Tim Kawakami, the editor-in-chief of the very athletic Bay Area.

Tim Kawakami.

Tim Kawakami, who has covered the NBA for over two decades and more specifically the

Golden State Warriors over the last 12 years.

This is the TK Show.

Hey, everybody, Tim Kawakami here, the TK show recording this on a Friday afternoon with

a mysterious stranger.

I'm not really sure.

I don't know this person very well.

Just kind of took them in as a flyer.

Wait a minute.

That's actually ESPN's Anthony Slater.

Slater, how are you doing today?

I'm beautiful. I'm in the middle of a playoff series. Like, you know, when you finally get the elimination and you get it maybe

prior to when you thought, you suddenly get like a couple extra days of breathing room in April

May. So you're going on with the Minnesota Timberwolves? Is that what we're doing? It is a TVD.

If it's Rockets Thunder, I believe I'm going to go over and cover Kevin Durant against the Thunder for the first time because that just in itself will be interesting, although Durant needs to get healthy enough for that series. but that would require the Rockets to be the first team ever to come back from 3-0, which, by the way, I'm like,

you know, by the time people are listening, it might be over, Lakers won game six, but it's on the table. And I'll do Timberwolf Spurs if it's Lakers Thunder. I had forgotten about Cid, the potential, I just had written them off. You got to be there for KD Thunder. There's no question.

For sure. They've never played each other in playoffs. That is fantastic. Well, we'll see. We'll see. I have a new rooting interest. I hadn't even thought about that. It's all LeBron. It's all the rocket screwing up. I forgot about it's KD. Well, let's talk a little bit about the series you just finished covering, which is the Timberwolves finishing off the Nuggets.

So Jane McDaniel is now the best player in the league. Apparently something

like that happened in there. I saw something where like, you know, if you go back to maybe a year

or two before that 2020 draft, he was like in the Wiseman Edwards Lamello class of prospects.

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