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We took a few weeks off to rejigger our energy.

We didn't do it about that.

Come on, man.

We need some time off.

I needed some time off. The great DA and the great Marcus Thompson We need some time off. I need some time off.

The great DA and the great Marcus Thompson definitely need the time off.

I actually work during my quote-unquote vacation, right in four or five stories.

So that tells you how much time I took off, actually.

That don't sound like vacation to me.

No, it does not, does it?

It does not. And yet it's going down his vacation time, it's PTO, but what are you going to do? What are you going to do? So we're back. We're back on Hoops Adjacent. And we have our guy Kelly Eco, the man who covers many teams now, not just the Rockets, but he will be covering many teams for us this year. We like that. We like that. But we're going to talk about the rockets,

first and foremost. The coolest dude in the league, he posted an Instagram post. He just had a

jersey laid out and it says systems. I like number six. And I was like, hey, he didn't even have to

say what it was. Everybody knows. That was my girl's idea. It was all her. So I'm going to load it. Ecosystems in a building. You know what I'm saying? He just drops us. He just, his business card just says systems on it. You know what I'm saying? I'll tell you, bad. It's an honor to be in the presence of real legends. Damn. We used to have that, Marcus, remember when we used to have that kind of swag? You remember that? Man, I don't know. I wasn't making enough back then. Hard to have swag when you ain't making enough.

But you can fake it, though.

You can fake it. Yeah, yeah, you definitely can fake it.

Oh, man.

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