All right, let's talk a little Dallas Mavericks now with second year beat writer for the Mavericks.

Is that correct him?

I've been around the team forever, but as a top leader, yeah, yeah, yeah, two years of the

athletic now.

Yes, sir.

Yes.

Actually, last year was your first year actually traveling.

That was the concept that I was trying to illuminate there.

For sure.

Yeah, it's a little bit different being with the team, you know, just on the road.

Anything with any team on the road, I think, is just such a different factor.

You just get to see them in a different way.

Yeah, because I mean, for me, I almost never go with the warriors on the road, but nearly

every time I do, it's like totally different.

Number one, just everyone around the organization just sees you differently, right?

It's like, oh, now you're like kind of, I mean, you're not part of the team, but you're

one of maybe three or four people who's traveling to media sessions.

Some practices are just so much more informal, generally like, I don't know how they do it

in Dallas, like for us, we, for the home practices, we just all get sequestered over into an

area that we can't leave.

And they bring people over where the road practices, they don't do that.

You can just go talk to anyone who is kind of hanging around and we'll talk to you.

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