We've gone to a regular season, Ken, where it became a tradition for us or routine of checking

it who is out of a game late, like right before a game starts.

A lot of that was during the peak when like, you know, COVID was spiking again, and you

got all these guys in COVID protocols, which by the way, feels like a hundred years ago

that November, December into into January.

But now if you look at the NBA playoffs, man, we are missing some big names for teams

that have title aspirations right now.

We talked about Luca and where Dallas is, I wouldn't put Dallas obviously in the title

aspiration category, but clearly they are a much better team when they have Luca.

I don't care that they're beating Utah right now.

Utah looks completely disinterested.

You need Luca out there.

The guy that Luca donches is one of the best players in the NBA.

But now you've got the bucks missing Chris Middleton for a couple weeks.

You've got Devin Booker out two to three weeks with a hamstring strain for the sons.

And if you look at the futures market now, we're seeing the reflection of not only those

injuries, but also what we've seen in the series before some of the injuries as well.

I mean, you look at the bulls making it competitive against the bucks early on.

You look at what the Pelicans have done against the sons.

Phoenix is now plus 550 at Bet Rivers to win the NBA title, which is a big change from when

they were the favorite, just what a week ago.

Golden states the favorite at plus 280.

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