Welcome to the Athletic MBA Show, one day through on the Athletic Podcast Network.

This is Nerdoshiro with your host Dave Dufour, with Mo DeKiel, and Seth Partnall.

Hello and welcome to the Athletic MBA Show, it's Friday, on day 4.

That means it's Nerdoshiro joining me as they do each and every week, Seth Partnall

and Mo DeKiel, and well, we are all drinking our coffee because going a little early

here Friday morning and we were up late watching the nuggets and sons, good playoff basketball,

but we're going to start with the earlier game, Sixer Celtics, going to a game seven on Sunday,

killing which should have been a nice three weekend for all the NBA folks.

Man, if you're the Celtics, you got to feel pretty lucky and if you're the Sixers, you got to

feel pretty sick, Mo. Oh, I mean, if you're the Sixers, you have a pit in your stomach.

Right now, we really had the opportunity to go to the conference finals, something they haven't

done since the A.I. days, right? Am I missing something here? It's massive. And just think

about it this way, if you're Doc Rivers, you haven't gone, you haven't made the conference

finals since what, 2013? Like, you're really kind of an opportunity for you to kind of shake this

whole, I can't win closeout games. If you're James Harden, another thing kind of legacy,

you just had big games in the series, another moment to add to your playoff history and be

to finally get to the conference finals. And the Celtics were struggling, Jason Tatum,

one at 13 at this point, and they just couldn't close out. I'm sorry, Philly, like, I feel terrible

for you. Look, it's a major mistake. Yeah. Well, I was going to say, at least you don't have to

wake up and watch endless replays of the Kauai 4 Bouncer because it's the fourth anniversary of

that. Oh, it is the fourth anniversary of this. You're now, you're piling. You did that to be

mean, Seth. Yes. That's to be mean. That was, that was cruel. I did. Well, let's jump into this series

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