Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben.

Welcome back to another episode.

Cody, we are fresh off the,

why are you looking to me that way?

What happened?

Did I do something weird?

No, no, you're fine.

I think I was just staring off into nothingness because I'm waiting to see where you're going to steer this ship because in this vast ocean bend, I'm just looking at the horizon and wondering where, where in the sunrise we're going to be sailing here.

That's how I felt the last week without any basketball.

I was just going to say we're coming off the All-Star weekend,

which shall not be discussed from here to eternity.

And that's how I felt during the All-Star game.

I actually, I will confess,

I stop watching the All-Star game years ago

because, well, for obvious reasons now at this point

but I did watch seven minutes of the all-star game and it made me never want to watch basketball again.

Okay I'm not going to talk about this year's all-star game because I promised I wouldn't, but I do want to say the all-star game holds a special purpose in my life, Ben.

Like back when I was a youngster just getting into basketball, I didn't have like ESPN and stuff. I was in the boondocks where you know we were getting like three channels sort of thing. So a friend of mine recorded the 2007 All-Star game and the amount of times that I watched the 2007 All-Star, it's really shocking and

scary because if you don't have ESPN and T and T, there's shockingly little basketball to watch.

That was like your own mixtape, the 2007 All-star game? Yeah, it was like that and then like the Jor, not Jordan, Michael Jordan's playground. There was like NBA Super Slams volume two. That was my like NBA upbringing.. Well here's my question for you today

this is where I'm gonna steer the ship. Would you think the following player that

I'm about to describe

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