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Nate's guest today is Keith Smith of Spatrach.

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cast dot fm that's dunk don dot supporting cast that fm so this is becoming

certainly I hope a yearly tradition to be joined by Keith Smith of Spot Track and the front office show to discuss the CBA and we have a new one we want to get into how it's working so

far what we wanted to see that was not in it what we wanted to see that is in it

so Keith let's get rolling here. How you doing?

I'm doing well. Thank you for having me. Yeah, I'm excited. I'm glad we don't have a new

CBA every year to discuss. That would probably be a little bit too much for my brain to process,

but I'm happy to discuss this one with you for sure.

Yeah, well, so let's get right into it here.

You and I talked almost exactly at this time a year ago, I'm looking at our notes of all the things that we went over

that we wanted to be in it that we even the ones that we were pie in the sky we

do probably weren't going to happen so let me ask you this when news of this most

recent CBA broken we truly got an understanding of what was in it. What

surprised you the most? I think it's the in general how much they tried to push the most

expensive teams back towards the pack with the various penalties restrictions, call them what they will on those teams.

I thought that was really further than I ever thought they would go.

We knew there was going to be some of that for certain, but the level to which they put

restrictions on those teams that that was easily the most surprising thing to make.

Oh yeah, I mean it is remarkable the thing that really surprised me the most was the

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