Kirk Goldsberry

celebration mode that they've been in and come into a Western Conference arena and beat a really good team in game one.

I think they can do it, don't get me wrong, but it is one of the more dramatic, hey, we're celebrating, the vibes are immaculate, oh shit, we have to play the finals sort of weeks that we've had in this league in a while.

Quickly, the Mike Breen podcast you did this week was incredible.

Well, if you're a Knicks...

I always love when a play-by-play guy gets on a podcast.

Like when Al Michaels would go on with Bill, it was just like electric because he would pull out these stories from Al's career.

But Mike's ability to talk about Nick's history, Nick's culture, having the front row seat for all of these games, the dark years, the stories he would tell about his interactions with fans, I thought it really set the stage really well for the finals.

I'm just buttering you up because I want you to send me your notes for the finals preview.

I have to write a finals preview.

And since you retired from writing, these things fall upon me.

Can you at least send me your notes?

What about a co-written finals preview?

I'll do most of the work, but a couple of Zach Lowe bullets.

That would be really cool in there.

What do you think?

I'm going to go into Claude and I'll be like, hey, Claude, turn this screenshot into a Zach Lowe finals preview.

I'll give you one more that I wish I had come up with, but I talked to one of the smart executives in the league yesterday, and he told me this.

This current 3-2-1 era is set to sunset in 2029.

And I wish I would have come up with this idea, but there's some uncertainty about those future firsts.

What are the rules going to be?