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Guaranteed Human.

What's up for World?

I am Bucky Brooks.

And that is my man, LZ, the undisputed champ of all evaluations.

Lance Erline joining me.

Al-Z, what's going on, man?

How are we doing? I think the internet would beg to disagree with you on that Al-Voo's sticks. LZ, what's going on, man? How are we doing?

I think the internet would beg to disagree with you on that one, but that's okay.

I mean, I put my time in. I put my work in. That's all you can hope to do. You just got to put your work in, take your lumps. You win some, you lose some. they, hey, you know, some people didn't think Jalen Brunson was good enough to be a top pick.

We saw all the receipts. you know, some people didn't think Jalen Brunson was good enough to be a top pick.

We saw all the receipts come out.

People had certain things to say. And that happens to us on an, every year there's somebody we go back and look at three or four years ago like, ooh, I missed on him.

Ooh, I hit on him.

That's how it works.

That's how this business works. But you know,

it's funny, but getting right into it. The business works that way. What's hard to really get

a feel for in my side, right, sitting in this office I'm in watching tape, it's different than you

when you were out on the road,

me talking to coaches, meeting players, kind of playing poker. You've got to get a read of who they are

without them telling you a whole lot. You got to find out who they are. Sometimes you can see it on

tape. You know, you can see it, their body language, the way they hold, carry themselves in the

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