Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben.

My name is Ben.

Welcome back to another playoff bubbly episode. Man, it has been an unbelievable

playoff stretch in Orlando, down in the bubble. I was talking about it with some people the other day, you know,

is this the best NBA playoffs that we can remember?

What, what, when you think of like great years that have had NBA

playoff stretches that have been incredibly entertaining, what years jump out?

Certainly 2016, everything happening second round series in the West, the

conference finals, the finals. That was an incredible playoff run. And there have been other years 2010 I thought had a lot

with Nash finally you know blitzing through the spurs and then that classic series that the Lakers and the sons had out

west the Celtics upending the calves in the east then the Orlando series then the

Lakers and the Celtics, having that seven game,

Bruhaha, that thing, boy, that got intense and ugly by the end of the series.

And I think that game seven kind of people think oh you know that was some

ugly basketball well the whole series wasn't like that the playoffs certainly

had more entertainment quality to them than that game seven.

So that was a great playoffs.

2006 had some interesting things happen.

I think the common denominator, the way between this year 2010 certainly 2006 is another one of those years

there really isn't a super team. I've tweeted about this before where you not

your your immediate thought is well we have more parity and yes I do think you

get more parity I do think you have more opportunities for

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