All right, welcome on to Hollinger and Duncan.

Happy holidays to everyone.

Hope you're having a good holiday, but also staying safe out there.

And John just got back from Las Vegas in the Mandalay Bay Casino where the G-League showcase took place.

I was not able to attend this year, which was to my regret.

But I'm guessing you had a somewhat interesting time, John.

Yeah, it was definitely a different kind of experience and really started on the first leg of the

trip. I stopped in Nashville hoping to see the Memphis Tennessee game, and that was canceled

less than an hour before tip-off due to COVID-related absences, and really a harbinger of things to come. So didn't see as many

executives out there as you normally would because so many of them were scrambling just to put

a team together. And even the ones that I did see there, some of them, you know, things were

okay when they left and then by 48 hours later had mushroomed into a huge problem where they're signing, you know, guys who were retired five years ago or whatever just because they're running out of players.

No, I mean, that's pretty great.

So you probably, I would guess people there probably didn't even like have time to just sit and watch a game and have a conversation like

they normally would. So I was able to do that with with a couple of people, but,

but there, there were a couple people whose teams were relatively unscathed or who had already

been through the worst of it. So, but it was just much less possible than it passed showcases.

So I mean, what was the overall mood among people there?

We're like people just incredibly stressed out.

Were they complaining?

Were they just like resigned to their fate?

It was more resignation.

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