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Angelo and this week we welcome on a very good friend of ours professional

basketball player for Telecom Bond in Germany and the BBL,

T.J. DeLeo, and Small's, I offer the disclaimer

that TJ's a good friend of ours

because I don't want people to think

that we are absolutely like experts on overseas basketball so we're like oh yeah let's just pull

this would be the perfect kid for the podcast but I thought this made sense you know we've had a lot of coaches we've had a lot of media

members we haven't really had a lot of people who are players,

and this makes sense because people don't really know

what happens to college basketball players when they go overseas.

And while TJ's had a really good experience we talk a little bit

about experiences that aren't great and how important your agent is and how

important your situation is but I thought like this episode was an

interesting listen because you just don't really know much about overseas basketball leagues,

even though the BBO is a really, really good league.

Yeah, the, it's funny and you know this from being at Charleston and Temple the funniest thing and maybe not the funniest I don't know what word to use but

Kids whenever they come to college their dream they're saying oh just play overseas and it's

kind of like a matter of fact well that's not the case you can't just go over overseas

and expect to be paid or paid on time or go to the right league or you know

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