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I'm Wes Goldberg, Warriors writer from Mercury News.

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A great show today. I'll be joined by Mark King from Locked-on Grizzlies to discuss a group stage playoff later on. We'll get to some mail and listener polls.

But I want to start with the news that Kavan Looney has undergone surgery for an ab muscle.

I don't think the surgery is necessarily surprising, but the news here is that he's expected

to be ready by the start of next season, whenever that might be.

I did some research.

I wanted to see how long these ab things usually work out.

So the University of Utah says that this type of injury typically takes six to eight weeks

to fully recover from. And during that six to eight week stretch, very limited motion. Obviously,

your abs, your core is at the center

of everything you do so not you can't really run you can't really even lift over about 10 pounds

for a period of time obviously no twisting and turning and things like that so kvon is going to be

unable to to work out for six to eight weeks most likely but But again, he's expected to be ready by the time

next season starts. And either way, this is going to be still the longest offseason he's ever had,

right? Because since getting drafted in 2015, he's been to the NBA finals each and every year.

And last year, even after they lost in the NBA finals, he had that shoulder

injury, the collarbone injury that knocked him out for the whole offseason. And then he

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