What's up everybody, it's Austin Rivers from the Minnesota Temple Wells.

It's a new year and I have a new podcast here at The Ringer, off guard, hosted by me and my guy,

Pasha Higigi.

Austin and I go way back and talk so much through already that we figured

those time to fire up the mics and let you in on all of these conversations.

Every week, Pasha and I will head on to biggest stories happening in the league

and get Austin's perspective of someone currently open in the NBA.

Tap into off guard, every Friday on the Ringer NBA Show Feed on Spotify

or wherever you get your podcast.

Hello, hello, hello, welcome to a pre-draft, pre-free agency edition of the answer.

We've got Michael Pina here.

We have a Bradley Beal trade that we'll be doing some of the final reflections on here

and thinking about where the suns go from here.

And then we've got six NBA storylines that you guys should be paying attention to

with the draft coming up.

There's a lot to talk about.

I feel like the nuggets won a championship about a week ago.

And since then, we've pretty much forgotten about them and we've gone full speed

into trade and behave free agency draft speculation.

But rightfully so, I feel like this Thursday could be bananas.

We always say that it could be bananas.

But man, I don't know, I feel like a lot of...

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