Happy Thursday, y'all.

It is morning shoot-around with the Athletic NBA Daily, NBA Draft, first round edition.

I am sliding over to the host chair to allow these guys to cook.

I got Andrew Schlecht, Esperhani, and Dave DeFour,

that's going to be able to give us their analysis

of last night's MBA 2025 draft.

First and foremost, we just love the draft here, don't we?

Like, it's fun to watchful achieve their dreams.

Yeah, absolutely. By the way,

I thought it was so dumb to be tears that happened last night. It doesn't need to be two days,

but I saw people saying, oh, this could have been an email. Certainly, could have been an email.

Okay, great. But so could your high school graduation and your college graduation.

Yeah.

Right.

And it's not just about you.

So yeah, like shout out to those guys.

Like it was fun, man.

I love watching these guys get that chance to walk across the stage, see their dreams fulfilled,

only to then have their hopes and dreams crushed when they're out of the league like

five years from now right like we'll get that later they could still play some pro ball afterwards

you know that's right europe is there you know you can still you know listen let people have their

suit let them have their moment let them have their tears i'm all about it and you also just

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