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Before we get started with today's show, I wanted to tell you about another great ESPN podcast,

Brian Windhorst and The Hoop Collective. My buddies, they post episodes on Tuesdays and Friday

mornings bright and early. The NBA playoffs are coming. You may have heard that, so be sure to check

it out. You can follow Brian Windhorst and The Hoop Collective as well as The Low Post,

wherever you get your podcasts.

And now The Low Post.

Welcome to The Low Post podcast on a Tuesday afternoon, where we are about two and a half hours

away from the NBA's first real non-bubble play internament tipping off between the Charlotte Hornets

and the Indiana Pacers. But we all know the headliner is tomorrow in Los Angeles, where one team with

legitimate championship aspirations, the defending champions, in fact, is taking on a team with one of

the people in the running for MVP and a former dynasty in the mega-play game between the Lakers

and the Warriors. And calling that on the scene in Los Angeles, the best in the business, one of the

great coaches in basketball for Team USA right now and many other places, Jeff Fangande, how are you?

Going fine, looking forward to the game tomorrow.

Yes, so like you're in LA, you're going to be at the game. There's going to be X amount of fans,

I don't know how many they have. How does like do you, does it feel like this is an unusual game?

Like, does it feel like a finals game? Does it feel like a regular season game? Does it feel,

do you feel like a little a sense of like this is new or no? Yeah, you know, I think

I'm going to be interested. I think so much depends on the crowd, right? And I think it's one

of the undersold things like the advantages some teams may have with more home court advantage,

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