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I'm gonna have Germano Neil on he was a six-time all-in-bj guy. I covered Germano Neil out of high school

He's a remarkable story. He was involved in the malls in the palace and they have a Netflix documentary

I have not seen it. I'm gonna try to squeeze it in this weekend

It's a low point for the NBA

I've never gotten more hate mail in my career. You think Baker may field hate mail is bad the most hate mail

I've ever received in my career was after the malls of the palace

I took the side of the players who are literally in this pit with these fans throwing things at them with these and some of these fans ended up being just awful people

Criminal records bad people just go into a game to look for a fight and trouble and

I'll say to this day. Don't blame the players at all

At all, but let me watch the Netflix documentary and I'll find out what happened

But Germano Neil was involved in a fascinating story and and Germano Neil's one of those guys

I don't want to waste your time here, but but I will tell you I covered him and Portland was loaded

They had our Vita's subonus and Rashid Wallace and Scotty Pippin and all these guys and he was this kid from South Carolina

I was a baby and Bob Witsett drafted him and said listen

He's going to be a great player, but we don't have a lot of minutes for him

He was so dominant at practice because the team

You know it was a bunch of older veterans and they grind and then here's Germain 18 years old flying around

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