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Guaranteed Human.

Hey, welcome into the all-ball pod.

I'm Doug Gottlieb, and thanks so much for making this part of your rotation.

Your cue, as the kids like to say.

It's really weird, right?

That cue, the line, something that's used in Europe that we've never used before.

We only use now because of podcasts.

That's really, I don't know, that's odd to me.

There's a lot to discuss in the world of basketball.

I kind of think, I kind of think that the most interesting

is the upcoming NBA season. Rick Buecker is going to be our guest in a moment. And I'm

fired up to talk about the Celtics, the Lakers, the Warriors, the Jimmy Butler, and frankly,

a team like the Spurs who have been impervious to so much of this kind of nonsense around

the league, and now all of a sudden they're very, very much pervious. We'll talk with Rick Buecker

from Bleacher Report momentarily.

I started last week telling you I thought that the Celtics were not only the class of the east,

but as many people have come around, I think they're sitting there right.

They're like stockhorse with the Golden State Warriors.

And while we have expectations for the warriors to be better than ever, because,

well, Kevin Durant should be kind of in, what is it, what was the, I'm trying to think what the

nickname that he didn't like was, which was, it wasn't like silent assassin. It was, uh, I'll think of

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