Hello and welcome to another edition of the Nix Film School pregame show.

My name is Andrew Claudio, aka GMAC, and it's time to preview another Knicks matchup this time on Thursday night against the Boston Celtics.

One of the Knicks potential rivals that's come up on the Mount Rushmore throughout this year,

that the New York Boston rivalry is probably stronger than Nick Celtics,

especially this season when the Celtics have just kind of run and hidden

from the rest of the Eastern Conference.

And I'm recording this at about 7.50 on Wednesday night.

So I don't know if this is right now the one versus the two in the Eastern Conference.

Orlando and Milwaukee are about to tip off.

So we will hopefully, when you're listening to this, you'll know what our mood is at the end of that matchup.

But going into this game on Thursday, there's a lot of Celtics that are questionable.

They have nothing to play for.

And potentially, maybe giving the Knicks a bit of an easy roster to take advantage of.

But we'll see.

We'll see if the Celtics decide last minute that this is a game that they want to win.

Joining me to talk about this matchup,

someone that I've been trying to get on the pod all year

because his co-host that How About Them Celtics has been on here

and always alludes to his co-host Sam. So shout out to Jack Simone,

who has always said, well, Sam says this. Well, Sam would say this. Well, finally, Sam's going to say

some stuff on here. Sam LaFrance. Welcome to the next film school podcast, sir. Hey, thank you for having me.

I was looking forward to coming on a couple times and I just unfortunately had some

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