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Now, back to you, better you bet, with Nick Costos on Westwood One's fourths.

The ESPN courtesy of the highlight, now one of the best games of the season, if you bet

the Houston Rockets like I did, I get some Minnesota temporal wolves.

Look, I'm done with this team.

I'm done with the Houston Rockets.

I'm over it.

I don't need to see them anymore.

I think what's likely is we will get Lakers Rockets in the first round in the three six,

and that is the one team that the Lakers can actually beat, and you know what?

Unless you are a huge Rockets fan or a gigantic Laker Hader, you should be rooting for that.

It's LeBron and Luca and the purple and gold advancing to at least the second rounds

of the playoffs, probably to play Wembee and the Spurs, would be must watch television.

Get the Rockets out of my face, and if you don't know what happened last night, it's not

just that the Rockets lost in Minnesota with no Anthony Edwards, like that is, it's

not great, but you know what?

Like the wolves just beat the Celtics with no Anthony Edwards.

They're pretty good.

Julius Randall is pretty good.

Like a good player is on the roster, obviously, right?

It's the fact that, I mean, this, if you don't know what happened, this is going to sound

like I'm making it up.

The game goes to overtime, right, tied at 95.

The Rockets score.

The first, I'm not making this up.

The Rockets scored the first 13 points of overtime.

So like we are midway through the five minute overtime and Houston is leading 108 95 against

a Timberwolves team that does not have Anthony Edwards.

Final score, wolves 110, Rockets 108.

Since play by play, and I'm not talking broadcasting, but since play by play started getting

tracked as intricately as intricately, try to say that word intricately, as it is now

back in 1997, that is the biggest ever come back in overtime since 1997, 1997.

You know, before the last dance in the NBA, before John L. Way and the Broncos had won

a Super Bowl, 1997, and Anthony Edwards didn't play.

I'm so good on this Houston Rockets team.

I'm good on E-mail Udoka, I'm good on Kevin Durant, I'm good on Gendun, go away.

Like get to the first round, get your ass handed to you on a silver platter by the Lakers

and go to Cabo and get out of my face.

I'm over it.

What a waste of talent and a waste of opportunity for the 2025 26 Houston Rockets.

Am I pissed that I lost money on the game?

Yes.

You better, you bet on this Thursday.

A couple other notes from the NBA last night.

So don't look now, but the Atlanta Hawks who were the left for dead earlier this season,

the plain terribly trade trade young, are now in the five seed in the Eastern Conference

after their overtime win last night on the road in Detroit.

Jalen Johnson, who is probably going to be on an all NBA team.

He's been spectacular.

He's really ascended to the next level.

Jalen Johnson scores 27, C.J. McCollum scores 27 and a great win for the Atlanta Hawks

on the road.

Jalen Durant misses a shot at the buzzer that could have tied the game and sent it to

double overtime.

But I once again walk away from a Detroit Pistons game saying, I feel even better about

this team than I did before.

Like Cade Cunningham's not playing.

He's not playing.

And the Pistons keep on winning and keep on contending in these games.

Janice Jenkins, 19 points, Oscar Thompson with 18 points, Durant with 26 and 14.

The Pistons assuming they hold on to the one seed, look, they lost last night in Boston

one.

So like it's not guaranteed that Detroit's going to have the one seed, but probably assuming

that A, the Pistons hold on to the one seed and B, Cade Cunningham returns for the start

of the playoffs.

The Pistons will look back on this and say that this was a good thing that Cade missed

this time.

Not that you want your start to get hurt, but now other players have had to step up as

a result.

And that makes them more viable come playoff time.

Now if you're the Pistons, the team that you don't want to see in the first round,

and I'm fascinated.

If you the listener and viewer, if you know the team, I'm about to reference because we've

talked a lot about, you know, Toronto is currently the six, right?

And there are half game up on the sixers for the seven and then there's Miami and then

there's Charlotte and then there's Orlando.

These are all viable teams.

None of these are Gibroni, you know, nine or ten seed, that can potentially somehow sneak

into the first round.

Like in the West, you could potentially have Portland or like the zombie warriors and

who knows of Curry's coming back like in the East, these are all like legit teams.

The team that Detroit should not want to see the team that Boston or the Nick should not

want to see is the Philadelphia 76ers.

Joellen B returns last night, 35, 6 and 7, pulled George back from his 25 game suspension,

28 points.

DJ Edgecomb, 22, 6ers, 157, bulls, 137, and Tyrese Max, he's not even back yet.

If the sixers are fully healthy and sober and Kate Cunningham's not 100% tell me that Philly

Pistons isn't an interesting series, that Philly Boston's not an interesting series, that

Philly, New York's not an interesting series.

I'm not saying I'd pick the sixers, but I mean that that's way better than your average

front of the mill, 18 or 27 matchup.

And just Billy Donovan, like really, like you just had 160 dropped on your dome.

Just go to North Carolina, please, and make all of this better.

And this is the last point on the NBA.

So last night, the Wizards beat the jazz 133 110 in one of the worst NBA games you could

possibly imagine from two teams that are racing to the bottom for a topic in the NBA draft.

I'm going to ask this question to everybody.

Do you all know the team that is currently the team with the worst record in the NBA,

the team that if the season ended right now, and it doesn't, but if it did, what have

the most ping pong balls in the lottery, it's the Indiana Pacers who lost last night to

the Lakers, you know, the team that took the thunder to seven in the NBA finals last year.

It is very much within the realm of possibility that we will be talking about an NBA season

next year and a Pacers team that has a returning Tyree's Halliburton flanked by AJ DeBonza,

Darren Peterson, Pam Booser, Caleb Wilson, or one of these other draft studs.

Many people will bring up the 97 San Antonio Spurs as a corollary.

David Robinson gets hurt, they tank, they win the lottery and get Tim Duncan.

They are champions in 1999.

I don't want to go that far.

Yet, just keep that in mind.

The team with the worst record right now is the team that played game seven last year in the NBA

finals.

Billy Z is already delivered one epic trivia question today.

He's here with another Billy Z.

What do we got?

All right, Nick.

This one I think is a little easier for you and for the real ones, but we were talking

plenty about Netflix's broadcast last night, MLB opening night.

And of course, Barry Bonds, the all-time home run leader with 762.

There are nine players that have hit 600 or more career home runs, but only one of them

never won an MVP.

Who is it?

Jim told me.

Correct.

All our bets for tonight on the other side to wrap up the Thursday edition of the show

right after this.

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