Speaker 1: All right, we are ninety minutes away ish from Nick's
Speaker 1: Celtics in Midtown Manhattan, New York. Tried to advance to
Speaker 1: their first Eastern Conference finals in twenty five years, where
Speaker 1: they last played the Indiana Pacers, who are awaiting the
Speaker 1: winner of this series. A Porter, were you awarded your
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Speaker 2: I was, so. We have people texting that have not
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Speaker 2: Were there any dissenting votes? There was one that said, I,
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Speaker 1: It's a very exciting weekly bonus. It is an uncrustable sandwich.
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Speaker 1: Friday afternoon, David, how are you, sir?
Speaker 3: I'm dooing wonderful. How are you guys?
Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm good. Are you a fan of Uncrustables?
Speaker 1: I've asked you this before, not that I'm.
Speaker 3: Aware of you asking me. Yeah, I am. Absolutely.
Speaker 4: They have them at Laker games actually in the uh
Speaker 4: like the fridge where they put the food for the
Speaker 4: people that can't eat whatever they're making in.
Speaker 3: The hot bar.
Speaker 4: However, you gotta go and grab one early because as
Speaker 4: soon as the Lakers dance team comes in, they descend
Speaker 4: upon that collection of the crustaballs like rabbit animals, and
Speaker 4: they clear it out. So if I come to the
Speaker 4: arena early, I'll grab one, put it to the side,
Speaker 4: having a little snack, usually postgame while I'm writing. But
Speaker 4: if I can't, if I don't beat the Laker girls
Speaker 4: there first, there's no chance to get the one.
Speaker 1: The biggest question is which flavor did the Lakers girls
Speaker 1: girls prefer.
Speaker 2: Is it grape, is it strawberry? What's what's the preference.
Speaker 3: So they clear it out of both.
Speaker 4: My preference is great. You know, my mom made Peter
Speaker 4: butter and zelly sandwich, just put it in our sack
Speaker 4: lunches growing up. It was never there was no other
Speaker 4: jelly flavor other than great. It was Concord great from Welch's.
Speaker 4: There's no other choice to get something else.
Speaker 2: This is true.
Speaker 1: So porter's weekly bonus if he does a good job
Speaker 1: as an uncred stable Sandwich. So I need to know
Speaker 1: did he communicate with you in a professional manner and
Speaker 1: did he call you on time?
Speaker 4: I would venture to say that he may deserve too
Speaker 4: excellent communication this week.
Speaker 3: Up that bonus.
Speaker 1: Hey, we're working on a budget here, Dave. One uncrushable
Speaker 1: per week, buddy, is all you get?
Speaker 2: All right, Dave? The lottery is fixed. It is rigged.
Speaker 2: The NBA hates the Jazz and everybody hates salt Lake.
Speaker 4: Your reaction, Oh, man, I thought about it, you guys,
Speaker 4: almost immediately.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: First I was fielding text, you know, just the remarkable
Speaker 4: turn of events for the Mavericks. But yeah, my thoughts
Speaker 4: turned to the Utah franchise out listen.
Speaker 3: Obviously not rigged.
Speaker 4: As crazy as it may seem, life is stranger than fiction.
Speaker 3: So Kennedy had a.
Speaker 4: Secretary named Lincoln, Lincoln had the secretary named Kennedy, and
Speaker 4: they were assessaly one hundred years apart.
Speaker 3: That's crazy, right, That's actually crazy.
Speaker 4: What happened in the NBA draft lottery where even the
Speaker 4: teams with the best chance of ending up in the
Speaker 4: top three, only had what two teen percent chance of
Speaker 4: getting there, Like that still means eighty five percent chance
Speaker 4: you're not going to get those picks. We want to,
Speaker 4: you know, put a positive spin on it. Hey, maybe
Speaker 4: a j Devants is going to be a better player
Speaker 4: than Cooper Flag anyway, and jazz fans can get to
Speaker 4: know him watching them play in provo this year for
Speaker 4: BYU and I hope that the lottery works out for
Speaker 4: them next year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And look, ultimately, you know me, I'm teasing to
Speaker 1: bring you in that way, but we do have a
Speaker 1: lot of very frustrated jazz fans in the market. And
Speaker 1: you know, Dave, the bottom line is the one team
Speaker 1: that could not win the lottery in order to dissuade
Speaker 1: folks from putting on their tinfoil hat won the lottery, right, Like,
Speaker 1: That's how that went down. So the fact that Dallas
Speaker 1: gets one, I think has a lot of people wondering, like,
Speaker 1: what's going on?
Speaker 4: You know, it's absolutely wild to comprehend, and I get it,
Speaker 4: I absolutely get it. However, it's just the way things went,
Speaker 4: and the NBA is not discouraged by the fallout, if
Speaker 4: you want to call it that or the speculation, because
Speaker 4: the real goal of the lottery was to discourage teams
Speaker 4: from tanking.
Speaker 3: And the two teams that I think you could.
Speaker 4: Say, we're not judging at all, but let's just be realistic.
Speaker 4: The two teams in the lottery that clearly tank this year.
Speaker 4: I guess there was three, right, so Charlotte, Washington, and Utah.
Speaker 4: None of those teams ended up with the top two picks.
Speaker 4: And that's kind of what the NBA wants to happen,
Speaker 4: because they don't want teams to do what Sam Panky
Speaker 4: and Philadelphia did and try to bring the system and
Speaker 4: basically set a blow towards to your fan base for
Speaker 4: half of the decade while you try to take advantage
Speaker 4: of the lottery talent.
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting your guy Tim Bond TAM's Timmy
Speaker 1: good time Bond tem says he's known around these parts.
Speaker 1: Sided a couple of front office sources celebrating the fact
Speaker 1: that the Jazz and the Wizard specifically did not get
Speaker 1: the number one overall pick. Do you feel like that's
Speaker 1: a consensus from teams around the league that actually are
Speaker 1: serious about winning when they're looking at teams that are
Speaker 1: clearly unserious about the endeavor that they're glad that that
Speaker 1: approach does not get rewarded.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wouldn't speak to a consensus, but I can
Speaker 3: say that I spoke to a smattering of folks that
Speaker 3: look at it the same way.
Speaker 4: And but you know, listen that I can say this
Speaker 4: without revealing my sources. They aren't in that cycle of
Speaker 4: their team currently that the people that are sharing that opinion.
Speaker 4: It's easy to look your nose down on someone when
Speaker 4: you have the good fortune of being on a competitive
Speaker 4: team at the moment. But even the most competitive teams
Speaker 4: generally will go through some sort of downturn that I mean, listen,
Speaker 4: it's a reminder of the stakes.
Speaker 3: Of choosing to go that direction.
Speaker 4: And again, like the best case scenario when it comes
Speaker 4: to your percentage chances is like fifteen, just below eighteen percent,
Speaker 4: I think, is what you can.
Speaker 3: End up with. The Jazz end up with a fifth pick,
Speaker 3: their most likely pick they were going to get going
Speaker 3: into the lottery, and you know, the odds are published
Speaker 3: and there for everybody to see is that they were
Speaker 3: end up with a fifth pick. So like that was
Speaker 3: it actually was.
Speaker 4: It didn't buck the information that the team or the
Speaker 4: fan base had going into last week's lottery.
Speaker 2: One more thing.
Speaker 1: If Mike Pence did the right thing, would the Jazz
Speaker 1: have the number one overall pick?
Speaker 3: Next Crutch?
Speaker 2: I knew it. I knew it.
Speaker 1: I knew you wouldn't take the bait. I've tried for
Speaker 1: years and you won't do it. All Right, Dave, are
Speaker 1: you ready for my super crazy Jazz Spurs trade idea?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I love it.
Speaker 1: So san Antonio at two finds themselves in a really
Speaker 1: interesting spot because I think everybody feels like Dylan Harper
Speaker 1: is the second best prospect in the draft, But you
Speaker 1: look at san Antonio's roster and there's redundancy there if
Speaker 1: they decide to go Dylan Harper. Now, look, the problem
Speaker 1: with this trade scenario is there will be a lot
Speaker 1: of teams lined up to make an offer for two
Speaker 1: if san Antonio is willing to move it.
Speaker 2: But they make the trade for Darren Fox.
Speaker 1: They have Stefan Castle, who's rookie of the Year, and
Speaker 1: the Jazz could very much use Dylan Dylan Harper. It
Speaker 1: fills a need and if he's as good as everybody says,
Speaker 1: do you think san Antonio entertains the notion of the
Speaker 1: Jazz sending five and Lowry Markeden in exchange for two fourteen,
Speaker 1: and then Keldon Johnson and Harrison Harrison Barnes to make
Speaker 1: the contracts match. Do you think anything, kind of generally speaking,
Speaker 1: in that direction, because we're hearing multiple ports that the
Speaker 1: Jazz will try to move up, but we know that
Speaker 1: one is off the table. After Tim McMahon reported that
Speaker 1: MAV's ownership said no, Nico, you can't trade it.
Speaker 2: We're keeping it. We're drafting Cooper flag.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: I actually really liked the idea, mostly because if you're
Speaker 4: going to go to with Harper the redundancy factor Castle
Speaker 4: rookie of the year, you want to build there, and
Speaker 4: why wouldn't you want to build off of him versus
Speaker 4: like even if he was to continue his development with
Speaker 4: Harper There there's the idea of like second guessing in
Speaker 4: about your mind. Or let's say Harper does take off,
Speaker 4: and now you have a distressed asset in Castle because
Speaker 4: he's you know, starts wondering, you know how valued am I?
Speaker 4: You get to remove that scenario by looking to trade
Speaker 4: the pick. Obviously, getting two first rounders is valuable, and
Speaker 4: market In is a win now ready player and listen.
Speaker 4: I think a reminder of what we saw this year
Speaker 4: in the playoffs, not only of course Victor win Minama
Speaker 4: not being able to finish the season because of his
Speaker 4: blood cut condition, but Dame Lil goes down, Jason Tatum
Speaker 4: goes down, like if you if you feel like you
Speaker 4: have any semblance of a shot at a championship, go
Speaker 4: for it. And a player like Lauren Markinen they obviously
Speaker 4: have a veteran dr Fox that they traded for. You
Speaker 4: got Wedby, you got Castle you can kill, and around
Speaker 4: the other role players like I think it's something that
Speaker 4: should be considered by lf In t Antonio if that.
Speaker 3: Was ever offered.
Speaker 1: So how much of the and you just named a
Speaker 1: few and Boston is an interesting situation to consider.
Speaker 2: And we'll get to the game in a moment.
Speaker 1: But even if Tatum stayed healthy, they were going to
Speaker 1: have some decisions to make with a new ownership group
Speaker 1: that probably did not do the luxury tax calculations until
Speaker 1: the papers were signed, and then they were like, wait,
Speaker 1: what it's going to cost me? What just to keep
Speaker 1: the roster? I mean, Bobby marks I think calculated it's
Speaker 1: a five hundred million dollar luxury tax bill. As this
Speaker 1: team continues to become expensive, So maybe they have a
Speaker 1: decision to make.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's Jalen Brown. I don't know. Tatum is going
Speaker 2: to be on the show for an entire year.
Speaker 1: The Shams report about Giannis, There's Phoenix and Durance. How
Speaker 1: real do you think this kind of alleged reported big
Speaker 1: time player movement in pro basketball will be this offseason?
Speaker 3: Well, I'll start with Boston.
Speaker 4: You pay a premium to get them six point one
Speaker 4: billion dollars. Yeah, I think the number that Bobby reported
Speaker 4: is just under five hundred million, which is a wild
Speaker 4: additional expense to take on in an annual basis.
Speaker 3: Normally, when you see.
Speaker 4: People extend themselves to make a purchase like that, they
Speaker 4: want to start recouping their investment. Drew Holliday has two
Speaker 4: years left on this deal. Chrisferzingis is an expiring contract.
Speaker 4: I expect them both to be moved absolutely one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: Because of one the redundancy factor of Christops. They've been
Speaker 4: able to win when he's missed time this year because
Speaker 4: of that strange viral and affection, but more so because
Speaker 4: they Why would you pay that much money for a
Speaker 4: team that will be by default in a rebuild mode
Speaker 4: next year, with Jason Tatum surely to miss pretty much
Speaker 4: the entire year with his recovery, and then the question
Speaker 4: becomes Jalen Brown at this stage of his career, does
Speaker 4: he want to commit a year for a team that
Speaker 4: is getting rid of assets and has its best player
Speaker 4: or second best player depending on how you viewed Jalen
Speaker 4: Brown out for the year.
Speaker 3: Does this caused him to say.
Speaker 4: You know what, this is probably my time to go
Speaker 4: pursue what else is out there for me and I
Speaker 4: would like to be moved. And then when you start
Speaker 4: to see those type of dominoes fall, that's when it
Speaker 4: becomes a crazy summer because you're like, Okay, Boston's going
Speaker 4: to be moving two players.
Speaker 3: That's interesting, Chris SUPs and Drew Holliday. And Drew Holiday
Speaker 3: has proven to be a.
Speaker 4: Difference maker for two different teams now in terms of
Speaker 4: being a championship level team.
Speaker 3: That's interesting in itself. But then if it becomes.
Speaker 4: Okay, Jalen Brown wants out, and then if Nasachcoopo wants
Speaker 4: out and Kevin Durant wants out, now you're talking about like.
Speaker 3: Three or four franchise changing players.
Speaker 4: On the market, and yeah, that can lead to all
Speaker 4: sorts of chaos beyond it. So I do think that
Speaker 4: we have a potential for a pretty busy summer with
Speaker 4: the landscape to lead changing a bit.
Speaker 1: All right, moving on to you know, the playoffs, because
Speaker 1: they're going on. I'm gonna ask you about a couple
Speaker 1: of teams that already have stamped their ticket to the
Speaker 1: conference finals. Then we'll get to the action tonight and
Speaker 1: over the weekend. Let's start out east where Indiana just
Speaker 1: and you know, it was really interesting listening to Kenny
Speaker 1: Atkinson after the game that you know, sealed the deal
Speaker 1: for Indiana. He basically acknowledged, like they're better than we
Speaker 1: are right now, and they've got Indiana has so many
Speaker 1: like wings that want to fight, you Like Benedict Matherin
Speaker 1: wants to fight everybody, so does Niee Smith Nemhard.
Speaker 2: I mean, they're going to be a tough out for anybody.
Speaker 1: What stood out most about the way the Pacers dispatched
Speaker 1: to the Calves, Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean they controlled that series. And listen, you can
Speaker 4: say there was un apportunate circumstances with Darius Carland and
Speaker 4: Evan Mobley DeAndre Hunter all missing time. Of course, I'm
Speaker 4: not so sure though.
Speaker 3: Had they been healthy the entire series, they would have
Speaker 3: beat the Pacers.
Speaker 4: That the Pacers played with morm edge, they played with
Speaker 4: certainly more off defensive organization, and then they have wings.
Speaker 3: That get into you.
Speaker 4: And Kendrick Perkins, my friend and colleague you know, did
Speaker 4: a hit earlier this week basically saying that the Calves
Speaker 4: weren't tough enough, and sometimes like that's hyperbolic and that
Speaker 4: doesn't really tell the story.
Speaker 3: But I do think that's part.
Speaker 4: Of what this Calves team was missing, is there's not
Speaker 4: enough grit there.
Speaker 3: You have basically a bunch of nice guys and.
Speaker 4: You need some sort of mix to that group of
Speaker 4: guys who want to mix it up or guys who
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 3: Are going to player than the other team.
Speaker 4: And I don't think that's means that this Caves team
Speaker 4: should be dismantled, but yeah, I do think you look
Speaker 4: at like Jared Allen and Evan Mobley both are gentle giants.
Speaker 3: Can you have two gentle giants on your team or
Speaker 3: do you it's you.
Speaker 4: Know, it's kind of hard to play two bigs in
Speaker 4: the playoffs as it is.
Speaker 3: Do you split them up?
Speaker 4: All these there's a handful of contenders that are looking
Speaker 4: for a big that would you know, offer you up
Speaker 4: a lot for someone like Jared Allen and then use
Speaker 4: those assets that you get from that trade either to
Speaker 4: find a guy with more of an edge or make
Speaker 4: that trade about finding the guy with more of an edge.
Speaker 4: I think it's a tweak that they are that they need,
Speaker 4: not like an overhaul obviously. And then you're talking about
Speaker 4: Indiana as they sit in the catbird seat and watch
Speaker 4: the Knicks and Celtics play things out, like they should
Speaker 4: feel confident about their chance to make it back to
Speaker 4: the first and me a finals. Parison's Reggie Miller.
Speaker 1: Moving over to a series that you covered covered well,
Speaker 1: a really good piece about Anthony Edwards. You know, Minnesota
Speaker 1: and you and I talked about this after OKAC kind
Speaker 1: of established themselves as the best team in the West
Speaker 1: with a historic net and with the way they were playing,
Speaker 1: we would kind of revisit the topic every week, like
Speaker 1: who is their peer out West? And seemed like every
Speaker 1: week that would change. You know, the Golden State gets
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler? Is it Jimmy Butler?
Speaker 2: Of course?
Speaker 1: The Lakers get Luca Can the Lakers make Okay See uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: But over the final few weeks of the season, we
Speaker 1: did start to hone in on Minnesota a little bit. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the Steph factor is the Steph factor, and we'll get
Speaker 1: to Boston and New.
Speaker 2: York at a minute.
Speaker 1: But as connected as Boston looked in Game five without Tatum,
Speaker 1: Golden State is just lost without Steph. They just are
Speaker 1: Spacing's completely different. I was waiting to see playoff, Jimmy.
Speaker 1: We never really did. That's probably more of a credit
Speaker 1: to Minnesota than anything, as in a diamond on Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 1: But what did you make of just how easily it
Speaker 1: seemed for Minnesota to take care of the Golden State
Speaker 1: Warriors sands of course Stephen Curry.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, listen.
Speaker 4: I think there was the actual basketball blow to the
Speaker 4: Warriors of playing without Steph, which is significant because even
Speaker 4: at this stage of his career, you're talking about a
Speaker 4: guy who is going to draw a double and triple
Speaker 4: team attention. He's a great playmaker. He can set other
Speaker 4: guys up, and he can just shoot over the defense
Speaker 4: a lot of times, So that's a major part of it.
Speaker 4: And then I think it was the mental blow of
Speaker 4: like they gave them their best shot in Game three,
Speaker 4: didn't get it done, and like they recognized at that
Speaker 4: moment that like even the task of just trying to
Speaker 4: get to win one, to try to extend the series,
Speaker 4: to get it to a game six to stephan comeback
Speaker 4: was not going to really be possible. On the Minnesota
Speaker 4: side of things, it's a really good basketball team that
Speaker 4: is that unstoppable by any means, But they had twenty
Speaker 4: one turnovers in that Game three.
Speaker 3: You can't be proffing the ball.
Speaker 4: Up that many times expected to win the playoff game,
Speaker 4: and even in the closeout Game five, it was a
Speaker 4: blowout and had seven turnovers like that, that type of
Speaker 4: stuff is going to hurt you as you get further
Speaker 4: along the ride against the more disciplined team. And that's
Speaker 4: why their story could end in the Western Conference Finals
Speaker 4: against Denver, OKC.
Speaker 3: Because I think.
Speaker 4: Both those teams that have a little more structure to
Speaker 4: what they do. At the same time, though they're deep,
Speaker 4: they're big, they're physical, they have a little bit of
Speaker 4: the ship on their shoulder from them flaming out last
Speaker 4: year against the Mavericks and the conference finals, and like
Speaker 4: I think I'm kind of biased as I evaluate them
Speaker 4: because I have covered each of their games the last
Speaker 4: two rounds like they look really good, and I covered
Speaker 4: them last year in the playoffs in the second round
Speaker 4: in the conference finals as well. There are a lot
Speaker 4: better than they were last year. Julius Randall is playing
Speaker 4: the best basketball's career. Jade McDaniels is a different player
Speaker 4: than he was last year, and last year he looked
Speaker 4: like shade of Scottie Pippen, and Anthony Edwards is still
Speaker 4: the incredible singular talent that is showing a little bit
Speaker 4: more wrecking condition of defenses and making the hockey assists
Speaker 4: and making himself harder to guard. So I like, I
Speaker 4: will most likely pick them. If Okay see what's to win,
Speaker 4: I would say I think I will I will pick
Speaker 4: them in.
Speaker 3: The next round.
Speaker 4: If Denver somehow beats Okay see, then you're probably talking
Speaker 4: about the best player in basketball and Jokic thinking that
Speaker 4: he has another chance to get a ring and that
Speaker 4: could be pretty tough. Plus tenverll have the revenge factor
Speaker 4: because they lost last year to the Wolves.
Speaker 1: Which combo of cities would lead to the most whalien
Speaker 1: and national teeth from media members that are mad that
Speaker 1: they have to travel to both cities.
Speaker 3: It's it's Indiana, okay. See.
Speaker 4: I do have some Race young as a friend of mine,
Speaker 4: and I'm friends with some folks on the Indiana staff,
Speaker 4: and I feel bad about some of the texts I've
Speaker 4: already sent about that scenario to some folks in the media.
Speaker 4: It's just one of it is like, actually a huge
Speaker 4: part of it, I should say.
Speaker 3: It's not the city themselves.
Speaker 4: It's literally both of those cities I won't be able
Speaker 4: to fly direct to.
Speaker 3: So you know, that's kind of tough.
Speaker 4: Every single flight you're taking is a connecting flight for
Speaker 4: duration of two weeks.
Speaker 3: It wears in you a little bit.
Speaker 2: It does, no, it does.
Speaker 1: I just always enjoy the yearly airing of the grievances
Speaker 1: from media members that don't enjoy travling to certain places.
Speaker 2: But anyway, all right, a couple of things left before
Speaker 2: I set you loose.
Speaker 1: Let's start out this way where we do have a
Speaker 1: game seven on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Man, this has been such a fun series.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I just feel like Denver's out
Speaker 1: of gas and I just feel like Sunday could get
Speaker 1: ugly for okay, see, But I do not want to
Speaker 1: bet against Nicola Jokic.
Speaker 2: What do you think happens Sunday Game seven?
Speaker 3: Dave, I'm leaning okay Seed just because.
Speaker 4: It goes into enter was terrible in game six, and
Speaker 4: you figure he will. I respect him as a player.
Speaker 4: He's knocking on the door of his prime right now.
Speaker 4: He'll have the home crowd behind him with something to prove.
Speaker 4: I just think he'll have a much better game. And
Speaker 4: you know part of Denver winning in game six was
Speaker 4: Julian Strawther comes out of nowhere to have a game
Speaker 4: of his life.
Speaker 3: Like those type of role players, they do that at home,
Speaker 3: they don't do it on the road. So that's said.
Speaker 4: I mean, listen, like I expect should be great. Aaron Gordon,
Speaker 4: we'll see. You know, there was some talk about his
Speaker 4: calf bothering him last game. He's another guy. Generally I
Speaker 4: would say, I know what I'm gonna get out of him.
Speaker 4: He's going to be great. It's kind of like the
Speaker 4: swing players Jamal Murray. Jamal Murray is capable of coming
Speaker 4: and dropping thirty five and winning the game and making
Speaker 4: every shot they need in the fourth quarter. Jaal Murray
Speaker 4: is also capable of you know, kind of having a
Speaker 4: game where his shots off and that affects the type
Speaker 4: of defensive energy brings on the other end. I just
Speaker 4: think like Okac is more in line to have things
Speaker 4: go their way to dance, So I'll go okaysee, but
Speaker 4: I certainly wouldn't be surprised at Detember.
Speaker 1: Finally, David, the unbiased media member, basketball and analyst in
Speaker 1: me believes the New York Knick should win a close
Speaker 1: game at.
Speaker 2: Home tonight in Mintown, Manhattan.
Speaker 1: The long suffering New York Nick fan in me, as
Speaker 1: this team has let me down multiple occasions since I
Speaker 1: was ten years old, has visions of Charles Smith missing
Speaker 1: three layups and Patrick Ewing missing a finger roll and
Speaker 1: John Starts shooting three of eighteen and pat Riley refusing
Speaker 1: to just even take Rolando Blackman off ice, and I
Speaker 1: could keep going. Anthony Mason's inbound pass to Greg Anthony
Speaker 1: it was stolen by Reggie Miller. As you can tell,
Speaker 1: it's been a rough life for your boy, cheering for
Speaker 1: the team that's going to play for.
Speaker 2: In an hour from right now.
Speaker 1: What happens tonight at MSG, do my next finally get
Speaker 1: it done.
Speaker 4: I'll say that they're better get done tonight. But if
Speaker 4: it goes seven others, they're gonna win. I actually think
Speaker 4: they're gonna do it. This is a very confident group.
Speaker 4: They will have obviously have Event Square Garden on fire.
Speaker 4: I think they're gonna do it. Like they they recognize
Speaker 4: that they wasted.
Speaker 3: The opportunity in Game five, but you got to give
Speaker 3: credit to Boston again. They had guys step up. Like
Speaker 3: we're talking about Strawther for Denver at home, right, Cornette's
Speaker 3: not gonna have that game on the road. If he does,
Speaker 3: God bless them, but he's not.
Speaker 4: And so I think we get and then Nick's also
Speaker 4: recognized like last year they probably should have been in
Speaker 4: the conference finals. It's not for everybody get injured at
Speaker 4: the same time. Like right now, they have house on
Speaker 4: their side. So I say, go to New York, Go
Speaker 4: New York, go and and hopefully you know, with talk
Speaker 4: about traveling to New.
Speaker 3: York for the final.
Speaker 1: You know what, now I'm cheering for the Pacers just
Speaker 1: so you have to go to Indiana. I'm just playing, Dave.
Speaker 1: Always a pleasure, my friend. Enjoy the games and have
Speaker 1: a great.
Speaker 3: Weekend, all right, yeah, show you too.
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Speaker 2: May the sixteenth through the eighteenth.
Speaker 1: It's at the ballpark in America First Square, one one
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