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So our lead this hour comes from the parlor game of basketball.

Pro basketball, pro bouncy ball, as we fondly call it on this show.

Now, we are in the middle of a wild, zany, crazy free agent period

where it is dropping $100 bills everywhere.

The witching hour was at 6 p.m. in the east, 3 p.m. in the west,

and that is when the free agency curtain was raised in the flea market of

basketball's offseason was underway, and we had a lot of movement, much of it resigning, granted,

but we had a lot of players moving around.

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