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00:02 When we spoke yesterday, Donnie, the line was at two in favor of the Lakers.
00:07 Got up to four and a half, closed around three, three and a half in favor of LA.
00:11 On the road in Texas prior to tip, but no matter.
00:15 The Mavericks win outright, 127-125.
00:19 Dallas entered last night as a porous underdog, just one and
00:23 four, both straight up and against the spread.
00:25 But they get the victory outright at home behind a double-double from Luka Doncic,
00:29 33 points, 17 dimes last night against LA.
00:34 >> One of the few teams here that came off of that in-season tournament game in Las
00:38 Vegas and didn't win their game coming out of the break.
00:41 And the Dallas Mavericks again coming into this basketball game without one of
00:44 their superstars.
00:45 LeBron James was very good last night.
00:47 Anthony Davis was very good, 37 points for Davis, 33 points here for
00:51 LeBron James coming off the bench, even at 22 for Austin Reeves.
00:54 And it still didn't work out in your favor last night.
00:57 And also, this is one of those things where it's so hard to bet the NBA, right?
01:00 Look at that market fluctuation.
01:01 You figure the Lakers would have been rested and ready for
01:03 this game going up against the Mavericks.
01:05 And they still ended up losing that even without one of their superstars here.
01:09 I'm not giving up on the Los Angeles Lakers, but
01:11 this just fits back to those thoughts where we were watching the first month or
01:14 two of the Lakers going like, boy, boy, Anthony Davis and
01:17 LeBron are playing great games and playing a lot of minutes and
01:19 not winning basketball games.
01:21 Now credit to them, they won the in-season tournament, but
01:23 this was a tough loss for them.
01:24 Four and eight now on the road.
01:25 That was a game I thought they should have won, and they did.
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