Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. We are in Los Angeles for Jackie Robinson Day.

We are going to be at the park Friday, April the 15th. Me and Jake are here, and we're excited.

And it also means that in the place of our usual show, what we thought we would do as appropriate for being here for Dodger Stadium

and baseball and Jackie Robinson is that we'd give you our NBA takes.

And frankly, we're doing this because there's been a demand.

A lot of folks have been getting in touch.

They've been saying, where's Jake's takes?

Why must it end just because the

NFL season has ended? Well, guess what? He's back. He just turned 14 and he's ready to talk

some NBA playoffs. Jake, how you doing, sir? I'm good. How are you? Good. You got to wake up a little bit.

Boom, boom, boom. I do have to wake up. I am tired. Yeah, man, West Coast time, you know. Yeah, waking up at

nine o'clock. You're like, oh, yeah, that's fine. And you realize it's noon Eastern time.

And you're groggy. And you wonder what's going on. Yeah, that is what's taking place here in the

Sunshine State. Wait a minute. that's Florida, the Sunshine State.

So we'll just move on from that. All right. So let's talk NBA, Jake. What we're going to do is we're going to say what we want to happen and what we think will happen. And let's start with who makes the NBA finals. Who do you want in your wildest of hopes and dreams?

Who do you want to make the NBA finals out of the east?

Out of the east?

There are a lot of teams that I think deserve to make it and I think should make it.

But the team that I want to make it out, because there are a lot of good

teams that I'm like, oh, I really like that team. Think about how entertaining you might

want the finals to be. Think about the team that your favorite players are on. The Wizards

have no shot. Who do you want to make the NBA finals? I think it's pretty easily like the,

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