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Welcome to Lighthears, an emergency edition of Lighthears.

Recording this, the day before Free Agency officially starts, 24 hours before it officially

starts around 3 p.m. on Saturday, 3 p.m. Pacific. And I know

free agency hasn't started, but based upon today's news, it already feels like the Warriors have lost.

I want to start with the Clay News, but I feel like to discuss it properly, you almost have to discuss the Paul George thing,

almost in unison, and then we could talk about him separately.

So the first thing was this afternoon was the deadline for Paul George to opt in or opt out

of his contract.

We know the wars were pursuing him.

Him opting in would have made it significantly easier for the warriors to make a trade.

Now that he's opted out, he's 100% of free agent, warriors being over the cap, very unlikely to get him.

Sounds like it's going to be a bidding war between Philly and the clippers.

See what happens there.

So that's a little bit of a gut punch for the Warriors.

And then on top of it, Anthony Slater and Champs Tarania report what everyone's been hearing

about, kind of murmurings for the last few days, maybe a couple of weeks.

The Warriors are preparing to lose four-time NBA champion

Clay Thompson in free agency.

I mean, we went from potentially the best case scenario of the Warriors swinging a trade

for a true superstar, someone who could be Steph's true number two,

and put them in position to really compete for a title pending other roster moves, of course.

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