Welcome to Down To Dawn. I'm your host Andrew Schlacht. We're part of the Athletic

podcast network with me today. It's my good friend, Alex Spears. Alex. What's up, Andrew?

Happy Wednesday. Oh, it's a great Wednesday. The Thunder played a really, really rough game

against the maps. Some may call it unwatchable. No, on Monday night. But one step closer to

the goal, Alex, baby steps to the goal. Yeah, Luca and Porzingus. Man, Porzingus looked

pretty good in that game. That was the first game where I felt like Moses Brown had a matchup

that was just not working for him at all. It was a horrible, really any big they put in there,

really outside of Bobon. It was just like, there's no way, even like Nicole Mellie, who's new to

that team. I don't even know if he had played for them previously at all if that was his first game.

But like, it's just any stretch big is a bad matchup for Moses. But even like inside,

like Porzingus was getting whatever he wanted. And then on the defensive end, those like back-to-back,

they were, I would only, I'm hesitant to even call them blocks because he was just like,

he didn't even jump. He just like, right. It was just like, nope, you're back down, back down.

Both times. And it was just like, oh, no. No, Moses. I almost yelled for him in the building.

He was like, Moses, no. Yeah, that was rough. But big congrats to Moses on getting a contract.

And big congrats to the Thunder for giving him a contract that is the most

team-friendly contract ever. What are your thoughts on Moses and his contract now?

I mean, I hesitate to even call it a contract because it's more of like, it's a contract

for this season. And then beyond that, it's an option for the Thunder to do a contract if they

want to. But like, it's nothing beyond this season. Like, nothing is guaranteed. So it is just

them rewarding him for this season. It's prorated. So he, I think it ends up being right around like

half a million dollars for this year. He's going to get more with that salary floor bump.

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