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Maybe something like that.
No, no, it's great.
It's great to hear you think about it.
I'll counter a little bit.
I'll slightly push back in that I do think,
that the intention of these players at the bargaining table and the leadership group is to leave the game better than how they came to it.
And while it's easy to think it is self-serving to go and join Project B, and it may be as well.
That's
come correct, meet the players where, where they want with a great share of the revenue in the business in this new CBA.
But what I'm seeing from project B so far, the consistent theme is these are players who are 32 and up.
Some of them are 34 and up.
You know, you're talking about players who, um, are, are, are older in their basketball career and they are fighting for the next generation in the CBA.
The people who will benefit from the WNBA CBA are going to be, um,
The next wave of college graduates, maybe the young rookies coming up, they're the ones that are going to start to see these big influxes of money and business and all this and that.
They're fighting for that.
However, it won't serve them for that long.
So what they're doing, while they're fighting for next generations in this current WNBA-CBA renegotiation, Project B is kind of a way of taking care of themselves in this current cycle.
And I'm not mad at that.
Wow, you just opened up a whole... They, much like people like yourself, much like the ladies of right now, much like the ladies of 10, 20 years ago, have put in the work to make it possible for this next group of players to benefit off of all this money that's coming up.
But the ones that are sitting at these negotiation tables, they also are using common sense that I can't be mad at, sweat blood and tears in, and taking care of themselves right now in the current cycle.