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So as we suspected, NBA teams, big day for the NBA.

If you like the transaction, if you're a fan of transactions, if you like players changing teams, and who doesn't? Because none of these guys have stunk yet with their new teams, but most will.

But the NBA proving that the money was burning a hole in their pocket, and they had to get

rid of it, these teams, and depending on who you believe, which financial guru, one report set up to $3 billion in new money has already been handed out on the first day of NBA free agency, which technically doesn't even really start the moratorium on NBA free agency, which is so dumb to put an embargo on this, even though

there's no embargo because everyone knows what's going on.

It's all out in the clear, but the NBA waiting to make everything official for a few days,

but certainly over a billion dollars, nearly two billion, some say up to three billion since NBA free

agency started roughly I don't know six hours ago or something like that as we're doing the

show in real time so many people woozy many people lightheaded and they keep clicking refresh

turning on the radio trying to hear what's

going on all the static all the noise about the NBA and there's so much to work through here

there's so much to work through that we will be doing a 12 hour deep dive on NBA free agency

but we'll just do it in four hours okay we'll just do it in four hours.

Okay, we'll just do it in four hours.

And so where do we begin?

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