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00:00Big trade just moments ago, so we get your instant reaction to the Jaden Springer deal.
00:05Yeah, it was always the most likely trade. I mean, they were chopping this in the offseason.
00:09It's a 22-year-old guy, and you would hope that his recent play would have given a little bit
00:14more than just a salary dump, but you save $15 million in taxes by getting rid of him. He was
00:18making $4 million on an expiring deal, so this was by far the most likely outcome, and it's not
00:24really surprising that it happened. So is it a move just to save money,
00:27or is it a move to get below, what is it, the second apron so that they can make another move?
00:33Yeah, they can't get out of the second apron regardless.
00:36But they didn't get under any threshold with this move. It's just a bookkeeping thing.
00:39This was a bookkeeping thing, yeah. So they just saved $15 million with the repeater tax.
00:43Does it free them up to make a move for a veteran on the buyout market,
00:47a little higher salary for that?
00:49No, because they'd still have to be under the mid-level exception.
00:51All it is is just saving Irv some money before he gets out.
00:54It was a book move.
00:56That was $15 million.
00:56What do I care about Irv's $15 million? I don't care.
00:58What do you care about Jaden Springer?
00:59But I don't know.
01:00That's a lot to pay for a guy who wasn't really playing night in and night out.
01:02Like, would you pay $15 million for Jaden Springer?
01:03He just played against the team they traded him to.
01:05He wasn't even in the playoff rotation, though.
01:07Okay, but would I rather have a player who has been in the rotation or save Irv some money?
01:12I'd rather have the guy on the team.
01:14No, I mean, I guess, but I don't think he does much. He averaged five minutes a game.
01:19But this move doesn't do anything. It doesn't do anything.
01:21It saves him $15 million.
01:22Yeah, it saves him some bucks.
01:23To use it for what?
01:24They're going to give it back to the fans.
01:28This goes right into Irv's pocket.
01:29What do I care about that?
01:30They're going to do a big money drop in the garden,
01:32and all the fans get to grab it.
01:34Here's Jaden Springer's money.