You are locked on Warriors, your daily Golden State Warriors podcast. I am Danny Lur, your host,

and so happy to bring you your team every day. Originally, I was going to focus this podcast solely on the

idea of buyouts. It's something that I get asked about all the time, so I was going to explain buyouts

and some of the potential candidates, and I am going to do that, probably an abridged version of it.

But considering the news of the day, I wanted to give a very brief and tentative, focus on the

word tentative, primer on what some of the early announcements regarding the new collective bargaining

agreement are for the Warriors. So the basics at the outset is that while it hasn't

been ratified by either side yet, the expectation is that the announced collective bargaining

agreement, which I previewed a little bit on Tuesday's episode, that the structure of it is pretty

much informed. And the big frustration probably for some Warriors fans with it is that some of the

most important questions regarding the Warriors themselves are not yet definitive. However, we have

some real inklings in terms of where this is going to go. And while I will get into the substance,

I would say my current read is that it is overall good news for the Warriors,

but there are a lot of very, very big pieces that we don't know yet. And the reason why I say

it's good news for the Warriors is because the focus, and I made this the focus of the podcast that

did before on this issue, is retaining Kevin Durant while retaining everyone else. And it sounds like

there are not going to be any wholesale changes to the structure that would make that a lot harder.

So reforming max salaries or anything crazy like that, that those sorts of things are not on the, are not going to be a

part of the table.

So that's the good news.

The bad news is, ties in with something that I talked about as the most important issue

regarding Durant, which was the amount of money he would potentially be sacrificing for

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