Hello and welcome to the Game Theory podcast. I'm your of Sam Vassini. We are presented by The Athletic. I have been released from quarantine. I am finally sitting in my final location of Melbourne, Australia. And the first thing that I thought to do was to get James Edwards on the phone from over at

the athletic.

We're going to talk about a couple of things here today.

We're going to dive into the Stan Van Gundy hire with the Pelicans because James covered

Stan Van Gundy for a year in Detroit in his first year on the beat.

So that'll be a fun conversation.

And then James and I are going to dive deep into the Bulls, Pacers, Cavaliers.

Who are the other two teams here, James?

Bulls, Pacers, well, the Pistons.

The Pistons, your team?

And the Bucks.

And the Bucks, the important one, actually.

Yes, the one that matters.

So we're going to dive into those teams, but first, James, how you doing, man?

I'm doing well, Sam.

I'm a big fan of the podcast so I appreciate you having me on I feel like you got me on to torture me though knowing that you just got to Australia and I'm looking out my Michigan window in late October so that's not cool but I hope the moves gone well when I when you posted about it I didn't know about it. When you posted about it, it seemed like an

amazing, amazing opportunity. So I'm happy for you and I hope it's gone well. Thanks. Yeah,

no, it's, uh, it's really good. I will tell you this, though, like I walked outside to take

the dog outside today. And I could like see my breath, like walking outside and coming from Los Angeles to this.

There's been an adjustment.

I'll just say that.

Like look, it's not Detroit, but it's pretty cold here, man.

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