Welcome back to Dunked on. So glad to have you with us. Apologies. I had some life stuff come up. We were not able to get to record about Celtic's Nuggets on Friday as I had alluded to, but we're going to try to make it up to you now because both of us have a ton of notes on that game.

I realize this is the West 1560, but this game between what I would say is the two obvious championship favorites.

That's a good question actually Danny is this I would say that this year just off the top my head

is the first year since those Warriors Cabs years where the favorite in each conference

has felt so obvious to me.

Would you agree with that or do you think that Denver's place in the West is not quite at that level because I

certainly have to say Boston's isn't this right now? I think that it's not okay so

we're if we're talking about it in the levels where the the wild west and all that over the last couple years or I mean obviously what Miami did last year as one extreme and then Cab's warriors is the other I think we're a lot closer to Cabs Warriors than we have been in the last five

years, but there are a lot of variables in play here. I mean, when you think about the good teams and the bad teams that

could slot in different spots.

And it's so funny when you consider that Denver, you know, they're 44 and 20 right now will go through all their stats.

It's not like they're miles ahead of the pack in terms of seating or anything else. It's just that we, we know that they are a good playoff team and we know, and this game was a great example of some of why I believe in them so heavily as a seven game series team.

So yes, but like those warriors,

like I actually talked about this briefly

with Keith Smith on Real GM radio,

of there were times in those Cabs Warriors years

where honestly the rest of it felt like a holding pattern.

I don't feel like that right now,

but it does seem, you know, like there were other years

where if you'd asked me the most likely finals

of it like, oh, I don't know.

Well, I can say definitively

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