Hello and welcome to the Hoop Collective Podcast presented by Xfinity.

We talk about the NBA which we are doing on Sunday evening joining me from Cleveland, Ohio where he's covering the Cavaliers

Burst Boston Celtic series and enjoying the wonderful delights that Cleveland can offer on a spring weekend Tim Banche the and I was able to go out for a nice couple hour walk. It was nice.

Well as I tell people as I did for years when the Cabs were in the finals every year, I said,

guys, if you don't like Cleveland in May and June, you ain't going to like Cleveland.

Joining us from Dallas, Texas.

Now, I want to say something to you, Ban McMahon.

Something went on in the press conference on Wednesday night up in Oklahoma City. I don't know if we can talk about it now that we're on ESPN2 on this show, but

Luca was up on that dais.

And I know you've thrown some strange questions at Luca and other Mavericks over the years, but what the heck was going on?

Howdy, partners, just to be clear, that incident, it was actually Thursday night now to think about it.

It was not the cause of my week-long suspension that I am now returning from,

but I do want to briefly just touch on the little situation that put the

O and OKC. To be clear that intimate sound did not come from within That was from the

from within the press conference room. Okay? That was not from my phone.

Do we know where it came from?

Remember's phone.

That was from the hallway and still unidentified prankster.

I've got some suspicions, but I'm not going to do any speculating, but to be clear there was a prank from the hallway that was not some lonely

media member who needed to get back from Bricktown. The best part about that was that it was our guy McMahon asking the question as it happened.

I just, I just started laughing, I couldn't stop laughing.

When I heard that McMahon voice chime up and then all of a sudden some noise cuts in

...