Welcome back to Crossover Daily S.I.'s Daily NBA podcast. Today on the show, we'll be

discussing the Lakers game two win over the Nuggets, with L.A. taking a 2-0 lead in the Western

Conference finals thanks to a buzzer beating three from Anthony Davis. Does Mason Plumley

need to turn off his mention? Are the Lakers even being challenged?

And where does Nicola Yolkich fit in among current NBA stars?

Joining me will be the Goat Podcast, Andrew Sharp.

Let's start the show.

Joining me now on Crossover Daily is a former staff writer for Grantland.

His work has also appeared in SV Nation and Deadspin. And once

upon a time, he wrote for this humble magazine we call Sports Illustrated. He's currently the co-host of

Goat, the greatest of all talk, which is, as someone who hosts a basketball podcast, I can

comfortably say the best basketball podcast in the world. Please welcome to Crossover Daily. My good

friend, Andrew Sharp.

Sharp, how's it going, buddy?

Wow.

First of all, it's great to be on a podcast with you.

Second of all, I'm going to try to be serious throughout this episode.

I am currently blown away by the NPR voice that you've adopted for this podcast. You sound like a real grown-up.

Generally, when we're talking, you're cursing me out and accusing me of having horrible takes.

But here you are keeping it professional. What a night. You don't like, I thought it was like a nice

soothing like, oh, this is hip. Like I can snap my fingers to this hit podcast kind of vibe is what I was going for.

I mean, it's absolutely soothing. Okay. Whatever you were going for is working. I'm really impressed. I was like kind of keyed up coming out of that Nuggets Lakers ending. but now I'm just like ready to sort of kick back.

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