Hello, welcome to the Hoop Collective Podcast. We talk about the NBA, which we are doing a couple of days in advance of this pod. That's all I'm going to say.

Joining me from California, Northern California, Tim Bontips.

Hello everybody.

Joey from Dallas, Texas, one of the Metroplex's finest Band McMahon.

Howdy, partners?

Hey, we're all wearing the same shirts that we had on for the last podcast.

What a coincidence.

In a related story, it's a holiday weekend coming up.

Okay, we are going to talk about the how am I framing this? I mean like the tears of the Eastern Conference.

All right, the tears of the eastern conference.

Nobody's crying yet.

We're just trying to take a concept.

Yeah.

Just try to take a look at how we view the league, do the East on one pod in the West on another pod,

and try to see where we think teams stack up with each other.

That's all.

All right, we'll start at the top, which I think it's pretty obvious that the team in

Tier A or Tier 1 plays in Boston, Massachusetts, Bontoms.

I don't think there's any question.

There should be one team by itself,

the one team that won over 60 games last year,

the one team that had one of the best winning percentages in

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