Welcome to the Athletic NBA Show Monday through Friday on the Athletic Podcast Network.

I do have a tape.

Point of contention.

Katie could be a head coach. of contention. K coming up on the show, Morey's back, Christmas basketball might be here, the

jazz sold for over a Billy.

The NBA really struggling, we've got Steve Nash's nets and we got draft gossip.

I'm Zach Harper, the host of POC Jade Hoyes

producing and in this corner back from a vacation maybe a staycation the author of

the Victory Machine host of the House of Strouse podcast the one and only

Ethan Strauss who has been stuck in the dark for 48 hours this week due to high wind

and potential fires in the Bay Area, Ethan, how is life in the light of day now?

Ah, I like having the electricity. Underrated electricity, really into it.

Very interesting, I know nothing about fire

prevention not a thing but it felt to me almost like you know Arnavitz gave me this

analogy they it's like we picked up three fouls and they pulled us out of the game.

You know, that's what was happening.

They didn't want any power lines falling down to cause a fire.

So you had to, you know, they put us on the bench.

I don't know if it was the right decision based on analytics, but that's the choice they made.

You just remove the power and that should keep the fires in check.

All right, and then in this corner, Marcus Thompson is on vacation, so hailing from Flint, Michigan, the Pistons

Beat reporter for the athletic, James Edwards 3.0.

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