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Welcome to the BasketBuds edition of the Athletic NBA Show podcast on the Athletic Podcast Network.

I'm Zach Harper, got Trouin Edwards, got Mo Dachiel.

We've got Jade Hoy producing and we have the end to the season, even though as we're recording this, there's still six games on this on this Sunday left as we're recording this. But, you know, I mean, I guess technically seven because I don't know, we're halfway through that Bulls, Wolves game. So six and a half left. But no offense to the race for the three seed between the Warriors and the Mavs. We'll just assume the warriors kept the three seed.

And if not, then all right,

we got a different preview for next weekend that will come at some point this week.

And then we'll just assume that the Utah Jazz didn't completely blow it against whatever's left of the Portland Trailblazers.

So they retained the five seed that would put Denver in the six.

But the important stuff that happened against

again no offense to the western conference but it was the east that was all up in the air and we got

a lot of stuff that happened on Sunday by inactivity.

What?

New York strip steak?

This is the basketball buds.

Braised beef short ribs?

Dang.

With Zach Harper and your favorite athletic writers.

Hey, that Eddie, bro.

I'm gone.

So I ask you guys as Milwaukee sat just about everybody they could except for Drew Holiday for eight seconds so he can get a $225,000 bonus for games played, which I love that.

Aside from that and aside from Philly deciding they're going to sit everybody, even though they're playing Detroit and no kid C Cunningham so they still won. Aside from that, I ask you, are teams ducking the

Brooklyn Nets? Because the Nets win, they beat the Cavs, they secure the seven spot in the

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