second.

They had to hold on, as you said, to cover the number.

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