Welcome to the Athletic NBA show Monday through on the Athletic Podcast Network.

This is Nerdrish, you wrote, with your host Dave Dufour.

With Mo DeKille.

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And Seth Part Now.

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Hello and welcome to The Athletic Invea Show. It's Friday. I'm Dave Before. That means it's

nerder. She wrote, joined as I am each and every week by Mo Dekeel and Seth Part now. What's up, fellas? It's August. It's bleak podcasting hours. How's everything going? Great. I'm a baseball fan now. Go Dodgers. Oh, okay. That's awesome. Hey, listen, man, it's a good time. If you're not an Angels fan, it's a good time to watch baseball in Southern California. I mean, I'm going to the game later, so. Oh, that's why we had to record early. Okay, I see, I see. It's all about baseball. I have a full, full day. I'm a baseball expert now. Ask me anything. Well, I don't know. Who's your favorite player?

Muffy Betts. Next. Oh, okay.

Ah, that's just, oh, right.

Kick in the face right off the bat.

Do I do anything else?

No, but you could not have gone, like, that's sort of like...

I'll say this. I'll say this. And this is probably the most baseball we're ever going to talk about in this podcast besides analogies and things um he pulled me into the Dodgers I never cared about baseball you know whatever I casually watch whatever he's made me want it like he's to watch. So that's why I end up being a bett-

Well, and he sort of pushed me, like them being, oh, we can't have an MVP on our team is what pushed me away from the Red Sox.

It's, it's funny to me that you're a Red Sox fan from Alaska. How do, I mean, my, my, my, my dad, my dad's family, or? In fact, we were. My, my dad, my dad is from Boston. Oh, okay. All right. That makes a little bit more sense. I grew up a Yankees fan from Virginia for no good reason. I just like Don Mattingly. There you go. Maddingly was awesome. And then I lucked into all those championships, but

you know, neither here nor there. Guys, what's happening with Kevin Durant and the Brooklyn

Nets? Is there going to be a trade? Because it certainly seems like both sides are being

antagonistic, at least publicly, the owner of the Nets, Joe Sy,

sends out a tweet the other day right on the heels of an athletic report that Kevin Durant has

laid down the ultimatum that it's him, or it's the front office and coaching staff, which

really means Sean Marks and Steve Nash.

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