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Hello and welcome to another live stream edition of the John Carm Report.

Do me a favor, subscribe to the show, wherever you get your podcast. If you're watching on YouTube, hit that like button, hit that subscribe button. You can find it. You can find us there. It's part of Empire Media, AMP, IRE. Always much appreciated when you tune in. Don't forget, you can read my work on ESPN.com. As you can see, I'm joined by the voice of commanders,

Graham Weinstein. Hello, Graham. Have you recovered yet? Hey, doing. You recovered from that Monday night game, just as far as sleep, et cetera? Yeah, I'm good. I actually flew back Tuesday,

slept in a little bit. I was all right. I completely forgot all of my recording equipment.

So I had to do my radio show through my phone, which I haven't done it a long time and didn't

have a podcast.

So I totally blanked.

And so I got to sleep in.

So I'm feeling all right.

Well, good for you.

So what I want to talk about today, too, is a couple of things.

One, trade deadline coming up.

A lot of questions about that. And two, there's now this narrative that they, like last off season, they mishandled it because

they were going for it, so to speak, and which a narrative that I tend to

disagree with just based on what I know. But let's start with the trade deadline. At this point,

that we talked a lot about this last year, right? And, you know, the Latimore trade was not

something that they thought was going to happen. That was a day of. They weren't planning on going to

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