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Chris Ryan of the ringer six or span. He asked me about a TV show last night at Texas. I go, you want to talk about the shows that haven't watched it yet.

Not Queens Gambit, which everybody is hot on right now. I'm doing somehow I got just caught up watching the sopranos again the last few weeks is my as my little come down from all the draft coverage.

So boy season six starts off weird. You can see the weird creeping into the sopranos end of season five and then hardcore those first few episodes season six. So that's where I'm at right now.

But Sarah Walsh is going to join us as well former co worker former neighbor. She was my neighbor there for a bunch of years. So we we battled that out during those long winners and then magically a really handsome baseball player moved in next door and I was like who's this guy. She's like that's that's my boyfriend Matt and then I had two friends it was amazing. It was like Remland's multiplied that winner. So she's going to join us.

Chris Ryan life advice at the end get you ready for the weekend with great perspective on your problems.

And let's do this but let's start with this week's open this week's open is going to be a big draft recap because we already did that and I also as far as the free agency stuff happens will get to maybe just a touch of it here at the end and then Chris Ryan and I are going to talk about a little bit.

But I want to talk about value because I think for any one of us that really love leagues whether it's the NFL baseball member trade deadline all the hot stuff stuff and you be like oh that's too much for that guy or is there any way we can trade for a bullpen arm but in basketball.

It's always something that if you're a really big time basketball fan you understand some of the cap workings and how trades work and all this kind of stuff you're probably the guy that has a hard time explaining it to your friends just the other day Bill and I were complaining about talking to our fathers about Gordon A.

And both of our fathers are like yeah whatever you don't need to pay that guy 34 million is never hurt like no you don't understand you don't understand and he's still was just like to find about it as if I didn't understand the point that I was making about losing an asset versus losing money you can't spend.

But there's something happening in the league and I'm not even sure what it is it's not a complaint I'm not saying someone is right I'm not saying someone is wrong but I'm telling you in the last year or so I've had a harder time I think understanding what value is because value is a very easy thing to define in certain things.

Hey your services are available this is what the market is for your services you're selling a house this is what the cops are have a used car let me check the blue book see what the miles are and this is probably ballpark where I can do maybe a little bit higher maybe a little bit lower but there's a general idea of what value is and in the NBA whether it's picks players free agent signings which I still think you're okay but the picks and the trades and some of this stuff with other players.

I don't know that I understand what value is now I think a lot of things that are in play here one is if you talk to old school NBA front office people they will scream in yell that the league is just afraid to do anything and that there are too many general managers that have jobs where their job priority number one is to avoid being fired as opposed to being bold and actually making some trade so all these names that we had heard and it wasn't a ton but the same collection of five to 10 names that we heard were totally available on the trade market almost none of these guys are actually even traded yesterday.

A couple of pieces like a crisp all will see what happens with harden but whether it was some guys in the Pacers.

Different players with Atlanta you know I could just go on and on it's the same names even bring enough for a while but it didn't feel like there was nearly enough movement and I'd say halfway through the first round of the NBA drafts on Wednesday you're like wait like nobody's going to do something here that's a little bit exciting so there is a complaint that there's a lot of general managers operating from fear.

There's also an element of newer ownership of the last decade big money guys coming in and wanting to have more of a role with the franchise then maybe it's maybe previous ownership whether that's the children as I pointed this out there's a lot of franchises that they feel like the children are eventually going to take over and just like you I'm sure of all of a sudden I were worth a couple billion it could buy a basketball team I want to know what was going on I'd like to think maybe I'm a little bit more into what's happening in the game.

I don't know what's happening in the NBA but think about what you would be like right think about the times that you thought I could do that that was a bad trade I mean some of you guys think you can be baseball managers and you definitely couldn't just because you watch a lot of baseball but that's my point is that now we have newer ownership and because the profile of what a GM can't be when it used to just always be old school players long term executives and all those things and now we've seen whether it started in baseball it's trickled in a basketball it's been going on now for a little bit more.

It's been going on now for a long time this isn't necessarily new but the profile of a decision maker in an NBA for an office has changed so much that I think hey I'm the one that signed the check my son wants to run a basketball team one day or hey I own a basketball team yes I know you're a general manager or the president of the team but you know my son really really likes this guard and we should draft him all right so that stuff is really happening now the analytic department again nothing new this is going on well over a decade the influence there but when it comes to the

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