Hello and welcome to another edition of the Nix Film School pregame show.

My name is Andrew Claudio, aka GMAC, and it's time to preview the NIC's upcoming matchup against the Washington Wizards,

yet another matchup against the team from the nation's capital.

The second in five days, and with the obvious storyline of Christop's Porzingius returning to Madison Square Garden to play the Knicks.

Made a ton of sense to go outside the box with today's preview.

I'm sure a lot of you saw the recent article, the Q&A on NBA.com that Christopps Porzingis gave

in which he addressed some of his off-season regimen and trying to get more

healthy for the upcoming season. He answered a lot of questions about Dallas and why it didn't

work with Luca Donchich and how happy he is to be in Washington. But of course, the part we

cared about here in New York and as Knicks fans around the world is the

portion that addressed his time in New York and why it didn't work out here and how it ended

and what went wrong and some things that could have been done differently. That interview,

that Q&A was done with Mark Medina, who is a senior NBA reporter for NBA.com.

He covers most of the West Coast teams.

He's based out of L.A.

So it's actually the reason why he interviewed Porzenghis was because the Wizards were about to play the Clippers.

And it just made its way around Nick's Twitter conveniently for him.

Well, Mark joined me to discuss his conversation with Chris Stops,

and specifically some of the things that he said regarding to the Knicks

and what it's like being given the tag of injury concern

and whether he's ever going to be able to shake that stigma.

We talked about how things ended in New York, and I had to bring it up whether things could

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