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Learn more at vertexinck.com. Yo, yo, welcome to Stargazing, a show about the figures and influencers that surround

the superstars in NBA culture.

I'm Yovon Buha, NBA reporter at The Athletic.

Joining us now is Victoria Jacoby, aka Count on Vic.

Vic is a professional dot connector.

Like this year's best picture, she is everything, everywhere, all at once.

She knows every NBA player, works with every brand, and attends just about every event.

There's no one way to describe what she does, but we're going to try on today's episode.

Thank you for doing this.

How are you today?

Of course.

You're the homie.

Anybody who doesn't know, Yovans, the homie.

I'm just happy, I'm just happy the homie. I'm just happy,

I'm just happy to be to be here. I'm happy this show is here now. I feel like we've talked about this many times and thank you for having me on. And thank you for that introduction. I

feel like you shouldn't be my agent or something. It's very flattering. I try. Let's start with this. This is my favorite question.

How and when did you fall in love with basketball? Oh, wow. This is actually my favorite question.

It's not the, oh, what does she do? What does she do exactly? I feel like it was very early on for me to the

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