Welcome to a bonus episode of Techline. We're releasing this later in the week after I did an

interview with writer and editor Matt Sullivan. He's the author of a fascinating and entertaining

new book called Can't Knock the Hustle inside the season of protest, pandemic, and progress with

the Brooklyn net superstars of tomorrow. It's a really intriguing and interesting conversation

about the modern NBA athlete and the experience of playing professional basketball in the years

2020 and 2021. Please check it out. We hope to release more book bonus material like this,

so make sure to rate, review, and subscribe, and now Matt Sullivan.

Matt, so much to get into on this really excellent book that you wrote. I have many questions,

perhaps chief among them, how you managed to write a book that contains information

that happened like three weeks ago as part of, you know, like with the nets being recently

eliminated from the playoffs, do you have a time-turner? How were you able to do that and how long

have you been working on this? You know, they say contemporaneous history, right? And I feel like

we're in such a, I can I curse on them, it's such a fucking time work the last couple of years

that my head is spinning, but I've got good sourcing and it's just kind of kept rolling because

the drama of the world and then this team has kept going. I started on the day that

Wode called, quote, the Clean Suite, right? Which was the beginning of free agency 2019,

and I was walking my dog that day. My neighbor was my fellow Duky J Williams and we were like

literally looking at our dogs poop and talking about, you know, he has this kind of on again,

off again, relationship with KD and he's saying, man, these are a bunch of characters. They've

been reported on forever, but you know, there's a lot more there. No one's giving them a fair shake

and this is just going to be such a great scene. I started thinking about it. Am I kind of mentor,

now literary agent, David Granger, who is a long time editor-in-chief of Esquire. He just sent me

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