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It's May 16th.

I got Wolf's Beat writer, Chase Frederick, here with me.

This was supposed to be a series preview episode.

The Thunder were supposed to win last night.

But Jamal Murray and Nicole Yokic happened and they beat Oklahoma City in Denver last night.

That means we have to wait until Sunday evening to know who the Wolves opponent will be in the conference finals.

We're going to kind of try and discuss both Oklahoma

City and Denver's potential matchups in this episode. But Jason, my, we were texting yesterday.

I think we should like set the seed with how much better or worse Denver or Oklahoma City are

as a matchup. I think everyone would say, you know,

you'd rather play Denver than Oklahoma City if you're a Wolves fan. But how big do you think

that gap is? If Aaron Gordon is as heard as I think he probably is, then it's like a golf.

Denver is not good if Aaron Gordon is not available.

And the way that he was pulling up that hamstring at the end of the game, like,

I know the instant thought in all of our minds is Steph Curry, obviously.

And he said, you know, I'm going to try to go in game seven.

But if you watch game seven and Aaron Gordon is either not out there or he is limping

around like OG and and Obie did in game seven for the next Pacers last year, then Nicole

Yokic is basically playing for the Timberl's NBA finals hopes in my mind.

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