Welcome to the Fantasy NBA today podcast. This is long overdue and there's only one person to blame and it's me but it's fine you can shower your blame upon me I don't mind

welcome to fantasy NBA today I am Dan Bespers and I am overjoyed to be joined by

the host of the Advantage pod here on the Sports Ethos network

and one of these sharpest betting minds you'll find on the interwebs possibly in person as well

though you know nobody meets face to face anymore. That's too hard.

The great Michael Fiddle. M Fiddle 14 on Twitter.

Mike, it's good to talk to you on a pod

as opposed to like, you know, tweeting back and forth about series prices and things like that how are you

or getting in your emails and asking you to check my gambling math or sending you you said you're the

one to blame for this being a long overdue.

I could have sent you 11 emails asking to come on instead of 10.

So I think you could put some blame on me too.

No, I don't think so.

By the way, it should be noted.

I actually really enjoyed that email you sent where you were

checking your own betting math and so I was like digging it people don't need to

know what we were working on here just suffice it say that Mike is a

degenerate of the nth degree and it warms the

cockles, the deepest cockles of my heart.

So the reason you're on here is actually twofold though.

We are going to talk about the conference finals, each of them beginning over the next day and a half, today, Lakers nuggets, tomorrow, heats Celtics.

But before we do that, something that I almost ignore on this show completely is

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