 Yes, we're here. Remember, stay home, stay safe, stay healthy, and we're always gonna be here with you. Chris Shearn, Jim Spinarkel, coming to you from my former stomping grounds that would be the great state of New Jersey. Jim, glad to see your face and glad to hear your voice, my brother. Well, I am happy to see you too, Chris, and I am in the state of New Jersey where I live, so it's good to have you back in the state. The great news we can report, Jim, is that all four NETS players that did test positive for COVID-19 have been clear. They are symptom-free. That is awesome news. Yeah, that's great news. I think Chris, in two perspectives, really number one, obviously, for the players, and maybe it's three points that I could make on that. The players, obviously, with their individual health, great from a team standpoint that nobody else appears to have it, right? So that's the question of the unknown. And I think it's also kind of a positive for people who are obviously clearly paying attention to what's going on with this virus, that guys can get it like Kevin Durant and the other three, and then all of a sudden, in a relatively short period of time, they can announce that they're healthy again. So I think there's three points right there, the last one being really a societal type of issue where there's some good, strong light at the end of the tunnel, hopefully. Yeah, we hear the scary stuff all the time, Jim. It's nice to see some positive news on the front as well. That's a great point on your part. And let's talk a little Nets basketball. Let's revive it a little bit here because before the season came to a halt, there were some positive things going on with the Brooklyn Nets. And one of those, Jim, it's something we talked about ad nauseam on the pre-game shows and on the post-game shows, and I'll lead it to you with this. Back on February 1st, I remember very vividly the Nets lost to the Wizards. Bradley Beale went off in the fourth quarter, no shock there. But Karis Lever, I remember Frank Isola was in studio with me that night, and we both pondered the question in the post-game. Wow, he just doesn't look like he has his first step or any step for that matter. We talked to Sarah Kustak in the post-game about it too, and she echoed our sentiment. And then of course, right after that game, Jim, he starts to go absolutely off and there was no coincidence. Kenny Atkinson at the time that had coach put him into the starting line off and he just, the lineup and he just began to take off. Yeah, that's true. And it's one of those things where, you know, as players develop throughout the course of the season, I think, and this has been like a fragmented season for the Nets with the injuries, guys coming and going and trying to restart the engines, if you will, with the guys on the floor, maybe some tweaks in the starting lineup. But that I think happens a lot of times. Crystal guys start to get their legs, the story, get their confidence and all of a sudden they can explode into a different type of player throughout the same season. And Karris is one of those guys because he had to stop and start last year and now he had to stop and start this season and questions of health start going over his head, but he really started to come into his own. He's grown every year, Jim, exponentially. It's just been staying on the floor, but what was it about him this season that really caught your eye, especially over those last few games where he was in the starting lineup? I think it was the culmination of his confidence picking up in terms of knowing and recognizing that when I'm healthy, him speaking type of thing, I know I can do X on the floor. And I think there are times with any player, Chris, when you think about it, if you're a second guest in yourself or in the back of your mind, you're not as confident in either your body being physically capable of doing what you want or mentally you're hesitated because my shot's not falling, I'm not playing real well. Those things can be a drag and unfortunately when you're playing against the best guys in the world, if one or two of those things or both of those things are affecting you, then you're not gonna be the same player as when you see those two things working in your favor. And I think the two of those things came together for Karris. I think the confidence part of it, he just started to accentuate his good thinking about what he can do. And clearly, I mean, this is not, you know, headline breaking news right here. He's a very, very talented player. And I also think that, you know, with the way he plays and the talent that he has, he's a tough guy to defend because there's no routine rhyme and reason to what he's doing. Each and every play, it seems like he does different things. You know, if you think about players on the floor with the nets or any other players, and Kyrie Irving's maybe a little bit like him too. Kyrie throws a flash, a different type of flash constantly on you. That's why he's difficult to guard. But if you look at certain players in the league, I think Joe Harris is a good example of this for a guy who's grown. Joe came in, struggled at first, but he's a shooter. He's a shooter. That's all Joe can do, right? So now you start defending him. But Joe Harris is just not a shot, right? He's evolved and now he throws a different dimension at him. So I think Joe Harris has become a very, very good all around player. So he's broken out of what people had him in that frame and that box of being just a shooter. And I think Karris in a different type of way. He didn't have the shooter's reputation like Joe did, but he had a great all around game and now he's throwing different flavors into it. I just think, you know, let's put it this way. I wouldn't want to guard him in a night-by-night basis. It's just like Kyrie, you don't know where it's coming from. Well, here's a point I want to see if you agree with me here, but we saw the evolution of Karris Leverett the past couple of seasons since he was drafted. But I think it's been a huge positive, Jim. And look, I'm not going out on a weak branch here. But you never do. When you have Kevin Durant sitting on the bench and watching you on a nightly basis and in your ear on a nightly basis and pushing you on a nightly basis, not accepting anything less than what Karris Leverett can bring to the table full tilt, that's got to be an added factor to him this season as well. I would agree with you on that to a degree, because I think in fact that that does help. I think coaching helps. I think your teammates help. All trying to put positive thoughts in your mind. And obviously when you have an MVP quality player like Kevin Durant doing that for you, yes, that's going to help in terms of learning that learning curve and picking up different things. The bottom line though, where I sway just a little bit, Chris, is at the end of the day, it has to be Karris Leverett or it has to be Joe Harris or whatever individual player you're talking about to be able to take those things, take the tips, put them in a good mindset, process them and then go out and execute with them. So yes, it does help to have all these positive vibes and that's in the organization, the coaching staff. That's why you hear them talking so much about culture, to build culture, build good culture, build good vibes around the organization. So what that does in my mind, it takes any player and says, okay, I don't have to really worry about too much that's going on outside of what I'm supposed to do in terms of how I fit in with this team. Let's show on marks, worry about the culture and the players and the new players coming in and let the coach do the coaching, let the assistant coaches, let everybody do their job. What's my job as a player? To take all those benefits and get better as a player for this team and quite candidly as an individual. And Spencer Dinwiddie is another one of those guys, Jim. This year, it was basically the Spencer Dinwiddie show until the season came to a halt. Yeah, and keep in mind too, when he was in college, he was hurt late in his career. So obviously he gets a slow down there and actually he was a very good college basketball player which on a whole lot of people focus on. And now all of a sudden he kind of hit some bumps in the roads and I'm sure he went through that mental up and down in terms of physically starting there again. Am I physically capable of reaching what I want to reach in terms of how good I can be? Then he gets healthy and then all of a sudden his mind has to take over. And now that combination starts to play into it. And yeah, I mean, he's just taking a leadership role on the floor. I think he's made the game-winning shots, we've seen him. But I think more importantly is that ability of being able to want to take that game-winning shot is a very, very important concept that I think goes under notice a lot. And I think Spencer has that. Does he make decisions that are great all the time at the end of games? No, but it's a learning curve and you want somebody in a position that to make it and to be positive and to be successful with it, you have to have failure. Nobody comes into that league especially and says, okay, I got 10 game-winning shot opportunities. I just nailed 10 out of 10. It doesn't happen because these guys, even though people say the NBA guys don't play defense, I always turn around and say, oh yeah, try to get your shot off on them. Because I tried to get my shot off on them and they know how to defend. Where we go, I want to bring up the picture behind you. Now, before we started taping, we kind of took a guess at what that was and our producer got it right, Eric Roldan. But why don't you tell everybody what that picture is above your head there. You see this picture over my right shoulder here? Is a framed picture, a limited edition of a picture of a White Castle restaurant. Need I say anything more? Why in the world do you have a framed, limited edition picture of White Castle in your house? Well, it goes back years and years ago, Chris, with our family, once in a blue moon, my wife's family would all get together and go crazy and go order for 30 people. There's nothing like it too when you go to a White Castle and you order it for 30 people. Oh, 30 pack, of course. Well, no, not a 30 pack because we would get, my brother-in-law is the true story. My brother-in-law, we went to the White Castle one day to buy White Castles for 30 people that were back in the house. So we went to go get the order. So we walked in and we ordered, I'm just making up the order now, but it was something like this 25 cheeseburgers, 30 hamburgers, 25 french fries, onion rings, blah, blah, blah. So we had this huge, humongous order and the person who was taking the order looked at my brother-in-law, who's a big guy like me and says, is that to go or is that to stay? No, we're going to eat 70 hamburgers by ourselves. Oh my God. So they got that as a Christmas present for me. So it's one of those things. There's no other than that crazy story, no real rhyme or reason to that either. So coming to a theater near you soon, Spinarkel and Kumar go to White Castle. I can't be strong. Very good. Yeah, we appreciate the time. Hope your family stays safe. Everybody out there, we hope you stay safe, stay healthy and just remember, yes, we're here for Jim Spinarkel. I'm Chris here and we'll see you next time, everybody.