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Hello and welcome to the Tampering Podcast,

part of the athletic

NBA show network I'm Sam Amick

and be a national writer at the athletic here with usual co-host Anthony

Slater friend colleague not often enough guests on tampering, the one the only

that goes Marcus Thompson.

We just weren't California enough. We weren't West Coast enough. We don't work

war. We're Cal enough. We just don't talk West, you know, at all. We're so East Coast heavy on this pod markets we were like man how many people flaked on you for you to get

with me that's crazy you were like number six you know come on top seeing baby let's go now I know listen you do so much good work on hoops

adjacent with the a don't want to make you do double duty here but it is that time of

year we got to bring in the best voices. Guys this week, we're just going to dive into the play-in,

playoff pre-post season madness. There's so much going on last night.

You know, I'm watching that Minnesota Denver game. And by the way, as a quick aside, and if you want to jump in on in that

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