Welcome to Down to Dunk. I'm your host, Andrew Schlect. This is a two-part podcast. We wanted to get something out quickly on YouTube, so we did. Alex and I are going to talk here for just about 15 minutes. It's pretty short. And then I have attached Sam Presti's press conference to the second half of this podcast. So in the first part, we don't have all the information.

It's almost just like raw, pure emotion and thoughts about like just finding out

that he's out for the year.

And then Sam gives a lot more context to the injury and through what Chet's going through

and what the team's going through.

And honestly, you may feel pretty down

after listening to Alex and I talk first

because it is mostly like,

that's such a bummer, it's such a bummer

that he's going to be out for the season.

But then you may feel a little bit more optimism

after listening to Sam. Sam is optimistic that he'll make a full recovery.

He's optimistic about what he'll be able to do while he's trying to recover from this.

He can still shoot. You can still lift, like upper body stuff.

So there's some, there's some silver linings that Alex and I hadn't thought of or weren't

thinking of in part one that kind of Sam imparts in part two of this.

So I wanted to give a quick intro before we head into the podcast to let you know what's coming.

I hope you guys are doing well.

We'll still have a Friday podcast tomorrow.

So tune in for that.

And still, you know, you can still make it a great day.

I bet you can.

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