Hello and welcome to the HOOC Collective podcast.

We talk about the NBA, which we're doing on Thursday afternoon, actually late morning here in Los Angeles.

Joining me from across the hall in the studios here at the ESPN's gorgeous Los Angeles Production Center is our man Bobby Marks who's hanging out with me in

LA this week. Hey Bobby. Hey, Brian. I feel a bit nostalgia being in this. I think I might be the last

person who's been in the studio for a long time here. Yeah, we recently, I guess earlier, I guess last

year now they closed the LA production of Sports Center. So that's like the old, currently defunct sports center, Los Angeles studio. Um, but it'll always come back. Uh, you know, the moment that they decided to close that production, I'm sure, guaranteed that it would be back to L.A. at some point.

Joining us from our Detroit Bureau, and I always said there's never a better time to be in the Great Lakes than mid-January. It's Vince Goodwill.

That is cute. There's no worse time to be in the Great Lakes right now, Wendy. You guys have L.A. privilege.

It was a massive snowstorm in the Great Lakes last night. Unexpected, believe it or not.

Aren't those are the best kind. Love those. But like, aren't like, you know, you're not, you know, you're, you've got Chicago connections. You live there for years.

Like, isn't this what the Chicago Bears fans, like, dream of? Like, I heard it's going to be, like, one or two degrees for this playoff game this weekend. Like, isn't this what you want to showcase your hearty roots in the upper Midwest? Absolutely not. I feel bad for whomever. And I may know the person who's going to Chicago to cover the Bears Rams game this weekend.

And baby, I feel bad for her.

Yeah.

You have a close connection there.

And I hope you're sending her off with lots of gear.

He did get, Wendy. Yeah, no kidding. All right. So I am going to try to

maintain my composure for the next five to 12 minutes because Jonathan Cominga demanded a trade

today as reported by Shams, Tarania, and Anthony Slater.

If you listen to the podcast, you know that his agent, Aaron Turner, came on with Anthony

Slater to discuss Comingas contract situation last fall. It was one of my more remarkable

podcasts I've done the last 10 years of ESPN because we had an active negotiation basically taking place on the podcast, which is unusual.

It was, you know, it's something they wanted to do, you know.

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