Free Agency Primer: Part 2
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🗓️ 27 June 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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(Recorded prior to Kyrie Irving news per Shams Charania)
On this week’s Tampering, the guys break down the latest on the Kyrie Irving/Kevin Durant front in Brooklyn, discuss the ripple effect on the rest of the NBA’s offseason business and make the free agency rounds as Thursday’s tipoff nears
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| 0:00.0 | Tamper with you. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to tampering. |
| 0:07.4 | We're this beautiful game of basketball that we all love and talk about every single day. |
| 0:10.8 | Sam Sam, Sam. |
| 0:11.6 | We interrupt our program to bring you this important message. |
| 0:15.3 | A quick note on this week's episode of the Tampering podcast from yours truly national |
| 0:19.8 | writer Sam Amickic we've recorded this |
| 0:22.4 | pod before kairi irving and true kairi fashion decided to opt in through his player option for next season |
| 0:30.7 | $37 million our shamsherania with the scoop kairi going back to Brooklyn for next season |
| 0:36.7 | if you haven't somehow seen it just a hell of a quote attached to the news about his |
| 0:42.6 | decision. |
| 0:43.1 | We will certainly be getting into that and everything that comes with it on the next |
| 0:48.4 | episode of the Athletic NBA show. |
| 0:50.5 | But for the sake of posterity, went ahead and published this version, which gets into the |
| 0:54.9 | ins and outs of what might have been between Kyrie, Brooklyn, Kevin Durant, and the ripple effect |
| 0:59.5 | around the NBA. If he had not made this choice, enjoy the show. |
| 1:07.9 | To be able to bring people together. |
| 1:12.1 | Portedly at the center of an NBA investigation into tampering accusations. |
| 1:15.9 | And the message to... |
| 1:17.0 | Decutative in the league is not talking about players on other teams. |
| 1:19.7 | What did I do? |
| 1:20.2 | The charges filed impermissible contact. |
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