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line. Of course, you read his work with Fieldhouse Files and covering the Indiana Pacer. Scott Agnes joins us.

Scott, we will begin right with this, and that is Johnny Furphy now.

We are going to talk to Ralph Reef coming up in about an hour and get a better timeline on things as to when Furphy might be able to get back and get going.

But this is somebody that to me, you might look at it and say, yeah, he's their

11th guy. You never want to see anybody get injured, but this doesn't hurt Indiana too badly,

except for that this was the golden opportunity to continue to develop one of their key pieces

in a development year. What is your overall assessment of the Furfee injury and what it means

not just for Furfi, but for Indiana? Yeah, good afternoon, Jake. First of all, it's just like,

oh, here we go again. You thought they were starting to get out of the woods with injuries.

And here's another player on the roster that is requiring to have surgery. And so,

fortunately, ACL injuries, as Ralph will tell you, have become more mainstream and a lot

easier to recover and quicker from.

But you're exactly right in terms of the golden opportunity lost here for Furfie over

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