Time for a Thursday edition of Lockton NBA, David Locke, along with Ben

Goliver as the Wildness continues. Ben Goliver National Columnist

Washington Post and author of Bubble Ball.

It's out, it's real, it's there, it's in stores.

You grew up in Portland and your book is in Powell's book star,

holy, dia!

Well, it's great to speak with you like I really appreciated the tweets you put out I think you said something like this must be an amazing

feeling yesterday and it was man it's been a crazy 36 hours or so and I just appreciate you know all the push that you've given me and all the lockdown

Team hosts had me on their shows at various points. It's been amazing and

Kind of like a dream come true.

Honestly, it feels like the end of a year-long journey, frankly, when you're going back

to like the time of the shutdown last March and you and I going through all those

conversations about are they going to be able to bring this back?

Is it going to work? I mean, there's just so many moments like trips down memory lane.

So it's been very gratifying and any of the listeners that have bought the book I really

appreciate it trust me I mean it's it's really special if you've done that I

really appreciate it did you put our on-air fight in the book?

No I didn't but that was an awesome highlight.

I gave you an acknowledgement, so clearly I got over the fight, but I think, you know, it was, that was

a highlight.

I think both of us just missed basketball a little bit too much at that point didn't we? It was a good

one it made for good conversation so and I think we were all dying to get back to

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