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Welcome to Lockdown Warriors, your daily podcast on All Things Warriors, part of the Lockdown podcast network.

I'm Wes Goldberg, Warriors Beat Reporter for the Mercury News.

And joining me on the podcast today for a two-part podcast is Bram Hilsman.

Bram is the host of the popular podcast, Warriors Huddle, and he does an awesome job with

it over there, really speaking to Warriors fans.

I suggest that you check that out.

It's a fun show.

And I brought him on the show today to try to sort through some of the feelings people

are going through in the wake of

Clay Thompson's injury, the excitement of drafting James Wiseman, and we discussed the long-term

outlook of the team. Bram is also a good friend of mine, so it was fun to bring him on the show

again, and I think you'll enjoy our conversation. Here it is.

You are Locked-on Warriors, your daily Golden State Warriors podcast, part of the

Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. I'm here with Bram Hilsman of the Warriors

Huddled podcast, great podcast that you should go check out.

And, man, I think I'm going to be on it later this week.

But you and I have kept a running dialogue going throughout this offseason, mostly talking about the draft, things like that.

A little bit of free agency talk and texts here and there.

But then when the news broke of Clay Thompson,

injuring what we now know is as Achilles tendon during a pickup game in Los Angeles,

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