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Hello and welcome to the tampering podcast, part of the Athletic NBA Show Network.

I'm Sam Amick, NBA National Writer at The Athletic.

We got usual suspect, Anthony Slater on the West Coast.

We are going to bring in fellow usual suspect, Fred Katz, from the East Coast, a little bit later in the show,

especially because his old team, the Washington Wizards, made a coaching change.

But we will get to that a little bit later.

We're going to start today this week's show focusing on the Milwaukee Bucks.

I'm sure all the NBA hoop heads are shocked to hear that that is the focus.

Adrian Griffin is out. Joe Prunty is in temporarily. Doc Rivers around the corner. How long is Joe Prunty in, by the way? We'll get there. Let me bring our guy in. Let me bring our guy in to him. Hold on. Just kick your right tool. Let get we're getting there we get in there we got

eric name who uh milwaukee bucks beat writer all over the story as always uh always one of my favorites

slater you know this eric you know this one of the funnier parts of my role at the athletic is i

feel like you know i end up roaming between different

teams and markets. And so it's always a pleasure and a joy to work side by side with Eric.

Usually, in our experience, Eric, it's just been waxing poetic about the greatness of the

Milwaukee Bucks or the latest Janus Ado Ducco contract extension. This was a little bit different.

We've been in the trenches, so to speak uh the last couple of weeks in the story doing trying to pump it out uh what's up brother

how are you i'm great uh i could use a little bit of sleep but i don't think that's really

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