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Hello, welcome to the Hoop Collective podcast.

We talk about the NBA, which you're doing on Sunday evening.

Joining us from New York City is Tim Bottoms.

Hello, everybody.

Bontoms is headed down Florida way on Monday to, it's going to Miami.

I'm sure you're going there for Tyler Hero's return.

We're going there to take over the Mavs beat from Tim McMahon for one day.

That's right. Speaking of the Mavs, joining us from Dallas, Texas, where you had more fun than you bargained for on Saturday night, Ban McMahon. Howdy, partners, Bon Temsey.

Happy to give it to you.

You can have it.

Enjoy.

Yeah, I'm going to tell you, a Saturday night football season game between, you know,

two teams have been struggling this year to put it mildly.

And it was hard on the eyes, but easy on the ears afterward.

There was a little bit of drama for us to work with.

A little bit, I ended up working a little bit harder than I thought.

But these are the kind of stories that I do, I must admit, I enjoy them. Well, all the extra work that McMahon has been doing on the Mavericks beat,

not only has included some overtime games. And so on the group text, we were joking with

him because the Grizzlies and Mavs would look like coming down towards overtime. And he's like,

oh, my God. He's like, I thought that I was going to be an easy night.

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