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On today's show, we're talking to Bryce Simon of the game theory podcast, Pistence

Pulse podcast to discuss the NBA draft, the conference finals, and then we will do some trivia with me. As always, this is my good friend Alex Spears. Alex, what's up?

Hi, Andrew.

Sorry, I just took a big swig of water. You caught me mid-swig. Okay, caught you mid-swig.

And with us, Bryce, Simon, who is one of my favorite people to listen to.

If you're not listening to the game theory podcast, you should be something that knows a ton about the game, a ton about the draft and the playoffs, which is a pretty incredible combo. Let's be

honest. There's not that many people that can do this. Bryce, welcome back to Slamma Jam. What's up, guys? Thanks for having me back. I appreciate you having me back. Remember the first time you asked me on, I was like, man, this is kind of surreal, you know, being able to come on a podcast I've listened to for, for however long. And, um, yeah, I used to be like, I don't know how

people do this. Like, how do you know the draft and the NBA and all of this? And now I'm like right in the middle of it, trying to do the best I can. So I'm excited to talk about this. And then, I mean, honestly, I'm just going to sleepwalk until the end where I'm super excited about trivia and making a full of myself.

Well, let's start with the draft.

Most draft analysts see the third pick as the first potential pivot point of the draft.

Who is currently third on your big board?

And do you have any strong opinions about what Philly should do with that pick?

Yeah.

So Ace Bailey is still third on my big board. I think he's probably the consent. I don't know if consensus might not be the right word. Yeah. In general, I think that's still the guy you're going to find at three. I think you'll find a mixture of opinions in terms of some people will say like Ace is definitely number three, four. We don to say it this way anymore but if 30 different teams any team that landed number three would draft

ace bailey i don't know that that is the case for everybody though i think some people would have

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