00:00Well, hold on, hold on.
00:01Why?
00:03That's my question.
00:04If you stop it as, hey, it's suicidal to go in the second apron
00:08because of a lot of boring things that I just talked about,
00:10I think we could all accept it or we could argue about it.
00:14Nobody wants to hear an owner who just made a fortune off a playoff run
00:20in which it cost you guys three grand to get in, basically.
00:24No one wants to hear an owner use, I can't write that big of a check.
00:29Now, tell me if I'm wrong.
00:30Is that what he said?
00:31That's exactly what he said.
00:32Okay, I have a little bit of an issue with it.
00:34The thing I don't and I can't find the details on is what does that tax look like?
00:40Three to one, $3 to every dollar.
00:41So $3 to every dollar you spend above that second apron.
00:46If you're in the second apron, yeah.
00:47So it's three times.
00:48It's ridiculous.
00:49I admit that, by the way.
00:50It is ridiculous because in theory, the way that you try to get the Knicks
00:56another championship is simply to run it back.
00:59You re-sign Mitch.
01:00You re-sign Landry Schammett.
01:02Hopefully, Jose Alvarado decides to opt in or maybe he doesn't.
01:06But whatever.
01:07Those deals ultimately put you over, maybe put you over.
01:12It will put you over because they were only, what, $3 million?
01:15Less than $1 million under the apron at the end of this season.
01:18Now, going into next season, I think they're $13 million under it.
01:21But those guys are going to cost more than $13 million.
01:23Just go above the apron.
01:25You get none of these penalties because they're your guys.
01:29Right.
01:29You don't, you're not changing your roster.
01:30You just got to pay the tax.
01:31Right.
01:32So those restrictions I talked about are not that big of a deal, especially when you're
01:36a championship team trying to run it back.
01:38Saying the check's too big, I don't know about you guys, I don't think we want to hear that
01:42from any owner.
01:43I don't think we want to hear that from Hal Steinbrenner.
01:45I don't think we want to hear that from Steve Cohen.
01:47And I certainly don't think you want to hear it from James Dolan.
01:49So I don't know if people took it a different way.
01:51Maybe Craig took it another way because he was obviously interviewing him.
01:54Right.
01:54That was a guy saying, I'm not writing that big of a check.
01:57What did Craig say in real?
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