We end the year in style by bringing on Cousin Mikey, another West Coast transplant who spends his days gambling on Basketball with a bunch of Australians and buying all the hot new NBA kicks.

We discuss his views on Amare - he has always ranked him as one of the NBA's biggest cancers and on Melo - he agrees that the man has been reborn. He has many theories, one is that Melo's game has improved due to unknown personal factors. I describe the Amare-Melo dynamic, which I believe to be basically Amare is Melo's driver.

We also get into some Laker and Clipper talk and even discuss the upstart T-Wolves who gave us quite a scare this week, before J.R. Smith and Melo willed us to victory. It was a tough week after our first home losses, but hopefully we can step it up on a relatively easy 3 game west coast swing.

Happy Holidays to all of our listeners. Thanks to those of you who tuned into my new TV Show "Chained to My Ex"

Jeff Cerulli and I will be back to discuss the 2013 drive to the NBA finals after the new years!