One of my last memories in St. Louis that was very vivid for me,

what was spent with you was I got I hard.

One year, you know, my seventh year and then came back and this was a big maker break year

for me coming off an IR season. And we went to Green Bay. I get carted off. I got rolled up on

by Robert Quinn. It ends up being a tip thing. But me and you were thinking maybe it was a CL.

And for me, we're sitting in that room waiting on the imaging and I'm just you and me. And I can

remember saying, Doc, I'm done if this is an ACL. I'm retiring.

Happy Wednesday, everybody. It's Chris Long and you're listening to Green Light Pod.

Man, the NBA is back. Got to love it. I've enjoyed it very much. Even though it's super awkward to

see them kind of like do that pan in shot of that yellow stucco-ass building at Disney,

where the most important sports spectacle on the planet is occurring in front of like nobody.

It's so bizarre. I love the NBA playoffs. Even now feels much different. Doesn't feel as different

as hockey feels. Hockey feels way different to me. And you know, with the Blues not being able to

recapture the magic at least so far in the Stanley Cup playoffs, I've kind of gravitated to the

NBA here. And my side teams plan, as we speak, as I record this open, the Portland Trail Blazers.

If you're a long-time listener, you know that if you're a next fan, you deserve you're in fact

entitled to a side team. So my side team, the Blazers, are given the Lakers that work right now.

And it's been fun to watch. I think there's something to this all day model. It kind of feels like

the NCAA tournament. Again, I've compared this thing to a regional kind of feel where there's

definitely not as much crowd, but you know, something big is going on. And the NBA again has done a

magnificent job. Whoever architects, kind of the way they laid this thing out, the camera angles,

how it works with the broadcast and you know, the fans and the stands, the crowd noise, whoever's

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