Let us now speak of the 2025-26 Utah Jazz and I'm excited to welcome on as always one of my mentors and inspirations in this business.

He is the, are you the president of the lockdown podcast network?

No.

Yeah, that's my title now.

I don't really like that title though.

Oh, okay.

All right. Well, we'll start with this.

You can, you can figure out one. Jazz Radio Man, Jazz Radio Man, Jazz NBA Insider, and a host of Locked on Jazz, David Locke. How are you?

Thank you, Nate. I am great. I love doing this with you. It's always a sign the season's coming.

I'm pretty fired up ready to call

games again so i'm great yeah no i i think uh this is gonna be uh hopefully a more interesting

jazz season to be sure and where we often begin on these although it's always difficult uh with

the the state of the jazz of ladies by talking about what took place

last year. So I think we don't even necessarily have to get into your geeky numbers that make it

better to make it to be a jazz fan each and every day. Thank you. You can tell I've listened to a few

of your episodes to prepare myself. I'm not sure I can do that off the top of my head.

That was impressive.

No, no, no.

Actually, I flubbed it.

But so rather than talking about just, you know, the numbers of what they were last year,

what was the feeling around the team last year and how is that going to be different this year?

I mean, the feeling around last year's team, it became abundantly clear.

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