 What's the word, y'all? Who would have thought that it would be 3-0 in both conferences right now? The Western Conference, I kinda understand the Denver Nuggets have been the best team out West all season long and they've been taking care of business in these playoffs. But out East? Out East? I did not expect it to be 3-0 in the favor of the Miami Heat. I wanna say right off rip, I wanna apologize. I have to make a formal apology to one of the goats, Pat Riley. Cause every single year we do the NBA trade deadline stream where I'm reacted to the trades as we get closer and closer to the deadline. And whole time, I'm thinking about two different teams. The first team being the Chicago Bulls, they didn't do anything at the deadline. Of course I'm gonna complain about the Bulls, that's what we do around here, you know what I'm saying? And the second team was the Miami Heat because they didn't do anything either. They got Kevin Love on the buyout market but that was the deadline. And at that point, they were what? Like the 8C, the 7C, the whatever team that was one shot away from being in the NBA finals the previous season underachieving. And not just me, a lot of heat fans that I'm aware of are like, man, what is Pat Riley doing? How can he not make no trades right now? But he's one of the goats, man. Whether it be coincidental or what? Cause there was a rumor that brother was literally sleeping at the deadline, like literally in the middle of a nap. So it might be coincidental or he might be from the future. He might have known that he don't need to make no changes cause this heat team is gonna play their best basketball when the lights are the brightest. The fact that the Boston Celtics are in a game that's practically gonna determine whether this series is gonna be over quick and they show no fight in a game, in a game three where they were down 2-0. Again, history says no team has ever come back from down 3-0. I just got a notification on my phone that the Boston Celtics somehow are still the favorite to win the series. I don't know what you could have seen for these first three games to make you think that they really have a chance to win four in a row. But if they do, we all experience a history, I guess. I mean, either way, we experience a history. This would be the first eight seats to ever make an NBA finals appearance. They had tied history with the 98, 99 New York Knicks, one of those type of years where the Knicks were the eight seats and also made it into the conference finals. Where this team, I just, I can't, I still can't fathom how they got this far, bro. And I don't mean that in no like disrespectful way. This is not saying that it's luck or anything like that, but like I'm watching these games and I'm seeing line-ups that's Cal-Lauri, Kayla Martin, Max Truce, Kevin Love, and Cody Zeller. And I'm like, ain't no way that line-up in 2023 is gonna get the job done. It's getting the job done. And it's really good. They got a lot of players that were like the zombie version of themselves. Cal-Lauri was having a terrible season. Start coming off the bench and now he's giving you another different thing. Kevin Love was on the Cleveland Cavaliers struggle and they bought him out completely. Then he got to Miami. He didn't know what to do anymore. Duncan Robson got paid $90 million from his bubble run and then was getting DNP coach decision early in the season. And now here we are, 3-0 in the Easter Conference Finals and all three of those dudes have been crucial in this game alone. Now I'm not gonna look at the final stats because I know in the fourth quarter when the Brooklyn, Brooklyn, when the Boston Celts doing the white towel, Duncan Robson continued to run it up. Gabe Vinson continued to run it up. But in this game, Duncan, not just in this game, in this series, Duncan Robson has been walking past his defenders. He's like, okay, who was he being defended by? Is it Sam Houser? Is it one of the lesser known defenders on this? It was Jason Tatum, walking past Jason Tatum, throwing lobster bam out of bio. I'm like, bro, again, this is Duncan Robson we talking about. He got paid as a shooter, undrafted shooter. Oh, everybody on this, undrafted, but undrafted shooter. He is lethal from there. At least he had been. And right now he's playing many Tyler Hero, not no in the pr- and Duncan Robson's prime two years ago. He was doing a lot of Google handoffs and screening actions, then bam out of bio. That was one of the reasons why he got paid so much money. He wasn't just strictly come off the screen and kept the shoe guy, but like to see him drive past Jason Tatum with ease. And I'm looking at it like, I only really got words to the Boston Celts at this point. Cause I'll be honest with you, if you go watch the last couple episodes of our podcast, I was pretty confident the Boston Celts will win this series. I mean, I think they were a 560 favorite when it comes to the betting odds. And though I didn't see the Boston Celtics as a team that really impressed me through the first two rounds, I just thought that the talent was going to overcome the heart. I guess that's what it was. Because there's no team in basketball that's playing with more heart than the Miami Heat. That's been the case for the last decade or so. Okay, I'm exaggerating, but you get what I'm saying. I just thought strictly based on the talent that they would be able to walk out of the series and go to the NBA finals and try to win another one. And they haven't showed any fight in any of that talent. That talent that I was praising, I'm not seeing it. This team that had been held as one of the deepest teams in basketball look as thin as possible. Again, I just read you a line up that was Kyle Lowry, Duncan Robinson, Max Drewson. I'm just giving you random players in the Miami Heat. And it seemed like those dudes are holding it against Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum. And I know there's going to be a lot of finger pointing as there should because there's no way you should be down 3-0 in any series. Really, when you've got championship aspirations, there's going to be a lot of finger pointing. I've already seen it at Missoula. I've already seen it at the Jays. I've already seen it at... I've seen it at everybody. And everybody holds their own part. The Jays, the all-NBA Jays, these two dudes, they combine for 26 points. One for 14 from three. One free throw between the two of them. One! And that is crazy. I didn't get to talk about game two. Or did I get to talk about game one? How long was I... I was in Philadelphia. I don't remember how long I was there. People on Twitter was putting game two on Graham Williams. And yes, Graham Williams was talking trash to a dude that you don't want to talk trash to. But of course, the game of basketball is a lot different than just a one-on-one matchup that Jimmy Butler took personal. Can't even blame him no more because today he might have been the... He might have been the best player on the team. He might have been the best player on the team. Well, you got two all-NBA players. You got a former defensive player here. You got another dude that made an all-defensive team. And Robert Williams, if he would have been healthy, he would have been in that conversation too. And nobody showed up to work today. I know Miami is crazy. And I'm going to Miami in a couple of weeks, baby. I'm excited for it. But like, were you down 0-2? The last place you want to be doing... Last thing you want to be doing is partying. And I'm not saying that they were, but I'm just saying. Who was it? Was it Stephen A. Smith? Somebody went on national TV when the Knicks were losing their series to the Miami Heat and say, y'all underestimate how tough it is to play in Miami. He wasn't talking about the fan interaction or anything like that. The city and what the city provides for you. And that was legitimately on TV. It was just crazy. So yeah, and I want to apologize to Pat Riley. I want to apologize to Miami Heat because yeah, I kind of phoned it in. Is this conference fine? It's going to be won by the Boston Celtics. Even if you go look at our live podcast tape in a Philly, we were filming our podcast in front of a bunch of different people. Shout out to you if you came out. I appreciate you. And in that, I was like, hey, shout out to all of y'all for missing the playoff game to see us live. That's dope because if you hear, you love basketball. So you skipping out on basketball to see us. And I said, don't worry because the last 18 times when a higher seat has lost game one, they come back a game two and they win the last 18 times. I said, thank y'all for coming to this. You're not even going to miss no good basketball because history says the Boston Celtics are going to get up and they're going to even out the series. And what happened? Jimmy Butler took over. Gabe Venta hit a crazy shot and then the Jays can't score in the fourth quarter. That was history. 18 in a row. It was broken. 8C being up 3-0. That's history. And I'm thinking about it with both of these teams being up 3-0. We might as well get our flights, but we going to Denver. We going to Miami. And there's been a little discourse on Twitter and I can never tell what's genuine on Twitter anymore. Maybe I'm getting old because I can never really tell. Talking about the ratings. Oh, the NBA's worst nightmare is to see the Denver Nuggets versus the Miami Heat and the NBA Finals. The ratings, the ratings, the ratings. Why are we talking about ratings? Me and you delay people. We don't get paid based on ratings. We know if the Miami Heat are the best team of basketball out East and the Denver Nuggets are the best team of basketball out West, why do we care about the ratings of potential? Because if you're a Dallas fan, it shouldn't matter to you. I do love an underdog story. And I'll be real with you, Miami Heat fans. In the first series I picked against you, obviously. I thought the Milwaukee Bucks were in the championship. I will say this playoff run, I've been wrong way more than I've been right. And either way, the second round, be honest with you, I picked against you. I thought that the way the Knicks had handled the Cleveland Cavaliers, they was about to do this, not the same thing as far as five games, but I just thought that they was gonna take care of some business wrong. And then I picked against you again. So the Miami Heat single-handedly have not just busted my bracket, probably busted a lot of people's brackets, let's be honest. And I don't do this for right or wrong. I just do this for the love of the game. There's a lot that can be said about the Boston Celtics. I think I wanna say majority of that until after everything is over, because they got some tough decisions to make between Jalen Brown, be it else before a Super Max extension, do you wanna put $600 million, or $500 million between Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum, if this is the type of performances we get. Again, they do have a finals appearance and a ton of conference finals appearances, but that ain't the goal, you know what I'm saying? They already slid to Joe Missoula and I believe, I don't know if there's a single Boston Celtics fan out that is excited about Joe Missoula for the next three seasons. So yeah, all of those conversations will come once we cross that bridge. And maybe the craziest part about all of this, if you were to watch the first series and I would have told you that Miami Heat are gonna be in the conference finals and they're gonna be up 3-0 in the Boston Celtics, you would have probably assumed, oh, that mean Jimmy Butler must be averaging 40 points for a game for the entire playoffs. It's not the case right now. Now, of course, he could take over a quarter like he did in the fourth quarter of game two. Today he ended with 16 points. He didn't need to be Jimmy Butler, the son of Michael Jordan. He just needed to be a great leader. He needed to top Al Horford. He needed to top Grant Williams. He just need to play his own game and sometimes his own game is not him dropping 40. You know, again, it doesn't make a ton of sense, but here we are. This is why we watch sports in general. Yeah, we've seen a lot of years when we knew the teams are gonna make it to the finals and nobody put the Miami Heat as the finals contender. You might have had him at the end of last year, right? At the end of last year, Jimmy Butler missed that shot on Al Horford. Boom, you'll be thinking your hair. Okay, they could be back, but if you watch those 82 games and then you watch the first play-in game and then you watch the first three and a half quarters of the second play-in game, there's no way you could have convinced yourself that Miami Heat were about to be in the NBA finals. No way. The Bulls were six minutes away from eliminating this team in the play-in and here they are a game away from the finals. This is like a 30 for 30 documentary waiting to be written and shot. You know what? I don't put a pass to Jimmy Butler, maybe not 30 for 30, but I know for sure he travels with photographers and I'm hoping some videographers because this is a legendary run right now. Another Jimmy Butler legendary run after the bubble. And guess what? We ain't had the moment yet where Jimmy Butler's sitting on the stance and dead tired because of course he's been given a lot of energy but you don't have the game like this one. He ain't got to play in the fourth quarter. Don't gotta play. Gabe Vincen's put up a career high at 29 points. Caleb Martin cannot miss. I don't remember what the percentages are but he doesn't miss from the three anymore. And it's gotten to the point where you're like, hey, this don't seem like a crazy hot streak. We ain't know how many games in, 12 games in, 13 games went in for the playoffs of the Miami Heat and he's still just shooting. And he's still just making shots. I don't remember if it was him or Gabe Vincen that got interviewed about how many open looks he got and he said he felt disrespected. And I don't know which one of them it was but both of them are shooting crazy percentages. And that's even accounting for the fact that in the next series, in the next series, they shot like 29% from three as a team but every of these other series, they are lights out today. They were 54% from three on 35 attempts. Again, some of that is garbage time because Duncan Robinson scored like 14 straight points for himself in the fourth quarter. But still, it's just showcasing how leaked they've been. One game away from the Miami Heat. I don't know if it's gonna be a four, five, six or seven but history says that Heat have punched their tickets in the finals. History has said the Nuggets have punched their tickets to the NBA finals. We'll see if history continues to repeat itself. But right now, I don't know, I feel like we gotta go to Miami or Denver.