Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast.

Amiro Sam Vesini, we're presented by The Athletic.

This is a three-part episode, the first part.

We've got Jay King here, the second part.

We have Nikias Duncan that I've already recorded talking about the Miami Heat and the Milwaukee Bucks series. The third part, we have Nikias Duncan that I've already recorded talking about the Miami Heat

and the Milwaukee Bucks series.

The third part, Reed Forgrave and I are talking about his new book, Love Zach, and some of the

dissonance that goes on in one's brain when watching football.

But first, I've got the kid here, Jay King.

What is going on, dude?

Not a whole lot, man. Just basketball. That's about it. So you kind of brought this up to me before we started recording. And I think it's fascinating. So I just kind of stopped you right in the

middle of what you wanted to say. But you brought up the idea of covering a basketball team from what?

It's like 2,000 miles from Boston to Orlando, right?

Like you're covering a team essentially remotely 2,000 miles away.

And there are some inherent difficulties that come up when you're doing that.

How has that process been for you?

It's been so weird.

And I'd never realized how much you actually got from just being there with a team every day.

Like after a practice, you can see a player working with a coach on a certain skill, or you can see,

or if you hear something from one of the press conferences, you can go over and ask the

to coach about it. Or like, you can just grab a player one-on-one. I haven't had one-on-one

interview with a Celtics player since the playoff started. And so all the

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