Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast.

I'm your host Sam Dicini.

We're presented by The Athletic.

The legend Mo DeKille is in the building.

We're going to talk about everything that's happened in the NBA over the course of the last week

and preview the eight playoff series that are about to get started here in about an hour and a half

from when we tip off this podcast.

So the first thing we do want to talk about is going to be Vladi DeVots, and then we're

going to move into the Blazers Grizzlies.

Then we'll talk about the playoff series from there.

So Mo, it's a hot one in L.A. today.

I know you're feeling it like myself.

How are you doing, man? I'm cooking. I'm actually, the funny thing is the, uh, the air conditioning

unit in my office has been broken for several years. So I'm in the hottest, hottest part of the

house. Recording the pods. It's okay. It's okay. I like to consider a sauna.

I'm podcasting while having a sauna.

So I'm ready to roll.

Dude, I'm in like kind of a similar boat right now.

We live on like a fifth floor of an apartment built or apartment complex.

And we don't have central air in this apartment complex, but we have a unit in our bedroom, which is where I've been podcasting since the pandemic has hit.

But it's so loud.

You guys might have heard it during the first part of, I think it was the Freddie Gillespie interview or the Scholar Mays interview or something.

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