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NBA show network I'm Sam Amick and be a national writer at the athletic here

with usual suspect number one Anthony

Slater out on the West Coast we will not have our guy bred cats on the East

Coast this week we got some breaking Julius Randall news unfortunately for the

Nickerbockers. He is out for the season gonna have surgery on that shoulder.

Fred is jumping on that news and doing his day job in his place a worthy, a guy who we have not had on the show for a little while, a

guy who I got to hang out with a bit last week when he came through my part of the country.

Tim Cato, esteemed Dallas Mavericks beat writer, Mr Cato, what is going on, sir?

Nothing much.

Where have I been all season?

That's a good question.

I know.

Where's the invite been?

I don't know who runs this pod, but you should have been on here.

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