Hello and welcome to the Hoop Collective Podcast. We talk about the NBA. It's Tuesday morning,

joining me from New Orleans, Louisiana at the Pelicans practice facility, I believe, is

Mr. Andrew Lopez. That is 100% correct. Happy New Year to you, Brian.

544. What's the threshold on how long you have to say happy New Year? It's January 3rd. I mean,

we're still in it, but when do we stop? I'm going to just going to go with the furlits.

For us, it's easy down here because on January 6th, we go to a brand new season, which is Marty

Gras. So if up until 12th night, up until January 6th, you can say it because after that, it's

Marty Gras and nothing matters anymore. Join us from Oakland, California, and a guy who may have

attended. I don't want to assume, Anne, Skate, Mark J. Spears, you're a Louisiana guy. Have you been

a big martygera guy in your career? You know, it's my mother's from New Orleans. I was mostly there,

as in during my youth in the summer. So I didn't get to go to Marty Gras, I was an adult. And that's

just because you know, it's February. And I've actually covered NBA, February is a really busy

time of year. So I think it took like me to be at a Pelican's game and to finally go. But shot

out to Jen Hale, Pelican's sideline reporter. When I was there, she had it laid out at some steakhouse.

On what's the main street where the martygera takes place? On St. Charles? Yes, on St. Charles.

And I don't know who she knows, but it's like, yeah, what steak you want? What wine you want?

What dackery you want? Oh, by the way, the parade's going on. She had it hooked up in my cousin,

shot out to English muffin. As we call her, she's having a big parade party in front of her house

on St. Charles where everybody is welcome. So if you go to her Instagram page, English muffin,

English muffin, manay, if you call yourself English muffin, she's having a, I guess it's a public

party, which is incredible to me. I hope so now. I don't know English muffin. I don't know English

muffin, but I do know Jen Hale and she's the best. She has to, she has to, right now in addition to

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