Speaker 1: What is up Fellawsiko's I'm coming at you so low?
Because Daron Fox reportedly requested in trade or is urging
the Kings to move him. Let's talk about it before
we get started, though, Just a reminder, our Eastern Conference
trade deadline primer is already live, two plus hours of
us breaking down every team assets needs targets. Our Western
Conference one will be going up, probably immediately on Wednesday
after we record it, because stuff gets so dated at
this point. And that's why I want to talk about
Daron Fox, that we don't have to spend too much
time on the Kings when there's fourteen other teams to
talk about in that one. Although we'll probably have some
additional news by then, Let's get into the Daron Fox
stuff though he has you know, today Damien Barling of
ESPN thirteen to twenty initially had the report that Fox
and the Kings had a productive or a positive meeting.
Today I guess this is what constitutes positive. We then
have Sean Shrani of ESPN, Sam Amick of The Athletic
reporting that Rich Paul, his agent of Clutch Sports, has
basically told the Kings they should move him because he
isn't going to sign an extension. And however, following that, well,
actually two reports following that. James Ham of ESPN thirteen
twenty said that the San Antonio Spurs are the destination
Fox wants to go to. There's been some, i would say,
unconfirmed reporting that he's been planning this for quite some time,
that his family's already kind of been in the area
plotting going there. I don't subscribe to that just yet.
I would need to see someone who is more established
come out with such a report. But Damien Barling follows
up the reporting that Aaron Fox wants a trade by
saying that Fox will sign an extension with the Spurs
or the Kings, which leads you to wonder if the
Kings are somehow still in the mix here. I wonder
to the extent that they're still in the mixes this
dearon Fox trying to leave the super Max extension in
play five years, three hundred and forty two million dollars
this summer. That's only gonna happen if he makes all NBA,
and at this point I don't know if the Kings
would even want to hey it. I also don't think
he's going to make All NBA. Some of that may
be unfair, but I feel as if a lot of
the narratives or impressions or perceptions of the Kings have
already been decided, and so that would substantially hurt. Even
if he finishes the year on a tear, and he's
been by and large pretty good this year, you could
look and worry about his jumper. He's still shooting thirty
seven percent on step back threes, fifty four percent on
driving floaters. But we've seen some downt and ticks overall
in the floaters in general, as well as a three
point shot concerns there. But I wonder how much of
that has to do with we want to leave that
extension on the table in the if any makes all NBA,
or is it actually we're just trying to apply pressure
to the Kings to do something, anything to improve this roster.
And that's probably the first perspective to tackle it. From
this sucks for Kings fans, I mean, it always sucks
for fans, but it's like Sacramano has been entrenched in
such self inflicted turmoil for for decades that it felt
as if they emerged from it in twenty twenty two
and even like kind of last year, viewing it as
a step back not making the playoffs. They only had
a couple of fewer wins. The Western Conference is hell fire.
They didn't make any moves at the trade deadline, but
it was okay, recalibrate over the offseason, come back with
something better. You didn't. You went medium lengths to go
get Demarta Rosen, who I think definitely addressed a need
that we've had this conversation many times over. But it
came at the cost in other areas or while overlooking
other areas when I say it came at a cost
of other areas aside from that, mainly that pickswap that
is going out, and I think it's what is it
twenty thirty? It's what has happened to Kegan Murray on
the offensive end, Like it's just he's been when you
even look at the usage, even as the efficiency comes up,
it's just a different type of usage. And so did
you inadvertently cap his development by having tomort Rows and
Darn fox domas a bonus and Malik monk All on
the roster. I don't know, but you go do that
and you wind up largely not even largely the same,
but you reach this point where Mike Brown gets fired.
Even now you have under Doug Christie. They've been eleven
and four. They have a top ten they have a
top nine offense and a top thirteen defense during that time.
So they're eleven and four. They've had some good wins
during this stretch. They beat the Celtics, they beat the Rockets.
That was a good win for them. So this is
a team that can clearly do something. But you look
at it and you wonder, was de Aaron Fox plotting
this for a while, Like this was just this is
from the Clutch Sports playbook, And Schmidt Duo in the
No podcast pointed this out that this was my first thought.
I was like, oh, he's got a year and a
half ish left on his deal before free agency. This
is right out of the Clutch Sports playbook. It's actually
the same date. This is again from Schmid Duo in
the No podcast in twenty nineteen, from when Anthony Davis
requested that initial trade from the Pelicans. He ended up
not being traded that season. He made his way to
the Lakers that offseason. The fact that the Aaron Fox
has a destination in mind, if you're looking to get
out in theory, this is the play if you want
to make sure you get to your destination. Other teams
might come out of the woodwork, but some of them
that you would expect to maybe be aggressive. Let's look
at the Rockets, for one, they have very little reason
to do so right now in the middle of the
season when you look at them contending for a top
two spot in the West. If they need to reorient
over the summer, that's the summer, and so you kind
of take them out of the equation. That helps Fox
if he really wants to get to San Antonio and
be with Wemby and so I get that line of thinking.
But you do have to ascribe not just a certain level,
but a massive level of blame to the King's front
office here. If the reporting from ESPN is true that
Ramona Shelborne piece they didn't consult anybody on the firing
of Mike Brown, which seems pretty stupid. I'm not you know.
I think we get annoyed sometimes when maybe not Grant
and I specifically, but people in gener't get annoyed when
it feels like star players have too much power. But
if you really didn't give Diaron Fox a heads up?
And was that ESPN piece enough to pump the brakes
on the messaging that darn Fox had nothing to do
with it? Now? Did de Aaron Fox want Mike Brown
to stay? He was also reportedly like confronted heading into
this season saying he didn't want another coach. Whether that
changed or not, the organization's job here would be to
kind of protect perception of the player because ultimately, no
matter how much a player would want a coach gone
or a decision or a trade to be made, this
would loop back in the Lakers for people who kind
of blame Lebron and ad for the Russell Westbrook deal fiasco.
It's on the front office to keep their stars in check,
but also to protect their stars. And the Kings have
failed there, not only in terms of it's still floating
around the ether. Was de Aaron Fox responsible for this
or did his future have anything to do with it?
Maybe in terms of urgency, The King's worrying about reaching
this point specifically, But you've failed there. You've also just
failed to optimize the product on the court. After you
make that twenty twenty three playoff run. Let's say that
DeMar de Rosen was the right acquisition. You still didn't
do we still would is this year three four of
like all right, like what's the backup big rotation gonna
look like? Because Trey Lyles, is that really enough? And
then could we get another wing type in here? Keon
Ellis finally playing again, that was always weird. But ke
On Alice getting minutes great, Devin Carter coming back healthy
where you kind of saddling your hopes just on all
that was, okay, it's Demrtiro's in, and then we're gonna
have Devin Carter once he gets healthy, and more minutes
for ke On Ellis. But the way he closed last year,
and that was just supposed to make you a contender
in the Western Conference. I will say everything the Kings
have done, and like even th Kevin Herder trade has
aged pretty poorly to where you're asking you, like one
that pick, that first round pick obligation still floating around
out there, and you have no guarantee that just because
of how hilacious the Western Conference is right now, that's
going to convey. But the special of oh what Ken
Kevin Herder plus the first round pick get you on
the trade market that just kind of never carried less weight.
And then do you trust this front office to even
let's say the darn Fox stuff isn't happening. Do you
trust the flirt office to even go out and make
moves and upgrades because they've kind of proven that they're
not necessarily going to do that mid season. There's just
since the the Tyres Haliburt and Tomanto Sabonis trade, like
that's this has not been their mo like being able
to recalibrate on the move. I'll say, like even Malik Monk,
that happens over the offseason. So they deserve some credit there.
They deserve credit for seeing in Keegan Murray defensively, but
I don't think anyone else. So you deserve credit for
finding Keon Ellis. But there's like a limit to all
of this and the way that they've handled the coaching situations,
the Mike Brown extension and the reporting around it. Then,
of course is firing just really bad. And I think
you look at this team and did the front office
did ownership decide that like competence was just good enough,
Like Okay, we'll challenge for the playoffs and that's just
going to be enough. They should have operated with more
urgency and more coherence when it came to addressing that. Yes,
I will say a lot of people wanted them to
get another shot creator because things that bogged down for them.
Their crunch time record is what it is this year.
And the other thing here is I don't know that
that when you if you had the league Monk coming back,
I don't know that you can sit here and say
with a straight face that that needed to be their
top priority. I would have argued that kind of the
other wing type or other maybe like a bigger defensive player,
maybe a combo big, even though you have Sabonus, someone
whould play alongside Sabonus, not necessarily just his backup. That
would have done more for this team than a Demarta Rosen.
I'm not saying that he was a terrible fit. I'm
not saying even that deal was terrible. I think the
logic there was questionable. It felt like a half measure
where it's well, Zach Lavine is the better fit just
because you look at off the dribble jump shooting, off
ball jump shooting, but he's expensive and Demarta Rosen. We
didn't have to give up any like tangible first round
equity for him, he's cheap on au per year basis.
That's the movie. You made that stuff in hindsight. Again,
I'm not saying that I thought the Demarta Rosen roof
was gonna blow up in their face and prompt Dear
and Fox to leave. By the way, that's probably not
what's prompting him to leave, nor is it. I've seen
some people say, oh, like the the Domasa bonus contract
really ruined the King. No, I mean one if if
that's the issue, when and Sabonis has had one hell
of a season and his minutes, like his solo star
minutes have been the best on the team when you're
looking at solo star minutes. I'm open to the idea
that he's so unique, so specific of a player that
at his position you need to build around him in
this ultra specific way. That can make it tougher. But
if you, let's just say you think the Demontes Sabonis
contract or arrival is the issue, who did that, the
front office? Who gave that the front office ownership? So
you don't get to lay I don't First, I don't
think we could point to a singular moment or transaction.
I really don't think it it's anything to do with Sabonis.
Maybe maybe that comes out, and I don't want to
dismiss like everyone's opinion, but I find that absolutely just
in Aim personally, the bigger issue seems like you gradually
let yourself get here. They are warning signs earlier in
this season when he had another meeting with the organization,
and what did you do? You did the easiest thing,
which was to change a coach. But and that got
you to this eleven and four record. But you're still
hovering around the fringes of the Western Conference playoff. No,
not even the playoff you're in the You're hovering around
the fringes of the plane discussion. While you can say, yes,
the margins in the Western Conference are so thin, there
are teams that are constantly there year in and year out.
Now the Thunder putting together something sustainable. Uh, the Grizzlies
when they're healthy, putting together something the Nuggets of course,
And you could say, oh, well, the Kings don't have
a player as transcendent as shake Gilgess Alexander or as
Nicola jokicch Okay, fine, but that isn't that part of
the problem. You're gonna sit here and say that, like
John Morant is so much more transcendent than the Aaron
Fox when you look at Joam Morant's availability over the years. No,
the Grizzies have built a deep ass roster one that
can work. Speaking of an unconventional setup or players that
in Fury could or personnel that in Fury could create
complicated functional warts awkwardness, and the Grizzlies are figuring it
out anyway. Like, yeah, are you have a good to
trust their force basing their half quart attack? Probably not?
Probably not. They figured it out anyway to be one
the five most efficient offenses in basketball so far, even
with the Rockets. Don't necessarily trust their playoff offense. No,
but they're getting it done anyway. Like they've assembled a deep,
coherent supporting cast. They've there's a lot of drafted and
development there. But like they pounced on opportunities, probably more
so than you can argue that the Kings have, or
at least pounced on the right opportunities when you're looking
at Dylan Brooks, when you're looking at fred van Fleet.
So I don't. My point of all this is to say,
I think this was avoidable, and I think the Kings
as an organization deserve a bulk of the blame more
than Oh, Darron Fox was always one or two feet
out the door. He has not come across as a
star player that's tried to wield leverage or been asking
for out. I don't think that him passing on extensions
in each of the past two summers had really anything
to do with him angling to get to San Antonio specifically,
it really did feel like more of a financial play.
And maybe now he's kind of just dealing with the
reality of last season, everything that's happened this season, staring
at the Kings and saying, well, how are they supposed
to get to the next level? Well, that can prove
grading frustrating, and that's why he's now asking for the trade,
identifying now, what are the Kings gonna do here? That's
where it gets super interesting. I don't it seems like
he requested out. This is the headlines now it would
almost feel, you know, like borderline franchise malpractice not to
move him. But these you have, even though you might
have known that his displeasure was growing, you have inside
two weeks, you have basically a week to move the
Iron Fox before the February sixth traded line. That's a
lot to do in seven eight days. You have to
figure out one what is your aim in a post
d Aaron Fox era, Even if you think that dolmantess
a Bonus is your most important player, that Keagan Murray
is the most important player in the building, are you rebuilding?
Are you looking at fast track your acceleration without Fox?
That I've seen some stuff that the Kings could get
better without the Aaron Fox. Point me to the trade
that makes the Kings better without the Iron Fox. Then
we could talk, because I don't necessarily see it out there.
Maybe you could balance your rotation out a little bit more.
But in terms of a frum scratch shot creator who
can also table set for everybody else, the Kings do
not have a better option on this roster. They are
not going to get a player who does that in
exchange for Daron Fox. If you really wanted to argue,
is there a three team construction where Zacchulvine does end
up on the Kings reunited with the Marta Rosen of course,
and that somehow makes them I guess more like evens
out the rotation in some way. There are other pieces
coming at I would have to see it in practice,
but I would rail against the idea that the Kings
are going to be a better team now and immediately
moving forward without Daron Fox. What you would want to
do is probably reorient at most, but kind of rebuild
and almost start over where it's the right like, maybe
we won't do it now, but it's time to explore
what's going to happen with the bonus uh down the
line this offseason. That gets into the awkward discussion of
what about this King's front office do you trust to
make the right decision in a trade? And they have
be under some semblance of pressure, so they make the
Fox move now or even this offseason? Should you know
Monty McNair or West Wilcox all be as short of okay,
the job, your job's abilities here they make that trade,
they're still probably gonna be feeling the pressure. And is
that going to prompt them to make maybe more of
a short sighted move to say, hey, we can't afford
to take a few steps back and plan around a
longer term, like we need to do something now. That's
not a great mindset to have entering trade talks. When
you're talking about your franchise centerpiece, who's in his prime
and in theory should command a haul in capslock picks,
Are you going to undermine that by accepting players that
you think can help you win? Now, that is not
I don't think that's the right direction for Sacramento. It's all,
of course pending what the market is. Is the market
just San Antonio, So forget about the King's front office.
Should they be the ones making this deal the answers,
by the way, the answer is no, like what have
they done to endear themselves to fans or just in
a vacuum to say like oh yeah, Like no, this
is the right regime for the job. Seriously, and now
arguably you're at a point, as the Kings where it
would make sense to start over because you don't have
a permanent head coach in place. Doug Christie stills that
interim label and now your franchise star wants out. Like
this is almost You don't control your first round pick
this year necessarily, but you can with the protections that
are on. I mean, as of right now, that thing's
not gonna convey. It's like you do kind of control
the fate of that pick as well. Is this a
sign that you should start over? Can you do that
by dealing with the Spurs specifically. They've got plenty of picks.
They've they've got all their own first, they've got extra
Atlanta first, They've got Minnesota Timberwolf stuff. They have the
Bulls pick this year. Technically that's top ten protected, so
they can give you a future focused package. They're not
gonna be the team that gives you the return that
can keep you competitive. Now you would have to This
assumes that they even want to give up Jeremy Sohan
or Steph Cassel, which I don't think the Kings would
have much interest in either, to be honest with you,
maybe ab so hand. But the bigger thing here is
if you think that the Kings are gonna give up
gonna get Devin Vassell out of this, I have a
couple bridges I would like to sell you, and I
will happily eat crow if I'm wrong. But you're not
getting Devin Vessell for darn fox, and if you do,
I may argue that you're getting very little, if anything
else his contract. He's under lock and key longer term
and no de Aaron Fox is the better player, but
like part of the appeal, if your the Spurs would
be pairing the Aarn Fox with Victor Webinyama and Devin Vessel,
you can say Steph Castle too, if you're that big
a believer in what his offense could become. Sure, but
his defense absolutely, but he arguablycomes a little bit more
expendable if you're bringing in Darn Fox or you're just
hoping that or not hoping, you've now assumed that Steph
Castle is never gonna profile as that floor general type. Fine,
so now you have to talk about roping in third
and fourth teams and san Antonio gonna send out enough
draft equity get the King's stuff that they want. If
the Kings don't want a future focus to return, those
are iffy waters to traverse as just dealing with the
Spurs in general. If they want d Aaron Fox, yeah,
they might give up stuff to get him. Will they
do it mid season at a time when doing so?
I mean maybe their own first is headed out here.
But they're a team that, as I'm recording, this is
twelfth in the Western Conference. Are they gonna feel the
urgency to accelerate their position this season? No? Probably not,
so maybe they lowball you, especially because they are the
only team that's ond Aaron Fox's list. But I'd be
curious as to know what their best mid season package
would be. That might be something they're prepared to revisit
over the offseason. And look, if you're the Kings, it
might make some sense for you to revisit it over
the offseason as well, because you don't want to damage
the value of this. Like maybe the Spurs are sending
you this year's draft pick, like wherever the actual number is,
they'll be worse without Daron Fox this season. That's an
interesting level of gamesmanship here. Now you could say, what
if Fox goes to the Jimmy Butler route and becomes
a borderline malcontent. He has given very few public indications,
even when it comes to his demeanor on the court,
that he would ever follow that route, And it also
if he's passed the trade deadline, it doesn't really behoove
him to do so. He's one under contract for at
least another year. But like, what are you gonna do
at that point? The Kings might shut you down anyway,
So there you can't You could what are you going
if you go let's just say he's playing an egregiously
bad on purpose. What does that do for him, aside
from hurt his trade value around the league at a
time when that type of demeanor isn't going to get
you moved because the trade deadline has passed, And so
I don't think you need to worry about this. If
I'm the kings of still trying to slow play this,
and if he is willing to sign an extension with you,
still a base extension, a base a base max extension
this summer would be having four years, two hundred and
twenty nine million. If he's still open to staying with
you long term, you need to gauge the legitimacy of
that feeling before you then go out, because now creates
this weird dynamic at the trade deadline of you can't
be trading really And I mean, yeah, if you can
get someone for Kevin hurderan treye Lyles, go ahead and
do it anyway, But can you really promise a first
round pick that'll be at least two years into the future,
if not more. Should you not convey this year's pick
to Atlanta when you don't know what's gonna happen? With
the Iron Fox that was kind of always the dilemma,
and so they may be boxed into a corner in
that regard. But is there if there is a real
chance that he would stay or consider signing an extension.
Maybe you just ride the rest of this season out
just to see how good you are, and then you
could come to him with your plans over the offseason
once you either wan see what the landscape is for
his services. Just because again I do think teams like
even Orlando might be reticent to make a mid season moves.
They're trying to feel out, Okay, what do we look
like now that m Wagner's done for the year, but
we have Ronz Wagner and Paulo benk Carrow back. Jalen
Suggs is kind of banged up, though, do we really
want to move Anthony Black? And so there will be
other teams that then come out of the would work,
other teams that open up even more draft equity that
they could send you, and the Kings themselves may have
a better lay of what they're working with in terms
of assets. This is still pretty bleak if you're a
Kings fan, and I don't know, like if you're gonna
move him mid season. What are the chances that it's
not to the Spurs? Then? At this point, I mean,
could Orlando still be involved? I guess sure. I really
would be shocked if Houston became involved here. We've already
had reporting that says the Lakers are not on Fox's list,
and just in a vacuum, the first round picks that
they could give up twenty nine and thirty one, that's
just not gonna be enough compared with the matching salary
they could send out, I would assume relative to what
the other offers are going to be. I mean, Phoenix
could get weird, but you're not taking Bradley Beal back
here and those three first round picks they could give
you or just kind of blaw. Would the Warriors be interested?
Maybe they'd be an interesting the Aaron Fox team, and
they have a crap ton of assets and they have
a bunch of first round equity they could play around with.
The messaging has also kind of been that they don't
want to do anything like that. They're just gonna ride
out mediocrity with Stefan Draymond there and then because they
don't have their bridge to the future already in play.
You're raither gonna help you find that drafting in like
the late lottery or middle of the first round, or
just wait to reset until the you know, Steph request
of trade, I guess, or until he actually retires. I suppose.
I'm trying to think of, like what other teams could
really convince themselves here to make a run and just
have the assets to do it, Like Oklahoma City would
be fairly interesting. I'm not just saying this because they
have all the assets in the world, but you could
send out they their flexibility under the luxury tax is
kind of almost unheard of for a team that's in
a position to be maybe the title favorite this season,
so you don't have to send out a ton of money,
and all their contracts are pretty much good. If you're
getting a Wiggins, a Joe and a bunch of first
round picks, pretty Aaron Fox, you havn't compromised future flexibility,
and maybe you're still you're getting a bunch of draft
equity moving forward, and then maybe you're still pretty good
this year just because you've increased the depth of your
roster at the same time, like they're not a team
that's like didn't one don't need to make sizmic mid
season moves, and they might want to go through another
postseason push if Cheded Holman is going to be healthy
and say okay, like do we actually need another primary
offensive there? It puts the Kings in a tough spot.
And the right call here is to not rush anything.
Even if you think that the Aaron Fox era is over,
which it does. It feels over. It feels like it
will not last beyond this season, and that if it does,
something's gone terribly wrong or the Kings are being incredibly
reckless or they've gotten super lucky here, and that's kind
of the just the state of things. And I think
that the first and foremost the blame needs to just
be laid at the feet of the King's organization for
allowing it to get to this point where their actions,
I would say, have been you could you know, you
can harp on some of the hits, some of the
semi hits, some of the misses, but like the biggest
misses might just be the stuff they never did or
or let go unresolved. We're in a year again, I
think three maybe four of talking about kind of the
same biggest roster needs, roster holes that they've always had,
and some of their logic has just been the way
they've gone about things. Certainly, Mike Brown has been pretty terrible.
And to be eleven and four over your last fifteen games,
and this is the storyline now that you're that your
best player, second best player, whatever you want to call him,
wants out, that's like, that's disastrous, And I do think
that's a reflection of the organization to some extent, which
is why I feel so bad for Kings fans who
do not deserve this, just given the loyalty that they've
shown to the organization through thick put mostly thin over
the past couple decades. And even like I guess the
right call if you're the Kings at this point to
wrap up here would be I don't know if it
has to happen this season, but it's too lean towards
the future focused return and you need to somehow then
drum up a market outside San Antonio. There was some
reporting that Brooklyn would be interested, but was that only
they're hoarding twenty twenty six cap space and that's when
they'll be interested or are they willing to give up? Okay,
not this year's first, But will they give you those
future draft picks that they have still kind of in
their clip nick a lot of Knicks draft picks, Like,
are they wanting to build a package around that? And
then if so, like the Kings really have to have
a vision of future there because they don't have these
blue chip prospects that they're gonna send you back, which
is why that's so unappealing. But I do think that's
the right decision not to accept necessarily a Brooklyn type
of package. But you need to now gear up kind
of start over, and I think part of that is
not just the Daron Fox return, but it might just
be cleaning house in the front office, hire someone new
to run it. Then you figure out the head coaching stuff.
Ownership is going to remain the same. That is perhaps
the biggest issue here, But you can't really do anything
about that. And so I think that the Kings here
they need to look at this and say, all right, YEA,
if there's a package on the table that's really good
from the Spurs or someone else in advance of February sixth, fine,
but you can't rush into something just because one he
asked her out and two that you're so bent on
saving face remaining as good as possible without him, because
that's ultimately just not that is franchise matal practice. You
need to take the best offer, whatever is. Maybe that
includes a bunch of players where you're still able to
feel the competitive team. But if the right call is
where we're gonna take. This team comes calling with a
bunch of drafts, we have a chance to get four
first round picks and some swaps or something and maybe
some players. You have to think in those terms, now,
like that's the point that you've reached. It was hard
enough with the Aaron Fox to envision the Kings getting
to the level of let's just say, like oka, see
where Houston is now, the Cleveland, the Boston tier, even
maybe where New York is or Memphis is or Denver
is at this exact moment, not talking about you know,
Denver already won a title, so not talking about the past.
It was already hard to envision them getting there because
they're so assets strapped independent of Keegan Murray and the
Aaron Fox and let's just say Sibonus and those are
all players in theory that you want, like you need
if you're trying to be as competitive as possible. You
could again you could trade distant first, but now you can't.
You can't do something like that the trade deadline because
you don't know what's gonna happen with with Fox. So
that's where the Kings are at right now. I don't
think they've earned the benefit of the doubt when it
comes to making the right decision here. Just based how
this has played out, I will be fascinated to see
what happens. This throws definitely an interesting curveball into the
twenty twenty five trade deadline where it kind of looked
like we'll see Jimmy Butler get moved because he has
to at this point, what other big names are gonna go? Like,
there's a real case that o Dorian Finney Smith was
the second or third best player get moved to the
deadline unless you thought that a Levine or a be
Oald trade was gonna happen for Jimmy Butler. And there
might be other curveballs coming, but this one, this certainly
heightens the intrigue and you also have to wonder and
maybe this is something Grant and I will get into
when we talk about the Kings in that megaprimer again,
be on a lookout for it. Go check out we
did the East. Lots of good stuff in there. Does
this impact, like Jimmy Butler's trade demand is keeping other
business on hold? Now, how many of the Jimmy Butler
teams the costs are night and day. It's not gonna
cost as much in assets, salary, shirt, It's gonna cost more.
It's not gonna cost as much an assets to get
Jimmy Butler. But how many of the teams that, in
theory might have been considering Jimmy Butler outside of Phoenix,
and like, how many other Jimmy Butler destinations where they're
actually how many those teams looks like if it's the Warriors,
like if it was the Suns, or if Memphis really
was looking at a Jimmy Butler trade, how many of
them could now hold up business because they want to
check in on Daron Fox, the team of the teams
I named. I mean, if the Warriors are actually involved,
uh in the Jimmy Butler sweepstakes, I'm skeptical. But if
they were, like they might be a team, You're not
gonna say Milwaukee or really even I mean he'd be
fould be a good fit in Phoenix. They just don't
have They need someone like Jimmy Butler where the asset
value has has torpedoed for them. So this will be interesting.
It completely changes the maybe not the complexion, but the
potential for what happens at the NBA trade deadline. We're
gonna sit here, We're gonna wait for what happens. We're
gonna react to it, We're gonna analyze to it, and
again be on the lookout for our Western conference trade deadline.
Mega Prime are dropping probably like Wednesday evening at this
raide because stuff is becoming dated so quickly. Until next time,
and as always, I leave you with the shout out
to the one, the only, the indelible, the real fix
for what the soucra meddal Gas right now. With or
without the iron box, he could make him the title
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