Hello and welcome to the game through podcast.

I'm your host Sam, Descini.

We're presented by CLNS Media.

Today on the show, Tony Jones, my colleague over at The Athletic, is here.

We're going to talk about a few different things.

Obviously, the Kyrie Irving news, him getting together a big group of players to discuss whether or not they want to restart in a meeting on Friday was an enormous new story throughout all of the sports world seemingly.

And it brought up a lot of issues that I think are worth discussing.

Then we're going to talk about the bubble in general and what we think of the bubble.

Finally, we are going to talk about the NBA draft because I know that Tony has some ridiculous, awesome, fun NBA draft takes.

So Tony, how are you doing, man?

I'm good, bro.

How are you doing?

Thanks for having me.

It's been too long.

It's been too long.

I've been like, we've been like texting back and forth, like for a couple months and just

trying to find the right time.

And we haven't been able to up until now,

unfortunately. And, you know, like I'm dealing with some stuff on my end in terms of, you know,

things that are taking up my time, which is part of the reason that the podcast. Like,

this is the first podcast I've recorded in, I think, like, two weeks. I think that this is the first podcast that

I've recorded since the protests around the country started happening. So, like, obviously,

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