Speaking basketball podcast, my name is Ben Welcome back to part two of the Eastern Conference finals MVPs that we're

handing out. This is part four in the final installment of this series where we've gone back to the year 2000 not just

with our friend Conan O'Brien but with the entire NBA to Cody that's a reference

to Conan O'Brien in the year 2000.

The people know who used to watch Conan O'Brien 23 or 24 years ago.

It's a huge chunk of this audience.

Big 1990s, Conan O'Brien, late night fans.

We've already gotten off on a good track here today.

2000 to 2021, we've gone back and we've handed out what Cody has affectionately dubbed the thinking

Johnson's that is the Western Conference Finals MVPs named after Magic Johnson because the

League's only given out one so we have to go back

and fill in all these blanks to sort of square the circle of the universe and now

we're doing the Eastern Conference last time we stopped in 2010 to 2010 which leaves us

2011 to 2021 part four that's what we're going to cover today and I don't anticipate talking about LeBron James much at all do you well before we start on the LeBron train I need to I need to pause I need to give a shout out to somebody out there a shout out in in the Twitter world. Yes, you're talking about 2000s and we had this

this discussion about when decades begin. And I was like I would like a 10th tweet thread

explaining when decades start.

That's right, yeah.

And Twitter user at Paul Tree 10.

I'm not gonna fully shout out this person

because it's technically only nine tweets.

So, you know, if you miss the buzzer

beater you don't win the game embarrassing so yeah I'm actually kind of

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