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Very happy Cleveland, Ohio this morning as they get by Toronto in seven games.

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Get to our best bets as well. But right now, he is our senior editor on the network at Beeson.com, host of the hardwood handicappers, the one and always Zachary Cohen joins the program right now, give him a follow on X at betting on X and joins us on the progressive guest line. This is going to be a good time, Zach, to be running the hardwood handicappers here because there's a lot going on on the hardwood. Outside of the injuries that we've

seen so far in the second season, how would you digest what you saw so far in the first rounds

of the NBA playoffs? I mean, you got to be happy. I mean, I think we thought this was going to be

a pretty weak opening round in the NBA playoffs. And we got a couple of game sevens. We got a couple of extended series. We had a lot of drama. Two, three, one comebacks. You don't really see that very often. So I guess it's been a good postseason. Definitely some lackluster efforts in big games. I mean, last night we had two game sevens and neither one of

them were close. So that definitely stunk a little bit. But I think that overall, the product has been

pretty good compared to what it's been in the past couple years. I'm anxious with you, Zach.

I know many here in Northeast Ohio waking up. It's more a sigh of relief feeling here than it is

like, oh, yeah, feel really good about our

group. That in mind, with what we watched in both those Eastern Conference game sevens yesterday,

now knowing we have Pistons Cavaliers, the border war getting underway here in the next day.

What's your biggest handicap or angle of this series overall? I know you, JVT, you guys have

really liked the calves here for the last couple of months. So I'm going to try and take my heart

out of it as a fan of my calves. And I put my thinking cap on. Lead me to where you find

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