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This is Nerdish, you wrote, with your host Dave Dufour.

With Mo DeKille,

Are you ready to be entertained? And Seth Part Now. It's Friday. It's the Athletic NBA show. That means it's nerd her, she wrote. I'm Dave. We got Seth and Mo here, as usual. We got our guest, Ben Taylor, and we've got a lot to talk about.

Seth, you had something you wanted to get off your chest right away.

So let's jump to it.

It's going to be a big show.

So I think people are aware that I used to work in the front office of the Milwaukee Bucks.

And for that reason, I've kind of avoided talking about the Bucks and especially the honest situation for the last year and a bit.

And now that he has, you know, officially signed his Supermax extension, I've got a few things I kind of want to get off my chest here that have been bothering me about this for, you know, when I was there until and through now.

And yes, some of this might come off as a little homework, but I don't care.

So the first thing I want to talk about is that the mere discussion of this, the volume and

weight of the discussion of this isn't just reporting the news.

It's creating news.

It's creating narratives and impacts and things that teams react to.

I can test this from the inside that at a certain volume, these things matter to how a team

operates.

In a different context, an example I would give is when he was in charge of the 76ers, Sam Hinkie did

not care about what was going on in the media or what was said about his team. And that stuff

didn't matter until all of a sudden the Jalil O'Kefafor incidents happened. And then it mattered

a great deal. And then he was, you know, direct line from that out of a job. Now, this is a

slightly different context. But for the amount that's talked about job. Now, this is a slightly different context,

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