Hey everyone, welcome into another edition of the Wodge Pod here in L.A.

With the great Ramona Shelburne. Ramona, how are you?

Doing good. We just watched a good game between the Raptors and the Clippers across the street.

Yeah, it was, some of the Clippers are rolling. It's another big day for them they play well they beat it

what's been it but it's been a good raptors team since their trade with the nicks but the news

of the day obviously and we're going to hit on a few things in this visit but the news of the day

kawai leonard reciting with the clippers three years a little over $150 million, basically $100 million

in new money. He had a player option for next year. He declines that. Goes out three years and does it in

Kauai Leonard fashion. Just an email from the team. We've re-signed Kauai Leonard and then we spent

some time scrambling to get the numbers on

that.

And that's step one for the Clippers, Ramona.

They're three-star players, Paul George, of course, and James Hardin.

They can't start talking to Hardin until after the finals are over, offseason, essentially.

But Paul George is the big one now.

They got Kauai Leonard, which is what they wanted to do below the max.

They were not going to, with this new second apron, the new salary cap, if you were going

to be able to put a team around them, the Clippers were adamant.

This was going to be a negotiation. This wasn't just, you're

just not getting a max deal anymore. You're going to see more of this with other teams as they

re-sign players in the 30s and players with injuries. But let's start with that with Kauai Leonard,

who was the focal point coming into L.A. It has been mostly frustration during this run, but all of a sudden, he's been healthy

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