Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast brought to you by the Nation magazine.

I'm Dave Zyron.

This is the place where we talk about sports.

We talk about politics.

And sometimes we talk about how they all collide.

If you heard last week's show, you know that I did an NBA Eastern Conference preview

alongside basketball savant, Aria Shirazi.

You may know Aria from his previous appearances

on this podcast and his brief period

as a young man in the Broadway musical Sugar Babies.

Now this week, we're going to go with the Western Conference

that's what we're doing this week we did Eastern last week

Western this week but that's not all this is going to be so jam-packed as we

oh my God are about to start the NBA season I can't believe it's already here

and it is so jam-packed

that uh we are also going to let you know who our award winners are you know MVP rookie of the year

and the like and we're also going to give you check this out our three league pass teams three teams

that maybe you're not the fan of them, but three

teams that just would be a lot of fun to watch over the course of the season and watch them

develop. That's a lot of fun to do. I sort of chose the Dallas Mavericks last year as my number

one league pass team was never a fan of theirs

before by the end of the year obviously as they made their trip to the finals I was losing my mind

...