Thinking Basketball podcast. My name is Ben. Welcome back to round two of the

2020s playoffs. I think for my money, that was the best first round playoff set of series in NBA history.

That was unbelievable.

Usually I did go back and look, you know, 2014, we had a number of game sevens,

but those weren't very interesting game sevens.

They were a bunch of like NBA TV series that went game seven.

And there wasn't championship implications or unbelievable upsets or things like that.

And we had five, maybe at least six really, really compelling series in the first round.

And case in point is sometimes during the playoffs, we might do it again this week.

We do an extra episode in between recording with Cody on Tuesdays. And last week, I didn't do an

extra episode because there were still so many things up in the air in every day that I didn't

know what to land on. And Cody, it's been seven days since you and I have talked. And seven days

ago, Jalen Brown was on the all-NBA first team in the playoffs. The Celtics were up three-one with two blowout victories in the four-game series.

Joel and B.

had just come back and just come back and look like he was looking for his sea legs and things

like that.

And boom, the Sixers win three games in a row.

They started looking like the better team sometime around game five, somewhere in the middle, near the end of game five, early game six. It started to become clear that this is the thing that the Celtics are going to have to figure out. Jason Tatum goes out. He doesn't play game seven. That's the second time the Celtics have been upset at home in a game seven in the last four years where Jason Tatum basically misses the entire game seven. And I don't even know if that was the craziest thing that happened in the last seven days. So what do we need to update here? Should we actually start with revising our all NBA first team first round right now? Because I think we left off. You did this to me. You put me in this position. We left off, I think. I think we had, we had Shea, we had LeBron, we had Wembe, and then I think we had Barnes and Brown. Was that what we said a week ago?

I am worried that Oklahoma City might, you know, win by a lot of points against the Los Angeles Lakers. And we will forget

this incredible moment in time where LeBron James did something that was amazing. The Los Angeles Lakers

were massive underdogs. I mean, first of all, let's just start there. We just saw two of the bigger

upsets in, by the betting odds that we've seen in the entire

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