You're a legend.

Oh, yeah, you're a legend.

No, man.

Y'all got you're a legend, man.

I've been covering the Warriors since 2004,

and you literally top five,

the biggest warrior killer of all time.

I see that all the time on my Twitter, man.

Every time we're about to play the Warriors or after the game, someone always tweets that. In the Oakland, you either hate it or you beloved, one or the two. They both will be like, yo, this dude is nice or we can't stand this cat, man. That's the only way you know you're doing something right, man. Right. Let's do it. Welcome to the Athletic NBA show. Monday through on the Athletic Podcast Network.

And it's another addition to hoops adjacent on the athletic NBA show, David Aldrich here in D.C.

In Oakland, Marcus Thompson.

Marcus, what's up?

What's good, D.A.?

I would say award winner, but...

Hey, man, don't get me started, man. Don't be handing me awards because, you know, suddenly y'all recognize black people. But I'm not going to do that today. I'm not going to do that today. All I'm saying is I've been here. I've been in these streets. You know what I'm saying? Well, I've been here for 38 years. you know what I'm saying?

Let me not be ungrateful.

I'm sorry.

Like, you know, I don't want to be ungr 38 years. You know what I'm saying? Let me not be ungrateful.

I'm sorry. Like, you know, I don't want to be ungrateful, but we know what's happening. Man, let's get to our guess real quick. You know what? He said this. I was watching one of your YouTube videos, Will. Will Barton from the Denver Nuggets, y'all. What's up, man? What's good? Man, you said, I've been doing this for 10 years, and I was like, no, there ain't no way Will been in the league for 10 years. I'm like, damn. You got a thing, David, you've been doing it a long time, so, you know, I'm up there now. I know you see him come and go. I guess so. You just said I'm coming to go, but I've been here for a while now. You're the crafty veteran now.

Yeah. I'm up there now. I know you see him come and go. You just say him come and go, but I've been here for a while now. You're the crafty veteran now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How does it feel to be an old head in the league? Because you know the league is super young. So 10 years, it's like you'll see your citizen. You get like discounted eye hop. You know, the crazy thing is when I I first came to lead, the teams were still based like that.

You still had the, you know, the old heads, the veterans.

And they kind of like, I want to say at that time when I first came in,

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