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

And it is another playoff edition of Hoops of Jason on the Athletic NBA show, David

Aldridge here in D.C. out in the bay, Marcus Thompson. What is up? My man.

Yo, hey, we just opened today. It is crazy the amount of non-mast in California.

I was about to go outside kicking. I'm like, hold on, B.

Hold on.

Can I tell you it was so weird going into a restaurant and not having and seeing people without

masks going realizing, well, I guess they don't have to.

They don't have to if they don't want to, you know, and not trying to be the mask you know but it was just it took me a minute it took me a minute and it's a jarring sight man like we've been we've been conditioned now so now to see it just like in mass like even when you watch the games now you're like counting the number of masks like this there's not enough mass enough masks in that arena. So to just go out, especially in Cali, right? Like we in the Bay, like we've been pretty strong with the mass presence. So just to go out and see nobody has one on, which hopefully means, you know, a lot of people are vaccinated, but it's just jarring. I ran back in the house. I was like, yo, I'm good. So I saw the numbers. It's like,

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