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Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast.

I'm your host Sam Vesini.

We're presented by The Athletic. I've got a beautiful two-part episode for you. I know that the NBA is starting up today, but this is going to be more of a draft-centric podcast. Why? Because I want to let the NBA rock a little bit. I want to have there be four days of games before I start talking about takeaways from the NBA, right? Having said that,

the first part of this podcast is going to be a really great discussion with Matt Penny. We had

them on recently back in early July. We're going to talk about some of my most recently updated

big board, some point guard prospects, and how they compare to one another. And then additionally, we're going to have a discussion about who the best wing in the draft

class is.

And then after that, we're going to have a nice little 20-minute interview with Elijah Hughes,

who is a borderline first round pick, early second round pick kind of guy from Syracuse.

So, Matt, how you doing, man?

It's good to have you on the line. It's good to chat again.

I'm glad that I didn't scare you off the first time. No, you didn't scare me off. I felt it was a

pretty productive first date, but I was waiting for you to text me back to confirm that. So I'm

here. I think it won't well. I'm so pumped that you're here. For people who don't remember, Matt runs a scouting service.

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