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Thursday edition of Lockdown, NBA David Lock, host of Lock on Jazz, might have had something

to do with this whole silly network starting, and Ben Goliver Washington Post columnist author book writer bubble liver he's

Ben Goliver I'm very good.

I actually started the book this week, like officially really dug into it.

I'm doing it every single night cranking away out it.

So it's been an exciting week for me and also exciting week around the NBA because we've got news that maybe we're

coming back more quickly than we expected and we're starting to get some front office moves,

some coach moves, even a sale today, so it's all happening right now.

All right, we're going to do it probably in those in that order reverse so for those you

that hear things dyslexicly you're perfectly fine you will go to the the

back to basketball last.

We'll do the ownership change in Utah in the middle.

But let's start off with Philadelphia not missing a boat

and almost kind of going back to their origins of the process with a five-year deal for

Darryl Mori.

So there's a lot of pieces to this puzzle, but let me go backwards first, Ben. What does this tell you about the story we were

told coming out of Houston that Mori wanted time with his family and it was just the

right time for him to step away.

What's your thought in retrospect on that story now that

10 days later, Deremory assigned a five-year deal?

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