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Speaker 1: What is up, fellows, Eiko's I am Dana Valley coming

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at you with the one, the only, this certified, fantabulous.

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Mister Grant Hughes are look ahead offseason train keeps rolling.

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We're on to the Brooklyn Nets, Grant, before we belly

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flop in to the team that I think is gonna

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define the NBA offseason quite frankly, do you have any

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words that you need to get off your chest for now?

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Speaker 2: The Brooklyn Nets are the most important team in the NBA.

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Let's jump in with that.

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Speaker 1: How's that for a beginning? Yeah, They're gonna define the

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offseason because this is the note that before we dig

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into their vitals, no other team is gonna be working

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with cap space like anything more than the mid level.

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The Pistons, after Kate Cunningham making all NBA and his

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salary getting bumped up, it just makes sense for them

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to keep Dennis Shrewder's cap hold at least on the books.

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Maybe for Tim Hardaway Junior to try to keep ma

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League Beasley using the mid level and just operate over

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the cap. So the Nets are the only team that

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is gonna have more than the mid level exception to

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spend I don't know when the last time. Can you

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recall at any point where there's only been one team

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with more cap space than that?

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Speaker 2: Usually usually I can definitely remember where. I mean, maybe

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as recently as last off season.

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Speaker 3: It's all a blur.

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Speaker 2: But like there's always three or four, you know, and

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there's maybe two that can spend max money or something like.

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But this is this feels new to me where if

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anything's getting done, uh, Brooklyn has to be involved, and

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if any free agent is looking for a payoff, Brooklyn

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has to be involved.

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Speaker 3: Like it's just that.

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Speaker 1: Free agents get linked to the Nets.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I guarantee if you did like a word cloud

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for off season transaction news, Brooklyn and Nets would be

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it would be like just these two giant fonts and

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then everything else would be tiny.

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Speaker 1: Did you want to take us through their off season vitals? Sure?

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Speaker 3: So?

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Speaker 2: They project, speaking of that cap space for up to

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sixty seven million, including a twelve point one million dollar

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restrictor free agent w hole on on the one and

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only Cam Thomas score extraordinary all their first round picks,

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of which there are like a trillion, They have eight, nineteen,

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twenty six and twenty seven plus number thirty six. There's

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a Cam Johnson extension eligibility situation. We can get into that.

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The cap space though, Dan, let's back up a little bit.

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We've got it at sixty seven plus. Here you see

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forty five. Sometimes you see upwards of fifty. You see

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fifty five. This is all like to me, it doesn't

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So that's all just like, well we counting this, are

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we assuming this cap hold? Are we assuming that draft?

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we said at the very beginning, that Brooklyn is the

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only team with significant spending power. So don't get anchored

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to the sixty seven right, Like it's just they're the.

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Speaker 1: It could be eighty, right if they want to get

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right Camp Thomas, it could be eighty.

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Speaker 3: Which I mean, then that would be exciting. It's just

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the boy.

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Speaker 2: I bet you they wish there were some real free

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agents that we're gonna leave their teams this summer.

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Speaker 1: It's just if you had like eighty million in cap space, whatever,

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Like what is the player where it's just like the

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most expensive player you could envision just being sent into that.

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It's probably guess a Bradley bal or Paul George would

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Speaker 2: So, but that gets into that's the way that they're

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going to use their cap space, which is just like

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we're taking on bad money.

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Speaker 1: With Paul George as well. What kind of picks it is?

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The number three pick? Like it to Brooklyn And that's there. Sorry,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what else to talk about? We have to decide

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what cam Thomas is worth. I don't want I'm just

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like running down the list here. We can just stop

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anywhere you would like to.

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Speaker 3: Do you want to.

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Speaker 1: How much of a priority if you're Brooklyn, because like, okay,

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would you just so I'm looking at it and saying,

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he's shown more I think as a score, as a

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sustainable score than I kind of thought of him earlier

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on in his career. I still do not trust him.

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waxes and wanes too much as a defender. But like,

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what are you giving him and how much of a

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priority is it if you're Brooklyn? Do you value the

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idea of flexibility to where it's like we'll maybe offer

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option or do they just like, honestly, if you just

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gave him the qualifying offer, like that's the offer there,

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what other team is coming in and beaten at for

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cam Thomas right now?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I was gonna say, like, any

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deal you sign him to just because of where Brooklyn is,

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can we trade him for something at this number? I

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just thinking, like would I ever go, like if someone

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would I go above the mid level for him?

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Speaker 3: Like I don't don't. I don't want to like just

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knock him.

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Speaker 2: But I have you seen enough from him to make

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you feel confident that he's more than a mid level

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exception like full mid level obviously like type of asset,

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Speaker 1: It's more than three for fifty, let's say, or around

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that ballpark. I don't I'm not saying it'll age into

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one of the worst contracts in the league, but that

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it's we're still looking for. Yeah, he's great right now

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when you don't have that tent pole building block because

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he can eat up so many possessions and can make

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good things happen a lot of the time when he's

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doing it. But you don't want to get saddled right now.

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Your your books are so clean. And I almost came

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at this from the perspective of what if they decide

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that they want to roll their cap space into twenty

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twenty six and so do they even want him on

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like a longer term deal beyond next season.

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Speaker 2: That's interesting I had, So I was like trying to

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list out, like, Okay, the Nets can do one of

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three things. You know, with all this cap space. You

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can take bad money in with picks. You can be

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a facilitator that's win in three team deals. That's kind

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of a combined one. You can be a threat in

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restricted free agency and go mess around with other teams

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by he's sending out some offer sheets or I guess

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really just one. Probably you can sign what unrestricted free

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agents there are? Are you interested in? Miles Turner and

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tied your ome like, probably not that other one rolling

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the cap space over though I hadn't really given a

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whole lot of thought to but based on what people

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seem to think about the twenty six class, it's certainly

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better than this one.

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Speaker 3: Do you think would they do that?

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Speaker 2: Do you think that's a realistic possibility where you're just

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doing one year things or you're you're just hitting the

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salary floor and you're trying to stay flexible so you

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can so you could just be be this player again

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't see why not, because there's even just situations

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where you're what you're saying there then is well, then

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like if you're subbing out a Cam Johnson salary or

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a Nick Claxton salary as part of a trade, like, no,

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you can take back long term money and still roll

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over the cap space and look a lot of there.

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questions here would be is anyone else on this team

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a priority? When you're looking at the free agents? D

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pay him just to stick around on a one year

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deal and keep yourself flexible. I just wouldn't rule it out.

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I think Brooklyn not taking on any long term money

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during the season kind of proved to me that there's

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just a bunch of different balls in the air and

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things on the table for them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think maybe maybe the goal was just to

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be opportunistic, and certainly they've put themselves in this position

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to do that, and like maybe they don't. They're just

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kind of waiting to see, like, well, which which of

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the because everybody seems to think this is going to

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be a crazy offseason. It's I'm a little skeptical about that.

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for the hey can you help us out calls to

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roll in and pick, you know, the best situation to

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play facilitator and get the most stuff out of it.

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sure plan. It's just kind of waiting to see what

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Speaker 1: Well, so what would you do if you're Sean Marx

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and running the nets? And I'll preface this with saying, bye,

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they can trade up to thirteen first round picks this summer,

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which is actually kind of bunkers.

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Speaker 3: That seems wrong.

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Speaker 1: It seems wrong. That's like the stuff of Oklahoma City legend. Right.

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Speaker 3: Sure, Yeah, Utah is jealous.

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Speaker 1: Now they've been linked to Yannis and Sean Marx has

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said that they wouldn't accelerate unless it's for the right player,

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which is basically just typical executives speak there before even

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asking what you would do. I guess then I don't

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understand the Yeah, they have assets, but I don't understand

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the appeal of going. Even if it's Yannis, one of

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the five best players in the league, you still have

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so much left to do after getting him. This isn't

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a situation where you signed Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant

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while only really like costing yourself cap space. This is

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gonna eat because you don't have any like ten pole prospects.

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giving up? Priann? It's a tent to Koupo.

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Speaker 3: Well a lot.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad you said that, because my first reaction to

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that was to should they be in on Yannis whatever

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that means? Like was no, because like you can't prove

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to me or even like make it seem likely that

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the Nets with Yannis and whatever else they can put

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together around him will be any better than the Bucks

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team that he was just on, And so like, from

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his perspective, why does he want to do that unless

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suddenly he cares about market size. And from a team perspective,

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I'll just say aging like he's like he was phenomenal

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this year, but you are on the wrong side of

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the honest career trajectory curve now, like and you have

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what else, Like I just I get it, Like maybe

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we're overthinking it. And if you can get Yannest, you

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just do that regardless and you figure everything else out after,

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because getting him or someone like him is the hard

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part that like you just have to have done before

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you figure out the supporting cast. But like, I don't know,

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it just doesn't It feels like that would just they

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just don't have enough. You said it, like they wouldn't

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have enough to support him to make getting him worth it,

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which feels crazy because like you, I don't know, I'm hesitant.

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I'm hesitant, is what I would say to just throw

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Speaker 1: Honest, I wouldn't do it. I just don't think. I mean,

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if he's coming there, even if he's coming there with

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another player, like how like you have the room exception

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to spend at that point. I don't I just don't

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know how you flesh out a contender anytime soon. I

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would need to know. I guess the outgoing assets in

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terms of okay, did they keep cam Johnson and so

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it's Giannis Cam Johnson and they lan they had enough

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assets to get another star? Who is that star? There's

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just too many variables involved. I also think going that

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not their own, but after that it's the clean slate.

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twenty twenty seven unless you can acquire that pickback too.

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it's one year and that's not a good enough reason

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to be well, we gotta get Yannest and like see

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.

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Speaker 2: Do you uh, it's just like to pivot a little

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bit to free agency in general. Do you think there's

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what do you think the odds are of them being

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the team that is, like, let's mess around with the

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bulls and throw something at Josh Giddy or the Warriors

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Kamingo or get into like if it's not just offer sheets,

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like let's do some sign and trade stuff for some

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restricted free agents.

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Speaker 3: Do you think that might be a route they would go.

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Speaker 1: I would say ye, yes, because Sean Marks has done

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it before. But I'm also just when you look at

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this restricted free agency class specifically, like I feel like

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there's money they could throw a Jonathan Camik as an

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example of Warriors just be like have them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So it's just that's the risk you run. You have

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to really want the player. They shouldn't want Giddy at

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what he's asking for, which is one hundred and twenty

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plus million over five that's more than fifteen percent of

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the salary cap. He's too limited of a player to

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give him that. But like, also, if you know the

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Bulls are gonna match and you're just like, well, we're

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gonna give him one forty we know that, we know

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that they're gonna well, they can't do that. They can

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only give him four years. But like if they they

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give them thirty million dollars a year rather than that

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twenty four million and they know the Bulls are gonna

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match it, I could see them doing that. I don't

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know if that's like if you know the other team

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is gonna match just to mess with their books. I

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think that's a good use of cap space. But there's

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no one restricted free agent, or even when you're looking

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at flyer free agents where it's like what if you

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just offered them kind of like what the Pacers did

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with Bruce Brown after he won the title in Denver?

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There might be a situation that a one plus one,

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it's a team option? Do you do that with Nikkei?

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Alexander Walker was the name he brought up during the

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Timberwolves podcast. I don't know if there's a name out

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there that stands out. I think the one that will

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come up the most is should they be in on

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Jonathan Kaminga And should they just make it a sign

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and trade with Golden State to avoid having to overpay

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to get him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: No, I think I think that's a route they really

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could go. Would you agree though, that that option one

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should still probably be We'll just take some bad money

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with picks attached or young players attached as a facilitator, Like,

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isn't that isn't that? Just like it seems like the

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easiest way to go, it's kind of the least ambitious.

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It also you know, definitely just signals that the Nets

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are comfortable being like less competitive for a while. But

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that feels like the plan anyway to me.

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Speaker 1: I do agree that that's like the right course, and

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which is why this is why they're the team that

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could just define the NBA off season, because they're gonna

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determine what so many other teams can do. I mean,

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even if it's a matter of overpaying other guys too,

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that impacts the rest of the NBA because teams lose players.

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Other teams who have the mid level exception lose out

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on targets. But I guess my question here would be,

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and if anyone watching on the screen have a typo,

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it's the Nets can get to almost eighty million in

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cap space, not seventy million if they get rid of

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cam Thomas. If you're Brooklyn, what intrigues you more because

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like of this scenario, like you're headed dis direction that

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you laid out grant, but you kind of have the

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options of do you just kind of do it on

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the margins where it's oh, team X needs a we'll

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give us a first round pick to take on this contract,

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and team why will give us another first round pick?

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Or is it something that's a little bit more nuclear

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where it's just as an example, if there's a construction

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where you're sending out Cam Johnson and you're getting back

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like number three in Paul George from the six, like,

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is it you're doing something more nuclear like that? If

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you're Brooklyn, what would you what are you prioritizing? And

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by the way, they just have so much cap space

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that they could do both.

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Speaker 2: But still, yeah, yeah, my head went first to, all right,

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so Durant wants to get to the wolves, how do

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we step in and facilitate that? And then Giannis wants

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to get to the Spurs. How do we step in

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and facilitate that. The Spurs are fairly flexible, so they

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might not even really need Brooklyn to help a lot

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the but but yeah, like I like, I like the

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idea of picking up a few things here and there

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without taking on like a Paul George level contract or

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like a or like a Bradley Beal or whatever. Like

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I even you know, not that the suns can sweeten

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the Bradley Beal thing with much of anything, but I

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I if I had in a perfect world, I think

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the nets would would kind of just you know, vacuum

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up assets, you know, a couple at a time in

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different moves, as opposed to just like getting a quote

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unquote blue chip in a number three pick with Paul

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George or something like that, just because then you're like,

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what do we do with this Paul George contract? Yeah, well,

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like that's not something you You're just you're just gonna

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live with that for its duration. Like maybe I think

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I think that's an option, And because maybe the other

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like the sort of the you know, an asset here,

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an asset there, kind of facilitator role might not be

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as easy to pull off as I'm making it sound.

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But I'd rather do that than just say, like, well,

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now we have this you know, fifty million dollar aging

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veteran for several more years, but we got the number

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three pick. Like that's that that. I don't like that

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one as much?

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Speaker 1: Would you do something this is he makes a lot less.

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But let's say the Nuggets are doing some type of

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trade and the other team doesn't want Michael Porter Junior.

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Is that someone that you'd be willing to burn cap

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space on or no, you need a pretty good sweetener

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to take the next two years of his deal.

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Speaker 2: If I'm just getting Porter and like not much with him.

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Speaker 1: I like, even if you're getting somewhere, it's like, what

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would you need to get to take on, Like does

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it need to be a first round pick? Would something

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like a oh, we'll take a flyer on Julian Strather

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doing for you? Is it because Michael portin you're still

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a useful player?

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Speaker 2: He is?

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Speaker 1: He fits like he's not gonna ruin your rebuild because

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you won't win enough with him. But also he shoot

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like he he fits next to pretty much anybody.

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Speaker 2: I think if it's him, he's he's like he's definitely

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not in the George or Beale tier. But I would

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want a first with him because I'm not sure that

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you could turn around and trade him for like equal

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value or positive value, Like you're not gonna send him

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somewhere and get more picks from somebody else, like just

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because he's not I don't think. Maybe maybe that's not right,

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but I would I would need a first included with him.

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I wouldn't just take him on and say like, oh,

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you know, he's a good player, he's a starting caliber

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guy like we might. I just I want something just

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plus like I don't know we're mostly past it, but

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what about his his history of back injuries, like that

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could just become not not so great money pretty quickly.

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Speaker 3: It's already not so great money.

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Speaker 1: Would you need anything to take Let's say the Pacers

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decide we're not gonna pay the tax, we need to

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keep Miles Turner. Are you requiring anything to take on

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Obie Topping? Uh?

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Speaker 2: Maybe like a second maybe or maybe not even anything.

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I think he's a little overpaid, but he's definitely shown

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some utility and like deep playoff runs, So I think

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I think that's that's and just the numbers smaller. It's

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just not it's not the MPG level, and it's certainly

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not the Paul George level.

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Speaker 1: I'm wondering if, like, would Miami give you anything to

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take on Terry Rosier or Duncan Robinson if he actually

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dunkin Robins is pretty important to them, so I won't

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look it like would they give you anything to take

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on Terry Rozier's expiring contract? Like that's a lot of money,

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but it's only for one year?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, I mean, and what would Miami even be?

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Miami would have to have a pretty like hot iron

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in the fire to be willing to pay additional assets

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to get off a salary that small relatively speaking, I

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think you could take Terry Rogier on for like a

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good second or protected first. This assumes that there's not

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that Brooklyn has like struck out on all the other

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more like lucrative options.

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Speaker 1: I would say, yeah, they have, They're just gonna have

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so many they I mean the team we haven't brought

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up that they could help out a ton is Boston

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to where they have guys where it's I guess they

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don't align with Brooklyn's timeline, But are you gonna require it,

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like if they were well Drew Holidays, just like if

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they give you a first round pick, you're taking on

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Drew Holiday and saying, let's even say it's number twenty nine,

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You've got you what your fifth first rounder of this draft.

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But it's well, okay, we'll move up, or we'll package

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those picks together to move up and then like we

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will trade Drew Holiday for something else at some point.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I but that raises I agree with that.

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That raises another issue, Like if you're offering a twenty

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twenty five first round pick to Brooklyn, I don't think

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that that's gonna sway them very much because they have

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so many like I'm gonna want I'm gonna want the

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like you know, latter half of the decade, give me

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some late twenties maybe you know, twenty thirties, twenty thirty

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one stuff, because like that, we should probably have a

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conversation about these picks because like, I guess they could

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just sign for first rounders, uh, but teams don't typically

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do that. Teams also aren't typically as cash rich as

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the nets.

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Speaker 3: Are right now? Is there a market to move up?

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Speaker 2: Like who's looking for like AID and nineteen or AID

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in nineteen and twenty seven to give up?

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Speaker 1: What about like some of the more expensive teams moving

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forward trying to like get more like Philly, does eight

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and nineteen get you three? Or I mean, like do

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you need to include a third you want eight nineteen

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and then twenty six or twenty seven to get you three?

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I mean you have to hear the nets, You have

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to really like Ace Bailey or VJ. Edgecomb. I would assume.

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So maybe that's just not the move, But is that

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something that you could do?

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Speaker 2: I mean maybe I just like, are the are the

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I guess the sixers? Well, the sixers just aren't a

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position where they're like, we're gonna we're gonna onboard three

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rookies and just put them in the rotation rights.

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Speaker 3: It's hard to find the nets.

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Speaker 2: Really. They're really like unlucky in terms of like the

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timing of of of like where the rest of the

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league is relative to like their flexibility and assets, because

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like there are other years probably where you could have

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traded three firsts and moved up a ton because the

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right team was you know, positioned way up in the

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draft and just wasn't going to use that pick, or

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it just I don't know, They're still in a very

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good position, but it's just like it doesn't feel like

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the twenty twenty five offseason is set up for them

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to really optimize a lot of the flexibility they have.

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Speaker 1: See. I'm also wondering if it's different if you're looking

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at moving up in the draft. Okay, maybe that's more difficult,

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but it just feels like there's going to be a

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market for here's this first round pick, for taking on

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this salary, and there those opportunities will be out there

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and you are the only team that can facilitate them.

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Speaker 3: Mmm.

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Speaker 2: I know that's true. I guess being the only team

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that can do anything is good timing. What if you

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just like, do you think you could just trade some

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of these picks for like more distant future firsts and

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just like spread them out somehow, Like I.

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Speaker 1: Is there like the that's the inverse of all, Well, no,

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would you give the OKC does every year because they

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have no roster spots? Basically right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, like give up eight for I don't know,

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something that might be in the top ten, like you

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could use it without naming specifics. I'm trying to think

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of a team that's like desperate to get into the

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you know, the mid lottery that would make a lot

479
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more distant pick.

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Speaker 1: Would you do something like you would have to short

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their future even more? But it's like would you consider

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doing I mean, if they do this, they're I think

483
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I think the Knicks are batshit crazy. But if the

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Knicks were like, hey, here's this twenty thirty swap or

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twenty thirty two swap. Are you given twenty six and

486
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twenty seven for a swap that that's that far out?

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Are you considering something like that?

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Speaker 2: That's an interesting one something Yeah, something like that where

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it's just like what how can we I think one

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of the benefits of the Nets being where they are

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is you can just kind of play the upside game

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and just say, like, well, there's a low percentage chance

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that this swap pays off at all, But what's the

494
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number twenty six pick worth in a vacuum? Like it

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just it doesn't have the upside So maybe that's that's

496
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that's a better description of what I'm talking about, is

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like kick it down the road and just sort of

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hope that one of your longer term bets hits.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna start entering. I'm just asking questions mode.

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Speaker 2: Okay, good, because I don't have a lot else to

501
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say about the Nets.

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Speaker 1: Boston comes to you and says Jalen Brown for number eight,

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that's it. That's the construction. If you're Brooklyn, are you

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doing that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because I know I can. I think I can

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trade Jalen Brown for more stuff down the road because.

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Speaker 1: They're so interested. So would you even include let's looking

508
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at picks this year, would you include more stuff than that?

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I mean, if it was Cam Johnson at number eight

510
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for Jalen Brown.

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Speaker 2: I think I would don't. Don't you think you could

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trade Jalen Brown for like two or three good firsts.

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Speaker 1: At some point I want to say yes, but that

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contract is iffy. And then from Boston's perspective, you could

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look at it as like they're probably saving close to

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thirty million twenty five million dollars in salary. So then

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it's just like they're getting closer to getting off the

518
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like the tax entirely from that point, closer, not actually

519
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doing it, though. I should note if I was the Nets,

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I'd probably do it, though, because I don't know that

521
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number eight is spicy enough for me too, Because so

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much of the appeal in that trade for Boston is

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we're planning on reorienting ourselves completely around Tatum, and so

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we're really slashing costs now and then hopefully this number

525
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eight pick, we'll be ready, let's say two years from now,

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when Tatum will have a year under his belt from

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the Achilles injury. And that's what you do. I don't

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if I'm Boston, I'm not doing that, But like the

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financial realities, I'm wondering if like, oh, well, Cam Johnson

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come in, like he could play, and I wonder if

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they would think about it.

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Speaker 3: You're just asking questions though, so.

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Speaker 1: I'm just asking questions, would you do well? We already

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tackled the Yiannis conversation for them, Would you do anything

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for Chris tops Porzingis of Boston? Like that's an expiring contract?

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What are you requiring to get off of him?

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Speaker 3: You?

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Speaker 2: If I'm the Nets, I think I probably ask for

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I think I would probably be satisfied with like a.

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Speaker 3: First, you know, three four years out.

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Speaker 2: And I don't know that the Celtics would be willing

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to pay that because they might be able to trade

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him somewhere for like, you know, to get to get

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like something back.

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Speaker 3: Maybe Yeah, I I.

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Speaker 2: Think in general, like any of the Boston guys, even Holiday,

547
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who we talked about a little bit, like you should

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be able to get a first with them because it's

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worth so much to the Celtics to get off that money.

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Because it's not just about the cost, it's about like

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their flexibility and just like they can't build a roster

552
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until they get cheaper.

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Speaker 1: Would you do what if Memphis came calling, they're ready

554
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to tear it down and they're all your first round

555
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picks this year basically, and Cam Johnson for John Morant.

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Speaker 2: Uh Man, that's a good one.

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Speaker 3: That's a good one.

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Speaker 2: I think you probably do that if you're if you're Brooklyn.

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If they had like something higher than eight, I would

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hesitate a little more.

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Speaker 3: But Marent's still on the well. Is Maurent still on

562
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the fun Max? He is?

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Speaker 1: Right? Yeah he is. Yeah, he's extended now, but he's

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on the fund man.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not getting an extension for me.

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Speaker 2: Uh at at least not at least not yet. I

567
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think you do that. That's that's an upside bet. That's

568
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just an that's another example of like it may not

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work out. We're acknowledging that, but that's a pretty good

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upside bet.

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Speaker 1: That wouldn't be very inspiring from emphasis end though, right.

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Speaker 2: No, that would I would wonder like, well one, I'd

573
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be like Scottie Pippen Jr.

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Speaker 3: You're in charge now?

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Speaker 2: Uh, that would pourtend a bigger tear down.

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Speaker 3: Like you said, I.

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Speaker 1: Don't really have anything else there like from them, I

578
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think that they're best suited to well, I guess should

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they be interested in Jonathan kaminga.

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Speaker 2: Upside play? Same but we keep coming back to it.

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I think I don't know what the number would need

582
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to be where it's just like that's an objectively good decision.

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It's got to be south of thirty million a year

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to start. I think if you can get him in

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the low twenties and the Warriors are just like, we're

586
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not interested in that and they don't match, I think

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that's that's worth it, because like there still is a

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possibility that he is like a thirty million dollar player,

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and and it's a change of scenery thing, it's a

590
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change of role thing, it's a maturity thing that that's

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a fair bet for a team like Brooklyn to make.

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Speaker 1: Would you give up not your eighth pick, but would

593
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you give up one of your other first round picks

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to just ensure that he's then on your team? And

595
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it's not we had to go in with a thirty

596
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million dollars year offers, they wouldn't mat Let's say it's

597
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twenty to twenty five, and you're probably either either Warriors

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are getting that pick or you're using it as part

599
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of a larger sign and trade construction that's getting them

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more helped.

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Speaker 2: Derek White, Yeah, for sure, because like you just I

602
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think to keep costs down. Like, for sure, if you're

603
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framing it as like you can make the thirty million

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dollar offer sheet and trust that the Warriors don't match,

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or you can just have a little serch and work

606
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a sign and trade where you're just giving up a

607
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pick that like realistically like you just don't have room

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for all these guys. Anyway, I like that construction a

609
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lot better the sign and trade version from Brooklyn's perspective.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel any differently as if we sub in

611
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Josh Giddy here because they don't necessarily have a point

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even if they bring back cam Thomas, they don't have

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a floor general of the future.

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Speaker 2: I think I guess I feel differently in that. I

615
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think I would want the number to be even lower

616
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for Giddy because like, if you're talking upside play, I

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just maybe we'll both be wrong. But I just don't

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see him being like a high end starter on a

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team that wins a lot, and so you just can't

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pay him like that.

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Speaker 1: Can I give you my two favorite which are neither

622
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of those restricted free agents for the Nets to inflate

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their market value on.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't even guess.

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Speaker 1: Yes, please, Santi al Dabo would be one, Like it's

626
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really just like kind of try to screw over Memphis there,

627
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because I think that they would probably have to because

628
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they have Jack Jr. And Zach Edy and then it's

629
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a Brandon Clark Brandon Clark junior brand and Clark got

630
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injured again, So I don't know what they I think

631
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they're almost compel. I'm not saying twenty five million a year,

632
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but like something around the mid level or more. The

633
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other one, and this would be really funny, would be

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Quentin Grimes.

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Speaker 2: I mean, what's that number though, twenty twenty more than that.

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Speaker 1: I'm honestly if he's if he's going to sign like

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a two plus one, you could probably go like twenty

638
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five or something. And then if you're the Sixers, it's

639
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do we just let him go? I guess you could say, well,

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we got off Caleb Martin as part of that deal,

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so sure it would.

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Speaker 2: You would have to really quickly, as the Sixers, talk

643
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yourself into like, I mean, we just he's not that good,

644
00:28:44,119 --> 00:28:46,240
like that was that was a fake breakout. You just

645
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have to believe in the broader career sample, which maybe

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I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Just asking questions, Grant, just asking question, that's.

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Speaker 3: What we do here?

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Speaker 1: Are you ready to take us out of here? Do

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you have anything else on this team.

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Speaker 2: No, I just other than to reiterate, the Nets are

652
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gonna be a player here.

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Speaker 1: They need to have like, there needs to be multiple

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people in charge of answering messages and emails and phones

655
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:07,440
because this team is going to be inundated with requests.

656
00:29:07,799 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 2: What's the is it Joe Dumars that had the picture

657
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of him talking on two cell phones at once?

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Speaker 3: Is that right?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Because Sean Marks is going to have like eighty

660
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different like phones and like.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's what we need is someone to like

662
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add in several.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever seen the meme of the guy on

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the bike and he's playing like Pokemon go on like

665
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eighty different Oh.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that.

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Speaker 2: Guy needs a job with Brooklyn for sure.

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Speaker 1: They need to borrow his bicycles.

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Speaker 2: How much caps, well, they don't want to burn too

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much cap space on that. I think that counts as

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a team as a roster charge.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, lots of talk about with the Net's going to

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's like kind of the million.

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Speaker 2: Doll It's like the eighty the forty to eighty million dollar.

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