So this is the beginning of a project that we've been working on for a long time.

Thanks to our director of basketball research, Ben Dull, for helping to put together some of these numbers.

What we're going to do is we're going to start doing reports on agents.

And I think the best way to do that is to try to be as objective about it as possible.

Now, of course, there's going to be subjectivity in that because you're,

whatever you're going to say, oh, this is a good contract.

This is a bad contract. This agent did well. This agent didn't, you have to subjectively think of what the market was at the time,

whether that was above or below expectations, whether you got the player into a situation that was going to help them or not.

I mean, all of that is very nebulous.

And so we're trying to make it as objective as we can by going through what the contracts are.

But clearly there's going to be some opinion there.

But I think that Danny and I focus on this as much as anyone.

And if there is anyone qualified to do this, it's us.

We're going to try to stay away mostly from conjecture and bad mouthing and just focus on the actual performance.

I'm things that are public for these agents.

So what do you think here? Is this possible, Danny, are we biting off more than we could chew or is this like a realistic goal?

I think it's a realistic aspiration. There are always going to be challenges.

But I think the idea behind it is sound and another important piece of context here.

And this is something we talk about a fair amount on the general manager side.

Often the counterpart to agents is the duality where the agent does not have final say on whether or not to approve a specific contract.

But they do have influential power.

So remember we've talked about how Sam Presti does a really good job convincing ownership of things and there are other GMs that can't get their owner do things.

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