Good day, Sweet World, and welcome to No Dunks on the Athletic Network.

It's Sunday, August 16th, and this is our official 2020 Western Conference Playoffs preview

podcast. I'm Jay Skeets and joining us here on the horn. We got Tasnelis. Here we go,

everybody. Hey, Tassie, we got the bearded one, Trey Kirby. Hey, yo. The International

Man of Mystery, taking it to the Max, Lee Ellis. Friends.

Last but not least, making the magic happen.

JD.

Hello.

There he is.

And here we are on a Sunday.

Yes, guys, make sure you check out our Eastern Conference Playoff Preview Podcast.

We posted that on Friday.

Tomorrow, Monday, August 17th, we're going to go live on YouTube around 10 a.m.

Eastern with a brand new beach stepping. So get your questions and your comments in for that.

No dunks at theathletic.com. I know we got some questions about Elvin Gentry being fired and the king's front office shakeup and all that. So we'll get to all that on tomorrow's beach stepping.

And finally, Tass, a big happy belated birthday big guy how you doing terrible no i'm doing great thanks so much

for the well wishes out there yeah it feels good to be 39 to be the old dominic hasheck

dave parker oh the new dwight howard white howard yeah tom to be the old Dominic Hachick, Dave Parker.

Oh, the new Dwight Howard.

Dwight Howard, yeah.

Tom Tolbert.

Did you get up to anything special there on Saturday on your actual birthday?

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