Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast.

I'm your host Sam Vassini.

We are presented by The Athletic today on the show.

Matthew Penny is here.

What up, Ben?

How you doing?

Ooh, I'm great. I think I'm fully recovered from Las Vegas a week ago.

I, um, my ear popped on the way down for the plane and I couldn't hear on my right ear

for about a week and a half. And now I'm back to 100%. So I feel like I'm as sharp as ever.

Yeah, that's a, that's always a tough time whenever the ear pops because you never know when

you're going to get it back. You wake up in the morning hoping that you can hear. I had that once a couple

years ago where I had to present and I landed and both of them popped. So I walked in this meeting.

You don't know if you're whispering or like screaming, you're just kind of like judging the facial expressions of the people. Like, am I way too loud or way too quiet right now?

I got to keep going. I have to present. But you, uh, you can't adjust your levels on your microphone

like we have the luxury of doing here. You're like that, uh, character that Will Ferrell used to

play. They can't modulate the sound of his voice on

siren night live.

That was me.

At least I was half voice modulation lately.

Oh my God.

So today's episode is going to be a mock draft episode of the Game Theory podcast.

We were doing a 2022 NBA mock draft one week into the college basketball season in a draft that is

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