Zach Lowe

I just want to quickly go through the East, the bottom half of these playoffs, because this is like, I've reached a stage where it's like, just wake me up, not wake me up, but like, I'm not going to track the standings every day.

Cause all of a sudden it's like Philly's back in six Toronto's in the play in Orlando's ninth, Miami's 10th, Charlotte is eighth.

The race for eight's an important one.

Like we need Charlotte as neutral fans.

We need Charlotte to get to eight, to get two shots, to get into the playoffs.

And the rest of these should not want them to get into eighth.

I just, you know, Atlanta,

Atlanta has got a chokehold on the fifth spot because they have the Sixers tie break.

They do not have the Raptors tie break.

And these are just like a bunch of teams.

It's like, I don't know.

The team I know is Charlotte.

Charlotte has been really, really good for 55 games now.

The Raptors, look, I know Quickly was out and Brandon Ingram was out.

Lost to the Kings at home.

Like the rare, it's like Haley's Comet when one of the tanking teams beats a non-tanking team.

And we saw it, we got a sighting last night.

And the magic, we all made fun of them for giving up the 31-0 run, which is like, they could have put me in and I might have been able to stop the 31-0 run.

I would have at least committed a flagrant foul.

And then they responded with a nice win over Phoenix.