When's the night edition of the pod? It's like the good old days day and we're recording at like 8 p.m. at night

Usually we've been recording during the day these days. There's no reason to do it at night

But uh, good good to be back at our familiar time and familiar segment finally we can actually do a little news enough

As piled up to do that and I think where I actually want to start is

In just taking an overall snapshot of what it looks like for the NBA to return

Tim Bontems and

Brian Wynnehorst had a good piece over the weekend about what that's gonna take what some of the

Concerns are how are you feeling about the odds of a potential return to the point where we have a season because it seems like

Pretty much the drop dead date for starting next season is gonna be Christmas

It seems like they're already talking about that Christmas to august for next season

And so if that's the case

How are you feeling about the chances of anything happening here for this season?

I am significantly more

Optimistic about the chances of of doing a playoffs and the reason one of the basic reasons why is because it is a lot fewer people

If it's a it's a lot easier to pull off a bubble if it's

16 teams and remember that in an elimination format half of those 16 teams would be gone

Relatively quickly and then you're down to eight and personnel and everything like that and so I

Am not insanely confident you know far far from it especially considering you know

There are other leagues that are coming back around now, but those countries handled their overall response much different

Leigh than we did and so I would say I'm cautiously optimistic that there will be some semblance of playoffs

Maybe not the overall volume that you and I prefer to

Determinate fair champion, but that there will be something and then I'm and then I'm actually in some ways

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