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Welcome everybody to your favorite day of the week. I'm Anthony Irwin.

I'm joined by Adam Mattis.

Adam, this is podcast number two of three for the two of us tonight,

recording together. and so far we haven't

yelled or screamed or cussed at each other so I I got to give you a virtual high

five look at us who thought we would be here? Not me. Not me. No, of course you cover the Lakers. I cover the nuggets and here we are with our lockdown

NBA show just in prime position on the night before

the Western Conference finals begin.

If anybody knows these teams, it's us I'm excited for it.

Yeah, yeah, I mean I'm sure there are some other people that people would love to hear from on the Lakers than me, but you know what? I am, you're stuck with me. This is what you get.

We have a lot to get to, like you talked about the Lakers and Nuggets are getting ready for their series the heat take a two zero lead coming get coming back once again and beat in the Boston Celtics 117 to 114 and then as we do every single week we have the latest iteration of our power rankings

this time talking about the the entities who have the most to gain based on how the conference finals and

eventually the finals play out. What I love about that final segment is I hate

power rankings and I hate the idea of people having more or less to gain.

So this is a perfect marriage for a dumb segment

to send us into the weekend.

You can tell who came up with that idea.

Right as I took a big drink Anthony.

Wow.

All right, let's start with the heat taking down the Celtics 1 17-14. Jimmy Butler made some monstrous plays defensively to help

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