Logan Murdock

He said something that was really interesting and poignant about the CBA.

The new CBA is incentivizing what Utah and by extension Indiana is doing.

You get a bunch of picks, cash them in for a triple J, but also tank so you can get another high caliber talent.

on a cost-controlled contract.

At the end of the day, you have three or four years before you can't afford everyone, so you're constantly in a cycle of overvaluing rookie contracts for cap purposes.

So basically, if stuff doesn't work out over one to two years, you basically just say, oh,

Let's try to figure out a new team.

Right.

And teams are that means we're made an environment where teams are just giving up.

So, hey, we can't really win the title and our books aren't great.

So we're just going to just start from scratch.

I don't know that I agree with Sam on this.

And by extension of that, I don't know how you remedy this because the cap makes it so restrictive to do a lot of things.

And I just don't know where we are right now.

I don't know unless you make a softer cap, which the owners aren't going to do at this point.

You're counting to catch one, too.

You are.

We were saying, you know, actually, he was on a minutes restriction.

No, he wasn't.

Laurie Markner was on a minutes restriction.