Welcome to the Athletic NBA Show Monday through Friday on the Athletic Podcast Network. This is Narder She wrote with your host Dave Dufor.

With Moe Dekeel,

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And Seth Part Now.

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It's Friday, it's the athletic NBA show.

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I'm Dave.

We've 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 and through now and yes some of

this might come off as a little home merge 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 Hinky did not care about what was going on in the media or what was said about

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