Welcome everybody to your favorite day of the week. I'm Anthony Irwin. I'm joined by Adam Mattis for the first time of what feels like a few months buddy I missed you

Missed you too buddy and I'm ready this is like a peak optimism we're almost at the greatest three month run of sports of the entire calendar year. I can't wait.

I was trying to think of like how are we defining this because a lot of people say that the

unofficial start of the season is kind of sort of Christmas right and then you have like the post

trade deadline thing and then now we are post all star break to me this feels like the

the beginning of the final lap of the year to me it's the spiritual second half of the year.

And I know that sounds crazy, but if you think about it,

the NBA finals are the end of the year,

and those are in June.

This is like right the halfway point to the NBA finals. It's not to the end of the regular season.

That's why I call it the spiritual halfway point.

You're better at math than I am. So today's show...

That's a fact.

Today's show. That's a fact. Today's show.

That's definitely a fact.

We are going to first talk about the games as NBA play resumed.

Pretty fun night of basketball. mean you know he had an

overtime game you had yeah it was okay but I think you're just missed

basketball I think you're just missed basketball. I think it was.

Like starvation is the best dressing.

Like I think that's where we are.

So we're going to talk about those games in the first segment here.

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