Hey there, patrons.

It's your boy, John of the Macri, with you for another bonus episode of the next film school podcast.

So this is the second intro, the first of two intros you're going to hear because I recorded an entire episode about two hours ago.

And as Andrew was literally just editing this, it is about 1 o'clock on Friday, where it just

came down that the Mavericks, the just most upstanding organization in the league, what

an absolute joke, are going to rest.

Kyrie Irving, Josh Green, Christian Wood, Maxie Kleber, and Tim Hardaway for the Bulls game tonight.

Luca Donchich, meanwhile, is probable.

So this is an overt tanking move to out-t bulls who um are it had their own incentive and still by the way do

have their own incentive to tank tonight because if they don't make the play in um they want

to get a worse record than the Dallas Mavericks because if they don't end up in the top four, they will lose their own pick to the Orlando Magic.

The pick is top eight protected.

Well, look at the Mavs who said, ha, ha, ha.

So again, just, and I talk about it in the episodes, I'll just say it briefly now.

If the Mavs finish with a better record than the Bulls, even if the Bulls make it to the

play in and the Mavs don't, the Mavs are 11th, the Bulls are 10th, barring the Bulls actually

winning to play in games and advancing into the playoffs.

This is an absolute shot across the bow at the integrity of what the NBA hoped to establish in terms

of the integrity of the playing in tournament.

The fact that there is a team in Dallas who is it likely that they make the play in?

No.

Oklahoma City needs to lose a game and Oklahoma City is probably going to win both of its games,

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