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the ultra player of the week coming up later in the episode. All right, welcome on to Hollinger

and Duncan special late night edition. Thanks so much for joining us on locker room. And John and I

have a little bit of a poterie that we wanted to get to. We're going to get to your questions

even a little bit earlier than we normally would. But I think where we wanted to start is in talking about the ever-present

buyout market. And with Blake Griffin and Lamarcus Aldridge, now in Brooklyn, there's a lot

of carping. There was a anonymous quote from Small Market Executive in Howard Beck's column this week,

complaining again about the buyout process and how that disadvantages small market team.

So, John, you were a small market executive with the Memphis Grizzlies.

What is your reaction?

Just let's talk generally about the buyout process before we get into some of these specific

contributors on the buyout market.

Yeah.

So the basic idea is that a player who has money left on his deal, it's almost always an

expiring contract, will give back some of that money so he can sign someplace else instead.

And so in theory, it's a win-win because the team that grants the buyout gets savings and

they open a roster spot for a player they maybe didn't really want around anyway.

And then the player himself gets a win because he goes to a situation that he thinks is

better for himself. So that's sort of where it came about. The tricky part comes up, I think,

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