Hello and welcome to the Hoop Collective podcast.

We talk about the NBA, which we're doing on Sunday afternoon,

joining us from Philadelphia, where he's at the Wells Fargo Center,

where the Sixers are playing the Jazz.

One of the biggest games of the NBA calendar is Tim Bottoms.

I might have been at the most exciting and relevant game of the regular season on Saturday night

with our guy, Mac 10, and our guy, the machine, Kevin Pelton.

And I might be at game 1280 of 80 today.

The room that you're in at the Wells Fargo Center, which is a very nondescript room, is a perfect

symbol for the 76.

I had to do a lot of work to find a room for the pod because the flyers are playing this

afternoon and a lot of the rooms in the center were booked so

i see all right now eventually well here's a guy who's i'm sure rooted for the flyers growing up

philadelphia native joining us from new york today where he is with the los angeles lakers our lakers

lakers man dave mcmackett happy to be here with both. And I didn't really root for the pliers because they were always

the team with the ridiculous payroll. Lindrosse and Leclair and Brindamore, but they were

the team with the crazy payroll that always failed. And I rooted for like the underdog teams in Philadelphia that failed anyway.

But, but it wasn't, they didn't fail because of money.

The flyers failed.

They had the most expensive roster, but couldn't do anything with it.

The most Philadelphia take ever.

I rooted against a team for this reason, even though it was in my hometown.

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