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All right, so it's kind of a weird wrinkle of this NBA season

where the Warriors and Pelicans play all three of their games

for the season within a matter of 14 days.

And those would be among the most important games

during this final stretch for both teams.

And it starts tonight with the first of a

back-to-back set in New Orleans. These teams have not played before, like I said, there's,

there's stars in the mix, Steph Curry, Zion Williamson. The Pelicans are coming off of a two-game

winning streak. And Jake Madison joins me now. He is the host of Lockdown Pelicans. My colleague over

at Lockdown NBA, he hosts

on Wednesdays the day after I host on Tuesdays. Jake, thanks so much for joining me. The first thing

that I want to kind of get a sense of is how important this game is, or the set of games are

for the Pelicans. Have players and coaches or the set of games are for the pelicans have players and coaches

acknowledge the importance of these these games coming up no so they're massively important right

like there's there's no way to get around that these these two games in particular probably

make or break the pelican season at the very least. They haven't outright said anything and

given kind of the precarious situation they're in with only eight games left to go and they've

got to make up two and a half games in the standings to get into the playing tournament. Like every

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