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Unfortunately, those wizards find new ways to blow leads in the fourth quarter.

Blew another one in Toronto last night. I don't even want to talk about it.

I want to talk about better and more positive things with our man Bastion from Trash Talk.

The man, the myth, the legend, all things French basketball, all things Europe basketball

Bastion. Thank you for joining us.

Thank you, Diaz for me. Invitation, as always. But you were here, I wanted to start with this.

You were here for Wemby's first game. We were here for a few days, right, in San Antonio. And how much,

how much more could you get done being here in person on the ground as opposed to trying to report from

France? Well, it was crazy because obviously most of the time we witnessed the games from afar

and during the night. So it was good to see the craziness from that close. I think it was amazing

to see a marquee game because I think it was nationally

televised against Luca Donstitch in the Mazz as an opening tip. And so I think it was two side

of the stories because I was able to be close to Wembe and his group. And so that was one side of it.

And as well, I was close to the spurs so I think it was a really double experience and the the scenario of the whole thing

because I was there for two games the first one against Dallas and then the

second one against Houston the scenario the script was amazing because they

they really were there against Dallas in the money time.

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