What's popping, everybody?

Logan Murdoch here from Real On the Ringer NBA show, and I want to invite you to pull up and kick it with Roger Bell, Howard Beck, and myself during All-Star weekend for our live podcast.

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Pre-Gimming all the all-star festivities, and you never know who might stop by.

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Thank you. Hello and welcome to group chat.

I am Justin Barrier and joining me, Rob Mahoney, Big Was, some of us have have come to this podcast bringing takes, offering them up to the gods,

the gods being, I guess me in this instance.

Some of us have not.

And so this podcast is going to take on a different shape than we thought going into it,

but we'll still have the Western Conference All-Star Pick, so yay for that. You're dramatically overstating what it is to happen here.

Me? Dramatic? No.

Do you want to tell the listeners? I do. Justin wanted to introduce a new competitive format

that we, you know, a segment that we could add to this podcast i'm all for

it there was some miscommunication yesterday as waz and i kind of lobbied to delay it by one week

i thought that's what we're doing is that's what we that's what we agreed upon we wanted to do a

take off in no small part in order to get you guys a little bit out of perhaps your comfort zone, I would say, with some of the maybe conventional wisdom that could be offered on the pod from time to time.

And so the one rule, just bring a take.

No conventional wisdom.

Think outside the box.

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