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A little false advertising on the book.

Says, as read by Tim McMahon.

The first chapter is.

Okay, that's right.

Then they switch to some other guy.

Well, here's a deal.

I would have loved to have done the entire thing, although certainly

I had concerns about pronouncing some of those European cities and names and whatnot. But they're

like, yeah, we just need like six days of your time in the middle of the NBA season.

No, I can't, you know.

Difficult to come by.

My bosses were, my bosses at ESPN were extremely gracious in allowing me to do this.

And basically, and kind of from mid-July until training camp, really over the last three years, not putting a lot of my plate during those times, right?

Because that's when all the work on the book was basically done.

Like, you know, you're doing reporting and interviews throughout the season anyways.

But that's when the writing and the, like, the trip to Slovenia

and in Germany with the Slovenian national team were done, I can't take six days off in the

middle of a freaking NBA season to go into a studio and mutter my way through some difficult

pronunciation. So we turn it over to a professional

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