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Hello and welcome to the Game Theory podcast.

I'm your host Sam Vassini.

We are presented by The Athletic.

Today on the show, Bryce Simon is in the building.

And for the first time in Bryce's tenure on the Game Theory podcast, we're doing a game theory mock draft for people that are longtime listeners you will

know the deal for people that are new bryce and i will go back and forth making picks one through

30 until we get to number 30 we'll talk about some guys at the end maybe we're going to take a

couple of questions at the top but the bulk of this episode is going to be Bryce and I going back and forth,

making draft picks. This early in the process, we do not use team specific anything,

although that team behind you right there, Bryce. Oh boy. Easy. They might need something.

Easy, Sam. I was telling you before we started that anytime i tweet about the NBA draft

because most of my followers on twitter are pistons people which makes sense that's what i kind of came up

doing they always think it's related directly to the pistons and so i have to remind them sometimes

like no no no this is like a general thing that i do on top of watching every Pistons game and all of that.

So when I tweet about it, they're like, hey, calm down.

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