Good afternoon everybody.

Very happy to be able to talk with you on this Thursday.

I want to give you an update first on Scott Pollard, who was at Vanderbilt Hospital in

Nashville.

And just moments ago I was texting with him.

And he told me that he is on status two.

And status two and status two is the level of I guess priority is the best way to say it for a heart transplant. So status one is

critically ill and on mechanical support. Scott a status two which which means that you are in the hospital on mechanical support or with severe

ventricular rhythm bias, and I don't really know what that means but all I know is he's high up meaning that you know hopefully

He will get a heart soon. I don't have to tell people this, but I think you should just take a moment and think

about what it means to be getting a heart.

And there's only one way you can get a heart, okay?

And that's through the misfortune

of another person who is walking around right now

and their heart is gonna be in Scott's body soon.

And I was talking with Scott a little bit about the mind aspect of all of this. And quite frankly, I just can't, I can't, I can't, I can't even imagine what he's going through.

By the way, if you follow him on his social media accounts, Facebook, Instagram X.

He puts out daily videos and updates people

and he's weak right now.

He doesn't have a lot of strength and I'm praying for that man and hope that

everything goes well but I just wanted to update you on Scott. All right the NBA trade

deadline is in the books. If you were hoping that the kings were going to make a

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