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Locked on NBA, the athletics Sam Amick joins us.

There's a lot of crazy stuff going on in the league.

We get to do big picture. There's no games until tonight.

They'll finally all start tonight.

Sam, let me start with your Dell Demps piece, just the mess that is going on in New Orleans you dug into what really took place there

the question I have on it it felt to me when it was going on and it feels to me more so now it kind of reconfirm.

I have a feeling that the that Gail Benson may have told

Del Demps you're not allowed to do a deal by the trade deadline.

When I talk to teams around the league and proposed and talked to people and said,

well what about this?

They said, well, Noril isn't even listening.

Do you think that there's a chance that the front office, that the ownership had decided, we're not making a deal

because the guy who's making the deal

is going to be somebody else.

Very possible.

I don't know that independently

if that were the case that would fall in line with

you know I did like the characterization that I've been hearing about Gail in terms of the way

she's operating right now, which is to say, you know, grabbing control of the situation, being very involved, very proactive. She's attending every home game, You know, even that night,

when A.B. left the game in the third quarter

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