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hello and welcome to the Game Theory podcast. I'm your host Sam Vassini.

We're presented by CLNSMedia.

Today on the show, it's great to have Mike Pina, good friend of the program.

Back on the show, it's been a while, Mike.

We've been kind of trying to do it again

recently you know you've been busy trying to write some stuff over at vice i've been busy

trying to handle my shit over at the athletic like you know i'm glad that we finally found some

time to get together and podcast again sam i look forward to these podcast episodes like you wouldn't believe. So I'm

thrilled. I got your DM this morning. You asked if I had any time today. Of course, I'll always

make time for you. And here we are. Oh my. We're sponsored today by our X-Barr and Simple Contacts.

We're going to talk a little bit about the Raptors, because I think that they're just kind of the biggest story in basketball right now, other than whatever's happening with the Warriors.

But that's kind of flamed out and gotten stale as the people have kind of figured out, hey, the Warriors are good again now that Steph is back.

So we're going to talk about the Raptors at the top.

And then we're going to talk about a few teams that I think haven't really been getting like a crazy amount of attention. The spurs have been just strange to me in a lot of

ways because yeah, they're like right around 500 but I think that they're, you know, kind of,

I guess fundamentals, we'll call them. Yeah, the fundamentals aren't looking great in terms of

their numbers. The wolves have turned things around since the Jimmy Butler trade. Everyone's

focused on Philadelphia on them, but let's kind of turn it around and look at why Minnesota has

been good. And then the Pacers are quietly just kind of sneaking along, playing really, really good

basketball and look like, you know, the kind of top five team that we thought they'd be in the Eastern Conference. And along, playing really, really good basketball and look like, you know,

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