Hey there, next fans. How you doing? It's your boy, Jonathan Macri, with you for another episode of the next film school podcast. Very excited to present this episode to you guys. This is an opportunity that Mr. Claudio, GMAC, put me on to interview today's guest.

Name of John Carter.

He is the CEO of Noah Basketball.

And if you're like me, you probably have never heard of Noah Basketball.

But you're going to know a lot about it before the end of this episode. And I think it's well worth your time.

Basically, this is the company that is at the forefront of shot tracking technology. And don't go by me or don't take my

word for it. Go by the fact that 28 of 30 NBA teams use NOAA technology or NOAA basketball in some

form or fashion.

And we get into some of the specifics of that.

And John tells lots of cool stories about his journey to the point that he's at now,

where Noah basketball really is continuing to revolutionize

the analytics landscape again from a shot tracking perspective. So really fun conversation

with him, which I know you're going to enjoy. Before we get there, though, a couple of quick

things that I have not yet had an opportunity to comment on. I mean,

McCaub Bridges, obviously, we did, I did the whole live stream a couple nights ago when that

happened. I don't really have much to add. Just happy it got done. Happy it got done sooner

rather than later and that this didn't linger on closer to training camp.

Still very curious to see the specifics of the contract, to see, you know, just how much

his taking a $6 million haircut on, you know, what he could have gotten this summer will,

how much breathing room it will give them in terms of the second apron for the 26, 27 season,

which is, of course, when the extension kicks in. So I'm waiting on that. And then once that comes out,

I'll crunch the numbers. I'm sure Jeremy Cohen will crunch the numbers and we'll report back and,

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