For as I've known the NBA, it's been a Stars League.

But even among the stars, there's an exclusive club.

Russell, Dr. J. Jordan, Kobe.

They're all part of a select group that paved the way for the

NBA superstar of today. And some even shared secrets with each other along the way.

From Spotify and the Ringer Podcast Network, I'm Jackie McMullen and

this is the ICON's Club. That right there friends is what you get when there's no one to interrupt the intro.

That's the full intro music. You probably don't get that very often. You're usually hearing Mike jump in too long. Three seconds. No, thank you.

That's my best mic impression. Ladies and gentlemen, it's a Jesse slash sports boy slash JG mafia centered episode today.

Y'A boy, Michael Giuseffi, otherwise known as Meat, otherwise known as The Mouth, otherwise known as Boston Mike has something or he has allergies.

He has either allergies are really bad this year and that's why I had them last episode and he has them very bad

today or maybe there's something else going on. Fun fact we talked about coming back from the Mint.

It was great, had a great time.

I, we both felt fine the first few days.

I noticed, what was it, like maybe Tuesday, Wednesday, started getting stuffed, coughing,

you know, nothing too bad though.

And I thought that was it, I thought it was allergies because it came and went pretty quickly as of Saturday Mike

started feeling the exact same thing and then we started hearing all these reports of

A lot of people at the mint got sick and some have

tested positive for COVID. We did not, we both took tests. We did not test

positive. But that being said Mike is at home. He maybe he calls us. Maybe we get a call in, a little pop in on the on the show today, but he is not feeling all too well.

And a little sad news too.

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