Welcome back to the Athletic NBA show.

I'm Dave DeFour.

I'm here with a special guest.

You may know him as the host of the NBA Bit over on his YouTube channel.

Mike Zakarian, the NBA comedian in the house.

How are you, Mike?

I love that you can just write the stuff down in your Twitter bio and then it becomes real.

That's what you are.

Yeah, the NBA comedian and you get introduced like that, you just speak it into the ether.

Dave, thanks for having me on, man.

You're the only NBA comedian that's self-proclaimed or otherwise. Yeah, that's the key to doing it is you're just going to get out in front before somebody else says they're a comedian. Now, now they have to go through me. There's a whole- Well, I was going to say, what people don't realize is that this is actually kind of a Highlander situation. Right. It's only allowed to be one at a time.

Right.

I had to wait for someone to like, is that this is actually kind of a highlander situation. It's only allowed to be one at a time.

Right.

I had to wait for someone to either pass on or give it up before I was allowed to take it.

And now, you know, we're going to hang on to it for dear life.

Yeah.

It's been a pretty fun summer.

You know, a lot of interesting moves and stuff like that.

So I figured who better to get on here

and talk about some of the fun that's happened this summer than Mike Zakarian. And I was thinking

we could do a little bit of drafting. I'm down. You're legally required to do drafts in the

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