LOCKED ON NBA--7/11/18--Reactions to the Latest Free Agent Signings; Melo to the Rockets?; Impact of Two-Way Contracts

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🗓️ 11 July 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Jake Madison (@NolaJake) and John Karalis (@RedsArmy_John) recap the latest deals from NBA free agency! What do they think of Brook Lopez to the Bucks, Luc Mbah a Moute to the Clippers, Zach LaVine back on the Bulls, and is Marcus Smart on the move? Then they talk Melo and the Rockets including the wild idea of Melo playing the 5! And they wrap up looking at the impact of two-way contracts around the NBA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Free Agency never stops. We recap all the latest signings and all the rumors out there.
0:05.0	And Carmelo Anthony on the move, Houston, Miami, somewhere else, who knows?
0:10.0	And two-way contracts are in play now that we're underway in Summer League.
0:14.8	Maybe some stand-outs there, but more importantly, how does these type of
0:18.1	contracts affect the league? It's the Wednesday edition of Lockton NBA.
0:23.0	You are locked on the NBA, part of the locked on podcast network. Welcome to the Wednesday edition of Lockton NBA on Wednesdays. I'm one of your
0:57.8	host Jake Madison at Nola Jake on Twitter editor over at locked on pelicans
1:02.4	dot com credential member of the media and all around. on stuff on Red's Army. Boston.com, especially this week from Summer League.
1:14.2	And you can find me on Twitter.
1:15.3	Red's Army, underscore John.
1:17.7	So we got a lot of news that kind of went on over the weekend
1:21.0	and Monday and Tuesday here in the
1:22.8	NBA. First things first John though, let's talk about the business side of
1:26.5	things a little bit. Michelle Roberts unanimously elected to serve another
1:30.5	four-year term as the executive director of the Basketball Players Association.
1:35.2	Good move?
1:37.2	I think from a union perspective that that's a very good move. I mean she's gotten a lot of
1:42.0	guys paid a lot of money. I know there is a whole issue with cap smoothing this in the past couple of days where she kind of stood her ground and a lot of people look her on. I agree look and I will admit I'm going to tell everybody right now up front I'm a union guy. I am a union I am a union I represent a union in my full time life and so I am a union guy so take this for what it's worth I
2:06.0	believe that she made a good decision to from a union perspective to get her members the best amount of money possible and from a union perspective the
2:20.7	goal is not to protect the owners from themselves. It's not the I hear people criticizing her
2:27.8	It's not to look at the overall game and wonder what's best necessarily I think from a competitive balance issue.
2:36.6	It's her goal is to make sure players are valued properly.
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