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Hello, welcome to the Hoop Collective Podcast. We talk about the NBA, which we're doing on Monday morning,

joining us from the Jersey Shore, where the summer of Bon Temps continues, is Timbontemps.

Oh, everybody. Joining us from Dallas, Texas is Ban McMan. Howdy, partners, Monday morning in the dead of August, we talk about the NBA.

Yes, we do. And it is certainly the dead time, which means it's a good time for us.

This is where we're very happy to be dead. Does that sound right? No, it didn't sound right.

All right. Since we last recorded, we had a couple of developments in the ownership of situations in the NBA.

The Trailblazers sold, which we'll talk about in a little bit.

And the Boston Celtic sale was approved from Wick Grusbach as the governor to Bill Chisholm.

But there was a wrinkle in there, which is interesting for the Celtics and for another

franchise sale, the Lakers, which we'll get to in a second.

As part of the sale, which was for over $6 billion,

remember when the Celtics sort of, at the time, was pretty stunningly, within a week

of the parade when they won the championship last summer, what Grusbach announced

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