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Mixed tape. It's not a volume. Playoff preview. We just hit you with the awards. iTunes. Loved it. iTunes loved it so much. They're tweeting about it. The app.

Big fans. Yeah, Apple's big fans. That's true. That's true. That's a fact. Yeah. I was very shocked. It had zero retweets when I saw it. I'd been sitting there for 20 minutes. So not the most rabid followers. The Apple Twitter podcast page.

But it's not tear down Apple right as they help us. No, no, that's what we're going to do. I mean, what I mean, we've been doing this since before Halloween. Like honestly, what the fuck took so long?

I'll just say he's been with six months at least a lot of months. But this is a playoff preview. I looked around the office up here in New York. It's not a big basketball office. It's not a big NBA office.

I was like, well, whose teams are actually in it. And I really can only find one Dan cats. He's got a little show himself. You might have heard of it. It's got part of my take.

I don't listen to much radio. Yeah.

But big cats in here. And I'm a little upset. What wait, before you before we start because I want to know why you're upset. But I appreciate you guys have me on. And I also appreciate being able to talk a little basketball because PFT is now on our show made it so I can only talk about the bulls for five.

Seconds at a time. I did hear that five seconds. I get five seconds to rent with the bulls. So I'm going to take a little bit longer on this one. But first tell me why you're upset.

I'm upset because this is exactly what I didn't want. Like all season I was focused on the raptors. I was like, we can't play the raptors. If we play the raptors, we're not going to make these in conference finals.

Then a few weeks ago, maybe a month ago, I was like, oh, those bucks are hovering around like the seven eighth seed, like their height would kill us. Yannis is a monster. Like, I don't want to face them.

And then a whole the whole time. Raja, Rondo, like, I feel like he calculated this from day one. Like the season started. He was like, we're playing the Celtics in the first round. Do I anyway was like, what?

We can get there. So yeah, Tyler, I walked in this morning and you know, we just started talking about the series, the bulls, Celtics and coley to describe him in one word. He shook. He is so shook by Rondo. It's awesome.

He said it a couple weeks ago. I wasn't. I thought he was like half playing. And then he mentioned it again. I was like, oh, no, he's very serious about 38 year old Raja on Rondo. Just running Rick over your first seed Celtics. Say it.

Super sad. And like even big cat early today, you were like, I give the bulls like a 30% chance to win this series, which is way too high for an eight. It is. But here's the thing with the bulls. So I have very little. I've switched my brain now because all year.

The front office, the bulls are back brand. Well, the front office is a joke. One of the worst front offices in the NBA to continually have a job and not like get anyone get fired. So, and there's not, you know, you can go even really, really deep. There's infighting. They have moles in the locker room. They ran out. They almost traded Rondo mid sees all this shit. Right. But now that they're in the playoffs. And I can't. I was. I think I was pretty open about it. I wanted the bulls to get into the lottery.

I wanted guard to get fired. John Paxton has a job for life. He's a Supreme Court justice. So he wasn't going to get fired. But now that that now it's over, the bulls are in the playoffs. I'm all in.

There's nothing left to do but root for your squad. So I don't agree with you in that Rondo can win this series. But the one thing you should be worried about is the bulls all season are. And this has actually been for a while now. The classic get up for the big game team. Oh, yeah.

So they have the talent and the ability to put it together for one, two, three games. I don't know if they can win a seven game series. But that's exactly why I'm afraid of Rondo because the whole team's a classic get up for a big game team. And Rondo's whole career is back to get up for the big game. So now they're all on the same page. Right. So Tyler, let me ask you a question because I've been throwing this one out there. Best player in this series.

Oh, that's a, uh, Butler, right? Right. So that's, yeah, I mean, that's player. Right. So that's where I'm coming from. Less the Rondo angle and more Jimmy Butler. You know, you can obviously make the argument that Isaiah is the best score in the series. But Jimmy Butler is the best all around player. So when and we all know the NBA playoffs usually come down. It doesn't really matter about bench. It comes down to players, Mike plays, players make plays and who's got the best player. It's why LeBron is.

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