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craig hodges thank you so much. cragg hodges with three big picks.ight now, 260 on the dow. [closing bell rings ♪. closing out at the top. that will do it for the "the claman countdown." thanks for joining us here. connell mcshane, jackie deangelis pick it up on "after the bell." jackie: investors suge off. tech-heavy nasdaq and ending in positive territory. i'm jackie deangelis in for melissa francis. connell: i'm connell mcshane, very nice close for the markets. here is what is new at this hour making the cut, tonight the deadline for the 2020 democratic contenders to qualify for the

craig hodges blackballed under david stern. i interviewed adam silver for the book and wanted to get him on record and ask him, would you punish a player who used their platform to speak on a topic, even when you disagreed with? he said i would never do that. he said i value athletes using their voice, talk about the history of bill russell and everything like that and i interviewed ted leon of the wizards and mark cuban from the dallas mavericks and i want to get different people in different management positions because the notion is if you do speak out, you will be shooting yourself in the foot, mess up your whole career and i wanted to get people in positions of power to ask them. i had a different expense with the wizards. i remember when i spoke at an antiwar rally during the summer. when i walked up there he had the biggest smile on his face and said my son was at the rally. he was like yeah and was raving, talked for an hour about politics and different things like affordable housing and all those things. i will say tha

craig hodges and raoul were blackballed under david sternment i interviewed adam silver for the book and i wanted to get him on record and ask him, would you punish a player who used their platform to speak on a topic, even one that you disagree with? and he said no, i would never do that. i value athletes using their voices and talk about the history of bill russell and kareem and everything like that and i interviewed ted of the wizards and mark cuban from the dallas mavericks and steve kerr. i wanted different people in management positions because the notion is if you do speak out, you know, it's like you're going to be, you know, shooting yourself in the foot, you know what i mean? >> ostracized. >> you're going to mess up your career and everything is going downhill and i wanted to get the people in the positions of power to ask them. i had a different experience with the wizards. i had a great experience with them, you know, i mean, they're-- i remember when i spoke at this big rally, anti-war rally and you know, it was during the summer and dave called me in his office and wh