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Welcome to RealGM Radio.

This is Daniel Rue, your host, and so happy to have you with us for this episode.

A little bit different for this one.

The Golden State Warriors are the 2022 NBA champions, and I originally intended to have

the great Tim Calcombe and Marcus Thompson, who of course do Warriors Plus Minus and our colleagues

of mine at The Athletic, on together to talk about the Warriors, the championship, legacy, and all that. And instead

it ended up being two separate conversations, first is going to be with Tim Kalkami and then with

Marcus Thompson and really enjoyed it. Podcast is brought to you by BetOnline. You can use that

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And really enjoyed the conversation with Tim. It ends abruptly. There was a tech issue. That's

kind of how this ended up being two separate conversations instead of one. So this conversation

is a little bit over 10 minutes. And then I'll have Marcus on after that. So just be prepared

for it to end a little bit abruptly, but it's a great conversation.

Thanks so much for coming on.

You got it.

Thanks, time.

I think the place to start here is, I've been, you know, thinking about how things ended

and thinking about all this, as, of course, you have, you've written, written well

at the athletic, talked about it well as well. And what I've been focusing on is the idea that each

kind of moment, especially a championship, kind of re-contextualizes everything else that came

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