Hello and welcome to the Game Theory podcast.

I'm your host Sam Vassini.

We are presented by The Athletic today on the show.

Kyle Mann from The Ringer is here.

You know his voice, his dulcet, glorious voice from videos over at the ringer, breaking down basketball,

breaking down young players.

And today, we're going to talk about the rookie class in the NBA.

Kyle, how you doing, man?

I'm doing pretty well, you know, as well as you can.

I feel like life's kind of getting, there's positivity in the air.

You know, I don't know what the weather's like down in Australia right now, but it's getting

warm, it's getting that nice.

You're an Ohio guy, right?

I feel like that's, yeah.

I went to Ohio State.

I'm from Pittsburgh originally, so I know, I know of what you speak when it comes to that springtime,

that, that change in the season. It's green. It just smells good. It's actually, it's a derby

weekend here, which is like there's just a good vibe in the air in the air here when,

uh, when all that's going on. So I'm great. Thanks for asking.

That's fantastic. As we speak, by the way, Ammoni Bates is decommitted from Michigan State.

So, uh, oh, what a heartbreaker. What a, what a stunner, guys. Oh, my God. This is huge news.

Unbelievable. I'm blindsided by this.

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