Hello, welcome to the Hoop Collective podcast.

We talk about the NBA, which you're doing on Thursday evening.

A little later on in the show, we'll have a special guest if you're a longtime listening to the podcast, or if you're a legal eagle, you'll know who Alex Spiro is, one of America's leading defense attorneys.

Vince, you can never be, you can never have too many elite defense attorneys on your side. But he's also a Boston Celtics mega fan. And so here it's going on with the Celtics. But anyway, joining us from the media room at Little Seeser's Arena, literally right now as we're doing this, the first quarter of 76ers Pistons is going on.

I think the 76ers are comfortably ahead at this point. About seven points. But later on today,

I bet Cade Cunningham will be sitting right there where Vince Goodwill is sitting.

What up, though, Wendy. I'm trying to be trying to understand why you pointing out the defense

attorney thing to me. do you think I'm going

to need one soon? That's correct. You're from Detroit. I just figure you never know. Joining us from

his home in Sacramento. And I have to say it's his home because every time we've had Anthony

Slater since he's been with us for six

months now, he's been in his backyard. And I miss the backyard personally, but in his brand new home

studio, Anthony Slater. You're like the ninth person. Suddenly now that I don't have the backyard,

everybody wants me to get it back, including somebody said, you know what you can do? You go

take a picture of your

backyard and make it the backdrop in the homestead. That would be amazing. Oh my God, that would be amazing. I would love that. We got to make that happen. Next time I'm on TV with you, I'm going to do that just for you. Oh, my God, that's going to be great. Okay, so I thought we'd start, Vince. You had a story that posted on ESPN.com today.

You know, we're going to spend the majority of this pod taking So I thought we'd start, Vince, you had a story that posted on ESPN.com today.

You know, we're going to spend the majority of this pod taking a look at the Eastern Conference, particularly the Northeast.

But we got some Orlando Magic stuff coming at you later, which is a sentence I don't often say.

But Vince, you got a story today.

You just recently were on the West Coast with the Knicks.

You're back in Detroit now. But the Knicks have had a bit of a choppy trip to the West Coast. They're, they always got to vacate this time of year because there's various conference tournaments that move into the garden. And you, you know, for a team that's, you know, got a pretty good record, I think the fact that there's a story about the issues facing them is appropriate because as I talk to Knicks fans, Nick's fans are, there was a bunch of Knicks fans in L.A. this week, and I ran into a number of them when I was in L.A. because the NICs played two games in L.A. this week. I missed you by like 24 hours, Vince, by the way. There's Agita. There's annoyance about the Knicks. And so you sort of tackled that. And as they tried to recover here, I thought we would take a look here. And, you know, on a scale of 1 to 10, Vince, where do you think the Knicks are performing at this point in the season? Right now, like, I think it's kind of an odd thing because when they were going out west, I felt like they played reasonably well in a loss to Oklahoma City. And then they blew the doors off to Denver Nuggets, who they always seem to have a good time with. And then you have back-to-back bad performances against the

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