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Welcome to the Athletic MBA show.

Monday through on the Athletic Podcast Network.

From the Golden Gate to the New York Bay.

What I have access to is a bit different than the public.

Tamper with you. Welcome to tampering. We're this beautiful game of basketball that we all love and talk about every single day. Sam, Pam. Anthony Slater and Fred Katz. To be able to bring people together. Affordedly at the center of an NBA investigation. Into tampering. I had a the message to executive in the league is not talking about players on

other teams what did I do then the charges filed impermissible contact right or wrong

tampering charges are really difficult to prove you know me I talk

awkward to even talk about if can't even mention deans anymore I'd like to play with

Cameron the Graham trial your one with the tampering they're always ahead of the world. Is that where I guess I'm going to have tamper with the guy. I didn't tell me what happened. Here's your host, Sam Amick. Hello and welcome to a late playoffs edition of the tampering podcast. Fred Katz is with me. I believe from New York. I'm just guessing.

And Sam Amick is with us, Fred, from an Uber. I assume he's going, wow, L.A.X. Burbank, if he's smart.

But he just left a, I don't want to say a dud of a conference finals, but a non-competitive conference finals in a lot of ways. Nuggets sweep. Sam, Amick, you're on the ground. What is going down there? Well, first of all, Slater, I'm not going to let you get away with that slander. You said, if you're smart, you go out of Burbank as I head to LAX, which makes me not smart, clearly. Oh, man. I mean, you, you revealed it yourself. And you're also, I mean, why's it got to be Uber? Why can't it be Lyfts? Let's give both companies a little bit of free advertising. It is an Uber. No, I'm here. I'm going to the airport. I mean, you know, it was a, it's funny.

It's a sweep.

And yes, by definition, is a dud of a conference finals.

But, but man, they went out in style when it comes to the compelling, you know,

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