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Thursday edition of Lacton, NBA is underway.

I'm David Lock, along with Ben Goliver.

We are back together again.

We took a little high eight.

Well, you and Nick talk last week, I think the week before I screwed up. I don't actually know it's go. It's been a while, Ben Goliver. I miss you. How are you?

Oh, it's great to hear your voice lock as always we are getting so close to the season it was

funny like everyone's saying hey James Harden's a little bit you know late to

camp and he's a couple days partying in Vegas in Atlanta and all this and I looked at the calendar and I was like

well he's not just a little bit late to camp like you're going to have to play their

first game in two weeks he's barely going to have cleared the the coronavirus protocol

by that locks so it's coming quick for us.

You came out of the bubble you know and you've been writing your book like are you

like are you fired up for this are you getting going for me you know on a personal note it's just so dramatically different

than any other season I've ever done in the you know I don't want to admit how many

years 30 plus years that I've been in the

NBA you know so it's been really weird for me I'll be really quite frank that like as a play-by-play

announcer like to have training camp going on and not being there every day like that's what gets me fired up for the season is like I go to training camp and I see the guys and I see what Quinn's working on and I'm and I'm all of a sudden I'm really geeked and like to not be doing that is really really

strange. What is your vibe like are you ready? Are you like finding storylines?

I mean like oh this is going to be fascinating what's your thought?

No I'm definitely ready. I mean, Thanksgiving was kind of a turning point for me. Before Thanksgiving, I was just dreading this idea of the season coming so quickly and was I going

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