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Welcome to the mismatch I'm Chris Varnin and joining me see does every Tuesday from the ringer.com

is Kevin O'Connor aka Kevin O'Bomber, Kevin O'Camer, Kevin O'Conflict, aka Kevin O'Climber,

Kevin O'Candyland, Kevin O'Blazerian, Kevin O'Killian, Kevin O'Bomber,

Bruno, it's playing time baby. Whoo. It is play in time as we are going to have a few different games

going on today, Tuesday. We're going to have a few games going on tomorrow Wednesday and then

by this weekend we will know how the playoffs are set. We already know how a couple of matchups

are set in either conference and we will talk about those. But before we get to any of that,

we do have with the end of the season now this play internament. One quick aside,

for the NBA to have all of their teams be able to complete 72 games in the manner that they did

this year and it was not easy and it was very, very difficult for a lot of teams and they did it

without fans in the stands for the majority of the season. There was the conversation that took

place and you and I covered this at the very beginning of the season, which was when do you start

and the fear was that if you start in January or you start later in the calendar,

then not only are you pushing stuff back farther into the summer, but beyond that,

you don't know if you're going to be able to get fans back in arenas anyway. And so if you are

delaying the start of this in the hopes of being able to make money off of the gate and parking

and concessions and everything else, then that is the great unknown. And as it turned out,

you know, because we didn't know everything was going to turn out during COVID.

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