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Portland is rolling and showing no signs of slowing down. Damian Lillard dropped twenty-five points and rookie big man Donovan Clingan added twenty-four as the Trail Blazers dismantled the Suns one hundred thirty-two to one nineteen in Phoenix. Six and one on the season, five straight wins away from home — this team is for real.
Speaking of real, Victor Wembanyama is operating in a different dimension entirely. The Spurs phenom put up nearly forty-three percent of San Antonio's first-half scoring all by himself against the Mavericks Wednesday night, dominating the glass while Dallas scrambled to contain him. The box score genuinely does not look like something a human being should be capable of producing.
And in New York, Jalen Brunson is officially back. After a sluggish start to the season following his NBA Finals run this summer, Brunson came out firing against the Bulls Wednesday — not as a closer this time, but as an aggressor from the opening tip. The Knicks got the win, and their franchise point guard looks like himself again.
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