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Welcome to the Slam and Jam here on the Athletic NBA show. I'm your Sandra Schlect. Go to the Athletic.com slash NBA show and get the

athletic for a discounted rate. It's a place where you can read Sam Vassini's latest mock draft, and that is who is on the show with me today. No Alex Spears, unfortunately. But in his place, my guy, Sam Vassini. Sam, what's up?

Look, it's a downgrade.

Alex is the best.

I love Alex so much, and he's the best.

I'm just sad he couldn't be here with us.

I think that's the biggest thing.

I know. I do have less anxiety because I don't have to do trivia about

mascots that you know have different names or mascots that were chosen from like a pool of different

mascot themes don't have to worry about that today, but I thought it'd be a great time. We got the the tournament is going on like as we speak. It's been going on all day. It's been a very fun day

I thought we could talk about these prospects today in a meaningful way

But first I had this question posed to me the other day and I thought I almost text you about it

And then I was like man if I can get him on the show I'd rather ask him in a podcast setting this question

So you just did a really like mega Jaylin Williams podcast on your show game theory, which is you should just go watch it on YouTube

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