Hello, welcome to the Hoop Collective Podcast. We talk about the NBA, which we are doing

a Monday night in the United States and early on Tuesday morning here in London, England.

Joining me from New York City is Tim Bontos.

Folks, I only got on here a couple minutes before we started and this feels like it could be a legendary windy sleep update based off the general mood before we had begun.

I had a backbreaker of a day.

I'm supposed to be having this sort of stuff in the pre-Olympic days. You know, it's got a really tough life,

but man, it's just got a really, really tough life out in, out in the environs, out seeing famous people, he's golfinging he's doing all kinds of stuff it's a tough life

Joining us from Dallas Texas is band McMahon howdy partners listen when he was trying to go about the passive

Wendy sleep update.

He had to kind of pull this spot there.

What time is it there, Wendy?

Just go on and tell them.

10 after 2 a.m. British summer time.

Do they do?

How do they say that in London? Do they call it summertime?

BST British Summertime. I did get to see the Tottenham Hot Spur playing a friendly over the weekend at Queens Park Rangers. I know that's big for our

by the way I want to say and this involves Jackson too. I've had a lot of folks over

here come up to me at the games at the O2 Arena where the environment for the two

team USA games was absolutely spectacular. You know England is not known for its love of an NBA basketball and there was a lot of people from all over the world

who are in in London right now who are doing it and there's a lot of German fans at tonight's game.

They were chanting, let's go Deutschland, which I was like, well, you're going to speak

in English or speak in German?

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