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Welcome to the Action Network podcast. I am your host, Brandon Anderson, and this is part one of our NBA mid-season update, a crossover episode with Buckets, Action Network's daily NBA betting podcast.

The NFL season at long last is over. All eyes at last on the NBA as we hit the all-star break, playoffs just around the corner. We're getting ready for those

weeknights of four games all at once, everything coming at you. For those of you like me,

that have had eyes mostly on NFL, if we're being honest, for the last few months.

This is a two-part NBA crash course.

This is to get us all caught up, get us ready to watch and bet the NBA season the rest of the way.

For part one, I'm joined today by Jim Turvey to look through the Eastern Conference.

You can find Jim at at Turby Betts on Twitter.

Is that where you are on the app as well? Jim, how are you doing today?

Yeah, I'm doing well. Yep, same same name on the app there. Keep it straightforward.

Good, good. I'm ready. I've been living in the NBA weeds, ignoring the NFL basically entirely,

just to be able to do this podcast with you and welcome back

folks into the warm embrace of the NBA. Right as we get to the really messy place where Utah is

going to be benching 18 different guys a night and it's pure chaos, but we all, we all know

what's really about here. The NBA playoffs, we'll kind of talk through, you know, we'll talk

through the bottom of the East, talk through some of some little trends here and there, but then we'll really kind of

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