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With me today is my good friend Alex Spears.

Alex, what's up?

Good morning.

Good morning, everybody.

So, Shagg Gildes Alexander, I feel like he's somebody that we haven't talked a lot about

because it's been about trading Chris Paul. It's been about the Russell Westbrook trade and about

Paul George. But according to lots of people, this guy is super good. I've watched him some. I can't

claim to have watched like every clipper game or even

like full clipper games. But there's been a lot of nice stuff written about him lately. And I

thought we could talk about his fit in OKC and maybe some expectations for this year. So what

are some of your initial thoughts on Shay and him being a building

block for this team? Well, I think, so there were two main articles this week, one from

OKC's very own, Brett Dawson. It's great. Which was more of the personality side. Yeah.

And that one, you know, I didn't know anything about Shay, honestly. All that I knew about Shea was from Smart MBA podcast telling me that he was really good. That was the extent of my knowledge. I knew that he was big. I knew that he was big for a point guard, like tall for a point guard. So that was exciting. That was about all I knew. Right. But you read that article by Brett Dawson and you come away thinking like,

oh my, this guy is like, he's the real deal. Like he's so into basketball. And I thought it was

really funny. He, I didn't, I didn't know he was from Canada. He's from Ontario. I had no idea.

I thought it was really funny, the little snippets about his mom,

how like after he would have a good game,

she would be sending text to the coaching staff at University of Kentucky

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