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All right, so we got to start the episode with where things stand in the West.

It is chaos.

It is time for the cleaning lady to come over and take out our trash.

There's two weeks left.

There's 26 teams that can make the play-in or the playoffs, which is just surreal.

And all these arbitrary rules could possibly stop these teams from tanking, and they have.

The biggest event, of course, that has changed recently.

The biggest update is the Sacramento Kings.

Sacramento Kings, for the first time in a gazillion years

put a hurting on the Blazers G-League lineup to the tune of a 40-point win.

For the first time in 16 years, the Kings clinch on that beam as the three-seed.

Warm me up on that beam, baby.

As everyone knows, we've been talking about the Kings. Been excited about the Kings seed. Warm me up on that beam, baby. As everyone knows, we've been talking about the Kings.

Been excited about the Kings all year.

A lot of people thought that they would falter, but they did not collapse.

They actually got better as the season went on.

And now they're not just only going to the playoffs or the play-in.

They'll host at least the first round.

It speaks to, one, how good Mike Brown has been.

He's obviously coach of the year, hands down, but really just how the ownership has changed

and how that ownership has changed the entire dynamic of this franchise.

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