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And welcome to another edition of the Hoops adjacent episode of Athletic NBA show,

David Alder, in D.C. in L.A. My man, Waslanbury, Was. What's up, sir?

I'm good, man. I'm chilling. I'm not going to lie. I'm still pretty sad about how the Super Bowl turned out. But life goes on, I guess, even for us miserable Jets fans. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Did you have a little action on Kansas City. No, I just never want to see Tom Brady do well. You sound like my sons, man.

They were all upset for any reason whatsoever. It's enough already. I mean, come on. This is what I told them. I'm sorry, he's this good. What do you want me to do? I know. I know. I've been in denial about it. I'm like, well, you know, they did have Belichick and they were kind of cheating and, you know, it might not work this time. Come on, man. You got to give the dude props now. He's good now. Yeah. It's tough. I know you don't want to. It's all good, though. It's all good. And it was a horrible game, too. That's another thing. It was just a horrible game. So I want to ask you, but it's Tuesday now. I don't want to keep our guests, but I don't want to keep our guests, but I asked you after which, what you thought of the weekend, because I got some thoughts on that. But I'm, we'll talk about that afterwards. Okay. I want to get my guests, our guest in this week. guy that I have known for years, one of the good guys in this league, man, and I'm so happy

that he's got this very unique opportunity to be the head coach of the G-League Ignite

squad that many of you have heard about over the last few months.

It's a new thing that the NBA is trying to do to kind of be, I guess,

you know, better shepherds for some of the young guys coming in and give them better opportunities.

Ryan Shaw, man, thank you for joining us, man.

Appreciate it.

Oh, thank you for having me.

Thank you for having me.

Be Shaw.

I've known B. Shaw for, damn, 20 years, man.

You know, so always one of the good dudes and you all start play.

We're taping this on Tuesday. The G-League team starts play on Wednesday night.

They will be in the bubble with the other teams in the G League that have opted in and

are playing in the bubble in the G League season. They're playing the Santa Cruz Warriors

on Wednesday night or Wednesday morning, I should say, at 11 a.m., Wednesday morning,

from Advent Health Arena at the ESPN Y World of Sports Complex. It'll be live on ESPN2.

I'm sure many of you know what the what the kind of marching orders for G League

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