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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: prediction
30 Sept 2020 Acquired The NBA
“I think maybe a maximum of eight teams at this point. They just kept it for a single year because whoever—I assumed the Knickerbockers—the teams were in the largest geos basically said, we're not doing this thing.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
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- Claim type
- prediction
- Recorded
- 30 Sept 2020
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- The NBA
Transcript context
…Yeah, crazy. Another crazy thing that will be a flashforward to today is in the first couple years, in the mid-1940s, the league created the salary cap for the first time in hopes to create a little bit of fair playing field among their very small number of teams. I think maybe a maximum of eight teams at this point. They just kept it for a single year because whoever—I assumed the Knickerbockers—the teams were in the largest geos basically said, we're not doing this thing. Couldn't help themselves from violating.…
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