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your host, ready to jump into the thick of things, Dwayne calendar.

Hello and welcome to the show everybody. Today we're going to be talking

MBA and you know I'll be honest I haven't been able to do as much research into the NBA this year but

realistically even with all the preseason games I have a pretty good feel for these

rosters and I can honestly games, I have a pretty good feel for these rosters.

And I can honestly say that, because today we're going to go over to Eastern Conference, hopefully

I'll be able to get to the Western Conference as well this week, but the truth in the matter is the Eastern Conference is one of the most boring situations

imaginable this year because of the Kevin Duran injury.

If Kevin Duran was healthy and playing for the nets,

this becomes a far more interesting debate as to how everything's going to break down.

Because obviously he's out for the season by and large and it's just going to be

Kyrie being a weirdo by himself. The nets will be entertaining for reasons

other than basketball related purposes. But let's get right down to it with my projections for these teams and you know

Just going through what I think's gonna happen the most interesting parallel is going to be what the breakdown

ends up being between the actual teams tanking for the overall number one pick because there's no Zion Williamson

but there will absolutely be more tanking on the forecast for a number of teams.

So I'm going to get right down to it to the three teams that will be competing for the overall

number one pick this year.

I don't think it's going to be anyone from the West involved. I mean, even though the

Grizzlies aren't going to be great, I just, I look at the Grizzlies with John Moran, I think they'll win enough games and they'll get close

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