Hello, welcome to the HOOP Collective podcast.

We talk about the NBA, which we are doing just about midnight on the East Coast on Sunday night slash Monday morning.

Joining us from New York City on the East Coast is Tim Butt-Upt.

Hello, everybody.

And joining us from the American Airlines Center in Dallas, where he was at an overtime game,

one of about seven overtimes that were played in the NBA on Sunday.

Seeing the Mavericks beat the Portland Trailblazers, it's Ban McMan.

Howdy, partners, it was a much-needed win for those Dallas Mavericks.

You don't want to bleed out too long.

And, you know, not sure there will be too many of those, but heck of a night for old Cooper Flag. With all the TV you've had to do in the last week, I'm sure you were glad you didn't have to wear a suit to the game tonight. Glad I didn't have to wear a suit and glad I didn't have a double overtime, like Friday night, Friday night's crisis bowl when the LA clipper snapped a long, losing streak here.

Crisis pull. I like it. I stole out one from Steiney. Okay. That was good. Well, there was some double overtime action in the NBA on Sunday. We'll talk about that a minute.

And actually, I just want to start right there.

So if you remember, was it last Monday?

Yes.

We had all those games.

There was three shot, three buzzer beaters.

And people talked about how, like, man, it was one of the great nights in the NBA.

Then Wednesday was like a truly great night in the NBA that would have been like normal,

been like maybe the best night of a month or best night, you know, two weeks.

And there was actually discussion, like what night was better, Wednesday night or Monday night?

And then I want to present you with Sunday. And I know that know a lot of folks were probably watching the NFL of course there's America's favorite sport and it's fine there was no national television you know none of these

games were made for TV matchups was just was just a batch of NBA games. And in Boston, the Clippers

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