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Game Theory Podcast

NBA Rookie Extension Recap w/ Danny Leroux: What the McDaniels, Vassell and other extensions tell us about the new CBA

Game Theory Podcast

Sam Vecenie

News, Basketball, Sports, Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Sports News

4.6835 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Danny Leroux joins Sam and we're here to break down all of the rookie extensions that occurred over the last month, and generally what the rookie extension window has told us about the new collective bargaining agreement and team building within it. We'll talk Devin Vassell, Jaden McDaniels, Onyeka Okongwu, Deni Avdija, Josh Green, Cole Anthony, Aaron Nesmith, Zeke Nnaji, and Payton Pritchard, in addition to some of the earlier ones like Anthony Edwards, Tyrese Haliburton, LaMelo Ball and Desmond Bane. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.8

We're presented by The Athletic.

0:41.7

Today on the show, Danny LaRue is in the building.

0:43.9

Danny and I are going to break down NBA rookie extensions that occurred from

0:47.7

Devin Vassell and Jaden McDaniels to Cole Anthony and Aaron Naismith.

0:52.5

We might even go back, talk a little bit about Tyrese Halliburton, Lamello Ball,

0:56.1

Desmond Bain, Anthony Edwards, the four guys that extended back in the summer at

1:00.6

damn near Max Money.

1:03.6

Then we're going to talk about what all of this means, because to me,

1:07.1

what is always so interesting talking about these extensions, in my opinion at least,

1:12.2

is trying to figure out what they say about team building. And given that we're in the middle

1:16.2

of a new collective bargaining agreement that just started in July, this was the first cycle

1:22.4

where the new extensions took place under that collective bargaining agreement. So it's worth

1:27.1

discussing what exactly

1:28.6

all of this means in terms of team building moving forward. There's nobody better to talk about

1:34.1

this with Dan, Danny, Laru. So Danny, what's going on, buddy? Doing well, my friend, excited to have

1:39.9

regular season basketball back, but of course still plenty to discuss the timeline of all this

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