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I haven't seen Rachel Nichols in quite some time.

It feels like we saw so much of you last year.

Now I'm back in L.A. for a couple more days. Well, we saw so much of you last year. Now, I'm back in

L.A. for a couple more days. Well, we talked on air a couple weeks ago. We did. It's not the same. It's not the same, my friend. Not the same. We can connect. I can only tolerate J. Max so long. It's nice to have another adult in the room. So you talked to Luca, JJ, and Wembe last night. you know

for a year

when I

would cover

Phil Jackson

and I would talk to other people about him,

you know, they always said Michael would have gotten his points and Kobe his points,

but they always said, you know, he just did a really good job of getting the most out of Will Purdue

or a Steve Kerr or Rick Fox or Derek Fisher, Brian

Shaw.

I think JJ Reddick's got that superpower.

Like Rui is, looks like an all-star.

I mean, I don't know, I mean, you talked to him last night.

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