This crowd rises to its feet. The Toro slammed it home. Garland left wing, three ball. Perfect. Darwin, part of the lane, lock. The mobility, pow! And Alan blocked the shot at the rim. How with the left head and a foul! Welcome to the Chase Down podcast, part of the Cavs Media family. I'm your host, Justin Rowan. The Chase Down is presented by Fubo,

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at FubotTV.com slash Cavs. The free agency moratorium is finally over. All the transactions

you've been hearing about for the last week

finally were able to be finalized, which means it was a busy day for the Cleveland Cavaliers,

officially trading Isaac O'Coro for Lonzo Ball, signing Larry Nance Jr. and signing Sam Merrill to

a contract extension. Joining me today to discuss all of this and more is my co-host, Carter Rodriguez.

Carter, how you doing, buddy?

I'm doing good.

You know, it's nice to finally get to talk about some of this stuff.

It's always a double-edged sword being affiliated where you want to weigh in.

You want to start talking right away.

And part of the fun is weighing in right away.

And you don't get to do that.

But it does give you time to really, like, put together some coherent thoughts about, well, I guess remains to be seen if anyone else thinks they're coherent.

But it does give you time to think about everything kind of in service of the greater whole.

And like and of like what I think the team is going for.

What, you know, as I like to say, what lessons I think Kobe chose to learn.

Kobe in the front office chose to learn from this last season.

And I do think the picture is clarifying, if nothing else, in terms of what we think they

took away from last year.

And I also think it's important, too, because from our perspective, neither of us are

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