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Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. Welcome everybody to the lockdown Lakers podcast. I'm Anthony Erwin.

I'm joined today by somebody who we were talking right before we went live has not been on the show nearly as often as as I should have had him.

That's a mistake on my part in one day.

In fixing here and then promise to continue to fix moving forward.

Eric Pinkis, thank you very much for hopping on.

Of course, happy to do it.

Thanks for me.

The, this is, is this like your Christmas, like the idea of all of these transactions basically just being squeezed into a week-long period?

I don't know about Christmas. It's more like an accountant who has tax day on tax season you know it's like it is a

blast and it's what I do and it's fun so I'm not in any way complaining so I enjoy what I do.

But yeah it's a very overwhelming time.

And this year more so than any, because it's all compacted.

It's about a month ahead of schedule at least. I mean we're months behind

schedule but from when the season ended we thought I thought we had a little bit

more time but free agency is like days a couple days after the draft and it's going to be it's going to be

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