Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast.

I'm your host Sam Vassini.

We are presented by The Athletic.

Today on the show, Mo DeKeele is in the building.

The legend of Nerder, she wrote.

The legend of Bleacher reports power rankings. What else are you a legend of,

Mo DeKiel? I don't know if I'm a legend, but I do have the one Mo thing videos that come out every

Tuesday on Twitter. Please go look at those. I see them on Instagram. They they're great mo is awesome uh he does an absolutely

fantastic job breaking down tape breaking down everything that you can see in the nba you can hear

him every friday on nerd or she wrote on the athletic NBA show mo and i today are going to talk

about how have the rookies of the NBA looked so far?

And I thought Mo would be a really interesting person to have on here for this because as far as I know, you like don't watch any college basketball, right?

Very little.

It happens by accident if I do.

Yeah, like you have very little experience with who these guys were coming into the NBA.

And I felt like that would be a really interesting perspective to hear from just in terms of what you're seeing from these guys early on in their careers.

And then me having all of the background

of them, you know, having watched some of them for five years at this point, right? So I kind of

think that both of those perspectives are really valuable within the context of trying to figure out

who these rookies are as they

start their NBA careers. Yeah, no, it's actually kind of a perfect analysis of like,

this is how a front office works. This is how an NBA team works. If I was on the coaching side,

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