Welcome to a special edition of the No Dunks podcast. I'm Leos. I'm joined by Tasmalis and the man making the magic happen, JD.

Today we're going down under. That's right. To talk to NBL broadcaster and writer Liam Santa Maria.

Why? Because we want to find out just how good Lamella ball might be in the NBA and nobody is better qualified to tell us that than Liam.

Liam spent last season watching and covering Lamello play for the Illawarra Hawks in Australia's National Basketball League

and he joins us on the show today.

Liam, welcome to the No Dunks podcast.

Thanks, Lee.

Good to be good to be with you guys, Tass.

I'll tell you, I go way back with you fellas, back to the TBJ days at the score and so great to be with you. Thanks. Thanks a lot for coming on,

man. I appreciate it. I'm glad Lee had to be the one to say Illawarra Hawks as well because I

had no idea how to say that name, but now I'm good. Hey, Liam, I'm going to have to really enjoy

this podcast because finally it's going to be two Australian guys outnumbering the

North American guy. So we can make fun of Tass's accent as much as we like on this show. Okay.

I've got like eight or nine years built up here. So anything that Tass says it sounds funny,

let him hear it about it. Okay. You've got some pent up frustration. You want to get out of

that. I'll help you with that. Oh, nice one. Okay. Well, let's get into. You've got some pent up frustration. You want to get out there?

I'll help you with that.

Oh, nice one.

Okay, well, let's get into it because it's obviously a big story and there's a lot of hype around La Mello Ball.

So, you know, when did you first hear that he was coming to Australia

and what did you know about him?

The first word I got, I mean, there was some sort of suggestion that he might.

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