Hello and welcome the Hoop Collective Podcast. We talk about the MDA which we are doing on Thursday evening.

Joining us from Madison Square Garden, where he's willfully ignoring the Mavericks

Nick's game to give us fresh takes on the trade deadline is Tim Bon Teps. Unfortunately, before the game, when I had a window to do it,

McMahon had to do something more important genuinely, which is coach basketball.

So we had to wait a little bit.

So now I'm not watching half the

mavs play half the late half the nicks so we said half the lakers half the nicks

joining us from Dallas where he's seated coverage of the Mavericks to Bon Thames

this week is Mann McNeil.

Howdy Partners.

Hey, good to be here.

It was an intense fifth grade basketball practice tonight.

We're ready to talk a little bit of trade deadline, a busy trade

deadline. Not sure how impactful, but certainly busy. Did, uh, did it with any trades

in the fifth grade team, trading out any players? There was a couple mid-scrimmage

deals, but uh, those haven't gone through the league office yet.

All right, that's good. So right now in LA, the Lakers game with the Nuggets hasn't started yet, and it is full on Kobe mania in the streets of LA. So it being 2 824, long ago was designated as the day that the Lakers would unveil the Kobe statue and Kobe fans have been packing the streets around crypto.com arena for hours.

There are trucks circulating with like billboards on them. I don't know if it's a I don't know who's sponsoring it every Lakers are sponsoring it just with you know just saying it's Kobe Statute Day and everybody's wearing a Kobe Jersey and they're all here to see the statue which you can't see.

I don't know what's happening right now, but the statue unveiling was done inside a tent,

inside a makeshift fence, and nobody can get real close to it and so it was a whole bunch of people who were coming down here to see the statue and I mean I don't I suppose they could take it down but it a giant, it's not like an easy tent. It took

from three days to build the tent, it's probably gonna take them three days to take it down. So anyway, it's just

absolute Kobe mania and look the Lakers haven't played the none.

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