Fred Katz

And it's because when you go into the second apron, you lose all of these resources for team building.

You lose the ability to make most kinds of trades.

You lose the ability to make most kinds of free agency sign-ins, etc.,

If there's one thing James Olin will do, especially after winning a championship, he's going to pay.

He's always paid and he will pay.

I've gotten exactly zero concerns about how much they're willing to pay if they avoid the second apron.

I think that would be on their front office, which is one of the most measured and kind of notoriously really good cap departments in the NBA, deciding that this is not worth it from the actual roster building strategic standpoint.

That being said, my opinion, if you're not going to do it with a team that just won the title,

And it's not like it was some flukish sort of group.

And it's not like it's a group with a bunch of guys who are past their prime.

I mean, all of your rotation players, save for Jordan Clarkson, are 30 or younger.

If you're not going to do it in that circumstance, with a group that likes playing together, that had no drama whatsoever, that was anything of consequence, if you're not going to do it for that, when are you going into it?

And maybe the argument is maybe a smarter cat person than me would argue you should literally never go into it.

It is literally never worth going into.

Maybe that's what somebody would make an argument for, and I would hear them out on that.

But, like, if you're not going to go into it after you win the title and when you have a chance to do it again, I'm not saying they will do it again.

It's really, really hard to repeat, and everything went right for them.

They stayed healthy, whatever else.

But, like...

It's not like there's some old decrepit team that's about to fall apart next year.