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Now we're in for a big treat.

We got Kurt Heelan on.

Kurt is the blogger in chief of Pro Basketball Talk.com, but also NBCSports.com and the

managing editor in NBC.

We had a wide-ranging interview.

It touched on a lot of inner storylines that come up for the season.

So let's get into it.

Welcome to the show. My man,

Kurt Heelan, lead NBA writer, managing editor, NBCSports.com. Just one of the, I would say

more honest guys in their assessments of what's happening around the NBA. I've got a ton of

questions. There's a lot developing and we could spend all day, but I figured I would

call it down to the teams that I personally am the most interested in based on what we saw

opening night, but also some of the sleeper teams too. So I am really intrigued by Phoenix. I think

that's a team that could potentially break the mentality of the super team,

right, being dead. And Bradley Beal obviously is a guy that they got for absolutely nothing.

They made moves in the summer with Nurkich, which I think is super interesting, got a lot

of depth. They get a bunch of guys from the Blazers.

And I think when they went to chase last night or on Tuesday night,

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