Hello and welcome to the Who's Collective Podcast.

He talked about the NBA which we're doing on Friday and morning here in Abu Dhabi.

First day afternoon in San Jose, California, which is where Tim Bontemps is, long away from here, brother.

That's true. Many, many, many hours.

Do we know what time it is in Abu Dhabi?

At the moment, I have no idea. It's 12, 30 in the morning.

We had another, we had another off mic time screw up from Brian today.

And so we know that the world is going on as it should be, as we've had scheduled.

Also on the West Coast joining us from Los Angeles, California, where he's on NBA today this week is Ban McMahon.

Howdy, partners. Hi, boys, don't.

Big shout out to our producer, Jackson and Jellos from vacation in Florida this week.

So you guys are all, we're all spread out across the map this time of year.

Hey, this was scheduled release week. Bontemps, you wrote a story about the schedule release specifically as it came to the TV schedule on Thursday.

I wondered if you could kind of hit the highlights of what you saw and how it's definitely how the league is featuring the teams coming into the season.

So, yeah, obviously everybody waits to see get the rush just to run through and see where all the games are.

I think some of the interesting things that sit out to me.

The fact that we're going to have opening night with two Western conference games with Denver and the Lakers followed by the sons and warriors and the Chris Paul revenge game.

I think that's an indication when you start to look through the numbers in the schedule of just how much this schedule is slanted towards Western conference teams.

I went through and did the math on it warriors have the most national TV games with 29.

But that's ABC SBN TNT games for this. We're not counting the NBA TV games.

This respectful.

I can also see when some of the small market teams sell we have 12 not cotton national TV games or 10 national TV games and really they have one or two.

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