Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben.

Welcome back. Today, middle of the playoffs, yet another guest, I've convinced people to join me on this podcast experiment.

It's Nurders she wrote. He's at the athletic now. Just got over to the athletic, does some

podcasting and other contributions over there. I mean he's, I gotta say he spent a good five to seven minutes at the beginning prodding me into talking about pop culture things like Game of Thrones and Marvel films so if you're not interested in that you can I think it's six or seven minutes but very fun chat as always any anytime I get to sync up with Dave. He's extremely fun to talk to and in this episode just a lot about where we are in the playoffs right

now heading into some game sevens over the weekend as we record this the eve of

rockets warriors game six.

So without further I do, my chat with Dave D. Four, enjoy.

I'm excited to be here.

I'm not listening to your intro,

so I have no idea if you said good things or bad

things about me all bad maybe one good thing yeah I mean that's that's

accurate that's accurate only one good thing know, it's my beautiful face.

Well, speaking of your face to get esoteric right out of the gate, I do miss your Captain

Jean-Luke Picard avatar on Twitter on Twitter.

Oh, you don't like the Stone Cold one?

It's harder to see.

It is.

It is harder to see.

Yeah, you know, I probably should just go back

to my old face logo, not even old. I mean, it's still like a current logo, but, you know, I should probably just put my face up there and just my face. Just super tight shot, you know,

all the way like where you,

with my head tilted slightly up

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