Time now for our Eastern Conference over-unders, but first a bit of news to get to here.

Quincy Pondexer has been traded. The Lakers have been fine for tampering with Paul George 500k,

which is the largest fine in the history of the NBA for tampering by quite a significant margin.

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At that URL and let him know that you came from us. What did you think of this 500k fine

for the Lakers? We don't really have any details on it. Other than just that there was allegedly

improper contact between Rob Polinka, now Lakers GM and George's agent Aaron Mintz. It wasn't

about the Magic Johnson wink. That was like they received a warning for that when he was on Jimmy

Kimmel. But there was in fact, I would assume some phone records of this call between Polinka and

Mintz. I'd be very interested to know what actually was said by Polinka when he was interviewed about

it. Yeah, I mean, this is a specific amount. As you said, it's the highest amount for this sort of

a thing that we've ever seen and that it isn't related at all to the Magic Johnson element. I mean,

maybe if they had with the warning, maybe that factored in a little bit, I don't know. But it's

kind of the compounding factors thing. But yeah, I mean, it certainly seems like there's a little

bit of smoke here. But most importantly, in many ways, they didn't put any restrictions on

George himself because that is theoretically one of the remedies that could be assessed should

that have been determined in the case. And that would have had massive ripple effects throughout the

league. But I mean, there has to have been something here and the Lakers didn't really fight it,

at least not publicly. And maybe some of that is optics. You know, the league is continuing on and

they just said they just said, hey, we accept the league's decision or something. Yeah. So it's

fascinating. I mean, there have been some interesting think pieces in the last little bit about,

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