Hello and welcome to the Hoop Collective Podcast.

We talk about the NBA, or in this case, National Team Basketball, which we are doing on Monday

morning here in Abu Dhabi.

But I believe it's sometimes Sunday evening.

I honestly don't have a great field of time zones in Southern California.

I don't even actually know where you are, Tim Bontemps.

I just hope you're staying dry and the weather is not too bad.

I'm in Southern California, where there is the remnants of a hurricane or tropical storm

or something, and there was a lot of concern.

Hopefully everybody's okay, but I just saw a bunch of rain today.

So it seemed like a fairly standard storm, thankfully, at least where I'm at.

All right.

Joining us from Dallas, Texas, where he's out of Southern California, back to the safety

of 100 degree temperatures in North Texas is Bannock Man.

100 and pretty significant change.

And I did spend most of the weekend L.A. and I got home and fell us.

There was a package waiting on me.

My friends, the University of North Texas Athletic Department, baby, look at this.

Take flight going to the American Athletic Conference.

I got golf shirt.

I got T-shirts.

I got a refrigerator magnet.

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