Hello, this is Steve Smith, and I'm a real hooper. What real hoopers do is they lead on and off to court.

More importantly, in their community. Got to go to hoopersvote.org. Learn how you can make a difference, make a change.

Once again, hoopersvote.org. Get out there and vote, make a difference in your community. That's from Steve Smith,

a real hooper.

Welcome to the Athletic MBA show. One day through Friday.

On the Athletic Podcast Network.

Coming up on today's show,

Coach Thorpe drops in and we're going to talk heat culture,

if we should be surprised by the Lakers, and our general thoughts on the playoff bubble.

Give me that spatula.

I'm back, baby!

This is Nerdrish, you wrote, with your host, Dave Dufour.

With Moe DeKille.

Are you ready to be entertained?

And Seth Part Now.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Nerders She Wrote on the Athletic NBA show.

I'm Dave Dufour.

Seth and Mo are floating around here. But the most exciting news, we got Coach Thorpe

back in the building. What's up, Coach? How's True Hoop treating you? Amazing. Yeah, it's good.

This is a strange time where we could be facing the end that when we never thought we get here

and suddenly, you know, we're here.

And it's so nice to be able to focus on basketball when we spent four months coming, especially someone like me that really tries to write about stuff on the court when there's no games at all.

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