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whole other thing today we're talking about trade season it's December 15th it's officially

trade season and there's only one person that you got to talk to when December 15th rolls around

and that's Keith Smith of spot track Keith how are how are you doing, my friend? I am doing really well. I am, you know, things are going good. Like you said, it's trade season, open so unofficially on the 15th. It's, uh, it's funny because I had somebody reach out and they're like, is that like a real thing? And I was like, it kind of is.

Like it's, it's just that's one like most of the guys who get traded over the

summer.

I think it's 82 players this year that that signed over the summertime can be traded.

So I was like that that's, we call it early trade season on official opening.

And but you know, most things pick up up late January early February as we get closer

on February 5th deadline. Yeah exactly. Well because because these restrictions open like we everybody

loves to talk about a trade every every day right. That's the most popular topic in the NBA.

But this is where like when we look at the spot track trade machine, I always

have to turn the restrictions off. And now I don't have to turn those restrictions off as

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