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You know what's kind of nice is that at this time a year I don't feel like I need to start the show by saying

oh we made it to another Friday everyone that's that's a type of crappy reserve for May and June and

July and maybe even part of August but we're at September 8th now, people, we are in true countdown fashion.

Let's just do it.

Because I think it, for me it kind of gets the juices going to do the countdown live on air. I'm even going to pull up the damn calendar on my

monitor here and look at it right while I'm talking to you guys. Today is September the 8th. This is what's left. One week to the 15th, the

22nd, the 29th, the 6th, the 13th, the the twentieth, and then a few more days.

Six and a half weeks until the start of basketball.

Your draft should be just a couple days before that, as we've talked about it. Great length, get that draft as close to the last second as humanly possible.

So you avoid... as humanly possible.

So you avoid nonsense like this Trey Murphy news from yesterday, which we'll go ahead and start today's show with that.

Trey Murphy, word came out yesterday in the early afternoon.

I think we forgot to talk about it on the podcast.

That he has a torn or partially torn meniscus.

I don't know if we ultimately got the final report, but the surgery happened already.

He's expected to miss about three months. That takes you to mid-December, if indeed that's the timeline, and maybe you get lucky and he comes back a little bit before that but you're probably talking

About a month and a half to two months of this season

I wasn't over the moon high on Trey Murphy anyway because the big big big usage guys come into camp at least right right now for the pelicans healthy.

Zion is supposedly healthy and we just saw Brandon Ingram in the World Cup,

not looking that great in it, but he was upright.

And CJ's healthy and JV's healthy and all that stuff so the

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