00:00So the Spurs play the Thunder, and it all gets started tonight.
00:04And as I mentioned earlier in the show, Kevin, this is a rare situation to see Oklahoma City a light
00:11favorite, minus six and a half.
00:13So I think what I would look at here is just simply put, did you believe what you saw, Kevin,
00:20during the regular season?
00:21Did you believe that the Spurs, I mean, forget about dominating.
00:26Let's not even go there.
00:27Did you believe that the Spurs can be in this series with the Thunder?
00:31The odds are telling us, yes, the odds are telling us that this may not be a four-gamer or
00:36a five-gamer.
00:37Yeah, I would be stunned if it was, Craig.
00:39Quite frankly, the way the NBA is, and look, I like this league, but, you know, you can't run from
00:46certain things.
00:47You get to the postseason, and you're like, all right, let's look at the regular season sample size and how
00:52heavily can we weigh it.
00:53Nick's Cavs, they played three times.
00:56Two of them actually, I mean, was pre-hardened trade, right?
01:00A lot of times, Craig, it's massive injuries like, oh, look, this guy didn't play, this guy didn't play.
01:06The Thunder were at their healthiest when they were losing to the Spurs.
01:11Wemby was coming off of the bench in a couple of those games, Craig.
01:15You can't, to me, dismiss those results.
01:18They were so loud, so impactful, I thought, here.
01:23And the other piece of it for the Spurs is they aren't this, like, scrappy six-seed who made it
01:29here.
01:29They're a 62-win basketball team.
01:31They have the second-best record in the league, and that was with only getting the 64 games in the
01:36regular season that Victor Webinyama played.
01:39So I think the Spurs hang.
01:42I do.
01:42My thought right now is Thunder in seven.
01:45I think there's some value, Craig, on Spurs to win game one, Thunder to win the series, which is around
01:50five to one, depending on where you look here.
01:54And to win the NBA Finals, it would seem to me, if I'm reading the Walsh tea leaves right here,
02:01you may be in on San Antonio plus 310 in this series here.
02:05I don't know.
02:05Or maybe you're on the Knicks.
02:06I don't think you think Cavs are beating the Knicks.
02:08That's just my take here.
02:09But I think, okay, so Spurs or Knicks, maybe, for you, potentially?
02:14So I think there's, to me, there's just no value at this point on Oklahoma City.
02:18I don't believe in the Cavs.
02:20If you have no tickets on NBA champions, I do think there is some intrigue, Craig, in betting New York
02:31because they are playing so noticeably different.
02:35And it coincides with the dominant run that they are on, that it's possible they are every bit as good
02:45as the Thunder and the Spurs.
02:46The way they are rolling right now in this postseason, it is of a 60-win, 65-win caliber team.
02:57And because it doesn't just feel, oh, you know, sometimes teams get hot, Craig.
03:03Like, they are altering how they attack offensively.
03:07It's unlocking their full potential.
03:10Defensively, it's keeping them more engaged, a little bit fresher, I think, as well.
03:15So, like, I, if it's Knicks-Thunder, which I think it will be, I will pick OKC.
03:20If it's Knicks-Spurs, I would probably be picking the upset, Craig, in that finals.
03:25We'll see you next time.
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