Hello and welcome to the tampering podcast, part of the Athletic NBA Show Network.

I'm Sam Amick, NBA National Writer at The Athletic, here with friend and co-host Anthony Slater

out west, another fellow Westcoaster.

We got LaMurray on the pod this week.

Clippers beat writer extraordinaire.

Gentlemen, first of all, selfishly, just going to tell you, God dang, it is good to be home.

I got off that finals road.

I'm in my office doing a pod instead of the latest hotel, and it is a blessing and a privilege

to cover the NBA finals.

It is also at times a slog.

So finals come to an end.

Boston Celtics, 18th championship in that franchise's story history.

One more than the Lakers.

I'm sure Lakers folks are hurting a little bit this week, having to see that happen.

Congrats to Boston.

They played a great series. Pretty much dominated Dallas, other than the one giveaway game in game four. You know, that, though, is in the past. We know what happened there. And gentlemen, as I bring you on, law, this is in your backyard. But, you know, we're going to talk Clippers today. We're going to talk Paul George,

you know, his free agency and all the silliness that's happening right there. He's hanging out on

TV with Joel and Bede. We're going to make the way around the free agency market and talk

to Slater about Clay Thompson, Malik Monk, all of the above. Monty Williams got fired this week,

65 million reasons for him to not be too upset about that.

But first of all,

law,

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