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All right. Welcome on to a very special, Hollinger and Dung.

We started doing this, I want to say maybe in 2021.

And the reason we did is because the landscape of the league had changed.

And under the 2017, CBA, extensions were more possible.

For the first couple of years of that, you still had a lot of contracts

that had been signed and pre-cap spike in 2016. And so extensions weren't really possible.

And so the last summer where guys really all got to free agency was 2019. It became clear after

that that, no, the new thing is going to be just signing extensions with your current team.

And that that was really an aberration in NBA history that you had kind of this 10-year period or so with both the cap spike and very restrictive owners saving them from themselves, saving themselves from themselves, extension rules.

So now this is like one of the biggest things that we have to analyze

is how much are these extensions going to be? But before we get into that, John, you got anything

you know, I talked about finals wise? Any kind of like maybe contrarian takes or we've done a

lot of work on it obviously, but anything that

sticks out to you as something that isn't being discussed enough here.

Well, I'm coming to you from the TV quality lighting of the Boston Marriott, if you cannot

tell.

I just came from Media Day at the finals where both these teams were too smart to say anything incendiary.

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