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🗓️ 4 June 2024
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We preview the 2024 NBA Finals – will the Celtics come in with a matchup advantage against the Mavs? How does Dallas defend Boston's elite offense? Will the Celtics throw a curveball at Luka Doncic? We discuss this and much more in our Finals Preview. With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball
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0:00.0 | thinking basketball podcast my name is Ben welcome back to another episode where do I put this microphone I haven't |
0:14.6 | done this in a long time how does this how does this work it's it's time for the |
0:19.5 | NBA finals that's what time it is. Today is Tuesday, June 4th. In the old days, we already would have played game one. It probably would have been played on a Sunday. But for whatever reason, this year, they were like Thursday, June 6th. 6 we are starting that is going to be the starting |
0:34.6 | date of the finals no matter what happens in any other series beforehand we are starting on |
0:39.9 | Thursday June 6 so that's why we've had approximately 36 and a half days off. I don't think |
0:45.6 | Christaps Porzingus has played a basketball game in like 47 days. He's supposedly coming back for the Celtics. |
0:52.5 | So today we're going to talk about Celtics and the Rams, |
0:56.6 | NBA finals, maybe at the end we'll talk about who we think is going to win. |
1:01.4 | But I'm interested in sizing this series up because from what I know I |
1:06.0 | I avoid the other talking heads and the prognostications. I've not listened to a single preview, |
1:11.2 | but I've seen a lot of polling activity that I want to talk about. |
1:14.6 | I've seen a lot of rumblings and the text messages from people I know, and everybody is saying |
1:20.0 | Dallas, Dallas, Dallas is going to win. |
1:23.2 | And we'll get to that. |
1:26.0 | But Cody, the place that my mind starts |
1:29.8 | is that would this be the greatest championship run in the terms of in terms of |
1:37.6 | surprise like out of nowhere craziest championship run in NBA history. |
1:44.0 | There's a couple other examples, but I almost want to say bar none. |
1:48.0 | Wow, that's a huge claim. I mean, it would certainly be, it would certainly be up there. I can't recall too many people before the |
1:54.6 | playoffs talking about the Mavericks being a legit title contender. I know you and I certainly didn't |
1:59.5 | really talk about them as being a serious inner circle contender. I mean, maybe it's just the name connection, |
2:04.8 | but the first team I think of 2011. |
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