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we discuss the call with the players that adam silver had on fr and whether we are more optimistic about the season returning. We also rank the Thunder's young players from Shea Gilders, Alexander, to Lou Dort, to Basley? Where do we put Dort? You got to find out on today's episode. I'm Deonté Burden, and I'm down to dunk. I'm Hamerud Diallo. Hey, I'm Danilo Galenaari. I'm Chris Paul and I'm down to dunk. I'm Luke Dort and I'm down to dort. What's Dolsh? I'm not going to lie. I don't know what that was. In English, bro. I'm Darius Basley and I'm down to dunk. I'm Shaghanis Alexander. I'm Stephen Adams. I'm Andre Robertson. I'm down the dunk.

On you. Welcome to Down to Dunk. We are part of the Athletic Podcast Network. With me today's my good friend,

McKelley Barra.

McKelley, what's up?

Well, things are starting to be back to normal.

I would say go back to normal a little bit here in Italy.

My first day in the office, things are extremely weird as I expected.

But yeah, life is going slowly back to some sort of normality, not full normality.

But that is probably a long way ahead.

Yeah.

Yeah, I feel like there's that effort in the U.S. as well, trying to get back to normal, but it definitely doesn't feel normal.

It feels awkward and dangerous in some ways as well, which is just it's a tough, it's just a tough environment.

And I can't sit here and say, I know what the right answers are, but I, I will

digress from there. Let's talk about the NBA. The NBA had a call with their players on Friday,

Adam Silver, address the players about the potential of returning this season and playing again. And if, you know,

if you've read the news already, if you've gone to Theethlect.com and read Shams

Sharani's article about it, I think you have to feel a little bit better about the situation

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