Hey there, Nick's fans.

Hey there, Nick's fans.

How you doing?

It's your boy, John of the Macri with you for another episode of the next film

school podcast.

Coming at you in the midst of some exciting playoff action.

Shout out to all of our patrons who got to hear my immediate postgame reaction to the

Buck Celtics game the other night. Man, game of the playoffs, that's for sure. It has been fun,

even if our team that we love and root for is unfortunately not participating.

It's been cool to see this postseason.

It's been entertaining, especially since I kind of feel like there isn't a favorite right now for the NBA championship.

But, you know, keeps it interesting.

In any case, we as Nick fans root for the day when we will be competing for such things.

And to that end, there is an exciting offseason ahead of us, lots of possibilities.

And so I thought, you know, with a lot of names being thrown around of a lot of different players that we might add via free agency, sign and trade, just trading for outright, it would be good to bring on one of our old friends, one of our good friends here, Tom Piccolo, to delve into some of the finer points

of acquiring some of these big names and not just like, oh, you know, what's the cap look like

if we, you know, whatever, sign in trade for Jalen Brunson or whoever, but actually like, you know, how would it play out on the court?

Get to get into a little bit of the more, the more nuanced points, as it were, of what some of

these acquisitions might look like. So I told him to pick out some of the names that he was more

interested in that have been rumored to

go to the next this summer. And we got into that. We got in some draft stuff as well. As

usual, Tom and I, we always have a good conversation. He's great. He really is good with the

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