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What is krack alack and hardwoodnock listeners. I am Dan for atlea coming at

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you without my co host Adam Fromwell
Today for reasons we will get to in

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a minute. Actually, okay,
let's get to it right now. We

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It is in the great void.
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And rather than not have a podcast, I'm going to hold his mailbag

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solo because Adam cannot make it.
He is working and I'm on a Sunday

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night. I am not going to
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I'll just do it myself. I
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been a long week leading into the
trade deadline. I do love this time

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of year, as people who have
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do know. But I'm wearing a
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just in my little office where I
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got my mic up in my face, my laptop right here in energy

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drink. Anyone who also knows me
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whether it's a Meno energy or in
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flavored what is this called super Brain
C four performance fuel tastes really good.

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I am going to start first,
though, with the two breaking news

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items that we've had that came through
over the weekend. James is out in

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definitely with a high right ankle sprain. That's going to be disastrous for the

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Lakers on offense for obvious reasons.
He's Lebron friggin James, but also their

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half court offense has struggled both with
and without him this season. With him

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on the court, the Lakers have
their half court offense ranks in the sixty

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seventh percentile of efficiency without Lebron,
the twenty fourth percentile without Lebron n a

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D, the seventeenth percentile when Dennis
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during the fortieth percentile. So not
terrible, but that's the four hundred and

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nine possession sample size. It's not
Hughes huge. And then with Shrewder,

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Encuz but no Lebron or a D
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that's a three hundred and seventh possession
sample size. Not totally hopeless, and

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I think a healthy, Marcusol can
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court with his playmaking. I thought
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in the no Lebron minutes this season
than he has with that will be something

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to look for as he gets back
from conditioning. I do believe that they

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should probably look at making a trade
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it's can you get a low level
creator like an Austin Rivers who just seems

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like he's available in New York?
Do you have the Jews to get him

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a Leak Monk or DeVante Graham from
Charlotte. I'd probably argue no, and

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we're going to get to them in
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I don't know how low the asking
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just the idea of him, and
I'm not talking about all NBA Victor

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Ladipo. It's been three years essentially
since we've seen that, and he's dealt

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with a right quad issue, not
just around twenty eighteen, but this season.

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He had a right quad issue after
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Has not played too well there,
though we did have a good game in

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their twentieth loss, consecutive loss of
the season. He's making twenty one million.

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He already turned down an extension.
I don't think he's going to resign

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and Houston, nobody thinks he's going
to resign. In Houston, they shouldn't

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want to pay him, frankly,
because they are rebuilding. I'm not again,

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I will never look out for billionaire
pockets, but when you do have

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to be smart about building a team. He just doesn't make sense. And

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there's no guarantee that he'll be eminently
movable on his next contract. So if

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you're gonna lose him for nothing,
my guess is that you could probably get

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a better offer than the Lakers can
give you. But if you like talent,

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Horton Tucker is him tres and then
just a bunch of salary filler enough

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to get it done. The Lakers
fans even want to do that, you're

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looking at, you know, unless
you're trading Contavious Callbo Pope. You're probably

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looking at a five for one trade
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third teams, a third team,
maybe a fourth team. I would consider

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it if I were them, I
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I might consider doing Dennis Shrewder and
if it's a second even if it's talent

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Horton Tucker, who is really good, but he's going to be a restricted

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free agent capped in what he can
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But I don't even know if the
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to give him the what would amount
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And there's also the possibility that he
gets a poison pill offer sheet and

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restrict free agency because people want to
mess with the Lakers. And fair warning,

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there might be some profanity in this
podcast too, just the all bets

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are off after you've lost the podcast, and also apologize if you hear me

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sipping during this my energy drink.
So I don't know if i'd be interested

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in talent Horton Tucker if I were
Houston, But knowing that you have to

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pay him might be a little scary, But then you also know that you're

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never gonna have to pay him what
Victor Oladipo probably gets. He'll get at

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NAX, probably a third of what
alladieople gets unless his market really tapers off.

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I get why people wouldn't want to
gi up Dennis Shrewder just because he's

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more bankable. His off the dribble
jumper can be let's call him an adventure,

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but he's more guaranteed playmaking. He
hasn't had as many health issues,

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a little bit more of a consistent
presence on defense, I would say,

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though we also know Victor Ladipo can
defend. He has not been great there

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this year, was not great there
in Indie for the bubble, but we've

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seen it even post injury, He's
looked good at times on defense. It's

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just something that if I'm the Lakers, I'm considering, I don't again,

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I don't know how you get there
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assume because KCP is a clutch client, that he's not going to get dealt

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to the Nowheresville Rockets at this point. Maybe there's a third team involved if

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you're moving him. I would also
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he's probably even though he's gone through
the shooting slumps, what do you he

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did in the playoffs last year,
He's going to shoot better from three.

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You could just rely on him,
probably a little bit more than all the

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depot and so I might only do
it if the asking price is so surprisingly

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low, where again it's tress thht, and then you're fleshing that out.

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I don't know. I mean West
Matthews would be in there, McKinney,

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I'd imagine. I don't even think
that's enough money for the Lakers to bring

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back Oladipo. And look, they
are within two million dollars of the hardcap

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right now, so they're within one
point seven million of the hardcap per the

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sheet that I'm looking at, So
you basically have to send out dollar for

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dollar or get to twenty million,
and that's incredibly tough if you're not trading

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shrewder. So maybe that's sort of
a pie in the sky scenario, but

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I do believe they need to make
some sort of a move now, where

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maybe they could have talked themselves into
staying pat and just relying on the buyout

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market. I don't know that the
type of just player who could generate his

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own offense, even if it's not
super efficient, I don't know that they're

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going to get onto the buyout market. Austin Rivers might be your best bet

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at this point. That springs to
mind. Even maybe a George Hill,

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but one I don't think he gets
bought out, and two, I don't

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know that he's enough of just a
self generating shock creator efficient on drive's going

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to hit his threes. We'll give
you some defense, but he's not.

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You know this from scratch guy.
That's just never really been his game,

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and so that's going to be something
to monitor. Hopefully Lebron James Uh,

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this unscheduled rest will help him.
People want to talk about the MVP implications.

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That's actually a question that we had, and so there, you know,

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it's fair. I think just let's
give it a little time to marinate,

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which we did because this happened on
Saturday and recording this late on Sunday

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night. But Miroslav Shook asked,
can we get an update on your MVP

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ballots after your developments? Look and
Being and Lebron are out outside of my

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top three now. I just don't
know how you put them in there,

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knowing that they're each going to miss, you know, in beads specifically,

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it's just probably already out of there
when you look at how many games he's

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going to have missed this season.
Lebron, maybe he's superhuman because he's Lebron,

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It comes back after two weeks and
still really has a chance to be

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in the MVP discussion when the margins
are that finn though, and you have

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guys like Jannis Dame Lillard and Nicole
Yokitch. Excuse me, they're just gonna

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be playing substantially more minutes at this
point. And Bead is tough because he

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was outside the top the top seventy
five and minutes when he went down,

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and so he's only tumbled from there. Lebron was tenth at the time of

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his injury, I believe, and
that's total minutes. So again, maybe

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it's time to come back. But
I think his case was just a little

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bit or I don't want to say
flimsy ear, but it just wasn't as

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strong as some others because a lot
of it was narrative base where it was,

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oh, look at him doing this
in year eighteen, age thirty six.

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However, the Lakers, the way
that they were kind of playing at

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the time when he went down without
Anthony Davis, that definitely would have helped

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him. So right now, I
think i'd have Lebron and Ebid they're four

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five to me together. You could
put them there. Embiad was my pick,

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and I want to make that clear. He was first place for me

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when he before he was out with
his injury. So I'm not trying to

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unnecessarily the moat either of them,
But it's just tough when the margins are

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are so thin, and so I
think Nicole Yokich really has a clear path

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to winning it right now. If
he's able to play in more games and

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you have Lebron missing, you know
he's gonna miss at least ten games,

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and he might miss longer because you
have to. If you're a Lakers,

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you just have to slow play this. You don't need to care about seating.

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You're gonna make the playoffs. You're
right now six games behind the eight

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seeded Dallas Mavericks. You're not.
You know this, real disaster would have

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to strike for you to fall in
in playoff territory. So I my guests

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would be that they slow play this. Even if he is Lebron and decides

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to come back in two weeks.
Maybe I shouldn't say that either, because

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if Lebron wants to come back,
Lebron's going to come back. He'll have

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a say in that as well.
But Yokich. Look the Nuggets or six

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in the West, that's nothing,
specially even in a tight race. There's

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still a ridiculously good team when he's
on the floor. And I do believe

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that we need to pay more attention
to these on court numbers with players,

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they can't be responsible for what happens
when they're off the court. It might

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be a little bit of a difference
if they're just narrowly winning when the team's

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winning the minutes when they're on the
court, but that's just not you know,

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that really hasn't been the case for
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so much of their offense through Yokich. He's just this incredible threat from beyond

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the arc. Now from whether he's
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going on for him. He's an
excellent pastor. We know that he's probably

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the best passing big man in NBA
history. I shouldn't even have the probably

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qualifier for that. I feel like
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there. But you still just look
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important he is. They're twelve point
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the offensive end, with with him
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point six points per one hundre psessions
is worse that has improved. I will

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say the Michael Porter Junior and Nicole
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have been suspiciously stingy on defense for
reasons I can't quite figure out. I've

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been and I mentioned this in the
season outlook pod for them that I thought

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Michael Porter Junior sold flashes of being
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at points, and I think he's
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gone on, too, But those
minutes are just suspiciously stingy. Still,

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that's really gonna help his case when
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offense. So he's number one for
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I think, I think, and
don't hold me to this because I'm

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actually writing my MVP Ladder and update
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think Jannis is second for me at
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going to be hesitant to three pet
him, but the bucks are seventeen point

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nine points per one hundred possessions better
with him on the court, and he's

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so huge to what they do at
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like he really needs to be inserted
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has been. His passing feels like
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you're just watching him. I still
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you're looking at his offense, but
he's still just such a monster when you

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look at his ability to get to
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and in transition, and even the
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those fall aways to pull up from
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efficient shots for him just yet,
but the willingness to take them absolutely doesn't

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matter. And this is a regular
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those do sort of of linger.
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though, would be Damian Lillard of
the Portland Trail Blazers. Kind of

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a yoket situation here for me,
where you look at how much better the

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Blazers are with him on the court
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possessions. They're six point one points
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defense is seven point seven points perne
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and he is a part of that. Even when he is kind of

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just fighting through screens, he's not
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really zeroing in on him and watching
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problem. I don't think it excludes
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It's just that when Jannis is there, I do think it's close because Damian

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Lillard has been absolutely absurd in the
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and I do think we've seen the
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a little bit more Drew Holiday or
or Chris Middleton in the clutch where doesn't

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feel like Yannis is as much of
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Lillard, though, I mean Matt
Moore of Action Network tweeted this out over

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the weekend. It wasn't just a
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he's the Blazer eighteen and six in
crunch time games this season, which is

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just absolutely incredible. Dame is slashing
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He is yet to miss a free
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that we're dealing with a small sample
size, but thirty eight of thirty eight

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in crunch time from the line pretty
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He's just been an absolute monster.
But as Matt Moore pointed out on

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Twitter, the Blazers have essentially when
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versus losses, they're losing big and
winning slim. I don't know whether that

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should count against them or not,
because there's, you know, the element

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of okay. Look at the Blazers
record against teams five hundred and above,

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they're nine and ten, and then
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hundred, where they're sixteen and six. That certainly matters too. You have

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a team like Denver, though they're
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and then fourteen and six against below
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nine against teams above five hundred and
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the season is wonky, and you
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but that's all close enough to where
I'll throw out even if the Blazers are

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not winning convincingly necessarily, I don't
know that I can hold that against Dame,

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and I almost have an inclination to
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the time that CJ. McCollum and
use of Nurkicch missed this year, and

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a Nurkitch is still out. So
to have the Blazers in the top five

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of the West, within striking distance
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you know they're two and a half
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that's pretty significant to me. It
would not surprise me if Dane creeps

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up my own ladder. Still,
I think I think I have yo kitch.

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This is just so tough. I
might have you honest, I can

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talk myself in to Damian Lillard,
but this is going to be just one

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hell of an MVP race. Let's
get to your questions, though a lot

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of good ones mainly focused on the
trade deadline, Babe for MVP, as

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if available on the trade market,
what would it take for the Suns to

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get Aaron Holiday. That's a curious
question. I don't know what it would

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take necessarily, though I will get
into perhaps it would take. But you

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look at Indiana and you know,
Aaron Holliday's not playing a ton, He's

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not been the most efficient player.
The idea of him as someone who could

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maybe spark plug your offense, put
some pressure on the rim, maybe hit

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a couple off the dribble jumpers.
It's good and he's cheap next season at

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three point, it's about four million
dollars. And they also teaching McConnell going

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into free agency, and so Aaron
Holliday different kind of player for sure,

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but a little bit of a safety
net in case t J. McConnell leaves.

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use for Aaron Holliday long term?
You are gonna have to pay him eventually.

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two, same with Jeremy Lamb,
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You've already paid some bonus Brockden and
Turner, and you know those deals neither

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those guys aren't really way far out
from free agency. Brogged In and Turner

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are scheduled to be free agents in
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There refe some hesitants to just pay
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you looking to entertain offers for Alan
Holliday Aaron Holliday. I'm sure they would

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considerate, but the idea of him
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who's been really valuable Indiana this year. I don't know what the Sun specifically

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can give up. They have their
twenty twenty two first round or going to

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the Thunder as part of the Chris
Paul trade, so it's really tough for

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them to trade a first round pick. They would have to do twenty twenty

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four first allowable or first allowable is
what they would have to do. That's

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too far out to go after Aaron
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when Chris Paul's contract would be up, and maybe he stays in Phoenix and

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places at He's like eighty five and
is great, but you just can't take

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that chance. You can use Jalen
Smith. I'm just not sure how much

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cache he has is the number ten
pick when he hasn't played much. Saw

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some kind of flashes from him preseason
where I was like, oh, spin,

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move off the dribble, that's interesting
and it'll space the floor. I

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could put the four of the five, but that was just clearly that shouldn't

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have been a pick they should have
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So I don't know what else you're
gonna give up. You're not giving

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up Cam Johnson, Michael Bridges,
So you know, just does Jalen Smith

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get it done? I would be
skeptical because the Pacers have some bonus.

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They have Turner and they have gog
Betadze in the background as well. Dude,

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who's moving who's moved a little bit
better on defense this year? On

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the Pacers games that I've watched.
Just FYI, So you're not going to

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do this deal for Javon Carter in
seconds? That would shock me if if

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that's what happened, If you could, then yeah, by all means,

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I think you're fine with Cameron Payne
for the most part. I understand the

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urge not to trust him when you
have Chris Paone, you have Devin Booker.

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I don't know that really beefing up
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is a necessity. I guess it's
a nice hedge because why not hedge?

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And we know that CB three is
murky injury history. But the minutes that

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he's off the court, they're gonna
be fewer and further between during during the

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playoffs, and you're gonna see a
lot more of him and Devin Booker together,

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I would assume during those times as
well. Let's get to fred consistent

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question asker, So thank you.
Fred asked, do Austin Rivers and or

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Alfred Payton's stay with the Knicks past
the deadline? I'm going to say at

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least one of them is gone.
Austin Rivers, isn't he? And in

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the rotation as we're recording this.
I think he can do something for a

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team. He was shooting a pretty
high clip from three through his first thirteen

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games of the season. Was all
over the place thereafter. But he's someone

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who can put the ball on the
floor. The Rockets got away with him

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defending wings. And his contract to
me is sneaky useful in the sense that

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he's only making about about three oh
he's making exactly three point five million this

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year, and then he has a
non guaranteed deal next year for three point

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three and then three point two of
the year after. It had to be

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three years in life because they signed
and traded for him. That was everyone

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was confused by that, But you
look at it this way, three point

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five million is not really a lot
to take a flyer on someone who can

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maybe help you in the playoffs,
to hit shots in the half court,

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even if it's just as a standstill, catch and shoot guy. If he

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works out, you have him under
team control for another two years at a

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very little cost to you, and
then if it doesn't work out, you

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can just show him the door,
no harm, no foul. And I

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do think there's a team out there
that'd be interested in him, maybe not

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because they know that the Knicks aren't
playing him, but if they end up

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buying him out or just releasing him, that would be a mini failure on

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their part. So I don't think
Austin Rivers stays with the Knicks unless we

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just see injuries, you know,
take over the roster. You know,

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Derek Rose has not been not been
healthy of late, but even that hasn't

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really sparked Austin Rivers getting into the
rotation. Alfred Payton should not be with

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the next after the trade deadline.
I don't know if they need to wave

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him to make a roster spot.
I don't know if they move him,

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you know, because he's salary fodder. They can use that just sort of

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double up their cap space where it's, oh, they have fifteen million,

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Alfred Payton makes four point eight.
You could take back up. As my

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work phone goes off, I apologize
in the background. You could take him

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in and take back a player that
makes almost twenty million dollars right there,

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if that's something that you wanted to
do. If you're interested in Victor Oladipo,

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Alfred Payton and someone else for Victor
Ladipo would work. Someone cheap.

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One of those two guys won't be
there. But I don't want to see,

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you know, Alfred Peyton taking away
minutes from Immanuel Quickly or frank Neil

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Keena. And I do understand more
so now after watching additional minutes of what

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the Knicks second unic can look like
without Immanuel Quickly, why you don't start

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him? And so I'm gonna give
Tibbs that that being said, I want

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to see Frankie Lakina. I want
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At this point, Zach Will pointed
this out and as late as ten things

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calm. He's been overrated on defense
for a while. I think that was

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among hoops those just sort of common
knowledge. He just doesn't give you enough

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on offense as a as a threat, Like defenses aren't going to defend him

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if he doesn't have the ball,
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Really when he has the ball,
he's not like the super He's a little

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bit more willing to shoot than a
Rondo or a Lonzo ball, but he's

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not, you know, this great
finisher. So my guests would be if

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I had to guess right now both
of them will not finish the season with

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the Knicks, I'd probably say Alfred
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Knicks do seem to value him,
or at least in theory, he can

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run the point in a way that
Frankie Lakina can't, and then starting him

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allows them to go with Derek Rose
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There So, but yeah, there
we did another question about the Knicks.

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Can I find it very quickly?
Yes? TPS, how do you

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feel about a Lonzo to New York. I'm intrigued by it. I just

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don't know what you give up for
someone that you're gonna have to pay.

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I would say I was on the
Knicks Film School podcast another Blue Wire podcast.

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I don't know what you give up
for someone who's about to enter restrictive

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free agency, who at minimum you're
probably gonna have to get four years and

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eighty million dollars. Do you give
up a first round pick? I'm not

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giving up a twenty twenty one first
round pick, not the Knicks. Is

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anyway, you could maybe consider giving
up the Dallas pick this year. There

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is a chance theoretically that Dallas has
a better pick than New York. If

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you are New Orleans, then,
though, what are you accepting, because

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yeah, there's we actually have a
question about Lonzos. I'll save that about

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Lonzo specifically in New Orleans. I'll
save that part of it. What do

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you want for him? Though?
I think the Knicks should probably top out

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at like a Kevin Knox and the
Dallas twenty twenty three pick. Maybe you

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00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:48,119
give them that that Detroit second two, but that just you know, you

403
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:51,680
could go with the first when you
can go after him and restrict the free

404
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:55,839
agency. I know there's more value
in having bird rights in URFA because you

405
00:23:55,839 --> 00:24:00,359
can match any offer that you receive. But look, when you're giving up

406
00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:02,839
a first round pick, and Kevin
Knox, I still believe in by the

407
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:04,519
way, he's not going to be
that player he hinted at in Summer league

408
00:24:04,559 --> 00:24:11,039
way back when. But he shot
corner threees better this year. And I

409
00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:15,519
still like his just player archetype.
You look at his size and you know

410
00:24:15,599 --> 00:24:17,720
how he can move, and I
do think he can do some more more

411
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:21,160
stuff on the ball. I thought
he wasn't as bad as a defender as

412
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:25,240
he was last season. That said
you are selling low on him. Still,

413
00:24:25,839 --> 00:24:29,079
Kevin, I would look Kevin Knox
and the Dallas pick, fine,

414
00:24:29,279 --> 00:24:32,319
but that Detroit pick this season is
going to be thirty one or thirty two,

415
00:24:32,319 --> 00:24:34,200
and so now you're looking at you
can spend it if you're the Knicks

416
00:24:34,279 --> 00:24:40,400
as two first rounders plus Kevin Knox
or just two first rounders. Does Kevin

417
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:42,880
Knox plusts to Detroit pick amount to
a late first round pick. Maybe maybe

418
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,279
not. But that's a lot to
thing about for a player that you can

419
00:24:45,559 --> 00:24:48,799
pay or try to pay, and
restricted free agency, and I'm not sure

420
00:24:48,839 --> 00:24:52,000
he is the answer to what the
Knicks need. I think he's interesting there,

421
00:24:52,319 --> 00:24:55,640
but he's not going to be the
type of point guard to put pressure

422
00:24:55,759 --> 00:24:57,799
on the rim. He's not going
to just run picking roles in the half

423
00:24:57,799 --> 00:25:03,920
court. He's great if you want
him to sort of manage the game in

424
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:06,240
the open floor. That spectacular.
And he's proved that he can be a

425
00:25:06,279 --> 00:25:08,759
really viable stand still shooter, and
he's he's hit some off the dribble threes

426
00:25:08,839 --> 00:25:14,240
to his to his credit, so
a really good player. Super treated by

427
00:25:14,279 --> 00:25:15,640
him in New York. I just
don't know what you give up for him

428
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,200
when he's headed for restricted free agency, and it is complicated by the fact

429
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:25,599
that I don't know that he's He's
probably more valuable as a floor spacer around

430
00:25:25,759 --> 00:25:30,880
a manual quickly around Julius randall around
RJ. Barrett, and he is an

431
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:36,079
actual point guard to the Knicks.
And that's that's again. If you can

432
00:25:36,079 --> 00:25:37,559
pay him, I might. I
would pay him twenty million dollars a year

433
00:25:37,559 --> 00:25:40,200
to go to New York. And
he is only twenty three, will be

434
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:45,559
twenty four when next season rolls around, So I have no problem with him

435
00:25:45,559 --> 00:25:47,799
going after him. But I think
I think your limit needs to be and

436
00:25:47,839 --> 00:25:51,920
I don't know that New Orleans would
accept this. Kevin Knox a Dallas pick

437
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:56,200
and maybe maybe the Detroit pick you
need to take back Alfred Payton in that

438
00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:59,680
scenario, though, if your New
Orleans like, that's something that sort of

439
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,440
needs to happen. And I don't
know that New Orleans is going to be

440
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:04,160
interesting that they do need wings,
but you would have to be really They

441
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:07,680
would have to believe in Kevin Knox
is the sort of second draft player,

442
00:26:07,839 --> 00:26:14,319
and I'm you know, I'm not
sure if if they do so. This

443
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:18,440
comes from Sucker free B asked about
Lonzo Balls, specifically, what are the

444
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:22,839
realistic odds of the Pelicans being able
to match what Lonzo gets on the market

445
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:26,359
based off our current cap situation.
Look, it's a fantastic question. This

446
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:30,000
is not a podcast. Again,
we're going to celebrate owners cutting costs,

447
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,920
but the reality is, particularly in
a market with New Orleans, and especially

448
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:40,000
when the Pelicans they're interesting on paper, but they're eleventh in the West right

449
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:41,720
now, there's a chance they don't
even make the play. And how do

450
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:45,319
you throw so much money to roster
that's clearly not ready to win. You

451
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:48,000
already have Steven Adams on the books
for close to sixteen next year, then

452
00:26:48,039 --> 00:26:52,920
Brandon Ingram at seventeen ish. That's
thirty three million dollars right there, brandon

453
00:26:53,039 --> 00:26:57,759
Ingram. Oh wait, I'm sorry, I'm looking at the wrong number.

454
00:26:57,759 --> 00:27:00,559
Steven Adams on the books for seven
team point one, brandon Ingram is twenty

455
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:06,079
nine point five, and so you
know, right there you're looking at forty

456
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:10,119
six point five million dollars let's say, right around there, and then another

457
00:27:10,559 --> 00:27:17,799
eighteen point one for Eric Bledsoe sixty
four sixty five million dollars between those three

458
00:27:17,839 --> 00:27:22,039
players. Are you willing to have
eighty five ninety tied up in Bledsoe,

459
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:27,160
Adams, Ingram and Lonzo Ball?
You have to ask that question. Zion

460
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:33,359
Williamson is going to be in year
three as well, close to extension eligible.

461
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,079
You do have to think about his
next contract at this point. So

462
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:38,640
you know, are you gonna You're
gonna be locked into this three four player

463
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,960
coreps for quite some time? And
my phone is blowing up at the moment,

464
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,559
so I apologize. People are asking
me about the about the little Melo

465
00:27:47,599 --> 00:27:52,039
ball injury, which hey, let's
talk about it right right after this question

466
00:27:52,079 --> 00:27:55,079
about the Pelicans. If you're the
Pelicans, you match and you deal with

467
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,440
it because you can. You know, there are still avenues next season where

468
00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:03,799
I think they are projected to have, Like they'll be far enough away from

469
00:28:03,839 --> 00:28:07,480
the tax where you can pay Lonzo
Ball. But I don't know what else

470
00:28:07,519 --> 00:28:10,240
you're gonna be able to do to
improve your roster. You better hope that

471
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,160
that deals at least movable than once
you sign it, and you can't let

472
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,839
him leave for nothing. I do
think realistically they could match it. But

473
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,240
you also have Josh Hart. Now
this is where things get interesting. He's

474
00:28:18,319 --> 00:28:22,720
entering a restricted free agency too.
And so if you have Josh Hart getting

475
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,799
fifteen twelve to fifteen million dollars a
year, which doesn't hit as many of

476
00:28:25,839 --> 00:28:27,319
US threes as you think, but
as a guy who can rebound well for

477
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:33,119
his size defend basically up to power
forwards, it seems like it points that's

478
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:37,960
not an unreasonable belief to think that
he could get close to that high.

479
00:28:37,039 --> 00:28:41,839
That would talk about talk about a
hedge. How was that sentenced for a

480
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:45,319
hedge? So now with a sudden
you're at one hundred million dollars. Let's

481
00:28:45,319 --> 00:28:48,160
say close to one hundred million dollars
for Steven Adams, ingram bletso Lonzo Ball

482
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:53,079
and Josh Hart and we haven't even
have to included Zion in that. They're

483
00:28:53,079 --> 00:28:56,680
really gonna have to take a long
look. My guests would be they don't

484
00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:00,200
move him. They don't have to
be a team that probably blows them away.

485
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,480
This is in Chicago's not dangling lowry
marketing and getting Lonzo Ball. It's

486
00:29:03,519 --> 00:29:06,799
just not happening. If they're going
to move him, it'll happen. Maybe

487
00:29:06,839 --> 00:29:08,839
after he signs his deal and can
be moved under a longer term pact,

488
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,480
is a larger salary, or maybe
they broke our sign and trades in the

489
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,079
off season. A lot of teams
have cap space, but maybe there are

490
00:29:15,079 --> 00:29:18,119
teams that want to go after him
after they use their cap space, or

491
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:22,319
just who don't have cap space.
I expect, though, if Lonzo Ball

492
00:29:22,359 --> 00:29:25,599
reaches restricted free agency, that the
Pelicans are not going to let him leave

493
00:29:25,799 --> 00:29:30,920
for nothing. Look, let's talk
about the LaMelo Ball injury. Some breaking

494
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,680
news during this pod, even though
it kind of happened a little bit,

495
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:38,200
but before the pod started. He's
out, He's believed to be out for

496
00:29:38,279 --> 00:29:45,720
the rest of the season with a
fracture in his right wrists. I believe

497
00:29:45,799 --> 00:29:49,000
I might have that wrong. I
should look that up and in real time.

498
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:55,119
But let's see he is. Fracture
is right? Risk correct? Look

499
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,440
if you're Charlotte, now this sucks. LaMelo Ball was the clear favorite for

500
00:29:57,519 --> 00:30:03,319
Rookie of the Year. I'm saying
this is even somebody who loves Tyrese Haliburton.

501
00:30:03,839 --> 00:30:06,400
Now he's playing forty one games.
Is that enough for him to win

502
00:30:06,519 --> 00:30:10,440
Rookie of the Year. Maybe it
opens the door for Tyrese Haliburton specifically.

503
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,680
I'm not ready to analyze that for
him. You know, that's not necessarily

504
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:18,559
fair to him. It does change
the hardest direction. He made their offense

505
00:30:18,599 --> 00:30:22,279
substantially better when when he was on
the court, and now that you don't

506
00:30:22,279 --> 00:30:26,000
have him this idea that you would
need to you know, they still might

507
00:30:26,039 --> 00:30:30,039
stumble into a playing spot, but
they're eighth in the East. They weren't

508
00:30:30,079 --> 00:30:34,039
even technically win now at the moment, though it was easier to talk themselves

509
00:30:34,039 --> 00:30:40,319
into that without LaMelo Ball, it's
very tough to imagine them still being sort

510
00:30:40,319 --> 00:30:42,160
of in that discussion. And now
when maybe they were fringe buyers at the

511
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,400
deadline, or at least weren't going
to sell where it was. Hey,

512
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,119
do they maybe try and go after
Rashaun Holmes from Sacramento and go that direction?

513
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:53,079
Is there something else that they could
do? I don't know that that's

514
00:30:53,079 --> 00:30:56,680
an option for them anymore. Maybe
they look at selling and just to underscore

515
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,200
out how good LaMelo Ball has been
since he entered the starting lineup. So

516
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:03,240
twenty one games, wars injury atging, nineteen point five point six point two

517
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:07,319
assists, one point seven steals,
shooting forty two point six percent from three

518
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:08,960
on six point one attempts per game. It doesn't get to the free throw

519
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:11,799
line a ton, but eighty one
point one percent from the line, just

520
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:17,559
instrumental in what they've been able to
do offensively. And look that's with you

521
00:31:17,559 --> 00:31:19,759
know, a couple not great games
baked in there. That his efficiencies right

522
00:31:19,799 --> 00:31:25,319
there. So I'm curious to see
how this impacts the way the Hornets do

523
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,759
business at the trade deadline. If
I am them, I'm probably looking to

524
00:31:27,799 --> 00:31:33,200
see, you know, can't we
move Davante Graham? Can we move Molik

525
00:31:33,319 --> 00:31:37,160
Monk? But both of them are
entering free agent researching free agency this summer?

526
00:31:37,279 --> 00:31:40,799
Are we willing to take back some
bad salary with draft capital? You

527
00:31:40,799 --> 00:31:42,319
know, a trade that seems to
be sitting out there right now would be

528
00:31:44,039 --> 00:31:48,359
DeVante Graham and you know Cody Zeller
does that? What does that get you

529
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:52,759
from the Mavericks with take on Dwhite
Powells the two years remaining that he has,

530
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:56,240
what does that get you? And
you would I guess I think you

531
00:31:56,319 --> 00:31:59,240
might need to send out Dallas,
might need to send out more money,

532
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:00,519
But what does that get you?
Does it get you there twenty twenty five?

533
00:32:00,559 --> 00:32:02,880
First? Is that enough for you
to consider it? Can you get

534
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:08,680
Tyroll Terry Josh Green? That's you
know, something to at least consider.

535
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:13,279
But I would also just I would
look at the market from a league monk

536
00:32:13,319 --> 00:32:15,599
or DeVante Graham? Can you get
a I would think maybe you could get

537
00:32:15,599 --> 00:32:19,480
a first round pick from Dallas twenty
twenty five, So that's pretty far down

538
00:32:19,519 --> 00:32:21,880
the road. Maybe they're not interested
in that. But if you're taking on

539
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,119
Dwight Powell giving them DeVante Graham,
who helps now? And then they do

540
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:28,519
have his bird rights and free agency
if he does kind of pan out,

541
00:32:28,519 --> 00:32:30,839
Even though you know Trey burke Is
and Gentle Brunson specifically to be giving them

542
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:35,599
great minutes this season. So maybe
they're not as inclined to do that.

543
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,599
But I would definitely shop Molakue,
Monk and Devonte Graham for teams, looking

544
00:32:38,599 --> 00:32:43,640
at guys who could really microwave score
at this point, just because your season's

545
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,000
kind of over and I don't know, Look, you have Terry Rozier,

546
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:47,960
you have Lamella Ball. I don't
know that you need to funnel a ton

547
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,960
more to the guard spot. It's
fine to keep one of Monk or Graham.

548
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,759
I'd be shocked if both of them
were back in Charlotte next season.

549
00:32:54,799 --> 00:32:58,720
But that's just a that's a real
bummer. You hate to see anyone get

550
00:32:58,799 --> 00:33:01,240
injured, and you know, this
past weekend was an on slaught of injuries.

551
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:05,920
When you look at Lebron and Lamello
just really kind of really kind of

552
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:08,759
blows there. Let's get to a
question from Meyer roth Bomb. What teams

553
00:33:08,759 --> 00:33:13,480
do you think will be under the
radar buyers or sellers. We try to

554
00:33:13,519 --> 00:33:15,880
think of one from each. I
mentioned this when we recorded the first time

555
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:20,240
around. I think Toronto could be
a low key buyer. Everyone's sort of

556
00:33:20,279 --> 00:33:23,200
waiting on them to sell off Kyle
Lowry sell off to Norman Powell as they

557
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:27,200
get healthier, I don't think,
you know, as they get to full

558
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:30,319
strength, which I think they're basically
there now if I'm not mistaken. They're

559
00:33:30,359 --> 00:33:32,519
not eleventh in the Eastern Conference,
and being eleventh in the Eastern Conference only

560
00:33:32,559 --> 00:33:37,640
means that you're right now your five
games back of the four spot at Lanta

561
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,279
Hawks, and you're only four back
of you know, sixth place Nicks.

562
00:33:42,079 --> 00:33:45,480
That's to get a firmly into a
playoff spot outside playing in territory. If

563
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,920
you're not getting the moon for Kyle
Lowry,'re really getting good value of

564
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,400
Norm Powell, who's been someone who's
not a huge Norm Powell fan, just

565
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:57,720
been playing bonkers this season for them. For the most part, you stay

566
00:33:57,759 --> 00:34:00,440
the course, and you know,
can you make a many buy There was

567
00:34:00,519 --> 00:34:04,680
a question here about would they consider
trading for well this is from Johnny Deep

568
00:34:04,799 --> 00:34:07,640
while the Raptors trade for a starting
center so Baines can play twelve minutes a

569
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,239
night off the bench. Are they
team that could really go maybe after Rashaun

570
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:14,599
Holmes from Sacramento. If I'm not
I'm not trying to pick on Sacramento here,

571
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,280
just he's entering free agency and they
are very big picture focused. I

572
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:22,159
know he's been their second third best
player whatever it's been this year. But

573
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,320
if he's probably gonna be the best
center on the free agency market, what

574
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:29,880
are you what are you going to
pay him? So he's someone who would

575
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,639
fit really well in Toronto? Do
they maybe try to talk themselves into this

576
00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:37,599
is probably harder, but that he
is young while while playing smaller in certain

577
00:34:37,639 --> 00:34:39,920
lineups. That's someone who could really
help them out. But that just might

578
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:45,880
be tough from a salary perspective.
They're not just they're not line with you

579
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:49,079
know, expendable salary fodder. If
they want to use Norman Powell as that

580
00:34:49,159 --> 00:34:52,239
idea, then yeah, a lot
of different options open up for them.

581
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:54,679
I guess there really aren't like a
ton of centers that would bring to mind.

582
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,920
Maybe they're more focused on the buyout
market. I don't think they get

583
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,679
Drummond if he enters the buyout market, which I do believe that he will.

584
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:06,239
That's you know, let's answer this
question from David's Olu Ajibola as is

585
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,000
Andre Drummond getting bought out or not? If not what's the implications of the

586
00:35:08,039 --> 00:35:12,039
cat don't find a suitable trade for
him. The implication are he just makes

587
00:35:12,039 --> 00:35:14,480
too much money at twenty eight point
eight million or whatever it is. But

588
00:35:14,679 --> 00:35:16,280
I do think he'll get bought out
after the trade deadline, if not before

589
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,960
it, and he'll probably sign with
the Lakers or the Nets. That's just

590
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,440
the way things are gonna go at
this point. I will be mildly to

591
00:35:22,679 --> 00:35:29,199
very surprised if he winds up being
traded before the deadline rather than bought out.

592
00:35:29,199 --> 00:35:30,000
But yeah, the Raptors would be
a team that I would watch.

593
00:35:30,039 --> 00:35:35,320
Is maybe sort of surprise buyers if
you're looking for surprise sellers, I guess

594
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:38,400
Charlotte really shouldn't count anymore. You're
not going to include Minnesota. Seems like

595
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:40,960
they're buying, but they're not really
a surprised We know Houston selling, we

596
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,639
know like he's selling. I don't
think it's Sacramento that would be a surprise.

597
00:35:45,119 --> 00:35:49,320
New Orleans is probably not the answer
because teams can probably see them going

598
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:55,920
either way. Maybe the Grizzlies might
be an interesting team to pick there just

599
00:35:55,960 --> 00:36:00,400
because yeah, they're still in the
playing hunt. No, you're not going

600
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:06,280
to see them give up you know, Jaren Jackson, junior, John Moran,

601
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:08,360
obviously Brandon Clark, say, I
your tilman who they seem trying to

602
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:13,599
develop. But do they look at
maybe moving Valancunis or D'Anthony Melton, or

603
00:36:13,599 --> 00:36:15,559
maybe even Tyas Jones emerging in one
of the better backup point guards this year?

604
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:20,920
To even look at moving Justice Winslow, who's you know, barely played

605
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:22,119
for them, but he's had it. I was watching one of the games

606
00:36:22,119 --> 00:36:24,519
since he came back, and he
was moving a lot better on defense,

607
00:36:24,559 --> 00:36:29,840
and I anticipated him to someone who
was out with back injuries for with part

608
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,559
of the reason he missed time that
I was just I was impressed with that.

609
00:36:34,159 --> 00:36:37,760
So are those things you could look
at? You know, are you

610
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,239
maybe looking at a Dylan Brooks move
just because he's really good on defense,

611
00:36:40,599 --> 00:36:45,280
He reminds me a little bit of
a less coordinated Keldon Johnson on offense.

612
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:47,639
Sometimes the shots there, sometimes it's
not he can barrow with reckless, abandoned

613
00:36:47,679 --> 00:36:52,360
towards the basket. He has two
years and twenty three point six million left

614
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,679
on his deal after this. I'd
probably view that as a net negative.

615
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:58,079
But if you're looking to you know, if you're talking to the Kings about

616
00:36:58,079 --> 00:37:02,000
Buddy Healed, maybe this is like
a Dylan Brooks and GORGEI Jang for Buddy

617
00:37:02,039 --> 00:37:06,119
Heeled situation. Are you including a
second round pick there or just I think

618
00:37:06,199 --> 00:37:09,000
Dylan Brooks probably actually helps Sacramento and
you're getting out from under a lot of

619
00:37:09,039 --> 00:37:13,719
money with Buddy Heeled, So yeah, that might be this. I wouldn't

620
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:15,239
expect them too, but it's hard
to spots sellers. I could see that

621
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:19,360
being a surprise. The really bold
pick would be the Knicks. I just

622
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,159
don't think they're gonna do that,
and they don't have a reason too.

623
00:37:21,159 --> 00:37:22,719
They're six and the yaest. I
know they have a super tough schedule remaining.

624
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,800
But just I would I wouldn't go
all in on a move. You

625
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:30,639
know, we were talking about what
was happening with Lonzo Ball. But if

626
00:37:30,679 --> 00:37:32,760
they wanted to, I mean they
you get first round pick for Reggie Bullock

627
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:37,320
right now. I guarantee you that
with his volume from three is ticked up

628
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:39,760
over the last month or so,
he's played some really good defense, especially

629
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:44,880
when you look at the assignments that
he's been handling for them. But I

630
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:46,960
don't I would doubt it on their
part. I guess someone could say the

631
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:50,719
bulls they that just wouldn't surprise me. I think he needed to be shopping

632
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:52,760
Garrett Temple, wh dad he's young
in that remarking. If we're looking for

633
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:57,559
like a surprise player, maybe a
Wendell Carter Junior, is that something?

634
00:37:57,639 --> 00:38:02,000
He's just not our tourist Cornice Vas's
guy, like you know, no one

635
00:38:02,079 --> 00:38:06,559
here is except for Patrick Williams essentially
in Chicago. I would think that when

636
00:38:06,559 --> 00:38:09,000
o'carter junior gets moved before zach Lavine
obviously, and I don't know what type

637
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:13,920
of offer it would take to get
get out from zach Lavine, which you

638
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,559
know we do have a zach Levine
question from MB What would you do with

639
00:38:16,639 --> 00:38:21,480
zach Lavine? I would do one
of two things. Let me think a

640
00:38:21,519 --> 00:38:28,519
sip of a drink right here.
So one, if you don't want to

641
00:38:28,519 --> 00:38:31,480
trade him, the plan to me
would be renegotiate and extend him over the

642
00:38:31,559 --> 00:38:35,920
offseason. And the difference there would
be is that needing cap space to do

643
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:39,400
that because you're bumping his salary up
for twenty twenty one, twenty two,

644
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:44,000
And what that does is it's a
sign of goodwill to the player obviously,

645
00:38:44,079 --> 00:38:46,119
and then you have him under long
our term deal. It also just kind

646
00:38:46,159 --> 00:38:49,519
of shortens what's happening. Rather than
timm him, let's say, anyone a

647
00:38:49,519 --> 00:38:52,039
new four year deal. Once he
hits three agency in twenty twenty two,

648
00:38:52,039 --> 00:38:55,719
maybe he's only on, you know, renegotiate an extend for I think that

649
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:59,679
can go up to four years if
I'm not mistaken, And so now that

650
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,880
totals actual four years from now,
rather than technically investing in him for five

651
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:06,199
years. If you're just not confident
that he's going to be the same player

652
00:39:06,199 --> 00:39:08,079
for a long time, there's value
in paying him now when he's at the

653
00:39:08,079 --> 00:39:12,679
peak of his powers. If you're
not going to do that, I would

654
00:39:12,679 --> 00:39:15,760
move him just because I don't know. It's still a value over the summer.

655
00:39:15,079 --> 00:39:17,880
But if you get into the season
is how you could get diluted by

656
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:21,599
the fact that he is going to
be a free agent twenty twenty two.

657
00:39:21,599 --> 00:39:23,440
Who knows if he continues playing.
If well, he's been really good for

658
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:27,000
a while. O though somebod who
could hit forty plus percent of his off

659
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,599
the dribble threes been making better decisions
this season out of double teams not a

660
00:39:30,599 --> 00:39:34,039
good defender. I think he's been
better on the ball this year. If

661
00:39:34,039 --> 00:39:36,199
you look at some of his defensive
matchup data. They've put him on some

662
00:39:36,199 --> 00:39:40,000
pretty tough assignments. So that's really
I'm encouraging. I'd be curious, what's

663
00:39:40,039 --> 00:39:45,599
the team with a godfather offer I
was talking too when we had the locker

664
00:39:45,679 --> 00:39:50,440
room conversation. I suggested, is
Jordan Pool, who's been playing well the

665
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,760
Minnesota pick another first round pick,
I mean Kelly Wobridge junior. Enough Bulls

666
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:57,000
fans in there said that they believed
it would take more. They think it

667
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:01,239
would be Wiseman and zach Lavine.
If I was Warriors, I wouldn't definitely

668
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:05,400
say no to that, but I
would be looking to get Wendell Carter ju

669
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:07,199
your back. In that framework,
I don't think the Warriors will even consider

670
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:10,239
giving up both for zach Lavine,
maybe a Bradley Beal. I don't even

671
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:15,239
know. They might be pretty protective
of their ability to develop players, which

672
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:20,360
they really haven't shown that they're particularly
adept at in recent years, though Jordan

673
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:24,239
Pool again porking up, so that's
something to consider. Philly's a popular destination.

674
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:27,880
That's probably my favorite spot for in
Miami's up there too, but they

675
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:30,880
just don't have the firepower even if
you include Tyler Hero and you know,

676
00:40:31,119 --> 00:40:35,480
twenty twenty five first round pick or
can they not move until twenty twenty seven.

677
00:40:35,559 --> 00:40:38,760
Let me double check these pick commitments
that I have pulled up here,

678
00:40:39,159 --> 00:40:43,480
So yeah, you can. They
can trade a first round pick in twenty

679
00:40:43,519 --> 00:40:45,599
twenty five or twenty twenty seven.
They would have to you know, basically

680
00:40:45,599 --> 00:40:49,599
first allowable and they might not convey
depending on what happens with the Oklahoma City

681
00:40:49,599 --> 00:40:52,239
pick in twenty twenty three, but
they could do that. I don't If

682
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:58,840
you like Tyler Hero, maybe Philly
can offer you Tyree's Maxie. Their first

683
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:04,119
round pick commitment is weird because they
traded away as part of that Al Horford

684
00:41:04,119 --> 00:41:07,800
deal. And this is just a
smart flyer by Sam Prescy. Oklahoma City

685
00:41:07,519 --> 00:41:10,119
they have Phillies twenty twenty five first
rounder, So Philly can trade twenty twenty,

686
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:16,239
twenty twenty three or twenty twenty seven
in theory, but that is potentially

687
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:21,199
oh to Oklahoma City, so it'll
be pending that twenty twenty five obligation to

688
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:28,599
OKC conveying. Are you accepting twenty
twenty one, twenty twenty three, Danny

689
00:41:28,679 --> 00:41:34,000
Green, Tyrese Maxie, and Matiste
tie Ball. Is that getting it done

690
00:41:34,119 --> 00:41:37,159
for zach Lavine? I don't know. And the Sixers could probably talk themselves

691
00:41:37,159 --> 00:41:40,840
into that being too much for zach
Lavine because they are really obliterating their depth

692
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:45,960
in that scenario. You know,
I would do it if I were the

693
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:49,880
Sixers, if you figure out a
way to keep Matisse or you probably need

694
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,119
to keep Matisse Danny Green because you
don't want to really hurt your wing defense

695
00:41:52,199 --> 00:41:58,320
that much. But I don't know
if Chicago's gonna want to shake and Tyres

696
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:02,079
Maxie and giving them three first round
picks for zach Levine seems ubsurd on its

697
00:42:02,079 --> 00:42:06,039
face, But do you do that? Twenty one, twenty three and twenty

698
00:42:06,039 --> 00:42:09,400
twenty seven pending that obligation of okay
C plus Maxie and Danny Green is the

699
00:42:09,639 --> 00:42:13,840
filler? You might need a little
bit more money there. Let me just

700
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,519
check and see how much Lavine makes
here. No, that would actually work,

701
00:42:16,679 --> 00:42:20,599
so that could be the deal.
Is Chicago doing that? Is that

702
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:22,960
enough? I also don't know what
other team could kind of come out of

703
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:25,679
the woodwork for this new York would
be interesting because their defense is so good,

704
00:42:25,679 --> 00:42:30,119
and if you can get him while
keeping RJ. Barrett, and I

705
00:42:30,119 --> 00:42:34,320
would assume Julius Randall. I don't
know what use the Bulls really have for

706
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:38,199
Julius Randall. I'm not totally against
it, am I. This is like

707
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:43,159
I'm very much team lean into being
bad, so you're not caught in the

708
00:42:43,159 --> 00:42:46,039
middle. But maybe I just haven't
seen good knicks basketball in what feels like

709
00:42:46,079 --> 00:42:50,719
forever. You know. I would
say, if you're in New York,

710
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:54,119
quickly's gone in that deal, You're
just you're not keeping Barrett and quickly if

711
00:42:54,119 --> 00:42:59,519
you get zach Lavine, and then
you're building it around picks basically, you

712
00:42:59,559 --> 00:43:02,159
know, abe there interesting no Obi
Toppin. Maybe they like him. It's

713
00:43:02,199 --> 00:43:05,519
just hey, he could play with
Patrick Williams. And we're gonna let Lowry

714
00:43:05,559 --> 00:43:09,119
market and marketstrit diffree agency. So
is it topping a manual quickly? That

715
00:43:09,199 --> 00:43:12,559
hurts my soul? And then how
many picks are we including here? You're

716
00:43:12,559 --> 00:43:15,599
including your twenty twenty one I would
say one of the twenty twenty one New

717
00:43:15,639 --> 00:43:21,159
York or Dallas Dallas twenty twenty three. For sure, you can trade your

718
00:43:21,159 --> 00:43:23,519
twenty twenty two pick. That gets
interesting then, so it would be New

719
00:43:23,599 --> 00:43:28,079
York's or Dallas is twenty twenty one
pick, and you can trade your twenty

720
00:43:28,079 --> 00:43:30,280
twenty two pick because you're gonna still
have a pick in twenty twenty one.

721
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:34,800
So New York's twenty twenty two pick
and then that Dallas pick in twenty twenty

722
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,920
three. Maybe it has to be
your own, but that amounts to three

723
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:40,880
first round picks quickly in Obi Toppin
for Zach Lavine, I might you might

724
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:44,639
need to come off of that one
a little bit. Maybe you're not getting

725
00:43:44,639 --> 00:43:49,000
a manual quickly. And I don't
know how much of a deal breaker that

726
00:43:49,039 --> 00:43:51,360
would be for Chicago. They don't
have to leave full tills into a rebuild

727
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:52,440
at that point. Anyway, Quickly, it's not going to be the difference.

728
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:59,039
And you do have Kobe White,
but Toppin and three first round picks,

729
00:43:59,119 --> 00:44:01,440
you know you could throw them.
I'm gonna maybe Toppin Knox three first

730
00:44:01,519 --> 00:44:07,480
round picks. They have some Detroit
seconds twenty twenty three, Detroit second,

731
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:10,679
twenty twenty one, Detroit second.
Is that is that the deal? I

732
00:44:10,679 --> 00:44:14,679
mean they could you could. There's
obviously Frankie Lakina would be eligible for there.

733
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:16,679
You're gonna consider giving up Reggie Bullock
in that situation if they want him.

734
00:44:16,679 --> 00:44:20,199
I just don't know why they they
would. I'm just thinking of really

735
00:44:20,199 --> 00:44:22,920
the outline of a package here,
and you are offering them a ton of

736
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:27,519
relief that the Bulls really don't need
it, though, So that's probably I

737
00:44:27,519 --> 00:44:32,039
think you're looking at three first plus
topping and then either quickly or knocks.

738
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:36,440
I'm sure the Bulls will prefer quickly. So let's let's say this. We'll

739
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:45,320
settle here three first two of topping
No. Definitely topping. No. Two

740
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:49,960
of topping Kevin Knox quickly plus three
first for Zach Lavine I think would be

741
00:44:50,039 --> 00:44:53,079
would have to be New York's package. And you know, look, Mitchell

742
00:44:53,119 --> 00:44:57,400
Robinson's there too. I wouldn't be
opposed to moving him in that deal.

743
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:00,119
So maybe we need to walk this
back. But that's those are the assets

744
00:45:00,159 --> 00:45:02,280
I think you put in play as
sort of the main attractions. You move

745
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:05,920
Knox from there, and Mitchell Robinson
would be on the table, and they

746
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:07,800
don't believe in Wendell Carter Junior.
Maybe the Nicks don't want to pay Mitchell

747
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:09,960
Robinson. I think the goal should
be too. If you want to be

748
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:15,159
good with zach Lavine, you want
to keep Randall Robinson Barrett like. I

749
00:45:15,199 --> 00:45:19,000
think that's the framework. You want
to keep or you want to you don't

750
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,920
want to give up both Quickly and
Robinson and that deal. Let's let's say

751
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:24,760
that so you can get one of
Quickly or Robinson, then you can have

752
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:28,800
Top and you can have Kevin Knox
and basically three first. If Knicks fans

753
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:30,119
will listening to this, let me
know what you what you think about that

754
00:45:30,159 --> 00:45:32,639
one. They've also got Detroit seconds
if we need to sprinkle this deal.

755
00:45:34,039 --> 00:45:37,280
But yeah, that's what I would
do with zach Lavine. Kim Ask,

756
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:39,880
Is there anything that Clippers can do
about the point card situation to improve their

757
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:44,880
prospects? I don't know. I
suggest that they trade for Sterling Brown just

758
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:46,360
as someone who could help them defend
from the point of attack. I would

759
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:50,920
still stand by that, and he's
more affordable. They've been linked to Ricky

760
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:53,639
Rubio, They've been linked to George
Hill. Look, here's the thing.

761
00:45:53,679 --> 00:45:59,119
If you're worried about the clippers lack
of free throws and ability to get to

762
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:01,599
the rim, they're very heavy jump
shooting team. George Hill isn't going to

763
00:46:01,639 --> 00:46:05,360
help you there. Ricky Ruby All
isn't really gonna help you there. Gives

764
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:07,239
you maybe a little bit more drivel
penetration, but he's not looking to score

765
00:46:07,559 --> 00:46:09,639
when he does. It does help
you out defensively there though, and then

766
00:46:09,639 --> 00:46:15,199
George Hill will be fine. Maybe
the lawn Right is the name that maybe

767
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:17,239
you've even heard me mention it on
this podcast. The issue with that,

768
00:46:17,519 --> 00:46:21,440
as it is for all things Clippers, is there within a million dollars of

769
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:24,519
the hardcap, delun Right makes nine
million dollars, and so you're looking at

770
00:46:24,519 --> 00:46:28,119
a dollar for dollar swap. I
don't know who the Clippers are giving up.

771
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:32,920
Do you give up Lou Williams for
who's making eight? For de lawn

772
00:46:34,039 --> 00:46:36,280
Right? You need to give up
another player there too, But you have

773
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:40,559
FIANDU Cavin Gelly, which you know
you can include that. But what interest

774
00:46:40,639 --> 00:46:44,480
does Detroit have in Lou Williams?
So now you have to get a third

775
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:46,000
team involved. Can you do something
with the Sixers? And are they willing

776
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:51,760
to simultaneously said maybe the Clippers something
and the Pistons something because Lou Williams might

777
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:54,199
be more valuable come playoff time,
even though he's been kind of touch and

778
00:46:54,199 --> 00:46:58,280
go might be the best way to
put it, or that's the generous way

779
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:00,000
to put it when you get to
the postseason. The lan right though,

780
00:47:00,039 --> 00:47:04,360
because he's under contract for next year. He shot his three ball okay this

781
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:07,800
season before he got injured. He'll
give you pressure on the rim. Not

782
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:10,679
necessarily sure if he's going to fix
your your free throw problem per se,

783
00:47:10,679 --> 00:47:16,280
but just another guy who's taking He
would be among Clippers non big rotation players.

784
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:20,679
And look, Zoobots and terms Man
are the only Clippers that get to

785
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:23,840
the to the rim and above average
clip relative to their position. And so

786
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:28,840
the lawn right is, you know, he's only averaging per thirty six minutes

787
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:31,199
three point two free throw a tempts. That's not that's not great, but

788
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:36,199
he does take, you know,
thirty nine point six percent of the shots

789
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:38,360
come within three feet, and that's
something the Clippers could could certainly use.

790
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:40,920
I just don't know what the money
going out is or what the three team

791
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:45,880
deal is, so, but that
that would be a theory is I wouldn't

792
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:49,519
give up Zobots in that deal.
He makes about the same as Lou Williams.

793
00:47:49,519 --> 00:47:52,239
He's at seven million. I think
he's too important to their defense.

794
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:54,280
Maybe there if you're going to give
it Patrick Beverley, I feel like you

795
00:47:54,480 --> 00:48:00,159
want someone better then the lawn right
coming back and once you start looking at

796
00:48:00,159 --> 00:48:01,760
the Pistons, I don't really know
if they have anything else that you want

797
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:07,440
to include, Like do you want
a flyer on Josh Jackson? Probably not

798
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,440
so. Yeah, Wayne Ellington,
maybe you could get him as part of

799
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:14,280
that deal. I don't know who
else is out there. George Hill feels

800
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:19,320
like sort of the easier solution,
but he's not fixing what ails the Clippers

801
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:22,239
most. In my opinion, they
could maybe use an Aaron Holiday a little

802
00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:24,360
bit more. I just don't think
you have the juice to get him because

803
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:28,840
you don't you know, you have
Detroit picks in twenty twenty, twenty twenty

804
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:32,159
five and twenty twenty six. Are
two seconds getting you Aaron Holliday? Like

805
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:36,320
is the framework? Is this?
Like you know a Terrence man FIANDU Cavin

806
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:39,719
Gelly and two Detroit seconds? Is
that getting you Aaron Holliday? I don't

807
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:44,400
know, So that might be something
to considered. I'm going through just the

808
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:47,239
list of potentially available point guards right
now. I don't really know that there's

809
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:52,039
anyone that's can you get. I
don't know how much a d Anthony Melton

810
00:48:52,159 --> 00:48:55,159
really helps you there either. So, and people are talking about they need

811
00:48:55,159 --> 00:48:59,239
someone to kind of delineate the crunch
time action for the Clippers, which is

812
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:01,559
an offensive thing. The Anthy Melton
certainly isn't going to give you that.

813
00:49:02,199 --> 00:49:06,400
Ricky Rubio might, but again he's
just a non threat. George Hill kind

814
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:09,280
of probably comes closest to do checking
every box they need on the offensive end,

815
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:13,320
So you know, something to sort
of consider there. And d Afy

816
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:15,360
Melton get to the rim a lot
less frequently than I thought, So we're

817
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:20,519
just going to remove him from from
the list of player players that I said.

818
00:49:20,599 --> 00:49:22,719
I don't know why I haven't seen
a ton of him this season.

819
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:24,559
He also has not played at ton
of this season. But uh, free

820
00:49:24,559 --> 00:49:30,079
throw tenth rate of point one two
two. That's an error on my end.

821
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:32,960
So yeah, I honestly don't know. I don't think necessarily the players

822
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:38,440
out there within the realm that they
can afford realistically for them to fix those

823
00:49:38,559 --> 00:49:43,159
those issues. That's a great question
though. Maybe something maybe they just pick

824
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:45,840
up Elfred Peyton off a buyout market. That's just not you know, that

825
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:49,079
shouldn't be the answer for them either. That's a good question. I don't

826
00:49:49,079 --> 00:49:54,800
know if they're going to be able
to answer it. D Eye Kite season

827
00:49:54,960 --> 00:50:00,280
asked who are the most interesting buyout
candidates at the guard position. I think

828
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:02,760
Austin Rivers nelfor Peyton, two guys
that we've we've already mentioned, they are

829
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:07,840
definitely up there. A lot of
people have talked about baby because to the

830
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:12,079
point where George Hill is bought out, I do not know if that's necessarily

831
00:50:12,119 --> 00:50:15,679
a distinct possibility. I think if
you're as a thunder, you're going to

832
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:21,960
move him. If anything, there
are not a ton of options after that.

833
00:50:22,079 --> 00:50:23,880
Looking at that, these teams again, so many teams are just not

834
00:50:24,039 --> 00:50:27,960
they're just not out of it and
they're not holding onto these vets that don't

835
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:30,000
need anything. This Houston, you
know, d always say, is another

836
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:34,039
guarantee year left on his contract,
is there's some sort of buyout there where

837
00:50:34,079 --> 00:50:36,960
they're looking to get less money and
he doesn't want to play for a disaster

838
00:50:37,079 --> 00:50:39,599
fest in Houston and he's not shot
the ball well this season. But as

839
00:50:39,599 --> 00:50:42,800
someone who is shown that he can
hit pull up triples in the past.

840
00:50:43,159 --> 00:50:45,840
That will probably intrigue some teams,
similar to the way that you know,

841
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:53,159
Reggie Jackson intrigue the Clippers last season. Yeah, that's really all I got

842
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:55,840
for you is, I don't think
there's gonna be you know, guards are

843
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:00,960
ye, Boston's not gonna buy out
Jeffs and he not really doing anything for

844
00:51:01,119 --> 00:51:07,360
you this season anyway if you get
him. Yeah, I got nothing of

845
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:09,400
those. Those are all the names. I'd be most interested in Austin Rivers

846
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:15,199
of all those guys, by the
way, and just to in theory of

847
00:51:15,199 --> 00:51:19,199
what he could do. Maybe you
know, maybe Houston does Sterling Brown a

848
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:21,760
solid. My guess would be they
could get a second round pick for him

849
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:23,079
of the deadline, but he would
be interesting shooting the ball well from three

850
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:29,159
Ransom point for Houston as a lot
of defensive range, so that might be

851
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:32,079
someone to kind of sword of monitor
there. Again, that's if they're doing

852
00:51:32,159 --> 00:51:37,599
him a solid. Otherwise, Yeah, I think that's you know, we're

853
00:51:37,639 --> 00:51:39,960
pretty much out of here with that. Yeah, I got nothing. Let's

854
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:45,480
move Let's move right on to their
next question comes from A James who's a

855
00:51:45,519 --> 00:51:49,239
player that no one is talking about
that would be traded come Thursday. I

856
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:51,880
won't don't hold me to this,
but some names that I think you could

857
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:55,039
consider would be Josh Hart. Everyone's
talking about Lonzo Ball in New Orleans.

858
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:59,000
He's also entering resturgen free agencies,
so that would be a name to keep

859
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:00,639
an eye on. Teams really covet
wings. That's why you're seeing so much

860
00:52:00,639 --> 00:52:05,400
interest in Harrison Barnes. Aaron Gordon
isn't really a wing, but he can

861
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:07,960
defend the wing positions, and he
has gotten better as a pastor over the

862
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:09,639
past couple of seasons and shooting the
ball really well from three this year.

863
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:14,280
Fun fact. So if he's going
to be available, I don't know what

864
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:15,440
you get for him when you know
that you have to give him, you

865
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:17,840
know, between ten and fifteen million
dollars in restrict to free agency. But

866
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:21,920
my guest would be maybe New Orleans
could get a contender to give them a

867
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:27,079
first round pick or a semi interesting
young player. Jeremy Grant would also be

868
00:52:28,199 --> 00:52:31,199
a name to watch. There have
been reports that the Celtics I think if

869
00:52:31,199 --> 00:52:35,360
thrown out two to three first round
picks for him, and those were probably

870
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:37,920
be crappy first round picks, So
two first round picks and a young player

871
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:40,880
feel like it would be possible because
you know, if you do Peyton Pritchard

872
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:45,840
and two first from Boston, is
that something that they consider Portland? Can

873
00:52:46,039 --> 00:52:51,519
their pick commitment situation is I wouldn't
say it's wonky, but they've already traded

874
00:52:51,519 --> 00:52:53,920
away a future first round pick this
one. In fact, it's lottery protected

875
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:59,960
to Houston in the Robert coving Kings
deal. Can you go twenty twenty three

876
00:52:59,519 --> 00:53:02,719
twenty five? Zach Collins and Anthony
Simmons? Does one of them get it

877
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:06,800
done? And it would probably be
Simons is more interesting to Detroit, although

878
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:08,239
I guess they could use the theory
of Zach Collins. He just hasn't really

879
00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:13,159
played the past two seasons. I'm
just trying to think of other teams that

880
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:16,039
might go, you know, that
far into it. He would still be

881
00:53:16,079 --> 00:53:20,320
good in Phoenix. I just don't
know that you're getting. You know,

882
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:25,440
do you get Cam Johnson and Cam
Johnson Jalen Smith and a twenty twenty four

883
00:53:25,519 --> 00:53:29,400
first round pick. You're not gonna
get twenty twenty six first round pick.

884
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:32,760
But he'd be interesting just because Jeremy
Grant could plays in five in Phoenix,

885
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:36,519
so using Dario starts there. And
if you don't trust the eight and stuff,

886
00:53:36,639 --> 00:53:37,960
I guess the problem with with the
eight minutes. Excuse me, I

887
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:42,039
guess the problem there then becomes,
you know, now you have eight and

888
00:53:42,119 --> 00:53:45,079
you've traded away other assets, so
if you wanted to move eight and later,

889
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:49,800
you can't really combine him with anything
too interesting. But yeah, those

890
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:52,960
would be the two names I would
watch ahead of the deadline who aren't really

891
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:54,800
being talked about. Hayden Brush asked
what are the chances of the Heatland one

892
00:53:54,840 --> 00:54:00,079
of Aldridge, Oladipo or Rudy gay
Am, And I already answered this in

893
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:04,239
the pod that no one will ever
hear. We'll say ninety five percent,

894
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:07,119
might even be higher than that.
I feel like they're gonna wind up being

895
00:54:07,159 --> 00:54:09,719
Aldridge via a buyout. The stuff
that the I thought at first the Spurs

896
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:14,880
letting this go public meant that they
did have a suitor lined up, and

897
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:17,639
I think I let myself get too
caught up in the fact that the Spurs

898
00:54:17,679 --> 00:54:22,719
were doing something uncharacteristic. So I
don't know how they're gonna fine takers.

899
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:25,119
So my guests would be this ends
in a buyout with the marks soldrin,

900
00:54:25,159 --> 00:54:28,440
he goes to the Heat. If
they can take a flyer on Oladipo where

901
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:30,320
salary filler and then like you know, Kendrick Nunn, they won't give up

902
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:34,480
for him. Houstons willing to accept
that, then that's something that I could

903
00:54:34,519 --> 00:54:37,760
see them doing. Moosa, speaking
of Oladipo, asked where is Oladipo going,

904
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:42,559
because if the Rockets don't trade him
now, he's going to leave and

905
00:54:42,559 --> 00:54:45,360
they won't get anything in return.
I agree with you. Something also to

906
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:50,559
consider here is they the Rockets have
essentially opted for Victual Oladipo Overcowers the Vert

907
00:54:50,599 --> 00:54:54,440
and his second round pick. That
decision looked questionable at best. In the

908
00:54:54,480 --> 00:55:00,360
moment, I thought maybe they believed
they could trade Oladipo for more than that.

909
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:04,199
Always a sketchy belief. A lot
of other people who cover the Rocks

910
00:55:04,199 --> 00:55:07,679
deposit they just wanted the cap space. You could have traded Taras la Vert

911
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:12,039
over the off season into some teams
cap space and then gotten value for him

912
00:55:12,119 --> 00:55:15,079
as well. So I don't want
to hear that that it was for cap

913
00:55:15,079 --> 00:55:17,840
space. I do think they move
him the Dallas seems like the no brainer

914
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:22,119
here. They have James Johnson's expiring
contract and they can give you Josh Green,

915
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:25,760
Tyron Tyrell Terry. I don't know
why, Why don't I can someone?

916
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:30,079
Can someone explain to me why I
want to call Dallas' is Tyrell Terry

917
00:55:30,320 --> 00:55:35,920
Tyrrell Maxie? Is it just because
he's so similar to Tyrese Maxie. I

918
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:38,159
don't know, but if anyone can
explain, I'd appreciate the help there.

919
00:55:38,559 --> 00:55:42,559
That just seems like a no brainer
destination. We mentioned Miami, New York

920
00:55:42,599 --> 00:55:45,679
has cap space, and so if
Fusian's are going to save money, Kevin

921
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:49,119
Knox for Victor Ladipo almost works.
Kevin Knox and Elfred Peyton, let's just

922
00:55:49,159 --> 00:55:52,159
say, and they're still saving,
like you know, on their books that

923
00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:55,199
are all the people's a very collected
salary, YadA, YadA, YadA,

924
00:55:55,280 --> 00:56:00,800
but they're still saving like close to
fifteen million just pure books. And both

925
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:02,079
those guys, you know, Kevin
Knox is on the books next season.

926
00:56:02,079 --> 00:56:06,519
But at least you have someone to
sort of kind of monitor there, and

927
00:56:06,559 --> 00:56:09,239
you do get out from underfactility depots
contract. But if you were looking for

928
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:15,159
pure cap savings, you know,
does a Detroit second and Elfred Peyton and

929
00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:20,880
Austin Rivers do it, you know, But that's something that you could build

930
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:23,159
if you're the Knicks, and that's
not I might take a flyer. I

931
00:56:23,199 --> 00:56:25,719
know that the Knicks can sign him
out right this summer, but there's value

932
00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:30,480
and seeing if whether he's one can
stay healthy and two fits in with Barrett

933
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:32,760
and Randall because we have seen him
kind of hijack possessions in Houston and then

934
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:37,320
in the bubble with Indiana last year. And that would be those Willig teams

935
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:40,320
I would single out, and I
mentioned the Lakers before just as a you

936
00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:44,719
know, can they get to the
salaries point to get him. Maybe there's

937
00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:49,039
step ladder trades involved, but that's
still because they're Hardcaps. This isn't like

938
00:56:49,159 --> 00:56:51,360
they have the numb rom one of
the hardcap where that could super work.

939
00:56:52,960 --> 00:56:55,440
And the other team I've thought about, by the way, would be if

940
00:56:55,480 --> 00:56:59,199
Memphis decided to buy, could they
pick him up on the cheat because it

941
00:56:59,199 --> 00:57:01,000
feels like they need another off the
dribble score, preferably one who's a better

942
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:04,440
shooter than him, which is why
Buddy Healed might be a little bit more

943
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:07,079
interesting. Than Oladipo in Memphis,
and he would be purely a rental because

944
00:57:07,079 --> 00:57:12,719
I don't think he resigns in Memphis. But those are my strongest Victor Oladipo

945
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:16,960
thoughts. What did the Sixers do
with the trade deadline this year? Coach

946
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:22,159
Wilson. I think they're inevitably going
to trade for Newmania be Elitza. That

947
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:25,159
just seems like the deal there.
They could also use kind of another big

948
00:57:25,199 --> 00:57:30,320
man presence while Joel Embiid is out
and so is there something there where it's

949
00:57:30,360 --> 00:57:35,679
a second round pick and you're going
to use I probably wouldn't use Mike Scott

950
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:38,280
or Totally Radley at this point,
just because knowing what's going on with him

951
00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:42,800
bids you kind of need the serviceable
death. And maybe I'm being generous by

952
00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:45,440
calling Tony Bradley serviceable, but he's
he's shed a ton of weight, moving

953
00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:50,320
pretty well, is it? Vincent
Pourier? And I think you might need

954
00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:52,000
another so out, Well, you
definitely need another sout and Terrence Ferguson.

955
00:57:52,119 --> 00:57:55,320
There you go, Terrence Ferguson and
Newmania be Elitza and maybe a second to

956
00:57:55,360 --> 00:58:01,320
get excuse me, Terrence Ferguson and
vince in Pourier and a second, maybe

957
00:58:01,360 --> 00:58:05,119
not a particularly good second, like
they have a twenty twenty three second.

958
00:58:05,159 --> 00:58:08,679
I think it comes from Portland.
If I'm not mistaken, it's from Atlanta,

959
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:12,239
Charlotte or Brooklyn, so I very
much am mistake him. I'm not

960
00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:15,880
giving up the nick second round or
from Naumania bi Elitza. Maybe that looks

961
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:19,079
bad enough though where you are going
to consider that. That would be the

962
00:58:19,079 --> 00:58:22,079
framework of a deal. I don't
know if they're going to swing anything higher.

963
00:58:22,199 --> 00:58:25,719
Zach Lavine again would be my ideal. Destonate would be their ideal get

964
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:30,000
to me Radley Biel obviously, but
he's just not available, so let's kind

965
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:31,920
of move on from from that one. I don't know if there's another name

966
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:36,079
for them that interests me. Evan
Fournier could be fun. I just I

967
00:58:36,079 --> 00:58:37,320
don't want to have to go up
Danny Green if i'm them for that,

968
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:44,000
because I do think he's still sort
of really valuable to their to what they're

969
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:49,039
going to do defensively. Maybe you
get JJ Reddick on the buy out market

970
00:58:49,119 --> 00:58:51,519
and he's injured right now, so
that's you know, I don't know what

971
00:58:51,559 --> 00:58:55,239
you're really giving up for that Kyle
Lowry people have mentioned I will be surprised

972
00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:59,039
if Kyle Lowry gets moved. However, if he does get moved, I

973
00:58:59,119 --> 00:59:02,360
fully expect him to go to Philadelphia. And so that is I guess kind

974
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:06,079
of a you know, cheers to
Philadelphia. There, I'm not I'm not

975
00:59:06,119 --> 00:59:08,199
really sure. Let's get to these
we've got We've got a few more left.

976
00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:10,360
Let's see how money I can answer. We'll go a little bit rapid

977
00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:15,719
fire. What's the most likely thing
the Celtics are going to do? Dylan

978
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:20,760
nothing, because that's the Danny Ains
special in the middle of the season.

979
00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:24,239
And I guess that's kind of rude, so I should I should take that

980
00:59:24,239 --> 00:59:28,320
back. But he's the king of
almost during the regular season. They do

981
00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:32,760
have that huge trade exception. They
need help, like they are. Yeah,

982
00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:36,960
as we're recording this, they are
right now seventh. They're in playing

983
00:59:37,039 --> 00:59:39,480
territory five hundred in the East.
You might still expect them to finish above

984
00:59:39,519 --> 00:59:43,440
the Knicks. There aren't a lot
of other teams that you would expect them

985
00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:45,159
to usurp. I mean, Atlanta
should only get healthier. Miami's been on

986
00:59:45,159 --> 00:59:50,880
a tear. Milwaukee, Brooklyn,
Philadelphia, I would say those five teams

987
00:59:51,559 --> 00:59:53,719
might be fairly guaranteed to stay in
front of Boston. I'm not just going

988
00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:57,519
to write off the Knicks if they
have a tough schedule, and I still

989
00:59:57,519 --> 01:00:00,280
have a level of skepticism about them, perhaps just because I can't believe this.

990
01:00:00,599 --> 01:00:01,920
You need to do something, and
you can talk yourself that the Celtics

991
01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:06,639
need a little bit of everything.
They simultaneously have a log jam of bigs

992
01:00:07,079 --> 01:00:09,800
and yet they could use a more
dynamic center. They need to replace the

993
01:00:09,880 --> 01:00:15,119
Jeff Tigue minutes somehow, and that's
even with Marcus Smart returning, and you

994
01:00:15,119 --> 01:00:21,239
definitely need another wing, a reliable
wing aside from John Brown and Jayson Tatum.

995
01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:23,480
The issue for them is how much
you wanting to give up if a

996
01:00:23,519 --> 01:00:28,079
player doesn't profile as part of your
closing lineup. They're in this very intriguing

997
01:00:28,119 --> 01:00:30,440
situation where Kemba, regardless of what
you think with him, I don't think

998
01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:32,760
they should move him. I still
believe in Kemba, and they were rolling

999
01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:36,639
at points last year when he was
good, and he's perked up a little

1000
01:00:36,679 --> 01:00:42,039
bit since going through the motions.
Kemba, Marcus Smart, Jason Tatum,

1001
01:00:42,119 --> 01:00:45,480
John Brown, those are your four. Can you get away with Harrison Barnes

1002
01:00:45,559 --> 01:00:50,599
is the five? Maybe, but
I need more than a than a maybe

1003
01:00:50,679 --> 01:00:52,960
if it's going to cost two first
round picks and maybe one of their young

1004
01:00:52,039 --> 01:00:55,400
players. I would estimate not Pritchard, but maybe a Nay Smith or a

1005
01:00:55,480 --> 01:01:00,760
Langford to get him. Aaron Gordon's
a name that stood out to me for

1006
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:05,480
a while with them because I think
you can get away with him closing at

1007
01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:07,639
the five for you, and then
he does also kind of diversifies your wing

1008
01:01:07,679 --> 01:01:13,159
minutes at least when you're looking at
defensive matchups. And look, Orlando uses

1009
01:01:13,239 --> 01:01:15,440
him as a three. He's out
there with you know, Ken Birch and

1010
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:21,159
nicolev Ruchev of Vujovic at the same
time, So I mean like he's he

1011
01:01:21,320 --> 01:01:25,480
plays the three in Orlando. A
bunch the lineup was watching their name the

1012
01:01:25,519 --> 01:01:30,079
other night that I believe they lost. It was Birch, Bomba and Gordon

1013
01:01:30,159 --> 01:01:34,119
run the court at the same time. So those would be names that I'm

1014
01:01:34,119 --> 01:01:37,719
circling upon them. They've been linked
to Jeremy Grant obviously, as we mentioned,

1015
01:01:37,719 --> 01:01:39,679
I just don't know how realistic that
is. They might be able to

1016
01:01:39,719 --> 01:01:45,000
address backup point guard via buyout.
But even as I'm saying that it's ken,

1017
01:01:45,079 --> 01:01:47,320
they actually you might be married to
Jeff t. George Hill would be

1018
01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:50,639
interesting for them. You can't keep
up a ton though, because he's not

1019
01:01:50,639 --> 01:01:52,800
a part of your closing lineup that
is young. If you want to use

1020
01:01:52,840 --> 01:01:55,760
him as the five, I really
kind of like that fit for them.

1021
01:01:55,960 --> 01:01:59,440
I don't know how much he helps
them really with the rebounding. Maybe a

1022
01:01:59,480 --> 01:02:00,880
combination, you know, if you
can get Garrett Temple and Paddy is young.

1023
01:02:01,159 --> 01:02:05,280
Just because you are working that huge
trade exception, you have Tristan Thompson

1024
01:02:05,639 --> 01:02:07,599
on the books for another year,
but you have his money, you have

1025
01:02:07,599 --> 01:02:09,480
some other money you could send to
Chicago if they're willing to part with him.

1026
01:02:09,639 --> 01:02:15,760
Those would be players that if I'm
Boston I would target. So yeah,

1027
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:19,400
that I'm trying to just think of
other names for Boston. But I

1028
01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:22,559
don't expect anything huge from them because
I'm kind of, you know, skeptic

1029
01:02:22,639 --> 01:02:27,519
that we're gonna have a busy trade
deadline, and I think it'll be busy,

1030
01:02:27,639 --> 01:02:32,079
just I don't know how many deals
will be significant. So yeah,

1031
01:02:32,079 --> 01:02:35,920
that that's actually I think that's a
good place to really wrap up here.

1032
01:02:36,239 --> 01:02:39,360
We might have another pod before the
trade deadline. If you really want to

1033
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:43,079
motivate me to do it, at
me on Twitter at Naval Valley. Say

1034
01:02:43,079 --> 01:02:45,800
you want a trade idea dump to
publish on Wednesday, the day before the

1035
01:02:45,800 --> 01:02:47,760
trade deadline. I have a spreadsheet
just fill the trade ideas. And I'm

1036
01:02:47,760 --> 01:02:51,400
always afraid to go public with because
I don't like getting reams and I think

1037
01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:54,199
people inherently believe that, you know, not not just me, but other

1038
01:02:54,239 --> 01:02:59,800
people do that to generate incandescent conversation
or to be trolls. I don't put

1039
01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:00,800
them on Twitter. I don't even
write about a lot of these. I

1040
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:04,800
do write about hypothetical trades at least
report, but I would just have a

1041
01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:07,679
spreadshe of them. If you guys
would like to see them or hear them.

1042
01:03:07,039 --> 01:03:10,599
Add us on Twitter at Hardwood Knox. I'm at Dampa Valley at l

1043
01:03:10,639 --> 01:03:15,119
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1044
01:03:15,159 --> 01:03:17,800
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1045
01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:22,039
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1046
01:03:22,079 --> 01:03:25,519
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1047
01:03:25,519 --> 01:03:28,920
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Hardwoo Knox. Until next time, though,

1048
01:03:29,239 --> 01:03:34,199
I leave you with the shout out
to the one the only the fourth

1049
01:03:34,280 --> 01:03:38,440
place in the Eastern Conference at the
moment and kind of sort of surging,

1050
01:03:38,480 --> 01:03:42,480
what are they going to do with
John Collins? Can they maybe acquire another

1051
01:03:42,559 --> 01:03:45,039
wing? They've been linked to Lonzo
Ball. What's going to happen there in Lanta Hawks