Welcome to the Athletic NBA Show Monday through Friday on the Athletic Podcast Network.

This is Nurdish She Wrote with your host Dave Dufor.

With Mo Dekeel, Are you ready to be entertained?

And Seth Part Now. Hello and welcome to the athletic NBA show.

This is Nurders, she wrote, because it's Friday.

I'm Dave Dufour, and I just got to hear Seth

threatened his kid with going to bed at 420 in the afternoon. Mo's got a fresh

haircut that he did himself.

Guys, we're back.

Feels like we never left.

It feels, no, it's been a while, I've missed you, kind of.

Oh, all right. It's been this this condensed off season has been

something that we've been asking for forever and I read oh no no no no no listen this is totally a thing Seth now you've been on the team side for most of these the last few years right but we have all complained oh man I

wish that they would shorten the time between the draft and free agency like let's just

get this stuff over with because everyone's thinking about getting a vacation. Well, I think the draft and free agency

being really, really close was chaos, and that was interesting.

Having three weeks or four weeks between the draft free agency and the start of the

regular season is absolutely nuts. Madness, absolute madness. Yes. I still

don't know like I forgot today where Tony Bradley was what team he was on I

forgot that he went from Detroit to Philadelphia I forgot something else the other day. Oh, I forgot Billy Donovan got hired as the Bulls coach. That's how crazy

like it's just so condensed. So I apologize in advance if I forget where someone is. It's going to happen to everybody. We're all

going to at one point watch a game and be like,

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