Hello and welcome to the Hoop Collective Podcast. We talk about the NBA. It's Tuesday,

about midday joining me from Austin, Texas is the professor, the author of Sproulball

Kirk Goldsbury. What's up, Brian? How are you?

If you're watching on our YouTube channel, you can see a spectacular Tiffany basketball over Kirk's

shoulders. I'm kind of jealous of that. I know that they had those last year, but I kind of like it.

I went as part of a feature I did last year on the new Trophies, the NBA rolled out for the Larry

O'Brien and for the MVP stuff. They gave me this beautiful teal basketball classic signature teal color

that Tiffany has on a lot of packaging, but yes, thank you. Tiffany probably has like a patent

on that. Joining us from Oakland, California is Anne Skates Mark Spears. What's up, Mark?

Got a couple balls back here by myself. Yeah, you do. I actually got a ball rack.

You do? Yeah. There's one basketball in particular has an amazing story, but I don't know

that I could tell it. That'll be for after dark. Last year, they did a whole new

thing. Oh, by the way, since he's throwing up his horns. Yeah, Tigers. They got a big game this

week, Spears. You a B? I thought you were playing Georgia. I got my ticket as December 3rd,

Halls. December 3rd. Okay. There goes your chance to be guest picker, Brian. There goes your chance.

I'm a burger game. Yeah. That's right. The SEC always plays like a bogus game the

second to last week of the season. It's a strategic thing. I remember last year, so the NBA rolled out

the new trophy design and like Tiffany did it or whatever, but then they had a new Louis Vuitton

sponsorship where they the case that the that. Oh, yeah. Beautiful. And I remember asking people what

they thought the actual retail value of that trophy case was. I think, Spears, I think it was

on set. Yeah, in case. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's huge. No, no, no, no, no, it was in when we were in

I'm sorry Boston, Boston, Boston, why don't you say Cleveland? It was on set with us,

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