 back to next hot stove Ryan Ruko here and I am joined by a special guest my podcast partner our podcast R2C2 has new episodes every Thursday. Follow us on Spotify or download wherever you get your podcast. He's CC Sabathia and see I know you're happy that I did that PSA right off the bat. Yeah I was I was waiting for you to do that so I mean you got that right you got that out of the way right away so we're good now we can get into the what we're gonna talk about. Yeah well you know we were able to do Yankees hot stove and now we're able to do Nets hot stove because me first and foremost you're a huge poops fan secondly you made the decision last year and and you've been known to this wasn't last year this is this is a couple years ago remember I told you when we did the podcast there yeah that's when you became a Nets fan yeah I was remember we went we went to the practice facility in Brooklyn and I was like this is gonna be my new squad you don't remember that. I do remember going. So give me more give me more credit than just last year though. Okay you hopped on board pre Kevin Durant. Yes yes yeah well you are a big Nets fan now so see let me just ask you this first I mean you watch before you're a Nets fan you're a Warriors fan so you're very familiar with Kevin Durant. I mean how excited are you and what are you most looking forward to when it comes to Kevin Durant and watching him in a Brooklyn uniform this season. I mean I think just him getting back on the floor man you know he's you know I think people forget how good he is and you know they start ranking guys and you know up and down the league and you know he kind of gets left off the list a little bit just because you haven't seen them hoop in a year but I mean you know seven foot that can do anything with a basketball I think it's gonna be fun to you know be able to watch that in New York City and you know having Kyrie come home and you know playing in New York is gonna be it's gonna be awesome and you know that team is just primarily ready to make a run you know at a championship so it should be some exciting times in Brooklyn and in that arena in Parkless. You can't wait for us to be able to you know have fans in the stands against you could be sitting courtside for these games. Man I can't wait it's gonna be crazy I'm telling you it's gonna be a lot of fun and you know just going to those games you know in a lot of those games and you know already in Brooklyn it's just a great atmosphere so you know to be able to watch these you know the best players in the league playing there you know you know as their home court it's gonna be so be a lot of fun.