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Hello and welcome to the tampering podcast, part of the Athletic NBA show Network.

I'm Sam Amick, National NBA writer at The Athletic, here as always with co-host Anthony Slater on the West Coast.

Another Westcoaster, haven't had them on the show.

And goodness, you know, a couple weeks, Yovonne.

We got Yovat Buha on the Lakers beat you know a couple weeks yovan we got jovon buha on the

lakers beat uh we are going to get into a lot on the latest tampering here is gentlemen the

quick breakdown uh you probably could have guessed it you know yoban can talk all around the

association but but lakers first and foremost uh yoban and Shams Sharania, dropping a dozy

of a story this morning about Darbanham and the pressure surrounding him with the fledgling

Lakers.

It's certainly going to unpack that.

Our guy, Fred Katz, on the Knicks beat is going to join us later, as always, and we're

going to unpack the OG An Anobie trade with the nix and kind of the dominole effect

on toronto and the pascal see ackham discussion talk a little bit of pacer's bucks just because

i find it so fascinating that indiana is uh is breaking the buck sold these days and and what does

that mean and mr slater you wrote a piece on the okay c thunder that we want to get into as well and how they are probably the surprise team of the season.

Let me bring you all in here.

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