Hello, welcome to the hoop collective podcast. We talked about the NBA, which we're doing on Sunday evening

joining me from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he's there for six years media day on Monday.

It's Tim Bontops. I've got a new way to pronounce my last name like that. I did. I did say that weird.

I'm sorry and it's late. I have nothing to be sorry about just using Tim Bontops. Hello, Brian.

Tim Bontops. There you go. We got, uh, it was like sort of the half French, half American

pronunciations, what that was. Joining us from Memphis, Tennessee, where he's just flown in.

He's going to be at, uh, I'm here in Boston for some for, uh, media day for the Celtic smile,

something went down here today. Uh, but joining us from Memphis, Tennessee, where he's going to be

at Grizzly's media day on Monday. Famic man. Howdy partners. I would say that the three of us,

I've probably got the distant third most interesting media day. Um, you certainly got some action

there in being down windy and, uh, Bontops. There wasn't a whole lot of action at Philly, which

is going to make for interesting. But, uh, who? Yeah. Boy, somebody got better today.

Yeah. So, uh, just FYI, we got Ramona Shelburne coming out a little bit later in the podcast,

talk about the 76ers because she did a couple of stories recently. Um, but obviously the Boston

Celtics, uh, win the Derby for Drew Holiday. Um, I'm not sure exactly where all the offers were

at the end for the Blazers before they decided on the Celtics offer. But based on my conversations,

my feel was there was at least three teams who were making significant bids. Um, and the reason

it was three and the teams that I really think were there at the end were the Celtics, the heat,

and the, um, and the Clippers. And the reason I think those three teams were there is because I

think that those are the three teams that Drew Holiday was really focused on, you know, at some

point being able to sign a longer con term contract for. And that message kind of went out

in recent days. Other teams made offers, but I think it was sort of a three team aggressive race

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