All right, as promised, we are going to get started on our eastern conference off season

re-grades from 2022, and the way I tried to do this was to just, I didn't have my grades

from last year in front of me, and so I tried to just go completely fresh based on what

we have now.

I think it's a better way to do it because you are probably going to get anchored by

what you did earlier, and so I think there are going to be some very interesting revisions.

I relistened to our show from last year to a few, a few rather horrific things, I mean,

it's like, you know, whatever.

I defend the thinking at the time, but it was clearly wrong on these.

So Danny, I think this will be a really entertaining one to start at the bottom of the alphabet

with the Washington Wizards.

Oh, boy.

So the Washington Wizards had a number of big decisions to me.

The two biggest were, the three biggest, number one, Bradley Beale was an unrestricted

refrigerant.

They not only gave him a five year or four plus one full max contract, but they also

gave him a no trade clock.

And that last part is, of course, what is looming large now because we said at, you know,

largely at the time that one of the challenges of a no trade cause is that it limits the

current team, the trading team in the circumstances that that's what you want to do.

It limits their return and boy, did it.

And what we said at the time, which I think was entirely correct, this wasn't, it became

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