Welcome to the Athletic MBA show one day through Friday on the Athletic podcast network

And welcome to another edition of the hoops adjacent episode of the athletic NBA show David Oliver cheer

Waz in LA you are back in LA, right? So what's up, man?

I'm good man. Can't complain just just maintain it trying to trying to ride out the the pandemic as best we can because

We're finally at the beginning of the end. It's nowhere close to over

But we're at the beginning of the end. No, I think I think you're right

I'm starting to get a little bit of optimism looks like the case numbers are going down or around the country

Not everywhere, but around the in lots of different places and around the country

Hopefully they can get these vaccines and people's arms as soon as possible looks like they got multiple options now

And you just hope that they can do this quicker and sooner rather than later

But yeah, I hear you I think we are hopefully starting to get our arms around this thing and we got you know

We got the government in charge some type of a little bit of leadership at least that's actually going to try and

mitigate this and reduce the numbers, you know as many numbers as you can so I'm encouraged by that we'll have

Jason quick on from the athletic and organ who covers the blazers in a few minutes to talk about

Portland and the kind of defensive struggles that they've had Jason wrote a piece we're tapping it's taping this today on Tuesday

He wrote a piece about the blazers being awful defensively

And what's going to happen as a result of that

How much ownership name Lillard takes from that and we'll get to him in a few minutes, but we wanted to talk about

The first of February and black history month being in February as Chris rock often says it's the shortest month for a reason

It's not a coincidence that they gave us the shortest month, but was

Was it's uh there's so many ways you could go on this yeah as we start to celebrate this month and start to celebrate

You know our people that have made so many strides and they've done so much

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