Hello, welcome to the Hoop Collective Podcast, we talk about the NBA, which we are doing

on Sunday evening.

Joining me from New York City is Tim Bonteps.

Hello everybody.

And celebrating the first day of an NBA free agency

and the first day of the league year 2024-25 in Dallas

Texas is Ban McMahon. Howdy partners the power here was out for much of the first

couple hours of free agency.

I thought that was kind of a fitting metaphor for the way.

Yeah, you know, the new rules slow down transactions.

I think you will continuously transactions

slowed down in the future at least for the next year or two

while people get used to this I know that's not what people want people

love the hot stove this time of year but it's not to be plus teams can

now negotiate with their own free agents in after the finals so we had two weeks

of a few deals that would have normally popped up immediately that got drawn out.

So it's not the crackling system that used to be.

And that's what it is.

The biggest name, though, is Paul George.

By the time this podcast is on television and online, we may have

Paul George being finalized going to the 76ers. As of right now, all we can

say is that all signs point to that it's not so much Paul

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