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These two guys have Minnesota sports flowing in their veins.

Mackey and shot on Score North and ScoreNorth.com.

Bonus scoop time.

That means Zolgad.

Doogie, our guy with the scoops and executive producing is always,

Dachlan Gough.

And Doogie, I want to get right to it.

You set off a bleep storm, I would say.

A bleep storm.

Ben Simmons and the wolves who have been tied it together since it

basically came out that the 76ers are going to trade him. You advanced the story in your

last scoop podcast and I think got picked up by just about everybody who writes about the NBA.

What can you tell us in your reporting about Ben Simmons possibly landing with the Timberwolves?

The aggregators, Judd, loved aggregate, but I suppose that is not necessarily a bad thing.

I know some other reporters in town have picked up on that steam. So I reached out. I showed you the text message back and forth.

So you are my witness, Judd. This goes back to last Thursday. Now, even to this day, I think there's still maybe even a pro day or two in Chicago, maybe through tomorrow Wednesday. But anyway, all the league executives are in Chicago. They were last week for the draft combine.

So inevitably, you know, chatter starts to pick up.

And so I reached out to somebody incredibly close to the situation.

Verbatim, I said, hey, and again, this was Thursday early afternoon.

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