Hey there, Nix fans. Hey there, Knicks fans.

How you doing?

It's your boy, John of the Maccary with you for another episode of the Nix Film School podcast.

Coming at you on a Friday, we have completed just about a week of summer league basketball.

It's been a pretty fun week.

We'll get to that in a second.

We have a pretty special guest this morning for you or today, I guess, or this weekend.

I don't know, whenever you're listening to this.

Mike Vorkenoff of the Athletic.

So let me just take a minute to talk about Mike.

So Mike has been the beat reporter for covering the Nix for the athletic.

Man, I think since I've been doing Nix Film School, It feels like he's been here for three seasons.

And, you know, Nick's fans, I think, have a somewhat checkered relationship with some of the writers who cover this team or have covered this team in the past.

Mike Vorgonoff is just awesome.

He's first class all the way and his stuff is top notch.

And, you know, I just, as someone who faces the challenge of creating content about

this team on a regular basis, that that is you know if you're a

newsletter subscriber content that's readable if you're obviously listening to this podcast content

that is um you know worthy of your your time and attention and um yeah it's hard to do that

and it's hard to do that and to make it good.

And Mike Vorgonoff, in all the time that he's been covering the Knicks for the athletic,

has done it just as well as you could do it.

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