Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily, presented by Amazon Prime for March 27,

2026. I'm Dave DeFora here with Fred Katz coming up. We go deep on the playoff races in the

East and the West and we talk about Fred's all surprise teams.

Good morning, everybody.

What is up?

Fred Katz in the house.

How are you, man?

I'm doing great.

You know, I'm doing wonderfully.

I, you know, I see your name all the time.

Other people talking about how good you are on podcasts.

I thought you should know that. Well, that's just proof they're not listening to me on podcast, my friend. I don't know if that's true. You're everyone's favorite guests. I mean, you always have something interesting to talk about. You know, you watch everything. Yeah. I do. I unfortunately watch everything. If that's your way of saying I don't really have anything better to do, then guess i guess that part is true this we'll consider this podcast in that case my flu game i'm

fighting through it i'm ready to go ready to talk some ball i appreciate you buddy um i really want to

talk about the playoff race with you uh you know again you watch as much basketball as anybody. What is your,

what is your favorite little micro race right now? Is it, is it the West 456? Is it OKC,

San Antonio? I mean, what are you watching right now? Well, I think you kind of have to define,

you know what, you don't have to define favorite.

I'm going to say it is four, five, six in the West.

I'm going to leave the Lakers out of it.

Yeah.

Just because if we get Nuggets Wolves in the first round, no matter who the four and who the five is, that's going

to be the first round series.

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