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Hello, welcome to the hoop collective podcast. We talk about the NPA. We're doing it on Monday afternoon.

Joining me from Austin, Texas is a professor of Kurt Goldair. Hello, Kurt.

Hello, Brian. It's good to see you. How you doing? Good to see you.

And joining us from Oakland, California is Anne Scates, Mark J. Spears. Hello, Mark.

What's happening, man? I'm coming to you from New York City, where later tonight,

I'm going to my first game at Madison Square Garden two years. Bulls,

Bulls, Bulls Mix, and a game that is very important in the play in scenarios in the Eastern Conference,

which we'll talk about in a minute. The first guys, we had a significant injury. We've got a

number of injuries unfortunately in the league right now that are as usual playing into what's

happening, but the Boston Celtics who have just been the league's most dominant team over the last

three months, they've got, I think the date that I saw was since January 23rd, they're 24 and four,

and have the number one offense and the number one defense. Sunday, as they were routing yet another

opponent just absolutely blowing the timber wolves off the court. Another, you know, playoff level

opponent, they were just whipping. Robert Williams there, guys having a breakout season in his third

year, I guess his fourth year. He tore his meniscus, and that was confirmed by the team today.

He is the centerpiece of their defense, kind of underrated in some ways because of, you know,

Jason Tatum and Jalen Brad have been so great. In fact, Jason Tatum won a player of the week again.

He has won it like three times in the last month or something like that. I should look up exactly,

but Robert Williams is super important not only to their defense, which is so good, but

they don't have that much depth. So Kirk, this is for a team that was really streaking towards

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