Sam Amick

like the Bucks essentially took their offer and have been shopping that to everybody else.

Because they've been, as of late yesterday, and I know this, you know, and this is the time of year, it is what it is, runs counter to some of the other reporting out there.

But like late yesterday, Warriors had no counter offer from the Bucks and were just waiting for clarity.

That was also the case for Minnesota.

So people are studying the way the Bucks are moving.

They're not really going back and forth

They're kind of, you know, again, shopping and making people wonder, is this a legitimate let's get a deal done period?

Or is this a fact finding recon mission that gives you the intel you need going into next summer to know what's out there?

Yeah, it was, I believe it was just the Knicks and it was, and it was, the timing was so weird.

I mean, cause this has been written about and discussed, but

the Knicks were almost annoyed.

Like, why are you coming to us in, in August or September?

I forget exactly, but it's, they had given Mikael Bridges the extension that basically, you know, made a deal impossible at that time because he wasn't eligible to be moved for another six months.

It was kind of like, you know, if you, if like message to Giannis, if you were

In love with us, you should have come in May or June.

So by that point, it wasn't much of a discussion.

They're still paying a little bit of a price.

I wrote last week about how the Knicks, once guys' names get in the media with Carl Anthony Towns, knowing that this was something that was in play.

So I don't, to your point, Dave, I don't know that they really gathered much intel beyond the Knicks last year or last summer because they were consistently, you know, taking that stance of we're not engaging, we're not taking honest calls, and they were trying to add to their roster to keep them on board.

First of all, when I mentioned the possibility earlier –