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  "angle": "San Antonio has won 11 straight, Milwaukee has lost nine straight at 1-12, and Oklahoma City has dropped three — the season's extremes.",
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          "markdown": "The early NBA season has split into extremes. The San Antonio Spurs have won 11 games in a row. The Milwaukee Bucks have lost nine in a row and sit at 1-12. And Oklahoma City has now dropped three straight despite 40 points from Shai Gilgeous-Alexander in the latest loss."
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          "markdown": "Portland is the quieter version of the Spurs' story. The Trail Blazers have won three straight, beating Sacramento 120-107 in an NBA Cup game to move to 9-3, with Deni Avdija scoring a season-high 34 points and Damian Lillard adding 29. The Blazers shot 40 percent from three and 94 percent from the line, and now face a six-game road trip over the next 10 days."
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          "markdown": "The Spurs' latest win was the loudest. They beat the Golden State Warriors 123-85, with Stephon Castle scoring 32 points in 25 minutes and Victor Wembanyama adding 12 points and 12 rebounds. Golden State shot 33 percent from the field. The Spurs are also 2-0 in the NBA Cup group stage."
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          "markdown": "The Thunder's third straight loss was the narrowest kind: 113-112 to the Clippers, one point, with Gilgeous-Alexander scoring 40 and Isaiah Hartenstein grabbing 16 rebounds and shooting 90 percent from the field. The hosts called it the worst loss of the season, preventable, decided by execution from the team's best players and coaching staff, including a failure to use a timeout on the final possession."
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          "markdown": "The hosts also questioned giving Josh Dix 17 minutes over more effective options, and argued the loss could carry implications for the Thunder's final seeding in April."
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          "markdown": "Streaks this early are noisy, but the shapes differ. San Antonio is winning by margins — 123-85 against Golden State — which suggests a team playing above its opposition rather than surviving close games. Milwaukee is losing by process: missed free throws, a half-court offense the team's own show calls anemic, and a rotation still being searched. Oklahoma City is losing the other way, by a point, with its star producing, the kind of loss that reads as fixable if the execution issues the hosts flagged are real. The next few weeks will show whether the Spurs' streak is a statement or a schedule, whether Milwaukee's reset hardens into a plan, and whether the Thunder's skid stops at three."
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    "Whether Oklahoma City's execution issues on final possessions persist or were a one-game lapse.",
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