It's the Mike Francesa podcast on the Bet Rivers Network.

Hello again, everybody, and welcome to the Mike Francesa podcast on the Mike Francesa channel on the BetRivers Network on YouTube on this Friday morning before what will be a very busy sports weekend.

The NBA playoffs begin in earnest.

We still have the stuff to finish up tonight, but they begin in earnest tomorrow.

The Knicks will play at 6 o'clock tomorrow night against the Pistons.

They're seven-point favorites.

They're heavy favorites to win the series.

We'll get to that.

We'll get to some NFL draft stuff.

Steve Serbia will be on to talk about the, especially the Giants and the Jets, because there's a lot of intrigue.

And the Giants really, where they are, will have a very big say in exactly how the first round is conducted with both teams, obviously having premium picks, where they do and where they're going to go

for players and what they're going to do. And especially what the Giants are going to do.

We'll get to that with him in a couple of minutes. And then, of course, the Yankees playing

well right now, putting together a little hot streak. Again, it's going to be a competitive division.

They're going to go as far as their pitching takes them.

We know they're going to hit home runs.

We know they're going to score runs.

The question is just what they can do with their starting pitching

and whether or not they can get a couple of the youngsters

to really step up and be somewhat consistent because

they're going to have to wait on heel. Heal's been delayed at least another two weeks,

maybe more. You know, you have to wait and see because he hasn't healed enough yet. But

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