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Hello and welcome to the tampering podcast, part of the Athletic NBA Show Network.

I'm Sam Amick, NBA National Writer at The Athletic, here with usual suspect Anthony Slater,

also on the West Coast like always.

We always got good guests on this show, but we got a special guest this week,

not only because of who he is and what he brings to the table,

a guy who I've loved and respected for a very long time, but because a particular team in the Western Conference is doing good things,

we have a little reunion-style podcast action happening today.

Darnell Mayberry typically is covering the Chicago Bulls for the athletic.

But, you know, when the Bulls bow out and do their thing because they want to have that meddling, mediocre roster that they refuse to break up.

And Darnell has no playoff basketball to cover.

He's going to go ahead and jump on the OKC Thunder like the old days, like he used to with Anthony Slater back at the Oklahomaan.

This was a chapter from their past.

And so I am here, gentlemen, to be kind of a fly in the wall.

As the two of you take over, we're going to talk OKC, talk all things, NBA NBA playoffs action every single day right now darnel what's up my friend first of all sam cook great job because the listeners won't know this but i'm going to tell them you don't feel so great right now if you get through that opening just the pros pros, pro. I appreciate you, man.

You know, I was inspired by your presence, inspired by your money talk swagger.

If you don't follow Darnell in his substack, if you want to learn about all things, you know, financial literacy, make sure you check that out as well.

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