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Twas the night before the NBA trade deadline and all was quiet on the home front.

Will we get that blockbuster trade in the NBA?

I am skeptical, but we will discuss.

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If you like the transaction, raise your head.

My hand is up. I am a fan. I like the trade. I like it.

The swap meet is underway. The flag is up for the baseball trade deadline. We are just

hours or it's in the afternoon. I don't like it. I liked when they had it like at midnight.

Baseball would do that at midnight. They've changed this over the years. In basketball, it's like the middle of the day,

right? Middle of the afternoon. I don't like it. I don't. And I was

thinking about, you know, how do we position this? What's the position? What's the move on this?

It's a big day for woge bombs. Big day for

woge bombs. And I'm looking over the field here. I'm looking around. I'm like, I'm not seeing

a lot. Like, I can't generate much interest in Tyreek Evans. Right. And I don't know that anyone, even Tyreek Evans' friends aren't all that

interested in where he's going to end up. You know what I'm saying? I mean, if your buddies aren't

all excited, oh, he could end up with the Celtics. That's a game changer, all right? I mean,

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