This is the Dan Levatore show with the Stucats podcast.

Almost for the entirety of my life, basketball has been the most predictable of the sports because it has a measurement system that doesn't allow for as many random results in a seven-game series.

But I think now, more than ever, because of the combination of the three-pointer

and everyone during the regular season doing everything they can just to be maximum healthy

by the time the playoffs get here, I think you have the possibility of more

randomness in professional basketball than you have had at any point in my lifetime.

When I'm looking at the Eastern Conference, we should fix that, maybe swallow.

When I'm looking at the Eastern Conference, I see four teams that have a legitimate chance. I don't know what to do

with Philadelphia because I don't know if Joel Embed is going to play in a seven-game series,

all seven games. But you have Boston, Detroit, the Knicks, and the Cavs, and only one of those

teams is trusted, and Jason Tatum is now returning to that team.

I don't think anybody trusts Detroit.

I don't think anybody trusts the Knicks, and I don't think anybody trusts the Cavs.

And James Harden, while I like that as an addition, I think I can make the argument that right now in sports, more than anyone

else, James Harden, represents the guy you trust the least anywhere in the playoffs, any

sport.

Give me, who's second place right now when I say to you, who's got the reputation of a playoff choker?

So you've got Cleveland coming after Boston, which has already won the championship, and has

Jason Tatum returning. And the big move is, we've got Hardin now. The least trusted postseason

player there is anywhere in sports. It's not to the level of Hardin, but I think Lamar Jackson is kind of in that territory.

That is a good one.

That is a good one.

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