Yo, welcome to Times Yours. I'm Spike. I feel like every time I do something on here, it makes me feel like Bill Simmons. I feel like a ripoff. I don't know if this is gonna be a two-part podcast or not.

It's all NBA, two guests, of course, Pat Gallen on Times Yours every Wednesday and from Twitter, buddy of most spates, Philly Reem will be on the second part of the NBA podcast.

So I might split it into two, I'm not sure. We'll see. But first, of course, Pat Gallen, what's up, buddy? What's going on, buddy?

Nothing much, just, you know, sitting home, dreaming of basketball, you. Of course. Yeah, dude, I just, I wake up with basketballs in my head. I fall asleep with basketballs jumping over fences, the sheep jumping over basketballs.

And this is a crazy, this will sound like, you'll either understand exactly what I'm talking about when I ask you this or it'll sound like a crazy person, as it's asking you.

Do you remember, like, how you found out or when you found out the lockout was over? Because it happened at like three in the morning. Did you just wake up and see it online? Like, what happened?

Yeah, you know, I guess it was online. It was well, because everyone's on Twitter these days. And I guess you figure everything else out that way. And it was just, you know, bersard and share it in all these people tweeting that, you know, they, it was basically over. So yeah, it's not, it's not old school. It's not waking up and seeing it in the newspaper the next day. It's, you see it on Twitter and everyone has it in 10 seconds.

It was funny. I woke up on Saturday. It happened on a, you know, Friday night Saturday morning. And I woke up on Saturday. My girlfriend hates Twitter hates it. So when she's here, I don't, I don't look at it. You know, my, my concession is I won't deal with it while she's there.

So I wake up on Saturday morning and I get up to go to the bathroom and I look at my phone and somehow I don't know how, but at some point, and I don't know how to turn it off at replies to me come as a text message.

So every time I get an at reply, it shows up in the same conversation as a text message. So I get up to go to the bathroom. It's like 9 30 in the morning. I look at my phone and I have like 20 text messages.

And I like, I was like, well, what is this? And I see that they're all from Twitter and they're all like, where is spike asking? Where is he? Are you excited? What? And I go, oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

I'm back to the chat room. So I realized what had happened. Like I saw a bunch of wins the party. And I was like, of course, oh, my goodness. So then I wrote, like, I'm in the bathroom with my just staring at my cell phone.

Um, about to brush my teeth. And I realized that I can't, I can't act excited when I go back into the bedroom because it would have meant that I was looking at Twitter.

So I, so I have to, I have to go back to the bedroom and make pretend as if I haven't seen anything and give it, give it an hour. What are you just doing in there? Yeah.

And like, I have to give it an hour and discover it later. And so I had to pretend as if I rediscovered it. So then I let's know fun. Yeah.

It's like someone knowing about their surprise birthday party. Yeah. It's exactly what it was like. So, yeah, I had a faint excitement. I had a faint like a, oh, my God. Vow, the lockouts over. Like that said, I had a, even though I had discovered it earlier. But I was, and it was, it's amazing because as, and you knew, you know, I was pretty angry.

But I never said there were a bunch of people that said that they were so frustrated that when it came back, they weren't going to care. And I think I always knew and I always said that there was, like, I would never, I would never claim that because if the thing that I missed was NBA basketball. And at some point, NBA basketball came back. It would be hard for me to be, you know, to not pay attention to it or to feel scorned or any of that.

As dumb as the lockout was, you know, compared to, and it's funny. It's bad as it was compared to other sports that have had strikes and lockouts. Of course, baseball missed the World Series. The NHL missed an entire season. Football has not this year, but has in the past used replacement players.

You have to, you have to, like, kind of say that the NBA lockout seems to have been the least, they've missed the least important things. Like all they did was miss the first, you know, 15 games of the season where nobody's attention anyway.

It feels like football where you're missing eight games in the beginning of the year that mean a lot. Right. Right. And even if you miss, like essentially missing the 15, you know, they'll miss 16 games.

Essentially, you're missing like one and a half NFL games. And you're not missing anything at the end of the year. And they didn't miss postseason, like baseball or hockey. So, you know, of all the damage that anyone or me or anybody said they were going to do, I feel like they haven't really done that much. And if anything, they may have raised the level of chatter about the NBA to a certain extent and created an excitement that about a deter turn that they may not have had before.

It was from fans. I think that by them not canceling the season altogether left that sort of hope that was still hanging around. So it wasn't like, hey, this season's over. There's nothing to look forward to until next year. So there was always that, hey, we could still get a decent season in here. And yeah, if it starts up Christmas day, that's when basketball starts for the normal fan anyway. So that that hope was never lost. So I think that the NBA kind of kept everyone on, you know, still still there still hanging around.

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