Hello and welcome to the hook collective podcast to talk about the NBA, which we're doing on Monday afternoon joining me from Seattle is the machine Kevin pelton hello Kevin.

We're all celebrating to john tamerys selection and all stars are up here. That's as it should be right. Um, that was a lot of people believe he should be an all star from the start so it ended up working out.

Absolutely.

And what that left you heard was the iconic laugh of Mark Spier is from the end of field who's joining us from Oakland, hello mark.

And in the Bay area, they're celebrating a dream on green making it and not being able to play.

Dream on green not playing and risking injury in the games with their celebrate.

Yeah, well, dream on go, leave and go. Cleveland, Cleveland everywhere. Well, here's a thing. Don't they have to. I think so. I'm teasing.

Yeah, don't they, you know, it's that's why it's interesting to me that Anthony Davis ultimately didn't end up in the game.

I think not playing enough games in the Lakers record certainly helped, but here top 75 guy and he made sure he put it out there. I was telling pelton earlier that he was going on vacation with his wife and she had something all planned out.

And that's kind of just giving the NBA heads up like give me a pass. Yeah, but I will say not coming for the top 75 celebration is a.

I mean, look, I don't blame guys. The season is grueling, especially under the current situations. I don't blame guys a second for.

I'm not going to be on vacation when I was a beat writer. I would often go to kinkoon or somewhere warm Florida when I had my all star break. I didn't go for years of the game.

So I get it. I'm not throwing stones, but top 75.

That's a big deal, man. You know, I'll bet call that clay would have been there. Oh, yeah, no question. Can I ask a question. Why did the top 75 exclusion thing center around clay and not Dremont? Don't we agree that Dremont has been a more important part of the Warriors championships?

Not to get a sidetrack guys here.

Well, I mean, there was other. I mean, I argued for genobly other people argued further. You know, I think there was I may have this not right. So I don't know if I want you want to say it, but wasn't it like didn't come out that there was that he just missed.

I mean, I think it's really sort of hint that he had just missed. He was like the fern the last cut, which is why he was a tie for 75 until they had 76. And that's why he showed up in that jersey with number 77 on it.

Yeah, whether that's true or not, he sort of perceived as number 77 now.

I was I was a Alex English, I think, was my guy.

Yeah, I argue with that. That was a little surprising. I mean, there were a few. There are few.

Um, Anthony Davis, probably the most controversial though.

So, and then him not going. I don't know. I mean, I don't really care that much. Yeah, yeah.

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