Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben.

Welcome back to what I guess is like... is part three of the

three of the I think it's gonna be Eastern Conference finals

MVPs part one but it is a continuation of the series we've been flying toward

hurling ourselves into outer space on that is going back and filling in the official unofficial conference finals MVP

ballots because you know Cody they've only had the Magic Johnson and Larry

Bird trophy for one year, so we thought somebody needs to go back and fill in history.

And you know, we've started with the 21st century, 2000 to 2021. We've done the Western Conference finals we're all we've handed out

all our Magic Johnson's how do you feel about the Magic Johnson's we handed out?

I felt really good about that I think there was a period where I'm like I can pay a little less attention to these but for the rest of those it was actually a really fun trip on Memory Lane.

Well, doing the East made me realize the West had some fantastic series that possibly we took for granted over the years

because the East has some bumpy we'll see how we we'll see how we'll see how we do going

through the East here today we're to go back in time all the way to the beginning of the 21st century or technically 2,000 whatever it is.

And we will make our way through, we'll get as far as we can if we need to do a part two again, we'll do that. If you

want to revisit the criteria and the way we're thinking about it, go back to that first podcast Western Conference

finals and VPs but today it's all about the East and Cody you are geared up

you've got you've got your Milwaukee Bucks kit as the kids like to say if you're

watching Cody is flashing his 2021 Milwaukee Bucks Eastern is it an NBA champion or Eastern Conference

champion? Oh, it's an NBA champion.

Champion.

We don't care about that stuff.

We're talking about conference finals here.

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