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Welcome to Lighters.

I have sitting in for Andy Liu, who is halfway across the country, the globe.

I'm not sure where he is right now, but he'll be back this weekend.

I have a friend of the show, Chris Biederman, most notably known for most of you for his

coverage of the Niners on Candlestick Chronicles, but also the hated Sacramento Kings.

Chris, how you doing?

I'm outstanding, man. Appreciate you having me.

Oh, so it's like, what an interesting season. I mean, we were reminisced if we didn't talk about this off the top.

But tribute to Warriors assistant coach, Dejohn, Blayevich, it's kind of tough to watch, honestly.

Like, we've talked about it on the pod all week, whereas I'm played for nine days.

I don't really know how to properly address the entire subject.

I think in general, the team did a good job of trying to pay respect to them the entire way through.

It was pretty like, I don't need to be a psychologist or something to see like how much of an effect it had on every player there.

Right.

It's just one of those things like, you know, sometimes it's a reminder of like

why sports exists because they're, they're an ample distraction for maybe not even ample in

this case, but they're just a distraction for the realities of life and they allow us to get

away and have fun and sort of share a common goal.

That's that's not always something that happens in everyday walks of life.

So at least for the Warriors, they do have sort of an outlet and actually playing basketball.

And, you know, in a a weird way like when you have and this is not to downplay the the loss or or anything like that but like when you have so many

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