Hello and welcome to the Hooth Collective podcast. We talk about the NBA, which we are doing

on Tuesday morning. We're trying to stay as fresh as we possibly can. So thanks for

hanging in with us for a little bit later with this posting. But I am in Boston, where

I went to the Eastern Conference finals game for last night, which we'll talk about in

a second, joining me, our couple of guys in Texas. First in Austin, the professor, the

author of Sproul Ball, which is on the wall behind him, is Kurt Goldsbury. Hi, Kurt.

Hello, Brian. I hope you're having a good time in Boston. And I hope that the series

get a little more interesting for you as you fly back and forth between Boston and Miami.

Do you know how many lead changes there have been in these times in finals through four

games? I haven't seen this. So hit me. Hit me. What's the minimum number of lead changes

you can have in a four game series? Well, I'm a numbers guy. I think that number could

get to zero. I think it could get to zero. Well, I guess that's true. I guess if no,

anyway, there's been four. Four. Okay. You get you are allotted one per game. I hope

you enjoy it. Really on. There were none. I'll tell you in the in last night's game because

it was 18 to one out of the gate. If you want to compare it to a horse race, which I

would not joining us in Dallas, where it's covering the Western Conference Finals tonight

will be game four of that series is the Mavericks look to avoid a sweep is Omnumus. Okay,

oh, what's up? What a windy, very curious to see if the warriors will blow their third

straight first crack. And it closed out in a series. They could not do it on their first

opportunity in Denver. They obviously got waxed in that game five at Memphis when they were

down by 55 at one point. So we'll see it's going to be interesting tonight. If they

can close out the maps. Well, the warriors are known for many things. And most of them

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