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Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Free Agency and WATFO Catch-Up

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.62.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The latest in free agency including Malik Beasley, Mason Plumlee, Bol Bol’s waiver, and a potential offer sheet for Matisse Thybulle. We also hit on the new NBA flopping rules, and then catch up on WATFOs, many of which look a lot different in retrospect regarding Bradley Beal, Kristaps Porzingis, Kyrie Irving, the Sacramento Kings, and more.

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0:00.0

Well, free agency has slowed to a crawl here, but please keep listening.

0:04.6

We're not much to say on the day in and hard in front, so we'll catch you up on some of the

0:08.2

signings and then we also just need to take some stock of what has happened here. We have a bunch

0:13.5

of predictions that we like to call WattFos, what are the fucking odds, and then Danny and I would

0:19.5

go through and posit different potential outcomes to each other. And so we got a bunch to catch up

0:25.2

from the season, but also stuff talking about this free agency. And yeah, so that'll be a fun show

0:31.2

to just take stock on some of the things that have happened that may have appeared pretty unlikely

0:37.1

if you were trying to predict it. But let's begin here by discussing what has taken place in the

0:43.6

last couple days. Something that will become into clear focus a couple of days from now, because

0:48.8

remember, the moratorium is still going on now, which means that with the narrow exception of like

0:53.5

two way guys, none of these contracts that have been reported are actually signed. And so not only

0:58.8

once they're actually signed, but once they get put into a place that they can become a part of

1:03.2

the public sphere, which sometimes can take a couple days, sometimes it doesn't. That gives us

1:07.4

significantly more clarity on what these contracts actually are. And we have preliminary reporting

1:13.5

from the Houston Chronicle of one of these types of things that could happen. And obviously,

1:17.8

we don't have the official contract yet, he hasn't signed it, but the Houston Chronicle is reporting

1:22.2

that the third year of Fred Van Vleitz, three year, 130 million dollar contract is a team option.

1:28.4

Yeah, that's very surprising because it felt like they were going the direction of this idea

1:35.4

that they're going to meet and it only took three, four hours or whatever it was for Van Vleitz to

1:40.0

make his decision. But you felt like offering to make the decision, the rockets eventually decided

1:44.4

to go for a third year. And what that would have done was somewhat compromise their cap space in

1:51.0

the summer of 2025. And with the team option, of course, they could decline it and bring him back

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