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Coming up on today's show, we do a little nerder mailbag, and we talk a little bit about maximizing team efficiency.

This is Nerdrish, you wrote,ote with your host Dave Dufour.

With Mo DeKille.

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I'm Seth Part Now.

Hello and welcome to an all new athletic NBA show, Nurtrshe wrote.

It's Friday.

I'm Dave DeFour, here every week, as I always am, with Seth and Mo.

Before we get into the show, I wanted to take a minute and send our condolences and my personal condolences to Seku Smith's family.

I mean, everything that you've read or heard, I think Rachel Nichols on the jump kind of laid

it all out there for all of us, not to say that she spoke for everyone, but certainly spoke

what was in my heart about

Seku, just a fantastic human being, really, really smart guy who just seemed to actually

give a shit about everybody he met, whether he, you know, knew you for 20 years or knew you

for 20 minutes. And there aren't a lot of people like that in the world.

And we lost one with Seku. So it's going to be a little sadder when Summer League comes back around.

And, you know, I don't, I don't get to run into them in the, in the hallways there. But, you know,

we're going to miss them. So I wanted to send our condolences right off the top.

And now we can talk about basketball, I guess. Sorry to to start out on such a down note.

But there's a lot happening. And we decided to take some questions because we wanted to see

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