Let's start with how your Thursday night went because early Thursday night at about 7 o'clock,

the news broke on social media and probably got spread to you via text messages.

It's the way we all talk to each other these days, that Mitchell Robinson has suffered a broken right

pinky finger and there is no timetable on his return.

That's the news we get.

Yes.

So my brain is like going 15 different things at the same time.

And I have to be honest with you, you know what the first thing I did was?

When I saw this injury, turned on Tommy Lugauer.

I'm sorry.

And what did Tommy have to say?

Well, I was curious what Tommy would say.

Like, does Tommy go out and say, oh my God, we can't have nice things? But Tommy did what I expected Tommy to do. No, Biggie. No, Tommy made the same assumption we all made last night, which is that it's just a pinky. He's Mitchell Robinson. He's very tough. and he's going to play. Suck it up and play.

Yeah. And look, I want to be perfectly honest with you about the Mitchell Robinson discourse.

Mitchell Robinson is a guy who came out a few weeks ago and talked about kind of the things he's

dealing with off the court. And he had a quote, very upsetting experience. He's dealing with his

mental health. And he's doing it in the midst of an Eastern Conference finals. We all respect Mitchell Robinson. I think we all kind of love Mitchell Robinson. And so I didn't want to sit here today or any day and say, that son of a bitch better play. Like the dude is going through the world right now. He's going to try to play.

He's now going to play. We later got that news.

But the discourse around Mitchell Robinson, I think we need to be fair to this man.

This is a man who was so open a few weeks ago to say, hey, I just want to announce to the world, I'm dealing with a lot right now. Now, we all are.

Not everyone's open about it.

He's open about it.

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