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Hello and welcome to the Game Theory podcast.

I'm your host Sam Vassini.

We're presented by the athletic.

Just a quick heads up before we get into this podcast.

Tony Jones and I ended up recording for about three hours today.

And I'm not going to release three-hour podcasts.

I tend to release, you know, hour 45 to two-hour podcasts from time to time, but three hours is just too much.

Luckily, it broke in a really good way to where it was easily changeable so that I could

cut a chunk of it and put it as a second podcast to come on Tuesday.

That one will be mostly on the NBA draft. You'll hear us kind of reference, you know, hold on, wait.

Let's have that discussion later. You know, we talk about Trey Jones. We talk about Patrick Williams in that second half of the podcast. But in the

first half here, we're going to do the Northwest Division breakdown and preview. We're going to talk

about the Denver Nuggets, Utah Jazz, Portland Trailblazers, Oklahoma City Thunder, and the

Minnesota Timberwolves.

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