Hello, welcome to the hoop collective podcast. We talk about the NBA, which we are doing on Thursday morning here in Manila back in the good old USA.

It's still Wednesday night, which means still somebody's birthday, but not yours. Tim Bond temps, who's joining us from an island off the coast of the United States of America and undisclosed location.

All of that is accurate, not my birthday. I'm not on the continent. I'm not on Manhattan Island today. I'm going to different islands next week, I'll be in Italy, but I'm not there yet.

Oh, that'll be fantastic. I can I can text you in the morning when there's or in the middle of the day when there's nobody away.

Um, joining us from Dallas, Texas, the birthday boy celebrated his birthday with a case of back spasms, not that you're getting old man with man.

Howdy partners. It is my Andre Kirillinco birthday, and I felt it when I made the athletic move of reaching for some Tupperware.

A little tweak, a little tweak, some heat. Sometimes the Tupperware is real high up on the shelf, and you just read that.

Oh, there's a special Tupper.

There's a low, so that's what got me.

And it's funny to say that about Andre Kirillinco, because I I remember when the net signed him that summer when they had KG and Pierce and they like I remember being at summer league in Orlando, when they signed him and Matt Ricardi, who now is the assistant.

I think he's assistant GM now with Dallas, but he's with the maps came by and came by the media room was all fired up. I went out in the hallway and talked to him.

And obviously there's this whole investigation into whether they had some had some legal agreement with them and any ended up playing a handful of games was horrible and retired by Christmas.

It was just hilarious.

Okay.

So what happened there?

Did the NBA cause they just call off the investigation because I think that's what the league does.

I wouldn't even try to do that. That was pretty good.

Kirillinco had a $10 million give or take option player option with the Minnesota timber rules.

He declined it, which everybody was pretty surprised about.

But okay, maybe there's going to be some long term deal.

And instead he signed a three million was a three million dollars.

I think he signed for the room exception or some sort of room at level. Maybe it was it was around three or four million dollars at a time.

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