Hello and welcome to the Hoop Collective podcast. We talk about the NBA, which we are doing on Monday afternoon, joining me from Seattle, Washington.

Is the machine Kevin Pelton? Hello, Mr. Pelton.

Hey, Brian. Good to be back.

Sorry about the Huskies loss over the weekend.

It was a rough weekend for you to put on a lot of friends.

And joining us from Los Angeles is Kevin Arnevitz.

Kevin, this is a very special day because this is our annual.

Small sample size theater podcast where we take very small sample sizes and decide whether they're lasting.

Yeah, I mean, this is, I mean, it's early, Brian. This is very, very small.

This is like the cherry lane theater down in the West Village.

Like what's like 180 seats here. This is a very, very small sample size theater, which makes it all the more fun.

What is even normal time? I mean, a year ago, we were getting ready for the draft right now.

What is normally early? We don't even know what our normal timeframe is.

This is supposed to be.

I did happen to look at my notes from last year and I noticed that I went with 13 games is the cutoff instead of 10 this year.

So I guess we did it a week later.

All right. Fair enough.

Or maybe we played 13 games in the same amount of time because last year's schedule was so messed up.

Right. So last year was the Meneta Lane Theater this year. It's the cherry lane theater.

Oh my gosh, my phone. This one. Crazy.

Yes. Okay. What's the name of the place where.

The upper rate citizens brigade used to be in New York. This is I'm thinking of in terms of small sample sites. It was like in the basement.

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