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

I'm Sam Amick, NBA National Writer at The Athletic, here with my co-host, Anthony Slater, Fred Katz,

and friend colleague, friend of the show on a pretty consistent basis recently, man. John Krasinski, John, we don't normally lean on you like this, brother, but the team that you cover just keeps winning games. We got to talk some Minnesota Timberwolves today. Let's do it. Looking forward to it. I like it. We got to talk Minnesota Timberwolves into June, maybe. That's what you really want to say.

June might be strong. May at least. I'm thinking. I've never, I never, I don't know what the NBA looks like in May and NBA arena. So we'll, we'll see about that. John's wife is probably not happy about this. Isn't that vacation time? Oh, man. we get away that today's show, which is for the folks that are not necessarily all in on

the wolves just yet, we're going to have Mike Vorkenoff from our staff on to talk about

the controversy surrounding the 65 game rule.

He had a good column the other day talking to all sides about some of the early

blowback and the conversation around player participation

policy we might i don't know if i should tease this it's to be determined we might have a little

bucks chatter at the end with eric name he's got a scheduling conflict we'll see how that goes and then

mr slater and of course mr select we might jam in an okay C segment another T. Wolves type team that is that is

kind of shock in the world right now and fighting for top billing in the West.

But JK, let's start here.

I see you at All Star Weekend, my friend, and had a good time running around.

And you're the Minnesota boy.

So you're used to the cold.

My soft West Coast ass was not happy out there walking around in 15 degree,

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