All right. Good Thursday, everyone. Thank you so much for waiting just a bit. It had to move things around due to some personal matters, but we are ready to rock now.

And, Jen, I was really glad that you wrote on this because I very much wanted to talk to you about your impressions of Tim Connolly leaving the Denver Nuggets to assume the same president

of basketball operations role in Minnesota. Yeah, I think it's a coup for the Tim Roles and a

loss for the Nuggets. Tim Connolly has done a great job, especially in the draft, which in those

type of markets needs to be the lifeblood of the team

because they're not going to be on the short list for high-level free agents most of the time.

And it's the second time this has happened to Denver, right?

They lost Massa Yujii the same way without any compensation.

And I thought it was pretty remarkable that Connolly, even though

he was under contract, basically had it set up so that he could still pursue offers from another

team and that Denver couldn't even get compensated for it. Like normally something like this

would see a first round pick change hands. And instead, he's just gone.

And, I mean, the Nuggets still have all their players and their head coach.

And so maybe, you know, maybe they'll be fine, right?

Like, they could just keep it going with Yokic or whatever.

Like, as long as they have Yokic, I mean, it's not like they're going to suck or anything. But it's just, it's just

disappointing that they weren't able to step up and keep, you know, one of the league's better

executives and lost him basically for nothing right while they're in their window of potentially competing for a championship.

Yeah, whoever Tim Conley's agent is, and I don't know who that is, or maybe it was himself,

but to get that provision in there, because everyone kind of wondered, why is it that they're not getting

compensation if he's under contract? And so to have that set up in his country,

you ever heard of anything like that before? I think you were the first to report it.

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