I promise y'all that Keith Smith would be back. He promised me which is probably more important because you know

He's the one actually doing us the favor by coming on the show

Because we ran out of time last time we had went over an hour

I think we went like an hour 15 discussing the

Upcoming CBA negotiations and whether we think these proposed are good or bad Keith giving some great intel

About what the players are looking to try to do what some of their key issues are there hasn't been as much reporting on that

He talks to as many agents as maybe anybody does on a day-to-day basis with his work for a sport track

But Keith let's get back to it here

I'd encourage y'all to listen to the previous episode to set the stage for this but this will work on it on two because

We've got a lot more to discuss here. We didn't get into really any of the ownership issues other than

the main one some of the main ones

about

The luxury tax and right-size-in-the-tax and potential hardcap which comes up every year

What else on the ownership side do you think we need to hit on here?

Yeah, I think smoothing is obviously a big one

And I think that that is going to happen to some some extent

I think we touched on it briefly and danced around it a little bit in the previous conversation

But I think the main thing here is nobody wants to repeat a 2016 where a whole bunch of guys get paid that

Prohibition and then we you know, I think everybody is in a better spot as far as trusting each other now on both sides of the

The table versus previous

It felt like the owners are trying to put one over on the players. I think the big discussion is gonna be how how do you do that?

Layling how do we build that in and make sure the players are made hole in the end

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