Parton the interruption, but I'm Mike Wilbond down in Miami for Celtics Heat Game 5 Tonight.

Tony Cornheiser, are you sitting on a floaty?

Are you on a floaty? Are you? Are you?

You know, I may not get to the arena. It's kind of hard to leave this.

I'm just saying.

Lovely. What a good setup. Looks great.

Steve and A.R. Lee and Joe. Steve and Joe, they can do it without me.

And they don't need you. Sit on the water.

Today's episode. The quality of NBA Playoff games.

Wayne Kiffin embraces name, image, and likeness.

And Kendrick Perkins joins us for five good minutes.

But we begin today with Dallas avoiding elimination by beating Golden State last night.

The Mavericks made 20 of 43 three point shots.

And Luca Doncic had 30 points, 14 rebounds and 9 assists.

The Mavericks are now 3 and 0 in must win games in these playoffs.

Will Bond did last night provide a repeatable blueprint for Dallas to climb back into this series?

If by repeatable, you mean three or four times, then my answer is no.

By repeatable, if you mean one more time, I think that's very possible.

I mean, I want to see how I feel going into Marl Knight into tomorrow night's game, Tony.

Tomorrow night's game five. But I might be willing to pick Dallas to win one more game,

even though that game will be played in San Francisco.

And then you would inject some drama into this if you got it to three, two after being three,

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