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You're listening to the hottest, the hottest, the hottest, NBA podcast out.

Yeah, I said what I said.

She's heating up.

It's the heat check.

The heat check.

With Trista Crick.

Here's a little appetizer before we get into the main event interview with James Hamill.

We had the great Keith Smith on from Spowtrak on my nightly show, BetMGM Tonight. By the way, I have a betting show that's on Monday through Friday, 7 to 11 Eastern Standard Time. It's a lot of hours. So why don't you come join us? Enjoy sweat out some bets from all around the association, the NFL, college football, college basketball, and women's hoops.

I was joined by my co-hosts, Nick Ashue and Ryan Horvott. Keith, always insightful, so let's get

right into it. Keith Smith jumps on with us now. And you know, you know what? Let's start with your

Celtics a little bit. I'm looking at a team right now, Keith, that, God, they look like, if not the best team in the NBA, pretty damn close. But we got the Sixers up four on them, about two minutes to go here in the second quarter. When you watch the Sixers and you see what's going, not just tonight, but just in general for the Sixers team, I don't want to say like, hey, are they better than what they could have been with James Harden? But it just felt like there was a distraction there.

And in some ways, I don't know, maybe he held them back somewhat.

Do you see a Sixers team that is maybe, I don't know, has a higher ceiling now,

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