Hello and welcome to the Game Theory podcast.

I'm your host Sam Vassini.

We are presented by The Athletic today on the show.

Fred Katz is in the building.

How you doing, Fred?

It's our beautiful, lovely beatwriter for the New York Knicks.

Just one of the best people who write about basketball in the industry.

Fred, I'm so happy you're here.

Well, I am thrilled to be here.

I'm thrilled to be in the virtual building.

I'm excited to talk some award stuff.

There are very few times when I'm actively excited about getting a signed homework, but I like prepping for the awards pod stuff.

It's like being a awards voter is incredibly cool, and I've done it the last three years for like the real awards.

And it's incredibly cool, but it's unbearably

stressful and this is all the fun of it without any stress at all so it's great well yeah like i think

that a i wanted to have you on because i know how seriously you take it b i wanted to have you on

because you're an awards voter like you you vote on these awards legitimately like you are a

piece of the puzzle in terms of

who is going to get these awards and, you know, you are not someone that's going to go,

oh, this guy's a fucking terrible person. I'm not going to vote for him. Like that dude for

the, uh, who writes about like Chicago sports did about Aaron Rogersaron rogers i saw that no i would definitely not

i i only saw the tweets about that i kind of like cold turkey stopped following football i used to

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