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well. With that, we get to

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the question that I'm going to tackle. It's inspired by a conversation I've been

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having with pells dozen in my direct
messages when and he messaged me, and

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it was sort of We've talked about
a bunch of different stuff, but this

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has been among them. Should it's
not just should the New Orleans Pelicans trade

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for Kevin Durant, it's ken the
New Orleans Pelicans trade for Kevin Durant without

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giving up brandon ingram. The answer
to that question for most people is going

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to be a resounding no. Because
the Nets want an All star and picks

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for Kevin Durant. There are some
assumptions another question need to answer first and

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that's a few things. Would Kevin
Durant want to go to New Orleans to

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where the Pelicans are giving up a
ton of value? We're just going to

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assume that he would. Otherwise you're
not putting anything on the table. Nothing

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that follows would be offered if you
don't think Kevin Durant is all in with

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you. He's entering his age thirty
four season, has a checkered injury history

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over the past three years. You
don't acquire him without some level of knowledge

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that he wants to be with you, especially if you're going to include a

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brandon Ingram. Now, why would
the Nets accept a package that wouldn't include

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brandon Ingram. There are two ways
for this. I still think the Nets

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are going to have to skew one
way or the other. Kevin Durant is

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great. I ultimately don't think if
and when they move him, they're going

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to get as much as they want
or anywhere near it. You're going to

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have to prioritize either a bunch of
picks or getting that current slash youngish all

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star. And if you're giving brandon
Ingram and you're the Pelicans, given Kadi's

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age, you're not going to include
all the picks in the world. What's

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interesting about the Pelicans situation is that
if Utah, excuse me, if if

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Brooklyn wants picks, the Pelicans can
give them more than most. And they

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also have some instring young prospects in
Dyson Daniels just selected number eight this year,

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and then Trey Murphy, the third
really came out at the end of

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last season, looked fantastic in Summer
League. They can also get to the

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salary matching without brandon ingram to meet
the math for for Kadi's money, which

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is just over forty four point one
million. They can also because of these

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picks they have, and look specifically, we're talking about the Lakers one in

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twenty twenty four, which they can
defer till two twenty five. They also

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have a Bucks pick in twenty twenty
seven. That's like not nothing. Yannest

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is gonna be around for roughly ever, but that pick, if I'm understanding,

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I don't. I don't think it's
They have a swap I'm Milwaukee' as

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well in twenty six two, but
it's unprotected. That's pretty far enough down

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the line to where you know,
wow, that's a huge asset. In

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itself. You just had your your
bets against the Bucks is uncertainty. We're

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talking a half decade away. Anything
could happen, and it's yes, you

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honest, will still be kicking.
Maybe he'll still be the best player in

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the NBA at that point, but
anything could happen. With the other players

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in that team, Drew and Chris
Middleton aren't exactly young, neither is brook

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Lopez, and their depth is an
admirable at this point. I would bet

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on the Bucks figuring it out,
because you honest, at tenth the couple

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was that good. But to have
a distant Lakers first and then a distant

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Bucks first. An addition to everything, the Pells can give you with their

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own draft equity because they don't owe
any first round picks anymore, they are

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a net neutral in their own first
round pick ledger their net plus in first

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round picks overall. But they can
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league I would hazard except the Knicks. The Thunder could be in there too,

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but like they're in the top three
to five of if you want a

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draft pick Hall, they can offer
you that. Let's say Brooklyn still doesn't

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want that draft pick. Call can
you still get to a point where you're

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not giving up brandon Ingram I don't
know, but because you have so many

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picks, you could turn around realistically
and try and facilitate a trainer. Donovan

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Mitchell ends up in Brooklyn, or
another All Star ends up in Brooklyn.

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If it's Donovan Mitchell among others.
Ben Simmons also needs to be moved,

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and that's all of a sudden part
of the calculus. But you could either

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get value for Ben Simmons or maybe
if you're the Nets, you don't want

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his contract on the books. I'm
saying there are avenues for the Pelicans to

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explore here that aren't open to every
other team, and that would include I

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think the Knicks, who can really
overwhelm you with the volume of their picks

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in prospects, but the quality of
them are questionable once you move beyond the

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Knicks's own picks. I think a
lot of the Knicks's youngsters, I'm talking

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Obie toppin IQ, even RJ.
Barrett to some extent, and definitely Quentin

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Grimes are probably underappreciated nationally by other
teams. But it's also the Knicks's fault

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because they signed to guys specifically this
last season who wound up playing in front

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of an IQ, in front of
Anobi Toppin. When you look at Julius

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Randall and the way that Tibbs doesn't
want to play certain front courts, they

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obfuscated R. J. Barrett's offensive
role in the pecking order, so their

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viewed as sort of these unimpressive known
quantities when that's not what they are.

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But you look at a Dyson Daniels
or a Trey Murphy the Third who had

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a strong showing in the playoffs.
On top of Dyson Daniels now coming over,

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is this like Swiss Army Knife,
who if he has a jumper,

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if that gets put together, he
becomes an incredible player. Maybe one of

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the you know, someone with a
lot higher of a ceiling than I think

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was credited when he was entering the
draft. There's just more mystery box,

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higher end mystery box appeal attached to
to some of these guys. And I

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also think just Tray Murphy the Third
and then Dyson Daniels, being the positions

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that they play as wings, they're
gonna be more attractive than an IQ or

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an Obi Toppin, who's definitely a
one position player. Some teams can get

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away with him at the five and
RJ. Barrett, Yeah, he's a

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wing, but he's already extension algible. The Jazz don't want to pay that.

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The Nets aren't going to want to
pay that. I would assume Quent

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Grimes will be an exception because's on
the smaller side for a wing. We're

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talking about some like actual size,
bigger wings and Diyson Daniels and Trey Murphy

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the third. So that's why I
think the Pelicans can get involved in this.

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It's going to take one Kevin Durant
wanting to be in New Orleans,

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and then the Nets skewing one direction
or the other. Because even if you

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get them Donovan Mitchell as part of
this complicated trade that moves off Ben Simmons,

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they're still not going to get the
draft equity that they wanted because so

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much that equity is going to be
spent sent to Utah to get Donovan Mitchell

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in Brooklyn. But I do think
the Pelicans have the asset flexibility to do

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all these things where they don't include
Zion, where they don't include CJ.

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McCollum, and they don't include Brandon
Ingram and their offer is still on par

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with the others that are going to
be available that we can reasonably assume.

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And so let's go through what that
offer would look like. I'm just spitballing

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here. I don't know how many
picks it's gonna take. I'm throwing out

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what would be the best, most
attractive possible offer from New Orleans that doesn't

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include they can't trade Zion, but
doesn't include CJ or Ingram. So you

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need to get to between thirty five
point two and thirty five point three million

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to bring in Kevin Durant salary,
which is forty four point one. They

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get that with DeVante Graham has two
guaranteed years left on his deal, and

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you have Larry Nance Junior. Then
there's Jackson Hayes, Trey Murphy the Third

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and Dyson Daniels get you there.
I believe you also have Garrett Temple's five

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point two million dollars salary, and
if you want to move you on his

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Valan junis if the Nets are interested
in having him, he can't be the

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deal breaker that you know hurts the
deal if the Nets want him instead of

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Larry Nance Junior or another team wants
him instead of Larry Nance Junior. I've

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thought something the Nets could do is
would Toronto give up Ken birch In a

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first round pick in this coming draft
if they know they're not gonna have Kevin

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Durant for Larry Nance Junior, who
sort of right up their alley. I

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don't know that'd be adding money their
pay roll. Perhaps that's two higher price

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to pay. You could reroute Larry
Nance Junior another team, but that's the

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We're getting into four and five from
one territory. But because it's the off

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season, you can work within that. But it would be the non negotiable

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aspects would be Traymurvy the third and
Diyson Daniels were both going out. I

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don't have herb Jones in this deal. I'm sure maybe the Nets ask for

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him. But let's get to the
draft equity first. I'm talking more along

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the lines of salary filler. I
don't think Jackson Hayes is necessarily salary filler

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either. He is extension eligible.
The Nets already have Nick Claxton and Dayron

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Sharp. Again, this is why
maybe you need third and fourth teams,

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or do they prefer Kyra Lewis Junior? The human blur coming back from Nacy

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Ellendry. You could go that route
where he basically subs in for Jackson Hayes's

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salary. You need to come up
with other ways to get to Kadi's money.

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My point is is that you include
Traymurvy your third and Diyson Daniels.

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You can get to the rest of
the kd money with the salary. I

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don't want to call it drect because
these are useful players, but DeVante Graham,

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who the Nets could use if they're
not gonna have Kyrie Irving even though

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Patty Mills is still there, Larry
Dance Junior's expiring deal, and again Jonas

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Valancutis with two years a little over
thirty million left on his contract if you

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need it. And then there's smaller
salary matching tools in a Garrett Temple,

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Jackson Hayes, who you could consider
expiring, or just a nice flyer on

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a young guy I would look.
If I'm the Nets, I might even

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push for the Kira Lewis flyer here, just to see what he turns into.

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The Pelicans aren't gonna need him.
You could also ask for Jose Alvarado

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or Herb Jones again. I'm basing
this on the offer of being in the

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money is not matching the money is
not going to be the issue. But

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I'm saying you start with Dyson Daniels
and Tray Murphy the third. Now,

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what are you offering in terms of
pick equity? This is where it gets

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where the Pelicans can really blow you
over. Let's just the Pelicans own picks.

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They could go twenty three, twenty
three, twenty five, twenty seven,

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and twenty nine. They can also
give you the Lakers pick in twenty

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four, twenty five, and then
the Bucks pick in twenty twenty seven.

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That is six first round picks there, and I haven't even like that's not

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the That's not all that they can
give. Are we including swaps? At

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this point? They can include Milwaukee's
twenty twenty five first round pick themselves,

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which is protected five to thirty.
It's oz to the Knicks at one to

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four. It's protected one to four, so it would go to he goes

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to the Knicks if it's five to
thirty. So forget Milwaukee's first round pick

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here. I'm sorry I was reading
those pick commitments rown that was a complicated

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one. But you could also get
into swaps. Now, so if New

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Orleans is willing to include their own
distance swaps, let's say it would have

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to work out to when the Nets
are actually gonna have picks, But if

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they're willing to include swaps in this
deal as well, but you could give

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Brooklyn, let's set it up this
way, six first round picks twenty three,

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twenty five, twenty seven, and
twenty nine of your own, and

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you could structure it differently if you
want to. If Brooklyn wants twenty four,

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twenty six, and twenty eight,
and then do swaps in the subsequent

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years, but you could give four
of your own first round picks, the

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Lakers pick, the Bucks pick Diyson
Daniels, Trey Murphy the third, and

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then again you're building the rest of
the package around. But I would view

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mostly as salary matching tools, even
if it's Jackson Hayes. But Kyra Lewis

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Junior giving the Nets like a flyer
on one of those guys. Let's say,

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Kyle Lewis Junior still really intrigues me
because he's so fast, and I

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think that if he's healthy, there
might be a really good player in there.

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And look, Larry Nance Junior is
really good too. So like,

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if you're the Nets and you're trying
to remain competitive, this package doesn't necessarily

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do that. You could get something
else for Larry Nance Junior. Maybe you

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get something else for Jackson Hayes if
Kyra Lewis is, If Kyra Lewis Junior's

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value sort of reboots or he establishes
himself in the NBA, that flyer pans

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out, you get more value for
him, or you keep him long term.

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And again, if you're the let's
say, let's throw the Jazz into

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this, it shouldn't take six first
round picks and Dyson Daniels and oh my

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god, Traymer for the third.
I'm sorry guys, to get Donovan Mitchell

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alone. So if you're the Nets, you could feasibly, if you're willing

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to move Ben sim In somewhere else, you get Donovan Mitchell some of the

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draft pick value here. I can't
tell whether Danny Danny Agould probably want picks

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over players. And so if you're
the Nets and you are trying to remain

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competitive, maybe you get let's say, Dyson Daniels, or let's say you

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get Tray Murvy the third and Donovan
Mitchell. Then whatever you get for Ben

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Simmons, but then most of the
picks, maybe you're getting one or two

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of the picks. And I'm not
even saying it would take all six,

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but that's what the Pelicans best offer
could look like is six first round picks

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plus traymer of the third plus Dison
Daniels and then you get to the salary

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step ladder your way there without Ingram
or CJ. McComb. Does that compare

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to what other teams are gonna offer. We'll look at, like, let's

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just consider the two other teams that
are heavily involved Phoenix. Now they have

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mcal Bridges, Cam Johnson, four
first round picks, three swaps, Jay

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Crowder's money get you there they go, Dario starts as well. Yeah,

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maybe you're more intrigued to short Phoenix's
long term future if you're Brooklyn, But

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like does mcale bridges and Cam Johnson, Like, is that making up the

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value of getting six again? You
could get up to six first round picks

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Dyson Daniel and Traymurvy the third.
That's a full on reboot boot for Brooklyn.

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And I don't subscribe to the idea
that because the Rockets control their draft,

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they can't tank. They could tank
next year because it's a swap,

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and the Rockets are probably gonna be
pretty bad too, and so you could

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still end up with a with a
top pick. I would think that top

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dollar offer from New Orleans, especially
if you're going to be including other,

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uh, some players that could be
rerouted to other teams for value, like

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in a Larry Nance Jr. Maybe
even in a Kyra Lewis or a Jackson

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Hayes, if you're going to include
those that talent, like I think that

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beats Phoenix's best offer right now,
since Aton can't be sent to a third

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team until January and he would have
veto power there. It's at least on

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par with it, and then Miami's
I would say, blows it out of

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the water. And that's again without
including brandon Ingram. So we're talking Tyler

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Hero, Nikola Yovich. I still
have yet to figure out how they would.

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They can't really make it Kevin Durant
deal if they're keeping Butler and at

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a bio without including Kyle Lowry.
So let's just throw Kyle Lowry in there

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with Jovich Tyler Hero. Again,
Let's assume Miami negotiates the protections off that

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Thunder pick the pick they owed to
the Thunder in twenty twenty five. So

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you could go three first three swaps
to Brooklyn or just three first This New

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Orleans offer beats that. This New
Orleans offer beats that, and then what

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other team is gonna come out of
the woodwork. We've talked a lot about

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Memphis on this podcast, and I
think others have two. They really seem

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to value their young core and their
own developmental process, case in point being

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what they did around the draft.
They like Kyle Anderson walk It seems like

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they believe Jake la Ravia can slide
right in there immediately and have a lot

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of faith in Ziyar Williams. They
don't seem like a team that's gonna go

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after it. Atlanta. What is
their best offer? I guess I mean

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between John Collins and Clint Capella and
DeAndre Hunter, Jalen Johnson future draft equity.

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Their draft equity's limited because of how
much they traded away in the Murray

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trade, though, so it beats
that? Does it beat a Boston offer

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built around Jalen Brown and picks and
Boston's limited They traded their twenty twenty three

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pick, and they have a twenty
twenty eight swap owed to San Antonio.

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They could go twenty five and twenty
seven and then twenty nine if they wanted

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to. With Jaylen Brown, I
think Boston could maybe beat the Pelicans offer

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if Brooklyn's trying to strat of that
line. If we want to remain competitive,

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we have Jaylen Brown to do that, and then we want these picks

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that could be used in other trades
or to actually use. It might be

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on par which don't think the Celtics
are going to get there. Charlotte nothing,

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Chicago, nothing in Cleveland unless you're
giving up Evan Mobile or Darius Garland,

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who is Garland's now super hard to
trade because he signed his extension.

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No. I just they could give
up a bunch of picks and Jared Allen

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Isaaca Coroc Baji. They could do
that, and that might be more appealing

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than Miami's offer if you went.
If you trading Jared Allen back to Brooklyn

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would be objectively hysterical, but that
could beat Miami's offer. I don't think

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it's on par with what New Orleans
is not close to that without Mobile or

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Garland again, Dallas, I just
what are they offering. They're just they're

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so hamstrung and like, yeah,
they can offer distant picks, but that's

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it. And then they need like
this bad salary to match Kevin duranstel denver

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Man. If they put Jamal Murray
and Michael Porter Junior round the table,

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life I've just wondered. But they're
both coming back from injuries. They've traded

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away so much of their future draft
equity. They do have bones Highland.

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Still no, I don't think there's
a their team that goes after Kevin Durant,

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but still no Detroit. If they
include Jay and Ivy and a bunch

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of their own draft picks, maybe
you start to rival what New Orleans is

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offering. They're not doing that they
like that. I'd be shocked they went

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their Golden State with Comingo Wiseman,
Moody, future draft equity, Andrew Wiggins,

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that combination of stuff. Let's not
forget about Jordan pool I think they

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could rival New Orleans offer, and
they can. They can maybe balance what

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Brooklyn's looking for better than New Orleans
in the sense that Jordan Pools established,

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Wiggins is established these young players,
and Wiseman if he's healthy, Comingo might

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be ready to compete. Now Dido
for Moody, and then you're still getting

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draft equity. Bob Meyers seemed to
think that the Warriors were out on that

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sweepstakes. I wouldn't view the Warriors
as a threat unless the price of KD

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comes down. Houston's a no.
They're not offering Jalen Green and order Barry

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Smith. You're the Pacers. They're
not going to get involved with this.

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The Clippers if they offered Paul George
and they can trade twenty twenty first rounder.

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At this point you have Terrence Man
Marcus Moore Senior. Yeah, no,

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I just they're not if they offer
Paul George. I still would prefer

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the New Orleans package. I'd rather
rebuild if I'm broken with this New Orleans

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package, or at least some close
variation of it. Again, I'm not

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saying that's the cost. But if
you get you to keep Ingram and you've

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given up Dyson, Daniel's Tramer,
if you the third literally any other players,

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combination of players outside your your core, maybe you're fighting to keep her

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Jones there. If it's those two
as the meat and potatoes of the deal,

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and then draft equity, pust salary
filler. The Pelicans should do it

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if Katie wants to go there,
or if they have even like a faint

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a son like hint that he wants
to be in New Orleans. Minnesota can't

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do it, Miami, we went
over them. We went over Memphis at

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the Lakers can't do it. The
Knicks, I guess that they wanted to,

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like they could field some interesting offers
for Katie. I think it says

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a lot about them though, and
what they're focused on that they're more involved

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in the Mitchell sweepstakes. But if
they wanted to throw all the picks plus

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RJ. Barrett and Quentin Grins at
the table, they could rival the Pelicans

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offer. Again, I would rather
short the Knicks future than New Orleans is

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future, is my point. So
if you start getting the Knicks picks in

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play in addition to Grimes and Barrett, if you don't mind paying him,

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I q Obi toppin. Those are
guys that I think fans of other teams

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and maybe just people who watch basketball
nationally just don't appreciate how good some of

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the Knicks youngsters could be. My
bias might be kicking in there, though,

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But it's in part because if you
don't appreciate the Knicks youngsters because of

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the Knicks. Okay, see would
be funny, but they can't. Even

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the salary matching is too complicated.
It would cost them. Shay Orlando,

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they're not gonna do it. Philly, they have Tyrese Maxie. I could

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go with Tobias Harris, and Maxie
might be the single most valuable trade asset

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in the NBA that's actually available where
I don't the Sixers are looking to move

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him. But my point here would
be what's more likely to happen. The

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Sixers give up Maxi in a KD
trade, or the Pistons give up Kid

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or the Raptors give up Barnes.
And we'll get to them in a second.

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So yeah, Phoenix, we already
talked about them. Portland can't really.

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I mean, you have Shaden Sharp
and then it's tough to get to

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the salary matching here right now.
Sacramento, No, San Antonio not operating

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on that timeline. Toronto is interesting
if they include Scottie Barnes. Yes,

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if you go Ogianna Nobi, Gary
Trent Jr. As the Bassis and then

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your entire draft. So let's just
say four first and three swaps. I'm

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not interested in short in Toronto's future
as much if it's Siakam and your entire

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draft or Barnes is in there.
They need to include Barnes or Siakam.

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I think to beat out New Orleans
is offer and even then I'm gonna be

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more interested, with all due respect
to New Orleans in shorting their long term

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future, if only because they're also
giving you Bucks and Lakers picks post twenty

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twenty four, and the odds that
one of those three teams just send you

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back a really good pick are probably
exponentially higher than Toronto, who has been

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able to mind value outside of the
draft and just been a really solid franchise

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overall under Massai U Jerry. I
think New Orleans, even without Ingram,

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beats pretty much every Toronto package unless
you include Scottie Barnes, or it's Pascal

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Siakam and your entire draft. And
if I'm Toronto, I'm not offering Siakam

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and my entire draft like it's Siako
and it's Siako. I'm sorry, Siakam,

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And then I'm limiting the draft equity
that I'd give up there Utah is

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not gonna go after it. Washington. Finally, if you dangle KP Denny

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Avdia and then just a bunch of
your own future draft picks, gets interesting?

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Does it beat New Orleans with Trey
Murphy the third, Dison Daniels And

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again, they could get up too, and they could get up to more

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than this the way the picks are
structured, by the way, but let's

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just say six first that's the top
the non Ingram package. That's their best

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offer is anyone who's not Ingram Cullen, McCullum, Zion obviously, plus trainer

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of the third, plus Dyson Daniels
and then six first round picks, and

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you could include swaps in there,
like there's a way to include swaps as

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well. I'm not advocating for means
to do this on a whim, but

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the verdict here for me is that
when we fast forward, I do think

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the Nets are going to choose one
side of the fence or the other.

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And again, maybe this is part
of a complicated transaction that gets the Nets

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a more established player. In addition
to some of this draft equity. If

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you told me Katie wanted to go
to New Orleans, I believe or was

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willing to go to New Orleans.
I believe that the Pelicans could acquire Kevin

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Durant without trading Ingram or CJ.
McCullum, and that they could feasibly plausibly

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if KD is willing and wants to
actively wants to go there, Ingram,

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McCullum, Zion, KD, Herb
Jones, Jose Alvarado, Like, that's

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a real core that I think they
could have, and maybe they still have

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Jonas found Chunis and or Larry Nance
Jr. Afterwards, it would have to

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one of them. At least one
of them has to go, so they're

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gonna have Jonas Alent Tunis or Larry
Nance Junior. On top of that.

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I mean, is that the title
favorite? If that happens, I might

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pick that team to win the title. I'd be interested in the Nuggets,

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the Warriors still a healthy buck squad
Boston as well. I still am just

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so high on the Raptors it's unbelievable. But there's a really strong chance that

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if you're getting Kevin Durant and McCollum, Herb Jones, Zion and Ingram are

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all still there, I'm gonna pick
the Pelicans to win the title. That's

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the verdict here. Again, let
me know what you think of this format,

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about this entire topic in general.
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to the one, the only,
the player who could be traded straight up

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for KD, if only who made
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