joining me now on the Nix Film School podcast.

We are diverting course a little bit from our regularly schedule program,

although I have a feeling there will definitely be some Nix talk over the next little bit.

He is the writer of a movie that is coming out today as you were listening to this because I believe

this episode is dropping on Friday. It is a major wide Hollywood studio release and it is a movie

about basketball, which to anyone listening to this podcast, right there, that's all you should

need to know, but we're going to get in depth a little bit more.

Writer of the movie Champions, Mark Rizzo, hello, sir. How are you?

I'm terrific. I'm so happy to be here. I'm not just like driving by here. I am an enormous

fan, obviously, of all the work that you guys do here at KFS, and I'm there just like driving by here. I am an enormous fan, obviously, of all the work that you

guys do here at KFS. And I'm there with you guys on every post game. I'm a diehard Knicks fan.

I've watched every minute of every game with I think the exception of the one game I missed was

the Celtics game on Monday night. The first win of Celtics in that little run there.

And I had a good excuse.

It was the premiere of the movie and I had to be there in New York.

It's a decent excuse.

Yeah, it's a pretty good excuse.

And it was like, it was a magical night.

It was surreal.

I was on a red carpet for the first time.

And what's really cool is it was it was a hardwood carpet.

They made it out of hardwood.

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