Speaker 1: You're ready to talk to some Atlanta Hawks offseason look ahead.
Speaker 1: The long way, we have people asking about the Hawks
Speaker 1: look ahead. I'm glad we didn't record it yet because
Speaker 1: they did some stuff. They signed Cjy McCollum, they acquire
Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins, they pick up I think this is the
Speaker 1: biggest news. Grant the team option on Mo Gay. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take us through their offseason vitals though. So as
Speaker 1: of this moment, we have them about thirty five point
Speaker 1: four million dollars above the cap. Everybody listen as we
Speaker 1: go through it. I promise that we're going to get
Speaker 1: to the reason why we have them there. That's roughly
Speaker 1: five million below the tacks and thirteen point six million
Speaker 1: dollars below the first apron. It's a fifteen player projection
Speaker 1: that includes Jonathan Cominga's team option, the new CJ deal,
Speaker 1: guaranteeing Buddy Heald, who pushed back to non guaranteed date,
Speaker 1: and all three of their draft picks. They will operate
Speaker 1: over the cap even if they decline Jonathan Aminga's team option,
Speaker 1: and they're hard capped at the first apron after the
Speaker 1: Aaron Wigans trade, so they can't go over that thirteen
Speaker 1: point six million dollars in room right now they technically
Speaker 1: have beneath it. They can't go over that. They have
Speaker 1: the fifteen million dollar non tax player MLLE can't use
Speaker 1: all of it as of now, but they could easily
Speaker 1: use all of it. They could set themselves up for it.
Speaker 1: They also have the Clint Capella TPE which expires on
Speaker 1: July six that's six point seven million dollars. And they
Speaker 1: have the four point five million dollar Kobe Bufkin TPE
Speaker 1: that expires on September sixteenth, if they wanted to create
Speaker 1: cap spase, which they really can't do anymore. Of those
Speaker 1: who have needed to be renounced, notable free agents still
Speaker 1: Jock Landale, Tony Bradley, gave Vincent are all unrestricted free agents.
Speaker 1: They restricted free agents are Keaton Wallace and Christian Coloco.
Speaker 1: They have a team option on Jonathan Comingda that's twenty
Speaker 1: four point three million dollars. And then Buddy helds not
Speaker 1: he has three million of his nine point seven million
Speaker 1: dollar salaries guaranteed. They both collectively agreed to push back
Speaker 1: the guaranteed date. I'm assuming till like June twenty ninth
Speaker 1: or June thirtieth or something notable extension candidates. On Yeka
Speaker 1: Kunglu I think is the There's others Buddy Heel and
Speaker 1: Gave Vincent, but on Yaka Kungu's the most notable one.
Speaker 1: He can sign a three year, seventy six point six
Speaker 1: million dollar extension that would kick in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty nine, which would be his age twenty
Speaker 1: eight season, their first round pick overview, they owe their
Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven pick to San Antonio, but they are
Speaker 1: receiving the least favorable of Milwaukee's or New Orleans' pick
Speaker 1: under top four protection in twenty twenty eight, swap rights
Speaker 1: with the less favorable of Cleveland and Utah, and they
Speaker 1: can as of right now, I believe trade up to
Speaker 1: four future first round picks. Grant, let's start here with them.
Speaker 1: What's gonna happen with Johnathan comgas team option?
Speaker 2: Well, according to the doc, they're gonna pick.
Speaker 1: It up, So that's John's let's robot.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I think I think keeping. So I think
Speaker 2: picking it up and using it as part of just
Speaker 2: matching salary in a trade, and to some extent I
Speaker 2: think that applies to Healed is certainly looks like an
Speaker 2: option that they're entertaining right, otherwise they get could move. Well,
Speaker 2: it's tricky because, as you noted too, they're gonna be
Speaker 2: are they're in the tax either way? Correct? If they're
Speaker 2: hard capped that they're hard capped at the first apron,
Speaker 2: So they're not quite as like, you know, wildly flexible
Speaker 2: as it might seem. I would suspect they pick it
Speaker 2: up because they want to trade him, they want to
Speaker 2: use them in a trade. That that seems like the
Speaker 2: likeliest outcome to me. But I guess there's also the
Speaker 2: possibility they agree, they decline it, and they agree to
Speaker 2: a multi year deal at a lower annual value. But
Speaker 2: I don't know which side. I think both sides kind
Speaker 2: of hate that probably, so uh yeah, I think picking
Speaker 2: it up, what do you think I.
Speaker 1: Tend to agree with you? Is there? And there's no
Speaker 1: way that they pick it up under the guys that
Speaker 1: this is a good basketball fit anymore, right with Dyson
Speaker 1: Daniels being there, Jalen Johnson, Kingston Flemings. I think Kingston
Speaker 1: Flemings and john think make are terrible fits. If you
Speaker 1: have both those dudes coming off the bench and getting
Speaker 1: minutes and we know that Cominga can't play with Dice
Speaker 1: and Daniels. So if they put like this leads me
Speaker 1: to what is my overarching question through like the entirety
Speaker 1: of this is could they just be plotting something big? Still?
Speaker 1: I think you can look at the Aaron Wiggins trade
Speaker 1: and say, oh, they're kind of setting modest expectations. They're
Speaker 1: going to see what they have in Kingston Flemings. Just
Speaker 1: see what they have in this group that closed the
Speaker 1: season on such a hot streak. Maybe they're using part
Speaker 1: of the non tax mle on a big man and
Speaker 1: they're just rolling forward with that. But if you're picking
Speaker 1: up Jonathan Cominga's team option, it's not that he showed
Speaker 1: nothing with them. But I don't know that this is
Speaker 1: an asset preservation situation where were we can't let him
Speaker 1: lock for nothing. That would be such a bad look.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I mean they didn't really. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: they didn't give up anything was Porzingis and healed. So
Speaker 2: it's not like they're the pot committed to any any
Speaker 2: real extent. I would say that the Hawks, I mean,
Speaker 2: part of the reason we waited this long and part
Speaker 2: of the reason I identified them early in the offseason. It's
Speaker 2: just like a really interesting team is because they had
Speaker 2: some flexibility that coming as option is part of that.
Speaker 2: They had more cap space. I mean, McCollum's taking up
Speaker 2: twenty one million of that, So the cap space route
Speaker 2: is not really viable anymore, is not viable anymore. But
Speaker 2: I don't think they've done anything to take themselves out
Speaker 2: of the Oh they could really pull something significant off
Speaker 2: realm right like that. Maybe that just means it happens
Speaker 2: closer to the deadline than this offseason, but there's still
Speaker 2: ways for them to put stuff together where you're bringing
Speaker 2: back someone like Jalen Brown potentially, like there you could
Speaker 2: it would be a I think it's a bit of
Speaker 2: a stretch, just as I'm looking at some of the
Speaker 2: numbers and like just how many bodies would have to
Speaker 2: go out to reach that salary match. But I still
Speaker 2: think there's a good chance that Atlanta. Atlanta's off season
Speaker 2: won't just be well, we brought CJ back and we
Speaker 2: got Wiggins and let's just see what that gets us.
Speaker 2: You know, I feel like that's probably not it.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's more like I kind of feel
Speaker 1: as if they're headed down the path of we'll sign
Speaker 1: a big and then that'll be it to where maybe
Speaker 1: it's a big like Mitchell Robinson or Robert Williams the third.
Speaker 1: But then you even have to ask, even as a backup,
Speaker 1: do you like either one of those two alongside Jalen
Speaker 1: Johnson and Dyson Daniels. I'd say Robert Williams the third
Speaker 1: for sure, just because he's a better decision maker on
Speaker 1: off as you could maybe play him next to on
Speaker 1: Yaka kong Wu as well. But I think I think
Speaker 1: that's the path there. You're right about the Jaylen Brown numbers.
Speaker 1: It's Jonathan Kameninga and Zachary Resische gets you into the
Speaker 1: thirty five plus range. Right, then you got to build bodies.
Speaker 1: And so is Dyson Daniels going out in that? Probably so?
Speaker 1: And does Boston want Dyson Daniels? You're not if you're
Speaker 1: giving up on Yuka kong Wu in that deal, what
Speaker 1: are we doing at the center spot? Right?
Speaker 2: That's one where Boston is very interested if you if
Speaker 2: a kong Wu is now on the table, because that's
Speaker 2: that's one that's like, please get him to Boston. That's
Speaker 2: just perfect for what they like to do.
Speaker 1: What if it's Dyson Daniels A Kong Wu and like,
Speaker 1: how many picks do you need? Do you need Kingston
Speaker 1: Flemings in there? Don't? He doesn't feel like a Boston player.
Speaker 2: I I imagine, Yeah, it's how many picks? Because I
Speaker 2: got I do think I think Brown is gonna probably
Speaker 2: cost a team? Should we say three? Real firsts? Like
Speaker 2: if assuming it's not just the best the greatest salary
Speaker 2: match and there's like a sled young player in there somehow.
Speaker 1: And you have to say that for LaMelo balls, Charlotte
Speaker 1: got the equivalent between nas Reed and that first and
Speaker 1: those swaps two and a half. Probably, Oh you don't
Speaker 1: think NOAs Reed is worth it?
Speaker 2: Well, I guess if you count not like would nos
Speaker 2: Reed get a first one and a half first?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's about right, And you're gonna I have to
Speaker 2: believe Brown is gonna cost more than that.
Speaker 1: Right, So it's three plus a player at minimum, like
Speaker 1: a player of repute at minimum. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I liked John Brown for this team though, not that
Speaker 1: I dislike him for it, but then it's you have
Speaker 1: a lot of salary funneled into him, and I don't know, like,
Speaker 1: then you're taking the ball out of Jalen Johnson's hands
Speaker 1: probably a little bit more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think I thought you were going to say,
Speaker 2: because you don't like it, because he doesn't really address
Speaker 2: unless you're good. Just he's he's gonna have as high
Speaker 2: a usage as last year, and and the offense runs
Speaker 2: through him pretty exclusively. If you believe in him in
Speaker 2: that capacity, then maybe he does address the like we
Speaker 2: need someone that really actually is like running the show, which,
Speaker 2: as I'm saying it, for a lot of the year
Speaker 2: for Boston last year. Then then then we have to
Speaker 2: try it out. Though well they were better without him, yeah,
Speaker 2: which we don't have to do with that.
Speaker 1: We've kind of danced around mentioning them. But so what
Speaker 1: are there you're looking We're looking at this roster. What
Speaker 1: are their biggest needs. I think they don't need a
Speaker 1: high end big man, but a different type of like
Speaker 1: an upgrade from the Jock Landale spot wouldrobably probably be nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they need another big I think, although again I
Speaker 2: just I really like a kong Wu. I think he's
Speaker 2: he's a really good player, and he just that contract
Speaker 2: is I mean, we can jump ahead. I would extend
Speaker 2: him on that three for seventy six and a heartbeat,
Speaker 2: that's like fifteen percent of the cap. I think, yeah,
Speaker 2: so they didn't they need that. I guess you might still.
Speaker 2: I mean, they still need a point guard, right. McCollum's
Speaker 2: not a true point guard by any stretch. He's almost
Speaker 2: thirty five. They got a ton of guys that are like, oh,
Speaker 2: he's really good with the ball, like Alexander Walker or
Speaker 2: Jalen Johnson. Like Jalen Johnson's assist numbers might lead you
Speaker 2: to believe, well, we're good there, But I just don't
Speaker 2: think you can't look at what happened with them last
Speaker 2: season and say they're set as as far as playmaking
Speaker 2: goes in the half court.
Speaker 1: And also I do wonder though, so like what is
Speaker 1: going to be their appetite for playing Kingston Plumbings. I
Speaker 1: think that this is a team that you have.
Speaker 2: To you have to give him a chance, right because
Speaker 2: if it works, then you do you have addressed they need.
Speaker 1: A little bit.
Speaker 2: It's just I'm just the odds are overwhelmingly that he's
Speaker 2: not going to be good enough to do that as
Speaker 2: a rookie, just because he's a rookie.
Speaker 1: Do they need this is a need is a strong word.
Speaker 1: But should selling as high as they possibly can on
Speaker 1: Zachary Resche be a priority if they're gonna bring Comingo back?
Speaker 1: Now you have Aaron Wiggins there, just like what Recesche
Speaker 1: wasn't really playing by the end of last season.
Speaker 2: That's the thing. You've already missed the window to sell
Speaker 2: as high as you possibly could on him, so before
Speaker 2: it gets worse, I guess, is really what you're asking. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I would move him even if he like he'll he'll
Speaker 2: get better, right, he will get better. He's still so young,
Speaker 2: But what does that do for you as the Hawks
Speaker 2: that have like several players that are better than him
Speaker 2: now and are a big enough leap from where he
Speaker 2: might get to in the next year or two that
Speaker 2: they're gonna be better than him by the time he's
Speaker 2: eligible to sign his next deal. So, like, I think
Speaker 2: moving him makes a ton of sense, especially since, like
Speaker 2: because of how high, because of being the number one pick,
Speaker 2: his salary is actually like pretty substantial, right, Like, it's
Speaker 2: not always easy to get a good salary match out
Speaker 2: of a rookie scale deal, but one picks get paid
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 1: Is there a reason that I think they need shooting
Speaker 1: even though they were fourth and three point percentage last year.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have to articulate it because they get it
Speaker 2: from the five they and they get it from just
Speaker 2: about every place but Dyson Daniels.
Speaker 1: I guess, like, what's the caps lock shooter on this team,
Speaker 1: assuming that Buddy Healed and Kispert aren't rotation guys. It's
Speaker 1: satisfies that I guess he does. But is that a
Speaker 1: nice it? Yeah? I mean maybe you're right. And they
Speaker 1: do have Aaron Wiggins now, so they just I guess
Speaker 1: they don't have a ton of shooting liabilities outside of
Speaker 1: Dyson Daniels. But I don't look at this roster and say,
Speaker 1: oh they they're They're just they have a bunch of snipers.
Speaker 2: Just flamethrowers. Uh, Corey Kisbert, Sir, did you mention Corey Kispert.
Speaker 1: I just don't think he's gonna he gonna play.
Speaker 2: No Buddy Healed was he in the league for Yeah?
Speaker 2: They have a lot of guy Yeah right, I I
Speaker 2: I can understand that feeling. But yeah, Alexander Walker is
Speaker 2: pretty out. I wouldn't put shooting that high on their list.
Speaker 2: I think I think that's there are bigger needs for sure.
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Speaker 1: And now back to the show. Any names that you
Speaker 1: like for them? We went through. Jalen Brown's really the
Speaker 1: only one we mentioned, especially if you're looking at like
Speaker 1: maybe big men dude, does there I mentioned RW three
Speaker 1: mental problems And if you're signing another center as a backup,
Speaker 1: are you more focused on what like the bigger, burlierness,
Speaker 1: the versatility or do you want a floor space or
Speaker 1: what are you focused on there?
Speaker 2: I think the bulk, you know, bulk offensive rebounding, like
Speaker 2: that kind of thing, which is again just describing Robinson
Speaker 2: or uh or or or Robert Williams a third trade wise,
Speaker 2: I mean that's harder. H Stewart would have been an
Speaker 2: interesting player for them. I don't think Memphis is rerouting him,
Speaker 2: although Memphis does sneakily have like a decent number of
Speaker 2: bigs there. There's just a couple of them are hurt
Speaker 2: all the time. Yeah, I don't know. Uh doesn't he's
Speaker 2: just bring him back? Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to think of some like available centers.
Speaker 2: Would you I'm blanking on trade candidates. No, I'm blanking
Speaker 2: on trade candidates. Free agency is a lot easier.
Speaker 1: Uh, would you like? Do you like how low end?
Speaker 1: I guess you'd like you could look at Jayhoff or
Speaker 1: Micah Potter. Maybe just bring back Jock Landale. At that point,
Speaker 1: does Bobby Portis do anything for you? Miami is probably
Speaker 1: looking to reroute him.
Speaker 2: Well, Turner, I mean, if you think shooting is the problem,
Speaker 2: Turner gets you there. But I don't know that Turner
Speaker 2: is that any better? It costs like what seven million
Speaker 2: more season or six or seven than than.
Speaker 1: A Kong Wu.
Speaker 2: I don't And he's not the bulk guy, Like who's
Speaker 2: the who's the like? Road grading, you know, power just
Speaker 2: conventional five that is actually still any good that they
Speaker 2: could trade for.
Speaker 1: What do you mean by like you want to post
Speaker 1: that big?
Speaker 2: Well okay, yeah, you go like size, size and rebounding,
Speaker 2: just just be big.
Speaker 1: We go Kaminga and kiss Bert for the bonas. They
Speaker 1: shouldn't be an Anthony Davis team.
Speaker 2: Right, No, I don't think so. I think that's anybody
Speaker 2: I could Yeah, I think we do this all the time,
Speaker 2: Like as the pendulum swung too far on Anthony David?
Speaker 2: Is he actually way better than we discuss him?
Speaker 1: Probably if he's healthy, but just the sheer amount of
Speaker 1: contract need to cobble together to get him, unless they're
Speaker 1: willing to take Buddy Heal kiss Bert back and then Jonathan.
Speaker 1: It just gets so messy. Yeah, right, they could sign
Speaker 1: use of nurkic uh moms Klavely is not really traditional,
Speaker 1: but he provides stretching, maybe a little bit of driving.
Speaker 2: Uh just okay, we're going through some more, Jared Allen,
Speaker 2: I mean he's probably better than a kong Wu. I
Speaker 2: don't know what you're giving. Well, you do over index
Speaker 2: on like wings and stuff. So if you wanted to
Speaker 2: throw somebody in there, and move Jared at move Mobilely
Speaker 2: to the five in Cleveland? Could you get Jared Allen
Speaker 2: with uh? Probably not with like Resa sche and something
Speaker 2: or and picks would have to be involved in that.
Speaker 2: I don't think they care about Resa Schey. You'd have
Speaker 2: to like they don't want Dyson Daniels.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't think, although that we might be. I mean,
Speaker 2: given if you move Overly to the five and you
Speaker 2: trust him to shoot it, you have Daniels in there
Speaker 2: to go all the all the players that Harden and
Speaker 2: Mitchell can't. I don't know what you're doing at the four.
Speaker 1: That's an interesting trade. I guess I was thinking more
Speaker 1: lower end for the most part, because I assume I
Speaker 1: still prefer a Kung Wu like to the makeup of
Speaker 1: this team than Jared Allen. You could play those two together,
Speaker 1: but you can't play Jalen j You're not what are
Speaker 1: you gonna play Jalen Johnson at the three? Then? So
Speaker 1: you're not gonna start all three of those guys. I
Speaker 1: don't think a couple should come off the bench.
Speaker 2: Well then that's tricky, like are you like? So then
Speaker 2: trading for that gets into so you're you're more in
Speaker 2: like the ten to fifteen million dollars backup center range.
Speaker 2: I guess that's what I say. You like, that's what
Speaker 2: we're talking about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, more like a change of pace can come in
Speaker 1: and maybe he's just bigger than a Kung Wu who's
Speaker 1: what six ten and he's kind of he's not like weak,
Speaker 1: but he is on the slender side.
Speaker 2: So then the question is who is that player that
Speaker 2: warrants giving up something and is a big enough upgrade
Speaker 2: over a minimum signing. You know, we're talking a backup center.
Speaker 2: Like all we ever say is minimum signing backup centers?
Speaker 2: Are you get a lot for your money?
Speaker 1: There? I have it Kingston Flemings and Asa Newell for
Speaker 1: Derek Queen. Who says no, that's I've never once thought
Speaker 1: about that. Well, that's the exact package that was traded
Speaker 1: for Derek Queen already, is why I mentioned it.
Speaker 2: I didn't even think about that. Uh who says, well,
Speaker 2: Charlotte doesn't say no, Charlotte, I mean New Orleans doesn't
Speaker 2: say no. New Orleans wants to give you more for
Speaker 2: Derek Queen s he's so great.
Speaker 1: Go bear to the Hawks from how we are Bears?
Speaker 1: That would be oh, my god, Barksdale corners that dominate
Speaker 1: in the music, I mean an eight million. If he
Speaker 1: ops in DeAndre, I probably don't want the vibes in
Speaker 1: my locker room. If I'm Atlanta, I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: But Nicole we' entured regulator says vouch would be interesting.
Speaker 2: All right, So now we're done. Now we're done with
Speaker 2: the discussion.
Speaker 1: But those that that's the the skit, well not the
Speaker 1: Derek Queen, but that's the scale of move I see them.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're set up to if they wanted to,
Speaker 1: they could do something big. I just don't see it.
Speaker 1: Like you said, maybe it's closer to the trade deadline,
Speaker 1: but it also is kind of feeling more like a
Speaker 1: I'll drive him down if needed with representating. That's also
Speaker 1: something that I could see them waiting until. Wow, the
Speaker 1: ultimate vibes equals kminga for Zion. So kaminga and kiss
Speaker 1: Bert and a pick for Zion.
Speaker 2: There's your primary playmaker.
Speaker 1: Let's go right, Jalen Johnson, you are now off the ball.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, but yeah, I don't expect it. I thought
Speaker 1: they might be like setting themselves up to do something
Speaker 1: big and then post Wigans CJ. MCCALUMNEYL I no longer
Speaker 1: think that that's the case. Is where I'm sort of
Speaker 1: at with them.
Speaker 2: I'm not giving up hope it's less likely, but I
Speaker 2: even like them as a sneaky, honest team. But here
Speaker 2: we are.
Speaker 1: You know, he's been traded. I don't know. If you
Speaker 1: heard my final thing on them, you kind of mentioned it,
Speaker 1: would you you'd offer do on Yakakungu extension three year,
Speaker 1: seventy six million dollars. Does on Yakokungu sign that extension?
Speaker 2: Well, so that's about ten million more than he's on
Speaker 2: the books for at the moment, right. I just closed
Speaker 2: that tab where he's uh yeah, so he's like sixteen
Speaker 2: next year, seventeen the following. That's a decent raise. I
Speaker 2: guess the as I'm going through, he's twenty five. I
Speaker 2: think I think Atlanta should and and will offer that.
Speaker 2: I just wonder if he thinks he can do better,
Speaker 2: and I think he might be right. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: think I think he The trajectory is pretty promising at
Speaker 2: the moment. So like more than double his three point
Speaker 2: volume per game last year, so right around double if
Speaker 2: you're doing like per possession or per per hundred. I think,
Speaker 2: I think if he if he has another year like
Speaker 2: this one where it's like, oh, this guy is a
Speaker 2: thirty seven thirty eight percent three point shooter and he's
Speaker 2: pretty versatile defensive, Like that's more than a twenty he
Speaker 2: should I'm sure he's being told you are more than
Speaker 2: a twenty five twenty six million dollars a year player,
Speaker 2: right right? Like that, that dude's worth a lot At
Speaker 2: the very least, You're like, well, you're better than Miles Turner.
Speaker 2: That guy's you know, been making in the twenties forever.
Speaker 2: So hold out.
Speaker 1: You offer it though, right, and just if he signs
Speaker 1: that ends up being Yeah, now.
Speaker 2: He's offered and I try to trick him into taking it.
Speaker 1: Can I actually want to step back before we move
Speaker 1: on to them for a second. When you said that
Speaker 1: you're not giving up hope that they do something big?
Speaker 1: Are we? What is that con Like? Are they Kawhi
Speaker 1: like we already mentioned Jalon Brown? Is that Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 1: Trey Murphy scale? Are they a Darius Garland team if?
Speaker 1: Because they shouldn't be a Ja Morant team, right, especially
Speaker 1: if they have Kingston Flemings and the door already, So
Speaker 1: what what would be a big name who's not Jalen
Speaker 1: Brown that would make sense for them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we've kind of run through a lot
Speaker 2: of them. Trey Murphy would be even even though like
Speaker 2: he it's that's not addressing other than the shooting need
Speaker 2: because they got wings, they've got like forwardish guys. But
Speaker 2: that's such such an easy number to get to with,
Speaker 2: Like you could just get there with Kaminga and picks
Speaker 2: and you wanted to, So that's that's pretty manageable. Or
Speaker 2: if you don't pick, don't pick up the team option
Speaker 2: on Kminga, you can still get there with like Kispert
Speaker 2: and Resachet. Done deal, and then however many picks it's
Speaker 2: going to take, you could you know, I would imagine
Speaker 2: New Orleans would have better offers than that, like there
Speaker 2: would be a real player coming back and picks, but
Speaker 2: he would be he would be pretty pretty great, right, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, he'd be pretty great everywhere. I guess it's to
Speaker 1: your point about when I had mentioned shooting before, is
Speaker 1: that what you want to use so many of your
Speaker 1: assets on?
Speaker 2: Yeah, now you're talking me into they they have kind
Speaker 2: of wasted their opportunity to be interesting, But I just
Speaker 2: I want to believe, you know.
Speaker 1: I want to see, Well, I guess we've had enough fireworks?
Speaker 1: Are we getting greedy here? You don't make sense. I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's about Ryan Rollins for them, play
Speaker 1: him next to the Keith Alexander walk I prefer him
Speaker 1: over Kingston Flemings both now and later. Not gonna lie.
Speaker 2: Maybe you just trade Flemings for for for Rowlins. Wow,
Speaker 2: why wouldn't the Bucks want rookie scale? Deal on the
Speaker 2: cost control and just see if? I mean you're probably
Speaker 2: that's interesting, Like how good? How good do you think
Speaker 2: the league believes Rawlins is after after one awesome year?
Speaker 1: You know right, I'm clearly I'm clearly Ryan Rollins piled.
Speaker 2: So that's I'm too. I think he's I think he's
Speaker 2: like I called him an upper middle class starter when
Speaker 2: I was writing about him the other day.
Speaker 1: You know what might mean? So this would be I
Speaker 1: guess there's positional overlap with Jalen Johnson. So that's a no.
Speaker 1: This is I was gonna say Aaron Gordon, But then
Speaker 1: you have I feel like you could play him and
Speaker 1: JJ and a conglu together or just get that could
Speaker 1: be like that's your front court rotation. But then one
Speaker 1: of them is coming off the bench again, so it
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Maybe they trade Jalen Johnson
Speaker 2: and and and and Reeseache for a superstar.
Speaker 1: Do you say, which player would you need back to
Speaker 1: for the like to as the how mean contract is good?
Speaker 1: That's what I mean.
Speaker 2: I think you could get you could get some Jalen
Speaker 2: Brown attention for that.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: I mean that that's the cleanest way to avoid having
Speaker 2: to give up all your picks and like six players,
Speaker 2: you know which. Boston wouldn't want that many bodies back.
Speaker 1: So we're just we're just divesting their primary building block
Speaker 1: now and we're consolidating him. Actually yeah, Uh does Minnesota
Speaker 1: do it for Anthony Edwards? So they got the ball?
Speaker 1: Do you have anything else or are you ready to
Speaker 1: take us out of here? No?
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