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KJ R&C at 9.50 a.m. Listening my hometown. It's our NBA stretch here is the playoffs start tonight then we go into the NFL draft

Then a 10.ba. Playoff and the NFL takes over. I got a couple interesting stories later today one of the Broncos one of the Packers

Joy Taylor is joining me joy how are things

Everything is great. I'm really looking forward to this

Postseason the NBA so much I think there's

There's a lot more parody this year. Well March Madness

Had the best ratings it's had in half a decade

Um, and there was a ton of parody in that one masters by the way was highest rated in a long time

So the legalized sports gambling is keeping people around longer to watch the games

and uh, so I'm gonna do my NBA playoffs predictions

I'm not gonna do the finals so I'm just gonna tell you right now

I think Cleveland and Brooklyn win the play in game

So I'm not gonna waste a lot of time on that Cleveland they're not as good without Jared Allen

But they'll get in so will Brooklyn and I'm gonna take the Clippers and San Antonio to win their play in games

So with that premise that's our foundation as we start

Let's go first to the Eastern conference

I'm gonna take the heat over the calves

Again if Jared Allen was playing I think you have a seven game series

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