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Hello and welcome to the Ringer NBA Show. It's the answer.

I am Chris Ryan. I am joined as always by Sirit. So what's up, Sirit?

I'm good Chris. I'm much like pretty much every team in this playoff.

I'm starting to lose a little bit of steam.

Are you having like kind of a metaphorical chronic hamstring issue?

Yeah, kind of. I think the general chronic hamstring issue that the NBA is going through right now is...

Yeah, I think energy attracts energy, right?

Sure. Or the reverse, right?

Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

So, you know, I think we're at the point in the year where you're hoping for a little bit of a boost.

You're hoping for a little bit of adrenaline from like some crazy playoff matchup.

And, you know, it was overtime games and game winners and shocking developments.

And we don't really have a lot of that right now, but we're going to...

We're going to try to bring the heat ourselves.

Well, not the Miami Heat. We're not really going to talk about these two conference final matchups.

Because by the time you hear this on Friday, the Warriors may have already put the Mavericks to bed back in the Bay.

Game six of Celtics heat would be happening on Friday evening. And it does seem like the Celtics are in the driver's seat for that one, because they are up three two on Miami going back to Boston for the closeout game.

So, Syrit and I wanted to talk a little bit about some of the rumblings that have been coming up already that pretend to another really active NBA offseason.

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