Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers - Hornets-Lakers Postponed, Other Home Games in Flux. Plus, LeBron, AD and All-Star Voting.

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey everyone, welcome to Lockdown Lakers for Friday. Brian Komenetsky, Andy Komeneski, Thursday night's game at The Crypt was postponed. Very possible the weekend games against San Antonio could be postponed or move as well as there is still a tremendous amount of uncertainty in the Los Angeles area. We'll talk about it next. You are Locked on Lakers. Your daily Los Angeles Lakers podcast. Part of the Locked on Podcast Network. your team every day.

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Starting point is 00:00:48 with over 27,000 subscribers to the program. Andy, you know, obviously still remains a very, very challenging time in Los Angeles. Thursday night's game, as everybody is certainly aware of now as we record on a Thursday,

Starting point is 00:01:03 was postponed the game against Charlotte at the crypt. And I would not be surprised. The next time the Lakers play is Sunday and then again the following Monday. Saturday. Thank you. Again, then the following Monday. Lakers play every other day through the end of the month. Against San Antonio, two home games against San Antonio.

Starting point is 00:01:25 If those games moved, the Rams, the NFL announced, have already, will already be going to Arizona to play. and this is just this is absolutely the right thing to do that they postponed Thursday's game to probably I would think move the games on Saturday and Monday. You mentioned Andy earlier.

Starting point is 00:01:51 I think for today's, for Thursday show that Vegas has offered their arena up if they need to. There are places that the Lakers can go and the NBA can go and it would not surprise me at all if they take somebody up on that invitation. Yeah, this is a big logistical challenge for the NBA and for the Lakers. As you mentioned, they play every other day.

Starting point is 00:02:13 They play every other day in Los Angeles between what should have been tonight's game against Charlotte up until the 25th. Thursday night's game. You mean, again, we're recording on a Thursday. Right, right. It should have been, would have been, not should have been the NBA made the right decision, but would have been Thursday night's game against the Hornets. They play every day in Los Angeles until the 25th when they go up north to play the Warriors.

Starting point is 00:02:43 They have one game away from the Crip, but that game is that into it. So there's a lot of stuff to figure out the minute it was announced that the Rams were going to be moving that playoff game against the Vikings to Arizona. it made me think that if nothing else, the timeline to playing again in Los Angeles could be matched to that Monday. So I would expect a lot of fluidity with this moving forward. I don't know how much,

Starting point is 00:03:16 I don't know how much wiggle room there is to perhaps have to move some of these games later in the month where unfortunately the Lakers would have to play back to back or something like that, but you're left with very imperfect options. And obviously, this is one of those situations where, you know, it matters, but it's also a very first world problem. Correct. And, you know, the NBA, I guess, catches a little bit of a break that the Lakers and then

Starting point is 00:03:47 for that one game, the Clippers, that it is a sustained home stretch where it's not like sort of all over the place. And you're like, theoretically, if there was a place that could accommodate the Lakers, and these dates or shifting dates a little bit and the other teams can make those dates and whatever. Like you could play those games and I have not looked at schedules, but like in Palm Springs. There are places that perhaps could accommodate and you have a block of dates where the team wasn't supposed to go anywhere anyway. So maybe that can help the NBA. But I mean, there are two parts of this in my mind that are important.

Starting point is 00:04:26 And the first one is, and this is the one I think that gets the most attention. And I think it's 100% legitimate. And I have to say, and I'm not talking about most people, most people get it. And most people can understand, like you say, Andy, first world issues and all that. But like this affects the organization and the people in the organization because those people live in this community. and I'm telling you, if you do not live in Los Angeles, it's almost impossible to find someone who is not in one way, shape, or form impacted, knows someone who is impacted, is housing, someone who is leaving.

Starting point is 00:05:08 It's like, you know, that has to deal with figuring out school closures with their kids. We're like, there's so much going on in here. We've learned that, you know, a lot of athletes do live up in that area in the Pacific Palisades area. or, you know, as we're learning now, fire spreading into like West Hills and towards Calabasas and other places like that, where, again, a lot of families live, you don't know if you're going to get an evacuation notice. You know, JJ Redick's family, we learned on Thursday,

Starting point is 00:05:40 the house that they are living in burned to the ground. So they don't have a house right now that is enormously stressful for Reddick. And I've seen some reaction of, you know, these people are rich, they're that, they play basketball, everybody else, other people have to go to work or whatever. No, that's not how this sort of thing should be prioritized. We have to remember that there are people here, first and foremost, that play these games that go to the arenas to work at these games so that you as a fan can watch.

Starting point is 00:06:16 You get the personnel there, whoever, you know, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, attend you know to work at these games there's a lot that goes into it and if you're not in LA it may be hard to understand the sort of the scope of what's happening here and so that half of it we can talk about the other half in a second I think is enough to say we can't play until we can play let's just say you wanted to be completely hard harder about this and just say you know rich athletes suck it up get to work I want to stress like Brian that is not the mindset I would recommend taking at all. And I don't think most people do, although we saw a couple people in our comments

Starting point is 00:06:58 sections. I would say it's 95-5-964, but the 4%, let me tell you, you come off like the A-hole that you are. But let's just say for the sake of argument that you want to take on that mindset, it is because other people have to go to work, and that is true. Not all work creates the logistical needs and the logistical problems of a basketball game that holds 18,000 people plus all the employees, plus the police presence, plus all of the different things that are required to put on that game as opposed to you showing up at your office. like in and look for everybody showing up at their office in l.A. I don't blame you if your minds are somewhere else too. Like I have empathy for that as well.

Starting point is 00:07:53 We should all, as I talked about during a Thursday show, we should all have empathy for everyone in this city over this. But showing up to your job is not the logistical issue that putting on a Lakers Hornets game is, even if all of us are dealing with the same. mental anguish right now and the same emotional anguish they're not the same job it's not and it is you know you talk about the logistics it is unsafe in this situation to put people in a place where definitely you're going to need to police presence in case something happens you need to have first responders available in case something happens whatever at a time when those resources

Starting point is 00:08:39 are far more needed in other places where, you know, yes, I know there are people who are still going to be patrolling downtown and are responsible for that. And there are ambulances down there. But you need to be able to take resources where they need to be. God forbid there was some kind of fire incident downtown or whatever. And you have to pull, like, what do you do? And so it is, it is unsafe. It is unwise to stage events.

Starting point is 00:09:09 where you're going to take, certainly on Monday night, the Rams game, again, already moving to Arizona, you know, 65, 70,000 people and put them in one place. It's just a terrible idea. And sports, which I understandably can be a distraction, a unifier, all these are the things. It's part of the reason we're still doing the show. They still have to take a backseat to real life.

Starting point is 00:09:36 So we'll see what happens. We'll obviously keep people update. for what's happening on Saturday. I would love to see the NBA figure out a way to try to reschedule these games. I am sure they are trying to find a place where the Lakers can go and stay for however long it needs to be so that these games can be played.

Starting point is 00:09:56 But there is a little bit of other NBA news, which we will get to including All-Star numbers. And it's what's turning out to be a very competitive year for finding a way onto the All-Star. team. We'll get to it next. Lockdown Lakers is brought to you by TurboTax. Are you tired of wondering, worrying about your taxes? That's why the Beatles wrote the song, Taxman, because they knew it would strike a very stressful chord with people. And it's a great song, but now that icky feeling of taxes, think of the past. Taxes don't have to be complicated or stressful. TurboTax is here to change

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Starting point is 00:11:42 every day. So we certainly appreciate that. The cluster bleep that is the Western Conference, Andy, is kind of crystallized to me by the new round of all-star voting and trying to figure out who the heck's going to get on this team. So there's fan voting and then there's coach's coaches selections and the media has, has a role here. So just to go back over the rules, this from ESPN, five players from each conference will be honored as starters and will be voted by fans, which half the vote. Current NBA players, 25% of the vote, and a media panel, which is another 25% of the vote. NBA head coaches will select seven players as reserves in each conference. So 24 players total, 12 from each conference, and then they'll be chopped up into three teams of eight, but that is neither here nor

Starting point is 00:12:40 there. LeBron James is currently third in voting, fan voting. Anthony Davis is fifth. I don't think they're going position by position, I think you're right for the voting. It's just

Starting point is 00:12:58 forwards and it's front court and the starters typically have been two guards, three forward slash center slash front court guys. I don't think that that changes with this new. You know, teams of eight going up against whoever wins the rookie second year

Starting point is 00:13:21 convoluted setup that just shows. So you see here and then among the guards, Shay and Steph are up there and whatever. And like, you know, when you see these lists, Sandy, if you're looking at 12 guys from the Western conference, making the All-Star team in the year of our Lord 2025, is not going to be an easy feat. There are going to be some really good players having really good seasons. Who will not make the team? Yeah, it was interesting.

Starting point is 00:13:50 Like, one of the things that jumped out at me is LeBron is only about two, he's about 2,000 votes behind Kevin Durant among forwards and centers, which he could make up, but there's a chance that he would finish third, which I believe would still make LeBron an all-star starter. Assuming the coaches vote and the player vote and all that. That's true. That's true. But I mean, I feel like LeBron is one of those guys that if he makes it just on the fan vote,

Starting point is 00:14:21 LeBron's automatically in because there's going to be a lot of forces very rightly thinking LeBron should. LeBron has earned the right to be an all-star starter. He's done it now 20 seasons in a row, which is just absolutely amazing. but he's also fourth behind him is Wembe at about 250,000, which I think is probably a pretty good distance to maintain. But I was just, I was thinking about the idea of if LeBron couldn't catch Durant and end up in second and not knowing for sure exactly how the starting five is going to get selected in this new format, would it be possible if Wembe could potentially catch him? And if so, could this be the year that LeBron doesn't end up starting after 20 straight seasons? Again, LeBron's going to be an All-Star. I am not concerned about that, both I think, on merit and also he's LeBron.

Starting point is 00:15:24 I mean, no, but you're right. His LeBronness really is going to go along the way. Absolutely. And he wouldn't be the first iconic superstar to have allowances made for the All-Star game, which, lest we forget, first and foremost, is a showcase for the league more than anything else. And he deserves to be on the team. Right. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:15:45 Absolutely. Absolutely. But he also, it is in the league's interest to have LeBron there. But I was also thinking about AD, who is currently fifth among Western Conference front court guys and almost certainly will not end up a starter. If I had to bet he's going to make it. But looking at the competition, I was like, I don't think it's necessarily a given because there's only going to be 12 of these players. Five of them are going to be the starters.

Starting point is 00:16:21 Wembe is a shoe in. He's a lock to make this team. You're going to, you're going to, I think, want to represent, say, Houston, who's been really good. So I think Schengoon is going to ultimately end up making it. aunt, I think, is going to make it. You're likely going to want a, at least a clipper between James Harden or Norm Powell making the team to represent just how well they performed without Kauai Leonard. I think you would want a gris there, whether you're talking about John Morant or

Starting point is 00:16:55 Jaron Jaron Jackson Jr., again, to represent how good they've been. And I also feel like Jalen Williams, who's been fantastic this year and the thunder have been so great, it would make a lot of sense for two Thundarians to be there as well. Like, you start getting to 11 and 12 quickly. And again, if I had to bet, I think AD will end up making it both because he deserves it. And I think, you know, never heard staff Lakers represented as well. But it's just crazy to think that with the season AD is having this year, that he wouldn't feel necessarily like an absolute stone cold lock to me,

Starting point is 00:17:37 which is less about AD and more just about, man, the West is tough. It is. I agree with you. I don't know if I, I don't think I buy the logic of like. It's also Deeran Fox could end up making it too. Could.

Starting point is 00:17:53 It's been really good. Yes, but Sacramento's been disappointing. And it's Sacramento. Nobody's going to care of. a Sacramento king makes the all-star. Who knows if he's a king by then, though? That's true. What if he's a Laker, then he makes it?

Starting point is 00:18:09 I don't think I really 100% by the notion of forcing somebody like Shangun. Gu's, I think Davis has overall been better than Shang-Gun. I don't think it's, I don't see that as a terribly controversial statement, even having not watched every Houston game like I've, watched every Laker game. He's been better. And while the rockets are a surprise, I think, a fun surprise, a good surprise and all that, I don't think they are so like a big thing that you got to take that you're going to

Starting point is 00:18:49 happen. I don't know about that. You want to leave Anthony Davis off the All-Star team in a year where he's probably been better than the guy you're putting on just so you can make sure. that a member of the Houston Rock and some teams will happen. Okay, I want to make it clear. In talking about these possibilities, I'm not saying that you should be looking to represent all of these different teams.

Starting point is 00:19:15 You know, like I don't want a lesser version of what, I don't know if it still happens with baseball. Every team, I believe every team is still represented. Which I think is just absolutely. You can't do that when you only have 12 players. Right, right. But I'm saying like the same type of concept. I'm not saying that it should happen.

Starting point is 00:19:31 I'm saying I think it often does. And if it often does, that could clear a path for someone like Shengoon who has been really good. He's been great. I'm not saying he has been good or All-Star worthy or that. And I think he could make the team. I just don't know. This is not me saying he should make it ahead of AD.

Starting point is 00:19:50 I agree with you. I think AD's been better. I'm just talking about scenarios that I don't think are completely out of pocket. Right. So let's, let's, we'll, a couple more things I think about this that, that are relevant and I think will ultimately end up with, yeah, Anthony Davis is going to make the All-Star team. We'll get to it next. Locked on Lakers is brought to you by Rocket Money. Did Rocket Money help you find subscriptions you forgot about or paying for it twice? It's worked for me. I've had subscriptions. I'm like, wait, I don't even remember signing up for that, much less I've still been paying for it. Like, stop. And it's like having a personal system for your finances. It's a personal finance app, Rocket Money, that helps you just not just find unwanted subscriptions,

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Starting point is 00:21:55 Yeah. So it was the East, but still. People are looking, you know, Mitchell's obviously going to make the team. And, but also Mobley. Garland, Garland and Allen. Yeah, but like just everybody. And that, you get a little more wiggle room in the East, certainly for that this year. A guy like Paulo Van Carro, for example, who would be a shoe in, given how he's played, may not, you know, may not have played enough.

Starting point is 00:22:24 Same with Frone's Wagner. Wagner, yeah, there's just, there's a lot more space on the Eastern Conference to get there. the West doesn't have that. But a couple things that I think won't happen in this case. It's like the first being, that tends to happen to get guys on the Celtics into the game, as opposed to guys on the Thunder. And so somebody like Jalen Williams, who I do think has played at an All-Star. Oh, I think he's going to make it.

Starting point is 00:22:54 I think he will. I think he could get their best team in the NBA, arguably the best team in the NBA. and you're still talking about two guys because there's not a third guy that you'd pull from the thunder. I think John Morant, for example, in most years, would be somebody would naturally want to put on the All-Star team.

Starting point is 00:23:10 He's back in action again on Thursday, but I think this is his 21st game of the season. He has been in and out of the lineup a ton over the course of the year, so he's missed like half the games. I think that might keep him out in a year where you have a very natural person and Jaron Jackson Jr. to stick in there.

Starting point is 00:23:30 So, like, if they were bigger teams and bigger markets, like, I think you could do, like, the making sure a player from each one of these teams gets their thing. But I don't think it's going to happen for all of them. And I do think somebody from one of these, and I don't consider Houston, it's not obviously a small market, but they're a small, they're a smaller NBA consciousness team at this point. I don't think they are a team. team that's back on like they're they're not the lakers they're not the celtics they're not

Starting point is 00:24:04 the kevin durant phoenix sons they're not the nicks they're not like the houston the city is enormous but the team is not as big of a deal i don't they just don't move the needle like that so i just i think it will be fascinating to see who is left off i don't think de aaron fox is going to make the team uh for that like i certainly don't it wouldn't shock me you're not going to have two clippers. Wouldn't totally shock me, let's say, if James Harden was banged up or something like that, if he didn't make the team, Norm Powell is not going to make the team. It's just not. You can argue whether he should, but I would be very surprised if Norm Powell makes a team, and if he does, James Harden won't. Now, that I agree with you. I don't think there will be two

Starting point is 00:24:46 clippers, but Norm Powell, I mean, it's interesting you bring up Norm. If you look at the final one through 10 for Western Conference Guards last year and compare it to this year's one through 10 for Western Conference guards. The top one through nine SGA, Steph, Luca, Kyrie, Ant, Hardin, Jha, Fox, Booker. Same nine guys. The order's a little bit different, but it's the exact same. Ten this year is Norm Powell. Last year was Austin Reeves. and I bring this up not I don't think it says anything about Austin having a bad season or a worse season than last year um it's just it's one of the differences from last year this year last year Austin finished 10th among Western Conference guards this year I they don't make any

Starting point is 00:25:39 probably a more of a testament to Reeves now that he doesn't get voted for these things because before it was kind of a goof um maybe to some degree it was a it was a gimmick it was fun it was like look at our plucky white he was playing well he was playing one well, but like look at our plucky white guy. Let's get him into the, now it's just like, we're not, he is who he is. He's established and no, we're not voting for him. Right. And again, I, I don't think this is as much a knock on Austin or really one at all as much as it is like, no, really, people are noticing Norm Powell's having an incredible season. I mean, he's, he has been really, really good this year. But the idea that Norm Powell is in the, I think legitimately in

Starting point is 00:26:21 the running for this, even as a dark horse speaks to, again, just how, not just tough to make the All-Star game, because at the end of the day, who cares, but just how tough the West is. Like, the West is just tough, man. Damian Lillard. isn't going to likely make it.

Starting point is 00:26:37 Yeah, I mean, I haven't even mentioned him, but, like, he... I don't think he will. Damien Lillard used to routinely get left off this team. Mike Conley, who was an All-Star caliber guard, finally made one. Like, it's like 38. season in the league.

Starting point is 00:26:54 It's always been enormously difficult to make this team. And what I think it says every freaking year, especially now the thing is treated like an exhibition and like you're, I know we keep trying to come up with ways to make it relevant. And they try that home court thing, which is really stupid and all that stuff. It's set at 12 so that you're actually giving a chance for everybody to play. And it's not like a completely ridiculous thing where you're. you're just doing hockey diffs and shuttling people through. But there is just no reason for All-Star rosters to be 12.

Starting point is 00:27:30 It's too small. There are too many good players. Or at the very least, break down some of these conference barriers and take the 24 best players. But you get to it. Yeah, you're right. The Western Conference has players up and down. And even when you get to the Kings who have been very disappointing and we'll see if they can turn it around and all that stuff, you're talking about

Starting point is 00:27:55 Sabonis, who's an excellent player, and Deerrin Fox, who like you say, may deserve an all-star nomination. And then, you know, if Luca is not healthy, like, we haven't mentioned Kyrie, or maybe you did kind of pass.

Starting point is 00:28:09 I mentioned that he's one of the nine. I think Kyrie's made a really strong case to be in it this year. Kyrie's been great. I would put Kyrie in there just on merit, even games versus not games before job. I think he's been better. Guy's been very good.

Starting point is 00:28:24 And even when you get to the non-playoff teams, like Lori Markinen is an excellent player. And, you know, the pelicans have completely fallen apart. But like, let's pretend Zion, we live in a world where Zion is healthy. Like Zion Williamson's there and C.J. McCollum is there. Like, there are just good players up and down this conference. And the depth is tremendous. And that is why games like Tuesday are so annoying for the Lakers where you screw up a game that you really needed to win.

Starting point is 00:29:03 You know, last thing too about this, because you had mentioned before, like the idea of the type of teams that can gin up, shall we say, motivation behind the scenes to make sure a player represents that team versus markets not big enough that you wouldn't care. you were talking about this in the case of Alpern Chengoon. Wednesday night's game, the featured game between the Cavaliers and the Thunder, if you did not get a chance to see it, try to find some replay, it was phenomenal. Just a phenomenal game between right now the two best teams in the NBA, where you had a bunch of great performances on both sides. And also a reminder, especially, you know, during this time where there's so much talk about like what's wrong with the NBA. And also, too, like, what does the NBA do once, you know, the OGs that are LeBron, KD, and Steph are gone, you know, they're all in their career, Twilights.

Starting point is 00:30:09 That game is an example of why you can market this if you just put your mind towards it. And especially in 2025 at a time when all of these players have their own podcasts anyway, like social media creates avenues. Fans have the NBA packages. Highlights are everywhere. And, you know, 10, 12 years ago, KD managed to be a star in Oklahoma City. Like, you know, Damien Lillard was a huge star in Portland. Like, the idea of market size still.

Starting point is 00:30:46 dictating the way you would treat this stuff, if that really is a thing, I think it speaks to one of the issues that the league is actually having. Like, you know, there's conversations about the games that they don't put on national TV, the games that they don't flex, the games that they have on national TV instead just because of market size or, you know, legacy franchise or whatever. If you can't market as a league, what went on last night between the Cavaliers and Thunder, you're the problem, straight up. Yeah, and some of it is you need guys who kind of want to do that thing.

Starting point is 00:31:26 Like, you know, Nikola Yokic is the best player in the NBA, and he's just not interested in being, you know, the quote-unquote base of the lead. He doesn't care. It's not what he wants to do. And so, like, that plays a role. That matters. But you also have situations where, you know, you've got to kind of, you know, think the league was really prepared to make Ant a centerpiece.

Starting point is 00:31:52 And the fact that the wolves have underperformed so much has made that harder. It just hasn't been, the aunt hasn't been the story. I think the league was kind of ready for him to do. But you're right. It's like you need to get creative on how you get people to care. Like, okay, you know, the Cleveland, oh, wait a minute. The Cleveland Cavaliers are a real thing now. And, you know, the Oklahoma City Thunder are a real thing now.

Starting point is 00:32:18 The Thunder shouldn't have caught anybody by surprise, but I think the Cavs probably did. And the Rockets, the Rockets did. And now you've got to find, well, who's the guy? Is it green that we get out there and talk about? Is it not like, you know, Anthony, LeBron is new from the beginning. Like this, I'm going to be this guy. He was preparing for this from the moment he walked in the league and is still

Starting point is 00:32:41 LeBron James, in my opinion, the greatest player ever played the game, whatever. But Anthony Davis, it's not that he's comfortable. Like, Anthony Davis is if he played in a different city, wouldn't be the kind of person who has that sort of magnetic thing. Kevin Durant has that sort of magnetic thing. And so, you know, AD, it's a lot of the reflected Lakersness of it all. And then you say, okay, is Anthony Davis? So it's just hard.

Starting point is 00:33:09 And, you know, the media, sports media market is so fracture that unless you are the NFL, everyone struggles with this. And by the way, the NBA has struggled with this for years. There have been, I remember articles in the 90s and in the 2000s and the 2010s all about, well, the NBA is losing ratings and where are the ratings and all that. And, you know, and it's just really hard. But I think ultimately AD gets on the team. I think you will too. But it is, you know, you live. look at that list of guys and it's like a lot of dudes.

Starting point is 00:33:43 I was saying he has to, for somebody of Anthony Davis's caliber, he has to fight through more candidates than you would think Anthony Davis would just in a logical world given he's Anthony flipping Davis. Well, nine of the, nine of the 10 guys that are front court players. And then the only guy I'd throw out is Andrew Wiggins at 8, who's been good, you know, by respect. especially by Andrew Wiggins standards, but he's not an R-Star good.

Starting point is 00:34:12 No. But, and you know, got off to a really good start that helped him. But Subonis has in a down year for him is still putting up good numbers. Jackson has been fantastic in Memphis. Williams, like you say, has been fantastic in OECC, especially given that Chet's been hurt so much. He needs to be there. Davis has been dominant at times. Wembe is Wembe.

Starting point is 00:34:38 LeBron is LeBron's. Durant is Durant is Yokic is Yokic. It's nine of the ten guys where you, like, you would look at it, Demontas Subonis, and in a normal year, if you just follow basketball, we just like, okay, yeah, it's DeMontas Subonis. And that's before you get to the guards. Yeah, and you haven't put a, you haven't put a single guard on the team yet.

Starting point is 00:34:53 Yeah. Yeah. So we'll see. Anyway, we will keep everybody as updated as we can about what's happening with the Lakers this weekend and into next week. obviously continuing to send thoughts and whatever support we can offer to anybody and everybody in Los Angeles, I would say who is affected by this. It's really just a matter of people more deeply affected than others. Please do try to find opportunities, look for reputable sources and reputable places.

Starting point is 00:35:25 If you can donate goods, if you can donate time, if you can donate gift cards, So whatever it is you can do to help out a neighbor, whether they are literally in your community or a couple neighborhoods over, do which you can't. And we will see everyone next time.

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