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Speaker 1: What is uh Fellasikos, I am Dan Felly coming at

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you with a little solo thingamabob here to talk about

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the NBA trade deadline. Hopefully we'll streamline with brand and

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I have planned for post trade deadline either Thursday night

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or sometimes that Friday, depending on how our schedules at

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we are wind up shaking out. But the NBA teams,

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they've lost their minds. It seems we have Lugadncic on

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the Lakers, Anthony Davis on the MAVs, Zach Lavine and

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DeMar DeRozan are on the Kings reunited again because Sacramento

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wants to run back the you know, maybe a better

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version of the twenty twenty two Chicago Bulls, but with

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worse perimeter defenders around them. Apparently who knows we have

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the Bulls actually making moves. You have their question the

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Aaron Fox and San Antonio. This first trade of future picks,

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lots of happening people are expecting, and we'll talk about

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this at the end once we go through all the

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deals that we've get to talk about about. Go check

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out our reactions if you've not already to the Luca trade,

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as well as the darn Fox trade. But people around

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the league, my sense is they are now expecting Kevin

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drant to get traded as the Warriors are desperate. That

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is the favorite to land him. But the Warriors have

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gone from we're not going to do anything too. They've

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tried to trade for every single All Star who might

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possibly potentially be available, and that might include every single

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All Star in the history of time since Luka Doncic

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was just traded. So this NBA trade deadline is already bonkers.

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A lot of people were worried it might be quiet,

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as it was last year, even though we had some

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major business the you know, like leading into it. We

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had hardened at the beginning of the season and Og

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and Siakam get moved beforehand. It was people were wondering, though, oh,

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are Dorian Phinney, Smith and Dennis Shooter are going to

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be like the biggest names to be moved. Hell fucking no, apparently. This. Honestly,

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I'm bracing now for one of the most chaotic deadlines

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since I've started covering the league in twenty eleven. But

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let's talk about some of the trades that have just happened,

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including oh my god, Kyle Kuzma to the Milwaukee Bucks

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and Chris Middleton to the Washington Wizards. Details of this

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Bucks Wizard's trade that there are rumblings about it leading

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up to it, but you kind of thought there'd be

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more moving parts involved, because with the Bucks really trade

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Chris Middleton to get Kyle Kuzma, Jimmy Butler one thing,

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maybe even Zach Lavine another thing, but Kyle Kuzma full

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trade details though. The Bucks are getting Kyle Kuzma, who

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lowered his trade bonus for the Bucks to duck the

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second Apron as part of that. This is important because

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now Milwaukee won their twenty thirty two first round pick,

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is not gonna become frozen after this season, and two,

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they can now aggregate salaries in subsequent trades. They still

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cannot take back more money than they're sending out, but aggregation,

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you could stack Bobby Portus on top of pack content

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if you wanted to do that. Chris Middleton, though, unless

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this deal is gonna somehow excuse me, Kyle Kuzma, unless

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this deal is going to somehow be expanded if the

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Bucks wanted to like reroute him, he cannot be aggregated.

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Waukee's also getting Patrick Baldwin Junior, and they are getting

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a twenty five second round pick. The Wizards have like

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weird commitments, but Milwaukee's essentially gonna end up with the

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second most favorable of those commitments to Washington. Also notable

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with this trade before we get to what the Wizards

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are getting, the Bucks do have a chance now of

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ducking the luxury tax entirely next season. Fans should not

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necessarily care about that, especially when Giannis attend to Compo

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is still in his prime, but depending on what happens

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with brook Lopez, Pat Conaton and Bobby Portis both have

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player options and could be moved, there is a pathway

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now to Milwaukee ducking the luxury tax next year while

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actually keeping brook Lopez. The Wizards are getting Chris Middleton,

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who has a player option for twenty five. Twenty six

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Bucks rookie A. J. Johnson, who they took number twenty

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four overall, is coming off. I don't know is that

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would put it over the hump. The other night he

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goes off relative to what he was doing this year,

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and they're also getting a twenty twenty eight first round swap.

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It is basically going to be because Milwaukee's already swapping

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picks with Portland. It'll be the second most favorable of

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the Wizard's own pick, Portland's pick, and Milwaukee's pick. I

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want to start with the Bucks because the fallout here

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is clearly the biggest per Jake Fisher. This trade apparently

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had the support of Giannice Attendacoumpo, or I should phrase it,

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Yiannis supported getting Kyle Kuzma. I wonder if he knew

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that it was going to cost Chris Middleton. It's not

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his job to figure out the salary cap math. But

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Giannis and Chris Middleton are tight. I believe Chris Middleton

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was in Jannis's wedding party, so like that's not an

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insignificant thing. And when you're trying to look at this

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from Milwaukee's perspective, I get I think, as of right now,

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like Chris Middleton is not played a ton like he's

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gonna be I guess day to day forever moving forward

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with ankle stuff. Not the level of defender that he

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once was, but he is still a driver at minimum

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of offense. The Bucks have been good with him on

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the court this year. His efficiency is through the roof

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for this season. This seas seems like a combination of Okay,

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Kyle Kuzma has two years and forty point nine million

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dollars left on his deal and it's declining, so there's

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flexibility there for the Bucks. And then I think they

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were trying to optimize the minutes that Yannis is playing

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without Brook Lopez essentially, so this makes Bobby Portis more

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expendable because you're not going to play Yanis, Bobby Portis

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and Kuzma together, and they're probably kind of hoping that

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they can get away for stretches with Kyle Kuzma, Brook

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and Yannis on the floor. I would assume otherwise you

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don't make this trade. There's a lot of risk there.

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I don't think Kyle Kuzma is as bad as the

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data says that he is. This season. We've seen him

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on a good team defend really well. Even last year

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he shot forty eight percent on drives over thirty nine

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percent on wide open threes. My concern here is kind

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of like, even looking at the most ideal version of

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Kyle Kuzma, is he's hitting spot up threes, he can

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attack guys off the dribble, get going downhill. Thirty percent

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of his shots this year are coming at the rim

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versus twelve percent for Chris Middleton. You don't necessarily need

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that additional on ball rim pressure when you already have

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Giannis Attende Kupo. Still that can help you, maybe help

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not just in transition but in the half court. And

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think I would say that Kyle Kuzma is gonna give

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you a better chance on the defensive end, especially if

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you're playing him and Giannis together as just the front

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court for those stretches. Now, with that said, would I

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have done this trade as the Bucks. I don't know.

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assuming this makes Bobby Portis more expendable. So let's see

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what else they're gonna have going leading into the trade deadline.

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think that Kuzma is a better player than Middleton in

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a vacuum right now, he's not guaranteed to be the

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better offensive fit by any means. He's always just been

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like a so so at best shooter he is shooting,

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and look, he'll get different quality of looks in maway.

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percent on semi open and wide open threes combined, and

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even last year, okay, thirty nine point four percent. I

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believe on wide open when you factor in the semi

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wide open threes, you're looking at just over thirty five percent.

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him to make those shots. And again he is not

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played since leaving with the Lakers. Certainly someone with the

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type of gravity that Giannis has going downhill and then

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just the you know, the on and off ball gravity

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of a Damian Lillard as well, So I would expect

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his efficiency to climb. But it is a gamble. I also,

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and I don't know that this is being talked about

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enough because I've obviously seen instant reactions on you know,

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Blue sky Twitter. You're losing like a ball handling deficit here,

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or at least a secondary playmaking element with Chris Middleton.

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Who is anybody on the Bucks as good at getting

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the ball to Giannis as Chris Middleton when those two

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are running their two man game. Probably not. And so

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now you're comp that and even if you believe that

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Kyle Kuzman can attack guys off the dribble and maybe

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we'll have more space to work in Milwaukee, or at

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least less overall defensive attention. He's just never been the

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same secondary type of playmaker as Chris Middleton, and so

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that's a big gamble. If I'm the Bucks, I would

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really have to believe that one there's a huge defensive

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drop off between Kuzma and and Middleton, and that Middleton

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was essentially just not going to be reliable moving forward

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for myself to have done this deal just because now

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secondary playmaking coming from? It's you know, Yannis can do

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some of it, but like he's not that Like we

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know what Yannis is trying to do with the ball

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when he's getting going downhill. Like Chris Middleton obviously has

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the mid range game, but he is someone that you

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can and should trust to like run the more methodical Okay,

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here's a ball screen, You're gonna go different directions. Maybe

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not as fast a clip as Kyle Kuzma, but Kyle

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Kusma was playmaking those situations has never been as good

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as even what the most modest version of Chris Middleton,

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like at the best way to frame it. So that's

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something the Bucks are going to have to grapple with,

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and maybe it doesn't matter too much when you're looking

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at okay, our best five man unit is always going

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to include Kyle Kuzma, Giannis Brook Lopez, Damian Lillard and

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then they will fill it out from there depending on

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matchups or if you just believe it's Gary Trent Junior,

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if you just just believe it's Torny and Prints whatever.

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maybe provide some of like the secondary playmaking to offset that,

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but you need to feel minutes elsewhere, including in the playoffs.

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durability by swapping out Chris Middleton to Kyle Kuzma. But

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we can't just sit here and say the bucks Is

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top five unit is like the Bucks's top five man

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unit is the only thing that matters, and so they're

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taking a risk here. There's the emotional component as well

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of just not only Chris Middleton winning a title with Milwaukee,

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but he's been there since twenty thirteen. So we're talking

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about twelve almost well like twelve of his thirteen year

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career thus far, and this would have been I think

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this would have been season number thirteen for him, if

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I'm not gonna say it regardless, been there for over

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a decade, been really good, made three All Stars with them,

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and was just like he's been this second option on

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a championship team. And while you could say we don't

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think he's that anymore, he doesn't need to be. Because

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you have Jannis and Dame, you needed him to be

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your third option. I believe if he is healthy, he

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is overqualified for that role. Now, if you don't believe

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that he is healthy, can't play a ton of minutes,

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this becomes a different story, and it's worth of discussion.

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It's a fascinating gamble by the Bucks. And I would

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say if Yannis, if this is Yannis sort of co

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signing or nudging the Bucks in the direction of, yeah,

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we gotta get someoneho's gonna play more minuts than Chris Middleton.

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I like, I don't know, man, I just Jannis was

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in favor of hiring like we already saw Giannis. Maybe

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make like a poor endorsement of a head coaching decision.

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Do we really want to trust his input on trades here.

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I'm not laying this at the feet of Jannest This

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is ultimately at the hands of the front office. I

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don't love it. For Milwaukee. I can see the upside,

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I don't love it. And maybe I'm too pilled on

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nostalgia from what Chris Middleton has done there. But Kuzma,

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I don't think he's let's say, I don't think he's

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as easy of a fit on the offensive end, and

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I don't think he's guaranteed to be this demonstrative upgrade

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on the defensive end. And it feels like he's more

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likely to be the latter than the former. And I

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guess maybe that's what the Bucks are sort of banking

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on here. There was again, there was the elements of

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look at how his contract is structured moving forward. Chris

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Middleton had the player option, but Kyle Kuzma under team

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control for the next two years and his salaries declining,

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so they just gives you a little bit more wiggle

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room there. I just didn't expect the first trade that

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Milwaukee would make or the trade that got them, like

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unless it was this monster deal that brought them back

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to me Butler or maybe Zach Lavine until he was

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traded to Sacramento. So this is one that I still

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haven't totally wrapped my head around. And I think I

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understand the upside for Milwaukee more than a lot of

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the initial reactions I've seen. That does not make it

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a good deal. It makes it a gamble, and the

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fact that the swap is whatever, Like you didn't have

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to give up when I saw draft compensation, until I

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saw like what picks were going out, I was worried.

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I was like, they didn't give up the twenty thirty

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one first round pick for this, did they? Because that

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would have been a disaster. And so it's a little

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bit more the word's not even palatable. It's a little

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bit more justifiable. But you need the peak like you

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are betting, because this isn't okay. Kusman's a little older,

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so you have to worry about no if he's not

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there hitting wide open threes and defending at minimum and

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then giving you at me some on ball juice offensively.

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But I'll even toss that out of the equation. Let's

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just say, between Yannis Dame and everyone else, you don't

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even want him to do a ton of on ball stuff. Again,

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he did shoot close to fifty percent on drives last year,

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so that is that is in him, especially in lineups

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that are gonna afford him a ton of space. But

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they need Kyle Kuzma to defend his ass off and

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to hit a bunch of threes, which will presumably be

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high quality threes. But he needs to play within that

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context more than anything, and not not to say to

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deviate it. And I'm not even saying that he's a

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male content. We all kind of latched onto his comments

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that he made about Washington and no longer trying to

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fit in or like guys develop I throw those I

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actually kind of found that mostly funny, but I throw

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that out the window. Let's see what he looks like

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on a good team. So I understand it from Milwaukee's perspective.

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That does not mean I would have done it, And

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it was a curious gamble to make unless you have

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some other stuff lined up where maybe you're offsetting some

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of the concerns I have about the shooting, the secondary passing.

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And that's why we kind of have to wait and

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see what happens next. Let's talk a little Washington Wizards

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flyer on AJ Johnson, fine, especially like at those positions,

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they don't necessarily like more of a guard. They don't

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have a ton of flyers outside of bub Carrington right now.

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Of course, Jordan Poole we know is there, but you

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have like more just wing types and Koulabali and Keishaan George.

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So I am like, that's fine getting the swap okay, cool,

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awesome the Chris Middleton. What this comes down to me

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is Washington fucked up at last year's trade deadline. By

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I haven't been able to determine the level of truth

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about Kyle Kuzma rejecting a trade to the Mavericks, but

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you could have gotten at least one first round pick.

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I know some people are saying it was two for

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Kyle Kuzma last trade deadline. Now you're coming out of

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this with a shorter contract. So Chris Middleton, AJ Johnson

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and a swap, that's not great business by them. They

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signed him to a deal that looked so good and

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it just deteriorated in value this season. It's not a

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terrible deal. To be short, and I think there's value

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of well, they didn't try and sit on this and

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reboot his value if they thought he was going to

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become not a detriment but an obstacle to letting other

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guys develop. You appreciate that moving him now it's other

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younger guys and the strouss are going to benefit. To me,

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I would assume Chris Middleton goes somewhere. I mean we're

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talking about there's a Memphis Grizzlies player ever, like as

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a wing, if like Chris Middleton feels like a Memphis

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Grizzlies player, So I would keep an eye on that,

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and then depending on the compensation they get for Chris

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Middleton overall, we can reevaluate the trade. But to not

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so far get an outright first round pick for Kyle

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Kuzmo when you could have done that, I would not

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just at the trade deadline last year. But my guess

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is my educated guess. Let's say it that way. You

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also could have gotten at least one first round pick

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for him over the summer. So that's at least a

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little bit of a loss. But you understand it from

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their perspective here, it's not I would be fairly surprised

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if Chris Middleton's starting next season in Washington, and so

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it's not even look at the money they have on

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his books, like we're taking on his money for next year.

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She even exercise that player option they keep him past

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the trade deadline, he might just leave opt out and

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leave for another team in free agency. No super strong

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thoughts for them other than I think A. J. Johnson's

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gonna get more run for sure than we saw Milwaukee,

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so we'll have a better grasp of what he could

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be as a player. And they just they held Kyle

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Kuzma for too long and potentially gave him too much

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agency over his future because we know we wanted to

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leave now, but I guess he wanted to stay in

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Washington or at least not go to Dallas through last season.

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That's the headlining trade, But we do have a couple

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other ones, and I'll kind of tackle the sixers here

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in tandem when it looks at both these deals. But

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we'll start with Dallas receiving Caleb Martin, who has three

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years and twenty nine million dollars left on his contract

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player option in twenty seven to twenty eight. They received

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him from the Sixers in exchange for Philly's own twenty

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five second round pick and Quentin Grimes, who will be

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a restricted free agent this summer. This is a continuation

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of Niko Harrison not wanting to pay younger dudes, or

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like I don't it's interesting, Like I guess he's valuing

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the certainty of having contracts on the books over dice

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rolls or these could be price points. Just because Grimes

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is headed into restricted free agency, they couldn't work out

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an extension after after acquiring him over the summer. I

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will also say that I had multiple people text me

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and claim that teams are just waiting for Quenton Grimes's

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knees to blow out. That's like, if that's part of

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the calculus. I mean, sure, we know there had to

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be a reason why the Nick's roka moving off from

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him and he missed time last year, whatever happens in Detroit,

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and then narrowk moving off from him, So there might

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be a level of there's merit to that thought, But

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I don't know. I think for Dallas, I like this

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less just because I think Caleb Martin gives you more

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positional flexibility on defense. But you really now that you've

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gotten rid of Luca, I would think want to maximize

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your shooting. And I know Quenton Grimes can be touch

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and go there, and he's a little smaller. He's only

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really gonna guard ones and twos. And I guess, look,

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if you have Anthony Davis and Derek Lively and or

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Gafford behind you, you could get Quentin Grimes to guard

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threes as well. So I don't necessarily love it for them,

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but I like Kayla Martin as a player, and I

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think that he'll bring a lot to their defense. It's

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they're gonna need him. They might need him to do

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some ball handling, They're gonna need him to shoot a

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better e clip from three in a vacuum. For the Sixers,

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I do kind of I like this gamble from them.

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They shave some money off their tax bill, which they're

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now completely out of. As we'll get to in a second.

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They get their own second round pick back, which has

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more value than anyone could have thought leading into this season,

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or at least forecasted. And Grimes is I don't think

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he's gonna cost a ton of restricted free agency. I

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don't see him as someone that teams that have or

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might have cap space, will come in with an offer

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sheet for maybe you risk a team coming in with

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an offer sheet for the non tax payer mid level.

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That's not even something we've really seen in mass over

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the past few years. And if that's what you end

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up paying him, I think, Look, he's younger than Kayla Martin.

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He's he's slightly smaller at six or four versus six

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y five. And I think the big drop off here

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is like the positional flexibility on defense, and so like

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you're just you have Jared McCain, and you have Quentin Grimes,

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and you have Tyrese Maxey moving forward that you're putting

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a lot of You're putting a lot on let's say

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Justin Edwards, Paul George and I guess Gershon Yabuseli. As

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you look ahead, and if Joel Embiid's healthy, maybe that

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just makes you feel a little bit better about everything.

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And Keller Brady Junior has had some really good defensive

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moments for the Sixers this year, so that might have

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factored into this calculus. I like it in a nutshell

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for Phil even though I love like Caleb Martin, feels

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like the more important player if they were going to

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contend this season, but they're clearly not going to, and

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so to get kind of a flyer on Grimes, who's

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going to improve the shooting around the sixers, and they've

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just had trouble hitting wide open threes in general for

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much of this year. I think that's it's not just defensible.

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I think you could say that this is a pretty

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good trade by them, or at least that I like

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it a little bit more for them. Their next trade

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is less like you know, just kJ Martin. Let's Philly.

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Let's go through it first. The Pistons are sending kJ

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Martin to the Pistons. His eight million dollar salary for

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next year is non guaranteed. The Pistons are also getting

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Milwaukee's twenty twenty seven second round pick and Dallas is

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twenty thirty one second round pick from Philly. So Philly,

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what they're doing here, they're getting out of the luxury tax.

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They will have a traded player exception as well for

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sending out kJ Martin. They are now if anyone cares

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about this, they save thirty one million dollars when you

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look at just payroll and luxury tax savings. And now

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they're going to get the luxury tax distribution, which I

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imagine his declining as teams continue to duct the tax.

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But that's an additional ten million dollars in revenue ten

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plus twelve. Maybe it was initially at fourteen. I think

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for the Sixers fans, it's not your job. I want

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to make it clear. As fans, that's stuff. I don't

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even care about it. I think that the Sixers are

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just mega cheaping out here. Maybe getting rid of one

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of those second round picks feels okay now that you

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have your own back, but Milwaukee and Dallas have incredibly

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fragile futures looking beyond that in the twenty six. So

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to give up the Milwaukee twenty twenty seven first and

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then Dallas is twenty thirty one. First second, excuse me

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when there's no Luca there? I mean, awkward, Wow, that's

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just you couldn't figured out another way to do it.

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And look, you signed. I understand circumstances has changed, but

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you signed kJ Martin to this contract that he could

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be traded attached to value that gets you players who

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help you now, and what you ended up doing is

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signing re signing him and then using two second round

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picks to just dump his salary. That's like, that's uninspiring

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and super cheap. And I don't know what it says

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about the Sixers plans for the rest of this season.

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It'd be different to me if they had leaned all

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the way into the tank and it looked like they

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were going to keep their pick this year. But Joel

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and Bee comes back for a game and has a

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triple double, and so the Sixers don't seem like they're

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traveling that route. And even if they are, it's too late.

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It's just too late to We've said that there might

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be who were you out tanking right now as Philly

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you are in front of you are currently behind in

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the standing Portland Trailblazers have more wins than you can't

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guarantee that you're gonna out tank them in Chicago for

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the rest of this year, both of whom are in

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front of you. Right now, you have reached the peak

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of the bottom. I would say, like this is as

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low as you're gonna be in the standings, because let's

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just say the Blazers keep winning hottest team in the

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NBA right now shoutouts Scoot Henderson making the leap in

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real time, but let's just say the bulls and the

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blazers stay in front of them. And that's again not

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a guarantee. You're not out tanking the nets. You're not

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out tanking the raptors. You're not out tanking the hornets

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or the pelicans or the jats, and certainly not the wizards.

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So this is uninspiring. I get the principle of wanting

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to duck the tax when you're not even coming close

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to your pinnacle as a team. The cost of doing

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business here to do it was just astronomical, and so

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shout out to the Detroit Pistons. A very good piece

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of business by them. And you get those second round

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picks now, which can be valuable if you just want

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to make a trade without giving up a first, which

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they're still not at the point they should be conceive

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giving up their own first. And I know they have

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twenty twenty five O to Minnesota with top thirteen protection

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that can These those picks are interesting seconds that can

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help you get other deals over the hump. The other

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thing here is too kJ Martin. Everyone's pointed out, Okay,

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00:23:14,319 --> 00:23:18,680
you're shooting uh thirty eight point one percent from three here,

473
00:23:18,799 --> 00:23:21,160
all right, that's she just doesn't do it in high volume.

474
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:22,720
I don't know how much use he has them as

475
00:23:22,759 --> 00:23:25,880
a player, probably more with their spacing, especially if they

476
00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:29,079
wind up making a trade like Tobias Harris for CJ. McCollum,

477
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:31,839
kJ Martin becomes more intriguing for them. But what they

478
00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:34,720
also did here is if they can they can take

479
00:23:34,799 --> 00:23:37,640
kJ Martin in to an exception and then they can

480
00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:41,599
still use their cap space here. Uh, that's that's a

481
00:23:41,599 --> 00:23:45,519
big deal for them because he fits into their room

482
00:23:45,559 --> 00:23:48,079
exception I believe, or did they have an outstanding trade

483
00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:51,599
exception that I'm that I'm missing, But they have the

484
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,839
ability to still turn around and then use cap space,

485
00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,319
which is like they or you could just take him

486
00:23:57,359 --> 00:23:59,680
in to cap space and then you still just have

487
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,839
six million dollars in cap space remaining. So there's a

488
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:06,359
lot of different avenues that they can explore for this deal,

489
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,319
and to do it without really compromising. I guess if

490
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:12,160
you want them to buy and kind of maximize what's

491
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:16,759
going to happen this year, you can certainly say, all right,

492
00:24:16,799 --> 00:24:18,119
we would have liked to have seen them be a

493
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,839
little bit more aggressive, but just getting the seconds for

494
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:24,079
taking in someone who doesn't like impact your rotation or

495
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,599
cost you anyone of value, and it doesn't obliterate your

496
00:24:27,759 --> 00:24:31,960
entire flexibility. I think that at like, I think that

497
00:24:32,079 --> 00:24:34,799
they they made out really well here. I don't like,

498
00:24:34,839 --> 00:24:37,000
I don't know what else to say there other than that,

499
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:39,279
But they could also like, let's see if they can

500
00:24:39,279 --> 00:24:41,400
expand this deal and then that's how they could increase

501
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:44,720
their return Like that, that's a pretty big deal there too.

502
00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:48,319
And look, the other upside here too, if you're gonna

503
00:24:48,319 --> 00:24:50,680
acquire him into like the way that they acquired him

504
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:52,680
is he could just be turned around and be reaggregated

505
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,119
if they want to. So that's like they could also

506
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,720
just view him as an extension of that cap space

507
00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,480
since he can be aggregated. I'd like that for them,

508
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:02,960
not like a game changing one, but them kind of

509
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:06,319
just stockpiling these assets will either help with future deals

510
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,440
or just sort of these these flyers that they can

511
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,519
take as their roster gets more expensive. And again, like

512
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,599
Milwaukee Dallas, is we over romanticize second round picks, but

513
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,880
those are there's I would say at least one of

514
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,279
those is gonna end up being in the thirties, and

515
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:23,400
that's that just makes this deal even better for Detroit.

516
00:25:23,519 --> 00:25:27,000
Quite frankly, Now we're getting in the real massive stuff. People.

517
00:25:27,599 --> 00:25:29,680
Let's talk about the Clippers trade that we haven't gotten

518
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:32,279
to on this podcast yet. So the Clippers sent, the

519
00:25:32,279 --> 00:25:36,680
Clippers received Drew Eubanks and Patty Mills while also ducking

520
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:38,599
the luxury tax. So they're now four point eight million

521
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,880
dollars almost under the luxury tax. And then the Jazz

522
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:45,400
received from the Clippers Mobamba, PJ. Tucker and a twenty

523
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,599
thirty second round pick. Mobama's already been waived by Utah.

524
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,119
We'll see if from Utah just yeah take on, like

525
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,039
just get another distant second as well as cash considerations.

526
00:25:54,279 --> 00:25:57,119
By the way, I totally understand that. And Tucker he

527
00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,400
will eventually be waived if he's not moved. And so

528
00:25:59,519 --> 00:26:02,200
just having expiring salary if they want to make another

529
00:26:02,279 --> 00:26:04,839
deal that's going to help another team get because they

530
00:26:04,839 --> 00:26:07,680
still have wiggle room under the luxury tax that wants

531
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:11,000
to help another team shed payroll, that's something that they

532
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,799
could still do. And so they have their sixteen point

533
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,000
seven million dollars a little bit more than that beneath

534
00:26:16,039 --> 00:26:18,240
the tax. So there's a lot of stuff that they

535
00:26:18,279 --> 00:26:21,599
could still do. Is I'd be surprised if he's waved

536
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,440
before the trade deadline is over, is all I'm saying.

537
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,920
So solid for them with the Clippers, Drew Eubanks might

538
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:28,880
play some minutes for them, just to give them a

539
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,519
different look as at like the backup five minutes behind

540
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:34,759
of eats the Zubos and so that they don't, you know,

541
00:26:34,839 --> 00:26:37,640
kill Nicholas Patoum before you get to the playoffs. But

542
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:39,440
they just also might have more moves to make here

543
00:26:39,519 --> 00:26:42,160
with the flexibility beneath the luxury tax. And I would say,

544
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,359
I really want them to make a move like they

545
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:47,200
could use at like Drew Eubanks wouldn't necessarily be it

546
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:49,079
for me, So I'd still like sort of a different

547
00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:51,480
look in the front court, but also just some more

548
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,039
secondary ball handling here would be good for them. But

549
00:26:54,079 --> 00:26:56,680
they set themselves up really nicely to do that, and

550
00:26:56,759 --> 00:26:59,160
I think, you know, I don't we don't need to

551
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,000
look at it and say, oh, great that Steve Bomber

552
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:02,720
saved money by getting out of the tax. Just for

553
00:27:02,759 --> 00:27:05,279
where the Clippers are at, and since they have the

554
00:27:05,319 --> 00:27:07,920
ability to do so, if you want them to continue

555
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:12,240
being aggressive moving forward and you're not compromising your chances

556
00:27:12,279 --> 00:27:15,799
as a contender right now. Like your chance to be

557
00:27:15,839 --> 00:27:18,680
a contender just boils down to how healthy is Kauhid,

558
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,559
how many minutes is he playing. Tyler was talking about

559
00:27:20,599 --> 00:27:23,039
getting him up to thirty six minutes by the playoffs

560
00:27:23,079 --> 00:27:25,160
the other day. If he's doing that and stays healthy,

561
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,759
you're a contender. You duck the tax. Yeah, it cost

562
00:27:27,839 --> 00:27:29,400
you a second round pick here, but I doubt that's

563
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:31,400
really going to screw you over in terms of opportunities.

564
00:27:31,799 --> 00:27:34,519
This one's okay when you get to Philly and it's

565
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:38,279
all right. Like that one's way more uninspiring from the

566
00:27:38,319 --> 00:27:41,720
Sixers' perspective, at least in my opinion. I'm still interesting

567
00:27:41,799 --> 00:27:44,240
with both of these teams. Do that being the Clippers

568
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:48,400
in jazz ahead of Thursday's three pm deadline, because I

569
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,799
don't think either of them ken or should be done.

570
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,839
Here's the real banger. So everyone just sit down, brace yourselves.

571
00:27:54,839 --> 00:27:59,400
We have to get to this. Deep breaths everybody. The

572
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:03,039
Charlotte hold are receiving Phoenix's twenty twenty nine second round

573
00:28:03,039 --> 00:28:06,200
pick from the Oklahoma City Thunder in exchange for the

574
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:11,359
Denver Nuggets's twenty thirty second round pick. This is a

575
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,799
right for the next thirty to five to minutes to

576
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,119
six hours we're going to talk about this trade. This

577
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,559
is the Sam Presty has Fomo trade. Essentially, he saw

578
00:28:19,559 --> 00:28:22,720
all these deals going down and he decided, I need

579
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:24,359
to be in on this. How could I not? There

580
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,440
is there is a logic here what you're saying. As

581
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,319
Oklahoma City, they initially had six second round picks in

582
00:28:30,319 --> 00:28:34,759
twenty twenty nine, including their own. Now you balance that

583
00:28:34,839 --> 00:28:37,359
out with commitments. You had three seconds in two thousand

584
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,640
and thirty, including your own, now you have four. Now

585
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,559
you only have five seconds including your own in twenty

586
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,359
twenty nine. And for Charlotte, you're getting in more immediate

587
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:48,000
They actually have another twenty twenty nine second round pick

588
00:28:48,039 --> 00:28:49,799
on their books, I believe. But now you're getting in

589
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:53,519
a more imminent first round pick from a team that is,

590
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,000
like you short their future just as much, especially with

591
00:28:56,039 --> 00:29:00,599
the Kevin Durant noys headed around being betty about right now.

592
00:29:00,839 --> 00:29:03,279
And it's a more just imminent asset, so you understand

593
00:29:03,279 --> 00:29:06,559
it from their perspective. This is just though I like

594
00:29:07,039 --> 00:29:09,279
the ultimate Sam Presty trade, Like, yeah, we need to

595
00:29:09,359 --> 00:29:10,759
balance this out a little bit. We had a few

596
00:29:10,799 --> 00:29:12,799
too many seconds in twenty twenty nine, so now we

597
00:29:12,839 --> 00:29:15,160
got we got four seconds in twenty thirty and five

598
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,960
in twenty twenty nine. There's a nice symmetry to that.

599
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,519
We know, like the thunder are going to be the

600
00:29:20,559 --> 00:29:22,799
first team to acquire a two thousand and thirty two

601
00:29:22,799 --> 00:29:25,119
second round pick as soon as they become like eligible

602
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:27,160
to be moved. Like that's just a fact at this point.

603
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,960
So this is still even though there's a logic to it.

604
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:33,880
It's the ultimate Sam Presty Fomo trade. And you know what,

605
00:29:34,319 --> 00:29:36,559
I favor it. I favor stuff like that. We have

606
00:29:36,599 --> 00:29:39,440
another sort of bookkeeping trade to go through here too

607
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:43,519
as well. The Boston Celtics sent Jaden Springer to the

608
00:29:43,599 --> 00:29:47,119
Houston Rockets along with their twenty thirty second round pick,

609
00:29:47,599 --> 00:29:51,039
and Boston is receiving there's gonna be heavily protected second

610
00:29:51,079 --> 00:29:54,680
sent out they will probably never convey. But Boston cut

611
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,839
like their tax payroll by about fifteen point four million.

612
00:29:57,920 --> 00:29:59,599
I think the number is. They now have two open

613
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:03,559
roster so something to monitor as we get into buyout season.

614
00:30:04,079 --> 00:30:06,279
Look again, that's fine for a team as good as

615
00:30:06,279 --> 00:30:08,119
the Celtics are You could look at that second round

616
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:09,960
pick and say, so far away into the future, what

617
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:14,319
will become the reality? Is this team spending into the

618
00:30:14,359 --> 00:30:16,759
second apron like it has if it's gonna shave money

619
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:18,640
and we already know that they're gonna finish the season

620
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,599
in the second apron, I think it's mostly okay. And look,

621
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:23,920
let's see what they do with at least even one

622
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,240
of Like, let's look at it this way, by having

623
00:30:26,279 --> 00:30:28,319
those two open roster spots, like, does it make it

624
00:30:28,319 --> 00:30:30,160
more likely that they're a little bit more aggressive for

625
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,319
one of those roster spots on the buyout market, I

626
00:30:32,319 --> 00:30:34,640
would say yes, And so there's utility in there. We'll

627
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:39,039
see what it turns into. Nothing obviously super groundbreaking there.

628
00:30:39,039 --> 00:30:42,160
But they are a team into the second apron twenty

629
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,000
thirty two first round picks about to be frozen for them.

630
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:49,480
I just don't like, I really think, And the rest

631
00:30:49,519 --> 00:30:52,960
of the trade deadline might reflect this, but like the

632
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,440
second apron real and just the threat of just not

633
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,519
even the tax penalties here and the tax bans, but

634
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:02,680
the restrictions on the way you go about transactions, specifically

635
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:06,599
in terms of salary aggregation. And then just the idea that, Okay,

636
00:31:06,599 --> 00:31:08,720
your twenty thirty two first round pick is frozen, and

637
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,279
then you have to worry about ducking the separate second

638
00:31:11,319 --> 00:31:14,880
apron like in subsequent years so that it doesn't remain

639
00:31:15,279 --> 00:31:17,440
that way or get moved to the bottom of the draft.

640
00:31:17,759 --> 00:31:19,519
I think it's really going to change the way teams

641
00:31:19,599 --> 00:31:21,799
operate moving forward, and it'll be interesting to see how

642
00:31:21,839 --> 00:31:24,880
it impacts what Boston does not this season, because it's

643
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,039
just too far gone, but kind of this offseason and beyond,

644
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,960
and so we'll have to monitor that. The stuff other

645
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,039
stuff to just talk about. I think the big one,

646
00:31:33,039 --> 00:31:34,440
I'm not going to get into it just because it'll

647
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,640
be so dated. I want to hear your trade deadline predictions.

648
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,440
If you're on YouTube, hit the comments or join our

649
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:43,279
discord the links in the podcast and YouTube descriptions. Get

650
00:31:43,279 --> 00:31:45,200
in there. Tell me what you're like an actual prediction

651
00:31:45,279 --> 00:31:47,160
you believe will happen at the trade deadline. But as

652
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:51,519
of now, if I'm offering one that's like semi spicy,

653
00:31:52,079 --> 00:31:55,519
I would be fairly surprised if Kevin Durant is still

654
00:31:55,559 --> 00:31:57,400
on the Phoenix Ons past the trade deadline. Like the

655
00:31:57,519 --> 00:32:02,799
level of chatter here is just the charts, and I

656
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,039
like it's gotten to the point where it's almost awkward.

657
00:32:05,079 --> 00:32:07,079
And if the Suns had any inkling that they might

658
00:32:07,119 --> 00:32:09,240
move him and then traded their twenty thirty one first

659
00:32:09,279 --> 00:32:13,039
round pick. Anyway, that, my friends, is franchise mel practice

660
00:32:13,359 --> 00:32:16,000
some other things I would expect to happen or I'm monitoring.

661
00:32:16,079 --> 00:32:19,359
There's been, like in the past thirty six to forty

662
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,480
eight hours, just bizarre noise coming out of Atlanta of

663
00:32:22,599 --> 00:32:24,160
are they just gonna try to get off the bogged

664
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,640
down Bygdanovich money? Do they even care? Like do they

665
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,319
just want to get off the DeAndre Hunter money? I

666
00:32:29,359 --> 00:32:31,000
don't If they get rid of DeAndre Hunter with the

667
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,160
season he's having, they better be getting some type of

668
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:36,200
first round pick. But they're just another team I'm watching

669
00:32:36,279 --> 00:32:38,799
and I'm preparing for them to do something that I

670
00:32:38,839 --> 00:32:41,440
heavily dislike. And so those are just my Again, I

671
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,400
don't want to get too into it just because this

672
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:46,279
stuff's all gonna become dated. Let me know your biggest

673
00:32:46,319 --> 00:32:49,000
boldest prediction, or doesn't even have to be Super Bowl,

674
00:32:49,079 --> 00:32:51,480
but one prediction that you actually actually believe that Jimmy

675
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,400
Butler's gonna stay with the heat through the trade deadline

676
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,359
might be the boldest of all. And the other one

677
00:32:55,359 --> 00:32:57,799
I would throw in there, I think Chris Middleton gets

678
00:32:57,839 --> 00:33:00,799
moved again. I would pay Memphis is a favorite to

679
00:33:00,839 --> 00:33:02,920
get him because of their salary structures in the way

680
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,480
that some of those salary structures don't like they're not

681
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:07,920
gonna FaZe Washington like they would be with other teams.

682
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,039
And I'm not gonna lie. I would love Chris Middleton

683
00:33:11,039 --> 00:33:13,440
in Memphis like that. I really feel like that's a

684
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:16,119
great fit if you think he's any semblance of healthy.

685
00:33:16,759 --> 00:33:20,240
Until next time, and as always, please remember to rate, review, subscribe,

686
00:33:20,279 --> 00:33:22,920
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692
00:33:36,279 --> 00:33:38,039
As always, I think get the shoutouts to the one,

693
00:33:38,319 --> 00:33:40,960
the only, the indelible, would never be traded if he

694
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:46,039
is in the NBA right now, Frank you