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story of the wire. You know who wrote this book, Chris, right? Jonathan Abrams our old grant

land teammate one of my favorite people in the world. He interviewed everybody for the wire for

an oral history of probably my favorite TV series ever. Where does it rank for you?

One two something just a barrier. Where's the rank? It's up there. Top five, top six. I would

actually rank it lower. I'm rewatched some of the wires start to show themselves if you will.

Yeah, it's this is a terrible plug for you. But I love my rooms. I bet the book is great.

I'm gonna say the wires best television show ever made. It's either one or two for me. I

I don't know where it ranks against Thrones, which is continued to throw me in the isn't over yet.

But right now the wire is one. Anyway, the book comes out on February 13th. You can order it right

now at Amazon.com, Barnes and obi.com wherever else you buy books, the wire. If you missed the

ringer NBA show yesterday, we did a new heat check format hosted by John Gonzalez that I thought

worked fantastically. And when when four different ways talk to five different ringer staffers and

that's going to be the model for that show going for we're going to continue to revamp this

feed on Friday. We have an NBA draft podcast that we're launching that will happen every Friday

with Kevin Donkona Danny Chow and Jonathan Jarks. And on Thursday tomorrow post-trade deadline

during post trade that we're going up on 11 30 Pacific. So whatever that is 230 Eastern will be

live on video tomorrow. And then there will be a group chat from that video. So we'll go from

the half hour before the deadline through the deadline, giving you everything you need to know

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