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Unbelievable.

It's a great piece drop today about the Lakers recruiting tactics and how they got Russell

Westbrook and maybe some words that Russell Westbrook may have said to Bradley Beale.

Huh?

If you want to know those words, go check it out at theathletic.com.

So today's media day, big, big day, really fun day.

Traditionally, I would be in the media room and would be asking questions to everybody else,

but I was just overly blessed to be able to

have my own room that had my own sign that said down to dunk. If you haven't seen that,

you can go to my Twitter profile. The Thunder actually made me a sign that says down to dunk on

it, which is just outrageous. I said, I'm taking that thing

home. I'm looking at it right now. So I have a series of interviews here with some of the great

players on this team, Shea Gildes Alexander, Josh Giddy, Darius Beasley, Lou Dort,

Kennerch Williams, Mike Muscala, and last but not least, Alexei Pocoshevsky.

We got exclusive interviews with all of those guys. They were all tremendous. Very, very kind people,

very easy to talk to all of them and gracious with their time. And I just can't say enough about this young

group of players. So I hope you guys enjoy these interviews. I tried to ask questions that

weren't incredibly obvious because you get a lot of that already in the interviews in the

media room. So I tried to ask a little bit

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