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Maya
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Sam Amick
Happy to have you thank you zena thank you s great to see you guys hope you're having a good summer.
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Zena Kaida
For sure so far so good yeah probably not as good as de' aaron fox though you know probably not as.
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Sam Amick
You didn't get a two hundred thirty million dollars bump no not yet not.
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Zena Kaida
That i've heard of yet not that i've heard of yet okay let's set.
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Maya
Up the context real quick because you're absolutely right darren fox is probably having the best summer of all of us here four year two hundred twenty nine million dollars extension with the sacramento kings fox was in that final year of his last deal and of course we know that wemby was a fan of fox and i feel like sam that had a lot to do with this number and this commitment to fox yeah.
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Sam Amick
It'S interesting guys because you know when the trade went down with the kings and the spurs this seemed like a foregone conclusion in terms of you know the part that de' aaron was going to play in the spurs future and it seemed like de' aaron had kind of won the wemby sweepstakes when it comes to like a bunch of young you know or like in their prime players who knew that being within victor wampanyama's gravitational circle was a smart move right but then they end up drafting dylan harper you know some folks were speculating you know that you know was fox's role going to be the same were they going to give him the extension but they go ahead and they do it four years two hundred twenty nine million no options you know all guaranteed money so you know he's there to stay and we'll see how it works obviously after that injury in the second half of last season kind of shortcut or cut short to you know the the first little chapter were you.
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Zena Kaida
Surprised by it at all that this went down now given the the timing and like you mentioned the dylan harper of it all that happened i mean.
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Sam Amick
Not not surprised because admittedly i didn't have any hard intel telling me that there was any reason to doubt it it you know you always have to kind of filter how much of it is just you know we're all human rights so you're reacting to the conversation on the internet versus the question of you know did rc buford and brian wright and that group in san antonio change the way they look at de' aaron fox and clearly they didn't so not shocked i mean i think if you go back to that trade now granted i think the spurs certainly got the better of the kings in that deal but you know they made a big commitment to target him and he you know had a one team list as he pushed his way out of sacramento san antonio is where he wanted to be and and obviously he doesn't do something like that if he doesn't feel pretty confident about the long term.
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Maya
And speaking about feeling confident about the long term i feel like this is clearly a future forward facing move right you're thinking about wemby you're thinking about that group thinking about all the youth you have on this team in estefan castle and devin bissell and all also dylan harper included in that now so what do you think this means for the franchise moving forward in terms of the impact they can make in the.
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Sam Amick
West we'll see i think honestly it's it's a real kind of you know toss up and and one of the more interesting but unknown teams in the west i mean as much of a leap as victor took you know until the unfortunate deep vein thrombosis injury you know it didn't ultimately reflect in the standings in the kind of way that that i think reflected you know the transcendent nature of his talent you know what i mean this is not a case of of him elevating that team as quickly as some people thought that he could and you know we didn't again we didn't really get to see fox and wemby all that much and so you don't know they're going to have to go through and i think you know spend the first half of that season with with miss johnson and his staff trying to figure out what they have and trying to get an identity going because as you guys know the west is just absolutely loaded going into next year so i do like it on paper and i think that fox is going to be motivated to go out and and kind of show it's not only a matter of getting this contract but anytime you have a guy push his way out there's kind of that baggage that comes with it you got to justify all the drama that you created but but i really don't know yet you know how good they can be together yeah whenever these.
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Zena Kaida
Contracts come out it's always like sticker shock reaction from everybody where it's like he got paid this much what is it right but generally if you look at fox and the flexibility the spurs still have i mean tons of picks still available to them obviously and a lot of their guys are still on their rookie scale contracts right so they have that kind of window of opportunity to allow fox's deal to kick in and then have to deal with the other guys around him mainly victor wembanyama who likely will get that max extension whenever he asks for it a guy who might not be getting the extension he's asking for is jonathan kaminga i mean this has been a drawn out process xena i know you are very in tuned with the jonathan kamingo process sam now you are very well versed in the jonathan kamingo process as well what is the latest on what jonathan kamingo will do next season and is it with the warriors or are you.
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Sam Amick
Leaning elsewhere well i mean to your opening line s about him not getting the extension that he wants that part is obviously black and white like he's been pushing for a long time the warriors end up putting two years forty five million dollars on the table you know that sounds okay but then you look at it okay team options second season also a request to get rid of the inherent no trade clause that would come with essentially a one year guaranteed contract so that they would have flexibility it puts jonathan in a situation where you know the salary for next season would be good it'd be twenty one point seven million dollars but in terms of independence and freedom that he's trying to push for in restricted free agency it doesn't get him that so you know he declined that still signs that maybe he'll he'll go the nuclear route and take the qualifying offer that deadline is october first and obviously that's a risk on both sides where seven point nine million dollars it's funny to your question of the latest like when i wrote about this for friday i mean my only goal was to try to clarify you know you look at these situations and you say okay where is there any meat left on the bone in terms of information so the king's offer had not really been clarified and so that's mainly what i ended up getting into and those discussions to give you the quick timeline i mean it began in early june they did talk early last week the two teams did but but it's not the type of thing that it's been hot and heavy for quite a while malik monk and a first round pick is the crux of the offer that the kings are putting on the table again but we got to get into the details it started off with a discussion about a twenty thirty one first round pick where the warriors would get the least favorable of the kings or san antonio's first rounder the warriors didn't want that then they ended up talking about twenty thirty first rounder but they wanted lottery protections on that the warriors said we want that thing to be unprotected they now on the side of all of this and this is another obstacle is the reality that because the kings don't want to go into the tax and they refuse to go into the tax in this deal the warriors have got to move either moses moody or buddy heald in this trade and they you know they're not really interested in doing that so obstacles abound the warriors this week like tim kawakami reported today i think it was they're signaling that they expect jonathan to be on their roster at the start of next season and i certainly i'm not trying to poke holes in that at all but it is you know like listen the deadline is until october first camp isn't for quite some time this is the time of year when there's absolutely no downside in having your stance be okay we're done talking because you can always pick the phone up a month from now.
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Maya
I think about the fact that you know cat got traded from minnesota to new york right before the deadline right you never know with what these gm's are cooking up especially behind closed doors and also when you think about the warriors the stance had been jordan poole's not getting traded and then jordan poole got traded and so we know that these things are very possible in terms of changing at the last second i'm wondering sam in your reporting in the folks that you've been talking to for us fans this has been dragging out for a long time for those of us that are analysts fans watching this hearing about this it's been dragging out for a long time do you feel any sense of like like burden on this conversation does it feel as heavy as it feels like for other people watching from the inside from the outside.
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Sam Amick
In honestly probably not i mean and that's the luxury of i mean if you're gonna be a gm and you're gonna be in it you kind of have to put your robo hat on a robocop hat on you know what i mean like you gotta be not emotional now that's not always the case i mean when the warriors traded klay thompson there was a ton of emotion involved and you see situations like this with jonathan okay i'm sure you know there's frustration on the warrior side you know especially when at times when his messaging has been that he feels disrespected you know it's easy for the warriors to take that stance of okay it must be nice to be disrespected at twenty two million dollars a year you know but even that i think is a little disingenuous because all right but but you you want him to waive the no trade clause and you want to have a team option so but it just kind of i think it is what it is and the other part of this backdrop on golden state side is that while i certainly think that joe laka is at peace with the idea that they need to do what's best for the franchise and that but that means you know getting as much as possible for him and because of his affinity for jonathan and i think the way that he has valued him over the years and they used a number seven pick on him back in twenty twenty one there is you know call it a stubbornness or just a determination to make sure that he feels good about this trade and i think that's one of the driving forces behind why it hasn't happened yet because the you know the standard is still.
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Zena Kaida
Pretty high just wanted to follow up and kind of ask about free agency at this point in general it feels like a lot of the restricted free agents are kind of holding up the rest of the market is that the sense you're getting when talking to agents and front office people that you know this situation kaminga other restrictive free agents it's kind of holding what what else could happen in free agency degree i.
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Sam Amick
Mean we've gotten down into the with all due respect to the guys on the list you know we're down in the the third and fourth and fifth tier of the list but to use the warriors as an example you know you you kind of have you know this unofficial thing of like it's widely expected that that you know al horford the anthony melton they're looking like they're they're leaning heavily towards the warriors but they can't do that until the kamenga thing is done you know gary payton ii has his situation the warriors need max flexibility right now and they just can't afford to put a couple extra million on their books and so all of these teams certainly they lack flexibility when they're you know have these guys situations in limbo but you can do that because at this stage those other guys know their market and their market's probably not changing you know what i mean if they haven't already chosen to go somewhere else then then you can go ahead and hold out and get the first order of business done okay.
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Maya
When we get back we'll talk about the first order of business in la that had people staying up at night but now la can rest easy like.
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Sam Amick
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Maya
Okay now we've been talking about money being thrown around in the bay it's being kept in san antonio it's being thrown around in la it's being happily given to luka doncic and we gotta talk about this extension one hundred sixty five million dollars extension over three years it's the blockbuster deal of the summer i would say i mean de' aaron can try and get in there but this was the one that was making people go holding their breaths don't know if this is going to happen what is going to see what's going to be the next move for luca in la and this was huge sam what were the implications of luca signing not signing why was this such a kind of big moment that everyone was kind of holding their breath.
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Sam Amick
For it's funny guys when lakers gm rob pelinka took the stage at luca's press conference and i like rob he always cracks me up at these pressers because he's you know he's he's dressed nice he's ready for the cameras good looking dude and he's you can tell that he's just he's rehearsed whatever you know form of a speech he has but i i thought the writer in me thought that that i wanted to give little you know standing o because he landed the bird when he gets up there and he says you know six months ago to the day we chose luka doncic by way of trade with the dallas mavericks and today luka nachos chose the lakers and that's really what it's about it's like let's waste no time thirty seconds in let's tell the people why we're here let's tell the people why we have a photo gallery that we built on the floor of the lakers training facility and why they're planning a party in vegas to go to the sphere and watch the backstreet boys and and which i didn't realize luke is a huge fan apparently nice yeah i love that so yeah but i mean as far as what it means zena you know when they traded for him i mean the lakers are always going to be able to carry themselves with some level of confidence that stars are going to want to stick around because it's hollywood it's laker nation but they did not have any assurances from luca or his people that he was for sure going to resign when they traded for him in fact if you look back on the negotiations with the mavericks and nico harrison they essentially used the fear of not being able to resign luca as one of the justifications for not having another first round pick in that deal that they could rightfully say incredible work done by.
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Zena Kaida
Yes by the lakers by the way.
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Sam Amick
Incredible yeah yeah and so you know like that's why it matters and for all the lakers foibles and you know there's times when they they are kind of run like a mom and pop shop and that's going to change now that mark walter bought it and the checkbook looks a little bit different they have this culture and this is to jeanie buss credit that continues to stand the test of time when it comes to the way superstar players are treated for sure even and i know we're going to get to this if you talk to lebron and his people about his lakers experience even when there's frustrations about the roster one of the consistent you know things in terms of feedback is that the lakers really know how to treat stars and how to make them feel the love and and and you know give them a place where they don't want to leave and so luca it didn't take him too long it helped the lakers that he's personality wise known to be a guy that doesn't really like change that's why the the mavs trade kind of rocked him to his core he didn't expect it and didn't want to leave dallas so you know he's there for three more years he's set up now to if it you know if all goes well and they go in the right direction to sign that massive four hundred million dollars deal that would come because he was ten years in the league so you know all is well when it comes to the lakers and luka but.
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Zena Kaida
Some eyebrows were naturally raised as you mentioned when lebron james wasn't at the presser neither was bronny james by the way both golfing from what i saw in a video the other day but generally there is there's been this question basically all summer about lebron and him opting into the final year of his contract what will happen with lebron and the lakers what is your sense at this point in august on where lebron is at with the lakers and what they might do moving forward with with.
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Sam Amick
Lebron well i mean zena said it earlier this is that time of year where you kind of go okay here's where we are but like because there's another month left and you know never say never i did look into this again this week and it's this kind of repetitive phone calls where you know hey i know you're sick of this question but but where are we at with lebron and and you know because obviously if you go back to the the end of the season you know and going into the off season you know rich paul's statement that he put out you know lebron's agent from clutch sports was just it was alarming when he decided to publicly say that lebron wanted to win championships and i'm paraphrasing but but that he was continue to monitor the lakers roster that was alarming rich has he's not not a matter of rich walking it back since then but but he hasn't doubled down either and you know lebron okay he didn't go to lucas press conference he didn't go to vegas he did facetime him you know what i mean and there's part of me to be honest like man he's forty three years old or whatever he is now like he's forty one like he's he's he's deserved the right to you know shoot a text to luca and say love you buddy you know we'll see in a little bit yeah now the bronnie one is funny i was talking to to our lakers beat writer dan woikie about that you know it's an interesting discussion where bronnie's in a tricky spot right because he's a teammate and most of the young teammates were at the press conference but then dad wants to go golf you know so those are the challenges of being bronny james but for now i do expect lebron to be with the lakers to start the year if i'm being honest guys i i think part of this is like listen even if there were certain scenarios that lebron found enticing or interesting within the past two months or six weeks that he thought about maybe pursuing the nature of this collective bargaining agreement and the way the league works right now is such that it's just not as easy even for somebody like lebron to raise your hand and say i want to go there on a max deal as good as he still is you know second team all nba it's not good enough to have your way all the time and so for me this feels a little bit like yeah he knows like this is even if he doesn't see the lakers as legitimate title contenders right now he can't necessarily get to a legitimate title contender at least in the way that he wants to so you know he's going to ride it out so you know you know it can change but right now i think he'll be on the lakers i think that's.
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Maya
The greatest part about this is the riding it out is going to inevitably get into the superstar succession line right you think about what the lakers want to do in terms of changing their quote face of the franchise into the next generation i don't know why but immediately what comes to mind is cooper flagg's trash talk at summer league lebron can't save you now bronny but thinking about you know what does that look like for the flipping of the page or while still having lebron there obviously to help kind of bolster that next step for la lucas bought in he's chosen the la now what does it look like for la to choose him again and make sure that he has all the tools around him to get to that next step so that's where.
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Sam Amick
I think the lakers are in a tough spot because you know and i was the first one to report this a couple months ago when when they had contract talks with lebron and you have no discussion about anything beyond next season then again i don't care how much money you've given the man like there's an element of disrespect with that and so in a perfect world lebron would be not only luca's biggest supporter but let's not kid ourselves he'd be the guy saying okay buddy they called you chunky they called you lazy you know like nobody's calling me those things and i'm you know one of the hardest workers if not the hardest worker in the history of the game let me be your yoda well that level of buy in inevitably is probably going to be less when one guy gets the whole boat contract wise and the other guy and we can kind of not mince words here either the other guy is basically being told we would love nothing more than to celebrate your retirement next summer and anything outside of that is is tricky for us in terms of roster construction and our future and if you're lebron you know it's a good problem to have but we've never seen this before where a guy is so good that it's not a matter of his current team not wanting him it's a matter of does his current team want him at sixty million dollars and you know and having you potentially wear out your welcome despite the fact that you're still playing pretty damn good basketball this is this is the.
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Zena Kaida
Really interesting part where the lakers are at where for a lack of better words they're trying to toggle two timelines even though realistically luka doncic his timeline now like he even said it in his press conference he's ready to get back to the nba finals and there is this emphasis on future flexibility cap space flexibility pick flexibility to go out and chase that next star and that is the question moving forward who is that next guy i mean last year when we had this conversation sam you brought up dear and fox and the potential of what might happen in sacramento and now we've seen de' aaron fox get moved and he's in san antonio he just inked his deal who is that next guy is it is it clearly giannis that everybody is waiting for or is there someone else that we're we're watching for here as we head.
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Sam Amick
Into next season yeah i mean in terms of top tier guys it's it's definitely giannis you know and that's even that's one of the most unique summertime situations that i can remember because the guy has not signaled anything in terms of wanting out but again he hasn't signaled that he's all the way in either you know stuff continues to trickle out and i'm going to keep leaning on xena's point that she made earlier is that you know september a lot of times is a really interesting month you know damian lillard got traded to september a couple years back donovan mitchell.
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Zena Kaida
Too i believe right yeah yeah yeah.
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Sam Amick
So it does happen so giannis is at the top of that list nikola jokic i'm not putting him on the list but i am one who you do have to pay attention to just contract situation i don't care if the denver nuggets are you know the the you know the absolutely beloved favorite group of people for nikola jokic and that he's happy as a clam like his choice not to sign that extension this summer even with the financial reasons that he can justify for it like whenever a superstar doesn't sign the extension the rest of the league still has hope that's all there is to it so the lakers for example i mean and the clippers it's la is suddenly really interesting again in this regard both of those franchises are trying to keep flexibility for players like giannis and joker so that's the top of the list you know you got to go a long ways down the list for this name but but i do think that trey young's situation is still interesting i figured that was the guy yeah yeah being worth monitoring just because and again we talk about good problems to have the hawks have done so many good things this summer and they obviously made a change in the front office and they're going in the right direction and and really the relationship with trey has evolved in a way that i think reflects really well on him and them and he deserves credit for changing his game in a way the question now is you know what is when he looks in the mirror in terms of contract you know is he still see himself as a max or bust type of guy because if he does then that's probably going to be and probably already is a sticky conversation there and that's where this is a time in the nba when to put it in a lakers context the lakers for the longest time they just wanted to hand out the biggest contracts to the biggest guys because that was their ethos you just can't do that and get away with it anymore if you're the lakers or the hawks and you can't do that and so with trey you know what kind of extension fits into their future and what they want to do and how does he see that you know until they have something done i think that's worth watching there was a tweet.
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Maya
I saw about particularly the bucs even after the miles turner trade and you're looking and you're like looking at this roster and you're like what can this team do it was really hard to come up with some answers i mean even in the giannis is asking the.
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Zena Kaida
Same thing probably like it was a.
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Maya
Lot of shoulder shrugs but you can't deny the fact that giannis is such a formidable force and yeah i'm very curious if he's playing this incredibly coy or if we are just like searching for drama this like this summer trying to find something out of it zena.
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Sam Amick
I think it's a little bit analogous to the way we just broke down some of the challenges facing lebron like even if you have a level of discontent even somebody like giannis can't go wherever he can go wherever he wants almost but it might be a carmelo anthony to the knicks situation where you gutted the roster to get there and now why the hell did i leave milwaukee yeah yeah and that's the biggest thing so and then you look at the east and the pacers getting decimated by injury losing miles turner and you know and you know jason tatum all those things of course the bucks angle has become giannis we can do this we can be near the top of the east the other thing that i always want to make a point to highlight on the giannis calculus that i find so interesting is is that you know he and damien lillard really good relationship obviously didn't work on the floor like they had hoped it would and what we learned through that experience is that even though giannis at times i think gets exhausted by his point guard duties i think giving them up i don't think he enjoyed that that much like he if you remember midway through the season he had a really fascinating quote about again paraphrasing here but like he talked about it it was a little bit of a reach but he talked about a cookie jar and how when you're growing up and you know you have siblings or brothers and everybody's putting their hand in the cookie jar well then you're kind of your vibe is edgy and you're trying to get in there if if if you're an only child you're kind of just putting your hands in there you you have confidence you get whatever you want and the takeaway was damn you really want the ball you know and and the bucks know that and they are partly counting on that as being an important part of their pitch which is like listen doc's gonna you know support point giannis and you love you know bobby portis he's back miles you know we'll see how that fits but yeah it's crunchy out there you know i was i was at the press conference in vegas when the bucks introduced miles turner and to walk into that room and leave the room without any clarity as to like man did miles and giannis like even ever connect like they the vibe was a little strange the bucks were a little defensive their communication with giannis basically saying you know we we've known him forever we talk all the time so yeah i mean we're still watching it but you know we'll see.
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Zena Kaida
What he does it's so funny to me to to watch the the giannis talk and debate about this at this point because you know if you look at giannis and what he's liked to your point about the cookie jar even post post the playoffs right after they got eliminated from by the by the pacers he said point forwards are my favorite type of player in the nba you know he said he cited a bunch of players he cited pascal siakam and he said being able to dish the ball out and to his point like they built a roster that kind of makes sense to that tons of shooters miles turner can space the floor they can theoretically put that out i guess the pitch is just giannis do you want to carry this team and potentially win an mvp next season that's the the gap year pitch here and.
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Sam Amick
To add a little more meat on that bone as like the way the pacers you know i've kind of handled the bucks last couple of years absolutely i thought was so interesting because the bucks and giannis have had such a and you know i don't know what other word to put on it but a little bit of an arrogance towards the pacers right where they've kind of carried themselves like man this team should not be beating us so if i'm john horst and the bucks i'm using that as part of my pitch too like bro the pacers just got to the finals you know what i mean like like you know we're better than them and that type of a thing even if that's not true yeah you know i almost think it helps their case and their cause that a team that nobody thought was going to be in the finals was there on the.
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Maya
Big stage that's very interesting i feel like more and more as we see these stars continue to climb and try to figure out their placement in the league though like a giannis i mean even like a lebron it's going to be do i choose a team or do i choose the dollars right and that is going to be the frustrating thing all right before you go sam is there anything else we should be keeping an eye on as we close.
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Sam Amick
Out the summer nothing's coming to mind i enjoyed you know if the folks haven't read the joe varden piece on the five year anniversary of the bubble i thought that was a fun read took me back down memory lane i can't believe it's already been five years and you know it was cathartic i publicly shared the you know not the deep version but little anecdote about how my my i don't know how to say my dumbass almost got ejected from the bubble five years ago when i had you know glasses of wine with a few front office executives during quarantine yeah you know broke the rules and and now it's a distant memory but that was a heck of a time it was a fun story joe reached out to a lot of people for that one but you know we're kind of we're tracking restricted free agency giannis talk lakers and and that's about it.
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Zena Kaida
For now they need to do a documentary on the bubble i know the nba had cameras in there just you.
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Sam Amick
Know yeah i don't know where that project's at because they i actually i remember i sat down for some stuff in the bubble that never saw the light of day right yeah so there's footage without question not to out him but my guy andy thompson from the league he's always got the footage so you know eddie's up to something but maybe one of these days thank you.
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