You're listening to Draft Kings Network. Hey there, boys and girls, welcome to another edition of the Business of Sports with Andrew Brand.

I am your aforementioned host. We're produced by Jack Connell, who was kind enough to do a Q&A with me last week. As my voice was faltering due to this nasty cold, still getting over,

it's still not out of the woods with this thing. My voice may crackle somewhere in this podcast.

We are musically produced by my son, Sam Brandt. That's the music you hear under us. And we're

presented, as always, by Draft Kings. Appreciate you joining at the 24th of June here. We are,

we got a lot of NBA to talk about with the finals, with the big

Durant trade. A couple NFL notes I want to get to as we sort of wind down into the summer.

I love some different kind of podcasts, maybe over the early part of the summer with my usual

student interview of me.

I do that every year.

I'll get that going and maybe some more life thoughts and non-sports items that I think

people will enjoy and always have in the past with my podcasts.

Let's get to some items this week.

Okay, the NBA Finals, we're sitting here on Tuesday afternoon.

It ended, I don't know, 36 hours ago with the Oklahoma City Thunder winning this championship.

They were the favorite going in.

They were the favorite in each series.

They were a heavy favorite in this series.

And they ended up being the winner after seven very entertaining games. They were a heavy favorite in this series, and they ended up being the winner

after seven very entertaining games, a very compelling finals, notwithstanding TV ratings and all

that BS, which I'll talk about. Okay, first we have to talk about the runner-up. The Indiana

Pacers, they got me and so many other fans that had no rooting interest in this series.

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