Contracts, salary caps.

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It's time for the Business of Sports with Andrew Brandt.

Hey there, boys and girls.

Welcome to another edition of the Business of Sports with Andrew Brand.

You know me.

I'm Andrew Brand.

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We'll talk about that in a minute.

First rant of the week, and it's going to be about Kevin Durant going to the NBA.

It's just a rant about this kind of faux reactions of everybody and the blame game and everybody

talking about what happens.

And listen, I don't know what to say.

I mean, this happens every day in sports where players are getting ready for a game and sometimes medical says they're cleared. Sometimes medical says they're not cleared. Sometimes they have different influence over medical or not. But to me, it's all about medical. And if, in fact, the Golden State Warriors said he could play and Kevin Durant wanted to

play. End of story. Sure, he got hurt. Okay. And was his leg compromised from the earlier injury?

Probably. But he was cleared. And we can lament the decision by the warriors to clear him and talk about it's

just a desperation to get him to play in that game to try to not get, lose the series. But the fact

is, this happens all the time. And you can make the same argument that they were overly cautious

in holding them out games whatever, one, two, three, four. And you make the same argument that they were overly cautious in holding them out games whatever one

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