Hello, welcome to the Whoop Collective podcast. We talk about the NBA, what you're doing on Monday morning of the first Monday morning of the playoffs.

It's happening joining me from Austin, Texas.

The professor Kirk Goldsbury. What's going on Kirk?

Not much, just recovering from that first great weekend of playoff basketball, Brian.

For sure. And joining me from Oakland, California, but I believe he's flying down here to Phoenix, where I am right now I was at the Sun's Pelicans game one on Sunday night is escapes Mark J Spears. What's up spears?

Go Tigers, I saw him do that long for a thing. Go Tiger.

That's right. Let's see see action pretty soon here.

I don't get really excited about games too much. I don't react too much.

It's part of the nature of the business. It sort of roots it out of you.

And here also the phrase I was on the edge of my seat. People say that. Well, I was on the edge of my seat at the end of that that first Celtics net game.

And when that play happened, I didn't even know if the it was a good basket for Jason Tatum.

I had goosebumps guys goosebumps. And I just at the intensity of the moment, I didn't even know how it played out initially.

Spears, it was one of the great ends to the season to a game for a game one. I've never seen a first round game one have that kind of intensity.

It left me with a lot of questions, but I think that number one question was this for me. I don't know about for you.

I can't believe this is a first round match up. And it's a first round match up for so many different reasons that were way beyond the end of the game ended.

I was actually listening to it on the radio. Wow. And it was going to nuggets practice and Sean Grande and Cedric Maxwell and after the basket, Cedric Maxwell yelled out, grandma's going to make you a sweet potato pie.

I don't know what that meant, right? But I was like, you know, I guess that's going to be the, you know, with the bird steals the past, you know, grandma makes a sweet potato pie that's going to be there lower down.

I miss going to Boston games, man. You know, I got to cover them closely for two years. And for those people who haven't been there, that's one of the greatest places to see games.

But to answer your question, I know I'm dancing around this might be the best parody that I could remember. And since beginning to cover NBA and 99, man, like, they're really in your brain. You saw it last night.

And pelicans are pretty good. Like that's the 8C, like the suns had to work for that game and usually, you know, teams get pounded. And you know, I think the hawks were a little tired. I think they'll fare a little better.

And this is this is going to be a fight to the finals on both conferences, because of that parody and it's like I was watching this series at Brooklyn Boston game like this could be an Eastern finals.

And they're playing in the first round, which kind of sad, right? But hey, they got some great teams and other other parts of the conference too. And that's why.

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