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Book it, Ramona.

After watching Butler and the Heat take down the Lakers, are you ready to book the heat for the playoffs?

Yeah, look, it's like 7 to 10 makes the play.

I mean, right?

I mean, this is It's not that big.

They're already in that 7 to 10 range.

That's not the number two site.

Ramona.

Me.

There's like this coffee mug is the only one that's over 500.

There's like three or four teams over 500.

That's it.

Going out on a You could put very long limb.

You could book it.

The heat will be in the East.

They got one of the best coaches in the game, and I think the unsung hero in this is Kendrick Nunn in certain him into that starting line up.

At that point, the opposition the Heat has been playing phenomenal basketball already know they got Jimmy buckets and bam out of by you.

That's his name.

I know.

I get messed it up every time.

So close.

I like that because you're leaning into it, right?

Ramona, you gotta lean in.

If if I'm going to start calling him that now because that's gonna stick in my head, you go.

Let's get to the pelicans.

They overcame a 24 point deficit to beat the Celtics and overtime yesterday.

Perk.

Do you think this comeback will be a turning point for the pelican season?

It ISS I strongly believe it is because if you if you watch the game before this when they played the sons and they blew a big lead and the Suns came back to beat them, I think they showed a lot of class.

They showed that they are capable of dealing with adversity That moves out your Williamson to the point in the second half.

And boy did he flourished well for is getting to the buckets and get others involved.

This is a turning point for these young pelicans team.

You know, I'm glad that you framed it as a pelicans question because I thought for sure we were just gonna go to talk about the Celtics being back the 500.

Oh, my God.

That was such a bad loss.

But credit to the pelicans for coming up back again.

It's rough in the Eastern Conference.

Yeah, rough season, Our league pass.

Game of the night Friends.

Bulls at Rockets, eight o'clock Eastern.

Six games tonight, but only one of them feature Zach Lavine.

So let's talk about that one.

He made another strong case for his All Star candidacy this weekend after scoring 38 in the Bulls victory over the King Saturday, which that's no small thing.

Sacramento has been playing well.

Levin has scored now at least 30 in his last four outings has become a must watch every night.

So Ramona producer Steve wanted the question to be.

Do you think Zach Lavine should be named an All Star?

And why is your answer?

Yes, but you do have to.

If you put him in, you gotta take someone else out.

What do you think?

Look, I I think he's in in just in the look.

If you look at his stats, he's shooting 51.8% 52% basically on the year.

So we all have this image of Zach.

Lavine is a great athlete.

He's not a great shooter.

He's like 45% for his career, 52%.

That's pretty good.

Okay, He's on.

And I know he's taking a lot of shots this year, and he's carrying that team.

They're not playing out there not having a ton of team success, but for him to be shooting at that percentage with those stats Yeah, put him in.

Come on.

Coaches is exactly Vienna All Star.

My answer is yes.

Yes.

And here's why.

Let me tell you all what?

Okay, you take exact Levine off this Bulls team, they will be at the bottom of the Eastern Conference, and I mean lottery.

May they might not have eight wins on the season.

This guy has been given everyone network.

He has showed us that he is capable of performing and matching up with the best of him.

I love his career highs right now, and right now he's carrying this Bulls team.

He's given them life on the offensive end, and to me, he is stamped and the coaches vote.

Remember, the coaches vote for the reserves and they can't win it.

And right now, the way that he has the bulls plan, he is in.

In my opinion, we're gonna have you been looking at?

No, we only had to do starters.

So sometimes you just look to that.

But if you've been looking at who the most sort of contentious guys will be Yeah, the border here.

I mean, it's interesting in the Western Conference.

I think there's gonna be really interesting calls to make right.

I think this might be the year Mike Conley finally becomes the best player not to make an altar team.

He finally gets that office back.

The Jazz been so good.

Um, it's gonna be interesting in the East, right?

Do you have to?

Wizards.

Do you put Westbrook and Bill when they're right?

I think the answer is yes, right.

Okay.

What do we do with Boston?

Do you have Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum?

I mean, these air thes They're gonna be tough questions for the coaches, but I just think his recent play 52% from the field, I think they're going to give him the nod.

I'm on the Mike Conley bandwagon, by the way, let's get into an All Star Game.