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And now the Lowest.

Welcome to the Lowest Podcast.

It's Friday morning, the play in is ending tonight with two really exciting games and the NBA playoffs begin on Saturday tomorrow with four games.

And it is time for what used to be our eight by eight annual tradition where coach David Thorpe of True Hoop and I give eight minute previews of eight playoff series.

Now because of the play and really the only downside of the plan, I don't think Adam Silver took into account the impact of the play in.

On the eight by eight gimmick, which now has to be a six by six gimmick and maybe nod to a couple other series, but we're going to go rapid fire every playoff series.

All the angles, all the X's and O's coach store how are you? Are you ready to go? Are you ready for the playoffs?

I'm as ready as I can ever be after preparing for this and you know a few other things that I have to do.

There's a there's a lot to cover a lot of scholarship to gain and then as you said before we started, you can throw some of it out with the game start.

But a lot of it we won't like we know what we're getting in a lot of these series.

We just don't know what the consequences will be because these are there's some great matchups. Yeah, it's going to be fun to talk about.

Big picture. We got the bucks who didn't quite tank into the third seed. They kind of just moonwalked.

They kind of fell gently onto the pillow of the third seed, forcing the Celtics to effectively choose on the last season between two seven likely Brooklyn four or five,

but they would the Raptors and Toronto and all that going to Canada entails.

We got the sons who loom as the overall favorite. I think to win the championship after 64 win season.

We got a whole lot of other stuff, but coach as usual, I ranked the six series from most interesting to least interesting.

I am a dictator. My rankings are based only on my own entertainment value. Nobody else is no other factors.

Can you guess which series I'm guessing top your most entertaining list and my most entertaining list and our starting point for this six by six podcast.

Yeah, there was never a doubt it's Philly, Toronto and and maybe it would have been Philly, anybody because to me the heart, the story of James Harren,

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