Welcome to the morning shootaround here on the Athletic NBA Daily's YouTube page and also podcast feed.

We are podcasting in person in Oklahoma City at Down to Dunk Studios.

With the heaviest coasters I've ever seen in my life.

With the heaviest coasters from a down to dunker. Beautiful. I'm your host, Andrew Schleck with me. Dave DeFore. Aspera Henning here. In person. First in person shoot around ever. I love it. I love it. Dude, I'm just, I'm glad that we're doing this with the Podfather. That's it. Andy Pods. Oh no. Oh, no. I'd love it. Rylan was telling us about the Podfather stuff. What did he say? How do you even bring that up? He said that, well, we're like, Ryland, you need to come on the show more often. We'd love to have you. And he's like, man, I just can't compete with the podfather. You were like, record scratch. Like, what?

Who is this podfather you talk about? Who is Andy Pods? Andy Pods. Yeah. You're like

Brandon Pajinsky's brother. Yeah. Yeah. Brandon Pajinsky's brother. Yeah. Yeah, that's funny. That's really funny.

Well, welcome to OKC. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it to be here. What do you guys,

what are your thoughts on my city, on my hometown? I just think there's a lot of flags, a lot of

thunder flags, and I love it. I think it's amazing uh i i mean i don't

know why i didn't expect that to be the case right but yeah that's been the most pot like i love the

fact that they are so into everything okay c related the thunder like we passed by a random swimming pool and they were they had

like all these paintings of okayc stuff it was just really cool it was very cool i love the the

representation and i've been to okayc i don't know handful of times at this point i feel like i've

been here like 10 days you know um total or something so i something. So I've gotten a chance to, to know like the Bricktown downtown area. Yeah. Very well. But my understanding, Andrew, is that like that's not the place to hang out. So I don't know. Right. So I don't feel like I really have like much of a take on O KC outside of the arena area. that park is beautiful. That's not the place to hang out. No, Bricktown is, I mean,

Bricktown is, take on OkC outside of the arena area. Like that park is beautiful. That's not the place to hang out.

Yeah. No, Bricktown is, I mean, Bricktown is, it was historically the place to go.

Yeah. When I was growing up, there was the one place. There was the spaghetti warehouse downtown that you go to. And that was about it. We go there maybe once a year. And that was about it.

And now like the plaza is a great place to go. There's tons of great restaurants there,

Midtown has a lot of good restaurants. We were at the tipsy Teaky. Yes. Yeah. That's a place

that has become famous because of MBA media and not because of the people that live here. I don't ever

hear any of my friends talk about that place. I hear about people in NBA media. Talk about

tips. Tiki. Go to the city. Got the whole story. It's near the arena. I guess is the owner.

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