Sam Amick

uh yeah i mean we'll have to find out that one you know um love you dave but that's one of those where it's like once we get anything there that'll be on the website you don't yeah yeah that's right what i mean it'll be after all-star before we know anything but

Yeah, for sure.

But I do think, you know, at minimum, you can share that like people around the league are wondering about that question.

You know, even related to Joe Varden and I had broken the news that Lawrence Frank, the head of the Clippers front office, got an extension recently.

And we didn't write the number, but the numbers you hear are pretty significant.

So that's another one where it's like, you know, is that a deal for the future?

Is that a

you know, thanks for the time in case you're in trouble type thing.

That's the backdrop and the mystery going forward here.

Yeah, I think they are, and they're just in this – nobody is in the type of hole that they are in terms of being limited because they're the only second-apron team in the league.

My understanding is that the DeAndre Hunter deal, the three-team deal,

trade with the Kings and the Bulls.

Essentially, the amount that they need to cut to get out of the apron and to be able to do some of this stuff, that cut off about a third of it, and they still have a ways to go.

I have not crunched all the numbers, but if you find a new home for Jared Allen and get that salary off your books, which that is something that would be appealing to a lot of teams out there, then

it opens up these possibilities.

Yes.

You know, first and foremost, the, the idea of them jumping into the honest sweepstakes, um, which, you know, is very unlikely given everything we're kind of laying out, but Giannis is one of those players that if you have any chance to go after him, you do, um, it, you know, if it's not Giannis, you know, I didn't write this part last night, but like they've shown interest in, uh, Demata Sabonis in the past.

Um, you know, I think, um,

Doing something like that is on their board, but it's just really tough to get there.

It is funny, though, you mentioned the LeBron of it all.