three two one hello and welcome to the tampering podcast part of the athletic NBA show

network I'm Sam amick NBA national writer at the athletic here for a late night playoff

episode we've got the one the only on the west coast just like myself anthony slater what's

up brother what up what up good to see you uh we got another west coaster we go on west coast

again this episode boys like we often do yoban buha lakers beat writer and a gentleman with whom i have

spent a lot of time talking the past couple days as we tried to

paint a picture of the Lakers future.

On this week's pod, we're going to make the rounds.

Tonight we watched the Mavs dismantled the Clippers in game five.

We got Nick Sixers coming up tomorrow.

We got Bucks pastures a good series there.

I'm getting ready to go out to denver for

timber wolves nuggets um a lot to get into gentlemen a little bit of phoenix suns talk uh we are

going to make the rounds and uh mr booha is here to help us do it yovon what's up brother

how's it going i'm uh finally caught up on sleep so i'm feeling better i'm ready to go

well we stay we stay west coast because it's just more interesting basketball so

way better conference i mean you know like you look like nick sixers has a very good argument

for at least like.

Extremely.

Yes, it deserves our attention.

But other than that, I mean, I just, I don't know. The first round is another example, I think, of just, you know, the West being a beefier, more interesting conference with, you know, strife for the teams that lose, but also just,

I think more just competitiveness throughout the conference.

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