Happy Sunday night everyone. Welcome back to the public version of dunked on if you want to hear more of us than once a week

Of course you can subscribe via dunked on prime dunked on dot supporting cast.fm

It's in the show notes here for you and highly recommend you check that out

We're gonna be starting very soon. I will tweet about it a

special sale yearly membership in honor of the draft and the mock-off season coming up

Of course, so stay tuned for that offer. We should have that out in the next week or two

But let's get started here with some news that has piled up and I guess we can just talk at first about what the latest is on

next season looks like the plan is still to get a 82 game season

Beginning in January or February per Shams, Gerani. Of course the draft is on November 18th

Seems like free agency

It's gonna be no later than December 1st. That's something that's come out in previous interviews with Michelle Roberts and

Shams, Gerani is saying that the cap is not expected to deviate too much from

150 million recall that that was the amount it was supposed to be before the pandemic others have said they think it's gonna be around in the

109 range so and it seems like it would be who've ever won it to have it not change too much

Well, another yeah on top of that there are so few teams with cap space that it doesn't have as big a

Practical effect as it would in another year, you know, it does change plans and it changes distance to the luxury tax and a lot of those

But it doesn't you know, I don't think it like costs owners as much money as it would in another year to push it from 109 to 115

Yeah, there aren't these premium free agents where it's like oh man

We were just gonna scrape under getting this guy a max salary. I agree. I think the more

pertinent development is going to be what the taxes that I'm actually writing about that for the athletic right now

Yeah, so I mean what do you uh you had just to elaborate on that then sure

I'm arguing so I'm arguing that there should be a one-time larger gap between the cap and the tax for next year if the cap is going to be lower

...