Welcome to Real Jam Radio. I'm Daniel Rue, your host, and so happy to have you

with us for this episode. My guest is Dan Feldman of Dunked-on Prime and The Daily Dunks,

and we do a lot of different parts of conversations here, in part because this is a unusual section

in the NBA season. You have the trade deadline, which is already completed. You have the All-Star

Break, which is now upon us. Dan and I recorded this on Monday. I'm traveling a little bit right

now, so it was a little bit delayed. And we also have an extended conversation about how we define contenders and everything

else. And it was fun, a really clarifying conversation about kind of rationales and all that

type of stuff. I thought it was really good on a lot of different teams and how we feel about them.

And of course, because I'm asking everyone this about the thunder and how they proceed from here.

Conversation runs a little bit over an hour. Lots of great stuff here. I hope you enjoy it.

Thanks so much for coming on.

Thanks for having me. Glad we could finally find a time that works for both of us.

Yeah, it has apparently late Pacific time is what can work. And this is an unusual kind of

point in the league year where we're not that far

past the trade-to the line, but also the All-Star Break is coming, like the changeover that

happened I'm super thankful for from a professional and personal position because now the All-Star

break is really a break. But it does mean that you're kind of like, we still haven't really

gotten to see the new faces and the new places quite yet, other than like the Seyakam and Inanobie once because they

happened so much earlier.

So I think the place I want to start is what were your major takeaways if you had any from

the deadline?

Just in the days leading up to the deadline, I don't think there was anything

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