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While all other Eastern Conference games on the last day of the calendar resulted in blowout decisions, a Chicago Bulls team with nothing to gain and a Knicks team with something to lose needed an extra period to settle the score at Madison Square Garden early Sunday afternoon.
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Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 14 Apr. 2024
In the end, the two handle their dispute cowboy style in an all-out brawl that seems to settle the score once and for all.
—Kayla Keegan, Peoplemag, 11 May 2024
And in general, the Kendrick-Drake beef has the ingredients of a classic rap beef: two talented artists, who care about the craft, trying to settle a score over a beat.
—C. Brandon Ogbunu, WIRED, 6 May 2024
As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 Apr. 2024
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Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 14 Apr. 2024
In the end, the two handle their dispute cowboy style in an all-out brawl that seems to settle the score once and for all.
—Kayla Keegan, Peoplemag, 11 May 2024
And in general, the Kendrick-Drake beef has the ingredients of a classic rap beef: two talented artists, who care about the craft, trying to settle a score over a beat.
—C. Brandon Ogbunu, WIRED, 6 May 2024
As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 Apr. 2024
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