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Hello, welcome the Hoop Collective podcast.

We talk about the NBA, which we're doing on Thursday afternoon, joining us from Detroit, where he's just flown in from a week in New York.

I believe you were at the Magic's mildly surprising victory over the Knicks last night.

It's Vince Goodwell.

That sounded almost easy coming off you,

calling me Vince. I like that, Wendy. I respect your wishes. I respect your wishes to want to

rebrand. I mean, go by Vince. Joining us from the San Fernando Valley, where she's one of the most

colorful characters, born and raised, Ramona Shelburne.

You know what? I don't know that you can make that statement about the San Fernando Valley.

We have a lot of colorful characters.

That's true. That's true. That's true. Yeah. There's quite a history in your...

Yeah. Yeah. You're not kidding. Yeah, that's true. All right.

Okay. I think we should start on the West Coast, Ramona. I've been in L.A. all week. I've gone to two Clipper games. And while the Lakers are definitely the focus of L.A. as usual, and we'll talk about them in a minute. It's a lot of depression on the clippers side of the court. So I went to the Nuggets Clippers game on Wednesday night. Then I

will talk about Yokets and the Nuggets in a second. Let's do that too. Yeah. You know,

I got a little fired up. Jackson remembers this. I got a little fired up in the preseason.

There was a Clippers Nuggets game on ESPN. Both teams in the preseason and both teams like played it like for real.

And it was like, especially for the first half, like super high level awesome basketball.

The Clippers looked

great. Literally, we ended the broadcast and I came right into this studio here in L.A. And like,

maybe it got a little excited about what I saw, you know, sort of shaking off the summer blues. And

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