All right, welcome on to a many, many time guest of the program.

You wrote a great article last playoffs about Tyrese Halliburton and getting through

some of the mental struggles that he had early on in the season.

But he is now a newly minted San Antonio.

Hello, Jared Weiss.

How are you, man?

San Antonio.

I haven't heard that yet. I feel minted now Antonio. Hello, Jared. Weiss. How are you, man? San Antonio. I haven't heard that yet. I feel minted now. It's sort of like minted is a very sort of old westy, like southwest term, right? Like, uh, so, so it's a, but, Yee ha. As I'm obligated to say at the top of every podcast filmed in Texas. Yehaw, my friend.

Yeah, well, we're going to dive right into it here.

You've moved down to cover the Spurs primarily now for the Athletic, which has got to be really

exciting.

Already wrote a must read article about Victor Wimbidiyama and his off-season training and basically

how he is looking to come in and destroy the league

after an involuntarily truncated season a year ago. So let's just start right there. What is

the state of Victor Wembeiyama heading into year three? It's unclear. It's somewhere between he's

taken a nice step and the league is ruined. It's, It really could go either way at this point. He is such a different player already. And I think if there's one thing I've picked up on early here, it's that you can't really put labels or expectations on Victor. He is just two. He's one of a kind. And I know we've said that.

I think he, I mean, size-wise, one-of-a-kind, or at least size plus dynamics, one-of-a-kind.

But his mentality is the part that really stands out.

Like, this guy is so open-minded, curious, driven, confident.

He does an amazing job of having a pretty bold ego without coming across like an

asshole. He somehow is towing that line very effectively. He's the complete package. It's amazing

to see up close. He is the complete package in the way that he carries himself. And that's a big

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