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Welcome everybody to your favorite day of the week.

I am your host Adam Madez and I am joined today not by Anthony Erwin.

He's got the week off.

Instead, I am joined by Ben Goliver of the Washington Post how are you

doing Ben I'm great man how are you doing I'm doing pretty good I am here in

Denver did not travel to Portland so I don't have any horrible travel stories but I don't have any horrible travel stories but I

understand that you do and that just seems that the life on the road man I got to say

I don't travel with the nuggets too often but every time I do I'm like God I do not want to I'm glad I don't do this regularly.

Yeah it's you know it's a real lifestyle you got to dig all the way into it years ago I was

covering a San Antonio Spurs series when there was this huge storm down there and the phrase they used down in Texas I think is called a frog strangler and unfortunately we had a couple frog stranglers this week where Houston is just like totally wiped out by flash flooding and thunderstorm.

So it's got me in Austin, Texas right now of all places, but very much looking forward to game

six on Friday night.

And I'm sure we'll get into that a little bit later but to heck of a game

you know in terms of forcing game sevens and upping the drama I think from a

Thursday night of action well I didn't want to skim past frog Strangler, but I guess we are going to have to just gloss over that one.

There were two great games tonight and setting the table for a fantastic Sunday, maybe tomorrow night, Houston Golden State will follow suit and set us up for three game

sevens. I don't know the last time we've had three game sevens on the same day, so we might get there.

But we're going to start tonight by talking about the Toronto

raptors and the Philadelphia 76ers. I thought after game five I thought okay

Toronto seems to understand what's going on in this series they have control

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