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00:00All right, finally, let's wrap it up with the big NBA story off the court this week,
00:08which was Shams Tarana joining ESPN after spending many years at Yahoo and then of course
00:15at Stadium and FanDuel, if I'm not mistaken.
00:18It just seemed like the timing really is what aligned here.
00:21If Shams was not a quote-unquote free agent, I don't know that he would have been able
00:25to join ESPN as an insider.
00:27I've seen reports about finances that he's less than Woj.
00:30I don't know if any of these things are true, but needless to say, he's done a fantastic
00:36job breaking news for the past decade, and so this should come as no surprise.
00:40It should come as no surprise, Craig, and you're right.
00:43All that stars kind of aligned for him here with Woj leaving, and then we know from the
00:47New York Post that his contract was up with FanDuel at the end of the summer.
00:52Now, it looks like he will not be able to renew that deal with FanDuel because of ESPN,
00:59which you would expect, but Sam McQuillan got information on that and kind of confirmed
01:05that for us.
01:06So yeah, interesting move for Shams.
01:08We know that he won't match with the ESPN Sportsbook because they just don't do that
01:11with their personalities at ESPN outside of ads.