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NBA DFS Process | October 24, 2026 | DraftKings & FanDuel Picks, Plays & Slate Breakdown · Daily Fantasy Sports by Ship It Nation

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  Speaker 1: But hey, let's get right into it. I talked about
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  Speaker 1: it earlier. Five game slate on the five games on
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  Speaker 1: tonight's main slate. And we're not going to go game
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  Speaker 1: by game per se, but we'll talk a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about each game. Biggest news tonight. Biggest news tonight is
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  Speaker 1: there's no Keen game. The King, James, is out tonight.
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  Speaker 1: So no LeBron for Philly. He's taking the night off.
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  Speaker 1: The other big name out there, Fred Van Vliet, is
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  Speaker 1: taking the night off. The new bull, Nick Claxton, has
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  Speaker 1: yet to play this year, is out. And then the
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  Speaker 1: biggest news of the night, and it's going to open
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  Speaker 1: up a lot of value. We're going to talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's the number one overall draft pick from two years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Flagg took a hard fall last night, was out
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  Speaker 1: there hooping. My guy Bellman was all over Cooper Flagg
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  Speaker 1: and GPP. Still ended up with 35-some-odd DraftKings points over there.
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Flagg is out tonight, and when we get into
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  Speaker 1: the value tier, we'll certainly talk about that as well.
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  Speaker 1: But first game up is the winless Bucs. You see
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  Speaker 1: their 12-and-a-half-point dogs taking on the 76ers team. And let's
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  Speaker 1: start with the Bucs. Some of the guys I'm singling
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  Speaker 1: out of there would be Tyler Hero. I really like
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  Speaker 1: him tonight. He's shooting guard eligible. Hami Hakez Jr. looks good.
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  Speaker 1: And then Kyle Kuzma will kind of be it for
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  Speaker 1: me if I'm looking at the Bucs. So give me
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  Speaker 1: some Hero, Hakez, and some Kuzma. I like those three
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  Speaker 1: guys tonight. Then on the flip side, Tyrese Maxey, goodness
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  Speaker 1: gracious alive, both games. Saw that Knicks game on, I
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  Speaker 1: think that was Tuesday. He was hooping and he spearheaded
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  Speaker 1: that comeback the other night with 30-plus points against the Cavs.
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  Speaker 1: So give me some Maxey. No Jalen Brown for me tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Joel Embiid, even though there is some pretty good cheap
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  Speaker 1: centers we'll talk about, I think at 8,000 and no King.
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  Speaker 1: I think Joel Embiid looks nice as well. That's kind
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  Speaker 1: of that for that game. Let's get into this Nets-Cavs game,
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  Speaker 1: another game that I do have some interest in. MPJ, 7,000.
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  Speaker 1: I like that. Julius Randle at only 7,100 bucks. We've
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  Speaker 1: seen what he's done so far this year. He doesn't
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  Speaker 1: really have to do a whole lot of scoring. He's
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  Speaker 1: going to get rebounds. He's going to get assists. He's
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  Speaker 1: going to play some of that point forward role. Hopefully
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  Speaker 1: they can keep this game competitive. And if they do,
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  Speaker 1: I like MPJ and I really like Julius Randle. Then
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  Speaker 1: De'Ron Sharp. I talked about cheap centers. De'Ron Sharp at
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  Speaker 1: only 5,500 bucks. He's going to be probably the highest
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  Speaker 1: owned center on the slate. And rightfully so. He played
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  Speaker 1: 30 minutes the other night. I believe they've only played
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  Speaker 1: one game, but He did play 30 minutes. He's only $ 5, 500
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  Speaker 1: going up against his Cavs team. That would kind of
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  Speaker 1: be it for me as it relates to the Nets.
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  Speaker 1: On the Cavs side, it's the usual suspects. It's James
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  Speaker 1: Harden leading the way for me, $ 7, 200. He's going to
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  Speaker 1: have the ball in his hands a lot tonight, so
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  Speaker 1: give me some Harden. Spida at 83 is a good play.
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  Speaker 1: Peyton Watson. Peyton Watson. Let me look up something real
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  Speaker 1: quick on old Peyton. the former Nugget great. He played
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  Speaker 1: 30 minutes the first night or his only against the 76ers.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't do a whole lot with it. Shot two of seven,
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  Speaker 1: but at only 5,000 bucks, if he's going to play
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  Speaker 1: 30 minutes, I think he's squarely in play tonight as well.
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  Speaker 1: So Harden, Mitchell, Watson for some value there. And then
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  Speaker 1: not really getting any of these other cats over here
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  Speaker 1: for the Cavs. moving on to the next game, the wizards,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like the wizards have played every night. Look
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  Speaker 1: at this total 244 and a half. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be getting up and down in this one.
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  Speaker 1: Trey young, love Trey young. He can dish it left.
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  Speaker 1: He can dish it right. He can throw it up
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  Speaker 1: in the air. Trey young's in a great spot. $ 7, 900
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  Speaker 1: on DraftKings. Great price point there. Uh, Anthony Davis, the
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  Speaker 1: man made a glass 8,700 bucks, but he's shooting it.
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  Speaker 1: He was terrible last night. Um, but he shot it
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  Speaker 1: 150 times. It felt like, and then only $ 8, 700. He's
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  Speaker 1: still in a good spot. Three of 12, shot it
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  Speaker 1: 20 times the first game. 24 DraftKings points was not
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  Speaker 1: what we want to see, but, you know, that song,
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  Speaker 1: I'm coming home, coming home. Tell the world AD's coming home.
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  Speaker 1: He's going home to Chicago, boys and girls. So give
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  Speaker 1: me some AD tonight, $ 8, 700. Born and bred. In Chicago,
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  Speaker 1: so I like AD tonight. Trey Young tonight for them.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to see if there's any value on this team
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  Speaker 1: I could get to. No, can't get to it there.
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  Speaker 1: Then on the Bulls side, Jalen Smith. Jalen Smith has
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  Speaker 1: been hooping in their first two games. I like Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Smith at $ 5, 200. Like I said, Nick Claxton is out. Man,
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  Speaker 1: he only played 24 minutes last night, and all he
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  Speaker 1: did was mess around and put up a double, double 14, 13,
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  Speaker 1: one assist, three steals, 39.8, almost 40 draft Kings points
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  Speaker 1: for Mr. Smith. So yeah, give me some Jalen Smith,
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  Speaker 1: another value center that I like at 5,200 bucks. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Not getting to the end of these other cats, Noah,
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  Speaker 1: whoever that is. Never heard of her, uh, not playing him, uh,
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  Speaker 1: moving on to the next game. Spurs going to beat
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  Speaker 1: down the Mavericks. They're mad. They're angry. They're hungry. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: and two, uh, The Thompson, what was it? Is that
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  Speaker 1: Amen Thompson? Say amen at the corner. Amen Thompson. Just
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  Speaker 1: swatting Wimby's stuff out of there. That was awesome. But
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  Speaker 1: Dylan Harper, $ 6, 600, too cheap. He's a hooper. De'Aaron Fox,
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  Speaker 1: don't love De'Aaron. He is only $ 6, 500, though. But if
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  Speaker 1: I had to pick, I'm going with the kid. Give
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  Speaker 1: me Dylan over De'Aaron all day on that. And then Wimby,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Wimby's Wimby, right? He had a bad game.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see. Should I say bad game? Before I get
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  Speaker 1: quoted on saying Wimby had a bad game last night,
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  Speaker 1: he had a good game. But for Wimby standards and
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  Speaker 1: for the price tag you're paying, I'm going to call
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  Speaker 1: it a bad fantasy game, even though he did put
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  Speaker 1: up almost 50 DraftKings points. We need Wimby to get
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  Speaker 1: into the 60s to really pay off his tag, probably
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  Speaker 1: even higher than that. But, yeah, give me some Wimby.
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  Speaker 1: No Cooper flag, as I alluded to earlier. Not that
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  Speaker 1: Cooper's going to be guarding him per se, but give
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  Speaker 1: me some Wimby tonight. Give me some Dylan Harper, Fox.
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  Speaker 1: And nobody really else. Then on the flip side, on
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  Speaker 1: that Mavs side, it's pick your poison. It looks like–
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't look like– is Kyrie going to sit tonight?
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  Speaker 1: I would highly doubt he plays on the second night
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  Speaker 1: of a back-to-back. He does have a cue tag right now.
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  Speaker 1: I would more lean, since they put him on a
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  Speaker 1: minutes restriction last night, I would more lean that he's
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  Speaker 1: going to sit out, and that's going to open up
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  Speaker 1: literally not everybody, but Risha Shea for sure, 4,600 bucks.
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  Speaker 1: Maximus Christie, $ 4, 500. Najee Marshall at $ 4, 800. He's probably my favorite. Najee,
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  Speaker 1: probably my favorite play on the slate when you're talking value. $ 4, 800.
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  Speaker 1: And then P.J. Dubb, $ 5, 300. P.J. Washington, former Kentucky great.
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  Speaker 1: What did Najee do last night? I know he was
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  Speaker 1: hooping pretty good last night. He came in, started the
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  Speaker 1: second half. He only had 34 points in 33 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Not as good as I thought it was. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: give me some Najee Marshall. only at $ 4, 800, tons of
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  Speaker 1: value on the Mavs, and people are going to play that.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully they can keep it close. Hopefully they can keep
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  Speaker 1: it close there. Last game on the main slate that
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about is this Houston Rockets blasting
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  Speaker 1: off into the season, taking on this Hawks team. They're
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  Speaker 1: hooping this year as well. I mentioned it earlier, no
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  Speaker 1: Fred Van Vliet for the Rockets. And then Reed Shepard
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  Speaker 1: mustache and all is questionable tonight. So pay attention to that.
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  Speaker 1: Steven Adams, I think is out as well, but I
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  Speaker 1: would need to double check that. And then on the
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  Speaker 1: Hawk side, I think they should have a full compliment
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  Speaker 1: of dudes that, that matter. No Garrison Matthews tonight, the former,
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  Speaker 1: the Garrison Matthews bowl tonight, the Houston Rockets versus the
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  Speaker 1: atlians the atlanta hawks oh man my boy garrison over
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  Speaker 1: in italy this year so we'll go get to see
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  Speaker 1: him on the main slates but in any event the
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  Speaker 1: tarantula kevin durant is is a great play tonight 7500
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  Speaker 1: bucks love that don't love any more of these rockets
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  Speaker 1: per se Uh, but I do love KD at $ 7, 500.
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  Speaker 1: This game should be up and down. We know the
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  Speaker 1: pace that the Hawks play at. So yeah, give me
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  Speaker 1: some KD and then Dyson Daniels balling last night. I
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  Speaker 1: think he was 5,900 bucks last night and all he
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  Speaker 1: did was go out and put up, how many did
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  Speaker 1: he put up? I know he put up a boatload.
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  Speaker 1: Dyson Daniels was 5,900 bucks, put up 44 last night,
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  Speaker 1: 38 and a half in their first game. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Dyson's off to a great start. Um, I love Dyson
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  Speaker 1: Daniels tonight. Again, NWA was hooping. Don't really love him though.
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  Speaker 1: Don't really love a lot. Don't really love a lot
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  Speaker 1: from this game. Uh, yeah. Dyson and KD would be it,
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  Speaker 1: but just kind of a quick recap. Najee Marshall, probably
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  Speaker 1: my favorite, favorite cheap guy. If you will, 4,800 bucks,
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  Speaker 1: you'll get a lot of run a favorite big dog. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's the dude coming home. 8,700. I don't sing songs.
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  Speaker 1: Then I don't pick you as my, I think AD
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  Speaker 1: gets back on the back on track tonight. And I
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  Speaker 1: think he just, uh, Caleb Wilson, welcome to the NBA, kid.
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  Speaker 1: You're going up against AD. So give me some AD tonight.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, should be an excellent game or should be
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  Speaker 1: an excellent slate. Got a bunch of good games on
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  Speaker 1: the slate. No King, no Kyrie, I would venture to guess.
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  Speaker 1: And then no flag, obviously the big thing. All right,
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