The books as critical as I am of them slash dock rivers. I have never shut the door completely because the upside of the team if Chris Middleton is playing like he did tonight is a championship. The upside is a championship. Now, is not he going to get there. I don't know. I doubt it, but I haven't closed the door completely. Welcome, welcome, welcome back to the Kenny Beach and podcast Playoff edition time

man it feels great to be back to our two times a week schedule this weekend is

like no other this is one of my favorite. I'm taking first

weekend of the playoffs over All Star weekend a hundred times out of 100. It's basically 12 hours a day of nothing but pure hoops and it was fantastic.

This year was different for me though man.

It was different for me for the last, let's say six, seven years, as long as I've been doing this full time.

So closer to nine years, I've been able to sit down on this first weekend and not have a care

in the world about anything else.

Strictly, strictly hopes.

But now I have a toddler.

You know, and she's one years old or a newborn.

It's like my daughter was born in April.

So she was born in the playoffs last year, right? And I have a story that I normally don't tell people, but hey, we in this together, right?

We had Avery, got home, got to watch some playoff games. We had to go back to the hospital because she had jaundice was not that big of a deal, but you need to get it checked out right?

It was the Denver Nuggets in the first round of the playoffs were sitting around in the hospital.

It's on this little old monitor, little old TV screen.

And I'm like pacing watching this game because obviously my daughter is in the hospital.

I don't know nothing about jaundice.

But also, I'm like, this is my time for content.

And my wife then fiance sees me pace and she's like,

if you want to go home for 30 minutes to film a video, you can.

And I did.

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