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Wake that ass up. Earl, in the morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Just hilarious. Salomey and the guy. We are the breakfast club. We got a special guest in the building. The icon living. Dawn Stanley. Welcome back. How you feeling? Thank you. Thank you.

I usually come back on,

I'm invited when we win the championship. We lost this year. So thank y'all for. You're always invited. Don't you start that? You're always invited. Well, the new book, Uncommon Favor is out right now. Basketball, North Philly, my mother and the life lessons I learned from all three is out right now.

How are you feeling?

I'm feeling great. Like, I mean, my friends have received their books and they have nothing but, like, great things. Like, I am, my cup running through. Yeah, I had you all over a good place yesterday. Yeah, he did. I got to give you a shout out. And you sparked the conversation. So many people have asked me to write a book. And I've like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like, yeah. Right? But it came from so many different people. And then when I came on the show in 2022, we talked about it. And you just, you kept the conversation going. You were real persistent with it.

And, you know, that's what I'm attracted to most.

It's like somebody that actually is it.

Persistent.

Yeah, persistent and know the process.

Like, you knew the process.

I don't know if you knew my story, so to speak,

but you knew enough to know that, you know,

this book will be received well.

And I appreciate that.

Well, people like you don't come around too often, Don,

like you are once in a generational just person, you know,

and you really learn that when you read the book,

not even just as a coach, but as a basketball player,

but more so as a child

of Philadelphia, man.

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