Speaker 1: Welcome in What's Driving the Great episode two ninety nine
Speaker 1: on what is a really cool I've got to say
Speaker 1: mourning for me. I just got done doing Scott Van
Speaker 1: Pelt's podcast, and I've told the story before. I tell it,
Speaker 1: retell it to Scott about right before the debut of
Speaker 1: First Things First eight years ago, him reaching out to me,
Speaker 1: even though we didn't even know each other, saying like, hey,
Speaker 1: if you freak out right before the show, call me.
Speaker 1: And I did freak out, and I did call him.
Speaker 1: And he's such a great guy and a legend in
Speaker 1: the industry. I think Scott, Ernie Johnson, and Kevin Wilds
Speaker 1: are the only three people in sports media with universal
Speaker 1: approval rating where no one's ever been like, you know
Speaker 1: who I can't stand And they say, Scott van Pelt,
Speaker 1: that's a lane I'll never be in. But I'm a
Speaker 1: little envious of Scott for being able to be in it.
Speaker 1: So that happened. And the other thing is Washington Post
Speaker 1: wrote a pretty sweet article about me growing up as
Speaker 1: a Chiefs fan and now kind of being the voice
Speaker 1: of the Chiefs. There are demands. There are some absurd
Speaker 1: pictures in this article of me wearing the Chiefs fleece
Speaker 1: on set. They have a sweet picture of the never
Speaker 1: a Doubt tattoo. So if things couldn't you know, be
Speaker 1: coming up more perfectly for my exact sports opinions. The
Speaker 1: other thing that happened over the weekend was the Lakers
Speaker 1: traded for my second favorite player in the league. So
Speaker 1: now my favorite player in the league, Lebron James, plays
Speaker 1: with my second favorite player in the league, the Goat,
Speaker 1: with my large adult Slovenian son, So all that's great.
Speaker 1: We did a live reaction on Sunday morning that we
Speaker 1: got a lot of new viewers to the channel from.
Speaker 1: So if you're new, a little quick introduction like rate, subscribe, review,
Speaker 1: appreciate that. I'm Nick TV Show. First things first, that's Demanse.
Speaker 1: He's my son. I know it's a little complicated in
Speaker 1: the little bit. You'll figure out as it goes. He's
Speaker 1: in LA and we do this pod together two or
Speaker 1: three times a week and welcome in. So I thought
Speaker 1: demon's a this week would be all super Bowl, but
Speaker 1: when the biggest trading in NBA history happens, that changes things.
Speaker 1: So let's first quickly get to miss the cut. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well it's the it's the most shocking trade in history.
Speaker 1: And okay, so since you said that, let me just
Speaker 1: do this real quick before you miss the Before we
Speaker 1: do miss the cut single biggest trading in NBA history.
Speaker 1: The Milwaukee Bocks trade kaream Op Lilul Jabbard to the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Lakers after he had led them to a title,
Speaker 1: had won three league MVPs. He then goes to the
Speaker 1: Lakers wins three more league MVPs and five titles. That's
Speaker 1: number one. Number two. The San Francisco Warriors trade Wilt
Speaker 1: Chamberlain to the Philadelphia seventy six Ers. He immediately rips
Speaker 1: off three consecutive league MVPs and wins the title. Number three,
Speaker 1: lukanncis traded at twenty five years old a Los Angeles Lakers.
Speaker 1: So it's the biggest trade in fifty years. It's the
Speaker 1: most shocking trade ever. We'll get to that in a moment.
Speaker 1: What missed the cut? Tyre Listen, Noah Lyles keeps trying
Speaker 1: to beef with Tyreek Hill. Stop it. Cooper cup Rams
Speaker 1: don't want him anymore. Kind of saw the writing on
Speaker 1: the wall coming and Taylor Swift wearing Casey right to
Speaker 1: the Grammys, demase. I gotta tell you they're a small
Speaker 1: little house. No, a little stress in the house. I'm
Speaker 1: not naming names, but a lot of the women or
Speaker 1: girls I live with, meaning my wife and or daughters,
Speaker 1: not only not Taylor Swift fans like actively you know,
Speaker 1: active non Taylor Swift fans. And at this point, I've
Speaker 1: got to tell you, maybe it's the chief's red bleeding
Speaker 1: through the veins. I'm like, I don't know. She seems
Speaker 1: pretty cool to Mendrick. Everybody seems to like her, Like
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about music, seems popular, so I
Speaker 1: don't the I don't. I can't call myself full blown swifty,
Speaker 1: but I got no problem with Taylor Swift. I like
Speaker 1: her music. Uh yeah, whatever it is, okay, demon, Let's
Speaker 1: get to the most shocking trade and NBA history.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the trade her around the world. Luke obviously
Speaker 2: got traded for Anthony Davis in a first round pick,
Speaker 2: I believe. Uh, but a player of this caliber and
Speaker 2: being so sudden. What was going on over there though
Speaker 2: was so bad to where they just got Luke out
Speaker 2: of there so abruptly.
Speaker 1: The answer is nothing could have been going on over
Speaker 1: there so bad you would trade Luka Doncic without him
Speaker 1: demanding to be traded, all right, it's quite simply one
Speaker 1: of the worst transactions in the history of professional sports
Speaker 1: on the map side of things, and Bruce said that
Speaker 1: somebody you know in NBA circles called him and said
Speaker 1: that if the MAVs had called them and said Luka
Speaker 1: Doncic is available, his response would be who did he kill?
Speaker 1: And how likely can we cover it up? Like the
Speaker 1: idea that this player and I am baffled baffled by
Speaker 1: the number of people and it's not a lot, but
Speaker 1: the fact that it's any and the fact that it
Speaker 1: is includes the general manager of the Dallas Mavericks who
Speaker 1: have tried to convince themselves that because Luca, let's just
Speaker 1: say he's permanently out of shape. I don't buy that,
Speaker 1: but let's say he is. And let's say the guy
Speaker 1: actually has a drinking problem. I don't think he does,
Speaker 1: but let's say he does that that means you trade him.
Speaker 1: It's incomprehensible. So here's just some This is where it's
Speaker 1: very important that we have facts that we deal with.
Speaker 1: The argument for trading Luca was his condition, which I'm
Speaker 1: not going to act like is elite. But I am
Speaker 1: going to act like this. The most recent NBA season,
Speaker 1: who do you think played the most minutes of any
Speaker 1: player in the league, by by the way, by more
Speaker 1: than one hundred. The answer is Lukadjic to play thirty
Speaker 1: FTEs all those yes, okay, of course, but he played
Speaker 1: more minutes than Jason Tatum. He played more minutes Anthony Edwards,
Speaker 1: who were second and third. Yeah, of course. I mean,
Speaker 1: but are we like, oh yeah, and you and you
Speaker 1: saw what that he wore down in the finals? Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe a little like the last year. In the finals,
Speaker 1: he was so incredibly out of shape. He only averaged
Speaker 1: twenty nine to nine and six, which was down from
Speaker 1: what he did in the conference finals, which is thirty two,
Speaker 1: ten and eight. So that's why I find this so ridiculous,
Speaker 1: because it's like, oh, man, guy's conditioning's brutal, Okay, so
Speaker 1: we need to make sure that he has five percent
Speaker 1: left in the gas tank. And maybe one of the
Speaker 1: reasons because in the conference finals, in the second last
Speaker 1: series of the year, the guy lit the Minnesota Timberwolves
Speaker 1: on fire and got him out of there in five games.
Speaker 1: In the semifinals, he got the Oklahoma City Thunder out
Speaker 1: of there, and in the first round got the Clippers
Speaker 1: out of there. Then they lost to Boston, who is
Speaker 1: awesome and was a better team. And it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's out of shape and he's terrible defensively. The MAVs
Speaker 1: last year, once they made the trades, were a top
Speaker 1: eight defense. So even with Luca's defensive limitations, you had
Speaker 1: a top eight defense. And you know what, it's exhausting
Speaker 1: being double and tripled teamed throughout a game. I just
Speaker 1: he is, at worst, at worst, the fourth best player
Speaker 1: in the sport. And he's younger than all the guys
Speaker 1: ahead of him. Again, I think he's the third best
Speaker 1: player in the sport. I think he's better than SGA.
Speaker 1: But if you want to say SGA has trumped him, fine,
Speaker 1: He's a few months younger than SGA. He's years younger
Speaker 1: than Jannis and Jokic. He is demand say he has
Speaker 1: five First Team All NBAS five five in a row.
Speaker 1: Here is the complete list of active NBA players with
Speaker 1: five First Team All NBAS or more. Lebron James, Kevin Durant,
Speaker 1: Jannie Harden, Luca. That's the list. Steph doesn't have it.
Speaker 1: Jokic doesn't have it. I think Steph doesn't have it.
Speaker 1: Steph has four Lucas five. I he is coming off
Speaker 1: the best season of his life. And the MAVs going
Speaker 1: into Christmas were nineteen and ten. Then he got hurt.
Speaker 1: They're seven and fourteen. Since then they have fallen apart
Speaker 1: without him. And it is so it listen when a
Speaker 1: trade is so bad that smart people are offering conspiracies
Speaker 1: such as the new MAVs owners are actually trying to
Speaker 1: tank the fan base so they can move the team
Speaker 1: to Vegas, as if that's a real rationale. And the
Speaker 1: reason the smart people think that could be going on
Speaker 1: is because no one would be this dumb to make
Speaker 1: this trade. I you have just created a catastrophic error
Speaker 1: the likes of which I've really Demanda. I've never seen.
Speaker 1: I've never seen a team opt into trading their generational
Speaker 1: star at the peak of his powers because they they're
Speaker 1: arguing defense.
Speaker 2: What do you meaning like a bunch of discussions were
Speaker 2: at It seems like it was just between two guys,
Speaker 2: Paulinka and Harrison.
Speaker 1: So that listen, I think that's correct. And I said
Speaker 1: something about Nico on TV yesterday that brew really disagreed
Speaker 1: with where I said, Listen, I think Nico Harrison got
Speaker 1: to the MAVs. He he's been a relationship guy, he
Speaker 1: was a sneaker rep at Nike. He's always he got
Speaker 1: the job because of great relationships with superstars. Did not
Speaker 1: have a great relationship with Luca. Luca had more power
Speaker 1: in the organization, and so he moved him out. So
Speaker 1: now he's the most powerful person in the organization. And
Speaker 1: Bruce said, and listen, Bruce knows Nico. I don't. And
Speaker 1: brew was like, that's basically that's unscharacter, And so I said, Okay,
Speaker 1: the alternative, he's one of the worst evaluators of talent
Speaker 1: and team building in the history of the league. Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's more of an indictment. I don't
Speaker 1: know that it was like a Machiavellian power move. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's too harsh. Fine, So the alternative is he doesn't
Speaker 1: know what he's doing. You traded like and it's not
Speaker 1: only that trading Luca is really unforgivable. How many guys
Speaker 1: could you have called about and the team just hangs
Speaker 1: up the phone. I honestly think the list is two.
Speaker 1: I think if you call about Wimby, the Spurs hang
Speaker 1: up the phone because he's so much younger. And if
Speaker 1: you call about Yokid, the Nuggets hang up the phone.
Speaker 1: I think everyone else there is at least a meeting.
Speaker 1: If you called about Yiannis, the Bucks say, let us
Speaker 1: call you back and they discuss it. It's if you
Speaker 1: call about Jason Tatum, the Celtics say, don't tell anyone
Speaker 1: we're talking about this, but let us call you back.
Speaker 1: If you call about Shay Now, I'm not saying they
Speaker 1: do it one for one, but they at least have
Speaker 1: a meeting. And certainly if you call, like, could you
Speaker 1: have gotten better than this return? I think so because
Speaker 1: I think that they are. I think Anthony Davis is excellent,
Speaker 1: but he's about to be thirty two. And if you're
Speaker 1: worried about Luca's injuries, how are you not worried about
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis's injuries. At the end of the day, you
Speaker 1: are a team that does not have your own draft pick.
Speaker 1: You being the MAVs in twenty twenty seven, twenty twenty eight,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty nine, or twenty thirty, so four years straight
Speaker 1: you don't have your own pick. Kyrie is turning thirty
Speaker 1: three and now has all the leverage in the world
Speaker 1: this summer to opt out and demand the Max, and
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis is turning thirty two, and your window is
Speaker 1: immediate as opposed to having a decade of Luca and
Speaker 1: Luca wanted to stay. Luca wanted the Supermax. This costs
Speaker 1: Luca one hundred million dollars and you you don't and
Speaker 1: if you're doing it, and it's not because you're just
Speaker 1: doing a full reset of calling Houston and asking for
Speaker 1: Thompson and Shingoon and all the picks or Thompson and
Speaker 1: Jalen Green and all the picks or I am. I
Speaker 1: know other people have made this joke, but it's true
Speaker 1: when the immediate reaction is, uh, you must have been hacked.
Speaker 1: This trade makes no sense. You got absolutely annihilated. So
Speaker 1: let's go to some of these follow ups. De Manse, Well, well, yeah.
Speaker 2: The Supermax thing with him about to get the hundred million,
Speaker 2: that's the GM just not wanting to give him the money.
Speaker 2: You're saying that. You said that, yeah, so they would
Speaker 2: be the greatest.
Speaker 1: So he was eligible for five years, three hundred and
Speaker 1: forty five million, and the because of his conditioning or
Speaker 1: injury risk or whatever they were concerned about giving that
Speaker 1: to him. The reason that's idiotic is because he would
Speaker 1: have actually had more trade value if you had signed
Speaker 1: him to the Supermax, because then the whole league you
Speaker 1: can auction him off too. The reason you couldn't technically
Speaker 1: hold a real open auction for Luca right now is
Speaker 1: he only has a year and a half left on
Speaker 1: his deal. So let's say Milwaukee was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: we will give you Giannis. But it gets out and
Speaker 1: Luca's like, Okay, do what you want, but I'm not
Speaker 1: staying in Milwaukee after a year and a half, then
Speaker 1: maybe they don't do the deal. If you have him
Speaker 1: signed to the Supermax and he's under contract for five
Speaker 1: more years, he can trade it wherever you want. Like,
Speaker 1: the return on this is just truly unprecedented. When the
Speaker 1: Nets traded Kevin Durant, they got four first round picks,
Speaker 1: Cam Johnson and McHale Bridges, and then they traded McHale
Speaker 1: Bridges for five first round picks. The MAVs got Anthony Davis,
Speaker 1: Max Christy, and one first round pick. They didn't even
Speaker 1: get both of the Laker picks and the flip side
Speaker 1: to that is I have heard, you know, for years,
Speaker 1: not so much these days, but you hear a lot about. Man,
Speaker 1: how much did the Lakers give up for Anthony Davis?
Speaker 1: They give a Lonzo Ball, Josh Hart, brandon Ingram, the
Speaker 1: number four overall pick, and two more firsts. Okay, so
Speaker 1: the Lakers, and again everyone's like, Nick, are you gonna
Speaker 1: give Rob Bolinka credit here? I mean, did a great
Speaker 1: job with this one, There's no doubt about it. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play the game that everybody plays, which is
Speaker 1: Rob Bolinka gets credit and blame, and of course lud
Speaker 1: GM Lebron James gets credit and blame. And so people
Speaker 1: were like, well, Lebron had no idea about the Luca
Speaker 1: trade one hundred percent that is correct, but we all
Speaker 1: agree Lebron got him Anthony Davis. Right, So, ultimately the
Speaker 1: Lakers traded Lonzo Ball, brandon Ingram, Josh Hart, and Max
Speaker 1: Christy and what ended up being four first round picks
Speaker 1: for a championship and for Luke A do Ancic. That's
Speaker 1: one of the greatest trades ever. Took those guys got
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis, got a championship, then took Anthony Davis added
Speaker 1: one first round pick and got Luke ad Ancic and now,
Speaker 1: and here's the other piece of it, Demons nineteen sixty
Speaker 1: to now sixty five years of basketball, there have been
Speaker 1: eight seasons total when the Lakers didn't have a top
Speaker 1: ten all time player or a guy who could be
Speaker 1: Jerry Weston, Wilt Kareem Magic, Shaq, Kobe, le Bron, now Luca.
Speaker 1: They were gonna for the first time ever be kind
Speaker 1: of out in the wilderness, and the MAVs gave him Luca.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about Luke and Lebron together.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Yeah, what do you think with Luca being
Speaker 2: over there, what did the next couple of years look
Speaker 2: like for them?
Speaker 1: Well, I think people are overestimating or overstating how bad
Speaker 1: of a fit this will be Luke and Lebron. You
Speaker 1: seem you seem like you don't you have your concerns
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: Well, no, I was. I was talking to Daniel yesterday.
Speaker 2: I think, like three or four years ago, it would
Speaker 2: have been bad. But now that Lebron's like waning and
Speaker 2: he's like older, I think I think it works. I
Speaker 2: think a while ago it would have been bad.
Speaker 1: But that's exactly how I feel Lebron has given If
Speaker 1: people watch Lakers this year, Lebron has been happy to
Speaker 1: give the car keys to Austin Reeves so he can
Speaker 1: play off ball. Right the people saying like, oh, the
Speaker 1: Lakers took a step back. Listen, defensively, they went from
Speaker 1: bad to horrifyingly bad defensively because Ad was their only
Speaker 1: great defender and he's gone. Now Now, I do think
Speaker 1: they're gonna make more moves for the deadline. They have
Speaker 1: to add a center. I understand that, But offensively they're
Speaker 1: going to be elite. Luca by himself, guarantees you a
Speaker 1: top six offense. By himself. You put LAGUDANCC on the team,
Speaker 1: you have top six offense. Now, every single possession you're
Speaker 1: gonna have all game long is either gonna be orchestrated
Speaker 1: by Luka Dancic or Lebron James. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: Lebron's gonna be able to play off ball Lebron's forties
Speaker 1: and year twenty two Like, yes, Historically, Lebron has not
Speaker 1: been wanted to hand the car keys to anyone. He's
Speaker 1: never in his life had a teammate better than him.
Speaker 1: Now he does, Like I think that Lebron's going to
Speaker 1: really enjoy it.
Speaker 2: You don't think Ad better than Lebron, like Weather playing snow.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. AD might have been the last two
Speaker 1: years better than Lebron in the aggregate, but Ad was
Speaker 1: still not the guy who was dictating the offense. ADI
Speaker 1: was not better than Lebron offensively. First of all, I
Speaker 1: don't think even right now, I don't think offensively is better.
Speaker 1: You can say he's better. He's the best defensive player
Speaker 1: in the league, sure, but on the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball, he wasn't better than him. And he also
Speaker 1: Lebron still had to because of positions, had to dictate everything.
Speaker 1: Lebron's never had a teammate that it was even close.
Speaker 1: As far as well, how are we going to get
Speaker 1: the best possession? The answer has always been giving me
Speaker 1: the ball. The only reason he's handed it over to
Speaker 1: Austin is because it's so exhausting to play that way
Speaker 1: like he can't he doesn't have the energy for it anymore.
Speaker 1: But now Luca will do it Luca. Lebron drafts Luca
Speaker 1: in every All Star draft. Lebron tried to sign Luca
Speaker 1: to his sneaker line. That doesn't even exist. He was
Speaker 1: gonna create it for Luca. Lucas said, Lebron is my
Speaker 1: basketball idol. Now they're on a team together, So I
Speaker 1: think that's gonna be awesome. I really actually think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be awesome offensively. And if they can make a
Speaker 1: move for a center. Here's here's what I know. Luca
Speaker 1: owns the thunder and if Lebron, because of Luca, can
Speaker 1: get to the playoffs with more energy, and that's gonna
Speaker 1: be This team's gonna be a bitch to play. You
Speaker 1: better be able to match buckets. Go ahead, I see
Speaker 1: the twinkle in your eye.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So you're saying that the Lakers, they obviously got
Speaker 2: the better end of the bargain here with the whole
Speaker 2: Dallas trade, But this don't this year. You couldn't see
Speaker 2: Dallas being better than the Lakers, not.
Speaker 1: Pieces they have now. So no, So this is so
Speaker 1: a lot of people think that. I think that's insane,
Speaker 1: And that's not about the Lakers as much as it
Speaker 1: is about Dallas, which actually will just take me to
Speaker 1: takes on takes. The people ask me the most ridiculous
Speaker 1: reactions to the Luca trade. I saw, I am. There
Speaker 1: is a number of folks in the media who for
Speaker 1: the last couple of years have been as hard on
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis as anybody could imagine. And the moment he's
Speaker 1: on the Lakers anymore. Now he's awesome again. Now and
Speaker 1: now now the MAVs could be the I saw it take.
Speaker 1: The MAVs could be the one seed that the MAVs are.
Speaker 1: I would be very surprised if the MAVs won a
Speaker 1: playoff round. They built a team. Now they are going
Speaker 1: to be great defensively. I will give them credit that
Speaker 1: they will be great defensively. They have one guy on
Speaker 1: their roster, one guy that can create his own shot.
Speaker 1: It's Kyrie Or They built a whole team of guys
Speaker 1: that are catch and shoot specialists or defensive guys because
Speaker 1: they didn't have to worry about offense because they had Lukatanjij.
Speaker 1: Now you don't have Lukancij. You have two guys who
Speaker 1: have only ever been a part of winning basketball if
Speaker 1: they have had one of the single greatest offensive creators
Speaker 1: in the history of basketball alongside them, and Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: and Luca and Kyrie Irving with Lebron or with Luca.
Speaker 1: Those guys are gone now, so Like, what does Kyrie
Speaker 1: Irving look like on a team full of great defenders,
Speaker 1: but he is the only initiator of offense. Go ask
Speaker 1: the Celtics. And Kyrie's been awesome with the MAVs, but
Speaker 1: since Luca's been out there seven and fourteen like and
Speaker 1: so in Ad. I love Ad. I think Ad is
Speaker 1: an underrated player. But Ad is very hit and miss offensively.
Speaker 1: You gotta get buckets somehow. I just think the MAVs.
Speaker 1: The MAVs are gonna be an awesome defensive team that's
Speaker 1: gonna get whacked in Round one. And people are arguing
Speaker 1: the MAVs could be the one seed, the MAVs could
Speaker 1: win the title. I don't. Maybe I'll be wrong. I
Speaker 1: I do not see that. I saw it. You know,
Speaker 1: Barkley was big on the MAVs chances. Now I think
Speaker 1: Steve and A said Dallas could be the one seed.
Speaker 1: I think they're fourteen games out of first and the
Speaker 1: nine seed. I don't, I mean, honest question. Let me
Speaker 1: look this up real quick. If Dallas went undefeated the
Speaker 1: rest of the way, would that guarantee them the one seed?
Speaker 1: Dallas right now has twenty four losses. Okay, so if
Speaker 1: they went undefeated. By the way Anthony Davis currently injured,
Speaker 1: they would be fifty eight and twenty four. Do we
Speaker 1: think Oklahoma City's not getting to sixty wins. I think
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City's getting to sixty wins. So I'll go ahead
Speaker 1: and say they're not going to be the one seed.
Speaker 1: I think that the I think that if they won
Speaker 1: thirty two in a row, they wouldn't be the one seed.
Speaker 1: And you know what, maybe I'm a little too down
Speaker 1: on them. I don't think they're gonna win thirty two
Speaker 1: in a up. Here's what I think is more likely.
Speaker 1: The Dallas Mavericks are in the play in this year.
Speaker 1: That's what I think is gonna happen. I mean, right
Speaker 1: now they're the right now, they're the eight the So
Speaker 1: I just I don't I know. I was saying.
Speaker 2: Just to get a little bit better on defense, and
Speaker 2: eighty obviously isn't just a little bit better.
Speaker 1: But no, I mean, this is the part that I
Speaker 1: don't understand with the Lakers skepticism and the Dallas optimism
Speaker 1: is this, there's only two ways in this league to
Speaker 1: compete for a championship. One way is what the Celtics
Speaker 1: did last year. What the Thunder are trying to do
Speaker 1: what the Knicks are trying to do with the Calves
Speaker 1: are trying to do, which is have a great player,
Speaker 1: MVP candidate, ish guy and an amazing supporting cast Thunder
Speaker 1: with Shay, Celtics with Tatum Calves, with Donovan Nicks with
Speaker 1: Jalen Right. That's one way to do it. The other
Speaker 1: way to do it is to have one of the
Speaker 1: greatest players in the history of the league. That's what
Speaker 1: the Nuggets, Bucks, and MAVs had been trying to do.
Speaker 1: The MAVs now are in neither category. The MAVs now
Speaker 1: have a nice team, but they don't have a great
Speaker 1: team and they don't have a transcendent player. The Lakers
Speaker 1: were trying to do it the have one of the
Speaker 1: greatest players in the history of the sport. Way the
Speaker 1: problem was their guy who fit that category, Lebron James,
Speaker 1: is no longer in that phase of his career, so
Speaker 1: they had a hard ceiling. They would run into the
Speaker 1: team that has one of the greatest players in the
Speaker 1: history of the game at the apex of his powers,
Speaker 1: and they would lose the mevs. We're trying to do it,
Speaker 1: h Luca, take care of it please, and they made
Speaker 1: a conference finals, had a down year, made an NBA finals,
Speaker 1: and they opted out of it. So they can be
Speaker 1: one of the many teams that has two all stars,
Speaker 1: two All Star caliber guys. Man that don't do nothing
Speaker 1: for you. If you trying to win championship, just doesn't
Speaker 1: you better have if you're if the top of your
Speaker 1: roster is if the best player on your team is
Speaker 1: the eleventh best player in the sport or the ninth
Speaker 1: best player in the sport, the second best player better
Speaker 1: be the twenty first best player, and the third better
Speaker 1: be the twenty eighth, and the fourth better be the
Speaker 1: forty second, and the fifth better be the fifty fourth.
Speaker 1: You've got to just be stacking awesome guys to what
Speaker 1: the Celtics did, so what the thunder are trying to do?
Speaker 1: The mevs. I still just can't believe it. Luca's going
Speaker 1: to be one of the greatest players ever. He's thirty
Speaker 1: to a game in the playoffs. He's one of Luca
Speaker 1: in NBA history, is second all time to Michael Jordan
Speaker 1: in playoffs scoring, and is I think third all time
Speaker 1: in regular season scoring. And he gives you nine rebounds,
Speaker 1: nine assists and again this whole we're worried about his conditioning, durability. Man,
Speaker 1: last year, dude played ninety games thirty eight minutes a game.
Speaker 1: I get it. And that's the other reason this is
Speaker 1: great for Luca Demonse is he now gets to learn
Speaker 1: at the feet of lebron on how to take care
Speaker 1: of his body. Switch out bud bud light for red wine,
Speaker 1: switch out Hookah for some fine cigars, hire a chef,
Speaker 1: work out, getting a little bit better shape. And here's
Speaker 1: the real cruel thing. Demands for the MAVs. Let's say
Speaker 1: they were right that Luca was drinking too much, eating
Speaker 1: too much, wasn't being a professional, that they were gonna
Speaker 1: give him this money, and he was gonna be injured
Speaker 1: and out of shape and moody. Let's say all of
Speaker 1: it was correct, They're now going to be wrong because
Speaker 1: now he's pissed and motivated. Like maybe you would have
Speaker 1: been right, but now you're going to be wrong, Like,
Speaker 1: so there's no way to prove yourself right because now
Speaker 1: you're gonna have Can you imagine what Lucas gonna do
Speaker 1: to the MAVs the first time they play? Yeah? What if?
Speaker 2: What if the mass are to meet the Lakers in
Speaker 2: the finals.
Speaker 1: In the Western Conference Finals. Yeah, I don't. I think
Speaker 1: the best hope we have for them meeting in the
Speaker 1: playoffs is round one, and I don't think that's we
Speaker 1: would need. I don't know how that could realistically happen.
Speaker 1: Like could the Lakers move up to the three line
Speaker 1: and the MAVs move up to the six? I maybe could.
Speaker 1: I just don't you know, maybe everyone else is right
Speaker 1: and I'm wrong about the MAVs. They're about to just
Speaker 1: slight the world on fire. They move all the way
Speaker 1: up to the four and the Lakers stay at the five. God,
Speaker 1: I would love to see that. I would love to
Speaker 1: see it. I just people forget who quickly forgot who
Speaker 1: Luca was? And I shouldn't say people, because I think
Speaker 1: most just the MAVs did, and Nico Harrison did. And
Speaker 1: speaking of Nico Harrison, yeah, let's get to some of
Speaker 1: this go ahead. That's perfect.
Speaker 2: So, I mean, not only was the trade crazy, he
Speaker 2: was obviously vananas, but the things that he was saying
Speaker 2: at the podium, do you do you kind of want
Speaker 2: to you want to hit on that? It didn't seem
Speaker 2: like he made his case any better.
Speaker 1: No, and it looked like Jason Kidd was Chris pissed. Yeah, yeah, so,
Speaker 1: I mean Nico Harrison said to me, the future is
Speaker 1: three or four years, ten years, ten years from now.
Speaker 1: They're probably burying me in Jay by then. Not if
Speaker 1: you have Luca man. I mean that's the thing is. Yes, now,
Speaker 1: the future is three or four years. You did that
Speaker 1: to yourself. You had a twenty five year old, you
Speaker 1: traded him. Now to be listen, Luca turns. Let's just
Speaker 1: call everybody the age they're gonna be in six weeks
Speaker 1: makes it easier. Luke will be twenty six, a d
Speaker 1: will be thirty two, Kyrie W'll be thirty three. You
Speaker 1: had a twenty six year old to build around. Now
Speaker 1: now you have a thirty two year old big man
Speaker 1: to build around. One of the benefits to Luca being
Speaker 1: out of shape or whatever the hell you want to
Speaker 1: call it is you are seeing. It's not as if
Speaker 1: you're like, well, I wonder how his game will age.
Speaker 1: He has an old man game. Now he's got he's
Speaker 1: got a lectra weight on him. He gets you on
Speaker 1: his giant ass, on his hip, and then you you're
Speaker 1: just trapped. You can't guard him, he gets one step
Speaker 1: ahead of you, put you on his hip, and now
Speaker 1: you're just screwed that game forever.
Speaker 2: So I think this trade is horrible, But I do
Speaker 2: have to if he's playing an old man game now,
Speaker 2: then it's gonna get even more old managed when he
Speaker 2: gets old. He gets older, right, it's gonna get worse.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe, but such a great passer. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you've made it like that, he said. Nico Harrison said
Speaker 1: he thought Rob Blinka was joking, you know, obviously, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't didn't tell Jason ca and then
Speaker 1: he said, quote, we feel he told everyone that would listen,
Speaker 1: defense wins championships, which, by the way, it's just not true,
Speaker 1: like you can't win a championship with an awful defense.
Speaker 1: But in the modern NBA, transcendent offensive players win championships
Speaker 1: along with good defense, like the Celtics were one of
Speaker 1: the greatest offenses ever. Jokic is not a great defensive player.
Speaker 1: Everyone thinks he's the best player in the league because
Speaker 1: of what he does offensively. Giannis is special because he
Speaker 1: does it on both ends, like it's just dump. He
Speaker 1: also said, quote, we really felt like we got ahead
Speaker 1: of what was going to be a tumultuous summer, him
Speaker 1: being eligible with a supermax, a year away from him
Speaker 1: being able to opt out of any contract. So we
Speaker 1: felt like, in front of that, only tumultuous because you
Speaker 1: wanted it to be. Is not tumultruous for Luke ad
Speaker 1: On just to be like, Hi, I'm an MVP candidate
Speaker 1: every single year, I'd carry the finals, I won the
Speaker 1: scoring title, I am first team All NBA every year.
Speaker 1: I'd like the max. And then you say, yes, of
Speaker 1: course you would, and you can have it. That's not tumultuous.
Speaker 1: I just listen. We'll see what happens with Nico. But
Speaker 1: I think he I think the MAVs losing Round one,
Speaker 1: and then Kyrie is like, hey, guess what, you have
Speaker 1: to give me the max the whole the contract you
Speaker 1: and it wouldn't be a super max like Luca's, but
Speaker 1: you were afraid of paying uh Luca. But now you
Speaker 1: have to pay me because I'm the only creator on
Speaker 1: the team and you have no choice. So I I
Speaker 1: and I will suggla in the off season. Well, I
Speaker 1: don't listen, there there's you know, I think in I
Speaker 1: do think there is a chance that Lebron leaves this summer.
Speaker 1: I do I think there is a chance that Lebron,
Speaker 1: if it goes great, I think Lebron might ex opt
Speaker 1: out and extend for less money and be like, holy crap,
Speaker 1: we can actually win a championship and I can be,
Speaker 1: you know, like a late stage Carl Malone, just a
Speaker 1: true power forward, get buckets, you can run everything. There's
Speaker 1: also a chance that it is a little clunkier than
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be, and that Lebron, you know,
Speaker 1: now that they've traded away ad that he's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: do I want to spend year twenty three, my final
Speaker 1: year potentially playing with Steph? Do I want to, you know,
Speaker 1: go do something else. I think in the summer there
Speaker 1: is a chance he could leave. I also think there's
Speaker 1: a chance he could be like man, I could play
Speaker 1: three more years because of this, try to win championships.
Speaker 1: So I think all of that is unknown. I do
Speaker 1: want to say this about Kyrie. I would have been
Speaker 1: terrified if I were the MAVs demanse to upset the
Speaker 1: delicate homeostasis. Kyrie has found himself in Dallas. Kyrie's been
Speaker 1: a perfect citizen, excellent on the court, no distractions, all
Speaker 1: of it. This is the finding out that the team
Speaker 1: knifed Luca like this. If there was any player in
Speaker 1: the league that I would be worried it could significantly
Speaker 1: hurt the team's relationship with that player, it would be Kyrie.
Speaker 1: Kerry's such a you know what I mean, thoughtful guy
Speaker 1: and so big on, like you know, we're not just
Speaker 1: cogs in a wheel. Like this is all of it.
Speaker 1: I would be really worried that Kyrie's gonna go ahead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean not only Kyrie, but just like other players,
Speaker 2: like free agents, what does this say to them? Like
Speaker 2: that Dallas being a destination, I mean that certainly makes
Speaker 2: it less of a destination. I feel like if that's
Speaker 2: what they're doing to their top.
Speaker 1: Guy, that's what I feel like. I feel like everyone
Speaker 1: kind of understood, like, yeah, anyone can be traded, but
Speaker 1: the very best players in the league don't get shock traded, right,
Speaker 1: Like that's not a but now it happened, all right,
Speaker 1: let's go to the other NBA moves quick.
Speaker 2: So Fox and Levine, you know, under all that trade stuff,
Speaker 2: they also got traded and other players are probably feeling vulnerable.
Speaker 2: And Giannis even came out and said that he wants
Speaker 2: all European League players to play for big city teams.
Speaker 2: Do you think that this trade paved the way for
Speaker 2: more bananas trades coming in the future.
Speaker 1: All right, so here's here's what I think. Trade deadline's Thursday,
Speaker 1: which is just terrible by the NBA. You either got
Speaker 1: to move the trade deadline back a week or up
Speaker 1: a week. And by that I mean you want the
Speaker 1: trade deadline to either be during the bye week of
Speaker 1: the NBA, of the NFL playoffs or the week after
Speaker 1: Super Bowl when there's a dead time. What you don't
Speaker 1: want is the NBA trade deadline to be in super
Speaker 1: Bowl week and it takes you know, like Wimby getting
Speaker 1: de Aaron Fox if it happened next week would lead
Speaker 1: shows instead this week? It obviously the Luca thing ate
Speaker 1: all the took all the oxygen. But super Bowl would
Speaker 1: have you down the road. Yeah yeah right, But again,
Speaker 1: what would the Spurs have given up for Luca? Would
Speaker 1: they've given you every draft pick they have acquired, plus
Speaker 1: Castle plus Vasell Again, it's just you put Luca and
Speaker 1: Wimby together. Of course they would have. Here Here's what
Speaker 1: I feel very confident the Lakers are going to make
Speaker 1: another move because they have to get a big and
Speaker 1: the guy who I would be nervous about if I
Speaker 1: were that I might be getting traded. It's a guy
Speaker 1: I like a lot, but his Austin Reeves. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: now Austin's redundant. It's like, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like the is Austin ever gonna have the ball in
Speaker 1: his hands when you have Luke and Lebron and he's
Speaker 1: their most valuable trade chip. And because Nico Harrison didn't
Speaker 1: make the Lakers give them Dalton connect or they're twenty
Speaker 1: thirty one first or a swap, the Lakers have real
Speaker 1: stuff to move that The Warriors are telling every reporter
Speaker 1: in the world they are trying. They are desperately trying
Speaker 1: to get another star. The only one I think they
Speaker 1: can get is Durant. And I don't know if I
Speaker 1: see that happening, that would be awesome, that now wouldn't
Speaker 1: feel like Dre Mair like it did ahead that I
Speaker 1: think I think cool enough, you know what I I mean.
Speaker 1: I think that they would have attention. So I think
Speaker 1: I think the Warriors are trying to get Durant. I
Speaker 1: don't think the Suns will trade Durant. Jimmy Butler has
Speaker 1: made it clear the Warriors were trying to get Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 1: and then Wendy reported, I mean Jimmy's Jimmy's Wendy reported
Speaker 1: that what scuttled the Warriors Jimmy Butler trade is Jimmy said,
Speaker 1: I won't sign an extension with the Warriors. His all
Speaker 1: anger at Miami is they won't give him an extension.
Speaker 1: They find him a trade partner who wants him and
Speaker 1: wants to give an extension. He's like, no, I don't
Speaker 1: want to do that. So Jimmy wants Phoenix and Phoenix
Speaker 1: only the Warriors thought maybe they could get Zach Levine.
Speaker 1: Levine now got traded. The Warriors might be manned without
Speaker 1: a country here for the rest of the season. For
Speaker 1: real they want They called out Lebron again. Lebron's not
Speaker 1: leaving this year. Lebron is going to see how this
Speaker 1: Luca thing plays out.
Speaker 2: And so Lamello wasn't it who talks to LaMelo LaMelo?
Speaker 1: I mean, was I okay, yeah, I saw that. Good luck?
Speaker 1: Good luck. I mean, you're trying to win a championship.
Speaker 1: We're adding LaMelo ball that ain't gonna work, guys, and
Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean it is. The NBA did a
Speaker 1: good job clawing a news cycle here, and the NBA
Speaker 1: has got to be so thrilled that for the rest
Speaker 1: of the twenty twenties, at a minimum, at a minimum,
Speaker 1: the Lakers are gonna be super relevant and so about
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Speaker 1: super Bowl stuff again. Thursday's show. We're gonna have all
Speaker 1: of our super Bowl bets and ambling show and prop stuff.
Speaker 1: Will do that, But let's get to the Miles Garrett
Speaker 1: news before we get out of here and some other
Speaker 1: super Bowl stuff.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, So, after eight years in Cleveland, Miles Garrett
Speaker 2: has officially requested a trade. What teams could you see
Speaker 2: him go into? And would him go into a certain team?
Speaker 2: Scare you?
Speaker 1: So? I don't know if the Browns are gonna trade him.
Speaker 1: If they do, the team that you just say, screw it,
Speaker 1: We're doing it is Detroit, and Detroit should say we
Speaker 1: have crushed the draft the last few years, so we
Speaker 1: have enough young players on our roster that we can
Speaker 1: take this type of swing. He is a Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame player in his prime, and we'll give you two
Speaker 1: first round picks. Form That's That's the team that to
Speaker 1: me makes the most sense. If it's really about winning
Speaker 1: a championship, Miles should want to go to the NFC
Speaker 1: because the AFC teams that are, you know, front burner teams,
Speaker 1: I don't think are likely to be involved in this,
Speaker 1: and I don't know the Browns would make that move anyway.
Speaker 1: So I I think that the Lion. The Lions are
Speaker 1: the team that I think makes the most sense. Uh
Speaker 1: for Miles Garrett. All right, let's get to some of
Speaker 1: the opening night stuff and the Goodell stuff you want
Speaker 1: to talk about, So go ahead to Monsey.
Speaker 2: Uh Yeah, So Goodell came out and said that all
Speaker 2: the refing stuff was bs and it kind of just
Speaker 2: I saw a comment on YouTube. I want to run
Speaker 2: it by you. Sure it was from Jared and he said,
Speaker 2: I'm actually kind of surprised. And Nick gets so angry
Speaker 2: about the conspiracy talk. It's really the biggest compliment the
Speaker 2: rest of the world can pay to his team. They
Speaker 2: win so often that it seems too improbable without predetermining
Speaker 2: the outcome. Yeah, so, like I was curious about that too,
Speaker 2: Like you always get pissed about them.
Speaker 1: But it is like, well, here's here's I understand the argument,
Speaker 1: but here's why I get I find it not only
Speaker 1: outrageous but dangerous for the league. You had on NFL
Speaker 1: network Tom Beelasarro and Ian Rappoport on opening night for
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl interviewing the owner of the Chiefs, and
Speaker 1: they asked him about the conspiracy theory that the league
Speaker 1: is rigged. Think about that for a moment. The NFL owns,
Speaker 1: the channel, employees, the reporters, those people are asking one
Speaker 1: of the owners, Hey, this sport we all love so much.
Speaker 1: It's the it's the only true zeitgeist in the nation.
Speaker 1: The only thing everyone agrees on is watching the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl on Sunday. That Sundays are for football. That old
Speaker 1: thing that we've built. Is it rigged? Is the fix in?
Speaker 1: Is it? Professional wrestling? Travis Kelcey when he was asked yesterday,
Speaker 1: what's the one thing he would ask the media? You
Speaker 1: know what? He said that why are you guys so
Speaker 1: obsessed with the ref stuff, and I think it I
Speaker 1: do think. Yes, I understand that it's a compliment, but
Speaker 1: I also think it has taken away from what was
Speaker 1: supposed to be. It doesn't have to be a celebration.
Speaker 1: I understand that. But the story being is this the
Speaker 1: greatest team of all time and instead they're being this weird,
Speaker 1: fuzzy controversy that's not even a controversy surrounding it has been.
Speaker 1: And the fact that it is to me a big
Speaker 1: picture media warning about the tag the tail wagging the dog,
Speaker 1: that social media and anonymous accounts are setting the agenda
Speaker 1: rather than people who are actual media members. All of
Speaker 1: that to me is super concerning and frustrating.
Speaker 2: And so that gets from your media members, I mean,
Speaker 2: like from like the fans and like random folks on Twitter.
Speaker 1: It is what it is, but it got credibility when
Speaker 1: it's like Goodell gets asked about it, the players get
Speaker 1: asked about it, the owner gets asked about it. That
Speaker 1: part of it is irritating. All right, So here's what
Speaker 1: I want to do Thursday. We're gonna do the gambling show.
Speaker 1: We're also going to do the if the Chiefs win.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give the full here's Thursday's pot. We do
Speaker 1: the breakdown of the game, because this is a game
Speaker 1: either team can win. We are then also going to
Speaker 1: do if the Chiefs win, where the team ranks historically,
Speaker 1: and where Mahomes ranks historically, and then we'll do our
Speaker 1: prop bet stuff, which we love so much. Before we
Speaker 1: do any of that on Thursday, Demanday, let's answer a
Speaker 1: few of these listener questions. Start with Meh's question and
Speaker 1: then we'll get to some of the others.
Speaker 2: Okay, me and says, have you have you considered that
Speaker 2: having Lebron and Mahomes as your goats may end up
Speaker 2: being a contradictory opinion.
Speaker 1: So here's the thing on that, because a lot of
Speaker 1: people ask something similar. I don't think there's such a
Speaker 1: thing really as contradictory opinions cross sport. So I think
Speaker 1: it's totally intellectually honest to have different goat if you will,
Speaker 1: criteria for a basketball player and a football player and
Speaker 1: a baseball player and a boxer, and you know the
Speaker 1: like there's they're different sports. So no, I think that
Speaker 1: if I had where I think it would be contradictory
Speaker 1: was if I was on the record basically saying you
Speaker 1: have to have Terry Bradshaw ahead of Peyton Manning because
Speaker 1: Terry has four rings, Peyton as two, and if one
Speaker 1: guy has more rings than the other, he has to
Speaker 1: always be the greater quarterback. And then I was like, well,
Speaker 1: Mahomes gonna be the goat with four that would be contradictory.
Speaker 1: But having a certain set of criteria for basketball and
Speaker 1: a certain set of criteria for football, to me is
Speaker 1: totally legitimate. All right, let's get some of these other
Speaker 1: listener questions a reminder, like rate subscriber, if you do
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Speaker 2: Uh, Jason, I keep seeing I keep seeing people looking
Speaker 2: for NFL comparisons for Luke for the Luca deal. Do
Speaker 2: you think a fair one would be JJ for any
Speaker 2: of Cupp, Derrick Henry, or Joe Mixon.
Speaker 1: No, I listen, No, those are no. The problem with
Speaker 1: the Luca deal is NBA superstars can only be compared
Speaker 1: to quarterbacks. So people are like, oh, it's like this
Speaker 1: quarterback for TJ. Watt because this other guy's great defensive play. No,
Speaker 1: because the impact of us NBA superstar, which Anthony Davis is,
Speaker 1: can only be compared to a quarterback, So the comp
Speaker 1: would be and entering their prime, top five guy in
Speaker 1: the world, coming off the best season of his career
Speaker 1: being traded for an older, good quarterback who has never
Speaker 1: reached his the peak this guy has. So the comp
Speaker 1: would have been if after the twenty twenty one season,
Speaker 1: the third thirteen seconds year, a team traded the Bills
Speaker 1: traded Josh Allen for Matthew Stafford and a pick. That's
Speaker 1: the This guy's won a championship, he's older, he's not
Speaker 1: quite as good, and you're trading a guy who hasn't
Speaker 1: even yet reached his prime, who is in the discussion
Speaker 1: for the second best in the whole world. Uh. And
Speaker 1: you're doing it for thirty cents on the dollar. That's
Speaker 1: the if somebody wanted to again, you got to go.
Speaker 1: There is no comp right now, right now, there isn't
Speaker 1: one that works because we don't have any like middle
Speaker 1: aged quarterbacks. The quarterbacks are all either under thirty or old. Uh.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, that Josh Allen three years ago, Josh
Speaker 1: Allen for Stafford and to pick? Is the comp all right? Next?
Speaker 2: Uh? Cut yeah, cutlass. Is it possible Luca doesn't sign
Speaker 2: an extension with the Lakers.
Speaker 1: I would be utterly shocked. I think Lucas signs an
Speaker 1: extension this offseason. So no, I people don't come to
Speaker 1: the Lakers to leave, No, And so that would shock me.
Speaker 2: Elijah Nick, what category does your signing Kyrie is the
Speaker 2: first step in Luca leaving Dallas fall under?
Speaker 1: Well, listen, I thought about that because when the Maverick's
Speaker 1: got Kyrie, I was like this, That's why I said
Speaker 1: it's the first step in Luca leaving. That actually is
Speaker 1: a category three. Even though Luca did leave because he
Speaker 1: loved Kyrie. They made the finals like I was wrong,
Speaker 1: even though it ended up playing out that way. All right,
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