Hello and welcome to the Hoop Collective Podcast. We talk about the NBA, which we're doing on a lovely Sunday evening in April. It's about to get serious.

Joining us from New York City where he attended the Brooklyn Nets season finale

at the Philadelphia 76ers and one of the not so consequential games on Sunday Tim Bon Teps.

It turned out I should have gone a nice little 40 minute stroll walking down the street

to Madison Square Garden where there was the game of the day and I was watching it instead in the

Sixers locker room this afternoon the entire Sixers team.

One overtime with the Knicks winning and getting the number two seed in the Eastern

Conference which I believe they haven't had in 12 years over way to win the game what a concept

Play to win the game he's given a little preview joining us from Los Angeles where he attended the

Houston Rockets phase two finale where they beat the you know know, shutting it down LA Clippers on Sunday.

The rockets finish the season of 41 and 41, but Ohm, I know we're going to be talking about the

clippers with you. Olm Youngmasuk.

I can report that Kawayor Leonard was in the building and he walked

past me on the way out and hopefully he will be ready for game one.

Hopefully is one of those tricky words that we've heard with Kaway over the years. We will discuss that later. So I think the big

overall news coming out of the final day of the season was that the Oklahoma City Thunder

secured the number one seed in the Western Conference.

They ended up tied with the nuggets for the best record.

They win the tiebreaker, the nuggets get the two seed.

57 wins for the thunder, even where they were 10 days ago when Shagullus

Alexander is missing all those games and Jaylin Williams to get the number

one seed just amazing. We talk about them maybe a lot over the next couple of

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