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Joining us now in the free hotline
making his ninety seven one. Come on,

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it is new Mavericks acquisition. The
man from El Dorado, Arkansas.

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Daniel Gang from the ward. Good
morning, Daniel, how you doing man?

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Morning morning? I'm doing awesome.
Man. We always wake up happy

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when the MAVs get a dirty little
win. But speaking of waking up,

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we talked about you at six am
this morning. We're like, he's six

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' ten. We just pictured you
in this bed diagonally. I have to

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ask, what's the bed situation when
you're a man of your size. Well,

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when I'm in at home, it's
a decent size bed, more of

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a cal keen. You know,
you said I'm diagonal. I'm pretty much

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diagonal right now because I figure you're
not at home yet. You haven't,

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you know, Dallas is your new
home, so it is. Is it

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a custom bed at home? Not
necessarily, just pretty much one of those

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regular days that you can find in
any mattress place. But it's more for

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sure, just like a cal qing. Okay, I would always look for

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either a cal Quen or a king. You know, either won't work,

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and you got to go full agonal, right man? That hotel rooms yeah,

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pretty much in the hotel rooms.
Yeah, pretty much just diagnaled the

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way to go for me. You
just got traded at the end of last

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week and then here we are,
like five days later. There's no way

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you're settled yet. How does it
work getting your bag sent over to where

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you're going? And I'm sure you're
staying in a hotel near the arena,

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I would imagine. But what's your
life to like last few days? I

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mean it's just been, you know, pretty much just chilling in the hotel.

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I brought a decent amount of stuff
with me, just you know,

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to kind of hold me for the
time being. Linnical house hunting, probably

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all star breaking and whatnot, but
really just you know, taking my time

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to adjust. I've been back and
forth to dollars and stuff as a kid,

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just like you, traveling with family
on so forth. So yeah,

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he's growing up in Arkansas. That
makes, you know, logistical sense for

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you to come to the city.
You really ain't nothing new to me,

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but just living up here now it's
most differently, you know, dude,

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learn something about you last night,
though I thought it was something I kind

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of connect with because follow well,
the guy that does play by play for

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Maps TV here locally. You mentioned
that you you went to high school in

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Arkansas and you played football, but
you also were in marching band. Now

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my question is, were you in
one of those schools that was so small

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that you were one of the dudes
that had to go out at halftime in

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your football uniform and play clarinet.
Nah? No, So I only played

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football for one year and I kind
of called it quit after that year.

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I wasn't. I wasn't really,
you know, I had my expectations for

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myself way higher than what happened,
and I understood I couldn't catch the cold.

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It's who were given to them.
So what about your musical career?

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Is this something you still dabble in
at all? Or you kind of put

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the clarinet down and said, you
know what, I'm done with this.

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I'm full, full on dedicating to
to hoops. I've tried that comes through

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just like the clarinet and stuff.
My wife has got me a clarinet for

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Christmas last year. She well,
she is like really pushing me to just

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really just get back into it,
which I mean I want to. It's

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just just have to, you know, find the motivation and find the time

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and all that good stuff. You
do want to get back into it.

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And once I do it, most
definitely we'll be posted. It will be

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streams all that good stuff. Because
she wants to put me on a high

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pedestal, comes to it. She
wants to show me off to the world,

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So I got to do it for
her. She wants to be married

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to a musician. Daniel NBA star
just in enough, right, yeah,

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enough, yeah, all right.
This is Daniel Gafford chilling with us.

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We are the home of the Mavericks. This radio station you're on right now

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and honestly, welcome to DFW.
We couldn't be happier. And that obviously

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is impacted by two wins and massive
performances right out of the gate for you,

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nineteen to nine in Game one and
then seventeen rips yesterday. Dude,

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I kind of know the answer.
But how's things going so far with you

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on your new squad? I mean, everything's going great. You know.

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I feel like I told just any
other media when I came years just coming

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in, I felt like I was
already a part of the moment, you

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know, just came in and guys
were telling me just you know, being

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the right spot at the right time, which, in all honesty with my

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career I've been I'll played with guys
that you know, be in the right

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spot at the right time, you
get rewarded or you're in a position to

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get rebound at the end of the
day, and then I'll just come play

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defense to that. Pretty much my
main job is to come in and play

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defense, gre rebound, have our
interergy, you know, catch lot passes.

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Daniels. Obviously, you come in
here and you feel a pretty desperate

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need that this team has had for
a long time, and productions just in

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two games has been out of sight, you know, being fans ourselves and

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watching the games, We're just like, okay, this makes sense. How

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is it, like, I know, you've only been you know, two

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games and maybe five or six days
with the team. How does the vibe

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in the locker room and the dudes
kind of getting to know them a little

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bit, and that I'm sure Luca
being you know, the star of the

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team right now is his presence is
what it is. But I mean,

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how do you feel like you're kind
of gelling with the dudes as you as

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you're coming to a semi foreign situation. Oh, I mean it's it's like,

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you know, perfect for me.
At the end of the day.

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It feels like, you know,
me being back in college. In all

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honesty, you know, I just
came in took me to kind of like

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get you know, fully adjusted to
talking to guys and stuff. With me.

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I'm pretty pretty much of a quiet
guy myself, but I really try

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to come out of my shield a
little bit more often and just kind of

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you know, building those bonds and
building those relationships with the team. It

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just it feels like that, you
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I said, and just most of
the guys that I've talked to on the

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team and stuff, you know,
it's just you know, like we didn't

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know each other. So you kind
of feel like the vibe of the of

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the locker room kind of fits your
your personality type, you know, kind

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of more subdued and chill and having
a good time, but nothing nothing too

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crazy or demonstrative. Nah. Yeah, most definitely that's cool. I mean,

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you know, guys are laughing and
stuff. You know, they included

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me into a couple of conversations at
first, and then you know, I

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just kind of follow suit. This
is one of your newest Mavericks here on

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the helme of the Mass Daniel Gafford. Now, you said a minute ago

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that you couldn't catch a cold,
but Saturday, what are your first minutes?

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First of all, awesome when you
get entered into the game. Six

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minutes into the game on Saturday afternoon
in the crowd gives you a big ovation

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that had to have been really cold
with them. Luca kind of threw a

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hell Mary to you and you went
up and Randy moss that thing and then

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dunked it home, and that was
pretty cool right off the bat. Yeah,

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most depf you know, just playing
with a guy like that. Like

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I said, they told me to
be in the right spot at the right

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time. You didn't get y'all would
take getting someone of his like line of

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vision and he'll find you at the
end of the day. And if he

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doesn't, he's going to have to
be a lay pass to shoot it that

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can be in a position to get
the rebound. He just attracts so much

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attention here to Kyrie, and you
know he's just doing for all the other

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guys on the floor, So you
know, you just kind of have to

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be in a right spot that we
worked on we practice on because the way

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we game plan is literally just like, Okay, Luca's gonna have maybe two

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or three guys come come and try
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I mean the same with Kyrie.
So I mean I'm playing in the

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NBA. You obviously playing across the
league there's elite point guards. Is it

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even more elevated playing on a team
with Luca and Kyrie where your head has

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to be maybe more heightened on a
swivel to get that unexpected pass or or

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have that assist delivered in places that
maybe you weren't accustomed to before. Oh

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yeah, for sure. I mean
just being ready for anything, honestly,

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expecting me unexpected because you know,
comes to Luca, you know, you

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never know when you're going to get, but he's going to get it to

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you. With Kyrie, he's going
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pass. You know, the beg
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shot, or maybe a pass over
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So it's just the best of both
worlds in all honesty, And I

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just have to be in a position
where I can kind of progress and make

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plays out of the pocket. I
love it so far. It's so funny.

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I mean, it feels to us
who've been watching every game this season,

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that's just this injection of its life
and every everything we needed comes in

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the form of you and PJ.
But I want to talk one more thing.

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Last night, so seventeen boards kind
of steals the show, but five

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should have been eighteen if Luca hadn't
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Get him to stop stealing his dozen
rebounds he gets every night, but

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five blocks as well, So what's
a better feeling? Like the nastiest scream

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dunk you can imagine, or swatting
someone into the into the first row.

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I would think it's a mixture of
both, because they're all plays sometimes where

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I get a block that I can
go down and get a dug too.

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But really, just in all,
honestly, I love the energy on a

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defensive end because that's what gets me
going offensively, you know, just kind

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of building my get my blood bulling
on the other end and running the floor

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and going down is doing the right
thing. On the opposite into this is

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Daniel Gafford, one of the newest
Dallas maths, joining us. So you

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know when when we make trades like
this for all of our sports teams in

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town and so that we do when
we're on the radio and get to talk

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about you guys lives, we go
dig in and see what we can find

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out about you. Get to know
you, right, uh? And I

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read something about you And and dogs. Do you own a bunch of dogs?

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Yeah? So I have four in
my position. Now I have one

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back in Arkansas. Hell yeah,
so four in your possession like today,

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like as you speak, you like
we're able to brand when you have traded

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not not not necessarily today but just
really just in my household, you know,

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back in DC and stuff. So
I have a pick, two Frenchies

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and a Cordy back and around my
pit is name Malo. Frenchies are Yoshi

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and Snow, and then my Cordier
name's Peets. And you got one back

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in Arkansas. Yeah, his name
is Mellow. He's a husky shepherd nicks.

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Wow, Dang, if I had
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so many dogs. Good for you? Do they all sleep on your Do

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they sleep with you in your California
King? Now we keep them in their

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own little area in our household so
they can kind of be separate stuff.

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But well, my wife tells me
all the time whenever I go on road

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trips and stuff, she at just
brings one of them up to sleep with

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her because she feels lonely. Let
me ask one more thing, Daniel Effort.

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When I thought this was what Kevin
was about to ask. But you

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how do you find out? How
do you find out you're getting traded?

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I mean, you know your name
is at least being thrown around, but

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I mean it's got to be weird
to be suited up for one team and

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then someone tells you, hey,
your whole life is getting flipped upside down?

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How do you find that information out? Whenever I was in into the

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facility the same day, Will Dawkins
he had called me, like right when

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I got to the faciity because we
were getting ready to go to Boston.

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He was telling me, He was
like, Okay, we're going to try

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to see we're gonna I think that
there's gonna be a deal with you in

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Dallas coming up. So it's not, then I'll call you and let you

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know, and if so, I'll
call you and that you know. We

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called me again like maybe ten to
fifteen minutes later told me that I was

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in the Dallas So that's how I
kind of found out. And then after

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that I went in to the facility, said my goodbyees, grabbed a couple

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of pair of shoes, and you
know, head it up here. Business

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as usual. Man, Well we
are we are proud to have you here,

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and so far, so good.
You know how like back in the

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day, a little kid would go
up to a star athlete and say,

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I want you to hit a home
run for me. You know, we

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have a request to welcome you and
our radio show. I see you've shot

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one career three pointer in your entire
career, and we'd like it a hoist

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one up in the game against the
Spurs, and then we'll know it's like

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kind of for us, but if
it goes in, it's also for the

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team. Just for no reason out
of nowhere, just launch a three,

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Okay. I went through your whole
game log and there's one you're oh for

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one of your career, and I'm
like, my guess is end of the

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half and you just chuck one and
it technically counts as the three, But

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do you remember how and why you
launched that one? If I'm not.

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I can't remember which one it was. I think it was when we played

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Chicago and DC, that's the one. I think that was the one.

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Yeah, it was kind of like
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at the end of one of the
two, right, bro, you I

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got to get your percentage up to
fifty for your career, man, so

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you've got to launch one tomorrow.
Stop it. Daniel. Thanks thanks for

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the time this morning. Uh we
know, just your head's probably spinning after

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the last five days and for you
to take ten minutes to come hang out,

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it's a lot, dude. We
really appreciate it. Man. Oh

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of course, thank you for having
me on. Let's do it again.

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Welcome to the city man, and
best of luck this year, dude,

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Thank you so much. There he
goes, There he goes, Daniel gaff

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