Welcome everybody to your favorite day of the week. I'm Anthony Irwin. I'm joined by Adam Mares.

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Adam the nba is literally handing out rings and the nicks are on the outside looking

instill

all Anthony told me before recording is I have a great joke so I was very excited.

I would say it was a good joke, not great, good, but it was good.

Great.

Adam, my entire... No, my entire approach to my entire career has been set the expectations underground and then walk over it.

Walk over that bar.

Well, there you go.

And I occasionally still trip on the bar.

Today's show, we are going to talk about some of the latest stuff to go on here

about the conversations surrounding whether or not the

NBA should return talking societal issues and whether or not they would be a

distraction there, Mark Cuban chimed in with his own thoughts on this.

And then we're going to try to have a little bit of fun here and focus a little bit more on the basketball itself and discuss some of our predictions for whatever

the basketball might actually look like, who might surprise all that good stuff.

I do want to start though, like I said with Mark Cuban saying that I'm quoting if they were taking a knee and they were being respectful I'd be proud of them hopefully I join them

Mark Cuban said he's this is the. Whether it's holding up their arm up in the air, whether it's

taking a knee, whatever it is, I don't think this is an issue of respect or disrespect to the flag or to the

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