Thinking Basketball podcast. My name is Ben. Welcome back to another episode after a wild and crazy trade deadline season. We are here to break it all down today. We can't do any cap or CBA stuff. We don't

know what we're doing there. But on court, the way these players fit together, the way their

games interact and translate, who's going to be good this year, who's going to fall apart.

That's what we're going to talk about today, all the big moves from just a wild

and crazy week or two of trade season in the NBA. Cody, where would you like to start?

How are you feeling? Well, first of all, I have a take about the second apron and stuff like

that. Okay. Because I think a lot of things, there's trades that happen.

And then people are like, oh, this is the sake to get them under the second apron.

This is blah, blah, blah.

I think the worst part of the new CBA is that it allows people to make nonsensical trades.

And then a bunch of people come out of the woodwork and they're like, ooh, it gets them under the second apron.

Like it leaves out any other context. And I know people like actually Cody, that's the only

context that matters. But it bothers me a little bit because we come on here and I just want to talk

hoops, right? I just want to talk hoops. And maybe this is like a new generation. Maybe I'm like,

maybe I'm the new new non-data guy where you're like, you need to have some of the CBA knowledge

and whatnot to actually understand what's going on.

But Ben, I just don't want to.

I don't care.

I'm going to live in ignorance and bliss.

And I just want to talk about Hoopers, Ben.

I don't want to talk about the second April, even though I think it's probably important.

We're not going to talk about that today. What I am wondering is what are you referring to with nonsensical trades?

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