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All right, welcome to the tampering podcast, part of the Athletic NBA Show Network.

We have a special edition this week.

Normally, Mr. Slater and I, Anthony Slater, renowned Warriors, guru, et cetera, myself, Sam Amick, NBA

national writer at the Athletic.

We go around the league, but it's remote, it's Zoom.

We're sitting here in person

today with the one-only Mike Dunleavy, GM of the Golden State Warriors. Mike, thank you for joining us. Well, technically there are two Mike Dunleavies. So, junior apologies, yes. I really don't go by that, but in that case, if you're going to load it up with the one and only, we have to be precise. I was just telling since you went there,

Mr. Slater, I'm going to just own, you and I are similar ages, right? I told Slater that it aged me a bit,

that I caught the tail end of your dad's career. I have memories of walking into that Clippers head

coaching front office and picking his brain on those teams. So, you know, you are representing very well these

days. I'm sure he's proud of you. How is Pop's doing? Is he good? Yeah, he's doing great. Just

recently and living down in New Orleans. He was at Tulane for a couple years. He plays a lot of golf

and enjoy. He's got eight grandkids. So he's staying busy busy is his mind with you on the grandkids and the

non-hoops do you all chop it up about this roster and this league and and the game these days at all

yeah pretty much anything that um you know i'd be willing to listen on he's happy to talk about so

yeah he'll he'll talk about whatever you want but um get him going and he's got some good stuff to say.

Good stuff, man. Glad to hear it. We're going to go a little macro and micro today. I'm going to

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