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Welcome on to Dunkin.

We like to call this table setting day here

because you find out about all the options, you find out about all of the qualifying offers,

and you know exactly what is going to be out there during free agents. These things have changed

a little bit, though, with the new CBA because players and teams can officially agree with their own free agents

and we've had a number of those deals as well so it is a little bit more of a trickle over time than

it used to be when you you had that bell i don't know day i do kind of miss the it actually being

at midnight on july first am I just a sicko for that?

Yes, but I also miss it a little bit too.

Because it felt like it was like, it's like, you know, staying up late on Christmas, right?

But is that kind of like people's nostalgia for 90s basketball where it was just worse,

but it was important for us.

So we think of it fondly.

I mean, it's obviously worse for the league because they want it to get more attention.

And so having it in prime time at 6 Eastern on the 30th is better. But it felt like fun to stay up and like just like, you know, staying up late on New Year's Eve or something.

Well, and some of the fun ones, like I I remember the one that always takes out to me was

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