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Hey, welcome into All Ball.

I'm Doug Gottlieb, and this week's guest is, I think it really,

Aranaganat is the head coach at Hawaii.

He had a really fascinating life before becoming the head coach at U.H. Manoa.

And we're going to talk about it from being a growing up in Jersey as the son, twin son of immigrants,

going to Swarthmore, playing for a legendary coach,

and then shunning what you would think would be a six-figure job on Wall Street in finance to go and be a volunteer assistant at St. Mary's and live in a, you know, like a two-bedroom house, which he had a car repoed and ultimately becomes the head coach, U.H. Manoa.

Like, that's a really interesting tale.

Plus some of the things he's learned along the way,

a coach or two that he admires,

I think you'll enjoy our conversation.

We have got a chance to see a little bit of the NBA.

And of course I'm fascinated by the Lakers and what LeBron looks like and I told people when he signed

there look at their roster and look at how he played in the NBA finals and he was

guarding Draymond Green you're going to want to try and find a mismatch for LeBron James as

he creeps into his mid-30s wouldn't surprise me at all if he plays a good amount of center.

They play small ball.

And the one mistake that people make about the Lakers is they take last year and they say

that's what Josh Hart is, that's what Brandon Ingram is, that's what Lonzo Ball is.

Young, older players, they get to be role players.

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