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Welcome back ladies and gentlemen to the latest edition of Weekends on Your Host.

Big watch, aka Washington Land Bray and I'm joined by a very, very, very, very special guest.

You've heard this guy on ESPN's airwaves over the years, writing for them, stats guru, you've read his stuff in Bleacher.

I'm sure you've heard him on metal art media with Dan Lebertard and crew hands some time.

Have a stroll. What's going on brother?

Hey, it's going well, man. I play pickup hoops this morning. I'm feeling good.

I'm telling you, man, we had a six a.m. run and I'm mad.

Yo, airball my first lay. I haven't played in a year. Okay. So I airballed my first layup and I had it was the first time I went these guys.

So you know when you're playing pickup and you got like a few possessions to kind of set the tone about the kind of game.

Right. And I had a floater in the lane right off the cup and I'm just like airballed it straight up.

And I think I heard someone go, who brought this guy?

So if you watched the first game that Kyrie played with Dallas, a lot of his teammates were looking at him in amazement

that he could just hop in and just do what he was doing. That was your except the opposite.

Yeah. Yeah. Your new teammates been looking at you like what in the world have we gotten ourselves into?

Yes. Yes. So my hamstrings are already hurting. This wasn't yesterday. This was this morning. And I'm already sore.

So this is this is the life of a washed human being. That's why I don't even hoop like to do cardio.

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