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hello and welcome to the Game Theory podcast.

I'm your host Sam Vassini.

We are presented by The Athletic today on the show.

One of my colleagues over at The Athletic Eric Name is back.

I feel like last time we did this, there was like a probably two-year gap in between your appearances on show. And now we're getting you back

like a month and a half later. This is great. I'm excited to have you here, Eric. I was going to say

two weeks, but maybe it's long in that. It feels like two weeks. So there was news today.

Overnight while I was sleeping. Eric obviously was awake and got a chance to talk about this and break it all down as it was happening.

Damian Lillard is now a Milwaukee buck, the team that Eric covers over in Milwaukee.

Damian Lillard has been traded finally.

And I got to be honest.

I'm excited about this.

I kept talking about Damian Lillard to the Bucks as like the sleeper team the whole way.

I felt like that was the thing that made the most sense to me, frankly, outside of Miami.

And I felt like it was the easiest way to get Drew involved in a deal if you wanted to, you know, kind of change the core of this

Bucks team. Just before we dive into all of this, I want to read off the details of this deal so that

everybody can kind of let it sink in if you haven't heard yet. The Bucks acquired Damien Lillard,

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