Hello and welcome to Group Chat, the ringers weekly MBA group discussion,

where we talk about how the only thing that could bring this nation together

is an MBA trade rumor. I am Justin Varyer joining me today, John, then, Charx.

I mean, a weird day to talk basketball, but I guess life goes on.

It does indeed. Rob Mahoney is here. But does it counterpoint?

I mean, it will for this podcast at the very least. It's only now. I guess.

Joining us today to talk about said trade rumor from New Orleans. He writes for,

I believe it's now the advocate slash the Times Picky Un, is that correct? Scott Kushner?

Correct. A slash and old calm. So all the slashes that you'd like to put in there will take them all.

Beautiful. So we're going to talk with Scott today about the Drew Holiday rumor, trade rumor that

came down like man up from heaven this morning as we parse through some of these early

election results and just everything else going on in the world. We're time to be recording

a podcast. Let's just say that upfront, but we're going to do the best that perhaps give you

something else to just take your mind off what's going on or just, I don't know, maybe just

clip and save this one for later. But we're going to talk about Drew Holiday up top,

then Mike Forkinoff from the athletics is going to join us in the back end of the podcast to

talk about the nicks. We'll talk about that and more right after this.

All right. So we have the biggest story in our nation right now,

according to Sham Shorania, the New Orleans Pelicans are openly discussing

star Drew Holiday and trade talks and several contending teams are pursuing. Thank you to Sham's

for doing this ahead of our recording because the past two weeks we've had to scramble just to get

the news back into this podcast. But Scott, you're there on the ground. Let's start here first.

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