Good evening, sweet world and welcome to NoDunk's Bubble Wrap, recapping Sunday, August

9th of NBA Action from the most magical place on earth.

Shoutout to everyone joining us live right now on YouTube and much love to everybody listening

to the podcast on the athletic network and Apple and Spotify, wherever you get your NoDunk's

Classics. I'm Jay Skietzen joining us here tonight on a Sunday as always. We got Task

NoDunk's Bubble Wrap, papapipo. Pop, papapta. So we got the bearded one, Tray Kirby.

Hey, yo. We have the international man of mystery taking it to the max. Leelis. Friends.

Last but not least, making the magic happen, JD. Hello. There is. And here we are. Thanks

for joining us. Before we start, I did want to send our best to Hall of Famer Paul Westfall

who we learned today. Unfortunately, has been diagnosed with brain cancer. I don't

know about you guys. I don't think any of us have had a chance to meet him. Correct me

if I'm wrong, but by all accounts, this guy's like one of the most liked people in NBA

circles. Dude was a hell of a player too. If you don't know, five time All Star, four

time All NBA, won a title. So much love. Send in our best to Westfall and his family.

And may I add, I might be f**king you to cancer. Okay. So it's official. There's going to

be a play in series, guys. The mega bowl. It's happening Saturday, August 15th to determine

the final playoff spot in the Western conference. The Grizzlies lost to the Raptors and the Blazers

picked up a huge win over Philly. We're going to get into these games, which means now it's

no longer possible for there to be a four game difference in the standings. We're getting

the eighth versus the ninth seed in the West. Though we don't know who the teams are going

to actually be because four teams remain. We lost two today tasks. The Pelicans get out

of here. Kings get out of here, but it's still the Grizzlies in the eighth spot, despite

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