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John Wall says facing Cavaliers is the 'biggest game of the year'

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Mark Nov. 21 in your calendar. 

That's the day the Cleveland Cavaliers travel to Washington D.C. for the first of four matchups in the year, and there is bound to be some bad blood, especially between the two backcourts.

Wizards point guard John Wall was asked about facing Cleveland in a recent interview with ESPN, to which he dubbed the contest as the "biggest game of the year."

The rivalry between the two teams spawned three weeks ago, when Wall's battery mate Bradley Beal proclaimed himself and Wall as the best backcourt in the NBA, to which Cavaliers shooting guard Dion Waiters dubbed "ridiculous," citing that he and point guard Kyrie Irving are the the NBA's best backcourt pairing.

Quite frankly, the discussion of the league's best backcourt is silly and the parties involved are just muddling the conversation with bias. But at least it has spawned a little rivalry, which is always fun to see. In Waiters' own words, "everything was too quiet."

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