Welcome everybody to your favorite day of the week. I'm Anthony Irwin. I'm joined by Adam Mares. Adam.

Only one of us here forgot that the team that they cover has one more game to go and it is not me. How about that? Is it because the Lakers don't have one more game to go? Otherwise you would have forgotten.

No, I just got swept up in the moment.

I mean that Damien Lillard shot like,

or just that game in the conclusion of the Portland game

and the fact that it was a sort of de facto end to the seating round,

it felt like the literal end to the seating round. It felt like the literal end to the seating

ground. I, uh, look, today was a primed and ready time for me to forget that the Lakers had one more game to go.

They played at 2, what was it, 2 30 or 1230 my time and Avery was just having one of her days and I came this close to not watching but I was able to remember largely in part because like people were calling you up for not remember.

Well I'll tell you you find that to be an anomaly but for me the nuggets played all but two of

their games early at that time so...

And we plan their playoff games there too. Surprise, the playoffs are also morning games here in Denver, so really, the NBA really doing a great job of building the fan base in their key markets like Denver.

I'm sorry, man. I'm complaining, but I don't blame them I totally get it.

All of the Lakers games are like 9 o'clock 9 o'clock 8 o'clock so.

All right today's show we are going to quickly take you through the day's games

obviously culminating in the blazers when over the nets but there was a plenty of stuff to kind of set the table for that game.

And then the second segment, Adam and I are going to take you through kind of our observations of this bubble

and whether or not some of this is actually replicable moving forward because I actually think some of it should be.

Like they should try to re-harness some of what we've enjoyed over these last couple weeks.

And then in the final segment for our power rankings, we are going to power rank.

Now that the matchups are all set, we are going to power rank

the top eight

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