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Here we go, hour number two on the herd.

It is a glorious Monday.

LeBron decided Friday that show was popping. Oh my gosh.

Rachel Nichols and I had so much fun. It was just a joyous experience. And now, you know,

we do the fallout. There's still a couple layers. I've got a couple, uh, I can't say that phrase on TV.

Let's just say I have a couple other ideas, Rachel, that I'll, I'll posit tomorrow. We've got to say some stuff. There's stuff you don't say on television? Oh, I got to hear this. I don't want to get in trouble. I mean, come on. But Mark Slareth. Remifications of this are going to go on all summer. Yes, pretty much. Mark Slayer is coming up in a minute to tell us some Justin Herbert stuff.

I got a good comp for Herbert, and hopefully it doesn't beat me up too bad over Boenix. However, without further ado, LeBron decided he's going to Philly, so now we have to reshuffle the top eight. Now, I'll say this before we get to the top eight the east is loaded

it's not as top heavy as the west with okayc and san antonio but the east is deeper two teams

that will surprise you didn't even make the top eight so here we go let's start at number eight

that is the detroit pistons yes falling from one last year to eight. So they lose beef stew. They lose Karras

Lavert. They lose Tobias Harris. And this was not a great team to begin with. I mean, sorry,

John Collins, the immortal John Collins, is not putting you over the top. This is not a knock on the

pistons. It's clear they overachieve. They were a bunch of tryhards last year. And I don't think they're going to catch anybody napping this year. By the way, I think I saw fourth highest win total. So Vegas kind of sort of agrees there will be a pullback from the Pistons. They're at eight. Number seven, the Atlanta Hawks. Keep an eye on this team, folks. They are dangerous. I'm just telling you, Jalen

Johnson, I love the cut of his jib. This is a team with a lot of weapons. They're diverse.

My hot take is they've got so many good parts, but no Supermax guy that they're holding out

hope for like an Anthony Edwards to come home eventually. But they gave the Knicks problems, certainly more problems than the Sixers did.

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