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you doing? I am gobsmacked? Is that thunder? Thunderstruck? It's this
is nuts. This is a wild trade and it's kind of like it makes
sense, except it also makes no sense, right because like, I mean,
we can get into it, but it's just my initial reaction was,
wow, that's shocking. But then like, if you're going to trade one
or the other of these guys, it sort of had to be for one
or the other, right, that was the only way that this was going
to happen. Well, so quickly the terms of the trades as it wasn't
just a straight up swap was Westbrook goes to Washington, and then the Rockets
are getting John Wall and their dollar amounts, by the way, for the
next three years are about dead. Even John Wall is slated to make he
has a trade kicker, but that will be paid by Washington because I don't
think he waved it. But their salaries are basically dead even I think Wall
makes like four hundred k more over the life of those three years. So
Toby Fertita's probably a little bit pissed off, but basically identical. The Rockets
also get a first round pick from Washington in two thousand and twenty three.
It's lottery protected, then then it's top twelve protected in twenty twenty four,
top ten protected in two thousand and twenty five, and then it's top eight
protected in two thousand and twenty six. If not conveyed by that and it
turns into two second rounders. That is significant because when you go that far
out, it makes it harder to trade future picks just down the line,
like you can't guarantee they'll convey basically, and so I don't know what the
best way to do this. Is, let's maybe we should break it down
by team, like what would you you know if you had a grade this
rate this, what were your impressions of it? For let's start with whatever
team you want? Start with one team you're pick? All right, well,
so let's let's start with Houston. Uh So, I mean, obviously
this, the fact that Houston is getting the pick suggests I think correctly that
you know, for all as flaw as Westbrook is a more valuable asset than
wall is, right, like, you know, whatever, what however you
want to value that pick. It's like it wasn't straight up, So I
think that's I think that's right. I think and and but but I would
say that so for the Rockets, uh, I guess basketball issues aside,
the Westbrook thing was just not feasible to continue because he wanted out. And
I guess maybe this is reading too deeply into it, but or could be
reading too deeply into it that you know, Harden wanting out may have had
something to do with Russ being there. I don't, right, because he
did say Rus said he wanted to go back to like being more of a
floor general, which is like, you know, there's gonna be some Bradley
Beal's more plug and play than most stars, but like that's still like you're
not going to be necessarily the unquestioned alpha and Washington. But also, if
he wanted to play that way, there's a good chance that you'd eventually be
able to play that way in Houston once they inevitably trade Harden. But sorry
to interrupt you, that was my non't know. I'm this is going to
be a very meandering set of opinions just because I told you before we started,
like I deliberately didn't read anyone else's opinions on this because I wanted to
kind of approach it sort of fresh, and so I guess as I'm sort
of talking it out, I think if you, if you want to make
the case that this move, one of the effects of this move is that
James Harden is now happier and is going to stay or at least make few
waves. I mean, that's I guess you probably have to label that the
biggest win by any party, right because I mean, however you feel about
Harden, but like, if he's happier with this setup than the previous one
and is more likely to stay, then you know that's not technically a part
of the trade. But if that's the ultimate effect and that's a massive win,
I we you know, I guess I could throw to you on like
the actual fit issues on the floor. I think some of the problems that
Westbrook presented will similarly be presented by Wall, assuming he's healthy enough to play,
which obviously is maybe the biggest overarching unknown of this whole thing. Right
it seems like it seems like Houston is taking on more risk here because of
Wall's health, even though Westbrook has you know, injuries in his past,
multiple knee surgeries. But Wall hasn't played since December twenty eighteen, and we're
talking about you know, he's dealing with bonespur issues, Achilles issues like those
are a red flag key Like Westbrook relied a lot on his athleticism, but
he's coming back from an injury where it's supposed to basically sap you of it.
And then you're also dealing with James Harden's future, so you have to
factor those two things in. I do think there will be a similar fit
issues, but there are two ways that I think it could improve. One
John Wall Westbrook is probably the better cutter, and particularly if he's going to
be more athletic than Wall. But Wall over his last three seasons, so
we're talking about between two fifteen and twenty eighteen shot thirty eight point seven percent
on catching fire triples and it was on appreciably more volume than Russell Westbrook,
who since twenty seventeen his last three seasons is that thirty one point six percent.
And so if you're going to have him off the ball, I think
the spot up shooting from the outside is way more important than his ability to
cut. And if you're gonna play four or five out anyway, he'll find
seems so I think he's a better fit that way. I also, if
you're willing to play differently, I think he's a better fit then Russell Westbrook,
who is like a good passer, but I feel like he does it
as a last resort where Wall like lives to pass more, and so are
gonna put the ball in his hands and you're willing to get James harden one
moving more or just to take more catch and shoot shots in general, because
I think eighty five percent plus percent of his baskets went unassisted last year and
that was actually I think he had more the season before I think even a
higher percentage of them were unassisted. So I like the fit better. But
it's like only in theory because it's prodded upon Houston playing differently, like Harden
has dominated the ball as much as anyone statistically other than John Wall over the
past half decade. When you look at possession time, that was per Kevin
Pelton of ESPN. I'm not coming into this as blind as as you are.
That is the only thing I read, though, how dare you?
So? I like it from that perspective. And the final thing I'll say,
I'm not saying this is a flat out win, but if you were
to trade James Harden now, John Wall is going to have less of an
impact on your bottom line win total without Harden than I think Westbrook would like.
There's a chance that if you had Westbrook without Harden and whoever you get
in a return, not that you're a playoff team in the West, but
that you sort of amble your way into a play in seed where I think
if you have John Wall and let's just say whatever return you get from the
Nets, if that's the team Harn goes to, I actually think you could
classify the Rockets as one of the three or four worst teams in the West,
without question, and so they would really drum up their lottery odds there.
I'm not trying to, you know, poke at John Wall, but
he's coming back from a bigger injury, and just because he's not as polarizing
of a scoring presence when he's on his own, if you're going to rebuild
in your Houston, that's like better bad money to have on the books.
Does that make any sense? So you're saying that, I don't want to
put words in your mouth, but it's like, essentially Westbrook is the better
floor raiser, Like Westbrook will get you to the playoffs? Is that whereas
Wall with a you know, theoretically identical supporting cast like Wall plus players X,
Y and Z versus Westbrook with players X, Y and Z, the
Westbrook version is better. Is that what you're saying? Yeah, but like
Westbrook without other stars is going to go further than a team that has Wall
without other stars. And when I think Wall might be a better fit to
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First terms and condition to apply. Yeah, I think it's been fairly
clearly demonstrated that Westbrook does not improve the play of other high end players around
him. You know, I think I feel like Westbrook is the type of
player that at least this version now. I mean, it's maybe not fair
to you know, what was age twenty five or twenty seven Russ, Like
that could have been different. But but now it's kind of like if you
have Westbrook in charge of a team, it's sort of gonna be the I'll
get the years wrong. Do the eighteen nineteen thunder right, like whatever they
won? They were the sixteed or something like that. Oh yeah, it
was that sixteen seventeen is like you're talking about with al Paul George or with
Paul George. Oh jesus, I don't even remember the last the last uh
whatever, you know what I mean, like after left right, yeah,
seventeen yeah, so so and even really after that, you know, there
there's I don't think anyone would argue that Westbrook, uh, you know,
really elevates the level of play of other guys around him. I think it's
more like if you're good enough, like a Kevin Durant or whatever, you
sort of learned to stay great despite Russ, uh, you know, playing
the way that he does. I hope that doesn't sound unfair, but you
know, you know what I mean, And I think Wall to your point
earlier, I'd go a step further in essentially agreeing with you that Wall is
kind of like peak. Wall is a genius passer, right, and you
know, you can look up these reels of him hitting you know, the
opposite corner three. There were stats that you know, back when we used
to write about John Wall because he was playing basketball. It's just like the
percentage of corner threes that he assisted was like off the charts. He led
the league one year. He was always way up there just finding that guy.
And that's that's a sort of a microcosm of the way that he sees.
He sees the angles and he is He's reacting and reading in ways that
I think. I totally agree. Westbrook is like head down, barrel into
a crowd, and because I've drawn a crowd because I might dunk on three
guys someone's open, I'll crazily throw it back and that's an assist like those
are not. You know, Westbrook has had some has had several really high
assist totals. I would and the fantasy basketball crowd would disagree, like he's
actually I don't think Westbrook is a good passer like full stop. I think
Wall is one of the best passers in the league over the last decade or
so, so that, to your point, is why I think maybe he
gets a little more out of the whatever hypothetical supporting cast you might build around
him a post Harden trade. But yeah, I think I don't want to
just make this whole conversation about one issue, but John Wall has not been
good since twenty sixteen seventeen for a full season, because you're looking at the
last two years that he was healthy. It was thirty two games and forty
one in seventeen eighteen when he was an All Star, but the numbers were
way down over the previous year. Then Anyway, I mean like there is
a strong possibility that the version of John Wall that we see resembles like basically
nothing, you know, that of what we're familiar with, And so from
Houston's perspective, you know, the potential loss there is is just massive because
I think heading into this season you would have said John Wall was probably the
league's worst contract, and then I think the Russ hate kind of I don't
know, push people too far one direction on him, like these are not
equally bad contracts, and it's strictly because of the massive downside risk with Wall's
health, right, and I don't know if that's like if Harden stays in
Houston, that might be the last element to talk about with Houston and all
this is does it help or hurt their chances of convincing Harden to stay at
least through the entirety of next season. But Wall is inherently lower usage to
begin with, I think just because he's more of a pass or even though
if you look on like drives and stuff, Westbrook might actually pass on a
higher percentage of his drives. I think over the past few years. I'm
looking at their healthy seasons, but because Wall is lower usage, I mean,
if you're looking at this is since Kevin Durant left Oklahoma City, the
two highest usage players in the league, James Harden is one, Westbrook is
two. Wall comes in at twentieth and so that's a only one hundred and
fifty one game sample. But he's also played beside. I wouldn't say Pete
Bradley Beal, but a really good version of Bradley Bale. So there's like
more of an element of being used to trading off during this time and if
you are injured or not yourself. Maybe it makes it easier for him to
acquiesce to Harden than it would for Westbrook, which in turn, I think
just makes the Rockets better by default, not addition by subtraction wise, but
just you're going to optimize your team's play style on more possessions with John Wall,
regardless of what quality of player he is. Then if you have Russell
Westbrook, it puts more of an onus on James Harden. But like that's
a better way to play than to kind of split time with Russell Westbrook At
this point, in my opinion, I think too that you know, we
have to assume that if Wall is healthy enough to play like a normal minutes
load, that they'll stagger the two of them, him and Harden. And
I wonder, now, you know, Houston was really sort of is habitually
really thin because they just have one guy dribble and then everybody else, you
know, is standing around shooting. And that's maybe not fair to previous iterations
of the team. But like we forget that there was a Chris Paul era
of the Rockets. It feels like that was ten years ago. But man,
think about what they turned Chris Paul into by the way, they turned
Chris Paul and four first round picks into twenty twenty three protected first and John
Wall, Like that's just we can go back to look at what they used
to acquire Chris Paul, which I think was like super reasonable price when you're
looking at the role players they give up. But like that trade tree is
bizarre, and you could probably also throw like Daryl Morey and Mike D'Antoni,
and the opportunity costs there as well. Right man, there's the tentacles of
this thing are real long. No, I mean just mean I think so
Houston, I think depth is now a premium because so if you have Wall
essentially being the primary ball handler, and when Harden is not on the floor,
I think it's I guess it's you know, you're always just going to
be like, well, we need shooting in defense around our guy, you
know, our primary ball handler. But but it's sort of like I kind
of like the idea of Wall running like a quote unquote second unit more than
Westbrook, just because I think there is the chance that you know, Wall
might I think, no, not might. If he's healthy enough to play,
Wall will sort of get guys more good shots then Westbrook would have and
I and I also think that Wall's defensive reputation has been a little overblown,
but he was on an all defensive team, and Russ I think, I
mean, one of the most frustrating aspects of his entire career is that he's
just never committed to being a good defender. And so Wall, I think,
especially if if you subscribe to like always got something to prove kind of
angle to this comeback, I think Wall should. It would be difficult to
give less value than Russ Gabe defensively, so I think Wall maybe helps there
too. They also can maybe hide him a little bit better, just because
you have if David Nwaba is healthy, you have Sterling Brown, you have
Daniel House, you have PJ. Tucker, So like you can kind of
play matchups more so with Ball because he is on the bigger side for a
guard, so you can maybe I mean when he's on the floor with hard
and you have to consider that, but you can set in second unit you
might be able to stash him better than you would rest Brook. And then
the other thing I'll say to your point before I let you continue, was
just I like it better when you look at the players that are in Houston.
The idea of Wall running a second unit where it's like, yeah,
Christian Wood and Eric Gordon, like they can work alongside Russell Westbrook, but
I feel like they make more sense next to John Wall, particularly someone like
Eric Gordon who wants to put the ball on the floor every once in a
while, and even Christian would like that's something he did really well in Detroit
the latter part of this season, so that, in theory, just makes
more sense. I agree. I mean, I'm sort of shocked that the
more I kind of roll this around in my head, the more I sort
of intrigued and maybe like the Wall edition of the Rockets more than the Westbrook
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Washington. Do you want to kind of go there? Do you have thoughts
on like what this means or what this might do for or not do for
Bradley Beale? For you know this, you know they've got Denny idea.
Now, I mean not that you want to consider a rookie what's going to
happen to this rookie when you're making a superstar trade? But what are your
thoughts on the Washington endo? Unless you have more on Houston? No,
I think that's just for Houston. It comes down to was just they're taking
the bigger whisk because you don't know what Wall looks like. But there's a
chance that this ends up paying off for them. I think regardless of like
it could be worked, I think they straddle two lines better now with Wall,
where it's we don't know what's going to happen with Harden, but in
the event he leaves, I think you've set yourself up a little bit better
to rebuild without being stuck in the middle during that time. And that's equally
huge for Washington. Really quickly on my end before I throw it you,
I get the logic here, because Westbrook should in theory because of how he
scores. And you know, the reason Houston gave up so much to get
him in the first place was his durability, and you can say that he's
more durable than John Wall. You've now lifted up the minute you will play
without Bradley Beale without necessarily crippling the minutes that include Bradley Beale, just because
again he's used to playing with John Wall, who's someone who I think you
would argue is going to look to generate shots for others more often even and
again this does go against like some of the passing numbers when you look at
passing per game, percentage of passes thrown on drives, but a lot of
that has to do with just the sheer volume of it all. But Bradley
Beale, I think is one of those guys who can play alongside. He
had the fifth highest usage rate in the league last year. But he is
one of those guys who can play alongside everybody. Last year, specifically,
he shot thirty eight percent on catch and shoot threes, which accounted for almost
a fifth of a shot attempt. So increasing that type of shot type for
him is hardly a bad thing. I just and look, the opportunity cost
is fairly reasonable if you end up not being in the lottery like during this
time. But when you look at how far the pick conveys out, there's
a chance that you are in the lottery, because even if Beie eventually wants
out, you have these two years after this, one of westbrook who could
still kind of keep you in the middle, but like not super close to
the playoffs, Like maybe Russell Westbrooks gets you to the playoffs in the East
to where that pick is you know it will convey, but also maybe he
doesn't, So there's a ton of risk there. It feels like they I
would have liked to have seen them give wall And one more chance. It's
basically where I'm landing with this. I don't know Wall's their ability was too
much of an issue. He seemed disenfranchised with the organization. You wrote about
it. He requested a trade on the first night of free agency basically,
so that factored in. I understand it. I just don't. I really
don't love it because like, what if does this convince Bradley Beal to stay.
If it does, then maybe that's the win. But if it doesn't,
like now you're you're in the spot that Houston was where if you trade
your best player, you're sort of consigned to I call it like the subflooring,
like it's not quite the basement, but like you're not good enough to
do anything special. Yeah, I I you know, we're talking a lot
about floors, but I think I think this is a hot floor talk podcast,
talk about some laminates, some some underlayment they know, like he so
I think Westbrook raises the Wizard's floor. And I don't even know what that
really means because I don't know where it was before. But it's like if
Wall had just not been able to stay Hell and you're just basically the same
team you were a year ago, which was like great for Bradley Beal because
he got thirty a game, but you know, they were just they couldn't
defend there. And I still don't think they're going to defend. They may
be even worse. But but like Westbrook, I think is going to be
on the floor. So if that means that they have him, you know,
X percent chance a better chance of you know, being the get I
mean, they're gonna I would be surprised if Washington was not in the play
in scenario. That's also the terms we have started thinking of like our right
playoff team in now. So you know, I think whereas the downside with
the Wall version of the team was lower than that, I think it could
have been the worst team in the East, you know, depending on what
Cleveland and the Knicks and whatever else happened. But I guess like this all
just sort of a rose out of a circumstance which has never made sense and
will never make sense to me, which is that Wall having like zero leverage.
I mean, I guess he had less leverage, you know, the
day after he had surgery. But like, this is a guy that hasn't
played, as we've said, in more than a year and wanted out.
Suddenly it just goes to show we don't really know what's happening behind the scenes
with any of these teams, because you know, this didn't just arise out
of nothing. But it's it's gonna be difficult for me to sort of wrap
my head around the idea that he had. He not only had the like
I don't know what you want to call it, the goall I guess,
or something less strong than that to demand a trade or ask for a trade,
but then he got it like yeah, I mean, I just I
mean, of all the of all the contracts that are just impossible to move.
So I don't know, I guess. I guess. The Bial angle
to me is kind of maybe the most concerning because it did sort of seem
like outwardly that he was down to play with John Wall again, if not
like excited to do it. Maybe that was all fake. Two. Yeah,
I mean you had Tommy Shepard kind of coming out and calling it Bel's
team, and it feels like, yeah, that's something that could have definitely
rub the Wall the wrong way. Yeah, I guess. I again,
Like, but so from the Bield perspective, the question is, because Bill
has been pretty consistent in the messaging and like I want to be here,
if that had a lot to do with Wall, then like this might not
be great because then you're looking at the possible scenario you were talking about,
which is this is just a Russell Westbrook and a bunch of dudes if they
have to move Bill, although you're gonna get plenty for Bal so that's a
positive. But but I don't know that if the goal is to retain bal
if this is a good step. Although if Wall wants out, then he
wants out. You know, I don't know. It's it's kind of a
mess. They've definitely raised their immediate ceiling where I think I would be more
likely to pencil them into the top six teams in the East. Now I
wouldn't, but I'm saying they're more likely to get there and not have to
deal with the play in then they were with Wall, who would probably look,
we could probably write him out of every single back to back this year,
so that's like thirteen to fourteen games. The other thing that's interesting to
me is immediately like I don't know, I mean, in Houston they definitely
had the war balance, but Washington does have like a ton of shooters.
They have, Yeah, you know Garrison Matthews, two white player who I
think is actually going to be on an NBA roster one day. He shot
fifty four point five percent in a small sample on wide open threes, Davis
Burton's forty seven point seven percent, and he's launching those bad boys from like
thirty plus feet out. Is Schmid forty four point three, Thomas Bryant,
who turned into a really viable three point shooter last year forty three point four,
and actual volume Bradley Beal forty one point eight, Troy Brown forty one
point eight, Essak Banga thirty eight point six. So like he's gonna be
around plenty of shooting and there will be four out lineups around him because Thomas
Bryant can shoot threes, and maybe you're more likely to go to Davis Burton's
at the five and just never defend anybody again. So I think immediately it
helps, But does it have a chance of helping to the extent where Bradley
be able to look at this team be like, you know what, there's
a clear path to something really special here, And I don't know that it
does, unless I'm curious to see what you think before we get you out
of here, because I know you have to go, unless like Ruey Hachimura
or Denny Avia, like really just pops like those are now your only swing
pieces because you're not going to have a top draft pick this season, and
that's regardless of whether you keep or trade Bradley Beal. Yeah, I think,
just as you're talking, I think there's a really good case to be
made that this is a better situation to get more out of Russ for the
reasons you mentioned, just specifically the shooting a second star that actually and again,
Bale is just the super rare, high high high end player that really
makes a lot of sense as like a one A. Even if he's I
think he's a better player than Russell Westbrook right when Westbrook's on the floor,
it's just you play a certain way. So that makes I think Westbrook is
set up to succeed better than he was, better than he was in Houston.
But the Beal thing is, you know, all that spacing helps Bial
too. But I do think what you're losing is, you know, maybe
there was some synergy between he and Wall, Like you know, there are
some pretty solid Wizards teams as Bill was kind of coming up and Wall was
clearly the better player there for a while. I just I don't, I
don't I feel like Bill would have benefited more from the passing of Wall from
from the You know, look, I think you might have to say,
Brad, you got to guard the other team's best backcourt player now, whereas
in theory that would have been Wall's job. But you can't give that assignment
to rus because he's just never been any good at it. So I think
Bill is probably in a worst position than he was, which if we're worried
about, you know, the trade request coming up, but at some point
that's something to consider. But but I do think Westbrook. I would expect
Westbrook to have like a really good statistical season, wouldn't you, Yes,
assuming he's healthy. I'm just I'm I can't wrap my head, Like this
is just so hard for me to Like, if you had a pick,
who makes out better in this deal? Like is it to you like right
now, just you know, we have to see the games play, But
is it Washington or Houston? Like who's who stands to come out the better
better end of this? I would think Russell Westbrook has a huge statistical season,
but does it come at the expense of like, you know, Bell
has just been said he's the franchise. We know that Russell Westbrook wants to
play a style where he has a monopoly on the offense. Does Bill necessarily
Yeah, I'm sure he wants more help than he had last year, But
does he want to go back to being you know, he was probably still
the better player to point, definitely in twenty seventeen twenty eighteen with Wall,
but likes his uses was just it was lower and like he didn't have as
much influence with the offense. Does he want to go back to that?
Well, So I think to answer your question, and this I feel crazy
saying it, but I do think that Houston. Houston has a broader spectrum
of possibilities. The downside of injury, but the upside for Houston, I
think is that Wall is pretty close to as good as he was. Let's
say, not like sixteen seventeen, but maybe he's seventeen eighteen Wall that played
half a season and you know it's like nineteen and nine and actually shot shockingly
well from three. That was his best three point shooting season of his career
thirty seven point one percent. Let's say he's maybe maybe those numbers, those
counting stats at like thirty four percent from three, Like I really do think
he can do more for Houston fitwise than Russ could. So I would say
Houston's floor got lower, ceiling got higher. And I think that because of
where the Rockets sort of are, the value of having that tiny chance of
a much higher upside matters, and so I actually kind of think that the
Rockets might have gotten the better of this. But it's it's also sort of
moved because if Westbrook wanted a trade and maybe Harden wanted him gone, like
you had to do it. So it's you know, I don't know how
to sort of factor that into the calculations. Do you have a strong opinion
one way or the other on that? I think I just tend to agree
with you, though. The spectrum of star players who have wanted out of
Houston or left Houston after James Harden matters, like Dwight Howard, Chris Paul
Now Russell Westbrook, who was the closest to him among them. John Wall
and Harden have apparently been working out together during the off season, so like,
maybe that helps a little bit. Doesn't help that the Marcus Cousins is
in Houston, so now we have those Kentucky Wildcats reuniting. I honestly don't
No, I think it's safe to say the winner of this deal might actually
be the Brooklyn Nets because two of the stars they would have targeted Bill and
Harden. I think they're in a noticeably more combustible situations because now the range
of outcomes feels so stark. Where the shacop in Washington. Yeah, they
raised their ceiling, but now is it enough to where Bradley Bill wants to
stay or was he just more content so he knew that he would have more
control over the direction of the team with Wall than he does with Westbrook and
then Harden, you know, doesn't improve the chances. Maybe he wants to
stay in Houston, perhaps, but like it also maybe doesn't. And there's
a chance that the Rockets are actually just substantially worse, which would then accelerate
his trade requests. So I think Brooklyn makes out pretty good here. And
my final note would be there are six players in the NBA slated to make
forty plus million dollars this year. Four of them are point guards, and
three of them have been traded within a month of each other, Chris Paul,
Russell Westbrook and John Wall. Russell Westbrook has now been traded for both
of those guys, by the way, and Stephen Curry is the fourth one
in case you care. But and all three three of those four point guards
have now been on the rockets. Like that's just that's just wild. And
I think it speaks to the matter of, you know, there's no such
thing as an a movable contract in the NBA. People talk about Wiggins,
they talked about while they're talking about Thompson. Now, any contract can be
can be moved. I was just gonna, I was gonna button it up
with that exact point, like, never tell me again that, oh,
this is untradable, which just like because at the very least you can trade
it for the other contract everyone thinks is untradable. That I think that's the
takeaway from all this. Yeah, it's I don't it's gonna be fun to
see how it plays out. Last last thing I'll ask you don't even need
to justify it. Who is less likely to finish next season with their current
team now, James Harden or Bradley Beale. Ooh uh, I'm gonna stay
hardened and I won't justify it beyond anything other than I think he's gonna realize
that he should play for an owner that is going to spend some money again.
Yeah kilo for Tita spending an extra like three hundred k over the next
three years. Here, he's got to be fuming. Grant, thank you
so much for coming on. You said you can give me twenty minutes.
You gave me twenty nine. I really appreciate that. I will be pesturing
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