Hello and welcome to the Athletic NBA show. It's Wednesday. I'm Dave DeFore, here with

Mo DeKille and Seth Part Now. A little NBA finals preview. We're recording one day before

game one of the finals after a nice nice long break. Did you guys get some

late spring cleaning done? Did you guys watch movies? What did you do with all your free time?

Watched more basketball. Um, yes. I bought a lawnmower. Oh, look at you. Right. Look at you. Lawnmower, man. Wait for your yard? Yeah. Oh, man. Is it one of those old school push kind like that my high school football coach used to mow the field with? No, but it is, it is, uh, it is rechargeable battery operated. So it's very quiet.

Perfect.

Yeah, that's the way to go.

I mean, listen, what did you know that someone actually came up with a silencer for, for leaf blower?

It exists.

So we are so close, guys, to the disappearance of the scourge of my life, the leaf blower.

Well, so this is, since you brought it up, the place I got the lawnmower, you got a, you got a free gift of either a weed whacker or leaf blower along with it.

Yeah.

I already had both.

So I have, I have, I am double leaf blowered now.

Oh, no. I can, I can double barrel leaf blow now. Yeah. Wow. Alternative,

good for your yard, by the way. You should just leave in there. Speaking of leaves. Welcome to

NERder. That's right. Shiro. So, guys.

Obviously, we are excited because this is what we spend all year waiting for, and it's the finals.

And this is an interesting matchup that I don't know if anyone could have predicted this at the start of the year.

Number one, the Mavericks are essentially a different team.

The Kyrie Irving question mark seems to have been answered every single night during the season and during the playoffs.

We didn't know.

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