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Dave Ross right here at the men gaming hall in Franklin, Kentucky.

Here's our closer.

Jensen who is back home in Cleveland, Ohio.

Got a great rest of the show here on Vies and by the books today. Read Coon is going to join us here, the father of MMA analytics, and just one of the smartest guys that I know in the fight space going to join us here talking about a really deep card this weekend. Of course, our managing editor, Adam, and our conversations Wednesdays with West, West Reynolds right here.

So cannot wait to have all of those conversations. But Jensen, we will begin this hour talking about what we saw last night in game ones in the

East and West with our highlights and headlines.

Help your bottom line with today's highlights and headlines.

I used to kid our buddy and good friend of the show, Tim Doyle, all the time, that all the

ACDC songs kind of sound the same.

I like ACDC, but they all sound like Thunderstruck.

And they were, the Lakers, Thunderstruck yesterday. 10890 is the win for OKC in game one. I think we had a great conversation with JVT last hour. Go back, watch, listen to Visa by the Books podcast, where you get your podcast. And Jetson, I think he made the case of like, boy, if you looked at the game, you'd say, that's the way want to play it if you're the Lakers and you're still lost by 18. What do you do next?

Well, first of all, the Razors Edge for those that are uninitiated for ACDC, one of the great

albums from the lineage of all time back in 1990. No, these are not the 90s Lakers either, Dave, that we're going to be

seeing against OKC. Let's just get that out there. Hey, tailed two halves, right? Credit words,

too, Lakers were within striking distance and maybe you thought they'd be in the number at that

point. But my oh my, Oklahoma City hits another gear and especially defensively in the second half. They go on to cover the number. And that total, I actually bet the live total under 220 and a half. You made mention of it early in the show that first half over got there. And for me, after the first quarter, I'm like, oh, my gosh, this has got to slow down at some point. So I got the under there. And then, of course, the under hits in the full game. So anxious to see any adjustments, JJ Reddick could make in game two. But, man, this feels like either a gentleman sweep or the traditional sweep as OKC continues to roll. Yeah, and look, I don't know if this is the last chance for LeBron to possibly get back to a final. But without Luca Dantz, it just feels like really stacked odds against the Lakers at this juncture. I think you and I both, I know I believe that the Cavaliers will be live, not only in game one, but in this series. And it looked like they were dead early. Then they look like they were really live late when you're tied up at 93.

And then you're dead again.

You don't cover any numbers.

You don't win the game.

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