Well, the last time that I saw this man all was well in Dallas.

We went out for a single beverage after a game in San Francisco.

And we were talking about Tim's book and everything was good.

You know, it's set to publish, kind of finished writing it in October.

Then one day after that,

about 10.30 p.m. Central time, the news drop that Luke Kodanchich has been traded. Tim McMahon,

how has your last month or so been? Well, I had that day, I'd made the trip from San Francisco to Cleveland,

and it was, you know, it's a long journey, layover and all that, and it was just about to go to bed

and boom, oh boy, here we go, the most shocking trade in NBA history, and it is right

in my backyard, right in my lap. Obviously, did not get a lot of sleep that night, did not get a lot of sleep over the next two weeks,

which clearly were extremely busy for my day job at ESPN.

And I had to scramble to write a final, final chapter for this book, The Wonder Boy, as you noted, published in March 25th, to explain

what the hell happened between Luca Donchich leading the Mavericks to the NBA finals in a season

in which he led the league in scoring to days before the next trade deadline where essentially

he was dumped in the middle of the night and I was well aware of all

the frustrations I was still flabbergasted by the deal um but as far as the book goes you know

there's a there's a hell of a plot twist I'll put it that way what was the process like of having to

rewrite or I mean I don't know how much did you actually like rewrite the bulk of it versus just adding something on at the end I'm just interested in that process because I mean, I don't know, how much did you actually like rewrite the bulk of it versus just

adding something on at the end?

I'm just interested in that process because, I mean, that's, and especially, you know,

with the publisher, like they probably were stuff printed already.

Like, what did you have to go through there?

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