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The coaches who dedicate their spare time to teaching kids the beautiful game, the managers

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There's this thing I want to make sure it went to, man, this is our city.

This is our city, man, we did it, man, it's unbelievable.

Feel like black Jesus.

We've seen the story before.

We've seen the story before.

Welcome to the Athletic MBA Show, one day through on the Athletic Podcast Network.

What he did in Sacramento last week, at that time the nets had lost, I believe, five

or six in a row.

Your rank was obviously out, they were playing in Sacramento, that's a game they got

to win for about five different reasons.

And just to frame them, James Hart, and still he heard it's hard to have a music and

it's hard to read whenever it starts and it's magic, if the music is true.

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