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The Athletic Mbiyah show, I'm Dave Before, joined by Law Murray for what has been, I don't know.

How long has this pod been in the making law?

This is an emergency pod.

James Harden's been traded to the Clippers. And Law Murray has been working all

night, drinking a little orange juice. I catch him nice and bright and early. Law, how does it feel?

It's finally over? Well, I guess it's just starting now. I literally just put out a tweet

with the Rick Flair, John.

I don't even know who he was writing at when he was like, we've only just begun.

You know what I'm saying?

Like, and it's true, like this season has only just begun.

What we have come to understand of how the team is going to make this work

on both ends of the floor in the first unit and the second unit, we've only just begun. And

this isn't the trade deadline. You know what I mean? Like we're going to have several months,

a whole in-season tournament, several more developments.

Teams are going to fall in, fall out, whatever. And then we're going to redo this again and

about, you know, whenever February gets here. But for now, we finally have a deal that I've been sitting on for four months.

Is this the same deal that you've known about for a while? Let's get into the deal real quick.

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