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Numbers on the Board.

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Mike, what day is it?

It is Frye to the Ye.

It is Frye, ladies and gentlemen,

which means that we're going to be answered your questions later on today's show. We got some NBA news. We got NBA play-in preview. And I will remind you if you want to see our full playoff predictions. That episode will be up exclusively on YouTube tomorrow. So tune in. Fellas, how we doing? It's good, man. It it's Friday it's nice out it's 80 degrees

you ain't got to do hey I love when he's like starts it off with him just doing good you know

I'm a matter of fact typical I'm amazing I love when the weather is talked about at the top of

every show yeah the weather is a big deal here you mean you wouldn't notice that the weather is what

it's going to be because there's looking like he going I I read and I got the weather wrong he told me it was going to be 80 today I was like I looked at that completely wrong what you thought was going to be eight you flip the no I just I didn't think it would be 80 I thought it said like 70 I don't know I didn't even know it's still a little warm I was half asleep when I looked at it, so I just... A boy still trying to figure out, is that an eight or seven? How do the rest of y'all feeling? I'm feeling good. I see Mike got some Adidas on. I do, I do. They got my little stripes on. You know, when guys come here with brand new shoes they be feeling acting different so what

they be singing new shoes new shoes yes i feel all right i heard there was no drop the mics from

get right into it yesterday right after we take the episode uh we found out that k cunningham and luka

don'titch are eligible for awards all NBA and so on and so forth after putting together the exception we also found out that Kay Cunningham and Luca Dantzich are eligible for awards, all NBA, and so on and so forth after putting together the exception. We also found out that Anthony Edwards also tried it, and they said no to Ant, but yes, to Cade, and yes, to Luca. First of all, before we kind of redo all NBA, now that these two guys are 100% under, how do y'all feel about the exception being granted to these guys, but not Anthony Edwards?

I'm not really feeling no type of way.

I felt like Kate and Luca were locks for first team, and they were having MVP-cali-season.

So I can kind of understand them being a little bit more lenient with them and not so lean with Anthony Edwards.

I'm not really tripping about it.

I would have loved to seen Anthony Edwards be on there because he is going to be a staple for all NBA for the next couple coming years. He's been there in the past. So it is what it is. He missed one year, but I'm not tripping. Do you think that they made the decision based on those two guys being all-N-Bay first seeing contenders? Yeah. I think that. And also probably Luke also had a baby. So there was, but Kay didn't have a baby, so I don't know. I think it's, I think it was a make or break year. Not even make a break year for the league and Adam Silver in this decision. But this was going to be a test for it. And I think I mentioned that early in the year of just how big it was going to be because we got players like Luca and Kade that's coming up and even to even Wemby that's come up, it looks like they're coming up short. I didn't think everybody was going to make it. Like if he had everybody kind of apply for it, just kind of game through, it would have been like what do we kind of even have it for? I think that he had to get some people in because if Luca didn't get in and Kay didn't get in, the fans and a lot of people would have looked at it, like, I hate it. So I think there had to be a middle ground, and I think Anthony Edwards got the short end of the stick. Guess what? I still hate it. Yeah. I think that even granting any access means that the rule probably shouldn't exist in the first place. Right? I think that, you know, when it was initially signed up, it may sense to a lot of people, hey, we got a lot of star players that are sitting out because low management, if we make it incentivized to play 65,

then boom, it'll work. And for the first year and two, it felt like it did work, but now

it's been de-incentivized because a lot of people that won't make it, whether it be Anthony Edwards

or now Luca or Kay Cunningham, who have been greenlit, it just doesn't feel, I think that

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