J. Kyle Mann

And so now with another pretty solid guard, you can throw Io, DiVincenzo, and McDaniels at the four, and one big, and just see how that looks in some matchups.

I get that you're paying Randall, Reed, and Gobert,

a gargantuan amount of money combined.

They're all, two of them are all stars in the, in the recent past.

One of them is a six man of the year.

They're all highly accomplished.

They all have to play.

I like, I've always liked having that look as an alternate in their back pocket.

And they have never been more well positioned to do it than they are now with IO there.

Um, I want to have one quick tanking conversation with you.

Can we do that?

Let's do it.

Um,

Because this is going to be the defining issue of the league big picture in the next six months.

I think the rules are going to look different by the 2028 draft at the latest, and they could look dramatically different.

I'm not sure what exactly will happen.

Passing any big, big change through the super majority of ownership that needs, let alone the players unit, is going to be hard.

But I want you to just have a thought experiment with me.

Okay.

OK, let's posit a couple.