Hello and welcome to a special edition of the Monday Ringer NBA show part of the

Ringer podcast network and Spotify. I am Logan Murdoch, staff writer, president of the

LA Sports Fan Club. RIP where I'll liquor will get to that in a bit. Town

represented and I am joined as always by our staff writer, our curator of vibes, the

man who wears open-told sandals in February. Roger Bell. What's popping, bro?

Brand new whip just high. Wait, wait, oh, you two, you two old to be no way.

I got out of the office. No, I'm just saying bro. No, I don't tell my age, man. I'm, I don't

date me. Somebody, somebody here just turned 57 years old. That a birthday over the weekend.

That's tough. You know you're old when you can't laugh without coughing, right? So, so

Roger, if you want to know your age, we could put it out on Wikipedia or Google or something.

But how old? How proud 44, bro? A proud 44. How old, I mean, how, how, how did it feel to be

this old right now? I feel blessed to be this old dog like straight up, but my body,

um, and as it pertains to this show, right? Because I think this is a good kind of like,

I watch what do is like Marcus Smart and and cats like that. I do just give in that body up.

And I'm like, bro, in 15 years, you are going to so be mad at yourself for that.

Is it going to pay off nice? Yeah. But it's going to hurt really bad when you get to be 44 years old.

Is it an overnight process of like one day you're just feeling normal? And in the next day,

you're just feeling like like shit. Like it, I mean, it's not. It clearly is happening the

whole time. Like it's gradual, but it really does feel like that though, right? Like you, it's from,

I would say it's from like the end of your, I don't know, 33rd birthday season going into that

next 34 year old season when you hit training camp, you're like, oh, shit, this is different.

Like I can't get there. I can't do that. You know what I mean? That should, it just kind of

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