What in krack Alac and fellow thermonuclear a efforts. I am dam a valley
coming at you with a delayed emergency podcast on the ogn and obi trade.
I guess that means it's not brilliant emergency podcast. I normally try and hop
on and do something or even text grant when stuff like that goes down.
But I was dealing with a double vision migrain today, so I'm feeling a
little bit better at night, so I wanted to get this out so I
could maybe make my Sunday more manageable. We'll see if the raptors kind of
throw that up in flames. But let's talk about the og an andob trade.
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o g anobody to the Knicks. So the trade parameters are Ognoboy's going to
New York in exchange for RJ. Barrett Emmanuel quickly and Detroit's second round pick
in twenty twenty four. That's gonna be like number thirty one, thirty two
to thirty three probably, so it'll be in that range. Shout out to
the Detroit Pistons for ending there. That's really why I was waiting to record
this. I wanted to see if they would go in and beat the Raptors.
Shout out to the Detroit for ending their NBA record twenty eight game losing
streak. Shout out to the Raptors for letting them end it. And I
think they scored like twenty seven points or something in the last six minutes and
still loss. It's on it obviously very impressive. One of the benefits of
me being sick today and not being able to respond or be on social media
as much. Not sick but dizzy whatever is. I haven't had time to
look at the overall reaction to this trade. I've seen smatterings of it.
I mean, I think it's been balanced for the most part. I want
to tackle it from the Knicks perspective first, just because I think this is
a bigger deal in the sense for them, because it represents sort of a
shift and kind of a mini consolidation trade for what they're trying to I mean,
it's equally impactful for both franchise about what it says about their respective directions.
For the Knicks, this was very much a fit thing. They needed
the bigger wing type defender and og Nnobi is the extremist version of that because
he can defend one through five and he's gonna give you just as much,
if not more, three point volume than RJ. Barrett. Not a ton
of ball creation there, but he's gonna shoot the three ball better, So
that should at least help you open up the court. I think an underrated
aspect of this trade, and we'll see if and one of the reasons why
you make it, and we'll see if Tis goes to it, is that
O g Nnobe probably allows you to field some different type of looks where Randall
can play the five, but he's not actually the five like og Annobi can
do that type of defensive stuff. So could we see a lineup where it's
og Randall, Brunson, Devincenzo, and Hart throw Grimes in there sort of
your top six, especially with Mitchell Robinson out and we've seen that Todd Gibson
can get overmatched, which is not surprising, and especially while Jericho Sims is
still banged up. I'm just curious to see if that's the type of not
a shift, but something that could become a part of their armory. The
Knicks are signaling, per multiple rumors, that they're not done, and they
did create a mini trade exception from this. They have the human trade exception
known as Evin Fournier. They don't give up any first round equity, so
they're still built to go out and make another move. And when you look
at how they could play on the other side of this deal, there's still
stuff they need because RJ. Barrett, And that gets into the cost of
this. If you think the Knicks swindled the Raptors, I will say,
I don't think you understand how good Emmanuel Quickly is. If you think the
Knicks gave up too much, I think you're overvaluing how good r. J.
Barrett is. In this moment, it felt like a fair cost to
pay for someone who's headed towards free agency, who wants forty million dollars a
year. That was the report. I'll get into all that, don't worry,
and he's willing to take a little bit less. I guess to sign
with the Knicks. We'll see if there's a team out there that will give
Og his max. I'm getting too far ahead. I want to focus on
this season and the play on the court very quickly. First, although part
of evaluating this trade is how it shakes out, because you're dealing with too
soon to be free agents in Iq and og Annobi, and then if you
care about mal Chai Flynn and Precious that you are also going to the Knicks's
part of this deal. But with getting rid of RJ. Barrett, for
as much as he struggled, you are now down to secondary primary creators in
IQ and RJ Barrett. The IQ loss is just bigger because the lineups with
him and John Brunston on the court were straight annihilating opponents. And now you
don't have a ton of flexibility ball on ball, skill, flexibility coming off
the bench. Assuming that Donte DiVincenzo is still going to be a starter here,
you did sign Duce McBride to a thirteen million dollar, three year,
thirteen million dollar extension. I do think this deal did signal some type of
faith in him. A lot of it I think was about RJ Barrett,
how much he didn't progress what you needed defensively, oj Annoby's going to He
is the player this team was missing. But now the Knicks, their depth
is missing. Maybe some more creation. Do you think you get enough of
it from Devincenzo, from Heart, from Duce McBride. Do you think og
Annobi has another year as sort of a creator. I don't know, but
you could also argue that not having to create on ball touches for RJ.
Barrett is a big deal, just because he's been shooting so poorly from mid
range for his career, under forty percent on drives, under six percent assist
rate on drives, more turnovers than assists on drives. This year he has
those moments. I've buy and large I think clung to RJ. Barrett's best
case outcome more than most. I definitely had started ever since he's returned from
his injury. You just look at this team, and I went on another
podcast. I think Grant and I actually talked about this the other day as
well. You needed to get the upgrade over RJ. Barrett, and I
do think I do think you did that. You got the best player in
this deal. Right now. It doesn't mean you're free from concern here.
And I think part of it's going to be, well, what is the
cost of keeping Og? And does he stay? I'll say a few things
here. I don't think you trade for him if you don't have intel that
he is willing to stay or wants to stay. And I also think that
regardless of what OG costs and his max based off the current salary cap projections,
year one would be forty two point six million, he can sign a
four year one hundred and ninety point eight million dollar max. His five year
max would be two hundred and forty seven point one million, I believe is
the number I've jotted down there. That's a lot of money. I don't
think he gets all of it. I do believe that he'll come in under
forty million dollars. I don't see the team with cap space that's going to
come in with that n I don't think Philly, a better team than the
Knicks, is gonna want to shell out that number for him. And so
you get into these other teams that, yeah, they might have cap space.
I just don't Detroit can get there. They like Detroit might be the
team if they finagle enough spending power because they really want him. I think
they'll probably wind up exploring alternatives, especially if they don't trade Bogdanovic. Could
the Spurs, They'll have some money to spend. I just a lot of
those other teams just aren't gonna be at that point in their development. Could
the Jazz decide that they want to open up caps up that type of cap
space this year and go after og because they think they're going to pay marketing.
They like Oge, they have Caante George, They'll have Walker Kessler,
they have a nice pick coming this year. There are threats. I just
don't see it. I would not give him. I don't think he is
a max player. I think he's the best player in this deal for now.
And what you could say is, let's say he winds up at like
forty million dollars as an average annual value salary. I do think the Knicks
and I don't know if this is a conscious decision they made while they were
trying to broke or an extension with Emmanuel quickly. I know some people will
say it's not that this might have been in response to how well he's playing.
No, he's gonna hit restricted free agency. I don't necessarily believe that.
I think they probably look at his struggles in the playoffs and what he
was doing against you know, Cleveland's defense at points, against Miami's defense at
points, and how he struggled there. I think they looked at that,
they got Devincenzo, they know they have runs in They're gonna start thinking about
his next deal. They even resigned Hart. I think they kind of collectively
maybe they were holding out hope that RJ would develop into more. I think
this is a decision to say we would rather pay ogn and Obi forty million
dollars a year, let's say, over the next four five years, than
pay fifty to fifty five million combined for Emmanuel Quickly and RJ Barrett. I
think that's a reasonable stance to take. In large part, two things stand
out the makeup of the roster in general, just because you do have Dante
DiVincenzo, who is you know, En Brunson who and you have to start
thinking about his next deal too. I'll keep reiterating that having those two guys,
and then even Hart just plays more of a connector role, but you
could just the full floor stuff that he's able to do and how how small
you are already, even though these guys aren't playing the same position. I
think getting some proper, some prop proper wing size, and here someone who
could defend Biggs. I think it's more of that calculation where, yeah,
the Knicks probably had hoped that RJ would have come a longer way, and
maybe you're fine paying IQ and figuring out the rest later. But I do
think IQ's next contracts had a lot to do with it, and so it
was about filling a roster need, feeling like IQ was. Again, he
wasn't redundant, but he was in some respects where if you're going to have
to pay Jaellen Brunson more money, if you're going to funnel a lot of
stuff through Julius Randall, who you have started thinking about his next deal as
well. So I think it was as much about that as it was,
well, we didn't have IQ lockdown. It was we're comfortable paying O g
Anobi forty million dollars a year rather than paying fifty plus million dollars a year
for these two players. And when RJ's playing like he is at the moment,
that's a reasonable bet to make. And I don't think the Knicks's circumstances,
we're ever going to be conducive to him reaching his full potential, and
so far as we haven't seen it already, you would have needed to have,
you know, tailored the roster more to him. And I don't think
after saying that, I would like to see them try these different things.
They've tried enough for long enough to where I just don't think it was going
to happen for RJ in New York, and so I think I think this
deal is fair from the Knicks end. I probably like it a little bit
better for them, just because of where they're at. And if you are
the raptors, I think we heard the rumors last year about them being able
to get four first round picks Froji, this definitely amounts to less than that.
With all of that said, though, the Knicks gave up real stuff.
Here. We're talking about let's say the number thirty three pick, it
might even be the number thirty one pick, and then Emmanuel quickly, who's
about to get paid. But this is someone who has been no worse than
your third best player this year. I guess just when you factor in the
Mitch injury and how slow Julius Randall started. As of right now, he's
no worse than your third best player of Mitchell Robinson, out shooting over sixty
two percent on floaters, hitting over forty percent of his pull up threes,
over forty percent of his catch and shoot threes. He defends his ass off
I love what the opportunity he should get in Toronto, having more agency over
the offense, seeing if he can improve his playmaking from me in between ranges.
Giving him up comes as as a real blow, which is why I
think maybe this was a voted confidence and induced to some extent, but it
also just might be perhaps the Knicks aren't done. If they're not gonna go
out and get another creator type who's on a you know, maybe they try
and get a veteran point guard, Like do they just join the Tigas Jones
Sweet Stakes at some point to try and steady that, or do they kind
of bet on, well, we're gonna still try and skew offense where maybe
it's not someone who's going to be a capslog playmaker, but someone with size
who stretched the floor. I wouldn't take them out of the balling on by
Donovia Sweet Sakes in so far as the I think I would take them out,
but that's still someone they could theoretically look at. There's stuff they need
to do without IQ there. I do love the idea of him getting more
reps in Toronto. I don't think Toronto's ecosystem is necessarily conducive to maximizing IQ.
He's used to working in tight spaces, but this is kind of a
whole different animal within Toronto. There are some lineups. Look, if you're
gonna play Pascal at the five for stretches, and you want to roll with
Scottie Barnes Pascal GTJ barretting quickly, that might be your most versatile lineup right
now. If you consider that Oh could RJ hit more than thirty three something
percent of his threes, So there is hope for that element of their offense
to come up. But now you're getting another guard in there who can do
stuff with the ball, who doesn't compromise your spacing. So he gives you
more ball skills than Ogannonobe, and he's gonna come cheaper than Ogannobi by virtue
of his max salary in year one would not isn't going to be what OG's
max salaries I don't think IQ gets the MAX. I just don't see the
team in RFA that's going to come in and give it to him. His
MAX salaries thirty five and a half million dollars a four year MAX would run
about one hundred and fifty nine point one million dollars. If you can get
him for like twenty seven thirty million dollars between twenty five and thirty million dollars
a year at this point, that's probably a win for the Raptors, and
they could be looking at RJ as saying we believe perhaps he has a higher
offensive ceiling if he hits his ninety nine percent of outcome then OG and just
given his size and our ability to maybe insulate him defensively with having Scottie there,
having Pascal there right now, even having GTJ, you can still be
disruptive, even though he's regressed. Having IQ getting these two guys, I
could see them viewing it through that lens. I think I like the deal
a little bit less for them, though, because I don't love the RJ
Barrett fit right now, and I think that if if you were going to
move Annobe, I don't know if this is a matter of we don't want
to pay Anonobe. We didn't tell that he didn't even really want to stick
around. Is it a combination of both. I don't know. You did
treat RJ. Barrett like a quasi asset in this deal, which is reasonable
to do when he's twenty three years old. He's got three years and eighty
three point one million dollars left on this deal. I think that's why this
becomes such an intriguing proposition for the Knicks, because I view RJ's contract right
now as a net negative, as something at the bare minimum you could john
Collins it, whereas you gave it up for a team that had cap space
and you didn't have to take back bad money in return. I thought it
was something they would have to do over the offseason if they weren't going to
attach first round equity to quickly amounts to first round equity. But you're also
getting someone else who would, in theory, mandate first round equity in og
Anenobi, so to give up as the Knicks give up on quickly, and
then a second round pick, a high second round pick to get a player
who you couldnt have signed in free agency unless it was signed in trade.
Because you didn't have the cap space and also the player who fills your biggest
area of need at the moment, and now you have another largest area of
need when you're looking at kind of finding that creation off the bench. Even
if you were start to Futzon fiddle and more Devincenzo off the bench, you're
just going to be at that shot creating and making deficit a little bit more.
Maybe you're not, Maybe you're just deep enough. I would expect the
Knicks to stagger more of Brunton and Randall. They have played the vast majority
of their minutes together. They can split that up now, and I think
you can argue that's maybe beneficial to the team and it would open up some
different types of lineups that you could try. And again, maybe we get
to see them test out a little bit more of OG's ball skills. I
just don't hate the return for Toronto, even though I like this Seal a
little bit less than them. Are you willing to pay quickly? Is this
someone you think that you're gonna reroute? Not now at this point, because
you can't be He's not gonna be able to be reaggregated before the trade deadline,
So you're probably not moving him unless you can get a top end first.
Where if the Spurs came in and said, hey, we'll give you
back your own first this year, would you look at that. But I
don't know what it says yet about their overarching direction, which is almost why
I wanted to wait. And Grant and I will probably talk more at length
in the middle of the week. But Pascal Siakam's kind of extension deadline is
going to come and pass. Where if he can, you know, sign
an extension if he's traded before a free agency that puts a clock on it.
You want to get until up till basically June twenty ninth. So I
think, look, we're kind of passed. We might be passed that deadline.
I can't remember exactly. I don't know what this says about the Raptors
overarching direction though. If you had to make a choice between Siakam and og
Siakam is the better player right now. Og Anobi's the better fit if you're
looking to build around Scotty Barnes. So that's why I don't think this was
necessarily an either or decision on their part. I think it's either an all
or nothing proposition to where it's like, no, we're just gonna we're rebuilding
around Scotty. We like IQ's fit will take the flyer on RJ and Siakam
will be next to go out. Or they just had the intel of what
OG was gonna cost to stay there, or maybe he was gonna leave regardless,
and so they decided to get off of him. Now I don't I
really just can't believe that this came down to saying, well, this is
the team we want to move forward with, like we view Pearl, Barrett,
Siakam Barnes quickly shrewders there right now as this sustainable core the spacing is,
Is it worse? I don't think it's worse because IQ can do more
stuff off the dribble than OG and create spacing that way. And in fury,
I guess you can say RJ might eventually shoot league average on catching fire
threes, but like, the spacing is still wildly shaky, and so to
see RJ as a second draft type of prospect, I would have liked to
have seen him in a different offensive environment compared to the one that Toronto can
offer him right now. But you can't roll it out he's still just young
enough. Maybe something clicks there, maybe he improves a lot to something.
Do they streamline his role in some regard, I would like him a lot
better in Toronto off We're gonna see more of these sort of downsize the lineups.
But I just don't. I don't look at this and feel like I
have a better understanding of what the Raptors are doing. And this is I've
not read any subsequent reports. Like I said, I'm trying to give my
own analysis here, and I would assume, if I had to guess,
this does make it more likely that you move past GALSIAKA, maybe even try
and find a taker for yakam Pertle. It does feel like it's a harbinger
of we're looking to not start over, but take a meaningful step back,
lay of the land, recaliblatebrate and reorient, reorient the roster. I don't
love. I still just don't love. I don't feel any differently I should
say about the Raptor's roster much differently now than I did before this trade.
I think, if anything, the offense is a maybe, it's it could
be meaningfully better off just because you are getting two other ball handlers. In
there in exchange for Malkai Flynn, who you're not really using it to begin
with, wasn't playing a huge role for you, pressures that you has been
all over the place. And then Ojijus doesn't do a ton of stuff on
ball. I mean, over eighty percent of his buckets this year are coming
off asis. So the offense could I could say the offense might be slightly
more dynamic. I don't know. The spacing probably isn't any better. If
anything, I might argue that it's just is it worse? No, because
you have IQ and I'm just so intrigued with the long term A Manuel Quickly
fit here. You still need to make other moves sort of on the margins.
And if you want this to be the roster, if you want it
to make sense, they need another shooter or two still, and even just
there's no way right now to get the lineups where all your best players are
on the court and you're a net plus in the spacing department because your best
players are Siakam Purdle, RJ. Barrett, A Manuel Quickly, Scottie Barnes.
If you want to throw GTJ in there, you're gonna have to mix
and match with those combinations, just because Scottie barn has been better shooting the
ball than most expected, but Siakam's pulled back there. Purl's not a floor
spacer, and RJ. Barrett right now is a negative floor spacer. So
those are three of your six most important players. That's not really any different
of a situation than you were in though you have a little bit more ball
skills on the roster. We'll really have to see where it goes. I
don't think, like I said, I just don't think the Raptors are done
selling, is how I frame with. They might not be done buying,
but they're not done selling. And I think the Knicks probably have like another
move, maybe it's miniature in them. Do they still maybe try and look
at just getting a more of a conventional big I've seen Daniel Gafford mentioned I
would still look at Xavier Tillman might be a name they look at. I'm
hoping, though, this og coming over lens itself to saying, oh,
we're more inclined to play, you know, we play small points to begin
with. When Julius Randol's not on the court and you're looking at the four
rotation, I'm hoping the singles a willingness to try the Og, Julius Randall
front Court and then Jalen Brunts in those are the three, and then fill
it out how you'd like. I'd probably rather see Grimes and de Vincenzo,
just because I don't know that I'd try, I mean even hard, like
just two of those three guys, and let's just see what those lineups really
end up looking like. Overall, I think it was a justifiable trade by
both parties. And look, if the Nixon Raptors can continue to do business
together when one franchise was suing the other, then hey, any franchise can
do business together, right. I don't know if I have any other thoughts
on this the contract situations though. Will Og go back to New York?
You still don't you're not pot committed here. You didn't give up a ton,
But this isn't a movie you make if you're not planning on paying him.
Like I said, his max start to forty two point six. A
four year max would be four years, about one hundred and ninety one five
year max five years in two hundred and forty seven million IQ. I'd be
shocked about a four year max would be one hundred and fifty nine million for
him thirty five and a half million starting max salary and his next deal RJ's
owed another eighty three million over the next three years. That that is gonna
be part of it. Specifically, Yeah, the RJ learning curve, but
the quickly restricted Tree Agency and then OG's unrestrict the Tree Agency has that player
option for the Knicks, though, is it disastrous if he leaves. No,
you still kept all your first round equity. But I would say this
is a play you make. This was not They're all in play, but
this was a fairly aggressive play and it is. There is a risk just
giving up on IQ here, But I think this elevates their ceiling. I
also think this elevates the dynamism in Toronto at least both in the short and
the long term. And I personally am hoping this kind of shows all right,
the Raptors are ready to If they're not gonna hit reboot in full,
it's they are rejiggering the roster around Scotty Barnes a little bit, just because
even I like the idea of not that I love the idea more of having
RJ and IQ without Siakam around Barnes. I think Nanobi was the better fit
if he thought he was leaving, he was an expiring contract. Their cardinal
sin was probably not moving him sooner, because I do think you could have
gotten better value than this if you really do believe in RJ. Barrett.
And we know that there's been just some murmurings, both officially and not officially,
that Toronto has been interested in RJ. I don't know as like just
the degree to which they're interested, where it's, oh, like, we
like him, he's a nice player, and we could see him thriving here.
But I just the RJ with Quickly, with Scottie Barnes, Siakam dynamic,
and then if Perl these are just still lineups I don't necessarily want to
see. I just don't. I don't think they made out poorly here though,
and I think a lot of it just has to do with how good
amountual Quickly is Right now. We just have to see where his price point
land, and so this is definitely a trade that plays out I think just
on the immediate level that we're here right now, the short term basketball level,
and then the long term basketball level, which is, well, what
does this look like for the rest of the season, But are the Raptors
keeping all these guys? So it's more so the long term basketball levels more
for the Raptors or the long term team building level, And then for both
these franchises, it's what happens in the summer. How much does it cost
to retain these guys? Are we retaining all these guys? And I do
think Ogi Ananobi's the bigger flight risk just by virtue. I know Toronto has
maybe drawn harder lines in the sand when it comes to paying players, but
he's an unrestricted free agent. So just by virtue of if he wants a
bigger offensive role and maybe pulls the Jeremy Grant type situation where he'll go to
a worst team that just promises more offensive reps than the Knicks we're willing to
give him, he's just a bigger flight risk. And so there is real
risk there, and you're just bringing in a player who is the best guy
in this deal. But I do believe IQ could be the best player in
this deal one day, just by virtue of the agency he has over the
offense, and as someone who has an off the dribble offensive repertoire, not
just the jump like, not just the threes that have been going down this
year, but is in between game sixty two plus percent this year on floaters
and doing some nice things with runners and just hitting his pull up twos in
general. I think he's at forty seven percent on pull up twos, which
would be a lot higher than last year, might even be a career high
for him. There very interesting trade here, defensible for both sides. We
just have to we have to watch it play out. Like I said,
what does it look like this season? What does it mean for the Raptors
Leading into the trade deadline? I would expect the Knicks to make another buy
play, whether it's for a big because they still don't want to do what
I'm talking about where they're running smaller, or it's a it's a trade that
lands them another creator to where well, we don't want to stagger Brunson and
Randall as much as we might have to now, or as would make sense
now that we gave up on Quickly and Barrett, and maybe they won't.
They might trust the Devincenzo heart just bench heavy lineups. So again I'm fascinated
by this. Can't wait to get into it a little bit more with Grant
next week. I think it was a reasonable call for both teams to make.
I will say I think it's hook. The Knicks were overdue for a
trade, but I don't think they got hosed on the value here there.
Cardinalson might have been not moving RJ Barrett off sooner, but to get og
An Andobi the best player in this deal as of now without giving up any
first round equity. And then if you're the Raptors, you're the guy who
is heading into free agency, who's gonna have a whole bunch of suitors you
probably would have needed to. It's easier for teams who are better than you
to give og Anobi thirty five plus million a year if you were a contender
or a fringe contender like the Knicks, where you can probably talk yourself into
paying that price tag just a lot talk yourself into that more. And we
still need to figure out the stuff with whether og wanted to be there or
not. Both these teams have made mistakes getting to this point. But even
under the less than ideal circumstances where we could have gotten more out of Runway,
out of the RJ Barrett contract based off where it is now. The
fact that you didn't have to attach an actual first round pick to this.
On top of quickly, I actually think is a win because og An Andobi
more than quickly even it quickly becomes the best player in this seal, more
than what RJ. Barrett is doing right now. He is the most desired
prototype of a player in the league just period, and so the Knicks got
him now. I don't think they'll get any run out of having Malachai Flynn.
I think could we see some precious Atchua play the five spot. I'd
like to, especially when you're gonna go up against some athletic teams now,
and TODDH. Gibson just isn't fit for that. Maybe Jericho Simms will be
back in a few games though, and that leaves this moot PRESSUREA Chu is
one of the most frustrating players in the league, though I picked him into
a most improved player last year. So that's the gamut of emotions and impressions
and sentiments of precious a chewa at that that I'm running. Finally, look,
we'll get into more of this trade. Let me know what you think
about in the comments or getting discord. If you haven't already, please join
our discord subscribe if you haven't. This is gonna be the first of I
think wod said we're in for a slow trade season. We hear that every
year there's going to be business, even if it's not blockbuster. We've now
had two blockbusters moving oh Giannonoby to New York and IQ to an Arch Toronto
as a blockbuster James Harten's in LA. There will be more fireworks, and
I think we're gonna see more from both of these teams. I think if
you're a Pascal Siakham suitor, this has to peak your attention a little bit
more. This is a bummer for the teams that I think should have been
in on OG He would have been interesting and okay, he've been interesting anywhere,
but okay, see Sacramento for sure. Wanted to see him there.
So those teams is kind of a bummer if he thought you were in the
mix for them. If you're a Sakham team, like I guess, Sacramento
is considered a SEACAME team. We know Atlanta's a SEACAM team. But this
makes that trade even more complicated because now I'm assuming the the uh Raptors a
less inclined to take on to Jontay Murray. If you're a de Jontay Murray
suitor, you kind of have to like this maybe a little bit because you
know that, well, Murray's not going to the Raptors now, they don't
have a need for him. Does that, you know, up the aggression
or if you were a quickly suitor, let's say there will be dominoes here,
So I think it takes some scenarios off the table, increase the likelihood
Seacame's there. So if you're an og ad Anobi suitor, this is a
whether it was the Grizzlies, the Pelicans, the thunder the Kings were my
favorite destination where I think he would have made the biggest difference, but he
would have made a difference for just every single team in the league right now.
And I think, look, if you're the Nets and you have Dorian
Finney Smith or maybe even Royce O'Neil here, that might allow you to you're
gonna be a team that I think it's called upon more leading into the trade
deadline. So there will be other ripple effects, but I don't think we're
done with the actual teams we're talking about, and the Knicks I think are
one of the most fascinating teams in the league because they were kind of right
on the fringe of are they one player away, one non star away from
entering the echelon of Okay, we might not be Milwaukee and Boston, but
could we be on the level of Philly or just below Philly? And they
were arguably maybe, Then if you're moving removing those three teams from the equation,
they're already there. But how much does this elevate their immediate ceiling?
That's what I don't think the Raptors have elevated their immediate ceiling at all.
I think they've made themselves more dynamic. The Knicks, I think I think
they have elevated their ceiling. But we're gonna have to see how the Benjamin's
play out. Tim's willing to try out different lineups, also stagger Randolin brunts
in a bunch. But I'm now talking in circles, which means that's time
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