Speaker 1: Reach down and grab a couple of plump tomatoes. It's
Speaker 1: time for sports ketchup. Catchupun sports sports catcher, catchup, buns.
Speaker 1: I would totally go see that man in the eighties. Man,
Speaker 1: that man sounds great. Uh you'all want to catch up
Speaker 1: on the j Kid thing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, very so.
Speaker 1: Mark Stein, who used to broadcast in this very studio,
Speaker 1: had a report to He had a report Tuesday that
Speaker 1: the Knicks were going to ask permission to talk to
Speaker 1: Jason Kidd, and you know, we talked about the other
Speaker 1: day and then we talked about the connections that made
Speaker 1: sense as to why there was a kid Nick's connection.
Speaker 1: Now he had another report today saying they have asked
Speaker 1: for permission now, so it's escalated and it's now are
Speaker 1: the Mavericks going to give them permission?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Udoka, the coach of the Houston Rockets. Houston, according to Stein,
Speaker 1: has put out a word that you can ask permission.
Speaker 1: You ain't getting it. We're not coming off of him now.
Speaker 1: I have not heard what the Mavericks are or aren't
Speaker 1: going to do. But as Stein got into it, you know,
Speaker 1: we talked about the connection with you know, Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 1: We talked about Casey Smith and I had mentioned this
Speaker 1: the other day and Stein talked a little bit about it.
Speaker 1: You know, Casey was involved in getting Kid hired here
Speaker 1: there was a group of guys that worked with Cuban.
Speaker 1: But I've seen a lot of people out there on
Speaker 1: the internet be like, Okay, well if you're getting rid
Speaker 1: of Kid, like, why wouldn't you get rid of Nico?
Speaker 1: And I don't know if people remember Nico and Kid
Speaker 1: were hired independently of one another. That was not Nico's hire.
Speaker 1: Nico was in the process of getting hired when Kid
Speaker 1: got hired, so they were not They knew each other,
Speaker 1: but they were not hey, this is the GM and
Speaker 1: here's my coach. They were an arranged marriage and then
Speaker 1: they had a lot of success together. So I don't
Speaker 1: know that, you know, I know that they've found ways
Speaker 1: to work together, but I don't know that Kid has
Speaker 1: some strong allegiance to Nico and vice versa.
Speaker 2: But they've done a good job working together.
Speaker 3: So do we know if Nico has his own guy,
Speaker 3: Like like if the Mavericks came off a Jay Kidd
Speaker 3: and hopefully they'd get something good in return if they
Speaker 3: did that and essentially traded their coach. Would they just
Speaker 3: take one of the in house guys or does Nico
Speaker 3: have a relationship with some coach out there.
Speaker 2: That's the really interesting thing.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he does, but I don't know it because
Speaker 1: usually an executive comes from some tree and you can
Speaker 1: start connecting dots.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know who that would be.
Speaker 3: It'd have to be US Olympics, right, like it would
Speaker 3: be like the USA guys.
Speaker 1: So or maybe you know, when he was with Nike,
Speaker 1: there's a guy like you know that was a Nike client.
Speaker 1: That's a I mean, I don't know. I'm totally speculating.
Speaker 1: But they have two highly coveted guys on their staff.
Speaker 1: Jared Dudley is highly coveted and Sean Sweeney almost got
Speaker 1: the Phoenix job, right, and so he's he's highly respected
Speaker 1: and in there's talk that Memphis is interested in stealing
Speaker 1: Dudley to be an assistant there and that Sweeney's gonna
Speaker 1: get Oh Sweeney.
Speaker 2: Apparently the San Antonio Spurs want him to be on
Speaker 2: their staff.
Speaker 3: Why wouldn't you just do what Jerry Jones won't do
Speaker 3: and just say, who is the greatest coach on earth?
Speaker 3: Who's available, Let's go get that guy because we have
Speaker 3: so much to lose here. Yeah, we can't mess this up.
Speaker 3: I don't know that I want to roll the dice
Speaker 3: with a young guy. Maybe it's good, maybe it's not.
Speaker 3: But why wouldn't you just say, who is the greatest
Speaker 3: coach on earth? Who's available, Let's go get him?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think that'd be good. And I like Tom Cruise,
Speaker 1: Like Tom Cruise, even go get him? And also like
Speaker 1: Sean Sweeney's been here and I've watched him run practice,
Speaker 1: like players are familiar with him.
Speaker 2: But I also don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, so much of this has to do with
Speaker 1: Kyrie and Anthony Davis and who they like. Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: played with Jared Dudley in LA when they want a championship, right,
Speaker 1: So there's that kind of an idea. There's also keep
Speaker 1: in mind, which I had forgotten about this until I
Speaker 1: read Stein's article, Kid interviewed with the Knicks when Thibodeaux
Speaker 1: got the job, and apparently did really well in the interview,
Speaker 1: but they went with Tibbs. So there's other connections there
Speaker 1: besides the brunch and the Casey thing.
Speaker 2: I don't think and I don't know this.
Speaker 1: I don't think kids looking to get out of here,
Speaker 1: but I think kids like probably going, oh, this is
Speaker 1: pretty awesome because the Western Conference as hard as hell,
Speaker 1: and the Eastern Conference Celtics are being dismantled. The Pacers,
Speaker 1: you know, we talked about them earlier. They're lightning in
Speaker 1: a bottle. So if you're looking at getting to the finals, man,
Speaker 1: the Knicks are going to be front.
Speaker 3: Runners next year in the Eastern Conference. You still have
Speaker 3: a contender with the number one pick, which is rare.
Speaker 2: Yep. That seems to buy you a lot of time
Speaker 2: to stay.
Speaker 1: Kids in an amazing position, you know, to be wanted
Speaker 1: by what is going to be the best team in
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference next year. And also this is a
Speaker 1: wild card, but if Johanness were to force himself out
Speaker 1: of Milwaukee, he loves Chason Kidd and so that puts
Speaker 1: the Knicks and the catbird seat to be one of
Speaker 1: the teams that Jannis would want to go to.
Speaker 2: How could they get him?
Speaker 1: I mean it'd be like Karl Anthony Towns and Michale
Speaker 1: Bridges that sort of a thing.
Speaker 2: Wow, you know, but I mean if I'm you know,
Speaker 2: I don't even know.
Speaker 1: It's so weird that we haven't heard anything on Janni's
Speaker 1: I'm not one hundred percent sure that he's going to
Speaker 1: force his way out of there, and there's no way
Speaker 1: for the Mavericks to get him without giving up Cooper flag.
Speaker 2: To get Jannis, now, I wouldn't even entertain he's like skid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm saying, like, the wouldn't you start giving
Speaker 1: up all the salary and what takes a get him.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna You're gonna be like, you're gonna be
Speaker 1: back to that. Okay, if we don't win in the
Speaker 1: next six months, we're over.
Speaker 2: It sounds a lot better for the Knicks.
Speaker 3: You're giving up Karl Anthony Towns, who sucks in comparison
Speaker 3: to Giannis.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you'd have to get it like Michale Bridge.
Speaker 1: You'd have to give up a lot. But I think
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson and Jannie that's what Jannis wanted with Dame
Speaker 1: in Milwaukee, right. So anyways, it's just interesting to watch.
Speaker 1: And you know, I can tell you this, the Knicks
Speaker 1: have a couple picks, not a lot.
Speaker 2: They have their own pick.
Speaker 1: I think in twenty six I think they have Washington's
Speaker 1: pick that they're hanging on.
Speaker 3: Twenty thirteen, Doc Rivers is traded from the Celtics to
Speaker 3: the Clippers for a first round pick.
Speaker 2: Okay, twenty thirteen. Gosh thirteen, So it was a twenty
Speaker 2: fifteen first round pick.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: And then in twenty fourteen the Nets traded Jason Kids
Speaker 2: to the Bucks for two second round picks. Yeah, kid's
Speaker 2: been traded before.
Speaker 1: The president we have for that, though we didn't have it,
Speaker 1: and that's like a decade ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, a Knick's first round pick in twenty six
Speaker 3: is not going to be good.
Speaker 2: It's going to be second b. Yeah, it's going to
Speaker 2: be been to the fuck Washington pick. We guys to
Speaker 2: give up that Washington pick.
Speaker 1: It's it's top eight protected next year, which Washington's going
Speaker 1: to be a bottom four.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, interesting stuff there. Could the Mavericks be
Speaker 3: trading Jason Kidd? That's that's pretty crazy, all right. Coming
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