I'm Luca Donchitch and this is locked on Merrick's pockets.

This is gonna be huge.

360 in the contract.

Never that.

I just take the contact.

I bring the back. I'm running on the fast break behind the back.

Yeah, it's that this that this that jerk with the bag.

And the video is in the house and welcome. You were locked on at the Dallas Mavericks. My name is Nick

Angstead and joining me on the phone back, reoccurring guest, friend of the

pod, Tim Cato from the Athletic the athletic Tim how are you doing

I'm good I'm good I like I like being friendly with podcasts you know it's it's tough to

have good friends in this life but I love being a friend of a

of a loving podcast like this one

of course of course and the people love when you're on and uh man there's a lot of

maverick stuff going on right now.

We will talk about it. I'm not exactly sure when this is going to post,

maybe during the week.

And so we are recording this Sunday night after the Mavericks blew a 30-point lead to the Raptors.

So we've probably already talked about on the podcast a few times so we won't run that topic

into the ground.

But we do want to talk about you know the Mavericks without

Luca and everything that we've seen over the last couple of games and then

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