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Pardon the interruption, but I'm Mike Wilbon in Denver where the NBA finals are set to begin tonight at eight

thirty Eastern

I'm Tony Cornheyser in my home where bedtime is set to begin tonight at eight forty three Eastern

So if Miami or Denver want to keep me watching roll something out there quick. Make it good. Make it quick

Yeah, I don't know that you'll make it to the first time out

Well, I should stop with the timeouts and we discussed that yesterday

Yeah, we did it too. We're gonna be T.I. boys and girls in today's episode the pistons higher

Monti Williams rose Zang makes a pro debut and Kendrick Perkins joins us for five good minutes

But we begin today with the NBA finals yesterday on this high quality program Brian Windhorse told us the Miami Heat

Have won the last six game ones. They've played over two years

Will bond what chance do you give Miami of stealing tonight's game one in Denver?

Ooh, I like that Tony zero in on tonight's game

I I'm thinking that Miami's gonna win tonight tonight game one and then we'll see they've been able to get out front of people and not

Trailing in series and that has helped greatly this run there. They're on Tony

So look there's a there's so many things working against

Miami

Having to play game one on the road at altitude here in Denver where that you know

Presents a real problem having to deal with the guy that I think is the best player in the world Nicola Yokech

And a team that is every bit is connected

You know with the Celtics we talk about the disconnect the coach

Joe Mizzoula was even asked about a disconnect and he acknowledged there was one even while they were making a deep run in the playoffs

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