Knicks Preseason: 5 Biggest Questions

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1:01He is Nick's insider, Nick's Beat reporter for the New York Daily News, Christian Winfield in the building. We are going to talk about our top questions before game one. The next season preview, lots going on around the, the orange and blue around the defending champions, as we can call them right now. So let's get into it, man, lock in, hit the like button at the share, button subscribe to the channel. Salute to our fans, our channel members. And salute to the replay game. My guy Chris Blasch, what's good, bro? How you feeling, man? I'm a yo, man. Listen, it's about to be a long, short, am track ride to fill. Everybody on there. And we know, listen, I'm not really going there to see some good basketball. We understand this is the preseason opener. Mike Brown said we're not expecting it to be, you know, 100% all the way through, but you're going to start seeing them shake out. The rust a little bit. So I'm saying we get up and down the court. See who's in shape. That's one thing Mike Brown said. A by past the condition and test. So I want to see who's in shape. And yeah, let's just go see, let's see, let's see five minutes of LeBron versus Jalen Brunson, right?

2:03Let's see if it if it lives up to the height. Yeah, as Mike Brown said, just a quick cup of coffee for the starters, but I would expect this preseason to be about, you know, the younger players and the guys had to try and make it. They've gone through one week of training camp. What, what is the thing that is stuck out to you the most in, in attending training camp? The one that you've been impressed with the most? You know, that's a great question. I'd say really just the level of buy-in to when I think back to last year, when Mike Brown took the job and everyone still kind of had this little bit of uncertainty as to what things we're going to look like. And it was a question as to whether or not there'd be the buy-in, right? You have a new coach who's stepping in for tips, right? And tips is beloved in this locker room, but they had to make a change. How long and then things were rocky, right? We saw them go on a tear and then after the NBA cup, you fall off a cliff. So, you know, coming into that, I always wondered, okay, what's the buy-in going to look like this time around? But once you win a championship, I mean, everyone seems to be on the same accord, right? And that's kind of one of the reasons why, you know, you look back at the last, I don't know how many, eight NBA champions and there hasn't been a repeat yet

3:05over this since the Golden State Warriors. But I just think there's something about the continuity, the buy-in. I know you lose Mitch, but you only had Mitch realistically for half those games anyway. So I think there's a level of chemistry and continuity that we're seeing in the level of buy-in now when I think back to last year. It's just not the same. It's night and day. So I'm excited to see this team, especially when we get to opening night. And you see the banner go up for the first time in 53 years and you see the rings get handed out and you got LeBron on the other side. Remember, when the Nick squint's a Boston for that ring night, they got punched, right? Yeah, it was, yeah. So I'm expecting something along those lines, but we're not there yet. We got to get to address rehearsal in Philly first. Yeah. And, you know, even last year, I thought there was a sense of calm with Mike Brown, but it seems to be even more so this year. Obviously, I haven't won the championship, you know, the weight is off of their back. But I liked how he came out and said, look, we're going to hit adversity. We are expecting that, but we have a standard that we are going to adhere to that is going to carry us through the rough times. And so just like last year, you know, when it came to the end of that last year,

4:08and then hosting up the chip, then repeating and defending that crown, it just seems like Mike Brown with his experience, he's the perfect man for this era of the Nick's right now. Listen, I immediately after the Nick's one title, Mike Brown had, well, Fat Joe walks up on Mike Brown and puts a 10 pound chain around his neck. Mike Brown's joking around that he had to go to the hospital after that and get a cone around his neck after that. And then a couple, a couple days later, Jaylen Brunson and the whole crew go on Saturday night live and Mike Brown's on stage with Wu Tang Clay. You know, I'm saying he is living the dream right now. I asked him about this and he goes, you know, it's one level of validation to win a championship. But when you start to enjoy the spoils of it, right? When you start to actually see, you know, he's he told the story where there was a fan. He was on a motorcycle ride home and a fan followed him all the way to the cream. Yes, it's a little crazy. Right. That's a little stonker. It's like, you know, we might need to we might need to look at the secret service in a song right now because it shouldn't be that accessible. But I mean, he is a celebrity now in New York City.

5:09And when you think about his journey, right as a guy who was, you know, who's been fired a couple times, a guy who's kind of been looked over as one of the premier coaches in this league. You just don't. It's a great field good story for him. But we already know last year's championship is last year's championship. This year's going to come with a whole new set of problems and judging from what I saw last year, I think he's well equipped to handle. Now, as you said, tomorrow, Carl Antony Towns is expected to meet with the media just a routine PR procedure. But one of the questions that I have and looking at this preseason, you know, there was a lot of questions about his weight and things in that nature. I think it's, I thought it was a good thing. And I thought for the reasons that he stated in keeping the weight off of the knees, that seemed to me as a guy who's going into his 11 to 12 year, whichever it is, that's something smart for him to do. But it's going to be interesting to see how he handles, you know, how does he look? Is he faster? Does he handle the physicality as well? I think it is him at that size. It's going to be interesting to watch. I think it's always a good thing to win you up for a contract extension, being the best

6:09shape of your life, right? So you got that going from, but to your point, right? Like opening night, you got Joelle and Bied, who also lost a lot of weight, right? But these are these are big guys, right? How is the weight loss going to take a toll on you from whether it's condition? He's in a good, he's in good shape, right? Bar, are you in the same amount of shape to be able to get up and down the court? How is the physicality going to be impacted as well? The finishing go finishing through traffic, right? So Kat said that, you know, this is routine for him and the off season, he tends to burn a lot of weight. I remember him coming in significantly slimmer his first training camp here in New York, maybe it's because of the trade and everything, but I'm interested to see what it looks like. If he's faster and put in the ball in the floor, listen, we saw that first step against Wembee. He was able to get downhill versus Wembee. And it's a lot of things that he was able to do in that series and in the playoffs that potentially being in this level of shape can help him do over the course of an entire season, but make no mistake. When you got a 276 million dollar extension on the line and some number around there, it's potentially available, you're going to come in looking exactly like Kat. The cat is looking right now, best shape of your life, for sure. And on the other side, Jalen Brunson, the captain, the MVP, Captain Clutch, the king in

7:13New York, how is he looked in camp? I'm curious to see, you know, he's been cleared as he says. And so if he's going to be playing on Monday against Philly, how does he look with the wrist? Is it impacting his physicality? How's the jumper look? What do you think about Jalen Brunson and the wrist? You know, just to take you a little bit behind the curtains, we only see about maybe at most 10 minutes of the end of practice, right? And sometimes Jalen's done by then. Sometimes he's putting up some free throws. So, you know, what we've been able to see from him has been limited. That being said, I mean, number one, he's coming into a season where I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, I feel like he should have been on the cover of 2K27, right? If you had anybody and to put a winbue in the cover of all people, and then on top of that, he's coming off of this season where it's just like, had he been four to five inches taller, we'd be talking about him as the best basketball player on the planet right now after this conversation. He's not. And for that reason, he's never going to be ranked as highly as he should be. And that's always going to put a chip on his shoulder. So I think Jalen is going to come out and be the Jalen that we always expect him to be. And I think he understands now that, hey, this is my team, right?

8:15I've got these starting five. This is my team. We're here. This is year three. We've got a coach that we all bought into. We saw the style of play that led us to win the title last year. And that's how the play changes over the course of a year, obviously. So I'm excited. He looks like he's in great shape. He's looking clay. He looks like he had a great summer. I'm glad to see what it's going to look like. I guess we're not going to see much in the preseason open. And probably I'm going to see a couple minutes. But like Mike Brown said, as we go along, there'll be more. They'll be ramping up. Now, the guard rotation around him behind him, you have Jose Alvarado on the new contract. You have Duce McBride, who is your combo guard, Tyler Colick going into year three. You know, on the secondarily, you have, you know, Andrew Shamit out there. You have Jordan Clarkson. I mean, what do you think about the guard rotation right now, especially with the prospect of Duce McBride and his contract year? Yeah. You know, I asked Mike Brown about this specifically, right? Because when you, when you look at the Nick starters, you sure you've got Jalen Brunson who's six one, whatever you want to call it, six somewhere between six feet and six

9:17two, right? We'll put him in that range. Everybody else around him is adding size Josh Hart six five, Mikhail and OG six six six eight towns out there seven footer, right? When you go to the bench, you're really looking at a smaller guard lineup out there. And the numbers have said, you know, you look at the numbers last year, the line of sweat, McBride and Alvarado, the line of sweat, McBride and Brunson and the line of sweat, Alvarado and Brunson, all our outscore and opponents by double digits per 100 positions. Right? The data is good. It's just a matter of how long can you get away with that before a team starts in? Okay, well, let's just put five plays to a six foot five out there and see what happens, right? And on top of that, you guys consider there's not a lot of minutes to go around. Jalen is going to play his 33, 34, 35 minutes. And there's only but so many minutes you can put out there or have out there where you only have two guard or you have two guards on the floor, right? So that's going to be some interesting, especially when you consider deuces up for a contract extension. What we've seen a lot of do so I think that's intentional. Duce is doing staying late on training camp days, getting the shots up, not missing. I mean, this guy you're talking about and I knew he'd be starting this year hot because he just had to sign 500 autographs just that and I'm not too long.

10:18So I know he's going to be shooting up the lights out. It's just a matter of and you hear everybody in you. I think about a manual quickly talking about this opportunity. What's the opportunity going to look like Tyler Colax of the same thing? You got four guards and well, three, you got three guards behind Jalen Brunton. You got realistically 13 minutes out there at the one spot. And then on top of that, if you're going to put Mikhail or Josh or Landry or Jordan at the two, you know, it's kind of like where do the minutes fall? So that's kind of be one of the things that we look at. And it's tough, right? But when you consider you just signed Jose to a new deal and you just signed Landry to a new deal and dooses, the next guy was up for a deal. But that number for him to stay here is going to be a lot lower than what you could potentially command elsewhere. You know, kind of it's just a math equation at the end of the day. So it's going to be tough and something to watch. But, you know, working in their favor is the net ratings work out, right? These are these are good lineups. We've seen you can play Brunton and McBride and you can go on up on a 10 to 2 run. And now you call the timeout and now the game is turned in your favor. So we'll see what it shakes out. But that's something that I'm going to be watching for sure.

11:19While they, while the guard pack is a bit on the smaller side, especially defensively, you know, doose being the strongest of the core there, especially at the point of attack. You know, I like what you said because the data is there where offensively, they're going to light it up and you can make, always make the case for having that additional ball handling. And we go back to game four, Alvarado against against San Antonio. You look at the Christmas day with Colic. You look at the NBA cup with Colic and Clarkson. So I do wonder, like you said, number one, how do teams adjust? Because there will be an adjustment period. And number two, how much of the next looking at the success that they had with the smaller units to say, okay, if we have to trade McBride, we, you know, we may not be hurting as much. I just wonder if that plays into how they view doos McBride right now. You know, I was talking to Jose, I asked Jose about this. And you know, he said, you know, look at OKC. OKC's got a lot of small guards and they were able to win the title, right?

12:20You think about Indiana's got some small guards in the mix as well. You know, that the league is changing, right? Just because you played against Wimby who's seven foot eight or whatever it is now at this point, doesn't mean that you automatically have to now have a seven footer at every position. That being said, though, you know, and this is funny. It's a funny story that Mike Brown told after practice the other day. He basically they were establishing defensive rules, right? So basically who could jump a screen and try to blow up a dribble handle versus who couldn't, right? So he's talking about OKC guys that are, you know, strong, have some size, physicals. So he named OG, he named Josh, he named Bruce Brown, he named O. Chiag Baji, and that's it, right? And now he's going down the line, everybody stretching. And he said he gets to doose and Josh and they both look into him and they got their chest puffed out and they got their arms. So I said, yeah, we strong. We could blow up his screen. And they're like, I and he's like, maybe and they're like, no, no, maybe we can't. And that's kind of the, not every team has that luxury of having sure they are all. They're having sure they're undersized and they understand that, but they compensate on the defense event with their toughness with their grit. You know, Jose is going to get a back court steal once every game.

13:20You know, doose is going to play that defense rolling through the court. And then on top of that, doose is going to be shooting the lights out. He was shooting the lights out last year before he got hurt and Jose showed you what he can do. So I'm excited to see what this duo does, but at the end of the day as we mentioned, it's like a pie, right? And there's just a finite amount of minutes and once people aren't getting the minutes that they need, that's where you start to see things happen. So we'll be monitoring it, but it's going to be, it'll be fun. It could be kind of like an X factor for them, but it could also be something that you start looking at around February. And it's like, yeah, we clearly don't have enough minutes for somebody. What are we going to do? Next big question I have and everybody's going to be looking at this preseason. That last roster spot or two, you have the center position and Mike Brown came out and said, yeah, you know, we may run a little more OG at the five, but then he also came out on Friday and said, we need a big and you know bond is important. That maybe it's wise men who has the edge there. You have Drew U banks in camp. You mentioned, okay, I've got you Bruce Brown of the guards. How do you see this potentially playing out here?

14:20Yeah, you know, we know the next reminder in the situation in Dallas, which was, I mean, when you talk about putting that little wrinkle in the contract, where I bought October first, you have to make a decision. Otherwise this contract is going to fully guarantee that it's just moves to CSA. Yeah, and that puts the entire organization in a situation where you know, they got decide what to do with a guy like Dwight Powell, who's been there forever. And now he's going to lose his spot because you know, it's a little things like that tend to win on the margins. It might not have happened this time, but you never know what happens as a result of that. Mike Brown said it best, right? The next are in the market for a center right now. We knew this was going to be the case after you lose not only Mitchell Robinson, but also Ariel, and I think Andre Drummond's durability is one of the things that's going to help mitigate that. But at the same time, we've seen cat getting foul trouble, right? And you can't play Andre Drummond 30 some of my minutes a lot, and we know cats going to have those nights or those stretches where it's consecutive games and foul trouble, right? And I don't know how I feel about playing OG a lot of minutes at the five knowing that's a position where you're going to get banged up. And now who knows what happens to OG at the five, right?

15:21We'll see. So they've got to make a decision now. I do like the James Wiseman idea just because you have that history with Mike Brown. And I think at this point, if Mike Brown's got an idea, let him run with it because it all worked out last year and they want to title. But I also think you know, it's a situation where once February comes around and you got to start making moves, you can potentially get another center on the market if you're not able to do it now. So we'll see what happens. But if I was, you know, if I had to look at the situation now, but with who they have on the roster, I'd also be looking at James Wiseman. Once again, we're talking to Christian Winfield of the New York Daily News next beat right in the next insider on his way to Philadelphia as the next take on. LeBron James Tyree, Maxi or whoever's going to be playing on the field, he's in these sixes. Anything else you thinking about any other questions you think about as we approach a came one here. You know, I've had a lot of people ask me why are the next a better shot to come out of the East than the 76ers. And quite frankly, I don't think the sixers are the biggest threat to the next. I have a, I guess you can call it a lukewarm, maybe slightly hot take.

16:22I think the heat are are because of you got honest and you got them and they're going to do whatever it takes to get to the center of the paint and then spray that ball out. And it's going to test how well the nicks are going to be function on the defensive and you just lost your anchor, right. So we're going to see how that looks. But listen, man, you've got Jalen Brown, you've got LeBron James, Joellen bead and Tyree, Maxi. That is a tough lineup, but we've seen it before. Those of these LeBron teams need a year, right? They need that one year. The nicks needed a year, right? They got to the second year. I'm not big on, you know, dethroning. You got to prove to me that you could beat the king before you call yourself a king, right? So I like the nicks, honestly, to maybe not repeat his chance, but at least to win the East unless they run into the Miami. That's the only team I could see throwing the nicks off this year. I'm not, I'm not buying Detroit after all this. I'm not buying cleave. I don't think anybody's buying Cleveland. I'm not buying Philly in year one. Miami is one of those teams where they might just sneak into a 72 matchup and ruin your day. So yeah, that's it. Yeah.

17:22All eyes will be on Philadelphia for preview between those two teams. Safe travels down there on the iron horse. Hey, man, is that a bottle of Ace of Spades behind you right there, man? Was that from the next locker room? Was that from Game 5? This is from Game 5. Oh, no. This is the souvenir. This is the souvenir from the locker room from Game 5. I didn't get much, but this was the one. Yeah, this is my keepsake. There, there it is, man. I mean, listen, you got to be pitching yourself to, you know, you go from the next beat to the next beat. You in year four, but in year three, on the next beat, you in the locker room drinking Ace of Spades, man. Yeah, that's got to be a good life for. I wasn't drinking Ace of Spades in the locker. I was drinking Ace of Spades, I was out of the locker room. Right. I was out of grade and down, I found the ball out there. But listen, man, dream come true, man. You know what it was, man. My pops is a dot is still a diehard next fan and I'm a jet fan. So I know what it looks like. Yeah. I got any hope to win a championship in life. That's I was thinking we was going to win today. We was going to beat the Bears with no Caleb Wilson or K's Keenam.

18:23I was broke. So for the next to have won it all, and for me, they've been a part of it as someone who grew up in this and didn't think it would ever happen. Yeah, sometimes I got a pinch myself, man. It's a dream come true. Yeah, well hats off to you. Hopefully we'll catch up next week after a couple of these preseason games on the way. And you miss safe travels on the Iron Horse, man. Oh, man. Thanks for having me, brother. Sarah Hernandez fights for working families. As a teacher, Sarah Hernandez helped students go to college. And when I attacked her community, Sarah Hernandez provided free legal help to immigrant families. Sarah Hernandez will fight for more housing, solutions to homelessness and a more affordable California. Vote Sarah Hernandez for Senate. Add paid for by Gro California. Add committee's top funders, Christian Larson and Timothy Draper, not authorized by a candidate or committee controlled by a candidate. All right, ladies and gentlemen, what's that? It was on guy Christian Winfield of the New York Daily News, like share and subscribe.

19:23As we just broke down some of these key questions of the Nick's preseason. Chris, and you had to jump in on the train and jump down a filly. So we had to do this kind of rapid fire. But you know, we we covered all our tracks here. Number one question I have as it relates to the starters, one is that the health and the and the appearance, if you will. Of the next two stars, Jaylin Brunson, how his wrist be responding. I don't expect him to be playing all that much. As Mike Brown said, these guys aren't going to be playing all that much. So maybe a first quarter, maybe they get if that, you know, and then probably not even the first quarter. And then Carl Anthony Towns, it was a lot made of his weight loss. I think it's a good, I think it's a great idea for somebody in his double digits year of experience. And then as he said, he kind of puts it back on as the season progresses. So listen, I trust Carl Anthony Towns. He knows what he's doing. And he'll certainly be all right. But you know, we'll see what happens as it relates to his contract scenario.

20:27Will they get it done before the season starts? How long would this drag on? We'll have to wait and see. But I've been asked this question many a times in terms of Carl Anthony Towns' contract and my confidence. I'm confident that the two sides will define the number that they can both agree with. It's very hard. I mean, I mean, we all got work on Monday. Imagine going to your job. You did everything. You had a fantastic year, right? You earned your company $100 million or you cut your company, save your company some money. Or you did something that was just out of this world. And then when it comes to bonus time, they're like, listen, we need you to take a pick up. You're gonna be like, wait a second. So I know sports is completely different in that regard. But my point is it's very hard to go to Carl Anthony Towns after the year that he had winning the NBA championship in the role that he had in doing so. And being like, we got to cut your numbers pretty drastically here to keep this thing going.

21:27So at the very least, we got to fight this out. We got to talk this out. We got to drag this out. And I just think that's what we're gonna have here. But I think both sides will come to an agreement. We talked to Chris about the douce make broad situation. He's gonna be one I'm gonna be watching. Will his contract talks or lack of an extension? How would that impact douces play? As Christian said, douce seemed to be having a solid camp, seeming knocking down his shots. And we know that's douces skill set. The biggest issue with douce has been his durability. Can he stay healthy throughout the entire season? And how will they feel if they don't get it deal done by February? I got to think he's gone because you can't afford to take another risk in terms of letting a guy just walk out the door. You already did that with Mitch. And I understand that was more of a necessity. You needed Mitch's skill set. You needed Mitch to win this championship. But you can't let another guy just walk out the door without getting something in return. As you continue to try to keep your contender window open.

22:30So that's gonna be left to be seen if they don't come to an agreement with douce. I got to think that by February he's he's gonna be wearing another jersey. And as we talked about some of the players that he's competing with. He got another year with Jose Jose with more chemistry with his team. Landry Shamit another year chemistry with these guys. Clarkson on the thing Clarkson is gonna be playing all that much. But you never know. And then there's Tyler Colock in year three. Because I think if they do trade douce, I think Colock stands a chance to step up and have an even bigger role in year three. Playing two gone lineups with with Jalen Brunson. If they need that just for spurts, you know, a couple minutes here and there. And then as it relates to the center position, it was interesting to hear Stefan Bond. He think that James Wiseman, Wiseman, how it sounds like what James Wiseman could have an inside track here on that third string center spot. Why not? I'm all for it, man.

23:32Just get the depth in here. And away we go. If Brown thinks, you know, Wiseman based on the relationship that he has with Wiseman or, you know, his athletic ability is potential. Is he flashing something in camp? We'll see. This is what the preseason is going to be for. I want to see what these guys do. I'm going to be watching Wiseman. I'm going to be watching Bruce Brown, Agpagi, U-Banks watching all those guys and see how they fare. Somebody said, dude, he's got the throwback. So, look. So, yeah, those are some of my questions going into camp for sure. Going to be very interesting. I don't want to see much of the starters. I don't want to see much of OG. I don't want to see much of J-Lin in the preseason. I want to see these some of these guys had a battling for the roster spot. And then, you know, obviously we have the contract scenarios between Duce, Callin' to the Towns, Josh Hart.

24:32How will that play out on the Nix Road to Repeat? And also, how are you adequately replacing Mitchell Robinson? I'm not here for the Mitch Slander that easily replaceable. He only played 13 minutes this time. Well, all three drummers are going to have to step up. We know he's going to rebound the ball. How will he look defensively? And as Mike Brown said, this is going to be more of a by-committee situation where everybody's going to have to step up and do a little bit more. So not just Andre Drummond, but everybody else. How do they help him? Mike Brown understands that from a rim protection standpoint, they're taking a step back. That's obvious. So it's going to be very interesting. Jay from East New York, shout out to Jay says, I want to see what Wyzen has been shown in training camp. Yeah. Let's see as we approach tomorrow. Wyzen versus Huck Portee. That might be the more key matchup tomorrow.

25:36Showing in the Chester's, have a Tyler Nickle. Well, Tyler's got the two-way contract. So you already know he's guaranteed time in West Chester, which is good. Get some more playing time. But in the preseason, does he get some time with some of the vets? You get to see some more of his shooting ability. But West Chester's where, you know, he's going to get most of his playing time. And that'll be good for him. So there that is. Now tomorrow, we got double headed tomorrow. We got Sam Morrill coming through 12 o'clock on Monday. And then we will have, you already know, post game live full preseason over reactions as the dicks take on the Philadelphia 76ers. So very much looking forward to that. I can't believe we are here already. The weather's changed. We're in October. Football is in midseason form. Have about them giants today, man. It wasn't pretty, but it was gritty.

26:38What a game. You know, I think this was the day where it's like, I have to just accept the James Winston experience. You know, we were very disappointed with the dark news and the knee surgery and all of that. And then they lose burns. That was big. I'm fully locked in with the James Winston experience. I got my seat belt on. And it's it's cardiac. Jamis. You just got buckle up and get ready. That's it. Don't think about my car. The anything like that. You got to arrive at James because James give it any take it away. Well, one thing is for sure this giant defense was ferocious today. Abdul Carter, he's got a lot of a lot of a sense of level race. Newsom. And then diante banks. And then you know, diante banks. He gives up the pass and a clearance right on the goal line. And I said, look, I said, the wife has said, look, his goal line stand times. Go hard to go home.

27:38And four straight plays. The defense, the not Wilson's defense, playing man to man, manned up and got the stops. And how apropos on the fourth down. Who was the goat on the P.I. call, which is a little light. Becomes the hero and takes it to the house. That was amazing on the anniversary of the 86 giant scene. You got to have it. It was only right that you got a defensive stand. On the anniversary, the 40 anniversary of the 86 giants. Yeah, the classic uniform. You can't go out like that to to to to Jacobi percent and the Cardinals. On the anniversary with the classics. Now you got to give the people something to go home with. I'm touch fans hold your head man. That's all I could say. Judge fans hold your head. Take a look in the chat real quick. See what's going on.

28:38Watch 40 season opener. Yes, absolutely watch 40 season opener. Shout out to everybody that came through to the, I guess you could say championship season closer. Event at slate on Friday. We had a great night live show. We had the KFTV live show myself. The next chick, JD Alex. We had a great show. We did about an hour and changed live show. And then we watched game five again with all people are KFTV day ones at slate. It was a great night. Chatte at everybody that that popped in. We have people go home raffle prize winners and all of that. And so it was a great way to kind of close the championship the 25 26 championship season. But yes, watch 40 season opener tickets will be going on sale this week. So make sure you guys look out for that. People have also been asking us about our digital calendar. Remember last year we gave you guys a programmable digital calendar. Whether you had a iPhone or you have an Android. So we will be working on that to finish that up and getting ready to roll that out this week.

29:42So that you don't have a shot at missing anything man. You know every day every day that the nixer plane you're going to get a notification in your phone. Nixer up. Here's your links. Here's your links to post game live. No reason to miss it. Number one show for the fans by the fans. Okay. So yeah, that's that man. We got Samuel comments tomorrow post game live nix and Philly tomorrow night for the night cap. So double header. We got a ton of content on the channel right now man. If you guys have been missing content number one, we got the Mitch Robertson interview that's still been cooking. It's a little of like 80,000 views right now on YouTube. That's been going crazy. Myself and Jonathan McRee we did our collab on Friday. We dropped that on Friday. That is up on the XVN TV right now and also on the podcast as well. So make sure you guys catch up on the content. We got a ton of good stuff for you. And yes, on the podcast front. Make sure you guys are signing up Apple podcast Spotify as well. Okay. We're shadowed to my guy Christian Winfield.

30:44Are the daily news are coming through. And we will see you guys in just a few hours. Enjoy your Monday ladies and gentlemen. We will catch up mid day for those of you that are catches live. We'll see you there for those of you that are catch up on the replay. Of course, salute to the replay gang. So it's my guy Cliff Clerval. My guy the shells big Mike in the building. Armandeur I see Russell whiskey salute. We're on the day boy in here Frank White. He says how about them she goes. The New York football Giants ladies and gentlemen in sole possession. A first place of the NFC East. Music to my ears. I'm loving it. I am loving it. All right. All right. All right guys. So you guys midday Monday. Have a great start to your week and a great close-year week. Amen. I'm one show for the fans by the fans. We out of here, man. Peace. Sarah Hernandez fights for working families. As a teacher, Sarah Hernandez helped students go to college.

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