Monday night edition of the pod.

Gonna do a fun one here.

Well, I guess it won't be so fun to actually go back and look at our predictions from last year,

which were not particularly accurate and there's still a year out for happening too,

but wanted to take a look into our apparently defective crystal balls and try to anticipate where the league will be as of

2020 two years or so.

From now last year, we did where we thought it would be in 2019 around this time.

So what we're going to do, we're going to pick the who we think will be the final four.

Just talk about who will be there.

Then talk about some of who maybe the worst teams will be and pick a champion,

finals MVP MVP, all NBA teams should be a fun ride here.

So Danny, why don't we start by talking about the Western conference and who you see as some of the candidates

to be in the final two teams in the Western conference, the 2020 Western conference finals?

Yes, so to clarify, we're talking about the 2019, 2020 seasons.

So this would be the 2020 playups is two years from now.

So I think that the two most likely teams to be there are the two teams that are most likely to be there this year.

The Warriors and the Rockets.

Both of those teams are incredibly good right now.

And yes, for age-related reasons, we could see both of those teams take step back and their entire cores are not locked in.

But I think they're the top two.

There are a lot of other teams that have consideration.

And it doesn't even include necessarily the unpredictability of it, you know, team rising.

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