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Diamondbacks Zac Gallen & Merrill Kelly, Joey Chestnut, NBA Free Agency, Hot Seat/Cool Throne Plus Our Annual Dingers Only Fantasy Draft

2025/7/2
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PFT：我认为NBA自由球员市场令人失望，新的劳资协议虽然可能提高了联盟的竞争平衡，但也减少了休赛期的戏剧性。我建议联盟应该简化工资帽规则，摆脱“围裙”这种令人困惑的说法，并考虑引入随机的“无工资帽”时段，让球队可以在短时间内自由交易和签约球员。此外，我认为勒布朗·詹姆斯的影响力正在下降，他可能不再像以前那样能够左右自由球员市场。 Hank：我同意PFT的观点，认为NBA自由球员市场缺乏吸引力。我也认为勒布朗·詹姆斯可能高估了自己对自由球员的影响力。我支持PFT关于简化工资帽规则的建议，并认为联盟需要找到新的方法来增加休赛期的刺激性。

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The NBA free agency has been underwhelming. The new CBA is partly to blame, and the hosts discuss potential rule changes to create more excitement and chaos, including ideas like randomly removing the salary cap for an hour and designating one player per roster as cap-exempt. They also discuss the impact of LeBron James's presence on the Lakers and other teams.
  • NBA free agency deemed underwhelming
  • New CBA cited as a factor
  • Proposed rule changes: removing salary cap for an hour, cap-exempt player
  • LeBron James's impact on Lakers free agency discussed

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NBA free agency is underwhelming and we have some ideas on how to fix it. LeBron re-signed but also maybe wants to get traded. Winners and losers and Dame gets cut plus are the Bucks hoarding all the Gary’s (00:00:00-00:29:14)? Steelers/dolphins trade (00:29:14-00:35:44) and hot seat cool throne including Caitlin Clark fans are mad again and Shedeur Sanders found a mentor (00:35:44-01:08:25) . Diamondbacks pitchers Zac Gallen and Merrill Kelly join us in studio to talk ball in an awesome interview (01:08:25-01:58:35). Joey Chestnut joins the show ahead of his triumphant return to Coney Island (01:58:35-02:20:15). And then we finish with our annual dingers only fantasy draft where the only stat is home runs and the season starts July 2nd (02:20:15-03:24:28)

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