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All right, hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Chase Thomas podcast, where I'm still the A for mention Chase Thomas coming to you live from Knoxville, Tennessee, over there in Los Angeles,

California on my dad's Mount Rushmore of podcast guests that I learned over Christmas

Brick, Ben Oliver of The Washington Post, and the Goat NBA podcast, one of my favorite

podcast that you should go check out with Andrew Sharp, other friend of the program. Ben, good afternoon, sir. How are you? Well, I'd be better if I was clearly number one.

It sounds like I'm top four for your dad. So who's my competition if it's only the Mount Rushmore?

Because that's kind of what they say to give people like, you know, LeBron and Bill Russell.

They kind of make their feelings, you know, not be hurt and Bill Russell, they kind of make their feelings to, you know,

not be hurt. It's like, you're not Michael Jordan. You're not number one. But you're on the Mount Rushmore, right? So who is my competition here? I think it's Matt Green for the college

football show. Okay. Fair enough. It's good. And then stats by Will for some college

basketball. Will's, that's up there so i think

more my dad's a big college guy um so i think the college resonates more with him but it's also because

you've only been on i think what twice on this program so i don't think he's heard you enough to move up

but be on the mount rushmore for just one appearance like he he spent about five minutes he's heard you enough to move up but be on the route mount rushmore for just one

appearance like he he spent about five minutes he's going to text me after listening to this

on the way to work tomorrow be like oh you talk to my guy ben again um because he he told but

i the funny thing about you with my father ben is i think he liked you a lot because

you put you kept me on my toes like like a lot of hosts, like I just more of a leading as we go, but you put me on your toes. It was kind of like the Bill, the Ben Goliver podcast with Chase. So it was, uh, it, I think it made him happy to see somebody just like, uh, completely throw me off my game. Well, I'm glad to roast you

this entire show chase. What are we talking about, man? He set me up. Let's get going. Well, I wanted

to kind of go back to what we did last time. I don't know if you remember, but we did. Could

this team win the title? And I think this is a fun exercise. And I think with 20 or so games left outside of the obvious, which of course the Knicks are going back to the NBA finals based on that victory over the Celtics last night. I mean, who doesn't see that at this point that the Knicks are going to the NBA finals? But I have six teams for you, Ben, that I wanted to run by you. Because I think these six, I could throw out the Lakers, but we can both say the Lakers not winning the NBA title this year. LeBron James, I don't think we're going to see the rest of the regular season as someone who broke his foot at the end of last year. Go ahead and say, probably not going to see him, and it's one of those you've got to be extremely careful because it's just not going to get better and when it's messed up like that it's just your every second

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