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Speaker 1: good now. So to the to the off season program,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like, you know, it's being on a

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Speaker 2: A lot of candidates to be the backup center to

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Speaker 1: They're all really good players, you know. I feel like

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Speaker 1: when you sign rd Red? That's awesome. You know, you

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Speaker 2: Were you was that at the time of at which

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Speaker 2: Or of the draft. Do you do you ever? You

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