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we didn't know what it would feel like.
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NBA teams playing in the middle of a pandemic and empty arenas with fake crowd noise and rosters that on any day resemble ah, hunk of Swiss cheese.
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Were games even feel riel?
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Or was this going to feel like watching a season's worth of pickup in L.
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A fitness?
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Well, guess what?
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They're really and they're spectacular, at least when the stars gather like they did yesterday.
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It turns out, if you throw Katie James Harden and Yannis on one court and LeBron a de Stephon Draymond on another, some of the best basketball players in the world still play like it.
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Even without teams being allowed to practice much these days.
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Exhibit A Curry finding the basket here.
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This was nice.
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That wasn't a foul finding Draymond on the pick and roll that was a travel like all the time.
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That was a foul.
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That was a travel.
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And then finally, hitting this was 28 ft.
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There's no hate hearing on the glass that's absurd.
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Right over the defensive player of the year E don't know what's more impressive that that shot put the Warriors up by five after they've been down by 19 early in the game.
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Or that the 6 ft three Curry hit that over.
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As the guys here point out the outstretched arms of Anthony Davis and his 7 ft six wingspan.
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It was just vintage.
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Curry would finish with 26.
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Golden State as a whole appeared to be figuring something out about its rotations.
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A tweak in substitution patterns certainly seemed to help Kelly you bray for one.
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Still, the Lakers had the chance to win the game in the end.
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Instead, LeBron passes to Dennis Shrewder, who flings the ball in.
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I guess the general direction of Alex Caruso.
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What was going on a mess ensues.
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A time out, managed to reset things.
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With 1.7 on the clock, all LeBron could do launch this three.
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That does not fall.
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All in all, it was not a flawless display.
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A basketball.
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The Lakers in particular, got sloppy.
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Neither LeBron or A D ever really got going, and the officiating was a topic of conversation throughout.
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But it's short was fun, as was the Nets book showdown earlier in the evening.
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If this fact, in fact turns out to be the eastern conference finals.
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You could sign me up for seven games.
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This one had 20 lead changes, including eight in the final five minutes alone.
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Yanis had a strong game overall, finishing with 34 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists.
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Although the Nets took the book on defending him to an extreme, you know how most teams give you on a space from deep.
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Well, Brooklyn gave him basically an entire county averaging 15 ft of pad.
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The most any player has been afforded from three since second Spectrum.
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Tracking this stuff eight seasons ago.
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Now, the Nets were much more physical with Yannis.
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Otherwise, though, check the little shove there, but he initiated that he stepped in front of somebody.
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I'd be mad if I was Katie to Harden, meanwhile, finishing with 34 including hitting that little float that shot to put the Nets up one.
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He also had that driving floater.
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Yanis would answer with a two handed put back well, authority there.
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But it was Durant who would have the last word, draining the go ahead three on a pass from hardened.
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Afterward, both players discussed why they seem to be meshing together better now than even when they played together in O.
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K.
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C.
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We were young, uh, in Oklahoma City.
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You know, we're grown in now, you know, we know we want we know we really know the game of basketball.
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Now, um, you know, we're not those young guys that just run around and want to just shoot and dunk all day.
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We have been through a lot, honestly, experienced a lot, and for us to bring together now and combined what we've learned over this time and try to play great basketball, I think it was pretty seamless for us.
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Yeah, it is nice when the MBA looks like the regular MBA, with fans screaming and arenas full of energy and players who could take the court each night without someone sticking a Q tip up their nose three times a day.
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But as we saw yesterday, anyone who tells you what's going on this season isn't really.
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Basketball is missing just how much spectacular there still is to see.
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