Being at a restaurant with your parents when they don't like their food and they express it to the waiter.

Oh my God.

Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dunks NBA Finals preview podcast on the Athletic Network. It's Monday, June 3rd, 2024. I'm Jay E. Skeets here in the Classic Factory, and alongside me, as always, Tass Melis. Finally, it's the finals, sort of. It's a few days away, but finally. Next to him, it's the bearded one.

Matapshot Hot Boy, Trey Kirby.

Hey, oh.

And last but not least, over yonder, making the magic happen. Super producer, JD. Hello. There he is, and here we are. Shout out to everybody joining us live on YouTube, podcast, listeners, leave your boys a five-star rating and review. yes the NBA finals later this week, but we're going to break it all

down here on today's pod. A little programming note for you podcast listeners, new pods. Today,

of course, Monday, also one on Wednesday, and then you got the drop podcast on Friday,

recapping Game 1 of the NBA Finals. As for Tuesdays and Thursdays, join your boys on YouTube for a little bonus content. We're trying things out. We're getting crazy. Now I know you guys are creatures of habit. Some of you like, hey, where's the pod? Where's the pod? Just letting you know there's going to be the plan at least for this week. Again, we're just trying things. Nothing's locked in loaded here. So just bear with us.

Okay. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Pod. Tuesday, Thursday, you, tube. Okay. Let's break it down.

The NBA finals. The matchup is said, it's the Boston Celtics versus the Dallas Mavericks.

They're going to square off with our good friend Larry O'Brien at stake.

Celtics are in the finals for the second time in three years after going 12 and 2 in the East playoffs,

including a sweep of the Pacers, and the Mavs are back in the finals for the first time since 2011.

After beating 3 50-win teams in the West, Dallas eliminated the wolves in the conference finals.

In five, game one, tips this

Thursday, June 6th at the TD Garden in Boston. There's the schedule. Look at those 830 starts for us

East Coast people. Except for Sundays, can't miss with Sundays. Sunday, you better start a half hour

earlier. Yeah, that's right. All right, so let's preview this bad boy.

We're going to tackle this preview sort of team by team.

Okay?

Questions for each team, X Factor, stuff like that.

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