Fred Katz

And when you're talking about integrity of the game,

All sports has is integrity of the game.

I hate to sound like some sort of old school purist, but the reason why sports are attractive is because it's one of the few things in society that we can really look at is that is a pure meritocracy.

Whoever is going to score more is going to win.

And there's a difference between...

breaking it down and rebuilding and trending towards a rebuild.

And in the 48 minutes of competition, affecting the 48 minutes of competition, like it's different when it affects when the coaches are in on it, as opposed to just the front office and just the roster building moves.

Yeah, we can talk it through.

I mean, look, I think it makes trades honestly more interesting because you know what pick you're getting in the draft if you make a trade.

Like you can look at the wheel and if you receive a team's 20-29 first round pick, you know, okay, they pick fourth that year or they pick 17th that year.

And there's not as much...

guessing, you're guessing in terms of maybe what that draft class is going to be, but there's not that risk of like, oh no, this pick ended up being 29 and we thought it was going to be seven.

You know, it takes that off the table.

So I think it kind of makes trades a little bit more interesting.

It makes team building a little bit more interesting.

I'm not necessarily against that.

So can I throw something out there?

So they did increase the rookie scale salaries pretty dramatically in this most recent CBA.

And I'll tell you what, right now, Kings have the worst record in the league right now, right?

They just got destroyed by Utah.