Tara is joined by Oakland native and host of the Wake Up and Win podcast and The Street Roots Podcast, DeVon Pouncey (@Pounce_Sation). They talk about his experience celebrating in Oakland with Gary Payton II and what GP2 will bring to the Portland Trail Blazers.

Then we talk about a few themes that are emerging this Blazers off season:

Always a great time hearing from Devon who is a Warriors fan but calls Portland home. He's got tips for how to navigate a Championship parade and says he's hoping Rip City and Damian Lillard get to experience one too.

3:30 Championship Parades require planning

7:00 Playing for Gary Payton's AAU teams: “We won a lot of games, and we didn’t get a lot of compliments.”

9:45 Gary and Gary on Gary and Gary podcast pitch and more on father/son tandems

14:00 When your AAU team gets talks from exNBA players

16:00 Gary Payton 2 nickname - use Young Glove

18:00 Blazers’ offseason so far, starting with the Young Glove

27:30 Do the new players signal a new kind of basketball?

33:39 It is going to be so fun to watch a healthy, rested Damian Lillard

41:30 Is it possible the Blazers are going to get a defensive identity?

46:30 Shaedon Sharpe

52:00 Keeping players happy is going to be important - a clear role helps for Nurkic.

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Music used in the episode: "Happy Alley" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License