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All right David, let's get right into it.

The play in tournament is this week.

It starts Tuesday with the Eastern Conference before the West plays on Wednesday.

We're going to preview all of the match-ups, but let's start with the biggest one, David,

the Warriors and the Lakers putting LeBron James and Steph Curry against each other and a game with post season stakes for the first time in three years. What do you think about the fact that Adam Silver got the best possible outcome, I suppose, for this first ever playing tournament with the Braun versus Steph?

You know, I've thought about that and I feel like it's probably not the best outcome like to me the eliminate the

potential elimination of two of your league's biggest stars in LeBron and Steph Curry.

I feel like that's probably keeping them up at night, not necessarily something he's going,

oh well, look at that. We're really getting some big names drawn to this tournament that's come under fire so much recently.

So that's my feeling anyway. Like anyway like I mean it's unlikely that either

Steph or LeBron will be eliminated obviously not by playing each other that's just to

determine who's the seventh seed and I feel like so many people even like

followers of the NBA,

don't really know the rules.

Getting into the playing tournaments

on a guarantee of making the playoffs,

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