Hello and welcome to the hoop collective podcast. We talk about the NBA. It is Thursday evening

trade deadline day joining me from Bristol Connecticut where he did you sleep Tim

Buntems. What was your sleep situation? I got about 90 minutes to hour sleep. Okay. I got I'm in LA. I got

about three hours from about two 12 30 to about 345 and I was on the air for the first time of 445

A.M. Pacific time joining me from down the street here in LA before he flies to Sacramento tonight to

continue on the road with the Mavericks and Kyrie the Kyrie Irving Luca and Don

Shit show is band McMahon. Howdy partners. Hopefully you've always can turn on some sympathetic violin music and go to sleep tonight. Good lord.

I complained. I was asked how long I slept and I said. That's all.

I know I've got about 45 minutes. Yeah. All got less than me. That's for sure. I need some machine. He's the best.

Anyway, so looks it's last we talked Kevin Durant got traded. You guys might have heard about it.

The terms of the trade were pretty remarkable. You know last summer when Durant got

you know made his trade request. He you know we very quickly heard that the asks were exorbitant and they

really didn't get any traction because the asks were so high that nobody could bring themselves to it.

And the asks were so crazy high here that uh uh you know it was basically a one team negotiation as far as

I as far as I know I'm pretty sure it was just with Phoenix and um the difference was is now they're

in the middle of the season and there's a new owner and the other thing is it added about 40 million

dollars to the son's luxury tax and on his first day as owner. Maddish be a uh um approved a

a trade that not only sent out for our first round picks but added 40 million dollars in luxury tax.

There is zero point bunch of zeros percent chance that would happen with Robert Sardver.

Whether or not you think it's well let me just ask you this um montams good dealer bad deal for them.

That's a great question. I think I'm not going to say it's a bad deal because they traded for Kevin

Durant and he is one of the best players on the planet. I don't think it's the slam dunk deal that

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