Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast.

I'm your host Sam Fasini.

We're presented by The Athletic.

Today on the show, I've got Danny Leroux.

We're going to talk about the NBA finals, how they ended with the Los Angeles Lakers

winning the 2020 NBA championship in six games over the Miami Heat.

Then, as this show tends to be wont to do, we want to look forward as opposed to discussing backward.

We want to discuss the offseason for every NBA team in the league

and discuss where these teams are going now. So the best way to do that that I've come up with

is over the course of the next few weeks, we're going to dive deep into every division,

and we're going to break out every team within their divisions.

So today we're going to do the Pacific Division and the offseason preview for the Los Angeles

Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers, Phoenix Suns, Sacramento Kings, and Golden State Warriors.

And then throughout the rest of the week, I'll probably do an Eastern Conference team and

then a Western Conference team and switch back and forth each time. So Danny, how are you doing, man? How are

things over there in the bay? Things are good. It is thankfully not smoky at the moment, so that

that's nice. And it's, it's kind of surreal for this season to be over.

It was in that weird state for a period of time where it was, you know, in hiatus.

And so we didn't think it was over, but didn't really know how it was going to go.

But for the bubble to have worked out so well to have a clean resolution, to have a deserving champion after all this, it's very fulfilling.

Yeah, I totally agree.

Like I am on some level really happy that one of the three teams that everyone thought was one

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