77, now gold.

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The United. Now back to you better you bet, with Nick Costos on Westwood One Sports.

All right, coming up in about 20 minutes.

We will talk about tonight's Nick Celtics game at Madison Square Garden.

Almost 11 months to the day that Jason Tatum tore as Achilles at MSG in a game four playoff loss to the Knicks that put the Knicks up 3-1 in that series.

They would eventually win in six.

Jason Tatum back at the Garden tonight with the Celtics at the Knicks.

That will be, Spoiler alert,

our game of the night. That's coming up in 20 minutes and thoughts on that and the rest of the

Eastern Conference in the NBA. But joining us right now on the show, if you've been listening to the show,

watching the show for any period of time, you know this is one of my favorite people, not just in

media, but in life. The insanely talented Sal Lakata, who's doing an amazing job right now covering national sports, New York sports on his YouTube page at Sal underscore Lakata on social media. My friend, welcome back to the show. What's going on? Good to have you. I got to tell you, dude, I miss you. You're one of the first people to have me on after I was no longer with the fan, and we had some fun chopping it up. I see you doing your thing, which I love, always inform me, forming me on the national stuff, whether it's the college hoops or the NFL draft. So I appreciate asking me on, but I do miss doing some shows with you when we would have you on regularly on the fan. Well, just to say this,

you know,

not to throw you onto the bus at all here,

but,

you know,

had you on the show a couple times and, you know, you reached out once upon a time, like maybe a month ago, hey, want to get you on the show, on your show? I'm like, yeah, Like, I'll basically, I will move heaven and hell.

Like, my daughter doesn't even have to sleep through the night.

I will do anything, Sal. Like, my daughter doesn't even have to sleep through the night.

I will do anything, Sal, to appear on your show. And then what do I get from Sal Likata? Crickets. No, that is that. No, no, no, no, no. I'm kidding. I genuinely feel bad because I did. I wanted you on. I'm like, I need to get castles on. because of the way that it is with my schedule,

with my producer's schedule,

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