Welcome back. Junkies come to you live on 106, 7 The Fan. I'm going to talk to Jeremy Fowler from ESPN, who joins us right now on the rude guest hotline.

Hey, Jeremy.

Hey, guys. How you doing? What's going on?

You've been all over this story for a while. You know, the people here in the DMV are freaking out.

What's kind of the latest that you're hearing with this Terry situation? Well, you know, I checked with somebody last night

after he had decided to hold out. And, you know, I think his feeling was, hey, I've been

serious this whole time. So why should I cave now and show up, you know?

So it's interesting with these holdouts, and I've been to these before,

where, you know, you hear players say a lot that, or people around the players say,

well, hey, they're dug in, they're going to stay away or miss games.

And you kind of have to judge, well, did they mean it or not, you know?

I think Terry means it.

You know, we'll see what happens over time.

And minds can change.

And I think it's more, like, Washington has been in touch more of the last few days, which is good.

You believe that to be true?

Because we have a guy here that works here, and he says, I don't believe it,

because if there were real talks, he'd maybe hold in, at least.

There'd be some movement.

Well, I think you're right.

It's all, it's semantics a little bit as far as what real talks are I think if they were

if the talks were truly meaningful or going in a positive direction toward a deal I do think he

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