This crowd rises to its feet. The Toro slammed it home. Garland left wing, three ball. Perfect. The part of the lane lock. The mobility, pow! And Alan blocked the shot at the rim. How! With the left hand and a foul! Welcome to the Chastown podcast, part of the Cavs. Media family. I'm your host, Jesserone. The Chastown is presented by Fubo, the official streaming partner of the Cavs. Watch over 350 channels of live sports and TV,

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free at FubotTV.com slash Cavs. August keeps rolling around, and we have a little bit of news.

The NBA schedules have been released, some WMBA news in Cleveland,

and to help me break that down and a whole lot more is my co-host Carter Rodriguez. Carter, how you doing

buddy? I'm doing good, buddy. It is a big, big week in the Rodriguez household. My daughter goes to

kindergarten tomorrow morning.

So I'm a sad boy, but a proud, proud dad. And let me tell you, it is, it's overwhelming.

There's a lot, a lot of stuff to solve for in this new world I'm walking into I'm completely blown away by that

I I'm shocked that this is that time of life for your children or at least one of them I should say

but that's that's nuts I can't imagine all all the emotions that you're going through with that

but that's that's pretty cool stuff but you know as cynical as I can be at times, uh, when, when I see the, the family post from, from you and the fam, it always warms my cold, dead heart. Oh, you're about to say as cynical as you can be when you see my family post. Oh, no, no, no. You know, sometimes if, if that, I promise you this, if that were to happen, I would let you know.

I'd be like, you know what, this is a little corny.

Yeah, let me tell you, don't.

I'd rather just think you like it.

That is fair.

That is fair.

We will keep the illusion going on much longer. As I said,

at the top of the podcast, we do have some news. Cool announcement for the WMBA in Cleveland.

Allison Howard was announced as president of business operations. She has 20 years

experience in sports with the Lakers, Casey Kern and the Cavs starting in 2024,

and also local Dayton grad. So that's exciting news. Carter, I haven't actually asked you this directly,

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