Hello, welcome to the hoop collective podcast. We talk about the NBA, which we're doing at

one 15 a.m. Eastern on Thursday Wednesday morning. Feels like Thursday. Because we stayed

up to watch the play in games, joining me from New Orleans, Louisiana is an escape smart

J. Spears. So Mark, is it isn't Wednesday yet? It is Wednesday. It is not where you live.

Not, but where I am. It is. It's still Tuesday where Kevin Pelton is in Seattle.

There is young. Probably feels like Wednesday. And that is young. Let's play three. Yeah.

You know, I wondered somebody mentioned this to me today. Should with this new schedule, should

the NBA have the playoff start on Thursday? If it feels weird to have play and play in,

we should have two first round games that are already set on Thursday to just keep the moment

I'm going. I think it's a good question. I hadn't thought about it like that. I want that

night off because the Monday they take off is anyway the WNBA draft. So I've got that occupying

that night. Thursday is like the one fully guaranteed night off from it. And I think from a TV

standpoint, they like it to start on the weekend, I guess, for some reason Saturday and Sunday.

I mean, not that baseball is really anything you're paying attention to at this point, right?

For sure. For sure. Well, anyway, it was how do we describe that Laker Wolves game? It was

interesting. It was certainly a play in game. I call it the greatest, the worst greatest fourth

quarter I've ever seen. Oh my God. Laker's winning some Benny Hill music in the background.

I don't know if our listeners are going to know what that's a reference to. You might have to

Google that once they hear. Yackey Sacks, right? Is that what they, the music is called?

Jackson, do you know what Benny Hill is? I do not. Oh, you're lying.

Are you serious? I'm serious. I'm not surprised. Do you know what Yackey Sacks is?

I do not. Tell him do you know? Yes. Yes, I know. All right. All right. Anyway, it's not a good,

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