Welcome to the Athletic NBA Show, one day through on the Athletic Podcast Network.

And it's a championship edition of Hoops Adjacent on the Athletic NBA Show, David Alders

here in DC. My man, MT got back to the bank, got back to the town. I don't know how you did it,

but you did it. Thank you. Listen, never airport, which it's always a hassle.

It was cranky. Yeah, it was extra wild. I ended up running. Like it was like free.

It goes to a championship at the same time. It was like, it's hard to run through DIA, man,

because the trains will, you got to get to that, that's a thing. That's going to stop you,

but then once you get to the terminal, yeah, it's less I got to be able to run through it.

It was wild. I was like, man, all these people made it to the airport.

Long drive it happened, right? On the other hand, you halfway to Oakland,

anyone, once you get out to DIA, you halfway to Oakland.

Thanks.

Hey, he's not bad.

Where's your flight? Like 27 minutes?

I'll just just catch and strain.

I don't think it's a little, I mean, it ain't as bad as people say.

It's far, but it ain't like, that's far, that's far. But I mean, it's like, once you get this,

like, oh, here's like all the other really busy ones. It's pretty dry. That's what makes it,

like, that's what makes it unique. It's not bad. And you know what, for me, so when you are on

that drive to DIA, Pena Boulevard kind of snakes its way to DIA, on the left side of Pena Boulevard

is Montfellow. That's where I grew up. And so where it used to be, we were the farthest thing

in Denver. And then they built DIA. That was the end of Denver.

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