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We've got a great show for you, a great cast, but let's see how great our recap screen was, and not so much. Two in five, that's two back-to-back losing recap screens. You know, we got to give a shout out to Tom Casale, though, because if you're a sports line member, you covered this Duke line. And of course, he comes to the show about 12 hours later, gives out the 16 and a half, which he did believe in,

but don't forget it. sports line member you covered this duke line and of course he comes to the show about 12 hours later

gives out the 16 and a half which he did believe in but don't forget if you're a sports line member

you would have got that at 15 and a half but on this show it counts as a loss buckets goes one

out of two jeff hockman hits his b yu play minus three and a half and we lose the rest there so

we're going to do better. We actually have

the cast to turn it around. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome in Mike McClure, Mikey B, and buckets.

We got a lot to talk about. We got a lot of picks, college basketball. We've got golf picks.

We got soccer, of course, and NBA. But speaking of

NBA, Mikey B, I'm looking at the schedule. And we were having this conversation a

couple of days ago about tanking teams and the Utah jazz situation in that fourth quarter,

I believe it would have been Monday or Sunday night. It feels like looking at the schedule

tonight that we've got a lot of those teams in play. Yeah, this is Tank Fest. It's a lot of, for most teams, it's their last game before the All-Star break. There's a lot of stars sitting. We've got Jazz Kings. Both teams are tanking. Pacers, Nets. Guess what? No one is playing for the Pacers tonight. Okay, I'll tell you this right now. They played overtime against the Knicks last night. No one is playing. None of them. Seacum, Nemhard, none of them are playing. It's going to be ugly tonight. A lot of no names. I'm eagerly awaiting Baylor Shireman props to be released so I can go with him against the Bulls. So we're going with some no-name guys. Keep your eyes on those things later. Noted Bulls fan, Mikey B. is on the show. But I will tell you that Ben, of course, our producers on the show every day, he's got an NBA pick for you today. Mike McClure, you weren't on the show when we were talking about NBA a couple of days ago. Is there anything we can do about this NBA tanking problem?

I mean, there are a lot of things you can do.

Some of them would not be popular with the people in power there.

My biggest hot take with professional sports like that is I think that if there's an extended period of time without success,

I think there should be something in place to potentially force a change of ownership with some of the teams, which I know is somewhat of a crazy take.

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