What up? It's the real ones post-Christmas edition. I'm Howard Beck, senior writer for

the ringer.com. Logan is off today, taking a little family time. But with me from South Florida, he is the heat miser to my cold miser.

Rajabelle, what's up, Raja?

What up, Howard, fresh off of Santa Duties.

Yeah, it was a wild one yesterday, man.

We had, let's see, do we have five kids?

We had six kids, two under the age of nine, four teenagers. So we were, yeah, it was a good day, busy. That sounds slightly chaotic, happy chaos, but definitely a little chaotic. Yeah, I mean, it's a good chaos, right? Like, I wouldn't, I wouldn't change it. We're going to be losing one of them to school soon. It just makes it hard to really sit and, like, focus on basketball, right? Like, we talked about that prepod. Like, do you want to sit? You're there for five minutes. And then inevitably, you're something, something comes up. Listen, we all love the game we all love the

NBA but 13 straight hours of basketball from noon eastern until basically 1 30 Eastern uh

and a whole lot of shack and chuck and Ernie and Kenny in between which thank I thank

god for that and I was I welcome them back but, that was a lot of NBA for a while.

I'm not sure this is actually good.

I know everybody loves to get.

It's a lot of basketball.

I'm starting to like reconsider the sanity of this all.

Could we just do three games?

Like four even.

Five?

Five is so crazy hour.

And, you know, to the point, like if you give me some comedic relief in there, I'm good. But because I couldn't really catch it all live, I had to cram it all into like, you know, before I went to sleep last night and like I fell asleep five times before I said, I quit. I can't watch it. I'll just do it in the morning. I don't even get that.

So I'm just watching straight hoops from seven until we get on. It's crazy. I checked out on the last game at a certain point because I was just getting too tired. And then as I was like wrapping everything up and trying to get things clean to put away and everything, I went, oh, wait, this game's tight. I should watch. So then I did watch down the stretch of the fourth in the overtime and Yokic was awesome per usual.

Right. wait, this game's tight. I should watch. So then I did watch down the stretch of the fourth in the overtime and Yokic was awesome per usual.

What time did that finish? I'm sorry, before you get into it. What time did that actually finish?

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