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happen. Adam aslay, Nicholas Batoum
and the Clippers rock the baby and then

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put the thunder to sleep with a
one twenty to one OZH six victory.

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Welcome into Clippers Suck. I'm Adam
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Adam a on Twitter. Congrats to the

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Batoum family who bring a bouncing baby
girl into the family. Earlier today,

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Nicholas Batoum was with his wife at
the hospital. Then he comes to the

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game and goes four or four from
distance, has fourteen points to assist,

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one steal aboard two blocks. That's
a little bit of everything to help this

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team. But one of those three
pointers came when the Clippers needed one.

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Is in the second half, they
shot just three of seventeen from three.

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Remember, they lead the league in
three point shooting and really are doing historic

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things things from beyond the arc.
This season. They were shooting forty four

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percent coming into the night, that
leads the NBA. In fact, that's

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the best three point percentage through the
first fifteen games of the season going back

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ten years now. But they were
just ten of thirty three tonight. That's

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thirty percent. But Nick Batoum did
hit a big shot, big three point

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or late. Kawhi Leonard when they
were only up eleven with about a minute

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and a half left, got to
work in the mid range. He's the

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midrange mid range master. He finished
with thirty one points, had just three

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of those in the fourth quarter.
He went one of seven from three.

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But and this is what saved the
Clippers tonight, he went ten of ten

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from the free throw line. The
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by percentage, and they went twenty
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That's how they were able to hold
on when they led by as many

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as twenty seven in the first half. But it was actually the OKC thunder

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who started off ice cold from three. They missed their first twelve shots from

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distance, and then at one point
in the game they had hit eleven of

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fifteen. They got really hot.
I thought Mike Muscala was a Clippers legend

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and they should retire his jersey because
through him they were able to get a

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beat of zubots from the Lakers.
But he hit some critical three pointers in

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the second half to pull it within
ten at one point. I believe that's

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as close as the thunder would get. The Clippers hold on to win by

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fourteen. Paul George had eleven of
his twenty nine points in the fourth quarter.

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Also went six of six from the
line in the fourth quarter. Noah

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Eagle took note of it early in
the fourth with nine minutes remaining. The

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Clippers were already in the bonus and
they would hit nine free throws in the

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fourth quarters. So it's not sexy. I always say this, but you

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can win games at the charity stripe. In fact, that Clippers have done

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that a lot the last two seasons. No one had attempted more free throws

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the last two years than the Clippers. They led the league in that category.

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They got off to a slow start
overall this year, but with the

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way they're getting into the paint,
wherein three of their last four games they've

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scored over fifty points in the paint. That has changed. They're being more

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aggressive, and that's really how this
game started. The first three baskets for

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them, it was two from PG
thirteen, two nice layups, and then

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Kawhi Leonard had a layup and then
that opened things up from the outside and

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they would hit a couple of three
pointers right afterwards. So that inside out

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game was working for the Clippers.
And what does Toronto Lou always say,

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and you'll hear from him in just
a little bit here, but touch the

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paint and then spray the ball out
and you'll find open shooters. And nobody

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has attempted more open three pointers this
season. Then the Clippers coming into last

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game, four hundred and thirty of
their four hundred and ninety three point attempts

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were open shots where a defender was
not within six feet of them. That

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tells you why they've been so good
from three, why they've been shooting that

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high of a percentage overall, where
if they ended up shooting forty four percent

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on the season, that would be
the all time mark. Now it's just

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game sixteen, but they do lead
the Western Conference once again. They're at

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the top of the heap, and
this is really early in the season and

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they're still learning each other. On
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the Clippers, and Nicholas Batoum and
Sir Jebaca. Serge had a great game,

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by the way, My player to
watch coming in had seventeen points,

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eleven boards. Like PG thirteen,
who started seven of seven, Sir Jebaca

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was six of six. He didn't
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until I think there was nine minutes
left in the third quarter. So they

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started off hot. They had a
thirty six point first quarter. They led

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by twenty over OKC in the first
twelve minutes. That's not easy to do.

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But their defense wasn't as good after
that. In fact, after the

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first quarter through the last three quarters
of the ball game, the Clippers were

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outscored by four points, so they
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But Sweet Lou Williams, I thought, got them into a great rhythm

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when he had and I had to
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true. He came into the ball
game and had four assists in the span

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of a minute and a half to
end the first quarter. It was all

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sweet Lou finding a visa Zubots finding
I think Nicholas Batu Man Kawhi Leonard as

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well. In all three of Zubots's
makes. He went three or four from

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the field for eight points, but
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bench in the plus minus category.
All three makes from him were assisted by

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Lou Williams, who had seven assists
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the first half. He finished with
eight, but did five of his nine

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points in the fourth quarter. I
mentioned it on the Network postgame show,

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but this is someone who has led
the league in fourth quarter scoring just two

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seasons ago. So Lou Williams wakes
up late. He hit some off balance

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floaters where he was fouled. The
Clippers hold on. They win one twenty

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to one ZO six over a scrappy
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three and our old friend Shay Gildas. Alexander, averaging twenty one points this

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season from the floor, had thirty
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He wasn't going away had eight assists
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the maturation from SGA. He just
gets better and better. But through that

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trade you got the two one three
connection with Paul George and Kawhi Leonard.

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I think he'd signed up for that
any day of the week. All right,

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Coming up next, we'll get to
your phone calls. You'll hear from

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the head coach toron loop postgame.
Clippers improved to twelve and four on the

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season. They're seven and two at
home. They run it back at Staples

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against these same OKAC Thunder on Sunday. More on that too, Plus we'll

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have valio from Paul George. You're
listening to Clippers Talk. You're on a

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five seventy LA sports clitter there he
erased it at the rim by never had

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a chams. This is LA Clippers
basketball on the official home of your LA

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Clippers. You're Los Angeles Clippers improved
to twelve and four on the season after

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they win one twenty to one oh
six over the Oklahoma City Thunder and SGA

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sick up as Petros and Money would
call him, welcome back into Clippers Talk.

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I'm at a maslin to eight six
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eight six six ninety eight seven two
five seventy before we hear from PG thirteen

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post game, before we hear from
the head coach to Ron lou Let's go

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to Will and Mount Claire. Will
you're on Clipper stock without a Maslin?

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How are you? Well? Say? Quick? Love the show, love

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everything about the clip of broadcast.
I just have a question for you real

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quick. Is there an alternate universe
where we can go back in the trade

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with the Oklahoma City Thunder and just
leave the draft picks but keep shape that

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deal doesn't get done, then will
let me tell you what wouldn't happen.

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Then they wouldn't have Paul George,
and that means they wouldn't have Kawhi Leonard.

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To get Kawhi Leonard, you had
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two for one type of package deal. But Kawai was a free agent.

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Do you feel what I like?
Right? But in his meeting with the

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Clippers, all the reports say his
guy that he wanted to play next to

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was Paul George, out of all
the guys they had on a white board

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or however they pitched in the meeting
to him, he said he wanted to

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play next to PG thirteen and I
see that. But at the same time,

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I'm looking at a night's games.
Alexander Gill just outganded, looks so

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impressive, and I'm just like,
if we could have given him another player

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in seat with all them draft picks, that would have been like, Look,

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Louis Williams was good, but he's
old like Gil just had was going

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up. He's going up and he's
hitting the peak right now that we see

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with the Oklahoma City Center. I
still see him as somebody I could have

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been a Clipper. Well, I
understand where you're coming from, Will,

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but I don't think that trade was
available. Sam Presty is a shrewd GM.

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Look what they ended up getting recently, just for Danny Green after they

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brought him in and then traded him
to Philadelphia. Look what they got Dennis

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shrewder. He's done a wonderful job
rebuilding after they lost KD and then Westbrook

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and hardened before all of that.
You're not going to be able to win

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a negotiation usually against him, or
pull one over on him and include sweet

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lou Williams instead of SGA. That
wasn't going to happen. That deal was

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packaged around them. Getting a young
building block for the future in SGA.

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That's pretty much how it went down
from my understanding. But I appreciate the

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phone call tagus in Walnut, Tajus. What's up your on Clipper stock A,

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Adam. Just gonna keep as short. I think it's good that the

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Clippers are rolling and taking advantage of
this schedule that's kind of soft right now

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before they go on the road.
So it's good that they're taking care of

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business. Just got that that day
in twelve thirty game on Sunday, so

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hopefully, you know, I might
be a trap game. But other than

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that, I'm gonna give you a
football analogy, Adam. I'm convinced that

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if Patrick Beverley was fighting football,
he would leave the NFL and fumble recoveries

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and Kawai would leave the NFL and
pick sixes. Where do you think,

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Adam, Yeah, that's not bad. Pat bev Mister ninety four feet was

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found on the floor in the first
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it got redirected to where he fell. Then he ended up getting it.

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I think it was too Kawai and
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It just epitomized Patrick Beverley and what
he's about and doing the little things

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because I don't know if that showed
up in the box score. I don't

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think he got credited for that steal, but that was all him. The

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plus minus does him well usually.
Even though he was over two from the

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floor, he did have eight boards, which is insane for someone at six

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one. But we've seen that over
and over again. He's still got three

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steals, but he was a plus
twenty three that led the starters. In

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thirty minutes. He was a plus
twenty three while scoring one point. His

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impact is vic The Brake used to
say this about yac Puig six tools.

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Y'all six tool player is impact is
bigger than just the box score out there.

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That's always been like that with Patrick
Beverley. Before we break here Jeff

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and Tarzana. Jeff, you're on
Clipper stock with Adamas and how are you

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doing? I'm doing okayam, how
are you? You know? I'm really

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happy that the Clippers are twelve and
four, but you know they haven't played

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exactly the toughest schedule. And have
you noticed how good Utah is in third

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place? Yeah, and the Clippers
had a comeback against them. When they

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were down twenty, but it came
up just short earlier. Yeah, I'm

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just thinking how tough the Western Conference
is. Yeah. We could say this

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every year. For the last twenty
one years since Michael Jordan left the East,

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basically the West has been dominant.
Yeah, but they're even more dominant

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now. How good is Golden State
playing and they don't even have play Thompson.

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I don't think they are that great, to be honest, I think

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they're a playing team. There's somewhere
between seven and ten. Well, okay,

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well, the fact, the fact
of the matter is aren't they the

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only team that's come back from over
twenty points and beating both the Lakers and

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the Clippers. Yeah? I think
it was just nineteen against the Lakers.

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It wasn't quite twenty. But yeah, I'm being pettant with it. Yeah,

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okay. Well, the thing,
the thing that I don't understand the

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does the NBA take into effect when
there's other sports events to have the Clippers

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play at one o'clock on Sunday?
I'm not sure, Jeff, But obviously

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the Clippers have third billing at Staples
Center, which is the real issue.

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It's been like that forever. You
know there's an NFL championship game that day

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or where there's a couple of them. I just couldn't figure out why they

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can't have that game at seven a
night. Well, other teams are going

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to be playing that day too.
It's not just the Clippers and the Okay,

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see thunder, Jeff, I can
assure you. Okay. The other

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thing, Adam is, you know
what how long does Sir Jabacca signed with

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the Clippers for. He signed a
one and one, so he has a

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player opt out after this season.
It was a two year, eighteen million

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dollars deal, I believe, but
that second year as a player option.

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Okay, because Scott is he good? You know, I really thought we

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were gonna miss Montres Harold and he
was a very good player. But I

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think Sorgibaka is a better player.
Well, there's no degree, of course,

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Jeff. Even though look I loved
watching Monster Tress and his energy and

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his motor, but Sir Jibaka is
an upgrade because he's a two way player

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and a three and D player.
And while he had been struggling, was

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one of six last games just shooting
thirty three percent on the season from three

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which is well below as percentage is
the last couple of years with the Toronto

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Raptors years with the Toronto Raptors well, yet seventeen points went one of two

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from distance on seven of eight shooting. He was my player to watch coming

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in because he had been struggling so
much. He just knew he was due,

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and without Steven Adams anymore in the
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are different vibes from Clippers big Men. In fact, with Lou Williams and

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his second assists early on in the
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the Zoobots, Zubats was hesitant at
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and I think he was in shock
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Thunder Aquaman is there and they've had
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eventually you figured it out and just
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huge slam on three different guys.
Lou Williams had some ridiculous wrap around and

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behind the back passes in this one
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style points included some flare. Clippers
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the OKC Thunder, who they will
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you'll hear from Paul George post game. He finished with twenty nine points,

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five assists, but five turnovers.
He's still making that adjustment to playing

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that point forward position this year.
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of career high. So it's a
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Clippers twelve and four on the season
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More Clipper stock coming up next here
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I Remember when I remember, I
Remember when I lose your mind. Clipper

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and eighteen. You're twelve and four
through sixteen games. That's over twenty percent

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of the season. After they win
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OKAC Thunder. Coming up, we'll
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nine eight seven two five seventy Clippers
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By the way, at twenty nine
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distance. Oh man, he'd been
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actually got some love on Twitter from
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still beefing from what happened in the
bubble. I'll talk more about that coming

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up, but I want you to
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Clippers win by fourteen over Okay,
s Hey, Paul, congrats on the

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win. Just you know, you
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with with Nick today. I'm just
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He's had a pretty emotional day.
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the say to you guys that he's
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you know, being a father one
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playing well, and then going back
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that say to you as a teammate? You appreciate it? I mean we

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would have respected him either way.
We know the decision and how big of

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this of a moment this is,
This is for his family, you know,

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it's you know, my respect for
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had a win win situation, you
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think you know he's just he's just
showing his commitment to this team and you

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know, to be able to balance
both. It's an incredible, incredible uh,

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you know thing that he did.
Honestly, you know, this game,

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you know, it's it's it's it's
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of the day, he would have
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be with his family and missed the
game tonight, but you know it just

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shows, you know, his commitment
to this team. Thank you. Next,

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we will go to law Marie.
Hey, Paul, congrats on the

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win tonight. You got the same
team on Sunday, but it's a Mattenee

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game and this team has had inconsistent
performances in early starts before going back to

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last year obviously the tough game against
Dallas and then the rough start against Chicago,

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even though you guys were able to
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how do you kind of change the
preparation and knowing that's the same team but

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a different start time in less than
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we just gotta come ready, that's
all it is. Just come ready

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to just be prepared, get into
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It was that just we just got
to be ready, whatever it is,

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whatever it takes, whatever it is, everybody's just got to start that

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engine early. Thank you. Next, we'll go to Andrew Grave. He

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Paul from the scene started. You
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about how important it was that you
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healthy and what you thought that could
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that you're you know, more than
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Like, how important has it been
for not only you guys getting up

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to start your pad, but you
think the whole team. Have you guys

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ready from the jump? Oh,
I mean, it's it's very important,

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you know. I think just sooner
we can get chemistries as sooner we can

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be on the floor together and build
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starting off healthy. Besides mood,
it helped us and you know, as

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Greg Mook came in and it picked
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you know, the more we can
the us starting off together, it was

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only just better for the team.
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Miriam Maybe. Yeah, congrats on
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know, obviously you were just saying
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down there now. You guys had
the you know, a good start,

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like you guys liked that, but
you were able to kind of maintain your

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composure, you know when Oklahoma when
when you know the shots weren't falling in

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Oklahoma City was kind of chipping away. How important is it that for you

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guys, just kind of the experience
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that. I mean, it's just
learning with to deal with adversity. Team's

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gonna make runs, regardless if it's
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team. You just gotta learn how
to win in adversity and know how to

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weather the storm. You know,
it makes no difference which team gets hot,

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which team goes on a run that
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about us we're standing at and you
know, executing down a stretch when we

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need to win a game. The
Clippers were able to weather the storm against

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the OKAC Thunder. They win one
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PG thirteen post game. While we
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for station identification. Here on the
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is LA Clippers Basketball, A five
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to Los Angeles and iHeart radio station
coming back. We'll get into Sunday's contest,

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and I'll give you that sweet from
CJ. Mccollumn, who unfortunately is

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out right now with the Portland Trailblazers
as his use of nurkicch. They've been

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snake bit with injuries going back to
I mean Bill Walton, Sam Booie,

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my guy Brandon Roy just can't catch
a break. Poor short supports there at

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him more Clippers stack coming up next
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seventy eight six six nine eight seven
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LA Sports. The Clippers extend their
winning streak to six games. They win

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one twenty to one oh six over
the Oklahoma City Thunder and in their last

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four victories they've outscored opponents by a
total of one hundred and four points.

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They have been dominant as is PG
thirteen Paul George all season long. He

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has twenty nine points. Kauai had
thirty one. But there was some beef.

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There was some bad feelings between the
Clippers and the Portland Trailblazers inside the

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bubble. They played each other in
one of these seating games. Damian Lillard

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missed some free throws late. The
Clippers were getting after him. They were

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going back and forth the two ball
clubs on social media, including Instagram,

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and you thought that would lead into
this season, but it really hasn't.

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They talked about it. They played
each other once already, the Clippers were

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victorious and they said, we buried
it. What happened in the bubble stays

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in the bubble. But CJ McCollum
specifically someone who went after Paul George and

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it was all in good fun for
the most part. But he just posted

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this. He retweeted somebody who had
PG thirteen stats for this season twenty five

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points per game, six boards,
almost six assists on fifty one fifty one

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ninety one splits, and CJ McCollum
added to that with his own comments saying

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he said he was going back to
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recognized game. Tip of the cap
to the Northwest team in the Portland Trailblazers

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and CJ McCollum, he's on the
mend. Hopefully a speedy recovery for he

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and the Portland Troilblazers, who I
would like to see be one of the

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top eight teams in the Western Conference. But they just have to stay healthy

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and they haven't been able to do
that. So with Charles Barkley, you

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picked them to go to the NBA
Finals, I think, and win it

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all again. But the Clippers in
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tonight. They had seventy points on
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second half. Fifteen of their twenty
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It wasn't a perfect performance. We've
seen some of those recently, but they

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still did enough and found a different
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ball, which I think is important. You have to win in a variety

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of ways, in a multitude of
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and it has been the three point
shot this season, isn't there for

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you. How else do you win? Well, you outrebound a team by

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nineteen, you also take fourteen and
make fourteen more free throws. That'll do

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it. Clippers still ended up shooting
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but they were at sixty percent at
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But again they win by fourteen.
They're twelve and four on the season.

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Game seventeen comes up on Sunday,
back at Staples Center, back against the

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same Oklahoma City thunder Club and Shake
Gildas Alexander. Tip time is at one

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pm. We'll have Clippers countdown for
you starting at twelve pm before we get

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out of here. I do want
to thank the Clippers organization, Noah Eagle,

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Brian Seaman, Ralph Lawler, big
brother Jake Warner out at Staples Center

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or head engineer, our technical producer
here in Burbank was the fantastic Sam.

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Thank you, Sam. Appreciate you
all the music, all the sound,

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the highlights. He does it all, and he does it very well.

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And one of these days maybe I'll
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Sam doesn't have to come in on
Friday night like this. But I appreciate

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your brother until Sunday, starting at
twelve pm with your Clippers countdown show.

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I'm Adam Oslin. We will talk
to you then