that is when he is with the cavs. he is with the lakers. lot of fun at staples center during the top of the hour. this is the first time they are meeting in the western conference playoffs are plan. they couldn't have done it in a better. it is a one-game playoff. both guys have great respect for each other. a few days ago lebron called steph curry the mvp of the league. steph curry appreciates that but it is time to compete. >> i am appreciative of he knows when he says something people pay attention. for him to speak on my mvp candidacy is definitely respected. i respect him for it. i appreciate it. it is rate for the entertainment value of what we do. i kind of love the chatter because it is hilarious and it is awesome all at the same time. it will make for a good show. >> everyone counted of the warriors out. he is doing everything he could to lead the team to the position they are in now. >> larry this game tips off at the top of the hour 7:00 on espn. will have postgame coverage tonight on abc7 at 11:00. >>> on to baseball. of all of

that is when he was with the cavs.s is the first time they will meet in a western conference plan playoff type of scenario. is go in that plane situation. tonight's game is a part of the game. the winner of tonight's game will automatically advance into the first run of the play all strict they will take on phoenix over the weekend. is a will have a home game against the winner of san antonio and memphis. the plan a little bit. the worriers are underdogs but in a one-game playoff really anything can happen. >> i hope it is in our advantage in terms of it being the better team at night. they are at home. that does matter. i feel like we can come in gunslinging ready to start the game off hot and carry momentum we have had over the last 20 or so games. >> i think we are appreciative and grateful we have been playing great basketball. i think our competence shows do or die, when i go home the excitement is out the roof for me. >> you have got to love oakland's own. he is so excited. there playing the best. the game tips o

our first message is the cav al ary is coming. bev sane conservatives that want to say come join us. meantime, if we can't get the g.o.p. to move back in a more moderate direction, you are absolutely right, kendis. it is going to be incumbent upon us to look whether there needs to be in some places around this country a new conservative party that can represent people who hold the views of free mind, free markets, free peoples, and who agree with our founding ideals rather than agree with the radicalism of the marnlry taylor greens and matt gaetzs of the world. >> how do you do that when they are still effective at fundraising? marnlry taylor green in the first quarter of 2021 out-raised someone you mentioned, representative kinzinger. >> it's an uphill battle and pride-swallowing siege to go against these looney tunes out there. i actually think these individuals represent a potential national security threat to our country. i don't say that facetiously. i say that as a lifelong national security person. the continuation of the b

we don't know as much about barrett and cav gnaw. kavanaugh has never voted to strike down an abortion restriction, he joins at the centers in june, he seemed more cautious certainly than justice thomas and alito and wasn't really on the-- for calling for the immediate overrulinof roe. barrett is a estion mark because e said almost nothing about abortion, written no opinions on abortion since juneing the court. but we can inform from the court's decision-- infer that there are at least four justices that think the court will uphold this law and that there are four justices who think they have a fifth so there no no reason for the court to agree to take this case unless the conservatives think they have a majority, at a minimum, to uphold this mississippi law and perhaps go much further. >> professor marry mary ziegler, thanks very much. >> thanks, john. >> nawaz: in our pbs newshour/npr/marist poll released this morning, we asked americans to weigh in on some of the most pressing issues facing president biden and congress ght now, am

self-determination, a disease that is a humanitarian problem, things like the arts in philadelphia program, memory cav phase, aren't just things to pass the time and fill the space between meals and bedtime. these are essential. we're talking about a dealings about self-determination and identity. so, how do we self-determine our lives and make our identity? well, a lot of it reaches the arts. so, in people who are disabled, i think there's almost a -- i'll say moral obligation too bring them the arts and make the arts accessible to them. so isn't just entertainment. this are part of the parent. not -- the therapy. one thing try to make clear in my writing and my book is, it's not to pit care versus cure but it's to say we can advance good therapies but you go to a cancer center. they're prescribing very powerful therapies and also making available to people nonbiomedical based therapies so they can three-live with and cope with their cancer. we should have the same attitude with the problem of dementia. >> and some of that is still somewhat controversial, this -- the criminally therapies and i feel t

were all vulnerable because many people during quarantine -- a years ago we didn't know if we would cavch, depressed know if our family member wood catch it, if we would have a job on the other psyched what the world would look like. if our kids were going to be able to go to school. kids were going to catch covid? just so much going on and then we're all sitting at home with nowhere to go, and that was the only thing we were seeing on our television screens. and not only that no matter hour times you saw it you could not believe the degradation of how they were debating degrade this man and had his life snuffed out as we were watching. eave single person watched that video, no matter how many times and you knew the ultimate outcome, but you would talk to the television and say, hey, enough. okay. we get it. take your knee off the man's neck. stop depriving him of the right to breathe. the god-given right to breathe, and i do believe that it was because of all of those events coming together. the former president being, being in self-quarantine our vulnerability, our collective vulnerab

sports world we're going to be talking with the cavs' kevin love we're going to see how cleveland isfame with an exhibit on the super bowl halftime shows. the oldest operating black theater started in cleveland >> wow. >> we're going to be going there. we have a whole lot of stuff. >> that is a lot. >> are they open >> they're open. they're ready for businesse gree nation, is their slogan. >> when is this? >> we're going to be there coming up on monday. >> the draft was there, and it was great, a shot of the city. >> awesome. >> it is going to be good. >>> coming up next on our mind matters series, we're going to introduce you to a surprising source of mental health help for teens and young adults we'll get to that. we'll get to that. first, this is "toy" on nbc.da california phones offers free specialized phones... like cordless phones. - ( phone ringing ) - big button, and volume-enhanced phones. get details on this state program. visit right now or call during business hours. [ sfx: ding ding ding ] [sfx: bing bing bing ] [sfx: bloop bloop bloop ] [ sfx: bing bloop ding ding bloop

the woman asking the icon iconic figure in hockey to get caked year and finally cav ing meeting up aheadan, thank you. weather time, hey, j. d. >> janice: hi, good morning, yet, we're dealing with cold temperatures across the upper midwest, the great lakes interior north east so cold we've got freeze advisories in place, and the potential as well for some snow across the front range of the rockies, yes it is happening, several inches in the higher elevations, and then we do have the potential for heavy rain and some thunderstorms across the gulf coast today, flood advisories are in place for eastern texas, much of louisiana in towards mississippi and alabama. otherwise, you know, not too bad 66 here in new york with mostly sunny skies 61 in minneapolis, 95 in phoenix, and the west coast is calm, with exception to the rockies where it's snowing, still, may 11. i don't know what's going on, steve, ainsley, brian back to you. steve: you got all sorts of weather going on, j. d., thank you very much. still ahead pete hegseth is having breakfasts with friends in columbus, ohio we'll check back