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Coming up on today's show, we ponder if the stretch big is dead and we feel the need for speed.

This is Nerdish, you wrote, with your host Dave Dufour.

With Moe DeKille,

And Seth Part Now. Thank you. You know, Hello and welcome to the athletic NBA show. It's Friday. That means it's nerd her.

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I'm Dave.

We got Seth and Mo here.

We got a big show, so we want to jump right in.

Fellas, it seems like this season is starting to get his legs under it in the last week since we recorded.

I still have no idea what is happening,

but we just had a week with no positive COVID tests. I think that's a really a big deal.

Yeah, right. Well, I think that's, listen, it's worth, it's worth bringing that up because,

you know, maybe we will start to get to a sense of normalcy.

Oh, as normal as anything can be, but a sense of normalcy in the season now that it seems as if they're getting things under control.

It seems like the enhanced protocols are working.

Hopefully they're working.

I mean, they at least had zero positive test.

So that's a good.

Yeah, the one thing, Seth, about the old star stuff, because I'm with you on, like,

we don't really need to be doing this.

But at the same time, too, I'm like, at least they're going to be in a controlled environment,

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