NYK @ IND (5pm PST, TNT) -- Knick haters get your popcorn ready, if this team is where y'all say they're at Indiana should have a good chance to make them look foolish while Chuck + Shaq clown during the breaks in-between. Get your "record" button ready on that remote, you brave anti-Brooklynites of the globe.

DAL @ SAC (7pm PST) -- do we get to call them "The Team Formerly Known as the Sacto Kings" yet or do we have to wait for the fingerprint ink to dry on the Maloofs thieving hands first?

MIA @ POR (7:30pm PST, TNT) -- Rose De Gaulle reprises his floor campaign against the ex-midwesterner LBJ, the man who notably embraced the "HATE ME NOW!" pose as he torched Portland on the Rose Garden floor in 2011. Y'all might remember him draining a clutch 3 in OT, then turning to head back to the bench for what he knew was going to be a panic timeout by Coach Nate, only this time he gave a sound, solid smack of his ass to the crowd which had been booing him on every touch as he did it. Yes, for those keeping score -- it made absolutely no rational sense for the Rose Garden crowd to boo Lebron except they were mad at how he did Cleveland. I stand by our behavior even right today (that might have been the last actual NBA game I attended, now that I think about it...)

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