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Welcome to tampering.

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With Sam Pan.

To be able to bring people together. What are you, baby? Portedly at the center of an NBA investigation. Into tampering accusations. And the message to... Executative in the league. Stop talking about players on other teams. What did I do? The charge is filed. Impermissible contact. Right or wrong? Tampering charges are really difficult to prove.

You know me.

I talk.

It's not awkward to even talk about. I can't even mention deans anymore. I ask me, what I like to play with Cameron are. Try all your one with the room. They're always ahead of the world. Is that right? Your guy, we don't have to have tamper with the guys. I didn't tell you what happened.

I'm just telling you what happened.

I'm just telling you what happened.

Hello. with the guys. I'm just telling you what happened. I'm just telling me what happened. I'm just telling you what happened.

Hello and welcome to the tampering podcast, part of the Athletic NBA Show Network.

I'm Sam Amick, NBA National Writer at The Athletic, here with the usual suspects, which

sounds like a usual thing, has not been lately. Very happy to welcome back. We're going to East Coast first, Mr. Slater. Fred Katz in the house. What's up, brother? How are you? I made it. I made it this time. You made it. Nix be writer. The Knicks had to go out and put their training facility very far from the garden and complicate your life. so we miss you every once in a while on this pod. Yeah, well, it's one of many ways that they're socially distancing right now. And on the West Coast, as always, Anthony Slater, Warriors be writer extraordinaire. Where are you at these days, Slater? I was going to say, not as always on the West Coast. I spent the last week on the East Coast, but I am back. And do you guys know where I am right now? Are you like in the gym? Is that a gym behind you? This is much better in the gym. This is a bunker suite in Chase Center. I know this is not great for the listeners because I'm showing these guys on Zoom and they can't see it. But you know the bunker suites? Have you guys heard of these bunker suites at J Center? No, no. So they're called bunker suites.

Sounds like there's a nuke coming. It's very frightening. Well, it is a suite where your seat is also like the fifth row, basically. And if you've been to Chase, it actually creates a kind of bad situation where a lot of times at halftime or even pre-game. Oh, yeah, I've heard about this. Yeah, people are down in the bunker suites, you know, party and having a great time.

I'm showing about this.

Yeah, people are down in the bunker suites, you know, party and having a great time.

I'm showing you guys what it looks like down here right now. And then they go or, you know, and maybe they wait until six minutes left in the third quarter to go up. And it creates this strip that is very visible by the TV because it's like the fifth row of just empty seats

where below it they're filled and above it

and definitely in the second deck. It's all filled, but it's just this weird strip. So we are down here. Do you know why I'm at Chase Center? Can you either of you gather? I don't, but I'm loving the radio tease boys. Tell us, please. I was just attending the Team USA Press comments. Grant Hill. Grant Hill is about, you know, three doors.

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