Welcome to the wolverine.com podcast, video version. I am John Borton, and we're here with Tom Crawford, our man in East Lansing, who comes to us on a variety of Michigan sports topics.

Certainly none bigger, and welcome, Tom, I will say that.

Oh, it's right to be here.

None bigger at this point than the fact that the big man himself, Hunter Dickinson,

is back for his junior season in a Michigan uniform.

How big is that?

It's huge.

And I think we, you know, we all figured it was going to happen.

Thankfully, it did happen. You know, I've said I've been on a couple radio and podcasts about,

I was watching the NBA this weekend. Once college basketball is over with, I know a lot of people

don't like the NBA, but I immediately put all my basketball, you know,

passion into the NBA. And I was watching parts of all, all, you know, eight games, you know,

four and four. And I'm thinking, Hunter's not ready to fit into this nonsense. I mean, it was,

I mean, it's a 94-foot game. I mean,

he can be, I think he's going to be a role player in the NBA when he does get to the NBA.

But the sheer athleticism is not there for him to, to fit into that grind that I saw on this

weekend at the highest level. So it's great. And I'm sure the NIL was nice and sweet and enticing.

And he likes being around here. He's hanging around Comerica. He's going to the spring game.

He's living in southeast Michigan. He's living in Ann Arbor. It's all good, man. I'm certainly happy he's

back. Well, there's no question that he is a major celebrity around the Michigan campus,

and that attention has to be fun, and he enjoys that.

What would you say, though, out of the two things that you mentioned,

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