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I'm Wes Goldberg, Warriors Beat Reporter for the Bay Area News Group.

Got a great show for you today.

We're opening up the mailbag and I talk about Ben Simmons, the Warriors plans for the mid-level exception and the roles of the two rookies.

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All right, let's just jump right into our mailbag here on a Friday. Got a great show for you today.

We're going to talk Ben Simmons a little bit later on the Warriors and Ben Simmons. But first,

let's start with this question from Ritten Dee, who writes in, is it possible that since all of

their preferred targets at the mid-level exception are unavailable now, the Warriors are holding on to theirs

in case someone worth it is bought out. I know the chatters died down, but I could see the Warriors

making a move for Kevin Love. So I think at this point, the Warriors are not going to use this

mid-level exception. You look at the finances of it all.

Using that full mid-level exceptions,

that's going to get them pretty close to that $400 million mark

that Bob Meyer said that he's not going to go over, right?

That between $400 million in salary and luxury taxes,

that he said, hey, if I spend $400 million on a roster

with all of those things considered and we don't win the championship, I should be fired.

And so Bob Myers is not showing a willingness to basically use that or to go above that

$400 million threshold unless it's for some sort of all in move that

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