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Hello and welcome to the Hoop Collective podcast. We talk about the NBA, which you're doing on Tuesday evening.

Joining me from Chicago, where he's at the Draft Combine, because the playoff series he was covering between Philly, New York is over, is Tim Bonteps.

Hello, everybody, though there's still news out of Philly. That's true. Joining us from Dallas, Texas, back home because the playoff series he was covering is over as the Thunder finished off the Lakers last night is Ban McMahon.

Howdy, partners, how sweet it was, at least five more nights at home.

I appreciate Shane the Thunder for giving me a little siesta.

Really tough life for McMahon.

Really tough.

So, Bontems, you have a special assignment before we talk about the games, you have a special assignment. Okay. So at the draft combine. Yes. At the draft combine. Oh, I have to find more discoveries for Window. We're already up to two, McMahon. At the draft combine. You're a camera boozer? You're stepping all over me. Just chill. At the draft combine, all of the teams interview the players on the same floor of this hotel.

Okay.

And over the years, and as an indication of the NBA just having more money than is probably good for it, over the years, what they do is they come in early and they clear out all of the, and I think they're just kind of, they might be bigger rooms, but because they're all in one room and there's 30 teams, they've got to mostly be regular rooms. They don't have 30 suites on one floor. I think they're regular rooms. And they come out and they clear out all the furniture, the bed and everything like that. And more and more, it's become like an arms race of teams that bring stuff in for their meetings with the prospects.

And they decorate the door.

And they bring in like wall size, you know, pictures of greatness of their franchise.

And they have games.

Like I heard the Wizards have Connect 4 in there.

I don't know if they, they only have 20 minutes for each meeting.

And at 20 minutes, the NBA comes and they sound like a tone.

And everybody switch.

It's like speed dating.

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