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And welcome back. It's another edition of Hoops Adjacent on the Athletic NBA show.

David Aldrich here. We got two in the law today. My man, Was, Waz is in the valley, as always. I don't leave Encino, man. I might go to Tarzana every now and again, but Temecula. Do you go to Temecula? I understand stuff. Well, Tomecula is way down south D.A. I went there one time. I'm not going to lie to you, man.

I've been to Napa, never been to Paso-Roblays. Went to Temecula. Very disappointing. I'm not going to mind. The place was a disappointment. I know. I hear stuff jumps off there, man. You know. And joining us also from the confines near Rose Bowl Central, our man, Brad Turner from the L.A. Times, B.T.

What up, I know?

The D to the A, to the B to the A.

What's weird, brother?

Hang it in there, man.

Hanging in, hanging in, hanging in, hanging in, man.

So, Matt, wanted to have you on.

Shout out to everybody.

We all hurting a man's sake who passed on Tuesday.

One of the great dudes, whoever, you know, covered the sleigh friend to everyone was was just a

great great person to everybody man because you could tell all the social media tributes

all the same everybody said the same thing just a just the stand-up dude and man we're going to miss

him so much bt and waz i mean

he was just one of those guys you know i work with him for 10 years at turner and just man just

just good people just good people that was my guy d a you know i first met him when he was in

india yeah covering the pacers yeah yeah and at that time i Indiana. Yeah, covering the Pacers.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

And at that time, I worked in Riverside, covering the Lakers, and you're beating, and instantly, you become boys.

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