Hello and welcome to the Hoop Collective Podcast. Happy holidays to everybody.

Joining us from New York City here on Saturday morning, December 23rd is Tim Bon Temps.

Hello, fellas.

How are we doing?

Tim's getting over to the Knicks game here in a little while, but he's going to head down to Miami to cover the 76ers

and Heat Force on Christmas Day and heading off to Phoenix on Christmas Day to cover the Mavericks

at the Sun's is one of Dallas's finest, the one the only

banned McMahon.

Howdy partners?

They felt like the sons needed some Christmas cheer, so they sent me there to give them so.

They're going to be so happy to see you I'm sure Luca will be as well.

Luca has always said he loves spending his Christmases with you.

I think that's his favorite part of playing on Christmas. I think that's right. He's like, boy,

Christmas with Devon Booker and Tim McMahon. Lorious, that's what I signed up for the NBA for.

All right, so we're gonna take a look here at the Christmas Day games.

Got five of them, you guys are going to be a two of them.

But the first game out of the shoot is Bucks at Nix on Christmas at noon Eastern and the Knicks interestingly for this game

I believe Bon Temps are going to be without both Mitchell Robinson obviously he's

out long term and Jericho Sims who's been starting in his place and you know the

bucks aren't the perfect team they're we're working on various things but they are

one of the most dominating paint scoring teams in the NBA particularly because Janus is one of the great paint

scores in the history of the game certainly in the modern era and I don't know if I'd be so excited

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