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Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dunks podcast on the Athletic Network.

It's Tuesday, December 22nd.

Happy NBA day to each and every one of you watching and listening.

We got a fun podcast here this morning and get you hyped for the start of the regular season.

I'm Jay Skeets along with Trey Kirby, Lee Lee, and The Man Making the Magic Happ, JD. And today we got a special guest. That's not Tass. He sort of looks like him because he's got a great beer. But incredibly, this is his first time we think on the podcast. Kirk, Goldsbury, Kirk, appreciate you coming on. No Dunks. How you doing, man? It's been way too long. I think this

has been too long, and I'm happy to be here, and I'm doing very well, very excited, and sort of

stunned for today's opening gay and ring night and all the stuff that we're going to see this

evening. Yeah, you said you woke up this morning and didn't really realize that the NBA season was starting

here tonight on December 22nd. You know, and I don't think LeBron James knows it either, but he'll

find out sometime around lunch that he has to play tonight, I think. It is really weird. All right,

well, for those that don't know Kirk, I wanted to hit the listeners and people joining us on the

stream team right now with sort of like

your abbreviated resume just to get everybody up to speed current NBA analyst at ESPN New York

Times hello bestselling author of sprawl ball there it is right there I had it up on my bookshelf

professor at the University of Texas you're an analyst for Team USA basketball,

and we're formally a VP with the San Antonio Spurs, and then now you're like a cartographer

slash artist having just created a Smith International Park Map, which we're going to get to

later in the podcast. There's a little tease for you. We're going to do a deep dive on this unbelievable thing. Is there anything I'm missing there, though, Kirk? No, I'm just, I'm happy to be here and I've had a wild career. I would say essentially because I was into basketball analytics in the 2010s, my career got me yanked around because we didn't know what analytics was. We didn't

know where it was going. We didn't know who needed it most. And so I just got yanked around,

but it was a real fun process. And I'm happy to be where I am at ESPN and happy to be at UT

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