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00:00Celtics or the field?
00:01Wide open, I think, for the Celtics.
00:04If you had to vote right now, would you take the field or the Celtics?
00:07So I'm going to take the Celtics,
00:09and it's because I think they're 100% getting to the finals.
00:12As much as I like the Cavs and Donovan Mitchell,
00:15and I think that might be an A series,
00:17but I'm 100% taking them to get to the finals.
00:20I think the Thunder are the best team in the West.
00:22I will take the Celtics right now in a nail-biter series over the Thunder,
00:27but the reason why I'm a little bit more confident in the overall answer
00:29is because no guarantee the Thunder get there.
00:32And if it's anybody other than the Thunder, I have quite a bit of confidence,
00:35and if it is the Thunder, I have a smidge of confidence.
00:38So to answer your question, I'll take the seat.
00:39And I agree with the way you're looking at it.
00:41It's just who's more likely to get to the finals?
00:43The Celtics are more likely to get there.
00:45If it's Boston and OKC, I personally would take OKC.
00:49I would disagree with you on that.
00:50They're both healthy. It's best on best.
00:52I would take Oklahoma City over the Celtics.
00:54But I acknowledge the Thunder have a way tougher path to get there,
00:57and the Celtics are much more likely to get there.
01:00So if you're playing the odds, the Celtics will be there.
01:01I'm not sure the Thunder will.
01:03I get that logic.
01:04I would take the field over the Celtics based purely on OKC
01:07being the best team in the league and better head-to-head.
01:10When they played them this year, they got to get there.
01:13But I do think the Celtics have a relatively wide open path to get there.
01:17I don't want to call it easy.
01:18Last year was easy.
01:20When you're missing superstars on the other side,
01:22they're injured, they're not even playing, that's easy.
01:24And that's historically a joke.
01:27As long as they get healthy teams this year,
01:29Orlando's healthy, New York slash Detroit is healthy in round two,
01:33Cleveland's healthy in the finals.
01:34I'm not going to call it easy.
01:35I do think it's wide open.
01:36But that's a credit to the Celtics.
01:37They're just that much better than the rest of the Eastern Conference.