Portland Trail Blazers Offseason: Jerami Grant Trade Destinations (That Aren’t The Lakers)

Portland Trail Blazers Offseason: Jerami Grant Trade Destinations (That Aren’t The Lakers)

in today’s show Jeremy Grant isn’t getting traded to the Lakers at least not right now so where else might he land welcome to lockdown Blazers let’s get into [Music] it you are locked on Trailblazers your daily Portland Trailblazers podcast part of the locked on podcast Network your team every day what’s up world pass first point guard and Trailblazer reporter Mike Richmond you’re listening to another episode of Locked on Blazers part of the locked on podcast Network fail where if you get podcasts and also on YouTube thanks for making the show your first listen coming out to each and every weekday Monday through Friday so make it a part of your daily routine make your first listen tell your friends to do the same it’s locked on Blazers your team every day in today’s show we’re talking Jeremy Grant trade destinations I had a journey on the trade machine that I will walk you through in the logic of where things stand with the trade that just might not happen plus a listener question about some second round angst about how the Blazers approached the second round of the 2024 NBA draft I just want to set the record straight about what what to be mad about if you’re going to be mad and finally I watched the end of DeAndre aon’s Olympic Journey which came to a close in Valencia on Sunday afternoon I’ll talk about that because I thought da played well it was it was a a fun little a fun game um and uh then the Bahamas came up just short against Spain let let’s let’s talk about Jeremy Grant though uh we’ve been reporting this and by reporting I mean aggregating in an audio world but um it had been first reported by Yahoo sports like the week of the draft that the the Lakers were interested in Jeremy Grant and on that show like prior to draft night I laid out here that the Blazers or the Lakers only had two picks to trade 29 and 2031 due to uh picks that they owe to New Orleans and Utah in upcoming drafts and rules about trading draft picks consecutive seasons and also about not having like you know intriguing young players to trade they’re not going to trade Austin Reeves they’re not going to trade Dalton connect nowadays but even before the draft it’s like the the math was obvious it was going to be Gabe Vincent uh and Ru haimura and and the picks and probably and right there on the show one I I mentioned this before the draft one pick not enough two picks too much and then that would be kind of the impass and why and and where where the negotiation would happen that was me just guessing reading the tea leaves and understanding who has what to trade um since then people with varying levels of um Anonymous sources have have have claimed the same thing that the hold up is two is two draft picks the the Blazers want two draft picks like duh that’s why you listen to the show right because you can follow the logic um before some Anonymous sources can catch up with the the same logic you are following um no disrespect anyone’s Anonymous sources just like I I really really want to stress here you can do this in your own home you can you can just be you can just like map out the basic logic of how NBA trades work in your own home based on the little bit of knowledge you have the Lakers are interested what do they have to trade um but that’s the impass we’re at right it’s like the Lakers trading two first round picks particularly that deep out when your roster is includes a 40-year-old and Anthony Davis who will be 36 I believe in 2029 it’s like you don’t want to trade unpr two unprotected picks that far out for for Jeremy Grant it’s just not not a good enough player to trade so they’re at an impass that that’s the the Lakers interest in Jeremy Grant is real but the idea that they can get him um was always going to you know it’s going to be hard there was going to be hard for them to they’ve they’ve got very limited things to trade so what I did was I said well where else could he land because that’s what some of you have asked me over the over the course is like where else could he where who what other teams could be interested in Jeremy grants and the answer is it’s a small list like I I think first of all because it’s it’s a small list because Jeremy gr’s pretty good and he’s 30 years old so teams that would have interest in him are going to be teams that are much closer towards contending generally speaking like there’s always like the weird you know what what is Detroit doing type of thing uh and and some teams may surprise and I I guess like in general when I was like cooking up fake trades I would have never guessed that the Blazers would have sent out multiple first round picks in order to acquire someone like Denny ABIA so certainly things could could surprise right the Blazers can head in different directions that I might might not foresee but as just like looking around and clicking around on the various trade tools uh available publicly available trade machines on the internet um I’ve used several of them because some of them have weird weird math that I don’t think is correct um I don’t see a long list of suitors a lot of teams are just expensive and it makes it hard to work like you think like U you know I think Memphis is a team that could make sense for someone like Jeremy grants but making a trade work with Memphis is a little is a little bit tricky because of their financial situations situation and who they have to trade like um to some extent I think um getting involved in the Brandon Ingram deal whenever the the the if I should say not whenever but if the Pelicans were to send out Brandon Ingram trying to get be involved in that but what team wants four years of Jeremy Grant if you’re not going to want to pay Brandon Ingram next year and you’re the Pelicans like do you want four seasons of Jeremy Grant at $30 million it’s not it’s not that simple um other teams that maybe were in the mix and considering Jeremy Grant like Dallas have already made their moves um Houston it’s hard to cook up a deal I think he would help in the clippers but it’s hard to cook up a deal it’s just like look looking around and it it is it is challenging to see an easy one like I thought at one point maybe um the Pacers but they got a lot of they got you know they they’ve paid Obi toppen and and pasal yakum they they kind of have that Jeremy Grant’s position spoken for so who are like teams that are like playoff quality good who have $30 million of salary to trade plus aren’t um shut in impacted by league rules such that they couldn’t aggregate salaries and all those things like the first and second apron make this a little more challenging and without walking through every team’s financial situation I will tell you this I had a little trouble cooking up anything that I felt was realistic in the trade machine it was a failed trade machine journey I have one trade I’m going to present to you now and I’m going to tell you right now it kind of sucks it’s not very good it just isn’t um I’m not sure what like I I Come Away thinking here’s here’s the deal let me and then I’ll tell you why I don’t like it and I’m talking down my own tradeit here um the Toronto Raptors send osai agbaji and Bruce Brown to the Blazers in exchange for Jeremy Grant and the and the Raptors would send likely a uh a protected second round pick such that it would it would convey into um it it would convey to a protected first round pick such that it convey the second rounders pretty quickly because I’m not sure that Jeremy Grant for what the Raptors are sending out in the situation is worth like multiple first and the Blazers are they really going to send out do they want to send Jeremy Grant out and not get picks back osiak baji is is kind of the reason that I’m I’m I’m I’m pitching this tradeit is because he kind of fits what you what the Blazers have kind of said and it’s been reported that they’re after and like the den Avia trade what Cronin says he wants players right players that that he’s looking to add players to the team and and Denny Avia kind of fits this it’s like young player under team control contract and that’s and and that’s agbaji I I think he’s mostly a two um but the Blazers aren’t super deep at guard they’re pretty deep at they’re pretty deep but not very talented at forward and they’re very deep at Center um they could use more guys who could dribble I’m not sure agbaji follows that Bruce Brown is a bit of a ball handler he’s kind of a weird point guard on offense point guard SL Center on offense because of his position and like forward on defense he’s a weird he’s a weird player to fit in but I I think he’s pretty skilled I don’t think he would be a long-term fit but he’s an imminently tradable contract when he get to the trade deadline maybe you could flip him so you get your young player agbaji that you’re taking a flyer on your young Wing you’re taking a flyer on and Bruce Brown and you get you know whatever it might be say say you get like a 20 25 top 20 protected pick and the and and the Raptors easily say y it didn’t convey okay you get two seconds in 2029 and 2030 or something like that that that would be the deal because I don’t think you’re getting first in that deal right I don’t think you’re I don’t think you’re there’s enough value being sent there to get out to get first um it works because uh the Blazers have the Damen Lord trade exception about $8 million trade exception from the Blazers from from the deal uh with Milwaukee that they could absorb agbaji into and then you the trade for brown and uh and and Grant is straight up huh that’s not that good right that doesn’t but clicking around the trade machine I I don’t see one that is both realistic in terms of where he would land where Jeremy Grant would land on a team that would want him and brings back back the right type of things and fits the trade rules and like it it doesn’t seem to check many it’s hard to it’s hard to check enough boxes that’s the trade I came up with after I don’t know 40 minutes clicking around here’s what I will say though I think there is a world in which OKC is a very reasonable trade partner sometime in the future they just signed um Isaiah Joe and Aaron Wiggins to two multi-year contracts that are imminently tradable plus they have L Dort who’s in some ways overlapped by Alex Caruso’s skills and if they want more shooting on the wing and I think that’s something that could appeal to OKC because they play five out Jeremy Grant fits that and he fits like the sort of he could be part of a good defensive team I think he’s not an elite defender in of his own right but has the tools to be part of a pretty good defensive team uh and like they’re trying to win and he would help he would help um he would have to play in April I think he’d be okay with that on the right team but OKC can’t make that trade till the trade deadline which kind of here’s where I land I am having trouble right now in about the first week of July you’re listening to Monday July 8th show appreciate you listening um like I guess we’re in the second week of July officially like I’m having a little bit of trouble finding a reasonable landing spot for Jeremy Grant in the summertime if you have one email me lockon Blazers pod gmail.com you can leave it in the YouTube comments as well if you like it uh if you’d like to um if I find a really good one I will absolutely share it on the show but I’m having trouble just finding a realistic one one that’s like I don’t think like if I’m the Lakers I’m just straight up not trading to unprotected piics for Jeremy Grant and if they were the Blazers I would jump at it immediately if they agreed to it honestly I would un an unprotected 2029 pick from the Lakers I would I would talk about it they’re going to be I think they’re going to be bad like I I I the last decade of Laker basketball includes a championship and a lot of stinky years a lot of stinky years uh no doubt about it um I just I think we’re at a space when we’re looking you know and then things come up quickly and I don’t have you know concocting like convoluted three team trades is is maybe not my my greatest skill set that’s that’s it’s not my passion nor my skill set but I think all of this is to say when you ask like well where else would Jeremy go if he doesn’t end up with the Lakers I’m having trouble finding an obvious spot I’m having trouble finding an obvious spot that is legal and and and doable in July the Blazers aren’t in a major rush to trade him they don’t have a young player that’s like directly behind him he is not like standing in the way of Shaden sharp and Scoot Henderson’s minutes in the way that amre Simons is although that like if the three of them can play together for it might not fit but they could play together and each play a reasonable amount of minutes without much trouble um you just might have some stupid lineups out there but like uh Grant there isn’t like you know it’s like the blades aren’t like itching to play Jabari Walker 35 minutes a night or something like that like that’s just it’s not realistic and they don’t like they can’t get away with playing The Two Towers lineups for 20 some minutes a night next to each other so it’s like like Grant can just stay and play he’s under contract for four more years um he’s not asking to be traded although he did Skip exit interviews and you never know but like um you know he’s at least in in any public way he’s like you know on Instagram he’s like walking around North Williams taking photos looking like he’s having a grand old time and going to Paris and dressing fashionable as du upath told me this year the most fashionable person I’ve ever seen so like I don’t think there’s any crazy rush to trade Jeremy grants I am in favor of them exploring it but as I explore it in my very amateur way I’m not seeing an easy one if you have one email me locked on Blazers pood gmail.com I’ll share it on the podcast if it’s good if it’s bad I might just ignore the email but if it’s a good one I will definitely share it here because some of you are better some of you are better painters better Rembrandts than me when you get on the uh trade machine all of all of that all of that first 13 minutes of the show is to say like the Blazers are willing to hold out for a good deal for Jeremy Grant and that better deal I don’t know if you’re going to get a capital G good one but the better deals may come in season which means you just he just plays he just plays in the fall and and then they move on um speaking of moves the Blazers made or did not make I got an email from listener John S who asked me about the second round and had a little bit of angst about how the Blazers treated their two second round picks I want to just set the record straight about like where where your angst should be in my humble opinion uh join me in that second we’ll talk second round picks of the how Blazers approach approach the draft and 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Baseball all right let’s let’s talk second round picks we talked Jeremy Grant I’m not seeing an easy trade but let’s talk second round picks with the Blazers made many a trade uh they announced this week they made their their second round uh second round trades official Blazers first traded out of 34 to get future second round picks um and then they traded 4 the 40th pick back to 52 and then they traded out of the the draft at 52 uh and I got a I got an email from John S listener John S who was like basically like it doesn’t sit right with me that the Blazers traded their didn’t make any second round selections and trade a second the 40th pick in the second round for cash and then turned around and signed Justin manah like what are they doing this team is like in asset acquisition mode they should take every possible swing they can to acquire quality assets that seems like a very logical reasonable it’s why I’m sharing it on the show I I think that’s a logical reasonable take but I want to be a little more precise about what I think the the sort of where the an should be where the anger should be I mentioned this a bunch leading up to the draft is like 34 is a little too rich for a two-way deal so if you’re drafting someone at 34 you’re offering them an NBA contract like you got to offer them an NBA contract it can be one of those Mory specials where the first year is guaranteed and the final three years are non guaranteed or like a two with you know a three-year deal with two years guaranteed or a four-year deal with two and two like whatever it be like you can you can give a lot give yourself a lot of flexibility as as a franchise but 34 would be the highest selected player ever to take a two-way contract like that it just it just it would have been historic to have someone on a two-way deal so the Blazers heading into the draft with very limited um roster space they basically had when they took Donovan klling in they basically had one roster spot and when they made a one for one trade uh Malcolm brogs now dendi AIA in they didn’t create any roster space so they were basically full up and that’s assuming that they do continue you know uh with the non- guaranteed contracts of Tani Kamar a lock and Jabari Walker a damn near lock so they had basically one roster spot so when they didn’t choose 34 it followed that a few days later they exercised the team option on Delano banson now Delano banson like Choose Your Own Adventure right like I for me I might have taken a flyer at 34 over Banton but like I don’t know the breath of the draft and like the quality of players like I I don’t I I can’t pretend to have like a strong enough read on second round draft picks to know that they’re um certainly going to be better than Delano banson in the league what I do know is they be younger they be younger than Delano banson in the league but like effectively the same money a little bit less because Donald Benson’s been in the league longer but he’s playing on a minimum he’s just playing on a minimum for someone with a little bit more NBA experience but effectively the same amount of money um in the grand scheme of things if you the Blazers clearly liked Bandon or they valued his the flexibility of his partial guarantee and moving forward that will give him some some sort of wiggle room if they do make trades an easy player to cut and wave whereas a second round pick would not be that same thing because they’d be they’d have a guaranteed year um it like maybe they value that flexibility in that wiggle room more than 34 but like they chose banson over the 34th pick right that’s who they chose they chose Delano banson over the pick so that if you’re going to be mad be mad at that specific that’s the thing because banson fills up the roster at 15 34 would have done the same thing if you don’t you’d have to make a choice you’d have to wave banson they didn’t want to do that they clearly didn’t want to do that they you know when his guarantee date date came few days after the draft like a week after the draft they picked it up 15 full full boat 40 though is right in the range where you can sign a two-way deal 40 is a 40 is pretty reasonable to sign a two-way deal um some guys draft in the 40s this year I that I know of signed NBA contracts Johan Fury I believe um like 40 is 40 is you could probably negotiate a two-way deal the Blazer’s choice to not do that is a little bit odd I don’t know that it’s like a crime I probably don’t have enough of a I don’t have a strong enough grasp of every two potential two-way s on the market and you can cast a very wide net for two-ways to say that like not picking a guy at 40 to for the two-way slot it’s like a a crime right like it’s like is like franchise m practice it is a little it’s notable I think it’s worth saying like huh that this is a specific route they chose and they chose to get cash and whenever a team trades for cash twice and doesn’t sign a guy it’s like okay but depending on what they do with the with the two-way deals like they might sign someone you really like on a two-way contract and then you won’t really feel the pain of 40 so much so I’ll I’ll leave it at this like if you’re going to be mad about 34 the thing you’re mad about is Delano banson and I think that’s an okay thing to be mad about you can say like I’d much rather have a rookie at 34 than Delo banson I think that’s a totally reasonable take um I think that’s what John s’s take is essentially and that’s why I’m sharing it here but but 40 it’s like what do you value in a twoa like what if if there’s someone you had your eye on you say this dude would really would be the guy sure I’m with you but I don’t think I could say at 40 you looking at the draft class and say this person is guaranteed to be better than like any dude that I don’t know outside of the league or who’s going to be an undrafted free agent and maybe and and and perhaps this is the truth the Blazers said we look at 40 and there are we have you know 12 players in this tier and we know that at least three of them are not going to get drafted so we can just sign an undrafted free agent for that two-way spot and for our troubles we can get some cash considerations two birds one stone we get everybody’s happy because you get a little cash on the side for ownership and you still get the exact player you wanted under an undrafted as an undrafted free agent that you sign to a two-way deal and like you get it done the fact I think that is causing some angst is probably causing some angst for John S and many of you is like that they haven’t signed that uh that undrafted free agent yet I would say be a little bit patient there’s still some stuff to sh be a little patient not be a little impatient I would never give you that advice uh be be a little patient because like the Summer’s still going to shake out a little bit but you could I think this is worth noting that this was a little bit of a weird approach to the second round I think that’s fair um I don’t think it is like a thing to be up in arms about um and I don’t think John reading John s’s email that that John was was up in arms but I think there are I’ve had some other people who’ve mentioned it and maybe more aggressive ways in on the in the email lockdown Blazers gmail.com and I I just I want to be I I want to say like I think there’s some reasonable complaints to have but I want to be precise about I think what the complaints should be because I think pointing sake this is the thing that is they chose and I’m mad about it not just saying like they could have signed anyone they couldn’t have they made a decision they made a Delan o banson decision uh and so and if you’re going to be upset be upset with a fine point okay um DeAndre Aon played in the olymp the final game of an Olympic qualifying tournament in Valencia on Sunday and his team came up just short against Spain let’s talk let’s talk about what it looks like I watched the game um I thought it was an enjoyable one and da was Da was pretty darn good join me in that uh third segment won’t you first though want to tell you that Today’s Show is brought to you by better Help Therapy can be really valuable for you regardless of what you’re going through in your life if you’re going through a major acute trauma then therapy can be extremely valuable helping you navigate the challenges of a major traumatic event in your life but you don’t need to be going through trauma major trauma to benefit from therapy you can benefit from therapy because just life is hard and uh developing the tools to go through the minor trials and tribulations of existing in the world can make you help you get to where you want to go or at least like I said develop the tools to help you become the best version of yourself there are a lot of ways to to to uh to do therapy and better help is one of the most convenient and one of the most affordable so if you’re thinking about giving if you 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final spot or I guess not the final spot there’s a game tomorrow but one of the final spots in the Olympics coming up at the end of July and the Bahamas go home the game was in Valencia talking like a Sunday evening in the host nation’s backyard to go win to to make the um to make the Olympics not an easy game obviously a super challenging game and um okay real quick Rudy Fernandez with Spain sixth Olympiad he joins Diana terasi as the only basketball players in Olympic history to play in six Olympic Games six Rudy Blazer Legends um man two 20092 2008 Mike Richmond I was a pretty big believer in Rudy Fernandez his rookie season I was telling my friends I was a young man I was telling my friends I think Rudy Fernandez is better than Greg Odin I was wrong but I was saying it at the time okay anyways da um da and the Bahamas they they really really um they could have benefited from having a point guard they got dudes who are buckets buddy buckets buddy heels uh Eric Gordon EJ for my real heads if if you go way back e that’s Eric Gordon EJ um he he um is a bucket he’s not a point guard he’s a comboy guard um famously got mad when the Pelicans drafted another comboy guard um like neither of them are point guards VJ edcom is 18 he’s a wing like they just they don’t have a point guard on the roster and I feel like they were a little disorganized today they turned the ball over a lot against Spain and and that got him like the reason they lost this game is because they shot bricks in the middle quarters and um and then the second and third quarter they shot bricks and they turn the ball over too much da was pretty darn good he wasn’t like electric and I thought um I thought other like in the other tournament games that I had watched and I and I did not see the semi-final on Saturday um but but da was great in that game box score watching he was pretty dominant 24 and 17 but like in in the games I watched he just didn’t play against teams that had NBA caliber bigs right and he scored pretty easily and efficiently because he’s has incredible touch he scores pretty easily and efficiently in the NBA but I think um Spain has enough like NBA kind of like you know rotation he bigs with with Billy Hernan Gomez um and San Al dama who’s mostly playing power forward in in in this um in the in the Spanish lineups even though he plays like three and five in Memphis and usma garuba who I thought was um his physicality gave da a little bit of trouble um it’s just like you know I think Spain’s the number two team rank in the world in FBA and they just like they have the depth they have talent depth that um that the Bahamas doesn’t and I think made things a little bit harder on da a little bit harder though he still had 17 points 14 boards and shot eight of 14 from the floor Miss is only three so he shot eight of 13 from two um they didn’t really start going to him until the third quarter like they really started like and by going to him like direct post-ups he scored in other ways but like truly like throw it into the post until the third quarter they like really gave him touches and he was more efficient in the third quarter but like this game was this game was close tied at 17 after one um and Bahamas was led by six early in the third quarter and it’s like all right I think buddy heeld hit his hit one of his two threes um and it’s like in the early second quarter and it’s like Bahamas might win this like they’re they’re this is a team that’s good enough but they had really really rough close to the second quarter uh Spain hit two threes they have point guards Sergio Yu and um and uh Low brown uh go Wolfpack Wolfpack Legend Low brown my favorite Spaniard uh like they get they can run pick and rolls and get big guys easy touches and I thought Low brown wasn’t very good shooting the ball but he he he did a good job just kind of like making the making the Bahamas guard and guard and guard and guard and guard um and Sergio yul’s just like such a veteran like had a had a gross three at the end of the first half and like a really funny floater in the third quarter where it’s like that’s an old man that’s an old man playing basketball Bahamas just kind of they lost touch a little bit at the end of the second quarter and then never got back that was it it was just like two big threes late from from uh from Spain a corner three from Low brown and then a wing three from Sergio Yu and it’s like they just you know they got they got down by double digits and they cut it to nine at the end or eight or nine at the end at halftime and they but they just couldn’t get they couldn’t make real traction and make it close and they never really threatened uh again a bad close to the third quarter um that that was kind of a trend um and then the Bahamas came out and played Zone in the fourth quarter and it just like it didn’t do anything like it didn’t help um and it this really and I was I was kind of laughing about this I was watching it I was like this is a Blazers game this is a game where they were like you know you don’t think they’re going to win because it’s tough but they they hang tough in the game I have one stretch where they shoot bricks and buddy heeld just shot bricks that was kind of the difference in the game is Buddy heeld wasn’t very good VJ wasn’t very good either but buddy they needed buddy to be a bucket and he wasn’t I like you know the you you rely on a limited number of offensive players one of those players has a bad shooting night you lose contact you’re down you know between eight and 12 for a long stretch but you’re not out of the game and then randomly the team goes Zone and you never really threatened although you were like it was a six-point game with 90 seconds left and like but you you know it never actually was never actually threatened I feel like I’ve watched a lot of Blazer games that have follow a similar script and I think the Bahamas followed that one um the Bahamas are pretty good and da was pretty I don’t think da was dominant in this game but he does what he does like he just has great shooting touch um uh again like I think the the quality of Spain’s big men particularly on the offensive glass and just physically kind of um particularly early in the game kind of getting da out of where he wanted to be um I I think that was notable but Aon still like shoots really efficent efficiently can score over the top of anybody he had a he had a move against Usman gruba in the third quarter that was just was like you can’t guard him he he faked to the middle and went spun Baseline for a jumper and grba just went the wrong way and da easily uh hit a jumper it’s like dude dude has has th those skills he’s like out he’s from he’s from he’s like an acronis in some ways with a skill set but he’s from he’s outside of time but um he wasn’t the reason they lost I thought da was good in this game he just wasn’t great and um they probably needed him to be like excellent like best player on the floor quality and he wasn’t quite that um and his team mates shot bricks and that was the reason that they lost is because they shot some bricks and they turned the ball over like 14 times through the first three and a half quarters that I think you know buddy is a little bit older and and Eric Gordon’s obviously a little older but like edcom and and Aden could be around in a four-year cycle like very this team could be pretty darn good again um when they’re trying to qualify for the Olympics in La so I I would say keep an eye on this Bahamas team we’ll definitely track them it’s a bummer though because it means only one Blazers in the Olympics it’s just do op wreath because matis thel got cut and Shaden sharp was not um invited to to join the Canadian team because they’re loaded and he hasn’t been a part of the senior team very much and it’s this was Da shot and I was excited to you know to maybe get a chance to watch him in in uh in France but instead just doop and the Boomers and I guess we’ll track a lot of Boomer basketball coming up here uh in a few weeks that’s going to do it for today’s show uh tomorrow’s show we’ll do what we do more of this you’re listening to Monday show look for Tuesday show um there’s going to be a Denny AIA introductory press conference we’ll talk about that and more uh the rest of this week um tell your friends about the program five of them every single week or one of them five each week one every single weekday uh wherever you get Podcast and also on YouTube tell your tell your Blazer buddies about the program and then come back and listen to tomorrow’s show I appreciate you listening I’ll talk to you soon [Music]

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