Dan Quinn expected to speak this hour before mandatory minicamp day number one will carry a lot of that towards the back half of this hour.

Joining me right now, David Aldridge, of course David writes for the athletic, and David was a big part of all of those TNT years and saw a lot of those highlights in their final days

doing the NBA at David Aldridge, DC on X, on Twitter. You tweeted something the other day

that I either retweeted or liked. You said, never cared about people who have already decided before a series that they won't watch for whatever reason.

Don't care what their reasons are.

Don't want them on the boat.

If you love hoops, you'll love this series, period.

And I love hoops.

Why do you love this series?

Because these are the two best teams in the league, and they've been outstanding for not just days, but for months now.

OKC has been the best team in the league all season, and the Pacers, I don't know what the exact record is,

but something like 45 and 14 since New Year's Day or something like that.

I mean, they've been outstanding, like, you know,

the second half of the season and throughout the playoffs.

And excellence should be something to celebrate, not to denigrate.

And so I just, I can't, I can't waste time with people who are not going to seriously, you know,

evaluate how good a player Shigelgis Alexander is or what a

clutch player, Tyrese Halliburton is because they don't play in New York or L.A. or whatever your

favorite big media market is, that's insane. And this stuff, but you don't care about the game.

You just care about your Knicks or your, you know, your Lakers or whatever.

I care about the game.

I love the game of basketball.

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