Hello and welcome to The Hoop Collective Podcast. We talk about the NBA which we're doing late on Sunday evening.

Joining us from New York City where he attended the Nick's game against the Charlotte Hornets earlier today is Tim Bon Tems.

Hello, everybody.

Do you enjoy that Nick's Hornets affair today?

It was like the 11th both interesting game in the NBA.

I came I came home and watched a whole bunch more more

interesting games than that.

The mellow ball had 32, 7, and 6, and was minus 32.

That sums up how the game went today.

Not quite, not slightly better, slightly more negative than James Harden, which we'll get to in a minute.

Joining us from Dallas Texas now this is a packed podcast and so we won't get to

hit on it but you should for some fun read Band

McMahon's story that he published a couple of days ago on the origination of the

too small gesture in the NBA and the proliferation, which I don't think he used the word proliferation on the story.

I'm sure he didn't. It was a good story though. But check out that story. Sorry, Band the Command.

No problem. No problem. Howdy, partners, we definitely will hit on the originator of two small.

One, Russell Westbrook will be part of the conversation to come. But first, have you seen what Tyrese Maxi did on Sunday in Philly

when the 76ers won their eighth consecutive game over the Pacers.

Pacers played well in this game by the way and continue to be one of the stories of the early

season as they put up great offensive numbers.

But not as good of offensive numbers as Tyreuse Max.

You had the finest offensive game of his young career.

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