What is up, everybody?

And welcome to the Lockdown Nuggets podcast, part of the Lockdown NBA Network.

I'm your host, Adam Mades.

Matt Moore has the day off.

I'm flying solo today from the host seat.

But I do have a great guest with me today, the host of the Game Theory podcast, and writer

for the athletic covering the NBA

draft for many years, including this one at Sam Vassini. Sam, it's good to see you, man.

We usually get to see each other once a year at Summer League, and as is the case with a lot of us

with riders, what's not going to happen this year. We're not going to, you know, this is our

face-to-face interaction. A huge bummer, man. I miss Summer League. I miss seeing you. I miss seeing

all of the great writers out in Denver. I am especially bummed that Matt isn't here. So I, you know,

I'm at least going to take a few stray shots at Matt while we're recording because if

there's one thing that I love doing, it is taking dear shots at my sweet friend Matthew Moore.

Well, I can encourage you to take as many shots as you like. In many ways, it's better when he's not

here. And then he listens in the car tomorrow and he's like, what? you guys say what the hell come on man so i wanted to ask you this because i i had no idea but

you're in australia visiting what's going on here yeah so my wife is from melbourne originally

nice and we have been thinking about moving for,

you know, a couple years now. And as soon as we got married last August, we decided to start

the process in like real terms. Yeah. Doesn't actually have anything to do with coronavirus, doesn't have anything to do with

the political situation in the country. It's literally just my wife is Australian and

we wanted to be around her family and we decided that it was the right time to do that.

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