Howard Beck

I know I'm fudging it on the exactitude of your assignment here, but I just think that Jason Tatum's return is one of the most important stories of the second, not the second, the remaining piece of the season, which is not a half.

Is that just like a garage somewhere and a locker at Penn Station?

You don't make it at all?

Love the pick.

Did not have it on my board, although it was on the longer list of possibilities.

It's I love that we are here, which is here being we thought these were the two clear.

It was it was those two teams and everybody else.

Right.

I mean, did you I don't remember for sure.

I don't want to speak for you.

Last October, I think we all basically said it's the Knicks and Cavs and everyone else.

Right.

There was some dark horse talk about Orlando or maybe Atlanta makes a move and this kind of thing.

I'm glad you brought up Detroit was being completely.

Yeah, we now have a very crowded and very compelling race in the Eastern Conference.

Extra twist of James Harden now being a Cavalier, and it'll be really interesting to see how that part of it fares against the Knicks.

Both of these teams still have a lot to prove.

And, you know, I think the windows being what they are in the league now, they're always smaller, shorter than you think they are until the next blow up, until the next somebody's fired, somebody's traded, whatever.

I think we're going to be talking about that with Orlando to get back to the Wagner discussion.

But like, you know, are they really, is this really the best alignment going forward with Wagner and Bancaro?