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The Sixers are on a winning streak for the first time in 20 months

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Good morning. Let’s basketball.

WHERE AMAZING HAPPENS: The Philadelphia 76ers are on a two-game winning streak ... for the first time since March 2015. Congratulations, Sixers!

WHAT IF: Amazon wanted to get exclusive rights to stream (and sell) League Pass. Maybe it actually would have worked consistently then, and not infuriated a nation.

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FURY: I explained the ins and outs of the Raptors-Kings finish from Sunday. Toronto is planning to appeal. By the rulebook, the officials got it right.

THIS WEEK ON ‘KYLE LOWRY AND DEMAR DEROZAN ARE THE BUDDY COP TEAM WE NEED’ ...

GIVE THANKS FOR THIS: Jrue Holiday is back and his family is doing well. Worth celebrating.

SCORES GALORE ...

Heat 94, Sixers 101
Suns 101, Wizards 106
Grizzlies 105, Hornets 90
Warriors 120, Pacers 83
Rockets 99, Pistons 96
Magic 89, Bucks 93
Celtics 99, Wolves 93
Mavericks 91, Spurs 96
Raptors 115, Clippers 123

KARL-ANTHONY TOWNS IS SO RIDICULOUS.

WHAT’S YOUR NAME, MAN? I know there are a lot of folks who dislike Hamilton, but for those of y’all who have souls enjoy it, here’s a rather brilliant parody refocusing it on LeBron James. The casting of Steph Curry as Aaron Burr is brilliant.

GAME-CHANGER: A minor league veteran who has done four stints in the D-League on what the higher salaries and two-way contracts will mean for fringe NBA players.

SURE: A Matthew Dellavedova biopic is in the works.

NO, MARCUS THORNTON. THAT’S NOT GOING TO WORK, MARCUS THORNTON. STOP THAT, MARCUS THORNTON!

NICE: Ty Lue is connecting police and underprivileged communities in his Missouri hometown on Thanksgiving.

ETERNAL DUNK CONTEST: Shea Serrano with a one-act play about Zach LaVine breaking up with gravity.

YOU CAN ALWAYS GO DOWNTOWN: The Pistons will announce on Tuesday that they are moving downtown. Awesome!

UH OH: Cameron Neimand compares the Lakers to those turn-of-the-millennium Clippers teams.

YES: Harvey Araton on Phil Jackson’s soapbox.

BOMBS AWAY: Ben Cohen on the Rockets’ quest to break the three-point record.

NEXT UP: Light schedule on Tuesday with just four games. NBA TV has Bulls-Nuggets at 9 p.m. ET. If you can get League Pass to work, Thunder-Lakers at 10:30 is worth your time.

AND FINALLY: Chris Paul rips a steal from the Raptors in the backcourt ... up eight with five seconds left. Man, no one is going to vote for him as union president again.

Be excellent to each other.

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