Welcome to Real Jam Radio. I'm Daniel were your host and so happy to I be with us for this

episode. My guest is the excellent Sam Bacini of the Athletic and of the Game Theory podcast.

And as you'd expect, he and I primarily discussed the 2024 NBA draft class. It has been an eventful few months

for those players. And remember, it started as a very uncertain board. So fun conversation there.

And then, of course, we get into a little bit about the trade deadline. Sam and I've

talked about that so much over the years and including on game theory itself this episode is brought

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you place a $5 bet that is very very cool and i hope you enjoy the episode thank you so much for coming

on of course danny i'm glad to be here it is a it's a beautiful sunny day here in australia it's

not that hot,

which is the key. We're in the middle of summer. And I might actually go for a walk after this.

I might, you know, maybe we'll watch the Chief's Bill's game, but like I'm going to probably

take a little walk after this. It'll be great. I am jealous. I live in a place that generally has good weather. It's been, it's a rainy week for us, but that's okay.

The thing where I want to start, and we can kind of start with a big picture view, I find this really interesting, is that like, the last time you did a big board, the last time we talked about it in terms of the draft, it seemed very uncertain.

I haven't been following things super closely. As you know, I don't get into film work until a little

bit later in the calendar year. Is it still really uncertain? It kind of feels that way. I think yes.

I think it is still quite uncertain. I could not tell you who the number one overall pick is going

to be. I could tell you, like, there are favorites who it could be. But I think that the group is still five or six names, something like that.

There are a lot of names that really could jump up into that mix.

I think Alexar is certainly one of them.

I think Zach Rizashay is certainly one of them.

I think Nicola Topic is one of them.

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