Hello and welcome to the hoop collective podcast. We talked about the NBA. It is

240 in the morning on Friday morning. It's been a long day. I'm in Phoenix.

Band McMahon hadn't seen you in a long time, buddy. Right down the hallway from your bud.

And then the man is his with me in Phoenix. Also, it's 1140 here. Don't try to get that East Coast credit. Only Jackson producer can claim that Jackson Jackson gets a big big big props today.

Above and beyond Tim Bond temps is joining us from the West Coast as well. He's in San Jose, California. That's correct. Hello, fellas.

So, as you may know, ESPN, Baxter Holmes had a story that came out Thursday about Robert Sarver. It is. I've had a strange role in this because I've been shadowing the suns for off and on for two weeks waiting for the story to come out.

I was with them in Portland for a little while. I was with them in Phoenix for days on end. The story wasn't coming out. I would go to practice every day. I would go to games.

Everybody there knew the story was coming. And I hadn't been told what was in it. I was just waiting. And then I got sent home. And then I got sent back out here. And so the story came out today.

There's a lot of accusations of the story. It's a very long story. Baxter worked on it for a very long time over a year, I think. I don't even I haven't even talked to him about how long he worked on it.

The reason I was here, McMahon was actually here working on a different story. I was just here coincidentally.

I know the rockets were here. McMahon's rockets. I don't know how much time you're going to see the rockets. I saw him in Dallas a couple of weeks ago and saw him down.

We'll see him down the road.

I've been here for a while.

Yeah, we'll see him down the road.

I got while I was here covering this story, I got the full jail in green experience watching him in this game.

I played tonight, but so this is obviously a heavy thing for the NBA. It's not a good time.

It's not, you know, it's, and that was the thing like being around the suns, even before we talk about what happened today.

Being around the suns, they were stressed out. They were stressed out. They know they weren't playing well for the beginning of the season.

But they're still not playing great.

And, you know, they were, they were just stressed out about. And frankly, my presence being there. I don't think help.

Because it was a reminder that in addition to the fact they weren't playing that great and then eight and got hurt.

contract done, which is kind of something hanging over them.

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