Hello and welcome to the Hoop Collective podcast. We talk about the NBA which we're doing

on Thursday afternoon. The Tim's are back joining me from New York City, New York is Tim

Bontemps. Hello guys, are we doing? And we're zooming across the coast to the West Coast,

joining us from Los Angeles, California, where he's working on NBA today this week, freshly

back from Europe, freshly off his wedding. Congratulations. Welcome back, band McMahon.

Bonjour partners. There you go. Look at that. Roll, roll right off the top. I can't do it.

Howdy partners. No, there's Bonscher and then the hoodie. Yeah, we we know another French word

too. The probably won't figure out. My last name is a French word boss. It is. There's an

avenue, Dave McMahon right down in like the heart of Paris, by the way. So we might be French,

but I'm a damn hero. I saw that. I saw that on the gram. I saw that on the gram. I was in Ireland

recently. There's a bunch of McMahon's over there. A lot of them. That's sure. That's the homely

in generations ago. Yeah. So anyway, welcome back. I hope you had a great honeymoon. I hope you

had a great wedding. Good to see you. Yeah, I hope you enjoyed your damn tea and crumpets and

that error worth it while you were ditching us. I did. Thank you very much. I did. Didn't even think

of you. Didn't even think of you. You were thinking of a bond times as you were walking down the street,

but hey, we got news here this week. LeBron James signed his contract extension two years 97

million. Although we don't 100% know yet because it'll be based on the max contract. Could be altered

a little bit. Second year as a player option. I'm not surprised that he signed the contract.

I'm mildly surprised that he signed the contract in August with the Lakers really not having made

a major transaction. And you know, just because he has plausible deniability, I'm on vacation.

I'm with my son's a you team. My kids are in Europe because I think his boys have been playing in

Europe. And you know, I'm not sure what leverage he would have been able to wield as he just sat

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