 What's the word, y'all? All right, so John Collins got traded like three days ago. I'm the last person to talk about it, but I still got a lot to say. And if you were wondering why, it took me so long to talk about it because I was doing other stuff and it was cool and I was on location and I'm finally home. So let's talk about John Collins getting traded from the Atlanta Hawks to the Utah Jazz and the Shades for Rudy Gay and a second round pick. Obviously, John Collins has been on the trade market for about three seasons now and they went from a team that was asking for a package that's similar to what Donald Mitchell got in his trade, which was a bunch of first round picks and young talent and one of those young talents that placed him in an all-star this season to now trading them away for practically nothing, trading them away for Rudy Gay who they don't know if they're gonna keep and a second round pick that is a second round pick. A lot of the times, these second round picks that are testing these trades don't even convey because it's like top 58 protected but it's just something for the fans to not get too riled up about. Well, I don't know, if you're an Atlanta Hawks fan, are you really that upset considering it has been three years on the market? Now with this trade, Hawks opened up like a $20 million plus traded player exception that they could potentially use in the next couple of days because free agency starts in about 24 hours as I'm recording this video. This type of deal might be changing the landscape of the NBA. And I don't mean that John Collins about to go to Utah, Natica, Tendo, whatever, but now because of this thing, the second aprons that we've talked about a lot over the last couple months since we found out what it was but because of the second aprons, some of these extensions that we've seen from years ago might be getting moved to teams that have salary cap because you don't wanna be near the second apron whatsoever. And if you're not completely sure what the second apron is, don't worry, I got you with this quote from Mike Skye. The NBA will revoke their taxpayer mid-level exception. They'll be borrowed from signing players on a buyout market during the season and they aren't able to trade for more money than they send out. They also can't trade picks seven years out and these are for the teams that exceed the second apron. And the teams as of right now that are basically at that spot are the Clippers and it's the Golden State Warriors. A lot of people believe that this was put into play to get more player movement so that we don't really have dynasties but there's more parody in the league. I know some players across the league like Jermaine Green hate this idea and some people really love it. They're teams that are dangerously close to it like the Bucks, like the Celtics, like the Suns, like the Lakers, teams that are competing and the Atlanta Hawks were a team that was pretty close to that second apron. So they looked at their roster again. This is a new guy in charge over there so it's no longer Travis Slake but instead it's Landry Fields. He looked at their roster and said, hey, we were competing for a playing spot and our roster is this expensive? I don't know if it's worth it. So we see teams making a bunch of trades over the last couple of weeks and how many of those trades do we look like or we look at and say, that team got adequate value for the talent. A lot of the trades that we're seeing right now is not talent-based when we're talking about what is being received. It's cap flexibility at the end of the day and that's what the Atlanta Hawks just did and I'm assuming there will be more teams, not just this off-season but next off-season that do similar things. And four teams like the Utah Jazz or four teams for these markets that don't really get a chance to sign top in talent, this is kind of a blessing for them right now because the Utah Jazz has got a talent like John Collins for practically nothing. Now, it is an expensive talent and the talent that has been like this over the last couple of seasons but as the peak of his power was he was averaging 20 points per game, 10 rebounds shooting like 40% from three, like that's the best version of John Collins and you look at it and say, hey, this is a cost that we can afford because we weren't gonna go out there and sign a big name player and free agency and we have to spend some of this cap. So let's go take a flyer on John Collins and if it doesn't work then that's okay and if it does we can flip them later down the line or it becomes a part of our core. A lot of people are talking about the fit between him, Larry and Walker Kessler. That's not extremely important to them I would imagine. We'll hardly show them that first year that his fluid offense can run a plethora of different lineups. I mean, we saw Larry, we saw Kelly O'Lennick and Walker Kessler play real legitimate minutes together and it wasn't bad. We saw them post trade that line not have one real point guard on the roster. Wasn't that bad? We'll hardly use an up and coming and really good coach and if anybody's gonna figure it out it's the young guy and it's the team that's trying to build something after being sellers just one off season ago. So now a lot of these contracts that we saw being given out to solid players but not the best players might be getting moved. You're gonna see a lot, a lot of rumors of people that still have three years left for their contract and a decent amount. Well, that's why we see DeAndre Hunter still. You're gonna see Karn at any towns because he's making a bunch of money. Rudy Gaubera's making a bunch of money. Anthony Edwards is up for an extension soon. Jada McDaniels is up for an extension soon. That team is about to get really, really expensive and they don't have a lot of success to show for. So you're gonna hear a bunch of rumors. Jordan Poole was moved for a bunch of different reasons but flexibility in the future is one of the main ones. Hey, he's promised four years, $140 million. We're gonna trade him away for this agent dude that only got one year left on his contract because we want that future flexibility. What if that is to keep the core together of the victory that has ran a dynasty over the last couple of seasons or think further down the line. The Pelicans are on the brink of being really expensive with their 330 plus million dollar players and Brandon Ingram, CJ McCullum and Zion Williamson. We already saw serumas around some of those dudes. I already mentioned like DeAndre Hunter as another example of this. But we're probably gonna see a decent amount of rumors and a decent amount of movement because also this Friesi class is not ridiculous. The best players in it are James Harden and Cary Irvin. And we kind of have an idea of what's going on there even though there's rumors this morning that Cary Irvin is gonna be taking a meeting with the Phoenix Suns. That this right here, Cary. Oh, this is about to go on a tangent. Cary can change the whole landscape of the future of the NBA. Where Adam Silver and company, and there's a new CBA that was just signed. Where Adam Silver and company are gonna be shaking in their boots if they could get a player of Cary Irvin's caliber to be like, you know what? I'm willing to take the minimum amount of money and go to a team and make it a super. I don't know, 10, 15 years ago, at the end of the day, the athletes are always gonna go for the money. Like we do see pay cuts, like James Harden took a pay cut to stay at Philly last season. But for the most part, his pay cut went, oh, I'm worth 40 million, I'm gonna take a minimum. It was I'm worth 40 million, I'm gonna take 32-ish. The worst thing that can happen for Adam Silver, for us fans, I don't know what it is. But for Adam Silver is to see more players end up being in the NBA for a decade, making a lot of money, whether it be through the NBA contract, endorsements and all this other stuff, and then feel, and when they're still in the peak of their pals, be like, you know what? I don't need NBA money no more because I still got this other stuff. Cary Irvin's a sign to an answer. Cary got a shoe deal money. Cary had Nike money. Cary had Max contract at the Max contract. He don't, maybe in his mind, he don't necessarily need another Max deal. So let's go have some fun and build a super team. Like if Adam Silver sees that, I don't know what's gonna happen. But it has been a players-driven league for some time now, so we'll see exactly what happened. Getting back to the Atlanta Hawks and the John Collins deal, I don't know what to expect. I've read a couple of different outlets that expects them to use that traded player exception. I've read other outlets that don't expect them to use it at all. I've heard a Pascal Siakam conversation with them like they could go a lot of different ways and part of that is because they got a new guy in town. And a lot of times when these teams hire new general managers, it's very similar to when you get a new owner. You got Matt Ishby to go to the Phoenix Sun and say, how much trade for Kevin around? Oh, I'm gonna trade for Bradley Bear. Oh, I might sign Cary Irvin because this is the direction I wanna go. And the same thing happens with a general manager. You inherit a team that's nothing like the team you wanna build. Travis Slake built this in the Atlanta Hawks team. It's cool, but me and Landry Fields, I don't really like the Landry Hunter. I don't really like Coca-Cola. I don't really like this piece. So I'm gonna make a lot of different trades. So that's what I'm saying. It's hard for me to grade it right now or even ever. Oh, so every trade don't need to be graded, ladies and gentlemen. But it's hard for me to take it at face value without knowing what's next. You know what I'm saying? If they use that trade to play an exception to get even better, then duh. But as of right now, it was just kinda we wanted to trade them away for three seasons and we finally did type move, you know? So the free agency starts tomorrow. We're doing a free agency stream on a through the wire YouTube channel. We are dangerously close to 300,000 subscribers over there. So pull up for the begin the free agency but we'll be live reacting to a lot of stuff. I am also still on tour. So July 9th in Las Vegas. So if you're gonna be a Summer League or you're Vegas native, I'll put the link in the description, ttwtour.com is completely free. Doors open at some time that's on the website. I don't remember. Just come in and show out and we are planning to have a special NBA guest. I can't tell you who it is because I don't even know who it is just yet. But it's somebody. At least that's what they telling me. All right, let me know if you're gonna pull up and yeah, yeah, yeah.