This is the day more NBA podcast, brought to by Blue Wire podcast coming to Monday afternoon, October 2nd.

And on today's show, I'm joined by Chris Hine of the Star Tribune to discuss what we'll

be looking for in the first week of these wolves preseason games, Chris, but also kind

of surprised today at practice.

We got our first in-person look at Carl Anthony Towns doing a little bit of work and

practice and he, he spoke to us in the media. Let's hit that first. What stood out to you from

what, what Carl did say, didn't say how much he could talk, like, how high his voice could go.

How high his voice could go? he couldn't really adjust the volume of

his voice he said today well i think the first thing that i think we all noticed was not just how he

sounded but how he looked he looked much tremor um and i think it was jace that asked him about

you know is that more of the results of your summer work or the recent

illness that you were battling? And he said both. And he said he was down to 231, I believe,

was the number, which he's usually in the 250 range. So I even remember one time, maybe Tibbs's

last year, the first year of Ryan, I think it was like up like got 260, you know?

You know, and that was, that might have been after an off season where there was like, you know,

I think he actually wanted to put on weight where they were going to lean into him more in the post and that sort of thing.

But, but yeah, I mean, he was doing his workout with his shirt off and I'm like I would have honestly

guessed less than 230 yeah yeah he looked he looked really trim and I want to make clear like

not in like a feeble way right necessarily like I think probably people associate that with like

oh my god he's wasting away and no no not at all maybe like five pounds worth of sickness or whatever, but he's clearly.

That was clearly what he was trying to do in the offseason, too.

And it makes sense if he's going to be playing more at the four just on both ends of the floor.

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