I think we have some really great questions in there, and it really just does feel like the NBA season is right around the corner, which I know is your favorite time of year.

Well, I think it's all of our favorite times of the year.

I mean, you got the heart of the NFL season.

You got the NLCS, the ALCS, and the MLB playoffs.

Then you got the NBA season kicking off with the NHL.

It's the very best time of the year in sports.

Um, and then to just have Jim Jackson c- come on Phoenix Suns now, and to see you going back and forth with him and really having a meeting of the minds of what NBA conversation and what NBA dialogue should really look like.

But what a fun conversation, my friend.

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Volume two coming soon to a bookshop near you.

But what, so, so it's a great question.

Why is it that the anxiety around innocent blood recurs so often in these stories about David? And I think, a sneak preview maybe, is to say I think the end of the history in 2 Kings and other texts in prophets like, like Jeremiah, point us toward the most likely answer.

And, and I think to, to give you, to give you a sense of it, in 2 Kings 21 and 2 Kings 24, at the end of the history, as, as Judah is about to go into exile, as Jerusalem is about to be destroyed and the temple with it, we find traditions, texts which explain the destruction, which explain the disaster, the calamity, and the exile to Babylon as resulting from a royal descendant of David, Manasseh, who reigned longer than any descendant of David.

It says, the text says, "Filling Jerusalem with dam nimki," with innocent blood.

So much blood that God could not or would not forgive.

What purpose are they serving, then? Uh, is it really to exonerate David, take away any smudges whatsoever?

Uh, what, when you looked at the season, what did you make of it? How did you feel about what the Phoenix Suns accomplished based on what was expected of them?

No, it's a fair question.

I mean, you lose, you know, Bradley Beal, you lose Kevin Durant.

Uh, Bradley Beal, I heard, um, an individual reference this in your last segment, he's right.

Your best ability is always availability.

You just don't have a lot of availability with Bradley Beal, but you do with Kevin Durant, minus these last few games in the postseason.

And you lose one of the best scorers in this game to this day, and you improve by nine wins, and you do it under a first-year head coach in Jordan Ott.

Do you think that going into this off-season, you see a path where this team can continue to improve and be a, a playoff team a- and maybe even better than this year? Or did we see a one-year kind of aberration that they peaked and, and we may not see this again?