Thinking Basketball podcast. My name is Ben. Welcome back. It is the Western Conference

Finals and Victor Wenbanyama is happening. And Cody, we have so much to talk about today. How are you doing?

Are you feeling better after your epic flu performance last week? It's, uh, yes, I'm feeling much better. I would say I'm close to

like 92% at the moment. Like personally, it's still, I can tell where the 8% is missing. But we,

we can't squander this time to talk about other things because Ben, all I could think about

today is we live in a world

where last night's game happened. And that's, that's just objectively a better world than it was

the night before. So I'm really excited to get into this because I think it was sometime and

overtime. It was probably after the three that went be hit when I sent a message to the

thinking basketball intelligentsia. And I'm just like, we're watching an NBA Hardwood Classic. Like that's, that's just it. Maybe it took me too long to figure it out. But at the end of the day, that's what last night was, is this would be played on the NBA Hardwood Classics in 20 years and 30 years and 40 years. And we are lucky to for anyone that stayed up and watched the double overtime classic last night

can i can i read you cody can i read the audience an actual text that we send each other during the

game do you mind if i do that as long as i didn't uh i yes you know what i trust your i trust

it's a vulnerable it's a vulnerable moment for both of us. I texted Cody.

I said, I'm near tears.

This is like watching Shawshank Redemption for the first time.

And Cody responded a few minutes later.

I think this was when he hit the three.

Benjamin, I will bleep out the next line.

There was some profanity followed by,

I've teared up. My vision is blurry. To which I responded, Cody, I am not real. That pretty much sums up the evening, I think. I think that's the whole, the whole evening in a nutshell, ladies and gentlemen. I think it was a point where my wife was, you know, she was on the couch. She had fallen asleep. and when me hit the three, so instead of being, like, cruel and screaming out so I didn't wake up my child and wake up my wife, my body just like, I just started weeping. Just like, what's happening right now? Because it objectively in the moment, you're watching it, you're like, oh, he's exhausted, he's just throwing in the towel. Yes, and then just Berries it. So for anyone that for some reason doesn't know, this is the end of overtime, right? There's exhausted. He's just throwing in the towel. Yes. And then he just buries it.

So for anyone that for some reason doesn't know, this is the end of overtime, right? There's 30 seconds left in overtime. J-dub goes, and I think he just misses a pretty tough contested mid-range jumper. Wemby gets the rebound, kicks it ahead. I think it might be to Harper, but I don't remember off the top of my head. but whoever it is dribbles it up and then pitches it back to Wembe,

who catches 35 feet, 32 feet, whatever it is from the basket,

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