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Sep 2025
1h 5m

What you need to know about the NBA CBA

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About this episode

Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers are joined by Yossi Gozlan of the Third Apron podcast and Substack to discuss questions about the NBA’s CBA including why the Celtics are rebuilding this way and how fast they could recover, how soon can the Lakers get max cap space, what punishments can be levied on the Clippers, and many other in the weeds CBA questions only someone like Yossi can answer. Then they play a fun version of Andrew vs. the Beat.


Host: Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers

With: Yossi Gozlan

Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht

Audio/Video Producer: Monica Compton


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