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Learn more at vertexinck.com. Welcome to the Basket Buds edition of the Athletic NBA show.

I am your temporary host, Dave DeFore, filling in for Zach Harper.

We got Trevon Edwards.

We got Jay King.

What's up, guys?

It's mid-September.

We're all looking ahead to training camp.

Trey met Victor Wimbunyama, apparently.

And what do you have to report it there?

He's tall. This kid kid is very very limber

bro that's that's the best thing i can potentially say i was at a Nike world festival they pulled out

all the stops you know day one they had Ron Harper and Scotty Pippen sitting next to each other.

Jason Kidd was there.

You know, it was the interesting bunch.

And then you come back the next day, you got Dirk, you got McHale Bridges, you got Devin

Booker, you got, I mean, Josh Giddy.

The preseason press cycles are already starting.

Is that what we're at?

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