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Hello, and welcome to this special Friday edition of Group Chat. I am Justin Barrier joining

me. Big Waz, Rob Mahoney, Waz. We have reached part three of the now annual preseason group

chat power rankings. Are you excited? I feel like this is the final countdown. And in

the song that played at Danley every college party I've went to is now playing in my head.

That's a song, right? The final countdown. Yeah, that wasn't bad. That wasn't bad.

There you go. It's my next career. So as I mentioned at the top of part two, which you

listen to on Wednesday, hopefully, we are recording this one immediately after part two.

And so if the vibes are a little frisky or they're a little deflated, we're not totally

sure which will happen right now, but that's probably why. Rob, do you think at this age

or you're capable of doing back to back? Or should we should we put you on rest here?

We're going to find out, you know, I'm up for ranking some shit. So I think we can do

it. The vibes are in can't decent. Just that's right. Especially because we are going

to start at number 14 on our list with a team that is probably one of the most interesting

in the NBA. That is the New Orleans Pelicans. Should I just do my whole pelicans spiel?

Yeah. Before here is it going to be hate? Everybody in New Orleans knows you hate the pelicans,

just right. Right. Yeah. I just hate them. I want bad things to happen to them. That's

true. First, we should mention if this is your first check in on the power rankings,

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