Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast.

I'm your host Sam Bacini.

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Coles Wickers here.

It's going to be the, I don't know, do you want to call it a trade preview podcast,

just like a podcast about potential trades that are out there and are interesting?

How do you want to phrase this?

Yeah, I think it's just an initial cursory look at kind of the buyers and sellers

and some of the players that could potentially be at play now that we've like passed that

December 15th deadline we're starting to get into just the initial stage of potential trades

yeah and I'll be interested to see how quickly the trade market picks up because do you know

what the last trade was Cole I do not off the top of my head I probably should it was the Chris Paul Russell Westbrook trade that is the last trade was, Cole? I do not off the top of my head. I probably should.

It was the Chris Paul Russell Westbrook trade.

That is the last trade of any kind that has happened around the league.

See, this summer was just basically like an alternate universe for me.

Just the onslaught of moves.

It's just, it's hard to even remember exactly the order.

It was just, it was a crazy summer for trades. But it's just crazy that we haven't, like, there was nothing in training camp, for instance.

There was nothing in, like, the start of the season just to, like, do change of pace trades, right?

Or, like, change of situation trades. There were no August trades. It was, that is just weird to me that there was such a dead period and there still has been such a dead period for trades.

Yeah, I mean, you would expect a smaller move, but I just think the, just the onslaught would happen in July and all of that was just so different.

Like, it was a different experience, like just all of the widespread maneuvering with the

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