Welcome to the Edge of Sports Podcast, brought to you by the Nation magazine.

I'm Dave Ziren.

I just want to throw out a quick shout out to Austin McCoy for the show last week about De La Sol. I had so much fun doing that.

This week we got back in the chair. The hoops and movie savant, Ariya Shirazi, and oh my goodness,

do we have some big things to talk about. We might not even have time for my full agenda,

but I'm so excited to get cracking and see if we can do it. Are you, how you doing, sir?

I'm doing well, man.

How are you?

I'm doing great because we got three pieces of news I'm very happy to talk about.

Number one, your Washington Wizards, I should say my Washington Wizards, given that I've adopted

them long ago as my team through a lot of ups and downs.

Well, let's be honest, downs.

Just got the number one pick in what is being considered the most stocked NBA draft since the 2003 draft that was led up by LeBron James at one.

Let's not forget, number two, Darko Milichichich.

And then number three, of course, Carmelo Anthony.

And then you had Chris Bosch and Dwayne.

This is being considered a draft in that class.

And the whiz have the number one pick,

a team that has not had a 50-win season in over 50 years with the number one pick.

Number two, what we got to talk about is we got to talk about it, man.

Philadelphia, the 76ers going down in a sweep to the New York Knicks.

Philly, of course, your team, if you did caveat it with staying healthy, them going all the way to the

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