Thinking basketball podcast. My name is Ben. Welcome back to another emergency playoff podcast. It's

Friday, May 2nd. I should probably start timestamping these because we're jumping on

whatever crazy

things are happening. As of right now, most of the first round is set. The Nuggets and the

Clippers tied the series last night, 3-3, so we'll have a game seven tomorrow. And the other

big game tonight is the Rockets and the Warriors. We may get to that.

I was able to rein in for this show, none other than ESPN's Bobby Marks. Bobby, how are you doing?

How are you handling all of the playoff madness? How are you doing? I'm good. Thanks for having me.

This is the time of year I wish I lived on the West Coast.

That's what I will say. I was in LA last week for work and saw the clips and the

Lakers and it was so refreshing to be in bed at like 10 o'clock and I'd have to worry about NBA games.

But like these games, I mean, it's like you're like diving in at one back into bed at 1.30 and you're

getting up at six and it's just like you're tired before you actually are tired again. That's how I,

that's how it is. It's funny because I'm on the West Coast and that's actually how I feel. Like the,

the 10 o'clock, the adrenaline from the game ending at 10 o'clock means you cannot get to bed

right away afterwards.

And then depending on what happened, we go like right into production on different videos or things like that the next morning.

So it's wild.

But I mean, we're getting like a lot of talk and on the last episode, Cody and I discussed this.

I mean, this first round has been one of the one of the best first rounds that I can remember.

I mean, I've been watching the league for decades.

And we may end up only with one game seven, but I just think the quality, the intensity,

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