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Well, prior to the NBA draft, I was at a three on the Maller scale of excitement.

Now that the NBA draft of 2018 has come and gone,

I'm going to put that at it too.

I'm going to put that at it too.

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I would not use words like exciting, astonishing, breathtaking to describe

the 2018

NBA, that's right. A lot of booze. A lot of booze for the NBA Jeff. It was not

great theater. And I know it wasn't great theater because most

of the excitement was the fact that woe went rogue and defied

company policy over at the evil four letter that small startup in Bristol and defied the

mandate not to tweet out picks in advance which was very disappointing for people like shams and

Mark Stein and some of the other guys.

And he had to use certain words and all that.

It was very enjoyable.

Like, well, you know, fire him, right?

I guess he figures what the hell.

Who cares?

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