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The Bart. Yes, the Bart. Yes sir. The NBA schedule was released. I'm excited man. It is, uh, it is now we

will, we know where we'll be through winter with this next team and the

anticipation that's coming behind this this season or coming into this season and all

you need to know is what does the league and what to the broadcasters, you know,

broadcast partners think of how the Knicks are going to be this year.

The opening night game, like that double header is the big one that's your that's your

marquee right that's the these are the teams that we feel like these are the best

teams to feature this is the best match-ups the eastern Conference is October 22nd the season opens. TNT always has traditionally has and this might be the last time has the the opener. So it's October 22nd and as we have expected we've seen reports of this the Knicks will open the season in Boston

The Celtics will raise Banner 18 they'll get their rings and all that stuff and the Knicks who didn't get a chance to play them in the conference finals.

They'll start the season against them will they meet again all the way back when we get to May.

And they'll win and everybody had this, oh what happened, what happened to be these fake moral victories

because poor Zingas is coming off of surgery right he's not playing no no he won't be

available that night so that's the first but but how about this though for

the second game that night for the Western conference

The second game to open the season of the marquee double-headed

It is. It is the Minnesota Timberwolves at the Lakers.

Is that what you wanted to see on opening night? No, not at all.

The Lakers aren't going to be a good team, but it's J.J. Reddick.

That was a huge headline, him getting the job.

LeBron James, as we know, which could it be his last season we don't know we don't know but

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