Hello and welcome to group chat. I am Justin Barrier and joining me, Rob Mahoney, Jay Kyle Man, Kyle

broadcasting live from Chicago, about to go to the Combine. What's the buzz? What's the feeling

going on down there? I'm just, I'm just raring and ready to deep dish on some draft scuttlebutt,

Justin. That was for Rob.

There's a lot of chatter going on here.

I mean, the biggest thing that I've heard so far is that we're in store for major flux.

Like, we've talked a lot about the NIA.

I know we're jumping right into it here.

I think the board that we are seeing it now and beyond the lottery and maybe even creeping up on the lottery could be vastly different from, you know, even as high as like 12 to 30. So

it's it's a wild, wild time in the NBA draft world. Justin, how do you feel about flux?

I generally like it, like a little chaos. And that's why I love the NBA draft lottery.

Anything can happen.

And it seems like even more can happen once they flatten the odds even more.

But like, we got some real turnover at the top of the lottery this time.

Some turnover, some dashed hopes.

Like, I feel like a lot of fans being extremely down bad this morning coming off of the draft lottery. So you hate to see it for them. And I think this is the hard part of the tanking experience, right? It's like watching your team be bad all year only to see the lottery odds turn against you. And so while it's certainly interesting for teams like the Clippers who I know we're going to talk about. I just, you know, if you're a Nets fan, if you're a Grizzlies fan, if you're a Pacers fan,

extremely rough stuff.

Well, why don't we get into some of those winners and losers? But first, we have to take

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