Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast.

I'm your host Sam Fasini.

We are presented by The Athletic today on the show.

Matt Penny is in the building.

We're going to talk about some NBA draft stuff and a little bit about how this draft is kind of a shit show

for a number of reasons as well as just kind of jump through a little bit of what we've

seen over the course of the last month. It's been kind of a slow month, right, Penny?

Yes, but still a pulpery of topics that we can dive into.

Hopefully people will really latch on to and get excited about

because there's still the draft coming up in a shorter time frame window than we had last year.

We're getting more clarity on guys, I think who'd say.

I mean, we did the mock draft pod, which seemed like

forever ago. And I think those rankings are kind of like upside down a little bit, as, as you alluded

to as well. Yeah. So, and full transparency here, like typically over the course of a three-week period,

I'd probably watch, I don't know, 60 games, you know, 70 games, something like that.

I've been on vacation since mid-December from work. So I've, like, really downturned and, like,

you know, kind of, kind of put it in neutral for a little while here. So I've watched probably 20 to 25 games over the course of the last three weeks.

And I've like picked in shows the right games to watch for sure to see where I have to be

in terms of being able to continue to have conversations with NBA

scouts and to continue to do my job effectively whenever I get back. But, you know, this year is just

very funky in addition to all of the, like, issues that COVID has presented,

the big one is scheduling, because we haven't really seen a ton of showcase matchups yet

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