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It's Wednesday. It's Thanksgiving Eve. I'm Dave DeFore here with Seth Partnow and

Mo DeKille. This is Nerger, she wrote.

And we decided this week to do a special Thanksgiving mailbag edition of the show.

So thank you guys for submitting all your questions over at the Athletic.

We did this as a subscriber mailbag.

It was just honestly an easier way to

organize and pretty overwhelmed with the response. We got 60 some odd comments and questions

over at the athletic. And right now is a perfect time. If you're not a subscriber to go and

subscribe, go to theathletic.com slash NBA show. You can sign up for just a buck a month. Maybe you're already a subscriber. Buy one for your dad. It's cheap. 12 bucks for the whole year. You get these pods advertising free. Always a good reason to subscribe to the athletic. Guys, you ready for Thanksgiving. And you get some great writers. And you get some great writers. And you get some great writers and you get some great writers

and you get some great writers that's right sam amick zack carper yours moated keel we had the exes and

mo's debut uh over the last week and that was uh excellent stuff from mo so so you get great writers

there's no reason not to subscribe to the athletic for a dollar a month. I mean, this isn't even, like, you know, everybody says like, oh, it's your cup of coffee. It's not even your cup of coffee. No. No, you can't get a cup of coffee for a buck anymore. So that being said, we got a ton of questions, and I guess we should jump right in. First question, and this is a,

this is actually a really good question from Dan C. I'm a UK-based NBA fan and I've been

listening to the pod for the last few years. I still don't have an NBA team to follow. Help me out.

Who should I follow? And Seth, like you said before we started,

this is perfect because it's the opposite of how it normally goes. Yeah, no, usually there's been a

fur, I want to say about 20 years almost. It's been a, wow, I'm just getting into soccer.

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