Hello and we're going to the Hooke Collection Podcast. We talk about the NBA which we're doing on Tuesday afternoon and joining me today as we his insight is valuable all year round but is

extremely valuable over this next three or four weeks our front office

insider Bobby Marks joining us from Naples. What's up Bobby?

Hey Brian, how are you? Man, the emails I start getting from you are like platinum.

And it's funny, like sometimes I'll be talking to a front office guy

and they'll make, they'll say something in passing,

like, well, I saw that Bobby said this and Bobby said that

you're not working in the league anymore per se but you're you're involved in the fact that

you can always have an unofficial advisory role.

How's that sound?

That definitely is the case.

So I thought we would go over a couple of teams today

and take a look at what their options are

and what that's on the table for them.

You'd know better, nobody better in the world

really for you other than you to take a look at this. So we talked in the pod the other day about

Philly. I think Philly is one of the most important teams to watch at the deadline because obviously they're going to be, you know, they're a contender and we expect them to be, amongst all the contenders they probably are the most trade ready team with the available inspiring contracts that they have and the first round

picks they have they're ready to go.

You have and will write a lot about, talk a lot about Philly in the coming days but I think one of the

interesting things to me is Philly has sort of in my view three choices they can

hold their potential salary cap space until the summer,

by which they would trade for players who are on expiring contracts

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