We're back. We're back.

Morshan's back.

I'm Drew.

It's the Deadcast.

It is NBA tip-off day, Marchman, and all my fan out there, how excited are you that the NBA is back in mid-October?

Huh?

Every hair on my body is standing on end, tingling with anticipation.

There's nothing more exciting than like October basketball.

Oh.

You know what's more exciting than October basketball? November basketball.

When I think October, I think basketball, everything I ever will. Hell yeah. I, you know, I got

tell you, I swear, I like the NBA. I'm not being a, I'm not being a poopie head or anything

like that. In fact, back, back, it was a couple years ago, like, we, we, like, our, our group

chat, like, guys would be, guys would be chatting about regular

season NBA games, like, in the middle of, like, a football night.

And I'd be like, what the fuck?

And I, I remember literally making a separate Slack channel so that all the NBA people

could go talk about basketball, like regular season NBA basketball in their own time

because I was such a dick about it. But I'm not that dickish anymore. Like, I don't mind it when people talk about it. But this performative love for the NBA... Oh, you don't mind when people talk about the NBA. That's very generous of you. That's right. I'll tolerate it. I'll allow it. I'm just saying this has gone way too fucking far.

It's mid-October.

Get the fuck out here with this basketball.

And it just... I'll tolerate it. I'll allow it. I'm just saying this has gone way too fucking far.

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