Hello, welcome to the Hoop Collective Podcast. We talk about the NBA, which we are doing on Tuesday

evening and afternoon.

I'm still overseas, headed back to Las Vegas on Wednesday.

So because of that and some challenges with the time change we will not be discussing the in

Susan tournament quarterfinals I know how are you ever going to get anybody to tell

you about anything that happened there but I am getting instead of something that everybody knows about some stuff here that a lot of people don't know about which is the upcoming NBA draft class with the leader in the entire field and that's our Jonathan Givoni draft express

legend Jonathan Givoni joining us from New York City. What's up Jonathan?

I'm great Brian, how are you? I'm really good. Looking forward

the end season tournament, looking forward to our live show, which is on Friday night

at 7 o'clock. You can still get tickets at Wendy who at bitly

com slash windy hoop Vegas

But Jonathan I guess we're gonna have some entertainment

You know competition because you reported a story that came out on Tuesday about the

NBA setting up a Bisca scouting opportunity and an ESPN2 game on Friday night at 8 o'clock that will involve potential 2025,

number one overall pick Cooper Flag.

What do you know about this and what should we be, you know, getting a great chance to see Cooper Flag? What should we be looking for?

Yes, so the MBA has gotten increasingly aggressive here with youth basketball market.

We saw last year, they televised every game that Victor Wen Vanneyama played on the NBA app they streamed it then they did the Nike

EYBL they've done several other youth events and they're partnering here with

with Nike to you know to create this really cool event. It's six high school teams coming to Las Vegas. They're going to be at the games in season tournament. They're going to have all these life skill sessions, some coaching sessions, and it's one of a handful of events that

the NBA has certified for scouts to attend because the NBA can pick and choose what they

want to certify and why not certify an event which they are obviously partners in with Nike

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