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Knicks Sweep the Sixers, Wemby Ejected as Wolves Even Series and WNBA Tips Off · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, it's Joy Taylor. Welcome to the Daily Play.
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  Speaker 1: Hope you guys had a great weekend. Make sure that
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  Speaker 1: Daily Play Joy Taylor. Before we get to the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: let's have a minute for the lady. He's The WNBA
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  Speaker 1: season tipped off on Friday night. The stories are already
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  Speaker 1: abounding from the newly paid and always well played w
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  Speaker 1: The Toronto Tempo made their debut, hosting a MYSSICX team
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  Speaker 1: that needed twenty six points from Sonya Sitjron to win
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  Speaker 1: a competitive opener, and the Portland Fire also played their
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  Speaker 1: first game, hosting the Chicago Sky, but Camilla Cardosa scored
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  Speaker 1: twenty two to spoil the Fire's home opener. Angel Reese,
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  Speaker 1: newly to the Atlanta Dream, helped them win in her debut.
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  Speaker 1: She scored eleven points and grabbed fourteen rebounds, making her
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  Speaker 1: the fastest player in WNBA history to reach fifty career
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  Speaker 1: double doubles. The Liberty or two and zero. They led
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  Speaker 1: by thirty x one points from Breonna Stewart in a
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  Speaker 1: dominant opening night win over the Connecticut Sun. The Valkyries
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  Speaker 1: continued their momentum after making the playoffs in their inaugural season,
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  Speaker 1: also starting to and Ozero with wins over the Storm
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  Speaker 1: and the Mercury and Asia Wilson. The Aces did drop
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  Speaker 1: their home opener to the Phoenix Mercury on Monday, but
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  Speaker 1: they bounced back beating the Sparks one oh five seventy eight.
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  Speaker 1: But the story of the weekend was Page Beckers and
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  Speaker 1: Caitlyn Clark facing off, with each of them dropping twenty
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  Speaker 1: points each, but the Wings got the better of the
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  Speaker 1: Fever and a one oh seven to one oh four shootout.
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  Speaker 1: It was the first season opener in WW history where
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  Speaker 1: both teams scored over one hundred points. Caitlin Clark reached
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  Speaker 1: the one thousand career point milestone in the last but
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  Speaker 1: Beckers sold the show, as I said, twenty points eight
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  Speaker 1: of ten shooting. After the thriller, Caitlyn reflected on the
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  Speaker 1: atmosphere and the intensity of the matchup. She said, started
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  Speaker 1: off a little slow, I think just the anxiety of
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  Speaker 1: the first game trying to work through that, but overall
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  Speaker 1: I felt good, felt fast out there. Page on the
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  Speaker 1: other side, We've been competing since we were kids. To
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  Speaker 1: do it on this stage with this crowd is exactly
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  Speaker 1: what the league needs. No, I'm not super worried about
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  Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark's two for nine shooting from deep. She's coming
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  Speaker 1: off an injury shortened season in twenty twenty five, and
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  Speaker 1: she still dropped twenty and seven while hitting the one
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  Speaker 1: thousand point mark, or fashion than anyone in league history.
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  Speaker 1: But the real story is the Dallas Wings because they
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  Speaker 1: have the last two number one picks in Pagebackers and
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  Speaker 1: Azy Fudd, and they are looking great already. If they
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  Speaker 1: shoot fifty nine percent from the field all year, the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the league is big trouble. And Page isn't
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  Speaker 1: just a rookie sensation anymore. So she has taken another
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  Speaker 1: step and she is going to be a story to
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  Speaker 1: watch all season long in the WNBA. So the Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: City thunder are one went away from the Western Conference
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  Speaker 1: Finals after smashing the Lakers one thirty one one away
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday night. Despite Lebron James and Ruey Hatchmora scraping
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  Speaker 1: to a halftime lead, like I have been saying they
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  Speaker 1: don't have enough to finish the game, the defending champions
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  Speaker 1: absolutely exploded in the second half, out scoring LA seventy
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  Speaker 1: four to forty nine across the final two quarters. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: the night wasn't just Shaye Gilders. Alexander was also the
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  Speaker 1: Belgian second year player Aj Mitchell, who torched the Lakers
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  Speaker 1: for twenty four points in tennis sists off the bench.
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  Speaker 1: Luca obviously is still sidelined, so they look completely powerless
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  Speaker 1: to do anything about it. Lebron said, they're an incredible
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  Speaker 1: basketball team. Third straight game er right there after two
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  Speaker 1: and a half quarters. But their depth and their ability
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  Speaker 1: to just the same pressure, it wears you down. I've
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  Speaker 1: been saying it. I've been saying it. I've been saying it.
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  Speaker 1: The Lakers do not have enough to finish a game
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  Speaker 1: against the team as good as the Thunder. Yes, are
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  Speaker 1: they able to put up a first half performance, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: are they able to keep it close, make it interesting,
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  Speaker 1: But you have to finish the game, and they don't
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  Speaker 1: have that closer. Like Lebron is doing everything he can,
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  Speaker 1: the guys out there doing everything that they can, but
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  Speaker 1: without Luca, unfortunately, it is unfortunate because you really would
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  Speaker 1: love to see Luca and Lebron and this team and
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  Speaker 1: what they could do in the playoffs. But like the Thunder,
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  Speaker 1: just a great team right now. And the Lakers are
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  Speaker 1: bringing a knife to a gunfight. You cannot beat the
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  Speaker 1: defending champs when you are getting out out scored the
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  Speaker 1: way that they are, Like your two stars are shooting
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  Speaker 1: twelve for thirty two combined. The Thunder are younger, faster,
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  Speaker 1: and more disciplined. The Thunder just better than everyone. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the scores these games are are just ridiculous. One eight
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  Speaker 1: ninety one, twenty five seven one one o eight. So
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers have now lost seven straight games to the
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  Speaker 1: Thunder this season, regular season and playoffs combined. It's really
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  Speaker 1: not looking good for them. And the unfortunate part is
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  Speaker 1: just that with Luca, this probably would look like a
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  Speaker 1: different postseason. And and that's why health matters. There's just
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  Speaker 1: not so much you can do about it. They're running
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  Speaker 1: into a bus saw with the Thunder. The Knicks, however,
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  Speaker 1: are looking like the team to beat in the Eastern Conference.
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  Speaker 1: Madison Square Gardens Celebrity Row travel to Philly for games
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  Speaker 1: three and four. The Knicks sweep the Sixers a close
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  Speaker 1: out game was a blowout. New York put up eighty
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  Speaker 1: one points in the first half, absolutely brutal. Final score
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  Speaker 1: one forty four one fourteen After the game, Karl Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Towns talked about his team's historic performance and dominance, said,
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  Speaker 1: it's just us being very locked into the moment. Our
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  Speaker 1: guys try to take it to another level with their
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  Speaker 1: focus on the details, from their energy and effort level.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lot of reason why we're playing pretty good basketball.
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  Speaker 1: I am really impressed with the Knicks. They bounced back
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  Speaker 1: from a rocky first round to absolutely dominate the Sixers.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't just win, they hit an NBA postseason record
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  Speaker 1: eleven three pointers in the first quarter alone, finishing with
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  Speaker 1: twenty five total, really solid contributions across the board. The
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  Speaker 1: way they are playing shows with a lot of confidence,
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  Speaker 1: and I really think I like them to come out
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  Speaker 1: of the East. I'm trying to talk myself into the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks having good chances a thunder and the Finals, but
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  Speaker 1: we've got a lot of basketball left to play, so
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to jump that far ahead. I do
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  Speaker 1: like what they're doing right now. I like the confidence
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  Speaker 1: that they're showing. They had a rocky start to the postseason,
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  Speaker 1: but they have been playing with a different level of
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  Speaker 1: focus and it's been next man up in a really
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  Speaker 1: big way. So I'm very impressed with the Knicks. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's exciting personally. I always think that the league
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  Speaker 1: is better when teams like the Knicks are competitive and
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  Speaker 1: are playing late into the postseason. So it's a great
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  Speaker 1: story and they look like they are the dominant one
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  Speaker 1: in the East right now. So really exciting stuff from
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks in a sweep of the Sixers. Join me
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