I know we got a little sidetrack to start, but this has been a good conversation because it involves fans and a game that was supposed to be a real showdown in Motown tonight.

And it's a joke.

It's not even worth your time.

No fault of the pistons.

But OKC, go look at the, excuse me, the injury report.

Yes, SGA, Jalen Williams, that's bad enough. Chad Holmgren, doubtful, Caruso out,

Hartenstein out, multiple other guys out. It's a G-Leat team. You get one crack at this team in the

regular season, and instead of this being a finals preview, and I'm sorry, look, I can't prove this.

So some of you think this is at best,

hyperbolic and at worst, irresponsible of me to say it, that's fine. I'll own it.

I don't believe for a second that if this were the playoffs, the Thunder aren't full strength

tonight. That SGA and his abdominal strength doesn't play. Or Jalen Williams and his hamstring doesn't play. I choose not to believe that. If that means I'm cynical, jaded, I'm a huge bleephole. All of those things are in play, too. But I've just had it with the NBA. Chet in his back would be playing. I've had it. Yeah. I'm with you. Let's go to the people. We'll go to Dave 971.

Dave, how you doing, buddy? Good, Mike. How are you doing, Rico? Good, brother. What's the word?

My call. Super Bowl weekend, I have a very wealthy friend who invite my two brothers and myself and our

spouses down and had tickets to the Orlando Magic Utah Jazz game.

It was a good game for three quarters. In fact, the Jazz were up 17 points in the third quarter.

It pulled their starters, didn't they? Yes, Markhinen, Jaron Jackson, and Nurkich, is that how you pronounce it?

Yeah. We're gone. And the magic made a run,

and those three didn't even appear in the fourth quarter. I had to watch Kyle Filipowski.

Yeah. And my friend, like I said, he bought eight tickets in the third row. We're sitting there.

I could a high-five Paulo Banchero if I wanted to.

But we're

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