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Welcome in to another edition of the Cyclone Fanatic Podcast.

It's a Thursday morning here on the Cyclone Fanatic Podcast network.

As always, the CF Podcast network is fueled by our friends at Cody Road

and every one of the spirits at the Mississippi River Distilling Company.

I got Brent Bloom here. No Cody Road at this time. It's 1057 in the morning.

That might be a little bit early first from Cody Road but it's never too early to talk about the NBA. What's up Brent?

Yeah, it's been a interesting playoffs fun to see some new blood around. I've actually enjoyed these probably more than, you know, I love watching LeBron. I think he's been great for the game and some of the old guard, but it's fun to see some new teams and get experience, get to see them experience the playoffs at a high level and just seeing

fans back in the arena has been awesome.

Great viewing experience.

You know, the bubble was fine, but it just wasn't the same and this has been great.

Yeah, I think that the what the bubble gave us was like basketball in a pure form of just it was just

basketball. There was like I mean obviously there was all of the social justice messages and stuff like that, but like once the game started it was just basketball, which I think was cool for hardcore basketball people, like what you and you and I are but I think for the

average person it probably was not near as interesting but I think that anybody

that watched that game Tuesday night between Utah and Los Angeles,

and you hear how loud it got in that arena

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