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Hello, I sound now.

It's not okay.

Would you ask Pop that question?

Let's do it.

Welcome to the Athletic NBA show.

Monday through on the Athletic Podcast Network.

Okay, here we go.

And it's another edition of Hoops of Jason on the Athletic NBA show, David Alders here in D.C.

Happy New Year, everybody, before we start, just prayers to DeMar Hamlin and his family and the Bills and the Bengals.

Man, I just, you know, when you finally see something that you've never seen before in real time it's um

it's humbling you know um it's unfortunately not the first i have experience with this um which i'll

talk about in a little bit but i want to welcome marcus and will gillery our guest the pelicans beatrider

for the athletic um welcome them into the show.

But I just wanted to say a few words about this before we get started, fellas, because when I was one of the first, I remember it like it was yesterday.

When I first started at the Washington Post cover in high school football, a kid basically had a heart attack on the field and died.

And I'll never ever forget that.

And it was the most helpless feeling I ever had in my life because I didn't know what to say.

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