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Welcome to heat check. I'm your host John Gonzalez. My producer Steve Alman is here.

Been a tough week for a lot of people normally we have a lot of fun on the show we like

to joke and laugh and play dumb games. This show is going to be a little bit different for

obvious reasons. We're going to talk about basketball off the top because this is an NBA show

and I think some people understandably want an abstraction right now. But then later on we're

going to talk about Kobe Bryant because how could we not? I've sort of been around him

in my personal and professional life since we were both teenagers. He grew up not far from

where I grew up our high schools played against each other. I've got some Kobe stories that

I want to share and I think everybody's sort of processing these things. The Lakers are also holding

their first media availability since the accident later today. I'm going to go to that and write about

it by the time you listen to this they might have already spoken but we'll discuss later if you want

to stick around with us and get into that conversation. I want to thank all of you for listening. We do

that every week but but truly we're appreciative of it and I want you guys to know that a room

reminder to please rate and review us and don't forget about all the great NBA content on the

ranger.com specifically with Kobe Palo has just been all over this has written a couple of really

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