Welcome on, everyone. We have much to discuss because here in part three of our organization rankings with 10 teams remaining, we finally get to the section of the pod that John has been champing at the pit, foaming at the mouth, every possible analogy you can come up with. John is excited for these last 10 teams here.

If you're going to drink alcohol for one episode of this podcast, make it this one.

Yeah, someday I'll have to have you on for an April Fool's episode.

I don't know if you, this might have been before your time.

I think it was 2021 that Danny and I did an April Fool's episode.

It was, it was great.

It was, I think the first news item was Brad Stevens returning to coach in college.

Okay.

Nice.

Back when he's still the Celtics.

I got, hilariously, he did end up residing right after that too. But it's like, oh, yeah, he just, he loves having control over his team. That's why he had to go back. I can't remember what some of the other ones are. But we're, we're, it's high time for another one of those episodes. Anyway, let's get rolling here. And we have 10 teams remaining. Who do you want to talk about first here?

I guess this would be in theory.

You're number 21-ish team.

You actually had these guys a little higher than 21, and we didn't get to them last episode.

Toronto Raptors, I feel like they're a little aimless right now, but they're also not horrible.

And we'll see what they are in the post

Messiah era. Obviously, this is a franchise that completely took their eye off the ball once they

won the championship. There are maybe some questions about whether they're going to be cheap after

the change of ownership. They didn't want to pay Messiah Ujuri what he was making, I think, was part of the deal.

And are they going to be as willing to spend into the luxury tax as their previous overlords,

even though Toronto is a huge market?

We'll see.

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