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maybe even a nice one if you're feeling, feeling that way. With me, I've got Dave DeFour,

Esper Henny, and Zina will join us later on, but, you know, I've been consuming so much

NBA coverage over the last several days and, you know, I've been consuming so much NBA coverage over the last several days and

just made me think, hey, what does the West even look like now? Because people will just

throw stuff around. They'll just say stuff about teams, you know? And like, what does it actually

mean? How do we- Including me, by the way, I was just been saying all kinds of stuff. I was like, man, the Nuggets, are they the best team in the... you know and like what does it actually mean how to be including me yeah i was about to say in all

kinds of stuff i was like man the nuggets are they the best team in the west now i don't absolutely

we're here to try to contextualize what's happened over the last few days there's there should i mean

there there could be more trades obviously that happen.

But, you know, as far as free agency,

I don't know if there's anything major that's going to happen.

It's going to shape things.

The chat already telling us about a piece from Shamet Duo,

which I haven't read yet. Have you read?

Let me let me read you a quick.

Please.

It's so good.

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