Hello, beautiful people.

And welcome to Bristol, Connecticut.

The ESPN studio for this NBA finals Monday.

That starts now.

Sports are happening all around us.

And we are in a place that is an epicenter of sports coverage since 1979. Yes, we are in the home of ESPN up here in Bristol. And I'll tell you, every time you come up here, you wonder, how the hell was this the place that they decided to put this conglomerate that would obviously showcase sports more so than any other network on Earth? And I'll tell you, it has a nice little novelty to it. It feels like you're driving literally past somebody's house. You go down the back road, you turn in there, boom, college campus of sports. This place is glorious. There's a lot of people working here. Very nice to see everybody. A lot of hello's unanswered, okay? So I don't know if that was directly to me. I think the midwest, babe. That's a nine-year NFL vet. Yukon Husky legend, Darius J. Butler.

Hey, B, Bouchy. They weren't saying a little to you either. I just want to let you know. That was going to happen in. There was some friendly, obviously, interactions. The cafeteria here is phenomenal, but I think everybody's so locked in on their jobs. Now, what does everybody do here? could be anything. I mean, we walk past rooms of people doing different stuff. I forgot how many

different talents you need to be in this particular space. I mean, we walk past rooms of people doing different stuff. I forgot

how many different talents you need to be in this particular space. I forgot how much space is needed

to be in this particular space. And in the sky right now above us, 2000, every light that is in

Connecticut is in the studio. This board right here is the highest of highest of class. I mean, it is

absolutely glorious and beautiful. Obviously, the commitment to sports coverage is very real by ESPN and has been since the beginning of time. Can you do that light thing? Can you do that light thing that we just saw right before we won live? Just so everybody can understand what's kind of going on over here. I wonder. Go cool lights. Boom. That's what we're doing. Now, look, they're trying to welcome us in here. us in here they're like hey listen let's get this thing excited and celebrate they turn these things up I believe vibe check is kind of shot right over there they got uh I did college game day I think shot on this side over here and this is just one building there's a hundred of them okay there's a hundred of these buildings and it's an honor to to be here, especially on set. Go with the lights. Can we cool with cool lights? Jeez. I like the Undertaker there kind of on the corner. Today is a glorious day. Obviously, it's a huge day. NBA finals have come to New York City. Now, obviously, this is a massive ordeal for not only the sport, the league,

but the biggest city in the United States of America. There's been parties happening in New York

that I think are really bringing people together like we've never seen before. Now, obviously,

Fat Joe said something along. He saw acidic Jews dancing in the Bronx, I believe. This has brought us closer than anything he's ever seen since 9-11 is what he brought up. He said the city has come together to rally around this Nix team more than anything you've seen. This is people coming out of the city of New York saying to the world, like, hey, this has been incredible for us. It's been fun to watch. The parties are in the street. The parties are all over the city. The parties are, there's a watch along going on. And obviously Madison Square Garden is going to be outrageous tonight as the alien travels in down to O to take on this inevitable Jalen Brunson. You know, we did a whole MVP conversation, funny, okay, because obviously that's a regular season award. And we're like, is it going to be SGA or is it going to be Wemby?

Wemby's getting disrespected in this entire thing.

SGA, is that ethical hoops to be the MVP back to back? Nobody even mentioned 6'4-1 Brunson here in New York. He's going to be a god here. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, G-A-W-D with all capital letters in New York City, if he's able to bring a title here.

And what he has done in the final City, if he's able to bring a title here.

And what he has done in the final two minutes, there's some stats we got from Hembo.

Within four points, within the final two minutes or something like that.

Jalen Brunson has 10 points.

The next person who has any point, Victor, Wembeon, is three.

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