Hello, welcome to the hook collective podcast. We talk about the NBA, which we're doing on Wednesday afternoon slash evening. It's I guess early after early evening here in San Francisco. Tim Bontemps is down the street from me. Hello, Tim. Hello, Brian. I had enough of him staying in my hotel last round. We're in the same hotels. I said enough.

And joining us from home, aren't you happy to be home in Dallas, band McMahon? I was already to welcome you guys to my to my humble adobe here. Is it a dough, but I don't know how to pronounce that word.

I'm not going to do the punch, Adobe and it's called a boat. Well, and Adobe can be off to a roaring start. But the Mavericks didn't do their parts. I'll just keep it simple and say how do you partners?

Chris to Marco from the Warriors was very happy to point out three games into the series after I'd said the mask and winning 60 sent me a text and said, can the can the Mavericks win four games in the next three.

I said it took three weeks to think about that one.

I'll be six. No, not. I'll tell you what if it had gone nine, I like the maps chances. Yeah. So, uh, Bontemps and I are out here covering the finals. And so we are doing, we're going to have this grouping going into every finals game.

How many finals games will it be? We don't know. But, uh, so we'll be back with you for Sundays game two.

But before we get ahead of ourselves, um, we're going to talk about game one, which will be today. This podcast is coming out on Thursday. The day of game one.

Brian, we made predictions at least Tim and I, I don't know if you bothered to. So we probably should start with that. Shouldn't we? We're going to talk about how many games.

You know that I didn't make a prediction. You know that I don't make predictions. Oh, setting up for that.

Um, yeah, you put your prediction in with like within 30 seconds of the end of game seven, we're in Miami. You. That's correct. I, I thought before game six of the Celtics heat series that if the Celtics won that series, I was going to pick Celtics and six, which I did.

And for all the people in Boston, we're very mad that it didn't vote for Jason Tatum to win. MVP of the Eastern Conference finals. I voted. I said Jason Tatum won MVP of the finals. So that was my.

I was a man for Western Conference finals MVP, the Magic Johnson trophy, which ended up in Steph's hands. Was that unanimous vote for stuff? It was unanimous. And as the rep from the NBA office, inquired about my vote.

I said Steph Curry until anybody who votes differently that they're an absolute idiot. You said that on the last podcast. You're losing your brain. I thought you were.

I don't even know how to say doby, which is not the right word.

Adobe is means house in Spanish, but a boat is, I don't know what language it is, but it means your house.

I was going for a spaniard.

Before we get your prediction, um, McMahon, what did you think of Bontemps being the most important.

Bontemps bull crap. I mean, it's Bontemps. When you're not very smart, you have to like go out of your way to pretend to be intellectual.

And so this is Bontemps just, oh, look at me. I'm going into the grain. I'm so much smarter than everybody.

I'm going to pick a guy who stunk for a few games in that series, by the way, and was on the losing side.

Simple prerequisite to be a series MVP. Your team has to win the series.

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