Hello, welcome to the collective podcast. We talk about the MBA, which we are doing on Thursday evening. The first round is just ended.

We're doing this podcast during the second round. No offense to second rounders. Hopefully there's hall of famers in there.

Joining me from Brooklyn, New York in Barclays Center, where he's just covered the first round of the draft is Tim Bontems.

I'm piding out and Aaron Harris's office. It's the one empty room in the building. I call him.

It's very nice. It's like I call him. I call him. It's like I call him. It's like I'm going to use your office. He said, is it actually open?

I said, yeah, and it seems like it got cleaned out. There's nothing in here, but here I sit. It looks like you're in a prison quite frankly.

It's what I mean. There's there's nothing in here. It's empty. He feels right at home.

He's joining us from Dallas, where he was at the Mavericks. Very exciting draft night tonight is Banda Gman.

Howdy partners. They did have fajitas. I went with chickens. You know, I stay with another meat.

Didn't have a cookie. It's not gonna cookie. Cheat and cheat in that sense, but a very exciting night.

That Christian wood deals, I think up to like four teams now. So here we go.

Yeah. All right. So we had an intriguing lottery tonight. I know there's obviously a lot of Kyrie Irving Kevin to ran stuff and we'll get to that.

But we want to talk about the draft that just unfolded specifically the lottery. I can't remember the last time that we had a surprise number one pick.

Even Anthony Bennett when the calves did that pick. I think it was known during that day.

So a Palo, a Palo bancaro was projected number three by all the people who I trust. I talked to Palo's camp earlier in the day on Thursday.

They thought he was going to Houston.

The betting markets in Vegas starting on Tuesday started to just the odd started to shrink and then overnight Tuesday or a Wednesday night to Thursday morning.

Bancaro actually became the betting favorite. So I wouldn't say that Vegas knew I think some betters knew from what I understand from some folks.

A couple at least one and potentially even two syndicates where it's like groups of sharp betters putting money together, I believe.

Got some money in. I believe our man Doug Kazirian told me they got it in at around 20 to one. And that started shifting the markets. But during the day it went sort of back. So the magic went with with bancaro. They were listening to Jeff Welman, the general manager.

I don't know if he's president or general manager, their top-ass operations guy. Let's seem to him to describe it.

At least if you want to take him at his word, they didn't have any doubts. This was their number one guy from the start. And while he didn't come to Orlando to actually have a workout and have a private meeting in Orlando.

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