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🗓️ 1 June 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Back in the Zoom room with Billy discussing who will win the NBA Finals (Spoiler!) and what went wrong for the Lakers and Celtics.
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0:00.0 | This is a headgum podcast. |
0:06.0 | Welcome back to Buckets, Lakers, Celtics. |
0:10.0 | I mean just a classic NBA finals. |
0:12.0 | Let's talk about it with Billy Scofury |
0:16.3 | you can bucket buckets and the Knicks the Knicks are in it too |
0:20.9 | the rare Royal Rumble finals. Oh my God, a one-on-one, holy smokes. This is the |
0:28.1 | matchup Adam Silver wanted. Yes, they want they wanted Denver versus Miami a completely new franchise to the NBA finals |
0:37.8 | You got the Miami demographic you got the mountain time zone it has it all The mountain time zone. It has it all. |
0:43.0 | The mountain time zone that the time zone that Adam Silver is most concerned about. |
0:49.0 | Not the East. |
0:50.0 | Do you care about ratings and stuff like that or it doesn't really bother you? |
0:54.0 | Not really. I've worked on television shows where I've cared about ratings, but what do I care? I only care that I'm watching the finals. I don't care who else is, honestly. |
1:03.0 | Yeah, I always say I'm going to look up the ratings just out of curiosity and it's like, I don't remember like what last year got and what this year will get and just, one will say 11 million, one will eight and I'm like all right that all seems |
1:13.9 | fineish to me but it was funny how on our text chain with Golden State Warriors fans as |
1:19.4 | well like you guys the Lakers fans and the Warriors fans got to such a we've like talked about and like talked shit about so many things we're now down to well how many ratings does your games usually call that that came up and like so it does matter. Yeah |
1:34.2 | but when did your tip off like that is 730 better than five. But yeah when I |
1:40.6 | hear Bill Simmons talk about like well that got a 6.9 share, I tune out. |
1:44.4 | And we're doing that right now, so maybe we should move on. |
1:48.2 | All right, so yes, the Lakers lost in four, the Celtics lost in seven since we spoke last. I don't know if we spoke in after Miami beat the Knicks too. |
1:56.4 | No we didn't. In fact, once the conference finals were set, I was like, hey, maybe we should do a buckets and you're like let's wait for something meaningful to happen and then we'll hop in yeah and then one of them just happened really fast and there was nothing really to talk about. |
2:11.6 | Yeah, the sweet. |
2:13.0 | Yes, and then the other one was the spiritual opposite, |
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