I've seen the Milwaukee Bucks do this like so so no, I'm just look, I think they are playing.

I've said this.

They're playing the best basketball in the NBA right now.

Are they the team that's going to get to the Western Conference finals?

I don't think so.

Not if the Lakers air fully healthy and I still want to see as a fan.

I want to see LeBron James and the Clippers matchup.

That's what we didn't see last year because of the bubble and the pandemic.

Now, with everything being even, I want to see the Lakers at full strength versus the Clippers at full strength to go through the Western Conference finals.

And I'm just saying Donovan Mitchell was incredible.

But I don't care what you do throughout the regular season.

You have to prove it in the playoffs now.

Well, I would say this J to what you just said about.

We didn't see the Clippers because of the bubble.

No, we didn't see the Clippers because of Denver in the Clippers.

Didn't do anything.

That's that's what I would say as a true Laker fans.

Let's take that.

Marcellus.

Wiley.

Okay, shots that Marcellus.

Okay, cross network.

Are we go?

Last couple of things.

I don't know.

I can't find him.

So stop.

Stop!

Stop it.

Here we go.

Last couple of minutes here.

You know, I I think the Jazz winning their first NBA title would be a great story for a league that basically has 27 teams that are irrelevant and have no chance to win the title.

Understanding the You know, the three that I'm not talking about essentially are probably, you know, the sun to the earth.

There a bigger deal than the other 27.

You guys are adamantly opposed.

You think it's gotta be Lakers Nets Ella Ella in the Western Conference finals.

I don't think there's anything wrong with new blood for fans that are dying to see their team finally cross over and be legit.

There's nothing wrong with fans that want to see their team.

I think with Jay and I are saying I can't really speak for JJ could shine back in and cut me off or whatever.

But the NBA, the networks they don't want to see small market team.

They want to see the Lakers, the Clippers, Philly, Brooklyn, that's all Boston.

They don't want to see all that.

They just don't What what if it becomes Milwaukee, Utah?

You watching that?

I would watch it.

You will get paid to watch e get paid if you wasn't being paid, watching you watching it.

But let me give you a sport that does.

This is 20 years ago, 21 years ago, and that would be a bad scenario for the MBA.

But when the Mets and the Yankees met in the world, Siri's, it was terribly rated, terribly rated.

That's the biggest market in baseball.

But listen to this for a second.

If you're telling me the NBA Finals has LeBron James, Anthony Davis verse Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden, how do you think that would do from a star power perspective?

Ratings watch Undeniable.

I don't know if the ratings would be there because people have sort of given up.

E don't think people have given up on E think.

There's a lot of things to watch now.

People have no idea when stuff is actually on TV toe watching.

People also more program that watch highlights and more so than games.

But I will say this.

Think about that draft difference.

Like I think it's a great story for Utah.

Quin Snyder recruited me to Duke.

I love seeing how much did he give?

Stop thing.

This is not the point that we're expounding upon right now.

He, um far less than what you got it.

You see, anyway, all I would say is that would be a drastic difference between Donovan Mitchell, the name power, even though I know because I follow back so every night that he's a very talented player in a superstar in this league doesn't carry the same cachet.

Is LeBron and a D?

No doubt about that.

Certainly not Rudy Gobert, right?

People probably know Rudy Gobert more for what happened last year.

The pandemic, for sure.

Yuki more something that not a you know, you brought up.

I just laugh because you said that's true.

What you said was true made me chuckle.

That's all.

They know him more for stopping the league than actually playing basketball, which is a damn shame.

Last thing I would say.

There's organizations like the Blazers, the king's organizations.

You don't think about that.

Just have massive fan bases and forever and a day we'll have more fans ever kings and the same conversation with lasers.

We gotta break good for them.

E.

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