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Hello and welcome to the tampering podcast part of the Athletic

NBA Show Network I'm Sam Amick National NBA writer at the

Athletic here with a couple of co-host that I'm super fired up to be with because my

regular guys Anthony Slater Fred Katz are out on that beat doing their thing

travel grind schedule mix-ups all that good stuff but we are we're gonna turn you know lemons into lemonade here we got

jay King coming from Boston we got Will Gillery I assume in New Orleans will we in

New Orleans yes back in New Orleans yes sir so guys by the shoe He can always tell by the shoe rack.

When he's got the shoe rack.

The shoes, eh, you know what's going on.

Yeah, that's not a hotel shoe rack.

So here's what's fun about this week's episode. First of all two of my favorites on this pod so so happy to have you guys here. We have kind of a running joke not even a joke kind of a reality on tampering that when you you have Anthony Slater, who's Northern California,

and now granted, Katz is a New York City boy.

But we have a little bit of a West Coast bias

on the tampering pot.

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