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Today we're going to have a chat with Grant Asset. Grant is a writer and a Dallas Mavericks reporter for Dallas Basketball.com, uh, SI as well. And then on top of that, the NBA analysis network. The dude knows his exes and knows. He was awesome. He spent time as a beat reporter as well from the Indian Interpacers. I mean, he's just been around the league. Just don't, don't just get on his Twitter and just check his analysis. And you'll know he is legit. He's been everywhere. He went to Abu Dhabi with the team. He went to the Philippines with the team. He went to the Madrid with a team. He's just been falling around doing his thing. Welcome to the show, Grant. Without further ado, let's get into it.

Well, welcome to the show, all the way from Madrid, Spain. Yeah, thanks for having me. I look

forward to talking about it. You've been a world traveler this summer, huh? Yeah, that I went to the

Hall of Fame at first, and then the World Cup, and then, yeah, the global games with the Mavs and Timberwolves as well before, yeah, the Real Madrid versus Mavs.

So it's been a lot of interesting stuff in the last couple months, for sure.

What was the, I guess, most interesting place in all of those?

Because it was Philippines, that's Dubai or Abu Dhabi, excuse me, Abu Dhabi, and now Madrid.

Yeah, and then with Luca being in Japan for the start of that, I was in Okinawa for like the first two weeks of the World Cup.

And then the Philippines for like a week.

And I thought it was interesting at Okinawa.

When I was landing there, it was like an alert system was talking about North Korean missiles.

So like my phone was going off. People were like worried about that. So that was definitely an interesting thing for sure.

Yeah, I think it's interesting because you said you haven't really traveled before this much around the world.

And now you've been pretty much to all of the more exotic places, right?

Outside of Madrid, Madrid's a huge city right in the middle of Europe.

But Abu Dhabi had to have been really interesting

situation for you, but also interesting for the team in terms of team building.

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