This week: Action and drama and Club Tropicana as Kyrie opts in, KD opts out and Dray shakes it all about. Also: Doc finally learns mic technique, leave all this in, transfer requests, putting the K in Lakers, solving your problems at premium expense, Ringles > Woj, Gobert Island, getting into the conversation, Denver and the last dinosaur, very very large super-dunky mans, glorious packages, always use protection, Dray is already old media, Vegas knows, nice list Kevin - shame if anyone was to completely ignore it, the Suns’ championship window gets crowbarred open again, terrible choices but unquestionable loyalty, hitting pay-Dort, brown box picks, Nobody Knows Anything The Revenge, AFL media doing AFL media things, Buddy Shanklin, Roe vs bros, NBA No Star, Nelson Piquet: always trash, the difference between 4 and 7, George Russell strays, Seb Vettel’s taste in shirts, the first fifth test, international diplomacy with Pat Stevens, the AU Falcon taxi of cricket grounds and the unwatchability of Origin. 

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