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Welcome to a Tuesday edition of locked on NBA.

I'm West Goldberg and I'm here with my co-host Davidermill and joining us from a lonely hotel bar in Sacramento,

it's the athletic Sam Amix. Sam thanks for coming

on the show. Lesson David thanks for having me that was a few nights ago but but

you are on point that was quite an evening

uh... we're gonna talk about carrios liver it's devastating injury

Markelpholdt's ugly free throw shot and look ahead to tonight's games but let's start

with jimmy butler

uh... who just hours before he was traded you talked to in Sacramento and wrote about

that conversation for the athletic and now there's a lot of talk about how Butler's

going to fit in Philadelphia with other young guys like Ben Simmons, Joel and Markel Folt, after it didn't work out so great with the young guys in Minnesota.

So Sam, if you're the Sixers, are you worried at all about Jimmy's, I don't know, volatile reputation?

I mean, it's a consideration that I guarantee, you know, they thought about long and hard

as they pondered their different trade proposals.

I mean, what's interesting to me about the way

that Philly approached the whole situation

is that, you know, early on, they dip their toe in the water when it comes to talking to men so that I'm

talking at the very beginning a couple months ago but they didn't really seem to

be very willing to put a lot of the table and then over time I think they started seeing

that you know that they could get something done with Daria with Covington and I

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