And now the low post.

Welcome to the low post podcast recording on a cloudy Thursday evening on the East Coast

where the NBA season is wrapping up.

We have a half dozen games left seemingly every playoff race somehow in the balance except

except at the very top of the Western conference where the Memphis Grizzlies have clinched

the number two seed and the 62 and 14 Phoenix sons 62 and 14 are 942 games ahead of everyone

else in the NBA and have set the land speed record from evolving from bad team to bubble

curiosity to are they kind of an underdog in the first round even though they're the

second seed to juggernaut at least by the numbers that has raised the question of are we

just messing around and making up storylines and the title winning Phoenix sons are just

an inevitability coming to steamroll everybody that's what 62 and 14 that's what an 81 winning

percentage means like two days ago they were a laughing stock now they're in the same category

as the 96 pulls I'm interested to talk about the team I'm interested to talk about the

evolution I'm interested to talk about what it feels like to live that evolution as a fan

and there is no one better than do that with then ESPN's research guru resident sons fan

secret MVP of NBA today Michael Schwartz how are you sir doing great Zach and it's funny

whenever you invite me on that means the sons are doing something either a curiosity like

the bubble or something really incredible so always great to be here so I want to start

with the zoomed out fan part of it like yeah again it's it I think all of us thought the

sons would be really good this year maybe the number one seed in the West I don't think

I'm not sure even 60 wins seemed like possible they have six games left if all they do is

go three and three they join the 65 win club and we can talk about how few members that

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