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Welcome to the ranger MBA show. It's a special sources say live from Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. I'm Juliet Littman

I'm here with Chris Ryan. What's up Juliet?

So much we're in we're in high MBA offseason. I can see the desert stretching out beyond us treasure Island across the street

It's also beautiful here from our villa. Yeah at Caesars Palace, which is a really dope. It is pretty nice

I feel like an MBA player. I feel and I feel like Pablo or something people still make that joke nobody makes that joke anymore

Well, I'm here to bring it back joke has been canceled along with God you West. You know what else has been canceled

Carmelo Anthony and the Oklahoma City Founders relationship. Yeah, this is for tax purposes

And also for basketball decisions for basketball reasons. So Carmelo was part of this

Enormous payroll and tax bill that Oklahoma was staring down something like

310 million dollars because when you think of the most

lavish and expensive pro sports teams you think of Real Madrid you think of Paris St. Germain you think of the Lakers and you think of the Thunder

Yeah, of course, who famously traded James Harden to avoid the tax so times have changed

But what hasn't changed is that Melo's still an expensive and not very good basketball player

So they are going to either look for a trade partner. Let me know how that works out

Or they're gonna stretch in which means they basically spread his contract out over the next five years

Thus saving Oklahoma City upwards of I think a hundred and seven million dollars

That's crazy next year because once they hit that luxury tax the the fees are so right and their Peter taxes so high

It's awfully it's like real I think that's what killed the cabs right for the last couple seasons so that's part of it

Yeah, also sure we're on wanting to split play spend all this time with Jared Smith and Kristen Thompson. Yeah

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