Thinking basketball podcast. My name is Ben.

Welcome back. The 2025 NBA season has concluded the Oklahoma City Thunder, have just won the championship in seven games. What a series. We're going to

talk about it. We're going to talk about the Thunder and the Pacers and this season. And we are

recording, this is the first time we've ever done this. We're recording live right after the game

has ended. I don't think this is a very good idea. So let's see what happens, Cody. This is

going to be pretty fun. How you doing?

I always thought, because there are a few podcasts that I listen to because there's a few brave souls out there.

As soon as the game's over, they load up, they record their takes and everything else.

And I like listening to them.

But I feel like I need it to like a good stew, like a good chili, like a good chili.

It needs to simmer. It's got to go back and look at some numbers, rewatch some stuff.

So this is all very much like live, it's raw.

We're going to see what kinds of things we can tease out of this game seven that literally,

I've got the ceremony up right now.

Like they got the trophy right there, and I just have it over here on this other screen.

I just figured we haven't done a podcast in like a month.

We got all kinds of crazy things going on this week, and we couldn't record.

And then I was like, well, why don't we just record if the championship ends after whatever

the last game was Thursday?

That didn't happen.

And then got all kinds of schedule conflicts.

And I was like, let's just, let's do it because I think we can zoom out from this game

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