Hello, welcome to the game theory podcast.

We are presented by CLNS Media today on the show.

John Hollinger, the king of analytics, the maestro of Memphis, the absolute, just one of the best

people I've gotten to meet in the entire basketball industry. He's here, and we are going to

talk about the NBA draft. John, how are you doing, man? I'm doing great. Just hanging out like

everyone else watching a lot of tape. I've had a lot more time

to watch tape on draft prospects than usual at this time of year, actually. Usually, you know,

when I was on the team side, you basically spend a lot of April, May, even into June, playing

catch-up on some guys. And I've been fortunate since March 11th that I've been able to watch a whole lot of college tape.

So I feel more caught up than I usually am at this point, but I still have more guys to watch.

Well, there's that and there's the fact that, you know, you were like me.

You would travel to conference tournaments.

You would travel to the NCAA tournament.

You would then go overseas to

Europe, right, and go see those guys after the season typically. So it ends up being a

circumstance where I think that evaluators probably are going to be a little bit behind the

eight ball, especially high level evaluators that are high up in organizations,

because they really do tend not to get out until after the trade deadline.

Exactly. And there was just such a limited period of time after the trade deadline this year that it's

going to be really interesting to me to see where the high-level executives end up falling

on this draft class.

Absolutely.

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