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00:00tonight in the association around the NBA. There are eight
00:07games on this Friday. We'll take a look at a few perhaps in
00:11just a moment, but tomorrow night in Sin City, it is the
00:15second annual in season competition reaching its final
00:19four. The NBA Cup semifinals in 2024 for a spot in the
00:24championship game to battle for the cup on Tuesday evening.
00:29Also in Las Vegas. Here are the two games and where it stacks
00:34up on semifinals Saturday night in Viva Las Vegas. I said
00:39Saturday night, but that includes Saturday afternoon 430
00:42PM Eastern time early start out there in the desert. Not a
00:47great draw for teams. Maybe trying to hang around and enjoy
00:51all the script might have to offer the Bucks take on the
00:54Hawks Milwaukee three and a half point favorite Joe against
00:57Atlanta total stands at 229 and a hook from the Eastern
01:02Conference semifinal who will play for the cup on Tuesday
01:05night. Yeah, and I think this is a interesting game, but we
01:10also have been we've been trying to tell everyone about
01:14Atlanta for the last couple of weeks here, Ben and we even
01:17looked at their future price to win this cup all together and
01:21we kept saying all the value at 21 to one like you've gotta be
01:25kidding me here. Most people still associate this Atlanta
01:29Hawks team with I don't play any defense. They're no good.
01:33They can't well. Yeah. No they have won eight of their last
01:36nine and you know why they've won eight of those last nine
01:39games because of defense. They are finally healthy and they've
01:43been one of the best defensive teams in the NBA going into
01:48this game here. Plus they already beat the Bucks what
01:51week and a half ago. They are when I tell you a very
01:55dangerous team who plays defense and with Trey Young
02:00playing facilitator and not hero ball. The Hawks to me are
02:04very very dangerous. The only problem is Ben. We heard from
02:07Giannis the other night after they squeaked by Orlando who
02:11had nobody he is really wants. He sounds like he really wants
02:16to win this game and he wants to win the cup and he's not
02:19happy about the way it ended last year against Indiana in
02:22the NBA Cup. Yep. So we're talking about a very motivated
02:25Bucks team, which makes this a big big time heavyweight fight.
02:30I think going into it and we shall see Joe just exactly how
02:35motivated they are in these spots right. The atmosphere
02:38feels like it should be big for the NBA Cup the incentivizing
02:43that the NBA has done for these games. The semifinal games by
02:47the way still count to your regular season record. The NBA
02:50Cup title game on Tuesday is the only one that will not
02:54reflect in your regular season mark, but Joe because the NBA
02:58Cup is involved in the regular season. You can look at the
03:02moment the Cup started for both of these teams in turning
03:06around their slates. Atlanta entered the start of the NBA
03:09Cup four and seven. They have now won ten of their last 13
03:15when you look at where the this Milwaukee Bucks team was
03:19entering the NBA Cup. They were two and eight. They have won
03:24eleven of their last fourteen. These two teams have used this
03:28to turn their season around and that is a huge huge thing for
03:33both teams entering this matchup. So again that 229 and
03:38a half should also be interesting to see as if these
03:43are going to have that playoff type atmosphere. Maybe these
03:46games stay under as we saw in our double header on Wednesday
03:50night in NBA Cup action, the night cap in Las Vegas, the
03:55Western Conference, semi Oklahoma City and Houston.
03:59Could this be a potential playoff matchup that we see
04:01later in the year in the Western Conference? The
04:04Thunder Joe the favorites to win the NBA Cup right now best
04:08team out West five and a half point favorite against the
04:10Rockets. What do you see in the second of our two semifinal
04:13games tomorrow night? I see an interesting defensive battle
04:18here, but there's not what do you say about Oklahoma City
04:21here, Ben? I mean the money's rolling in on him and I get it
04:25because I think there's sixteen and two straight up when either
04:28Holmgren or Hartenstein are on the floor. Obviously Holmgren's
04:32been out now, but Hartenstein back and and playing at such a
04:35ridiculously high level makes this a tough game for the
04:40Rockets, but am I the only one of the things 213? I don't
04:44think we're getting there, Ben. I think this is not going to be
04:47a shooting fest, but this is going to be maybe the most
04:50physical game of the two that we see. Yeah and Joe when you
04:54look at Houston who want that game in controversial fashion,
04:58perhaps on Tuesday night against Golden State or
05:01Wednesday night Tuesday night against Golden State. Excuse me
05:04when you look at that game for Houston, they won 91 to 90 as
05:09low scoring as you will find. Could we see the same for OKC
05:13who stayed under in their NBA Cup quarterfinal game against
05:18Dallas?