And now the Low Post.

Welcome to The Low Post podcast. I hope you all had a good 4th of July.

The NBA off-season business, at least the most pressing part of it is mostly done after a wave of

transactions over the long weekend we now await the fates of Lowry Markinin and

Brandon Ingram which could happen today, never in two months.

So the high alert transactions, I think, I think, you never know in the NBA, I think are over,

but we have some stuff to review from over the weekend. It was a busy

weekend with DeMart Rosen, Paul George's podcast, Buddy Heeled the Caleb Martin fiasco,

which was a fiasco. Chris Herring, how are you sir? I'm doing well, Zach, how are you? I'm hanging

in. Do you have a good fourth? It was a little zainty, but it worked out okay.

Zainy, zainy, not a word you hear a lot, a word that's very familiar to me, Mr. Herring, because when you, you know the name game you play as an icebreaker and some stupid, you know, like get to know you shenanigans where you have to pick a

word that describes you and also starts with the letter that your name starts with

you do not have a lot of options with Z you know I'm not a particularly zaney person but I leaned hard on

zaney because like I don't know I don't know what else to go with oh man flashbacks

just and obviously you've been a teacher I've taught as a professor and my

Beyoncé is a middle school teacher. She's actually just leaving a summer school class that she's teaching now so ice breakers are all familiar to us and kind of a nightmare to plan if you

don't have a good one and I've never been in that position where I had to come up with

one for Z because you know I've got a slightly more common letter that we used for my name but yeah I had not thought about

zaney.

That would be talking.

Fireworks pro or con?

I think because I've lived here in New York City for long enough I'm generally

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