Jokic Sets NBA Record in Memorable Christmas Performance

And now for your sports news. We're joined by NTD's Dave Martin. Dave, as always, great to see you. >> Great to see you, Paul. >> Hope you had a good Christmas. >> I had a very good Christmas. How was yours? >> My Christmas was good. Pretty chill. We did most of our celebrating Christmas Eve and then just kind of chilled out Christmas Day. >> I mean, I kind of chilled here with with Dawn. Me and Don are having a lot of fun. >> You guys did. You were here all week. >> Yeah, it was me and Don. >> You guys are committed. >> Open up the fort. >> Good job. Good job. We appreciate it. Hey, we got NFL college football news. We'll start in the NBA. Quintuple. Pretty memorable. What stood out to you? >> Yeah, quintuple header yesterday. You know, at first it was that Knicks comeback win against the Cavs. They were That was the first game of the day. The Knicks trailed 17 by 17 points. He was 10386 early in the fourth quarter. He scored 42 points. So in that final quarter, of course, Jaylen Brunson, Mr. Clutch, hits that game tying three-pointer with about a minute left. Now, that was the first game of the day. Very memorable one. But then the Spurs might have topped them right after that. They beat the reigning champion Thunder. But it's not just that they beat them. This is the third time that these two now rivals have played this season. San Antonio's won all three times. Meanwhile, the Thunder, they are 26-2 against everyone else, 0 and3 against the Spurs this season. Pretty amazing. Now, the next two games, you maybe didn't quite measure up to the first two. Warriors beat the Mavericks, uh, despite 27 points from rookie Cooper Flag, who had just turned 19, by the way. And then Kevin Durant and the Rocket beat the LeBron James and the Lakers. But finally, the last game of the night, threetime MVP Nicola Joic, the Nuggets beat the Timberwolves 142 to 138. But look at Jokic's numbers. 56 points, 15 assists, 16 rebounds. First guy ever to put up those numbers, too. Plus, he scored an NBA record 18 points in the overtime, and it was all in those final three minutes of the overtime. That pretty much topped everything of that quintuple header yesterday. >> Incredible. Jokic probably MVP coming, right? >> You know, he's won three. He's looked he looks like he's in line for a fourth this season, I would say. >> 56 points. >> 56 points, 15 assists, 16 rebounds. I mean, you know, that is an unusual triple header. That is an incredible triple letter. I'll say that. >> Big evening for Joic. Hey, NFL Packers quarterback Jordan Love got a concussion recently. What's his status for Sunday? >> Yeah, he is out. The team just ruled him out today. Now, he's going to be backup. Malik Willis will start in his place. Now, Willis came on in relief of Love last week after he got injured. And Willis actually injured his shoulder on the final play of the game. He was limited in this in practice this week as well, but apparently he is good enough to play. Now, the Packers, meanwhile, clinched a playoff spot yesterday when the Detroit lost. Uh, now the Green Bay still, if they win their final two games here and the Bears lose their final two games, they can take the division. But right now, they at least got a wildcard spot in the playoffs. Now, they're going to play the Ravens on Saturday. The Baltimore Baltimore needs a win as well, just to stay in the AFC playoff picture. Their only chance is winning the division, but they trail the Steelers by two games with two games to play. So they need to win both and hope the Steelers lose both. So a slim chance there and wait for Baltimore to get in, but a chance still anyway. >> So playoffs, how many playoff spots are there yet to be clinched? >> Yeah, we got three left overall now. Two are in the AFC. One, as I just mentioned, whoever wins the AFC North between Pittsburgh and Baltimore. Steelers are in the driver's seat for that one. As I just mentioned, twoame leads with two games to go. There's one wildcard spot left that's also in the AFC. between Houston and Indianapolis. Same deal there. Texans have a two games lead with two games to go. Colts, meanwhile, decimated at quarterback. They are starting, of course, our friend 44year-old Philip Rivers there at quarterback. He had the great performance Monday night. Still wasn't enough for a win though. Then we have one playoff spot left in the NFC. The South Division is yet unclaimed between Carolina and Tampa Bay. Panthers have a one-game lead with two to play. So, all three races could be decided this weekend depending on who wins and who loses. >> Philip Rivers is going to play again. >> Philip Rivers is going to play again. Third, 44 years old. This is going to be his third game back. He's only practiced for what, two weeks right now. Amazing, you know. >> There you go. >> Yeah, it's quite an inspiring story, you know. >> Nice. >> Maybe. Maybe I'll suit up. >> That's good. Maybe Phil Rivers doesn't make it. >> Hey, college football. Three bowl games today. Got a bunch tomorrow. What game standed out to you? >> Yeah, we got going on today already. Northwestern beats Central Michigan 34-7 in the sports bowl. Now, right now, Minnesota leads New Mexico 7-6 in the Rage Bowl. Then tonight, Texas San Antonio plays will play Florida International in the First Responder Bowl. Then tomorrow, as you said, Paul, eight games on start at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time. Pittsburgh playing East Carolina in the Military Bowl. But there's really four matchups tomorrow that really stand out to me. First, Clemson versus Penn State in the Pinstripe Bowl. This is played right over here at Yankee Stadium. Now, neither team is used to playing in a bowl game that's kind of, you know, this low or being unranked at the time. That game starts at noon Eastern time. Then at 3:30, 12th ranked BYU against number 22 Georgia Tech in the Poptart Bowl. Now, both of these teams were in playoff contention until late losses in the season kind of took them out of it. Both are very good teams, though. Then at 7:30, Missouri plays 19th ranked Virginia in the Gator Bowl. Now, even though the Tigers are unranked, I think it'll be interesting to see how a middle of the road um team from the SEC does against the team that finished first in the ACC standings. SEC has been the best conference in football for quite some time, and they look like it again this year. Similar matchup at 9:15 20 unranked, sorry, unranked LSU plays 21st ranked Houston in the Texas Bowl. Now, the Tigers, just like Missouri, were kind of a middle road SEC team. They're actually three and five this year, but the league is so stacked. How can they do against a team that finished in the upper ranks of the Big 12? We'll have to see. That one's at 9:15 Eastern time. So, tomorrow, whole bunch more bowl games, >> the whole days where Hey, let's hope those games go ahead in the Northeast. >> Oh, yeah. We love that. The weather, especially we have the the pinstripe bowl right up here. is that the the weather is going to be uh most snow since 2022 in New York City. >> Well, that I did not hear. But if it's any consolation, most of the bowl games are played in, you know, the warmer weather states. We do have the pinstripe bowl here. >> Pinstripe one. Yeah. Up in the Yankees, right? Yeah. Bronx. Interesting to see. Be at noon. Hey Dave, have a good one. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, Paul.