Welcome to RealGM Radio. I'm Wes Goldberg. I'll be joined by Mo DeKille here in a second.

One of my favorite guests to have here on Real GM radio. We're going to whip around the Eastern Conference. We're going to talk about the very top of the Detroit Pistons, the Toronto Raptors and the Miami Heat. That's right. Those are your top three teams in the Eastern Conference right now. We're going to talk about whether or not we're buying them as teams that can actually come out of the Eastern Conference. We'll talk about what's going on with the Knicks,

what's going on with the Cavs, what's going on with the Cavs,

what's going on with the Hawks and whether or not there's a Tray Young trade that makes sense or whether even they have to trade Tray Young or if everybody's just too early on all that stuff. We get to a ton of topics. We'll talk about their Orlando Magic a little bit and some other teams. Mo is great. He's a must listen, a must watch on all the things that he's doing.

Like I said, one of our favorites here on the program. teams. Mo is great. He's a must listen, a must watch on all the things that he's doing.

Like I said, one of our favorites here on the program. Let's jump in.

Ready to roll. Eastern Conference. Let's do it, baby boo. Let's jump in. I don't know why

you're recording. Yeah, that part was we don't put that in the show. It might be the show. It might be the very beginning of the show. Oh, gosh. All right, I got to go. So the East is very strange. It does not look at the top the way I think we thought it was going to look at the top going to the year. It's Pistons. It's... How did you not see this coming? How could you not see that coming? The Pistons and Raptors being one, two. What did you, what did you not? What were you looking at? I'm going to be honest, I had the Pistons on the over. One of my locks was 50 wins for the pistons.

So I'm taking my victory lap on Detroit. Now, I'm not going to tell you, I thought, what are they? 15 and 2 at the time of us recording. I didn't think necessarily that. I was bullish on the Raptors, but not this bullish on the Raptors. I was bullish on the heat. And honestly, though, I wasn't even this bullish on the heat. thinking like top six seed not right now being in third who do you think the best team in the

east is though honestly, no, I wasn't even this bullish on the heat. I was thinking like top six seed, not right now being in third. Who do you think the best team in the East is, though? Okay, so that's kind of a trick question. Right. Who is the best team right now? It's very clearly the Detroit Pistons. Yep. Right? Obviously, just record. You win 13 straight games.

I don't even care how much of it is, you know, quality opponents, especially when you have guys in and out of the lineup.

You know, it's impressive and that makes you the best team in the East.

Like, I don't think that's a debate.

Who I think will be the best at the very end is a different answer because assuming health

I think it's going to be the New York Knicks okay so it is a trick question and I think

that's why it's an interesting question to lead the podcast off if the playoffs started today

I'm going to frame it that way. And these were the standings.

Who do you think would come out?

If they were just like, you know what?

Forget it.

We're starting the playoffs tomorrow, folks.

I still think maybe the Detroit Pistons of the team, I would think I would have favored

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