Holland, Drew and Duncan, the Friday before the playoffs begin, I would love to thank Adam Silver for making our playoff outlook job just so much easier with this play in tournament, which, you know, does kind of kick ass, I will admit.

But also adds an extra week of really intense work.

And probably there's a few coaching staves of number one

seeds who are not loving this either, not getting to know who they're playing until 36

hours before the game kicks off on Sunday. But I don't know about you, John. I am just

unbelievably excited for these playoffs. I am really excited too. It feels really

wide open to me. I think there are at least six teams who can plausibly claim to have a

at least somewhat realistic chance of winning the championship and then a few other spoilers

when you get beyond them. So I think it's going to be really good,

especially these second round series could be amazing. Oh yeah. And even the first round I'm

extremely excited for, even if I think there are going to be some great, great individual

games and matchups, even if maybe not all these series are going to end up being the most competitive.

I don't think I have anything picked to go seven right now.

And I'm guessing when I know the 1-8 matchup, that's not going to change my opinion.

But let's get started.

We do this a little bit differently instead of just going through series by series,

try to take a little more macro review or that we will do our full playoffs predictions

at the end uh let's start with this what is the most interesting series of the first round to you

grizzlies lakers i agree on that yeah it seems like kings warriors is somehow getting more hype

uh maybe i'm just that's because I'm here, and that's why.

But I mean, Grizzlies Lakers, I think it's the closest matchup and the most interesting.

I completely agree.

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