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Ah here we go our two on a Friday live in Los Angeles. It's the herd wherever you may be

However you may be listening I heart radio Fox Sports Radio FS1 Chris Weber Hall of Famer just got elected in here

I'll be joining us in five minutes Joy Taylor alongside this weekend all the big playoff stuff starts so you got

Boston the nets are starting and Clippers and Dallas and Lakers and the Suns and so this is a first weekend by the way the the

Brawn versus staff Lakers versus Warriors playing game got at 1.6.1 or 6.2 million viewers which is a massive number which goes to

Something I've been pleading for years which is make the first round of the NBA playoffs in the second round three games at max five games

You forced me to watch when you just a play in game and it means like the Warriors aren't even good this year got a huge number that beat all but about six seven college football games it's like

Hey billionaires you know I know you got your zillion dollar homes and all your properties if you want us to watch your sport

Just shave off all the useless games in the playoffs. We don't need we don't need wasn't there a and at some point LeBron didn't even lose a first round

Playoff game for like seven years. He's never lost the first round series and I'm for a while it's like okay all that is soaked the fans

Like just and people freak out well if you go three game the stars could lose well they don't in college basketball when you have one game better players win

You can go to a YMCA and look at the two teams and go they got better players they win you get a

Every get on one of those teams at the Y when you have good players and you play for like two hours because nobody can beat you the better players win they just they're going to win a series

Would be better three or five even five games would be better than seven is just wasting our time very interesting Andrew Barry is the new GM I

Don't want to push this but he was talking about Baker may feel it's interesting the word he used let's play the bite.

You know I like to say that it was a proactive statement but it would just worked out that way we obviously felt comfortable with Baker half fell comfortable with Baker for a long period of time comfortable

Somebody asked my wife how's your marriage comfortable kind of sounds like it's cool for now who's fine comfortable maybe I'm making too much of it but comfortable is

I'll give him pick up his fifth year option now it should be noted Baker is six and 14 against winning teams winning teams are hard to beat nobody goes

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