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00:00here is the western conference playoff picture the oklahoma city thunder won that number one
00:05seed a long time ago and by a very substantial margin in fact the closing margin 16 games in
00:12front of the houston rockets but last week as well the rockets had clinched the two seed with
00:18a victory on friday night over that two seed the lakers did clinch the three seed of course we
00:24detailed how the rest of the western conference playoff picture did take shape denver wins
00:29clinching the four seed and home for advantage in their opening round set against the clippers
00:33who won a thriller in ot yesterday against golden state sending the dubs to the play in tourney
00:39the clippers as the five seed and minnesota a home victory against the utah jazz the t-wolves
00:45had two very easy games in their final three to end out the regular season weekend and they took
00:51advantage of both of those to be the six seed as we look at the western conference standings
00:56in these first two playoff series that we know drs three six matchup lakers t-wolves four five matchup
01:05nuggets hosting the clippers which of those two sets that we already have determined intrigues you the
01:10most oh it's got to be the clippers and the nuggets it really does because how many times you get to
01:15take a chance at the clippers like point ben if they could just they're never healthy in the playoffs
01:20they're going to just bow out now granted we're at the playoffs right now what happens after this we
01:24don't know but if you're going to tell me that the clippers the way they're playing basketball right
01:28now and completely healthy why can't they do damage this is what we waited on it's usually
01:32oh james harden slowed down with a hamstring injury or kawai with some mysterious knee injury where he
01:37was just boarding a flight and absolutely twisted his knee and tore his acl that's been the mo here
01:42for the past couple years i mean who can forget paul george with the clippers like hey big game tonight
01:46covid i'm out and so there goes our season in the protocols they've had every which way to be
01:51snake bit in the playoffs and finally now showing up healthy against maybe a vulnerable nuggets team
01:57going over the coaching transition here maybe some infighting there in turmoil and not a great
02:01season as they anticipated which they thought maybe they can be the number one overall seed so for me
02:05that's intriguing and also game number one where they are underdogs in that one if i was going to
02:10take maybe a shot at a clippers ticket here to win that playoff series in round number one and maybe
02:14a shot for the western conference finals this would be a really good indicator but i'm not slandering
02:19the timberwolves in the knicks luka donchitz and lebron james playing in a basketball series is
02:23fantastic anthony edwards that's great but the clippers nuggets that's where my focus is going
02:27to be in the west