WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:04.000 What is up, fellow sikos, I am Dan Valley taking 2 00:00:04.040 --> 00:00:07.639 a break from finals coverage, taking a break from our 3 00:00:07.639 --> 00:00:10.240 offseason look aheads for every single team. Go check those 4 00:00:10.279 --> 00:00:12.039 out as they're rolling out if you have not already, 5 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:16.359 to talk to the man, the myth, the legend, who's 6 00:00:16.399 --> 00:00:20.640 a real person though mister Keith Smith of spow Track 7 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:23.719 follow him on the social zat Keith Smith NBA probably 8 00:00:23.719 --> 00:00:26.519 mispronounced bow Track. We go through this every single year spotrack. 9 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:27.800 How are we doing this again? 10 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:28.679 Spot track? 11 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:31.239 It's a spot track NBA people. 12 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:35.840 I think it's because of Eric Spolstra that they go 13 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:37.600 do spow track, But it's spot. 14 00:00:37.399 --> 00:00:39.000 Track, spot track. 15 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:41.799 Keith Smith of spot Track, who I've had on the 16 00:00:41.799 --> 00:00:44.479 podcast many times before and still just mispronounced the outlet 17 00:00:44.600 --> 00:00:48.439 that he's from. So we are here to hold the 18 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:51.960 off season chaos Draft. We're just gonna alternate picks on 19 00:00:52.119 --> 00:00:55.679 teams that we think whether they define the offseason, we 20 00:00:55.719 --> 00:00:57.920 think they're gonna do something unhinged, but like they are 21 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:01.240 definitely teams to watch for a multitude of reasons heading 22 00:01:01.240 --> 00:01:03.840 into the summer. But first, I think the question everyone 23 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:06.159 wants to know the answer to, how the heck are 24 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:06.719 you doing, Keith. 25 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:10.040 I'm good man, I'm I'm glad to see you're on 26 00:01:10.079 --> 00:01:12.840 your feet, your house is still standing. I'm I'm I'm 27 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:14.959 a little afraid of what may be after the Knicks 28 00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:17.799 look like they're gonna finish this this off. I think, 29 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:20.000 you know, we may end up in a place where 30 00:01:20.359 --> 00:01:23.079 like it's gonna be like escape from New York after 31 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:26.000 the next Knicks win. But it's uh, I mean, I'm 32 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:29.480 it's funny. I I tell people any any radio or 33 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:33.760 podcast appearents I've done. I don't care who wins. I 34 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:36.239 was rooting for the Spurs after they went down to 35 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:38.760 oh only just because I want more games, because the 36 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:42.560 games have been so good. But like, it's pretty cool 37 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:44.799 if the Knicks win. Like it's like, I know, I 38 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:47.200 have a lot of Knicks fans in my life that 39 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:50.120 head given up on. Like they're like, this is the 40 00:01:50.120 --> 00:01:52.319 one team I'm never gonna see win. Like they're like 41 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:54.599 I've seen the Yankees win, I've seen the Giants win. 42 00:01:55.079 --> 00:01:57.200 The Knicks I'm never gonna see win. And it's like, 43 00:01:57.519 --> 00:01:59.200 and it's it's cool that they're right on the verge 44 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:01.280 of it. So pretty fun stuff. 45 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:06.079 It's a weird existence because the person who covers the 46 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:08.560 league wants it to be a long series and was 47 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:11.479 also a little worried that had the Knicks swept it, 48 00:02:11.479 --> 00:02:14.000 it wouldn't have been indicative of just how high level 49 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:15.199 the basketball was because all. 50 00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:16.080 These games have been close. 51 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:18.759 But the fan in me is, well, if they lose 52 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:21.159 Game five and then it's just like then this bers 53 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:22.360 just need to win Game six, and all of a 54 00:02:22.360 --> 00:02:24.479 sudden it's Game seven on the road, So I'm torn. 55 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:26.960 I want them to win however they win, but the 56 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:29.319 idea of them doing it at MSG would be cool. 57 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:30.680 But it's also kind of surreal. 58 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:32.439 And LA's probably because some of the things I said 59 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:35.159 about the Knicks throughout the season that we watched them 60 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:38.240 steamroll everybody. After Game three, by the way, I was 61 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:40.560 in the building, well their streak is over now. For 62 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:43.639 Game three of the Hawks, they lost and that was 63 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:46.360 the last time they lost for like forty something days. Crazy, 64 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:50.360 and just watching that game, I never could have predicted 65 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:52.960 in a trillion years anything like this happen. So it's 66 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:56.000 been wildly entertaining, and the series has been for all 67 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:58.680 the complaining about the refereeing and who's dirty, who's getting 68 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:00.919 away with? What the free throw stuff? This has been 69 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:03.039 a hell of a series, Just a hell of a series. 70 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:06.560 Yeah, super high level basketball with they're not always close 71 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:09.159 the whole way through, but close at the end, and 72 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:11.080 that's you know that, that's that's what we can. 73 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:13.280 Does a Finals game really begin if the Knicks don't 74 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:15.439 trail by double digits? Questions? 75 00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:18.639 It's funny, I want I told one of my best 76 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:21.199 friends he's a huge Knicks fan, and I said, yeah, 77 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:23.240 they actually feel really good. If the Spurs are up 78 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:25.759 twenty after the first quarter, I'd be like, Okay, got 79 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:27.919 them right where we want them. I was like, now, 80 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:29.919 maybe at some point de luck runs out, and I 81 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:31.680 think a bunch of the Knicks players have kind of 82 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:34.599 said like, yeah, we'd rather not continue to follow these 83 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:37.280 giant holes and have to dig ourselves out. But yeah, 84 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:39.800 really it's it's it really has been a really fun finals. 85 00:03:41.479 --> 00:03:43.800 Keith, you are the guests, and because I'm just such 86 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:47.199 a wonderful person, I'm going to give you the first pick. 87 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:49.439 So which team are you taking with a number one 88 00:03:49.479 --> 00:03:52.159 overall pick in the offseason chaos draft? 89 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:56.599 Yeah, it it pains me to pick them number one 90 00:03:56.639 --> 00:04:01.240 and any any facet, any fashion event, anything, because I 91 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:03.120 at the end of the day still probably do bleed 92 00:04:03.159 --> 00:04:05.000 a little green as a Celtics guy. 93 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:09.080 But I pick the Lakers. There. They're the Lakers, they 94 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:12.520 have cap space, they have Lebron, Like, it's just like 95 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:17.639 something wild is gonna happen here. That's I think gonna be. 96 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:20.519 It's just because it's the Lakers. When the Lakers have 97 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:23.519 cap space, big things happen. And then you've act factor 98 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:26.279 in the whole Lebron of it all, Like, what does 99 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:28.720 that all mean? I'm gonna take the Lakers. 100 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:31.439 I think that's a good pick. 101 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:33.759 And for all the reasons that you listed, I also 102 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:36.360 wonder do you think there's a chance that it's also 103 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:39.839 anti climactic where they look to kind of roll the flexibility. Okay, 104 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:43.160 we keep Austin Reeves, Lebron's coming back, and they're rolling 105 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:45.879 the flex waiting for the star they could trade for 106 00:04:45.879 --> 00:04:48.240 for flexibility of the year after they feel like the 107 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:50.519 anti climactic possibility as well. 108 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:53.920 Yeah, I absolutely could could play out that way. In fact, 109 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:57.319 there's as this has all gone on for the last 110 00:04:57.319 --> 00:05:01.000 couple of months, I've started to really prepare myself more 111 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:04.399 and more for that could be the way that this goes. 112 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:07.240 But still it's one when the Lakers have cap space, 113 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:09.959 like it's just it's it's a it's a thing. I 114 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:11.879 can it's it's always gonna be a thing. 115 00:05:12.920 --> 00:05:15.160 Do you think if you were to predict right now 116 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:16.920 that we'll end up looking back and say, oh, the 117 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:21.399 Lakers did something significant other than re sign Austin Reeves 118 00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:22.720 to a max or near max deal. 119 00:05:22.879 --> 00:05:25.040 I think there's a good chance. I I think if 120 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:28.560 there is a out of nowhere trade this time right like, 121 00:05:29.199 --> 00:05:31.759 think I'm not spoiling any future picks and not exactly 122 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:33.800 tipping you up. I didn't know, did you know Giannis 123 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:36.240 might get traded? Right like there's well, hold on, hold on, 124 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:41.040 hold on what yeah, right outside of a Yannis trade, 125 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:44.000 if there's a like holy crap, like one of those 126 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:47.199 ones where it's like what happened? I think the Lakers 127 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:50.000 good good chance they might be be the team that's 128 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:52.920 involved in that. Whoa, that guy got traded kind of 129 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:55.199 kind of moved just I think they're well positioned to 130 00:05:55.240 --> 00:05:56.480 be able to do something like that. 131 00:05:57.439 --> 00:05:59.360 Is there was also part of this because I've given 132 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:01.560 some I haven't seen it talked about a ton, but 133 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:04.680 they've changed a lot of the front office people. And 134 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:07.600 so is there an element of does Mark Walter, Like, 135 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:10.519 what's how's Rob Polinka feeling under Mark Walter right now? 136 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:12.839 Yeah, I gotta guess there's probably some level of pressure, 137 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:16.079 right like Mark Walter, I know there's all the genie's 138 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:17.959 gonna really run the team. But at the end of 139 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:20.199 the day, Mark Walter owns the team now, right, Like, 140 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:24.120 so he's I don't I don't care who sits in 141 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:27.319 the meetings. Two actually is the one who's like signing 142 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:30.040 off on what we do. That's the person who really 143 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:32.600 runs the team. It's important to note he didn't hire 144 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:36.879 Rob Polinka, right doesn't have the attachments to Rob Polinka 145 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:40.800 through Kobe Bryant. And although those you know, through lines 146 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:43.319 that run through all that. So yeah, I could absolutely 147 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:46.120 see Rob Plink feeling like he's under some pressure. And 148 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:49.439 it's it's you know, eventually, at some point it's gonna 149 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:52.160 be are if we're not we're the Lakers. If we're 150 00:06:52.199 --> 00:06:55.439 not in the finals and having chances to win, we're 151 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:57.279 not good enough and we got to get to people 152 00:06:57.319 --> 00:06:59.399 here who will get us there, and that there will 153 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:00.800 be a change of eventually. 154 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:05.240 With pick number two, I'm trying to select the peop 155 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:06.920 where I think I know this team is gonna do 156 00:07:07.319 --> 00:07:11.800 something splashy. I'm going with the Brooklyn Nets, another catch 157 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:14.600 based team, so an obvious choicement extent, But they also 158 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:16.720 not only do they not own their own first round 159 00:07:16.759 --> 00:07:20.000 pick next year, but you can't point to anyone on 160 00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:22.920 the roster right now and say this is the player 161 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:26.360 around whom we want to build. But you also don't know, 162 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:30.759 well one, you have to probably assume they won't get 163 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:32.879 that player at number six, So it's not like they 164 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:35.199 have a top four, top five selection where you feel 165 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:37.399 maybe better about them finding that player and following a 166 00:07:37.439 --> 00:07:39.519 gradual course. So you kind of have to sit there 167 00:07:39.519 --> 00:07:42.720 and wonder, are they gonna make a big trade, are 168 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:46.720 they gonna do something frivolous during free agency, or will 169 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:48.399 it be we're gonna fall, We're just gonna stay at 170 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:50.839 the current court. Of course, we've seen Shawn Marks do 171 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:53.439 that before him they didn't have picks, But now we're 172 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:54.480 moving beyond. 173 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:55.839 A decade later, and I'm assuming that. 174 00:07:56.480 --> 00:07:59.319 I mean, the way people talk about Shawn Marks now 175 00:07:59.439 --> 00:08:01.759 is so much different from like five or six years ago. 176 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:04.600 I have to imagine the pressure in Brooklyn is being 177 00:08:04.680 --> 00:08:06.959 ratcheted up. I don't know what that looks like, but 178 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:09.800 just between the cap space, not having their own pick 179 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:13.319 and not having a franchise cornerstone in place, I feel 180 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:15.639 like we could just see, like trades signed, things could 181 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:17.319 just get absolutely wild for them. 182 00:08:17.639 --> 00:08:19.560 Yeah, I think that's a great pick. There's also a 183 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:22.920 factor in you can no longer sell the idea of 184 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:26.040 we're gonna be really bad because you can't do that 185 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:29.040 in the new lottery reform. You can't goin with that 186 00:08:29.079 --> 00:08:32.159 being your plan, and you can't sell a we're gonna 187 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:34.720 be really bad for multiple years because you also can't 188 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:37.559 that can't be a thing either. So I think, Yeah, 189 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:42.000 I think a lot of these teams, I think, more 190 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:45.720 than anything else with the lottery reform, I'm very curious 191 00:08:45.720 --> 00:08:49.240 to see how teams rebuild now, Like how does it 192 00:08:49.279 --> 00:08:53.559 because it for decades now, the way you rebuild is 193 00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:56.440 trade to weigh your best players for younger players or 194 00:08:56.480 --> 00:09:00.799 draft picks. You stink for a period of time. Sometimes 195 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:03.600 it's a year or two, sometimes it's a decade or 196 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:07.200 two if you're the Kings, and then you just kind 197 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:10.159 of like then you build back up right, and it's 198 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:12.759 now you're in a spot where it is like it 199 00:09:12.840 --> 00:09:15.240 really becomes can't do that anymore. 200 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:16.480 It's just not a way of works. 201 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:20.519 So who are you gonna take with the third pick? 202 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:21.120 I'm gonna go. 203 00:09:21.159 --> 00:09:24.399 I'm gonna go with with with the hometown team with Boston. 204 00:09:25.720 --> 00:09:27.720 Here's why. 205 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:31.879 Maybe it is Giannis, I don't know, but they're gonna 206 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:36.159 do something. Brad Stevens, who is maybe the most even 207 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:40.120 keeled individual I've met covering the league my entire life, 208 00:09:40.120 --> 00:09:43.480 where there are times you could you could question if 209 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:46.879 you didn't know him, like does this guy like does 210 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:50.080 he care? Like he just he's never too high, he's 211 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:53.279 never too low. Yes, he didn't come in banging the 212 00:09:53.320 --> 00:09:56.639 table and screaming and yelling at their postseason media, but 213 00:09:56.679 --> 00:09:58.480 he's like, we're not good enough and we're not good 214 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:02.240 enough for what we should be and was like, look, 215 00:10:02.279 --> 00:10:05.399 we overachieved, but then reset the bar. We didn't do 216 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:09.639 it like, just was not happy, and then went into 217 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:12.000 we need to change the way we play. We don't 218 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:14.320 put enough pressure on the rim. We need to get 219 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:17.360 more layup s, dunks and free throws, like, yes, that 220 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:19.799 could be honest maybe maybe there is something there. I 221 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:23.639 don't know. We'll find out, but I just think he 222 00:10:23.759 --> 00:10:26.320 is in a place where it is we are not. 223 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:28.919 I'm not saying they're blowing the team up, but just 224 00:10:29.759 --> 00:10:33.919 if they want to make meaningful changes, they're gonna have 225 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:37.320 to look pretty different, and I think there's a real 226 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:39.080 chance that happens this summer. 227 00:10:40.159 --> 00:10:43.120 Is there a possibility then that they would because they're 228 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:45.559 so top heavy in salary when you're looking at the 229 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:48.519 matching tools, is there a chance then that they would 230 00:10:49.039 --> 00:10:51.799 trade Jail and Brown? And it's not free, honest, it's 231 00:10:51.799 --> 00:10:55.039 breaking him up into two or three players or something. 232 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:56.759 Because that I don't know how else. 233 00:10:56.879 --> 00:10:59.039 I guess you could try to do that with Derek White, 234 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:00.679 but I'd be curious what is true he value is 235 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:03.279 after this season, with what's left on his contract. That's 236 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:07.240 what's fascinating about Boston to me, is like I've just 237 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:10.159 for years, even remember break up the Jays a couple 238 00:11:10.120 --> 00:11:12.039 of years ago, probably before they won the title. I've 239 00:11:12.039 --> 00:11:14.799 just dismissed it, and now I'm wondering, oh is their 240 00:11:14.919 --> 00:11:15.440 legs today? 241 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:16.279 And I honestly don't. 242 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:18.440 I don't know if there's like a good reason why 243 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:20.559 I should wonder why, Like is this like they they 244 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:22.519 haven't had Tatum back for a full season. They did 245 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:25.200 look pretty dominant at stretches. But I guess if you 246 00:11:25.240 --> 00:11:27.600 want to make a material change to the way you're playing, 247 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:30.600 Jalen Brown is kind of like the guy at this 248 00:11:30.679 --> 00:11:31.759 point with which to do that. 249 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:35.799 Yeah, if for no other reason, he makes basically twice 250 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:38.320 as much as Derek White. So if you're talking about 251 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:41.039 breaking Derek White up into two or three guys, you're 252 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:43.879 talking like ten, twelve to fifteen million that's coming back. 253 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:47.039 We take Jaylen Brown and makes almost sixty million dollars, 254 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:50.279 you're turning it into here's a couple guys who make 255 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:54.399 twenty five thirty million dollars, right, So that changes things 256 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:57.919 in a very big way. I think here's where I'm 257 00:11:57.960 --> 00:12:02.159 at with all this. If at some point in the 258 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:04.960 next few weeks it comes down the Celtics traded Jalen 259 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:10.519 Brown for Jannis. If it is mostly Jalen Brown for Yannis, okay, 260 00:12:10.759 --> 00:12:13.919 it's a worthy swing, right, and I'm gonna let's see 261 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:15.960 what it looks like. I'm gonna trust in it. If 262 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:20.440 it is Jalen Brown plus plus plus for Yannis, No 263 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:23.600 stay away, Like you don't need to be trading multiple 264 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:26.600 first round picks or multiple of the young players that 265 00:12:27.159 --> 00:12:30.039 look like they have really good potential, Like that doesn't 266 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:32.039 need to be a thing. That's then. That's the same 267 00:12:32.039 --> 00:12:34.600 way I felt about Jalen Brown for Kevin Durant a 268 00:12:34.639 --> 00:12:37.399 couple of years ago. It was all right, if you're 269 00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:39.600 gonna trade him straight up, all right, I can get 270 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:42.279 behind that, I can understand. But if you're trading them 271 00:12:42.320 --> 00:12:45.720 for Kevin Durant and you're also trading out multiple other things, 272 00:12:45.960 --> 00:12:48.799 I just can't get there. Now. I can also get 273 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:52.200 there if it is at some point traded Jalen Brown 274 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:56.000 and we broke that contract up into three rotation guys 275 00:12:56.519 --> 00:12:59.720 and two are gonna start or whatever it is. Okay, sure. 276 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:02.759 I think what is most likely to happen with the Celtics, 277 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:06.320 which runs counter to why I picked them, is they 278 00:13:06.440 --> 00:13:08.519 run it back. They use their big trade exception, they 279 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:11.759 use their mid level exception something to bring in another 280 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:14.519 really good player, and then it's moves around the edges 281 00:13:14.799 --> 00:13:18.679 that that's probably what is most likely. But because the 282 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:21.600 potential exists for them to go kind of crazy and 283 00:13:21.720 --> 00:13:25.120 Brett Stevens was so mad, which I've never really seen 284 00:13:25.240 --> 00:13:28.480 him like that since he took over the GM role. There, 285 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:32.279 it's definitely a world ward. Things get a little crazy. 286 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:35.519 I just I guess if it was technically straight up 287 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:37.039 or as close to straight up as it could be, 288 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:40.240 I understand the honest wing, but you're just you're trunk 289 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:42.840 kating your window so much. It feels like so you're 290 00:13:42.840 --> 00:13:45.559 getting the better player, but for how long? And it's 291 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:48.080 also how many He wasn't in the playoffs last year, 292 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:50.639 so this can't count, but then previously too, he doesn't finish, 293 00:13:51.159 --> 00:13:52.960 isn't available by the end of the two other playoff 294 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:55.399 runs because of it aris that's just and after going 295 00:13:55.399 --> 00:13:59.440 through Jason Tatum having this series serious Achilles injury, I don't. 296 00:13:59.240 --> 00:13:59.960 I get the idea. 297 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:02.120 Yeah, and I might understand it, like you said, if 298 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:03.600 it was close to straight up, but I don't even 299 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:05.960 think I'm necessarily on board with it. If it would 300 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:07.720 be a close to straight up deal. 301 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:12.120 Yeah, I'm only on board with it because try something different, 302 00:14:12.519 --> 00:14:16.600 like it's I you know, there's a ward where I hope, 303 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:19.720 I don't know five years from now to who knows 304 00:14:19.720 --> 00:14:22.399 how long guys are gonna play anymore. It's like, oh, 305 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:25.679 that's now I'm having to even beyond Lebron, who's probably 306 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:30.759 gonna play until he's seventy. Like you are, like, You're like, 307 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:33.000 we have to reframe all of this, Like guys are 308 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:36.000 guys are nowhere near done at thirty dude, Some guys 309 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:38.759 are nowhere near done at thirty five. So like, I 310 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:40.919 don't want I was gonna say, five more years of 311 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:43.919 Tatum and Brown and then they both retire, but that 312 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:47.559 feels even like low, So I don't know, seven eight 313 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:49.919 more years of it and then they they eventually both 314 00:14:49.960 --> 00:14:51.320 move on. I would love it if they played it 315 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:54.679 out the whole way in Boston. But what I think 316 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:57.799 everybody would love even more is winning another title, right, 317 00:14:57.840 --> 00:15:00.799 And it's like it's that that that where for me 318 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:03.679 if I think they think this puts them closer like it, 319 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:06.639 it's like, let's let's go, let's get it done. 320 00:15:08.360 --> 00:15:11.519 For the fourth pick, I'm gonna go with a couple 321 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:13.960 of teams. Who's the right pick here? I'm just gonna 322 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:16.879 go with another potential Yannis team in the Miami Heat. 323 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:20.000 It's kind of shit or get off the pop time, 324 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:22.000 I think for them I'm not very much on board 325 00:15:22.039 --> 00:15:24.000 with every summer you have to trade a star or 326 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:27.120 it's meaningless. We've seen enough of just they either have 327 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:30.240 a player in Jimmy Butler who you're waiting, you're hoping, Okay, 328 00:15:30.240 --> 00:15:32.399 if we get the seventh seed, he'll he'll peak in 329 00:15:32.480 --> 00:15:35.279 time for the plan, which that's not a sustainable model 330 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:37.840 as we saw, and now it's we're waiting for them 331 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:40.960 to get a best player on a what could be 332 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:43.039 a title caliber team or something close to it. I 333 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:46.120 love bam Adebayo offensively, he just can't be that. 334 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:47.320 And he's also had. 335 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:51.879 To scored eighty eighty whatever was I now, I don't 336 00:15:51.879 --> 00:15:53.120 even remember, was it eighty. 337 00:15:53.000 --> 00:15:55.559 Three eighty three? But listen, he should have stopped at 338 00:15:55.559 --> 00:15:57.519 the Kobe number. I thought it was disrespectful that he 339 00:15:57.600 --> 00:15:58.159 kept going. 340 00:15:58.240 --> 00:15:59.559 That was just so. 341 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:03.559 I I don't if you don't get Yannis one, actually, 342 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:06.240 let me start here. If you get Yannis, the packages 343 00:16:06.279 --> 00:16:08.200 that are being floated around out there for your honest 344 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:09.960 I don't know how much. 345 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:11.120 Better the heat are. 346 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:13.519 If Tyler heroes going out, I'm assuming you're even if 347 00:16:13.559 --> 00:16:15.840 you bring back Norman Powell. If jim Hawks Junior is 348 00:16:15.879 --> 00:16:18.720 gone you still kind of need a primary creator on 349 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:21.799 the roster. Then the spacing could end up being bunked. 350 00:16:21.799 --> 00:16:24.039 I'm bam and Giannis will figure it out defensively. They'll 351 00:16:24.039 --> 00:16:28.000 figure it out offensively. But you're very like you're you're 352 00:16:28.080 --> 00:16:31.120 traveling a very fine line there. So I'm not thrilled 353 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:33.200 about what the heat might look like after Yannis. There 354 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:35.799 needs to be other moves lined up. But then you 355 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:38.240 ask yourself, well, what what are they going to be 356 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:41.440 left with to do if you don't get Yannis? There's 357 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:43.000 a bunch of different ways they could go. Is there 358 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:46.159 another star that fits that becomes available they could go after? 359 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:49.279 Do they make the wrong move because they're so over 360 00:16:49.320 --> 00:16:52.120 aggressive and they refuse to rebuild? Does the R word 361 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:55.519 actually get uttered there and they hit reset? Do they 362 00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:58.240 just end up taking a distressed asset type guy where 363 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:00.480 it's they trade for a zion, they trade for a rant. 364 00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:04.119 This team is all over the place, and I don't 365 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:06.119 I honestly don't know how they seem like the Yianni's 366 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:08.279 favorite right now. But if they don't get yannest I 367 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:10.759 don't even know what I would predict that they do. 368 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:13.839 That's a great, great point and that was one of 369 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:15.559 the things that I was asked. I've done a couple 370 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:18.480 of different Heat shows recently, and one of the things 371 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:22.440 that both both shows asked was like, if it's not Yannis, 372 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:25.680 what next? And my thing is, I'm like, I don't know. 373 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:27.759 I think you're probably trying to sell the fan base 374 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:30.559 on or we're gonna try to kind of run it back. Right, 375 00:17:30.599 --> 00:17:33.599 we might overpay Norman Powell for a year and then 376 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:36.480 at least we we have him and Hero and then 377 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:38.359 we'll have you know, there's worlds where they conve like 378 00:17:38.440 --> 00:17:41.880 seventy million in cap space in the summer twenty twenty seven, 379 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:44.640 and and if I'm a Heat fan, I'm like, uh, 380 00:17:44.759 --> 00:17:47.279 we just kind of did a year without making the playoffs. 381 00:17:47.319 --> 00:17:50.000 The last couple of years, I haven't been very good, Like, 382 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:52.400 you know, the last time we were good was now 383 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:56.119 like a few years ago, Like what are we doing? 384 00:17:56.119 --> 00:17:58.400 And I think that's where it does get, you know, 385 00:17:58.559 --> 00:18:01.480 kind of tough, like they I think because they made 386 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:04.079 those couple of runs, and they made the runs from 387 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:07.519 like the eighth seed, we are still like those are 388 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:10.119 still with us in our memory. They haven't been very 389 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:14.359 good since twenty twenty two. When they made the finals. 390 00:18:14.559 --> 00:18:17.519 They they've not been you know, a great team since then, 391 00:18:17.599 --> 00:18:21.079 and like last year they really weren't very good. So 392 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:24.000 like I do wonder, at what point does patients run 393 00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:26.240 out with the fan base where it's like, uh, you 394 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:28.359 know what we'd like is rather than sell all this, 395 00:18:28.440 --> 00:18:31.519 we're gonna go get somebody. We'll go get somebody, right 396 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:33.279 instead of going to do it, go do it. 397 00:18:34.279 --> 00:18:35.599 But then you don't want to hear oh they gave 398 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:36.960 up how many first round picks they get? 399 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:37.920 Zion in the building. 400 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:42.079 It's just like, who would be your next pick? 401 00:18:42.119 --> 00:18:51.680