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and thursday and thursday and every monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday uh all right

we got guys we got some we got some off season stuff we got some o qualifier stuff. Uh, anybody worried about the long

year of Luca Donchich no longer has to worry. Slovenia got their ass beat and they will not be in

the Olympics, but we'll get into that a little bit later. Uh, law, we have, uh, we've had an eventful,

uh, Clippers off season so far. We've had quite the twists and turns.

We've had Paul George leave.

They've brought in about as many role players as you can imagine to make up for that.

First and foremost, so Paul George apparently said that the negotiating process was, was interesting

with the Clippers. Can you shed some light on what that is in terms of what Paul George said

and in terms of what you know to be true? Yeah, I mean, I was in Hawaii with the team in October for training camp. And I just, I just, I was in Hawaii with the team in October for training camp and I just felt

like the energy was kind of off a little bit there.

So we would ask Paul about contract negotiations, which we knew it just started.

He was extension eligible starting in September.

Kauai was extension eligible a little bit before that.

And we just felt like, okay, I know the previous CBA, those guys would have gotten

whatever they wanted.

Baltimore would have tick, you know, paid whatever.

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