Thinking Basketball podcast. My name is Ben. Welcome to we are in the middle of the second round, I guess, right now. And, you know, today, today is a tough one. We got a flu game situation going on.

We weren't sure if we're going to have a pod.

We weren't sure what we're going to do.

Cody has been slammed by something, and he's going to give it his best go today.

So I just want to, in advance, apologize if we don't have, you know, an hour and a half of banter about the Odyssey trailer and whatever else we get into talking about.

I want to thank everybody who joins us every week and gives us such great support,

so many longtime listeners who entertain Cody and I while we talk about Cody and I, Cody and me,

Cody and me, Cody and I, let's keep going.

Well, we talk about basketball and movies and food and exercise and whatever ideas we banter about back and forth.

But today we'll see what we can do because in one sense, this is reflective of where we are in the NBA playoffs.

The Thunder have dismissed the Lakers summarily. It wasn't even

with zero resistance in their series. The Knicks and the Sixers had some resistance. We could

talk about that. And then the Knicks were just like, now we're going to win all the games and the last

one by 40 points like we like to do. And they've moved on on and yet there are still two series going on that are

very hard fought. Victor Wenbanyama was ejected in the last game. That's been an incredibly

chippy series. So I'll throw it to you, Cody. You are the sort of, you know, special guest here

with your status. Where would you like to start?

Man, I don't even know where to start. I think when we talked about the Lakers thunder,

my only concern was I'm like, hey, can the Lakers keep it within 10 points per game in each one of

them? And I just pulled it up right now and they didn't. I don't think it was within 10 points per game on any of them. But I think game four was at least pretty competitive. You know, I'm sorry if I hallucinate anything, but, you know, J. Dub playing is 14 minutes yesterday. Um, you know, I just don't think he's the second best player anymore on that Thunder team. That might be. Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry. What's going on right now? I must be mistaken at this point. But no,

I, anymore on that Thunder team. That might be... Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry. What's going on right now?

I must be mistaken at this point. But no, I do have to say that that's the most recent game that

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