Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily.

Coming up, Esperi and I look at both of the conference finals and come up with our keys to the series.

We've made it to the conference finals.

I finally did it, Dave.

Yeah.

Dave before.

We are here.

NBA Daily style, actually doing this a little bit different.

Travel day for just about everybody that we would want to talk to today.

So we decided, you know what, let's put on our thinking caps and do our own little preview

with the keys to the series.

Now, look, we have watched all of the remaining teams as much as just about anybody.

I would say the guys covering these teams are probably about the only ones that have us beat on it,

S.

I feel like got a pretty good sense of who and what they are. Let's start in the West, since that's going to be the first series. Obviously, that game is going to be tonight. I cannot believe we're already here. The game one of the Western. I bet you the Thunder can't believe it either. You know, the fact that it's Tuesday and they got a two-day break until they

have to face the Minnesota nuts. Just wow. Any recovery from game seven, right? Like, it's just gone.

Yeah. But at least they're at home, right? They didn't have to travel. I'm sure Minnesota had the,

you know, had the plane all fueled up ready to go.

Where do you want to start with this series? Because, I mean, it's obviously it's an interesting matchup.

The Thunder dominated all year long.

It felt like the Timberwolves found their footing, you know, after struggling with an identity crisis for most of the season.

They found their footing late.

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