What do you think about the Laker team now?

You follow the box scores of the games every day?

Just the Lakers.

You're kidding.

That is really a compliment.

I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show

because once the game starts, you have a game face.

You don't smile much out there.

I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. Correct.

What's up, Laker fans? The day has come, the pod that I certainly never wanted to record.

The Celtics have won 18 in dominant fashion. They win their conference by 14 games, winning 64

games in the regular season, then have a crazy playoff run in that

literally none of the teams they played in the East had their top guy for at least half

the series.

But you can only beat the teams that are in front of the D.

And they certainly did that throughout the East.

They cruised through the Eastern Conference losing two games and then get to the finals against the Dallas team that had a great run throughout the West.

It was an intriguing matchup, but I thought they ultimately proved to be a very difficult matchup for Dallas as well.

So I split my feelings on this D into two separate parts.

One is my Laker fan and one is my basketball fan. And so the Laker fan in me and

the Laker in me is howling in pain, right? They get to 18. We have spent most of our lives with

Boston ahead of us in the only score that matters in my book. And we tied them for a few years

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