Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast.

Sam Vesini.

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The NBA has broken itself.

It is exploding just every which way right now.

So I got Tony Jones on, like I said we would on the last

podcast two podcasts to, or two podcasts ago, to come on and break down every single little thing

that's happening in the NBA. So let's start with the Bruce Brown deal. Tony, what do you think?

Okay, first of all, I mean, before we get to all of this, didn't we, we did,

we potted last week and we said this was going to happen. Like, we said that, yo, this is going to be,

this is going to be a crazy sprint to the start of the regular season. Only and it was for for everything I mean you have

because you have a as a sprint to the start of the regular season right yeah be everything is

so close together C there's no money on the market so D guess what there's going to be the trade

market is going to be popping.

All trades. And right now, we haven't even gotten a draft night.

And, like, you know.

I don't know how much you're talking to people about, talking to agents, talking to executives

about just the draft itself.

The level of uncertainty about the draft is insane. Like, me doing a mock draft

for this draft is, so I was thinking about this earlier. Like, most of the time, it feels like

I'm like a little bit closer than the typical line that you throw at a dartboard

from right like a dart you throw from like what like 12 feet away or something I don't fucking

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