Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast.

I'm your host Sam Vassini.

We're presented by The Athletic.

It's an all NBA playoffs edition.

It's the two biggest stories that have emerged from over the weekend in the NBA playoffs.

First, we're going to talk to Derek Bodner about the Philadelphia 76ers crashing out

so spectacularly in a four-game sweep against the Boston Celtics.

We're going to wait to talk about the Celtics in Toronto until later, maybe even early

next week, if only because the Toronto Celtics in Toronto until later, maybe even early next week, if only because the

Toronto Celtics series seems to be the one that everyone is looking forward to right now.

And in the second part of this episode, I have already recorded with Tim Cato.

We are going to talk about Luca Donchich and the two-two Los Angeles Clippers Dallas

Maverick series after Luca's absolutely spectacular shot to end the game against the

Clippers on Sunday. But first, Derek Bodner, man, how you doing?

Just listening to you talk about that. I'm so jealous of people who get to talk about

luca dantsich and i had to talk about alec burkes and josh richardson or jason if you listen to

the a bc borgas and tobias harris and i am i am jealous but other than that i am doing well

well you know who the what the funniest thing is is that Tim now gets to talk about

Trey Burke.

And Trey Burke dropped 25 points on the Clippers yesterday.

The same day that the Sixers were eliminated after having, oh boy, release Trey Burke in February.

And he's the exact guy that they need, by the way.

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