And right now we have a very special guest on the Diamond Factory ticket hotline.

We say hello to ESPN NBA writer and of the hoop collective Tim McMahon,

who Tim, we appreciate you hopping on with us on this busy day.

Where do you find yourself today?

Will it be handling the Mabs in the Cooper

Flagbeat or will you be in New York? How do you partners? I will be at the Maverick's facility.

I will be present with many TV cameras for Nico Harrison's press conference after the first

round and have plenty of colleagues that will be in New York, but I am happy to be home.

It was a long, long, long playoff run without any home games for me.

Well, and it was a long, long time that Nico in the front office have tried to stay under the

radar since all of this has not necessarily gone well for them from a PR standpoint and their

attempts at trying to be very specific and who they were speaking to and all that. And it seems like

now we're going to get a much more open Nico Harrison in front office after the Cooper flag deal

is solidified. Do you feel like they have a

chance here, given the luck that they have run into with getting the first overall pick, that

they are going to be able to bring a lot of the fan base back given the position that this

team is in, objectively, if they get healthy, this is a pretty good team next year,

and you're adding a potentially generational talent.

Yeah, look, from a business perspective, the blind luck of landing the number of an overall pick was an absolute gift,

because there were major business problems resulting from the outrage and the

aftermath of the Luca.

That's just a simple fact of the matter.

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