No lie. Look who's back. And I'm fired it up to have. We're joined right now by a senior NBA writer for The Athletic. Also a contributor to the Athletic NBA Daily Podcast. He's covering the NBA Finals. Game five between the Pacers and the Thunder is tonight in OKC. And we are joined by Sam Amick. Appreciate you, brother. What's going on?

What's good?

Romi, what's going on, my guy?

Great to be back with you, just out here in OKC, getting ready for tip-off.

All right.

So how is OKC as you get ready for tip-off?

OKC is good.

I feel like it's home away from home lately.

Did the West Finals here. It has not been, you know,

since the KD. Westbrook, even the James Harden days, have I spent this much time out in the

planes, but no complaints. I had some good times, just, you know, doing the playoff marathon, but we're good.

Hey, Sam, that playoff marathon, is it overrated or the fact is, do you actually wake up

on some mornings not knowing where you are?

Earlier in the playoffs, when you've got less time between games, certainly that might

happen.

It gets easier as you get deeper and obviously you're now we're

down to just two locations uh but yeah the bouncing around in the first round the second round

uh the hotel room is the thing that gets most often forgot you know what i mean like you you

you tell the front desk hey i'm in uh 620 and it's like oh no that was the last city now i'm in

815.

That's part of it.

All right.

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