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We welcome in.

Ava Wallace who covers the Wizards and tennis for the Washington Post.

Her Twitter is at Ava our Wallace.

Good morning.

Thank you for joining us.

Hey, nice to have a nice to have you. You can tell how long when I did fit for me. Yeah, thank you for having me

Let's start that over one time. What time did you get to bed, Ava after the news broke?

Um, I went to bed at around 130 and I've been up since around five. Wow. So obviously the big news is that Michael

Winger is being hired as the new president of

Monumental basketball this went down last night was it was this a name that you had been

Hearing mentioned for the job prominently or were there were there other

Contenders that missed this top job and he also now has to basically hire a GM to oversee the wizards

He looks like the the big overseer of the mystics wizards and the go go

Correct. Yeah, so so that title kind of president and GM was thrown around a little bit

But that's mostly because of what I was thinking when I was hearing because in order to interview a lot of other

GMs and and get permission from other teams you have to say actually you're being interviewed for promotion

So to kind of get someone at that level

To even talk to them you have to say okay, we're gonna do a title bump something like that

So I didn't realize that it was going to be this kind of

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