Welcome to Oddball. I'm Charlotte Wilder. That's Amin Alhassen. You know him, you love him.

Amin, this is a very exciting day because the playing tournament is set, the playoffs are set. We know what's happening up to a certain point.

It's the first time I'm not like trying to do math about hypotheticals.

Like we've got math about real stuff now.

How do you feel?

I feel good.

I feel kind of exhausted.

Full disclosure, we recorded this literally right after all the games ended.

So there is a feeling of kind of like exhaustive drain

that's happening throughout my whole body.

But I've got a couple of days, Charlotte,

to regroup, redirect my energies

and focus on these playing games.

This does feel a little bit like, okay,

we can take a breath for a second. And then it's like you're just staring down the barrel of two months of very intense basketball.

I love it.

What?

I know, me too.

Every, every game matters. Every game matters now.

It's been mattering because as I told you all the playoffs started like, you know, a month ago or so.

But now it's like, it's for real.

Now there are truth and consequences to every action.

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