Fred Katz

And my justification was...

people talk about he didn't make it, but my justification was people talk about Donovan Mitchell in this fashion, but Garland is the one Mitchell is, is their best player.

Yes.

And he's great.

But Garland last year was the one who ran the show.

Absolutely.

And he ran the show for the offense.

That was the most efficient offense in the NBA.

And then the fourth quarters too.

i think they're i think it'll be very difficult for them to make a trade of significance in season because of everything you guys just said you know them being they're the only team in the league over the second apron right now they have the most expensive payroll in the nba right now and that becomes incredibly difficult to make these kinds of moves because they're not allowed to trade more than one player yeah in the same deal because they're over the second apron but

They're not allowed to take in more money than they give out in a deal because they're over the first apron.

There are all of these restrictions on how they can structure trades and make these deals.

They can't trade with any team over the first apron, period.

Yep.

They can't trade with any team over the first apron.

So all those teams are off the table.

On top of that, there are an unusual amount of teams in the league that are going to be looking to get off of money before the deadline.

There are a lot of teams like S's Raptors who are just kind of barely in the tax.

Yeah.

Like no team like that.