Before we get into this, what we're going to do today is just talk about, essentially, in a rough order, go down the list of players who might be available, talk about the potential return, who we might be prioritizing at certain positions with certain needs.

And then I think I want to start, though, by just saying, in general, you started to have more conversations you had a couple of

pieces recently about what's going on in the market any further thoughts about kind of how things are

looking maybe an update on this idea that there aren't many sellers and you know what some of the

teams that are sort of on the borderline are thinking at the moment i think that's why we saw saw Denver just take the plunge right now in Bryn Forbes, because there aren't that many sellers.

And so the universe of players who are realistically available just isn't that great.

You have to hope you can kind of get in as a third team in one of these trades that end up with a superfluous piece or a guy

who doesn't fit with with one of the main teams and it's just it's just a lot harder to to

insinuate into it yourself into a deal like that insinuate is a horrible word choice but um

uh insert insert insert insert thank you um you but and then the thing is like you could just wait and wait for that

and then bang trade deadlines over so i think that's why we saw Denver just just go ahead and jump

and grab a guy and we'll see if we see if we more of that, if we see more kind of early moves

just because there isn't that much out there. Yeah, that trade one that helped all three teams.

I liked that the Celtics only having to give up cash to get themselves pretty much within

sight now of getting out of the tax. And as you noted, I think this will be a big motivator for

the dorky financial side, which is probably less sexy to some people, that the expected tax

distribution, because of, as you put it, this is a good word choice, by the way. Well, you could

make up for insinuate earlier. As you called it, the largesse of the Clippers, warriors,

and nets that there's going to be

about a $10 million per team tax distribution. So it's not only that you're getting out of the tax,

it's not only that you're pushing back the clock on the repeater for a team like Boston, but then

you're also just getting $10 million in cash by getting out. So obviously giving up just over

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