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What's cracking.

Welcome back.

Good afternoon.

Great to have you here.

I am in Southern California.

I'm Jim Rome.

Good day.

Good day to talk sports.

We've got the NBA playoffs.

We have the NHL playoffs.

You've got Major League Baseball.

You have the NFL draft coming up.

A ton going on.

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Get on the phone, send me up on X or email us. But as promised, we start hour number two

by having a conversation with the co-host of the starting lineup on SiriusXM NBA Radio. Also

a Brooklyn Net Studio analyst for US Network, a contributor to ESPN's part of the interruption.

I'm talking about Frank Isola. Frank, my man. What's going on? Frank. How you doing? Jam, what's up? You're still living that life in L.A. You got it made, man. I'll tell you that. Well, not actually L.A., but close enough to L.A. But you're right. You're not wrong. Southern care. How about you? Frank? You're living pretty large. How are you living? I have to live in all right. It's not, you know, we went through a brutal winter, but we finally made it out and now the sun is out, so that's good. That's a real good thing. I love it. Good for you, man. All right, so just want to look like the Lakers, Frank, with DOA because of the injuries to Luke and Austin Reeves. Then Kevin Arant goes down and L.A. steals game one. How do you see the rest of the series playing out

with Game 2 tomorrow night here in sunny SoCal? You know, Kevin Durant, for him to miss a game

is a big deal because Kevin Durant plays basketball all the time if he's healthy. So that was

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