Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome to the NBA Podcast. My name is
Mortan Jensen, and today we'll be discussing some current events,
one of them just the minor little thing, the New
York Knicks winning the championship, no big deal, and then
of course Thiago Splitter getting hired by the Chicago Bulls.
Speaker 2: But let's start with the big one.
Speaker 1: And to help me through those two topics today I
have the one and only Keith Smith from Spots Track. Keith,
how are you, sir?
Speaker 2: I'm doing well. Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 1: Oh, of course, man, it's been a while, so it
was about time to get you back on the pod.
First and foremost, the Knicks fifty three years in the
making this championship, Like just the emotional level of Knicks fans.
I mean, I look, I'm not a Knicks guy, but
i am. I've just been overwhelmed positively so by seeing
all the reactions like this seems like it's multiple generations
who have just been yearning for this to happen, and
now it's happened. Like what's been your read on it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been really fun watching, Like outside of the
rampant destruction, right, I've never understood that and that is
a funny. I was talking to a friend of mine
and he's like, yeah, that's the one idiot idiocy of
fandom that we all share across no matter what country
you're from. Is this desire to my team won a championship.
Let's just go break things right. Like I've never really
understood that, but you know, hey, whatever, folks on the positives,
Like it's been so cool to see like starting that night,
this celebrity Knicks fans And I put him in that
order because I believe they are truly Knicks fans, Like
they are not Nicks celebrity fans, right that are like
just show up in a game, but they're really a
celebrity fan. Like these guys are like like Timothy Shallomey,
Spike Lee, Like they're legit fans that are there all
the time, you know, live and die with the team
and all that. Like that was cool to see them.
Super cool to just see the city like just rid
up and so you know, it's like who knew there
were so many orange and blue light skimes have around
a city, Like pretty cool with that and just you
know all the people like talking about like I remember,
I'm not a Red Sox fan. But I remember when
the Red Sox finally broke through, like the people after
eighty something years talking about like I thought I was
gonna die and never see this. Yeah, Like and then
I know a lot of some Knicks fans in my
life were like, It's just never gonna happen, like I'm
never gonna see my team win a championship, and you know,
lo and behold they did, and I mean absolutely incredible stuff.
And I you know, super happy obviously too for the players,
the coaches, everybody, everybody involved, like just really really cool,
cool thing to see.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, And honestly, I think this is interesting also
from like a roster construction perspective, like the way that
they just leaned into like win now guys like guys
in their primes like Brunson and Anobi, towns Bridge is
Hard are all in their prime years, like between the
age of twenty eight and thirty one. I want to
say if something along those lines, I mean, I wouldn't
be shocked if more teams just say screw it. The
window is so small. Let's just go all in for
these prime guys and see if we can actually make
like a Knicks play.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the window is small and the league is wide open, right,
like everybody assumed, all right, well it's thunder, yeah, and
then all right, cool, the Spurs are here to challenge them.
And I'll say to people whenever they say Spurs will
be back, and I'll be very clear, I do think
the Spurs will be back. But we all said that
when the thunder with Durant Westbrook and hardened and that
group never made it back. Things happen, right, Things happen,
Things don't go the way you always think they will,
And I think we're in a place where, yeah, they
probably will be back, But I don't know that anybody
is fears the Thunder and fears the Spurs. And I
don't all due respect to the next, I don't know
that anybody fears the nickt the way like they maybe
did back in the day with teams like.
Speaker 2: The Warriors, the Dynasty Warriors, to be clear, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Not the twenty two, which was still pretty good, Yeah,
got the job done, but the Dynasty Warriors those same
year as Calves, right where we could be we you
rewind what ten years ago and you and I could
have said, well, Calves Warriors, that'll be the final exactly
in the middle of June. Yeah, like next a year
from now, it'll be the final again. And and we
would have been right for you know, a bunch of years,
four years in a row. And I think think now
what we're seeing is teams are like why not us right?
Like things happened along the way, team stumbled. But what
I'm glad you touched on was the roster build component
for the Knicks, where the Knicks were the old Knicks,
the pre Leon Rose Knicks. We're just Oh, that guy
was really good, let's get him. Oh that guy's really good,
let's get him. Oh that guy's really good, let's get him.
Speaker 2: And it was like you.
Speaker 3: Signed six guys who don't fit at all together, Like
what are we doing? This isn't a team like this
is a mess where this team was put together with
or we went out and got our point guard, right,
we have our Then we we got one of the wings,
then we got another wing, then another one, and then
we went yeah, we like Mitchell Robinson movie when somebody
can actually give us a little more offensive punch. And
they went out and made the big move to get
Carl Anthony Towns and just kept building and building and building,
And I think what's so cool is as you look
at this roster, it gives everybody a sense of Yeah,
it doesn't have to be all drafted and development doesn't
even have to be draft a guy and then hit
right in a trade. You can use free agency as
a tool. You just have to find talent that fits
together versus just collecting talent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you, like there are multiple ways
to get the job done now. And that's also something
that's interesting to me that we will talk about in
a later episode. I think just in terms of like
how roster construction is also becoming While it's been more open,
it's also becoming more limited in the way that the
league is structure is certain things. But I want to
get back to just the Nicks at large, because after
the first two games, I had Karl Anthene Sounds as
my Finals MVP at that point, and then for the
remainder of the series he was pretty quiet. And if
you had told me before a final series that Carl
Anthony Towns would not even average ten shot attempts per game,
that he would average first ten points per game, I
would not have said, oh, yeah, I feel confident that
the Knicks could do this, especially in five, like to
them for them to have so many components that they
could go to, like Josh Hart had two awful offensive
games and games once and two, and then he just
flipped the switch and started making offensive plays like Oceananopi
up until game five. I think was also in the
conversation for Finals MVP. He was just so great and
he was averaging twenty three plus. Like just the fact
that they had so many players in that starting lineup
that they could go to who could sort of seize
the day, that to me is just there was a
level of self sacrifice involved in that mentality that I
found really really interesting. Like it was almost like in
the European sense, I think of, you know, the euro
League teams basically saying, oh, we don't care, we don't
care who scores if someone just does like Bronson obviously
is still the head of the snake. But even so,
it was just such a spread out equal opportunity the offense.
I just I did not have the Knicks at this
level going into the playoffs whatsoever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, same, And I think back to Michail Bridges was
the guy on the nets, right, they got all the
shots he wanted, could do whatever he wanted with the ball,
and the the Knicks get him in, it's, hey, you're
gonna have to be comfortable being our third, fourth, sometimes
maybe even fifth option on the floor. Then they go
and get car Anthony Towns and the idea was, all right,
you're going to be our number two or one a
option alongside Brunson. But then I think the change Mike
Brown made in that Hawks series when they fell down
two to one, which is a whole other thing, like,
how were the Hawks the only team that had these
guys right in the playoffs? Right, It's just so funny.
But I think it's with Towns changing it up and saying,
all right, he's getting his shots and touches, but they're
coming late in the shot clock. They're coming after we
try to run other stuff, and it's they were throwing them. Basically,
they were throwing them a bunch of grenades, and it
was like, figure it out here, big man, late in
the clock. And now what I think when they made
that change to say we're going to open possessions with
the ball in his hands that way, he's involved in
Towns talking after the finals about how like much. He
loved being a passer in these playoffs and setting his
teammates up and he's like, it's awesome, my kid set
them up. And I think that was such a smart
change because it kept him engaged. It kept him involved
rather than just saying, hey, go spot up in the
corner right, or go spot up at the top of
the key, like you're keeping him engaged and involved with
the ball in his hands.
Speaker 2: And then that.
Speaker 3: Led to I thought, throughout the course of these playoffs,
this was the best I've ever seen him play defense.
Speaker 2: Yes, like I think.
Speaker 3: He just yeah, just went to a different level where
it was like, all right, it was not only was
it like how many times do we say if they
can you get passable defense right right out of Towns
or passable defense out of Brunson Brunton still, I mean,
Brunton's the big thing is he's just so small, right,
Like it's just hard for him to make an impact.
Towns didn't even give him passable defense. It was straight
up good defense throughout the latter rounds of the playoffs,
and that was absolutely huge for the Knicks not only
to be Spurs, but to get past the Cavs to
take down the sixers, like he was so good on
that end of the floor and I just never saw
it coming.
Speaker 2: No, me neither.
Speaker 1: And I think what's interesting is the ripple effect it
had when Towns turned into a passer early in the
clock because, like Brunson, at least in the initial series,
we saw that his assisted field goal rate was much
higher in the playoffs than it wasn't the regular season.
So he was also able to play a little bit
more under the radar, He was able to pick his
spots a little bit better, he was able to be
set up a little bit more instead of just having
to shoulder that burden of self creation consistently. So I
think they found something long term here in the way
that they're using Towns. And also just shout out to
Mike brown Man, but just like he made this this
change like fairly advanced into the playoffs and then they
just started rolling with it, Like I did not think
that a coach would have the caholeness to make such
a late change, but he did, and it worked, and
he just kept going at it. Like and also in
the finals in that game four, like when they were
down twenty nine, if you looked at Mike Brown. He
was just like completely composed. You never felt like he
was panicking or stressing or anything of that nature. He
was just like, all right, no, we know that the
Spurs tend to lose leads, so like, let's make sure
that as long as they make bad decisions, let's capitalize
on those bad decisions. They did, and they just slowly
but surely chipped away and he was just this steady,
steady rock throughout that entire comeback. Like, I man, this
just the team of destiny thing that was I think
that started in like the East finals. That's he That's
everyone was talking about them in that vein. Yeah, like truly,
everything just came together.
Speaker 3: I'm with you more because for me, there's so much
like it's just the way my brain works. I'm just
very you know, I'm hyper realistic. I am very logical
with these things. And there are times when I'm like,
I just I almost ought to reject that stuff because
I'm like, it just doesn't it's just not a thing
to me. But then there becomes a point when I
gets whether it's I get swept up in it or
it's just I don't know if there is another answer, Like,
but this is what it is, and maybe this is
destiny at work here with this. So I think we're
really in a place with this Knicks team that when
they fell behind, there was never a waiver in their
belief of we can still do this. And that's obviously
massive in a comeback because you have to. Then you
fall down by twenty nine. You got to get everything
right pretty much from that at that point forward. Otherwise
you just you miss on even one thing and you're
just that's ay, You're gonna lose.
Speaker 2: The game anyway.
Speaker 3: You have no margin. You've left yourself no margin for her.
Then I am, despite being a very logical, realistic person,
I'm a big believer in momentum in games. I know
a lot of people say it doesn't exist, it's not
a thing. But when in that game they're down, they
get rolling the crowd. That was one of the best
crowds I've ever heard in my entire life. I talk
to people who are in the building, like media members,
They're like, I couldn't talk to the person next to me.
Speaker 2: It was so loud, and it is I think.
Speaker 3: That gets going that feeds the players when the players
need that, I need that little extra to make you
know that one more close out, or that one more rotation,
or make that, you know, put a little extra on
my drive here.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 3: It is like that, they just feed off that and
then you know, so anybody says momentum is.
Speaker 2: Not really a thing.
Speaker 3: I don't know that that that Game four come back
to me, says, eh, momentum might might be a.
Speaker 2: Yeah, insurance health helt Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: And what's crazy about the final series too, is it
was only a twelve point difference overall, Like twelve points
differentiated these two teams. It was it was an excellent series.
I mean, it was so close and there was so
much drama. It like this was good television too. This
was like the NBA has to be happy both about
like obviously the Knicks winning a championship, like the league,
like they can say all the right things to go, oh,
we don't care about who wins the title. They know,
damn well, if the Knicks winning a title, that is
going to increase interest significantly. So they are well aware.
Speaker 3: I don't know a single Knicks fan that hasn't dropped
a couple hundred bucks on Knicks championship.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's able to buy in.
Speaker 1: Look right, So right. I mean that, so that alone
is a thing. But at the same time, it was
an entertaining finals. Everyone was like going into the finals saying, oh,
the real finals was the West Finals. Turns out not really,
not really. So this was a great way for the
NBA to end a season, and I think they needed
it too, because there have been a lot of discussions
throughout the course of the year about the state of
the regular season and a bunch of stuff, like I
think the NBA needed this.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: I think what was cool too was it's rare that
a four to one finals You're gonna come on and
be like, what a great series because it's for one, right,
it wasn't even that close games wise, right, but every
individual game was awesome And maybe they weren't awesome the
whole way through, but they were awesome by the time
it mattered, And that was, you know, so huge. And
I think to the interest slate, like I used the
mom test, right, my mom was super into this because
she just got completely enthralled by Wembinama, Like she was like,
this guy is so big, and like she was just
like she was watching these games. We grew up like
a massive Celtics family. I don't know that she watched
any of the last Celtics finals other than a handful
of minutes here and there. Like that gives you the
sense of like how caught up she wasn't And then
like you said, the New York of it all, the
WEMBI of it all, like it was, Yeah, it was.
It was basically a pretty perfect ending to the season.
And I think, you know, there's a course always a
lot of well, if the Thunder had gotten there with
the Knicks of one, I don't, I mean one, they didn't,
so who cares? Right, they didn't, right, so it doesn't matter.
But also like the Thunder were so banged up, Yeah,
I don't. Like, I think the Knicks were gonna be
whoever it was like at the the end of the day,
just like whether it's Team of Destiny or just they
were that good And it's probably a little bit of both.
Speaker 2: Like I think the Knicks were just ready and it
was their time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. Before we move on and take a
quick commercial break to talk about Ciacko spoiler being hired
by the Bulls, do you think that the Knicks have
a chance to repeat next year? Because we always seem
to ask that question, and it's been like, what seven
or eight different champions in the row, Like, do you
think that the Knicks have the capability of breaking that streak.
Speaker 3: I think they they do because it doesn't feel like
a completely, oh my gosh, just came out of nowhere championship.
I mean there were I preseason I picked the Knicks
to be in the finals. Oh nice, full hand up.
I changed that because I bought fully in. And there's
some bias, some Homerism coming in there on the Celtics
when they were getting getting to the playoff period. But yeah,
so I don't think it was like this Knicks team
was like yo, this like the Pacers last year. Had
they won, that would have felt like wow, what an
all time no one saw this coming champion, right, So
I think the Knicks have a chance for short to repeat.
I think what the league tells us now though, is
it's really really hard, and it's they just played a
ton of basketball into the middle of June. They're gonna have,
along with the Spurs, the shortest off seasons of anyone.
They've got some big I know we're gonna probably talk
about it later, but some big offense or big free
agent decisions to be made them themselves, and for them,
it's really about money and the second Apron and all
that stuff on keeping some guys. So you know, if
you bleed a little talent, some other teams get better.
Let's obviously see where is Yiannis playing? Right, Like, there's
gonna be real contenders. So I would if you were
telling me Nicks versus the field, I would pick the field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm over.
Speaker 3: The Knicks repeating, But I don't think if we're talking
a year from now and the Knicks are back to
back champs, I don't think I'd be like, oh my gosh,
where did this come from?
Speaker 2: Right? Right?
Speaker 1: And you alluded to it, Like, we're going to split
our conversation into two podcasts, so we will take a
quick commercial break, we'll be back with Thiago Splitter analysis,
and then we'll have a second pot up as well,
talking about free agency. So we'll be right back, all right, Keith.
The Chicago Bulls who have hired Bryson Graham as their
executive vice president of basketball operations, they have made their
first big decision, or he has, rather signing Thiago Splitter
or hiring Thiago Splitter rather as the organization's new head coach.
It seems like the Bulls are somewhat serious about this
whole thing, which is slightly refreshing considering where they've been
over the past few years. Like, I don't have the
read on Splitter in terms of like whether he can
be a championship level coach, but I do think we
saw enough from him last year to the point where
he can be a solid, like from point A to
point B coach, which I think is what you really
need at this stage when you're rebuilding and trying to
grow something new, Like you don't necessarily need someone who
can take you to the finals straight away, You just
need someone to install the right culture. What do you
think about that decision by Chicago?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think what we saw him do with that
Portland Trailblazers team which had been kind of bullsish for
a few years, where it was like kind of good
but never really good enough, always just playing tournament level
but never really gonna make noise in the playoffs, and
then he takes over. Imagine what that must have been
like a day into the season, You're coming off your
first game and it's like, hey, coaches in jail and
now you're the coach now, like I can't I can't
even imagine what that was like. And the way not
only did things on spiral and go out of control,
I think he really did a good job of kind
of galvanizing that team. And then they had a ton
of injuries throughout the course of the year. Scoode Henderson
missed most of the year, Shadon Sharp miss time, Jeremy
Grant miss time, some guys that were really counting on
to be major players for them, and he just kind
of I think his approach of whatever's here and in uniform,
we're just gonna go, yeah, like that's what we got,
where we're gonna we're gonna move is really really good.
And I think his courage to kind of say, all right,
Danny Avdia is our best guy, and the best way
for us to play is for him to have the
ball all the time and everything else is gonna orbit
around that. That's huge, Like, now we'll see what kind
of roster the Bulls give him at this point. I
think the about the only short thing on the roster,
because I'm a big believer is Modess busellis beyond that,
who knows, but that's kind of cool because it's, you know,
a blank slate for a new front office and a
new coach to kind of build this together and and
wi'll see your where goes It all really starts next
week at the.
Speaker 2: Draft and what do they want?
Speaker 3: But I think this is just a good, solid higher Yeah,
Like I don't think there's I'm not like you. I'm
not like I'll get the next banner ready in Chicago.
But I like it just feels like it is, like
this is just solid logical, makes sense, Like let's let's
let's move this forward now.
Speaker 2: And I think that's for the Bulls.
Speaker 3: If we can get into a little bit more this
makes sense conversations, I think we'll all be a lot
happier in.
Speaker 2: The end, right.
Speaker 1: I think that's interesting because so many things that they
did under our tours kind of show is did not
make sense. And I think that entire hire back in
twenty twenty, you know, that was during COVID. They'd never
met in person, allegedly, and like they were just a
lot of issues, a lot of red flags about that
whole setup. Like this time it feels a little bit different.
I mean, Graham comes in, he hires a lot of
people who are well respected around the league, and it
seems like the Bulls are actually trying to be serious
right now, which is kind of funny to me because
this is something that they should have been like ten
years ago. They're always so behind the curve, but at
the very least now they've joined the wagon. And I
didn't know what to expect from like a head coach perspective,
but for them to also seemingly realizing, oh yeah, we
need an eighth b coach, it just the logical steps
they kind of track for a change, which I think
is very optimistic for Bulls fans, especially because I think
we saw last year or this season the level of
apathy reached an all time high.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and now that's a problem, right. I always say,
when fans are angry, that is way better when they
stopped caring. When they stopped caring, you've lost, Like, like
you know, I live here in Orlando, and here in Orlando,
there was a period of time the Magic were so
bad for so long after the Dwight Howard era that
what happens here in Florida is till football season's over,
no one really cares, like It's just I mean, that's
just that's just how it is. Football is king in
the South and is king here in Florida. So if
the Magic aren't good by the time football season's over,
they become a nice wintertime distraction until Orlando City Soccer
starts playing, which is really taken off in the city
and people love it. So it did for the Magic.
What they were right on the tipping point of was
people stopped being angry. They just stopped caring. And when
you when you get there, that's really hard to come
back from. So I think now when you when I've
talked to different Bulls fans, they seem prettyize like like
we are starting over, but it's not, at least to
this point. It's not starting over but kind of halfway
starting over because we're gonna trade for all these pricey
veterans and all this other stuff. Now we'll see what
they do with fifty million in cap space this summer.
If all of a sudden, you and I are talking
and a month from now and it's like, so they
reacquired DeMar Derozen and zach Lavine, and that's cool right
then to be like, yeah, what are we doing here?
But if it is like, hey, we're just gonna slowly
insteadily build. They're gonna get some players because you can't
under the new lottery reform. You can't just go in
being like who cares if we win ten games, like
we want a high pick, you gotta you know, it's
kind of funny to think about teams in March in
early April, like trying to win every game because they
got to get to four, like can't be in this
bottom three, Like we want to get to four, which
is in the end of the day. I think gonna
be a good thing for the league. But I think
for the Bulls, it seems like we're finally moving in
a place where there is some direction. Yeah, instead of
just this, let's cobble together the best team we can
without any patients involved to do so.
Speaker 1: Right right, And I think what's also interesting is this
whole new team coming in, not just Splitter but also
Bryce and Graham, Like they don't have any uh, you know,
ties to any of the existing players. Like I'm sure
that I agree with you what you said about Bats's
Brisilla's I think he's so good that Splitter and Graham
will see eye to eye on you know, if we're
going to strite this guy, we better get something good
in return at the very least. But like there's not
an established relationship within like the Josh Giddy sphere for example,
So if they want to pivot off him, they can
do so without batting an eye. And I think that
level of clean slate is ultimately what allows these executives
and head coaches to really turn a page and say,
all right, new future, let's just ignore what happened over
the past five or six years. And that's just such
a necessity for a fan base starving for change.
Speaker 3: Yeah, completely agree. I mean we're in a place where, yeah,
you just like it sounds weird to say it this way,
but just like normalcy, like how much you crave it, right,
like like just act like a normal team And that's
you know that, that's big. And yeah, I'm a huge
fan of Boozellis. I think I think he showed real
real stuff over his first couple of seasons, especially last year.
I think there's a little bit more on ball juice
there to be unlocked. I think he's gotta be somebody
whose game is pretty scalable. So if they get ultimately
players who are better than him, that's not a problem
because I think he can slot in as a two,
like a number two or number three in the pecking
order guy. But I think there's room for him to
grow and maybe grow into being a true number one
as well. So the rest of the roster we'll see,
you know, there's not it's not like they're completely devoid
of talent. It's just, you know, what where are we going,
you know, with with this group? A little bit like
it like like I'm not I know a lot of
people really don't like Josh Giddy, but I think it
gets too far when people like this guy's not even
an NBA player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it's insane.
Speaker 3: The guy is, Yeah, he's never gonna be a great
defender and he's never gonna be I know he's improved
as a shooter, but we're probably not gonna get there
where it's like, oh my gosh, this guy's a you know,
twenty five point per game guy who's making all these
jumpers and everything. But he's just a solid player and
you can you you can win. I'm excited to see
if they can get anything out of Rob Dillingham. I
liked him in the draft. I think there's a chance
maybe he does turn into a player. We didn't we
didn't really see any of Noah Senge. Let's see what
that looks like. And then obviously you know they've got
a chance to do some stuff here in the draft.
So I'm excited see where things go.
Speaker 1: For that's amazing the words excited in Chicago in the
same sentence that's been years man. So I'm guessing that
the Bulls are also gonna pop up in our next
episode when we're gonna be talking about like the just
free agency in the cap space route, because like, let's
just go into a little bit of a spoiler here,
because they have just an insane amount of cap space.
What did what do you have them ask going into
the summer. It's just in terms of like potential raw
cap space.
Speaker 3: Yeah, fifty four point four million, which seems pretty realistic
for projection. Every once in a while you kind of
get one of these where it's like, well, if they
do this, this and this and this, they can get
even more cap space. But it's really like you're talking about,
here's the guys who would come off the books to
create that cap space. Zach Collins, Nick Richards Collin, Sex
and Andfrey Simon's Gershon Yabusell. Yeah, there are good players
in that group, maybe even a couple of them are
back with Chicago, but there's no reason why they need
to be like, well, they're not going to let this
guy go. Of course they're going to keep YO, X,
Y and Z player not out of that group. And
then everybody else is I mean, yeah, Patrick Williams contract
is is what it is at this point, right, But
it's eighteen million, so I think it's thirty eight million, right,
And I have to kind of keep reminding people anything
under twenty million you can you could work around relatively easily. Yeah,
it's probably not going to be the difference between yo,
you you know, getting a player, not getting a player
or whatever. So yeah, fifty four million, that's you know,
for reference, as I you know, have projected it and
mapped it out. That's the most in the league. That's
ahead of BOUTH, the the Lakers, and the Nets, and
I think everybody else, unless they're going under like the
Bucks did last year, which was for a very targeted acquisition,
I think everybody else probably stays over the cap.
Speaker 1: And well, you can listen into our chat about free
agency in the next episode until we do.
Speaker 2: So, Keith, can you.
Speaker 1: Tell our listeners where they can find your work and
what you're working on, sir.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, you can find all my written work
at spot track dot com. I've got a We're about
two thirds of the way through our off season preview series,
so we're uh, if we go in order of elimination,
we're almost at the end of the teams that got
eliminated through the first round. Rest of those will continue
to go up here fairly regularly. I had my rookie
scale extension projections come out for this offseason. The players
from Victor Webbin Yama's draft class who are eligible to
extend spoiler max for Wemby big shock right now everyone.
But but there are a lot of other interesting players
in that draft class, so I think you know, that's
worth checking out. And then I've got a piece that'll
probably post either it'll post at some point here in
the next few days as we're talking. That will be
all the projecting options and guarantees and whose options get
picked up, whose don't. Things like that. With that, and
then free agent rankings coming out, just a ton of
offseason content coming here over the next couple of weeks
leading up to start a free agency.
Speaker 1: Sounds good and you guys don't want to miss the
next episode, so check in on the NBA podcast until
we speak again. Have a good one and stay safe everyone,