Welcome to the Ring or NBA show I'm Chris Vernon and this is the Tree DeVol.Tree's NBA Superfan

Jimmy Goldstein.

We have come to the Goldstein estate to meet him for this podcast.

Thanks for doing this today.

My pleasure.

So I want to get to I think everybody's that's a big NBA fan see has seen you on the

sidelines for many years here at all these games you're all over the playoffs and they

say who is that guy.

So I want to find out who is that guy.

Now you can go back and look and just doing some research.

You find that you started doing stats years ago in Milwaukee you grew up in Milwaukee

right.

That's correct.

So from Milwaukee your love of basketball started when.

Well I started playing basketball at the age of five had a basket on my garage in the

driveway and so I loved the game right from the time I was a little kid and at the

age of 10 my father started taking me to the Milwaukee Hawks games.

At the age of 15 I was offered the job as a statistician for the radio and TV announcer

for the Milwaukee Hawks and once I had that job I was totally hooked on the NBA.

There weren't many people in those days that liked the NBA or that followed the NBA.

The typical attendance at a game was maybe 2000 people and it was hard to even get news

about the NBA.

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