Welcome on to a pre-deadline edition of Hollinger and Duncan.

We will actually come to you next week on Friday to wrap up the deadline rather than the usual Wednesday.

We'll do it at that same time to Eastern 11 Pacific, at least as right now.

Stay tuned if we need to change that.

But today, we are going to have a little bit of fun here and draft our rookie

sophomore rosters. And then at the end, John's also going to slot in these G-League Ignite

guys that he's seen into this list. So we're going to have a lot of fun with this. We're each

going to pick eight players. And John, do you want first pick? I think the fair thing to do would be first pick,

then the other person gets two and then we alternate. Is that a reasonable way of doing it or should

we just alternate? No, that's a reasonable way to do it. Let's talk just overarching what we're doing

here before we get too deep in the weeds. So, you know, the Rising Stars game,

they, they pick the rookies and the sophomores, and then they're going to draft teams this

year and kind of have them all play each other, I guess. So hopefully they, and it's going to be

an Ilam ending. So hopefully they end up with real games and not like a glorified dunk contest

this year. So it'll be, it'll be fun.

So the, the league's assistant coaches depict, uh, 12 rookies, 12 sophomores, and then four

players from G League ignite. What Nate and I are going to do today is, uh, we're going to pick

two teams of eight because the, the field gets kind of much less interesting after that.

And then we'll go from there.

And what we're picking.

It'll be fun.

You know, all these guys are young players.

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