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Welcome to the lobe post podcast on a Thursday afternoon. It's gloomy. It's foggy. The snow we had for two seconds is melting.

There are 12 sleds in my yard. It's a graveyard of neighbor kid sleds and it's time to talk about the Eastern Conference.

So when I think ESPN and I think East, I think born in Long Island, Jersey Shore Reviler back in her glory days, big East basketball star, current Northeast resident, and like all of us send my frequent visitors over the years to Cleveland and Milwaukee, two of the other teams are going to be talking about today.

Hall of Famer. Just the absolute best in every sense someone who makes me smile every time I interact with her. Doris Burke, it's so wonderful to see her face. How are you?

I am super, but I'm just going to say this about all the sleds in your yard. You want to be the house as the parent that the kids come to. That's a good thing. Let those sleds pile up. Let the bikes pile up in your yard. That's a very good thing.

You know, we have a little downslope in our backyard. That's perfect for sledding for anyone like age three to 10 by 10 you want the steeper hill, even even my daughter who's eight wants the steeper hill, but it's cool that everyone comes to her house.

But let me tell you the amount of hot chocolate going on.

The amount of journeying my wife has to do from outside to inside and inside the outside. The house is all wet and disgusting, but I'll tell you what I'm a lead at Doris Burke.

I'm a lead sletter. And as the heaviest guy in the household, I am the track setter. I'm the one that's got to get out there and sit my fat ass on the sled and carve the past.

That's so great. I was one of my favorite things. I remember I am both my kids for one Christmas snowboards and anything fast that would go down from the hill. Thank God I had my children young because I could still semi balance on a small hill. I love that stuff to this day. I love that stuff.

I don't ski. I don't snowboard. I don't want I don't want to ski. People are trying to get me to ski and I'm just like I'm like Larry David and Kirby enthusiasm. I don't want to do it. It's too much stuff, but I will sled.

Doris Burke, you have on Saturday Milwaukee Philly in Milwaukee, I believe, right? It is. Yeah.

We must start this podcast. And I say this after having done 15 TV shows in the last 10 days where the segment is always, well, what are the Lakers?

What are the Lakers? Do you think the Lakers can get in? Can the Lakers go on a run? There is a team with maybe the greatest basketball player in the world who has won 16 consecutive games of professional basketball.

Yeah, we can't even get them on on TV other than a highlight package. The Milwaukee box. I picked to win the championship at the beginning of the year.

They are up to now first in defense with a bullet. They have taken over from Cleveland and Memphis number one spot in defense.

Chris Middleton is back coming off the bench still. I was curious about that. I was going to ask you about that knowing we were talking to Milwaukee.

Why he's 20 games in now being back now. I'm not sure if that's consecutive, but whatever. I was going to ask you why you think they're they're continuing with that.

Well, his health has been so precarious over the last two years and the start and stop of his comebacks every time something seems to set him back.

I think they've been very cautious. It has extended long enough that in the past couple days, I've asked people there.

I thought I kind of thought this was going to be over by now. Like is he just going to be a six man and the response I get is like laughing emoji said no, he's going to start again soon ish.

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