Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast. I'm your host Sam Vassini. We are presented by the athletic today on the show. It is Jared Weiss in the building. Good friend of the program. And I was just complimenting Jared on how glorious, feathered, and lethal his hair is as we get ready

to talk about the NBA trade deadline. Those of you watching on YouTube, which please go subscribe

to the YouTube channel Game Theory podcast with Sam Vassini. You're going to be able to see Jared's

just absolutely glorious hair.

Jared.

How you doing, man?

It's a pretty rough intro.

I don't know how I bounce back from that.

Rough.

I mean, God, you're talking to someone whose hairline is like going farther and further back,

and it's just a disaster.

I mean, I keep having these people on with strong hairlines, and I'm just like,

what am I doing with my life here? I like the volume you're getting, though. I mean, you're

kind of leaning into the situation. You're not, just because it's going back doesn't mean it's

going anywhere. I mean, we all still see the show. That's the move. That's what it's got to be. So like I said at the top here, Jared is in Washington, D.C. He has like an hour

until he has to go see the Boston Celtics, you know, blow another fourth quarter lead.

Like, what are we talking about here? Let's be honest. So we are going to talk about the NBA trade

deadline. And the way that I've set up this show is I would like to frame it as the

11 players that will shape the NBA trade deadline. This isn't to say that these are the 11

players most likely to be traded. It's just the decision on whether or not they are traded is what is going to most shape

the NBA trade deadline. So I've shared this list with Jared. I think that it's kind of an

interesting group of players. It kind of crosses the positional spectrum. It crosses the team

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