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Hey, welcome in to All Ball, the All Basketball podcast here on the Heard Podcast Radio Network.

I am Doug Gottlie.

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And to many of my friends who listen, like, man, this is so much easier than just picking and choosing what to listen to and on radio shows, you're welcome.

We'll try and keep evolving.

And remember, if you're a basketball guy, though there's the offseason, you're still a basketball guy.

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download, make sure you rate us, tell a friend about it. And if you have a suggestion,

somebody you want to hear from, somebody's story you want to hear from, because what

we're going to do here as we move our way into the off season, obviously we want to cover

the summer of LeBron. I want to, we'll cover the NBA draft. And we'll also get you ready

for next year's college basketball season. But I want to use this to tell some stories.

And we'll have on some new head coaches, both in college and in the pros, some of these players

as well, and get them to tell you kind of their basketball story. What better way, right, than a pod. Probably do so in condensed fashion, but to guys who don't yet have the ability to write a book, we'll do their book, you know, tell me a couple of stories. Tell me about the first time you play. Where'd you first grow up playing hoop me personally it was mile square park in fountain

valley california yep that's it now there's also el camino park in orange california and uh you know

i grew up shooting hoops at places like orange olive school st john's uh st john's private school

is where my brother first started practicing and and then El Medina High School,

my brother went to high school. Those are the places where I first got buckets. And a kid named

Garrett Phipps had a flat driveway down the street. I used to go, and I'd run out my house,

and my mom had a bird of paradise, or birds of paradise plant right and they have these big

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