Thank you.

Thank you basketball podcast. My name is Ben. Welcome back. It's an NBA finals edition and back. You were just here back in May, but it was, I mean, you're so fun to talk to, I had to bring you back.

By request, the people of the world made this episode happen. They said you

have to rope in Seth and get him back to discuss the crazy randomness of basketball, the craziness of these playoffs, what to make of all of them,

from the athletic future best-selling author Seth Fartnow.

We hope. Yes, thank you. Let's accept that into being. No, the athletic part is true. The future best-selling author part is, yes. How are you been? I am doing okay. I am ready for the for the for the basketball break.

Yeah. I can't I can't tell if this is just people in the industry who feel this way or if fans also feel this way

But I do know sort of the common overlap is that we're now in the summer and people are saying it's kind of weird to have the kids out of school and to be doing summary kind of things and it's July and there's the NBA finals are on on Thursday night.

Yeah, no, there's been a note like this season, the main reason I think this season feels so long is we know the rhythm and the rhythm is okay basketball basketball basketball, all-star break trade deadline, well trade now, trade

deadline all-star break, March Madness, a week, playoffs.

And this year, because of everything is March Madness and then like,

oh, this is the crap part of the season that we usually just don't pay attention to because we're watching, you know,

Northwestern states make a run to the Sweet 16 and then we can kind of we can sort of check in on the NBA and then come back so it just that's that's sort of added like not just an extra sort of month of the season but like the worst month of the season where the only things that can happen are bad.

You know every every you know what everyone is going to be basically and you're basically

let's not have injuries and then Jamal Murray gets hurt there was there was more

grind that like yeah the the dog days of January went on for a very long time.

Yeah.

Wait, was the all-star game after March?

I can't even figure out what happened when.

March Madness was at like the normal time, right?

Yeah, I don't know.

Anyway, moving on.

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