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Hosted by Joe Manganiello 🏀 Deep NBA & WNBA Coverage 🎙️ Pro Basketball Negotiation Champion analyzing pivotal jargon & implications of the Hoops industry.
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Hard Reality of the WNBA Draft System:

- Draft selections between 2020-24 have played just 24.4% of potential games

- Career base compensation is just 32.9% of maximum potential earnings

- Only 44 out of 180 selections are on standard deals for 2025

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Hard Reality of the WNBA Draft System
A data-driven look at capped opportunity and the need to reform the league's faulty rookie pipeline.
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Latest episode of The Collective Basketball Agreements Podcast is a review of all 13 WNBA training camps:

- only 6 fourth-year Team Options exercised

- learn how some teams are carrying as few as 10 active players

- Te-Hina Paopao is steal of Round 2

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2025 WNBA Training Camp Review (Episode 021)
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May 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
WNBA's Hard Cap Forces Tough Roster Cuts During Training Camp — A Tradition Unlike Any Other
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WNBA's Hard Cap Forces Tough Roster Cuts During Training Camp — A Tradition Unlike Any Other
Few Fourth-Year Team Options Exercised & Many Talented Rookie-Scale Players Waived As Teams Maneuver on Salary Cap Margins
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May 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Cast & Quinta lose their mind, went crazy in this sketch. Great punchlines, costuming, escalation, nonsense. 2024-25 is one of strongest SNL casts in a while. I really enjoy so many of these performers, and it is built around Kenan, a generational talent.

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May 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Kenan Thompson is such a Hall of Famer. He comes alive midway through this sketch, ad-libbing with pace like a Hip-Hop star as other addicts reveal vulnerable truths, only to him it's just learning new ways to score.

"Days? That's that good-good, huh?"

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Addicts Anonymous - SNL
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May 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
New Podcast Episode of The Collective Basketball Agreements

Reckonings and Resets: Western Conference Teams Facing Big Financial Questions This Offseason t.co/kr0bFX9CFq
May 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
If the Bucks & Rockets make this Giannis trade before June 29:

- Bucks may waive Landale's $8M entirely.
- Bucks may decline Holiday's Team Option for 2025-26
- Rockets turn Brooks and Whitmore into Giannis and AJ Green
- Bucks receive 4-6 1st Round Picks & 2024 #2 overall pick
May 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Mock trade time:

🔁 Hawks get: Austin Reaves + Jared Vanderbilt (25.4M)
🔁 Lakers get: Onyeka Okongwu + Kobe Bufkin (19.5M)

Cap math works. No picks exchanged. Who says no?
May 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Hard Reality of the WNBA Draft System:

- Draft selections between 2020-24 have played just 24.4% of potential games

- Career base compensation is just 32.9% of maximum potential earnings

- Only 44 out of 180 selections are on standard deals for 2025

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Hard Reality of the WNBA Draft System
A data-driven look at capped opportunity and the need to reform the league's faulty rookie pipeline.
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May 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Houston Rockets 2025 Offseason Preview

Team Controlled Deals: 12 ($44.9M option for VanVleet)

Cap Holds: 3

1st Round Picks: 1 (lottery pick from the Suns)

Space: Over $40+M from tax line

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2025 NBA Offseason Previews: Mavericks, Nuggets, Golden State Warriors, and Rockets (Episode 018)
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April 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Golden State Warriors 2025 Offseason Preview

Team Controlled Deals: 9

RFA: Kuminga (cap hold is $22.9M)

Bird Rights: Payton II, Looney

Space: Only $7.4M outside of 2nd Apron w/ 14 players

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2025 NBA Offseason Previews: Mavericks, Nuggets, Golden State Warriors, and Rockets (Episode 018)
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April 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Dallas Mavericks 2025 Offseason Preview

Team Controlled Deals: 10

Player Options: Kyrie Irving, Dwight Powell

Cap Holds: 2

1st Round Picks: 1

Space: Only about $31M from tax line and $39M from First Apron

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2025 NBA Offseason Previews: Mavericks, Nuggets, Golden State Warriors, and Rockets (Episode 018)
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April 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Denver Nuggets 2025 Offseason Preview

Team Controlled Deals: 11

Player Options: Dario Saric, Russell Westbrook

Cap Holds: 2

1st Round Picks: 0

Space: Only $8.5M outside of Second Apron w/ 14 players

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2025 NBA Offseason Previews: Mavericks, Nuggets, Golden State Warriors, and Rockets (Episode 018)
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April 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Swin Cash is a basketball legend
Sources: I am told the Pelicans will be parting ways with Hall of Famer, Swin Cash.

Cash served as the Senior Vice President of Basketball Operations.
April 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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My favorite Rockets-Warriors statistical quirk: Because they kept fouling the shit out of each other underneath, the game had 94 missed shots but only 80 rebounds.
April 24, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Atlanta Hawks 2025 Offseason Preview

Team Controlled Deals: 10

Cap Holds: 4

1st Round Picks: 2

Space: Likely operating about $30M from tax line

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2025 NBA Offseason Previews: Hawks, Celtics, Nets
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April 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
2025 WNBA Draft Recap: Talent Boom, Roster Crunch, and New Dawn of Women's Basketball Beyond Horizon open.substack.com/pub/thatjoem...
April 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Really proud of my next two episodes of the CBA podcast 🎙️🎧

4/21: #WNBADraft Recap, including why the latent "OMG is Malonga unmistakable?" narrative surprises me (i.e., obvious Top 2 choice)🏀

4/28: Western Conference Offseason Previews, including 29 minutes on Dallas Mavericks🥶
April 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Is this an existential series for the Morant-led Memphis Grizzlies? They have plenty of room from aprons, etc. But free agency of 2026 will be an inflection point if there is no JJJ contract extension (limited to Y1 salary of about $32.8M due to 140% rule).
April 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
[email protected] captures powerful direction forward in team-building by @seattlestorm. This offseason could have gone 100 ways — huge win to flip trade demand into a new phenom.

Would they have taken Olivia Miles? Would LA Sparks have have taken Malonga?

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April 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Finally, after #WNBADraft Financial Fundamentals for two teams without change:

@nyliberty: about $290K in cap space before signing Burke, Harrison, or Johannes

@PhoenixMercury: about $495K in cap space with 7 veteran contracts & 9 training camp invites

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2025 WNBA Free Agency Recaps: New York Liberty & Natasha Cloud Trade (Episode 007)
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April 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
After #WNBADraft Financial Fundamentals:

@IndianaFever: $112,073 in cap space

Veteran Contracts: 10

Training Camp Contracts: 2

Dead money: 7.1 percent of cap ($106.4K) for waiving Katie Lou Samuelson

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2025 WNBA Free Agency Recaps: Indiana Fever (Episode 004)
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April 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
After #WNBADraft Financial Fundamentals:

@AtlantaDream: $145,365 in cap space

Veteran Contracts: 9

Training Camp Contracts: 2

Could sign #18 Te-Hina Paopao ($69.3K) and #35 Taylor Thierry ($66K) and stay ≈$10,000 below the hard cap at 11-man roster

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2025 WNBA Free Agency Recaps: Atlanta Dream (Episode 002)
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April 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
After #WNBADraft Financial Fundamentals:

Tidy work by @minnesotalynx

$67,829 in cap space (enough for minimum salary 12th contract)

Veterans & Rookie Contracts: 12

Training Camp Contracts: 3

Draft-and-stash: #15 pick Russian forward Anastasiia Kosu

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2025 WNBA Free Agency Recaps: Minnesota Lynx (Episode 006)
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April 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
After #WNBADraft Financial Fundamentals:

@LVAces: $217,365 in cap space

Veteran Contracts: 10

Training Camp Contracts: 3

#13 Aaliyah Nye made 100+ 3PM in back-to-back years, shooting 41.7% behind the arc as a junior and 45.5% as a senior

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2025 WNBA Free Agency Recaps: Las Vegas Aces (Episode 008)
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April 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM