Hello, welcome to the Hooke Collective Podcast. We talk about the NBA. We also make vows

on this podcast. We never break them once we make them and as we talk about the NBA here on Sunday afternoon

We swore we were done talking about the Lakers or the Warriors until they were out of the 9-10, which I think we thought

was going to be when they were out of the playoffs in the end of the season.

Well, I don't know if the Lakers will be out of the 9th seed by the time this podcast posted the show goes on air, but joining us from Los Angeles is the man who covers the current number 8 seed in the Western Conference,

moving out of, well, they've been intent at some point,

I think, but moving into the top eight

for the first time since December

is Dave McManaman.

David, welcome.

I am so honored to join you both on this championship

Sunday for the women's at the double-A bracket.

But we have some, I don't know, maybe important business to talk about because I don't think this is like a lucky Laker story making up for some lost ground and it looks better in the end, you know, sometimes a blow out right, the other team makes a comeback and then it looks better than it actually was in terms of a game. I think there's a real indicator of what the Lakers going to be capable of in the next couple months.

Joining us from the American Airlines Center where he's about to cover the rockets against the Mavericks on Sunday afternoon.

Hey, McMan, he is actually in the hockey press box.

He's been banned from the lower portions of the arena.

It's banned McMahon in the hockey press box.

Howdy, partners, this won't surprise you,

actually was banned by Dallas Morning News editors

of covering hockey.

Back to my Dallas Morning News blog days,

there was an editor who did not take kindly to me during a live

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