Welcome to this very special NBA finals edition of the China Compass podcast.

You might be wondering, what in the world do the NBA finals have to do with China?

We'll keep listening to or check out the recent piece I wrote for cross-politic news about the Oklahoma City Thunder.

The Thunder take the basketball world by storm, both in this

upcoming podcast that you're going to hear and in that article, I explain a few of the connections

between myself and China and the Oklahoma City Thunder and basketball in general.

It's not a great major connection, but there are some connections there. And it's also fun to talk about.

So the next thing you're going to hear on this particular podcast is Luke McKinney and I.

Luke McKinney is also known as the podcast Ninja from the Comedian Next Door podcast.

We will be discussing and debating, friendly debate, the upcoming NBA finals matchup between our hometown teams,

the Indiana Pacers for Luke and the Oklahoma City Thunder for me. So the next voice you should hear

is Luke's, I believe, and then we talk for almost an hour about this particular topic,

talking about the teams and the pros and the cons, who we think is going to win the games, trying to be, who's the best players for each team, what do we fear most about

each team, just kind of a fun sports conversation for the most part, but there is a little

bit that comes into it regarding China near the beginning and then near the end, I believe.

So enjoy this unique podcast, kind of a mashup between somebody from the comedian

next door podcast and myself on China Compass. And yeah, enjoy. Talk to you in a few days with

the normal China Compass podcast probably this weekend. God bless. Welcome to this special edition

of your podcast. I need to call out the irony of you inviting me to host your podcast.

Exactly. No, I did that on purpose. I thought that'd be kind of funny, because I don't know what I'm doing.

And I was going to ask you, you're the podcast ninja, but what does that actually mean? Like, what's the point of that particular?

Because I was thinking it meant that you were like the tech guy behind all.

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