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Hello, welcome to the collective podcast. We talk about the NBA, which we're doing just before midnight on Friday night.

I want to apologize for the audio quality of the podcast we posted today was Brian's fault, my fault.

Hopefully we have a fix that makes it slightly better, but I don't know if to tell you.

Joining me from New York City, we spent all day today in the studios here covering the first day of free agency is Tim Bontepse.

I think the audio genuinely sounds worse today than yesterday, so we're off to a great start.

You're not going to hear it because I'm recording it locally here. You're not going to hear how it's going to come on the pile.

Well, it's going to be worse for me than which is delightful. So there we go.

Well, you're title is going to me anyway.

So it's a jealous Texas or Kyrie Irving will be spending the next two plus one years is band McMahon.

Where is contract is for the next two plus one years? Howdy partners.

Right. So I don't want to talk about James Harden. I don't want to talk about Dame Lillard and something happens. We'll talk about him.

We is that okay with everybody?

Yeah, let's just let's just us plenty and we've laid out what could happen and we'll see what does that.

All right. Let's talk about what went down in Texas on the first day of free agency.

Specifically, let's start with the Houston Rockets making the biggest move really in all honesty, giving Fred Van Vley a three year max,

130 million dollars. Look, this is a team McMahon that has damages reputation the last few years.

Various ways we don't need to go over the old ground.

They bought their way out of it with Fred Van Vley and getting a guy who they obviously prioritize they prioritize them over hard and they prioritize them over Kyrie and anybody else, but they're 60 some million dollars and got themselves Fred Van Vley.

It's a I don't know. Look, I don't know if it's going to turn around the franchise, but it's a big moment for a fell stone. It's a big moment for what they need to try to pivot.

And to me, it's one of the big stories of the beginning of free agency.

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