Joining us now, and I'm sure thrilled to be doing so by hearing the Macarena on the Express Pro Tire and Auto Guest Line.

He is a front office insider for ESPN talking about the NBA and a return guest to this program.

Bobby Marks joins us.

Trade deadlines not until February, Bobby, but the Pacers are one of those teams that you look at

and you kind of wonder if maybe a tweak could be made here or

there. So I will begin with this. Who are the two or three difference making players that you

kind of get the feeling might in fact be on the deadline topic of conversation because they could

look to go to another franchise? Yeah, I mean, I think

we're going to hear a lot about Jimmy Butler over the next, you know, two months, six weeks

here as far as leading up until February 6th. I think certainly Brandon Ingram in New Orleans.

I do think, though, and I think it's great for us to talk about and everything,

but I think trades are going to be extremely difficult to make.

You know, for skies making north of $30 million, I think how the rules are

and how the rules have become more restrictive here,

it's extremely, extremely difficult to trade a $50 million player in this day and age,

in this landscape of things.

So we'll talk about it.

It's hard to come about trading five guys in the middle of the year, but I think those are

probably the two guys that will probably be kind of in the forefront here.

Now, with that, in terms of Indiana, and the Pacers are in a unique situation just because of,

and Bobby, without boring people, all the specifics of it, the trade that they made for

Seacom, they do have this year's first round pick, but they can't move a lot of the assets

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