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Basketball Illuminati

Parity in the USA

Basketball Illuminati

Count The Dings

Basketball, Sports, Comedy

51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Tom Haberstroh, Amin Elhassan and producer Anthony Mayes still haven't received their Most Valuable Podcast trophy. The Conference Finals have arrived, boasting four shiny new championship contenders thanks to Adam 'The Equalizer' Silver and his new CBA. Are new champions actually good for the league? Truth Teller Caitlin Cooper of Basketball, She Wrote joins the show for an extremely insightful look at the Indiana Pacers, Tyrese Haliburton's unique playmaking qualities and to exorcise ghosts of Pacers past. Basketball Illuminati is now part of the Count The Dings Network. ⁠⁠⁠⁠Join the Count The Dings Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠ to support the show, get ad free episodes and exclusive content at⁠⁠⁠⁠ www.patreon.com/CountTheDings⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠ILLUMINATI MERCH HAS RETURNED⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Check it out here:⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/CTDMERCH⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to Basketball Illuminati! On ⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠ Email us: ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠ Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠@bballilluminati⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠@basketballilluminati Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Richard Serrett. Join me on Strange Planet for in-depth conversations with the world's top paranormal investigators, alien abductees, Bigfoot trackers, monster hunters, time travelers, alternative archaeologists, remote viewers, and more.

0:13.0

As I was on the way to Area 51, I was stopping on the side of the road and just taking measurements, and I found this one spot where time slowed down by a fraction of a second.

0:24.6

It's not supposed to do that.

0:25.6

From the two big categories, animal mutilations and human abduction,

0:30.6

you have to conclude that genetic material is being harvested.

0:34.6

Well, I reached for a rifle, and I turned and looked, and it was already moving away,

0:39.3

and it was descending the bluff.

0:41.3

There's no way any human could have went down it.

0:43.3

It was probably a 75-degree angle straight down, almost.

0:47.3

On Richard Serrett's Strange Planet, we're redefining reality.

0:52.3

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. Do not go any further. Turn around. Go home.

1:04.4

Is it time to bring Max Cross back onto the show? Who's Max Cross? He's the MVP tracker. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah, I remember him now.

1:11.3

Yeah. He's the guy who figured out that we don't have to wait for the announcements. We can

1:16.1

actually go through all the tape, all the film, break it down into the lab, and he tracked all

1:23.4

of the award votes that were out there on the internet. Far and wide. Fine-tooth comb for

1:29.2

most improved, six man of the year, coach of the year, defensive player of the year, and he's

1:35.2

gotten them all right. And I'm a little confused by this. Why haven't we had the MVP trophy yet?

1:40.5

So I did radio with Zach last week and he brought this to my attention. He said,

1:45.1

this is the latest MVP announcement we've had since 1998, which is a long ass time. Back in the

1:52.2

90s, I remember they used to give out the MVP trophy routinely during the conference finals. Matter

1:58.1

of fact, one of the most famous stories in NBA history is 1995,

2:03.2

Spurs versus Rockets, Western Conference Finals for game one. David Robinson gets the MVP trophy.

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