And now the Low Post.

Welcome to the Low Post podcast. It's Friday morning in Los Angeles. There is barely a week

Plus left in the NBA regular season and things are heating up as we stand at

this moment. Kevin Pelton how are you first of all? I'm doing well

Zach did you expect that you were going to go from New York to LA and miss out on the earthquake?

Look, I just hope the schools in Connecticut aren't falling apart because one of them had to get vacated

because it's such a dump. Shout out missed it though I'm in LA everyone here

talks about earthquakes like you just happen any minute and they don't care okay

so Kevin Pelton here's where we are what a week in the Eastern Conference.

The MVP, Joelle Embed, is back

and immediately has looked pretty damn good

and has led to Philadelphia 76ers to two massive wins, arguably the two hardest games left on what is otherwise a softy schedule against the thunder at home and a really, really pivotal, massive playoff implication squeaker in Miami last night.

The Sixers are now half a game behind the heat for seventh and a game behind the Pacers

for sixth.

They do not have the tiebreaker against either but

number six and no playing is in play for the Philadelphia 76ers meanwhile

three four five is a complete mess in the Eastern Conference.

The Cads are 46 and 31, but they are 11 and 15 in their last 26 games and something just

doesn't look right. The Orlando Magic of Orlando, Florida

could host a first-round playoff series, could even get the third seed there

45 and 31 and the Knicks got the horrible crushing news this week that Julius Randall will be out for the season.

We don't know what O. G. Ananobe status is. We do know that Josh Hart and Deuce McBride are never coming out of a game again and

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