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That's Boomer and Gio, and you can listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your pods. Let's talk a little NBA with Ira Winderman, who joins us now as the NBA moves a little deeper into the playoffs. Ira, welcome. How are you?

Good, Mike, and a smart place. Skip the NBA regular season. It's not worth any way. Like a lot

of players, welcome back for the playoffs. Thank you. And, you know, it's such an odd

situation with the playoffs in the east especially.

I mean, we know Cleveland's limping in Indiana has to feel they let them get away.

LeBron's a heroic aside.

You know, Boston is not at full strength.

They go out and beat Philly game one.

Philly's got the talent.

They're obviously very green.

And then you have Toronto. So when you look at the East right now, give me what your thoughts are. My thoughts are anyone other than Boston who wants to win the East, this is your one chance.

Because we're watching the Celtics not only without an injured Kyrie and without an injured Hayward,

but they also have additional draft flexibility coming together

that they are the colossus that's looming. That a year from now, we're seeing what we've seen

from Brown, we're seeing what we've seen from Tatum. You're going to put Kyrie in there.

You're going to put Hayward in there, or maybe Kauai in a trade. They're the next it thing.

You're also seeing LeBron on fumes, and Mike, that game

last night was so hard to watch for this reason. We love our superstars because of the grace

and ease of what they do. When we watch Michael, when we watch Magic, when we watch Larry,

it was the way they did it without having to go to the absolute extra that LeBron is.

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