Hello and welcome to the Game Theory podcast. I'm your host Sam Vassini. We're back after a week off. And today we're going to talk about all of the signings that have happened over the course of the last week. We're going to talk about Damian Lillard going back to the Blazers, Marcus Smart signing with the Lakers after a buyout from the Wizards. Bradley Beale joining the Clippers officially. And then we might talk a little bit about some other off-season things that are going on across the league.

But first, let's hit the music.

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Way down to Thanks!

What is this going to be?

Are you kidding me?

Hello and welcome to the Game Theory podcast.

I'm your own Sam to see.

But if you watch the tape, what you will see

completely orchestrated this game.

Bryce, what's going on, buddy?

What's up, Sam?

How are you?

It is good to be back, kind of like in our natural, like, situations and spots.

It's funny to me.

I'm in the middle of nowhere, Kansas.

You are in Australia. We're doing a podcast together. But it feels more at home than, because we're both at home than when we recorded in Vegas. And listen, I love Summer League. I don't love Vegas. I love Summer League. Shout out the young lady who like in all of the people but one of the first people that stopped me was a

young lady she's like hey i love your guys's podcast and she very positively said i am mad at you guys

because you haven't been releasing podcasts while you're out here and she understood sam but it was a

compliment so i love that aspect of Vegas i got to see schlectinspersonperson. I like all of this stuff. Other people at the athletic, my guy, DA, but man, it was good to be home and it's good to be just like back in this element of doing podcasts. Can we just talk about DA real quick? He's the, oh my God, I love him. So David Aldrich, people who don't know.

Yeah, my bad, my bad. My bad. Bryce is incredibly lucky to have gotten to know DA a little bit through the American University connection, which is where Bryce went, where David went. I've gotten to know David a little bit just from getting to work with him at the athletic. I mean, is there a cooler guy? No. No, like he's, he walks. Is there a cooler guy?

No, he walks in.

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