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Had a lot of good pods this week. A lot of timely pods because there was you think Tuesday Wednesday Thursday.

There were a lot of balls in play. Who knew what was going to happen. How is going to play out. We covered all of it on the ringer NBA show. We covered it on Bacarys Sowers's podcast.

Ryan Russo had Roger Bell today. The ringer NBA show multiple times, including an emergency pod yesterday after the Bucks decided to boycott game five of the Orlando series.

And I went on R2C to with CCC sabathea and Ryan Ruko. And when I went on it was it was 330 PT is about two and a half hours after the Bucks had boycotted the game.

And we were really pessimistic that the season was going to continue. It just felt like everything was cratering.

And what happened over the next few hours I think is what makes the league so great and has made it such an as such old point of American culture really since the 50s from the moment.

But Russell showed up where you know it starts out the Bucks.

Just organically in their locker room decide they're not going to play. And the dominoes that fell. How the players handled it.

They all get in a room. They talk it out. They don't do anything to rash.

They clearly want to do something. They're clearly affected. They're clearly there for each other in a lot of different ways.

And you know everybody decided to sleep on it instead of making some decision that 24 hours later they might regret or that they wish they'd put more time into.

Comes back today. I think I don't want to say cooler heads prevailed because there's I don't think any any reason to have a cooler head in this situation.

I just think they probably looked at it from a big picture standpoint. What's my platform worth. What is it worth for us to be here versus if we weren't here and we canceled the season and in two weeks everybody just moves on the football.

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