Hello and welcome to the tampering podcast, part of the Athletic NBA Show Network.

I'm Sam Amick, NBA National Writer at The Athletic, here with usual suspect, Anthony Slater, also with friend, colleague, occasional guest, not frequently enough.

We got Yovonne Bouha, Lakers Beat Rider on the pod. Yovon, what's that, brother? How's it going? I'm just here in a nice, rainy day in San Antonio. And no one's here to go ahead, Slate's what you go on? I was going to say, well, this is a very NBA beatwritery the way our backgrounds are we we're we it looks like we're in like

adjacent uh you know hotel uh with that hotel room background but you know we're in different

cities but it's just it's fun to me yep yep yep if mary out wants to give us a little coin for

the free pub on the pod that's just fine uh the place where sports writers go gentlemen you can hear in my cadence

here i'm i'm starting to rush through this pub because we got a lot to talk about this week we got a lot

going on in the association and and yovan as you're sitting in san antonio the spurs are the ones

getting off easy here we're not here to talk about the spurs and they're losing streak of 17, 18, 19,

whatever it's not even the worst in the league. It's not even that. I know. I'm just saying I'm a little bum. Vick Umbiominyama effect has not, you know, exactly panned out, but that's for another day. All right. This is one of the many times when not only do I love Anthony Slater's company and him being on the pod, my goodness later,

it comes in handy when it comes to the team that you cover.

We're going to be talking. when not only do I love Anthony Slater's company and him being on the pod, my goodness, Slater,

it comes in handy when it comes to the team that you cover. We're going to be talking all things

warriors, all things Draymond Green, definitely getting into the Milwaukee Bucks and the mystery ballgate.

Oh man, producer Dave, I screwed it up. I forget the nickname we're game ball game ball gates that's what

Dave before wanted to call it uh that bucks game had everything um just everything so I got stuff

to say there uh but we definitely want to talk lakers as well yovon knows that team like the the back of

his hand and they've been doing some good things lately. So should be a fun pod.

We're going to start with News of the Day, Slater.

The NBA on the later side of Wednesday evening announces their decision on

Draymond Green indefinite, which is such an interesting way to go, in my opinion, when it comes

to their ruling. It's ominous, right? It's ominous, but it's also, well, I'll share my thoughts a little bit. It's just, it's a little bit of safe, if you will, and we'll get into why. But Yus of Nurkich, you know, bears the brunt of Draymond's, you know are we calling it was it an open face slap or an open

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