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Hello and welcome to the Ringer NBA show. It's the answer.

I am your host Chris Ryan and this week we ask,

what can the NBA draft learn from the NFL draft? It's Thursday as I'm recording this.

We're just a couple hours away from the NFL draft.

Dogs and cats are living together guys.

Aaron Rogers might want out of the packers. Nobody knows what the diners are doing.

Are the Patriots gonna jump up and get a quarterback?

Are the Panthers gonna get three-quarterbacks? I have no idea.

By the time you hear this, it'll all be decided.

But it did get me thinking a little bit like the chaos,

the interest level, the spectacle of the NFL draft.

I think it's fair to say dwarfs what we have for the NBA draft.

After the NBA draft, the lottery picks are really important.

But once you get out of the lottery, I think it really is hardcore fans

maintain interest past that. But after a while, it's just like,

who are we really picking here?

For some reason, the NFL draft is able to maintain the interest of fans

over the course of several days and several several rounds.

So I wanted to talk to our NBA draft expert, Kevin O'Connor,

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