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Welcome back to Buckets. It's about that time of year.

The greatest three words in NBA basketball play in tournament

let's talk about it with Billy Scifuri

you're getting bucket buckets and one of the greatest play-in tournament teams of our generation,

the Los Angeles Lakers are back, folks.

Playin, in-season, LeBron just likes to be about the extra buzz. He's played like four or five

extra games in his career at this point. The man likes to make himself sweat.

Yeah like let's get an extra let's get a practice game in let's give the NBA what they want an exciting

extra game Lakers two and oh and play in history going for three and oh tomorrow and you were

you made it to the Western Conference finals as a play-in team. Am I right? Yeah, the first year of the play-in we were the seven seed that was the

LeBron I can't see the basket I made a three right send golden state home or to Memphis was it and then

we ended up losing to Phoenix at the two seven this oh wow last year we were the seven

seed we played the playing game we beat the

timber wolves just barely it was like on a Mike Conley three-point getting

about a buzzer forcing overtime then we that we took the seven seed we beat the

Grizzlies we beat the Warriors and we lost to the Nuggets in the Western

Conference finals and now this year we're the eight seeds still playing that

first play-in game but this is for the seven seed but we're playing on the

road we're playing in New Orleans this time. It really goes to show how good the

Western Conference is because we watched enough like I watched enough as a casual fan. You've watched probably all of them this year and they weren't a bad team by any stretch

Maybe they weren't like not even the where the wars are tenth like they would be maybe favored in a series against Minnesota at this point.

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