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Hello and welcome with the Hoop Collective podcast.

We talk about the NBA, which is doing on Thursday afternoon here in San Antonio,

where the local heroes, the San Antonio Spurs, are down 1-0 to the New York Knicks.

Joining me happily, not in New York, but here in San Antonio is Tim Bontemps. Hello, everybody. And fresh off his evening with the Jackals, we didn't even talk to the podcast we recorded last night. We didn't even talk about that you spent the game with the Jackals. Shump was a little too fired up to get into the Jackals. He was banned from the press area, but accepted by the jackals, ban McMahon.

Howdy, partners. I tell you what, man, I had a good time hanging with the jackals, and it is quite an upbeat, passionate group. I was, like, I knew Wimby was involved. I knew it was kind of his idea. To have you go up there? That was his idea. No, no, no.

The founding of the creation of it.

Even the name of the group.

As I got to kind of hang with them and talk to him, I was shocked by the level of Wimby's

involvement.

Like I knew there was a PowerPoint presentation with the captains to start us off.

There was a meeting on the rooftop bar at the restaurant next to the Spurs practice facility,

mid-season.

He's coming back from the injury that lasted two hours with the entire group.

And that's when they came up with the, you know, bang the drum, boom, boom, clap type thing.

Yeah, yeah.

So many of like the chance that they use, the songs that they play over the loudspeakers,

some of the little gestures that they do are straight from him, like his suggestions.

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