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Welcome to the Ringer NBA Show.

I'm Chris Verne and joining me see this every Tuesday for the Ringer.com is Kevin O'Connor,

AKA Kevin O'Bomber, Kevin O'Connor, Kevin O'Clymer, Kevin O'Conflict, Kevin O'Candy

Lane, Kevin O'Schredder, Kevin O'Bernow, back recording in the morning on Tuesdays.

We all are at night Thursday and for Friday morning.

That's right, and this is all going to, by the time we get to Friday, we're going to know

what the playoffs are, but we still have some games until we get to that.

There is still, the race for the 8C is the biggest story because you have the Grizzlies,

the Spurs, the Trailblazers and the Suns all still in it with just a few games left to

go.

And we really don't know who's going to be the eight, who's going to be the nine,

and then who is going to have to beat the other one twice or who's going to have to beat

the other one one time.

The Grizzlies are playing Boston.

Now by the time most people listen to this, this game will probably have already happened,

but over the weekend, you and I and Bill Simmons were on a text message and I said, the bill,

as you saw, I said, there's no way Boston's going to play all their guys on Tuesday,

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