WEBVTT - Donovan Mitchell, Brandon Ingram, Trae Young … Most Likely to be Traded? 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:05.000 Donovan, Mitchell brandon Ingram Trey Young. Which of those three 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:11.039 high profile stars is most likely to be traded this offseason? Also, 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:14.680 what's going on with the Lakers coaching search, and what 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:19.279 were the latest adventures that Chris Haynes stumbled into on 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:23.040 his latest trip to the Big Apple to Madison Square Garden, 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:26.800 the mecca of basketball. We get into all that next 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:28.760 here on this League Uncut. 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:34.520 Welcome to this League Uncut in the world of twenty 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:40.320 four hour NBIA News. This's you love, Chris Haynes. It's time, 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:48.559 works time, It's so time. This League Uncut is. 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:50.000 Underway in a fire. 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.880 This should be a good one. 0:00:55.920 --> 0:01:01.920 Hey everyone, welcome in to another edition of this League Uncut. 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:07.080 Mark Stein here with Chris Haynes. Bit of an unusual 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:10.440 schedule for us as we record on this Thursday afternoon, 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:14.319 will be a same day record and post. We're doing 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:20.760 this before the big game six in Minneapolis. Nuggets, once 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:24.560 down two in this series, have stormed back to win 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:30.640 three in a row, including two in Minnesota. Nuggets with 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:34.920 a chance to finish this thing off tonight, let's see 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:39.360 if the Wolves can win one at home and take 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:43.720 that series. The most anticipated second round series to a 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:47.720 game seven, But we decided, because of the schedules that 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:53.440 we both are following this week, that it would be best, easiest, 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.680 safest for us to get together in the afternoon before 0:01:57.720 --> 0:01:59.320 this game. So we will not be able to talk 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.040 much about that series, but we're going to talk about 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:08.400 everything else. Chris Haynes fresh off another trip to his 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:14.000 favorite city, New York, New York. We'll get to that, 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:16.160 but just in general, was it all right? They are? 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:17.880 They still treating you well in Manhattan. 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:23.360 Treat me, you know, treat me tremendously. They were trying 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:27.639 to convince me to come to a game seven, if 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.239 there is a game seven, they want me to come 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:35.519 to that game. As you know, well as you should know, ESPN, 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.400 ABC have Game six and Game seven of the series, 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:42.280 so I will not be attended. That was officially my 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:45.360 final sideline game of the season. 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:52.120 Breaking news, your last sideline game of the season, last 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.400 Massive Square Garden berger of the season. 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:57.799 Yeah, that was it for the Knicks or four and 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.840 oh when I cover a game? 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.800 Last hangout with Latrell Spree, Well for the season. 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:10.600 You're a hero, not just that again. I met Latrell 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:14.119 Massive Square Garden has been really good to me. Producer Ryan, 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:15.760 I know he's going to get on this Stein because 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:17.680 we told we were going to get to the meat 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:19.600 and potatoes at the beginning. But I'm sorry, I have 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:20.120 to say this. 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:23.880 This is it's more natural to talk about your travels. 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:24.200 He was. 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:28.079 Producer Ryan was wrong. This is the more natural show 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:30.760 because I know where you're going. I think I know 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:32.600 where you're going with this. Can I just can I 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:35.000 just say? Is this about meeting another one of your heroes? 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:38.680 Yes? It is. How would you know where this is going, 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:41.000 Stein when you don't have an I G. How do 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.400 you know? I think if you're on I G. 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.440 No, because I think it was on Facebook too, so 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:48.520 I think I saw it there. 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.960 It was on Facebook, I did. I did Madison Square. 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:54.920 Gold Man, I saw it on Old Man. 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:59.960 I yes, I met my favorite player of all time. 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.440 I'm growing up as a killer Trails free Will masson 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:04.640 Square Garden a few weeks ago. We talked about that. 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:10.320 But Stein the other day in New York Game five, 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:15.440 Oh Man, met my favorite rapper of all time, My 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:19.839 favorite rapper of all time, the one and only Buster Rhymes. 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:22.400 Oh my goodness, man, that was the first time I 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.080 met him, so I had the chance to go talk 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.919 to him. He gave me a hug. Man, I said, Buster, 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:29.799 I named like five of his albums just to prove 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:33.040 that I'm a fan, I said, Buster, I was with 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:36.120 you from the Leaders of the New School Days, from 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:42.880 from Genesis, the album from When Disaster Strikes to Extinction 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.120 Level Event. I just started naming all the albums. He 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.359 was just laughing and he I said, I'm from Fresno. 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.240 I was one of the rare West Coast dudes that 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:54.400 was rocking a East Coast cat in Fresno. Buster rhyse, 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:58.520 he said, Fresno, Hunt Fresno. He said, Man, I'm actually 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.880 performing in Fresno this weekend, he said, he said, he said, 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:05.440 He's performing with t Paine this weekend in forres Though, 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:09.080 I'm like, ain't this a bouttle bitch, Like, I'm not 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:09.920 even gonna be there. 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:11.800 Fred, I'm hearing that you would have gotten. 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.040 Oh that would have been so awesome, man, But nah, 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.240 that was cool. Matt buster Hides took a picture of him. Man, 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:20.080 everything was cool. 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.360 So did you just run into him or did someone 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:26.160 introduce you guys or he know he was what happened? 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.760 He was sitting courtside and I had to pass by 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.360 him to get to my seat. He was sitting directly 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.920 by the Indiana Patients bench and I sit behind the 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:39.360 Indiana Patients bench, so I had to walk past him 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:41.000 to get to my seat. And I saw him. You know, 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:45.640 he got this got this big old platinum diamond shame, 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:48.400 big old platinum dimond. You know, you can't miss him. 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.640 And so I saw him and I was like, man, 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:53.880 this is I gotta go like it was doing a 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.520 time out. I'm sorry, y'all. I know I'm supposed to 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.000 be working, but I had to. I had to go 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.559 talk to him. Chat went on for briefly for a minute, 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:03.719 but nah, he was cool. So I had some good 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:04.920 experiences at message. 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.800 Did you invite him for a burger at halftime? To 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:13.600 your person, your personal VP of of the a top 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:15.080 three burger in your life? 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.360 He said, well, let me let me tell you this, 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:21.480 din Yes it is. And what you're talking about that 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:26.720 area where the front row fans get to go, that 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:30.520 is different from the area of where the celebrities get 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.640 to go. So I imagine the room that they get 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.200 to go to, there's no burgers in there. I can 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:39.080 guarantee you that this that's this is where Chris Rock 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.520 Ben Steeler, Oh did you see? You see? I got 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:47.480 you see? I got Tracy Morgan on our pregame show. 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.080 I pulled that off stole. I pulled that off man. 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:56.000 I wanted to give Draymond some ship. And I actually 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:59.880 tried to call Draymond before Tracy come on, just to 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.839 give him my heads up. Draymond an ascwer. So I'm like, Okay, 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.599 he's gonna find out this way. So you know, Knicks fans, 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.400 they're not feeling Draymond right now. So I asked Trace. 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:11.240 I said, Tracy, I'm about to do this pregame show 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.040 inside the NBA. Drey mind is going to be all, 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.400 can you come on and give him some shit? He said, 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:17.760 I'm doubting. I want to give him a piece of 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:18.840 my mind anyway. 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:22.160 And so that that led to that what a life 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:24.320 you've led in these playoffs already? 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:25.760 You know what? 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.000 Like we said, like we said Ryan two weeks ago, 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:32.760 not a single listener to this league uncut would have 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:37.320 believed that outlandish claim from Chris Haynes that New York 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.400 had passed up Miami as his favorite NBA city. But 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:44.760 after these first two rounds of the playoffs, between meeting 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:48.480 your hero Latrell's pretty well, hanging out with Buster Rhymes, 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:53.040 and getting a top three burger. Now at halftime of 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:56.680 every game you cover a top three in his life burger, 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:01.600 We finally do believe that Madison Square has vaulted to 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.679 the top of the Chris Haynes Personal Power rankings. 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:10.360 Stein Haynes, as the old saying goes, the times they 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:11.120 are a change in. 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:17.000 Yeah, yeah, and it happens. Y'all didn't believe me, So 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:17.720 you'll be sad. 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:20.120 You'll be sad if the Knicks can win one more 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:22.720 game and go to the conference finals, you won't be 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:26.800 along for the ride because you have an updated assignment 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:30.640 in in the conference finals. Can you share that with us? 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:37.040 Yes, I've been reassigned. So usually I'm the what you 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:40.880 would call the B crew. You know, you have Reggie Miller, 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.840 Kevin Harland, and Ali Leforest. That's like our A crew. 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.640 Then I'm part of the B crew me Stan Van 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.319 Gundy and Brian Anderson. So T and T has the 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.599 Western Conference finals and so that our A crew covers that, 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.520 and then I usually cover the opposite conference. So this 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:58.200 year is going to be the Eastern Conference. So while 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.400 I don't do sideline as I'm there basically as a 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:05.640 reporter or a correspondent and I give my reports on 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:08.920 the inside the NBA from the Eastern Conference. So just 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:12.000 about a week ago they took me off of that, 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:16.240 they reassigned me. So tn T is going to have, well, 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.480 I should say, it's going to be on True TV. 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.360 It's going to be an aut cast show where we're 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.719 going to be watching the game live. It's going to 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:30.360 be me, Vince Carter, Hall of Fame Vince Carter, Adam Lefko. 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.160 We're going to be hosting this altcast show on True 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:37.199 TV watching the Western Conference finals. So that's going to 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.439 be an alternative broadcast. You still get the traditional broadcast 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:44.360 on TNT. So well that's what I'm doing. I've been 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:49.120 reassigned to that, and you know they asked me for 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:51.199 want to do it? You know, I say yeah, good, 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.559 good change of pace, to be cool, and we'll be 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:56.959 bringing on guests, so we'll have some heavy hitters, some players, 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:01.000 some coaches coming on during this a hash show. So 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:04.640 I would encourage everybody, you know, give us a try, 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.480 come tune in to be on True TV covering each 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:09.440 game of the Western Conference Finals. 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.079 Okay, before I react to that, I want to ask 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.320 producer Ryan if he hears what I'm here. And Chris 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:19.319 Haynes is in Atlanta as we speak, checking on his 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:24.599 daughter who both attend university in the Atlanta area, and 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:30.400 yet somehow the beeping fire alarm of old from Sacramento 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:34.720 has made its way across the country and is infiltrating 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:36.560 this podcast. Do I have that correct? 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.880 You do have that correct? So peek behind the curtain. 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:45.840 We set up our little recording session here. Haines had 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.600 got on just a couple of minutes before you, Stein, 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:52.120 and that was actually something I almost immediately brought up 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:55.320 to Chris. I go, you know, you're you're down visiting 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:59.040 your daughters, and it seems like this smoke alarm issue 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:03.559 has followed you from Sacramento down into the South area. 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:07.760 So I predict any moment, any moment now, Prince, the 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:12.839 official dog of the show, will start barking and the 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:16.640 doorbell will ring with a pizza delivery. There may not 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:19.360 be a pizza delivery, surely will all happen in the 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:20.839 next fifteen to thirty minutes. 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.439 Yes, I told producer Ride. I was gonna give a 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.079 disclaimer at the the end of the show, but we 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:31.319 went astray. So I want to apologize everybody my daughters have. 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:34.959 They are mimicking the bad habits of their father of 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:39.319 not putting batteries in the smoke detectors of alarms, and 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.120 so they are going off everywhere. There's too they are 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.560 too many in this house. It's like six of them 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:48.199 going off. I'm sorry. So I told you I apologize. 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:50.439 I will mute my mic when I am not talking. 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:54.480 There's no need to mute your mic. But I mean, look, 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.680 I am the least handy person on earth. I can't 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:01.880 make toast. But you know, my late father, we used 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.199 to say he had hands of gold. He was the 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:06.959 handyman in the family. And every time he came to 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:08.920 visit me, I mean I just would hit him with 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.760 a list of please fix this, please fix that. So 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.559 I just would have thought, as you're visiting your daughter's 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.360 dad would have taken care of the fire alarm before anything. 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:23.199 There's too many of them. There is high ceilings. This 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.760 in his house. It would take It's gonna take some time. 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:30.040 I'll get to it, stot, I'll get to it. 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.120 Your vertical can't get you up to those high ceilings. 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:33.800 You need a ladder. 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:37.439 Nah, these are these are these are There's a lot 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:39.240 of work to do in this house. We bought this 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:42.320 house a few years ago. Five bedroom house. We bought 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:47.000 it from my daughters. But dang, five bedroom. But the 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:51.800 reason we got five bedrooms because we we told our daughters, listen, 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:56.120 we'll get you a place near campus. But you got 0:12:56.320 --> 0:13:00.160 you girls are responsible for recruiting, so we can make 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.880 a profit. So you know, let's get these rooms filed. 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:07.160 Let's make a profit. We ain't made a profit yet. 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:10.040 It's been two years. We had a room field for 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.920 a semester only. I think that was like the first year. 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.680 And so yeah, I told them, I'm like, yeah, as 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.640 soon as y'all done graduating, this house is going on 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:20.840 the market asap. 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:25.880 That's still pretty awesome though, that you're both your daughters. 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.000 They basically go across to the other side of the country, 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.200 but they get to go to school together. That's pretty nice. 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:35.200 Yeah. No, it saved us a penny. There was actually 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:40.320 a sister a sister brother special they had at Clark Atlanta. 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:43.599 I saved a few pennies, so I appreciate them doing that. 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:47.760 So yes, I'm excited. My oldest daughter, Justice, she graduates 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:51.080 this weekend, and then my daughter Jasmine, who's a junior, 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:54.280 should graduate next year. So I'm proud of my girl. 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:59.199 So I'm here early. I know it does it does? 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:03.480 My daughter came here fast, she graduated. Yeah, my daughter, 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.520 my oldest, graduated high school twenty twenty, that pandemic year, 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:08.839 and she didn't get to have Remember twenty twenty, she 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.480 didn't get to have a graduation, so she didn't get 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:16.839 to experience that. So I'm very proud of her, you know, 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.840 getting it, you know, getting this far, and she's finally 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.600 going to be able to have an official graduation. So 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:24.840 I'm going to stay here in Atlanta. I'm here early. 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:27.480 I'm gonna stay here in Atlanta until the Western Conference 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:29.040 final start for that All Cash show. 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.640 I constantly whine about how fast my kids have grown up, 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:35.640 But it seems like your kids have grown up at 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:39.360 lightning fast speed. But I can Producer Ryan is just 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:42.280 throwing things in the background because we have talked about 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:45.760 New York. We've talked about fatherhood, we've talked about real life, 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:49.360 We've talked about everything except what producer Ryan wants us 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:54.600 to talk about so right now, immediate transition to potential 0:14:54.960 --> 0:15:06.600 trade movement this offseason. The Cleveland Cavaliers, their season ends 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:11.000 Wednesday night in Boston. They lose Game five. Let's face it, 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:15.640 with no Donovan Mitchell, with no Jared Allen, I mean, 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.680 they were not going to win a Game five on 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:22.360 Boston's floor. They took the series to five games. I 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:26.360 don't think anybody really expected much more from this Caves team, 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:30.600 given how much they struggled in Round one with a 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:34.280 new to the playoffs Orlando Magic team. But now, of course, 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:38.800 the question becomes, has Donovan Mitchell played his last game 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:45.520 as a Cleveland Cavalier? And you know, the Calves throughout 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:49.160 the regular season, up to the trade deadline in February, 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:54.800 they swatted away external interest. Teams did call, they wanted 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:59.160 no part of it. But now it is widely anticipated 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:05.600 throughout the league that if the Cavaliers cannot convince Donovan 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:09.960 Mitchell to sign a contract extension this summer, that they'll 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.600 be forced to trade him. Because the Cavs only have 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:18.800 one more season with Mitchell under Cavaliers control. Donovan Mitchell 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:22.720 has a player option after next season. For twenty five 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.920 twenty six, So twenty four to twenty five that's the 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:31.200 last guaranteed team control season on Mitchell's current contract. But 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:35.200 I'm gonna ask it a little bit differently. Donovan, Mitchell, 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:42.120 Brandon Ingram and New Orleans Trey Young in Atlanta. There 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:48.280 is considerable trade speculation slash anticipation about all three of 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:51.760 those players. Look into the Chris Haynes crystal ball for 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:58.200 me and tell me which one of those three players, Mitchell, Ingram, 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:02.120 or Ice tray On one of those three is most 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.200 likely to be moved before the start of next season. 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:09.080 I would have to go with domin I'm going with 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.720 Donovan because that's that's something we'd be Yeah, I'm going 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:15.280 with Doblin because that's something we've been hearing all season long. 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:20.080 This isn't something we've heard about over the last few weeks. 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.520 We you know. And let's even take it back further 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:28.360 than before this season, when he got traded to Cleveland, 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:33.680 it was loudly known behind the scenes that he wanted 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:36.399 to go to New York. He did not want to 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:42.760 get trade to Cleveland. So the Cavaliers understood that you 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:46.280 either had to get you know, there are teams like 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.639 Toronto Raptors. You know I mentioned the Raptors before. You know, 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:54.080 you take a risk on trading for Kawhi Leonard. You know, 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:57.159 Kawhi doesn't want to be there, but you do it 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:00.400 in hopes that you would have some success and then 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.240 you get a whole season or you know, sometimes even 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:07.960 two seasons to recruit. Basically, you're trying to recruit him 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:13.560 to stay. And teams that are not a successful team, 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:19.600 or you're just not a team that players want to 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.640 play for just because of where you are, where you're 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:25.760 at on the map, then most likely you have to 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.879 take a chance. If you're not one of those two teams, 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:32.600 if you're not a team that's in the sun and 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:37.640 great weather, great views, or a team that's just having success. 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.920 If you're not one of those two situations, then most 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:42.879 likely a team has to take a chance. And so 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:47.800 Toronto took a chance. They have success everything when it's 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:51.320 playing as you're saying, it still didn't work. It still 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:54.080 didn't work in retaining Kawhi. They got a championship out 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:57.520 of it, but they wanted to keep him. So same 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:01.200 with the Cleveland Cavaliers, and I just don't let them 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:02.520 know that they're going to be able to keep them 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:05.960 as well. So I say Donovan as long Wooden answer, 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:09.119 I say Donovan because you know, we've heard for a 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:14.359 while where he would have liked to have played at 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:15.639 you know, when he was traded. 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:19.800 I'm gonna go with Brandon Ingram. He's the one at 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:23.680 this point as we speak on May sixteenth, He's the 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:31.480 one that I feel most confident in projecting that his 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:34.359 team is going to really look at what the trade 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:38.440 market looks like. I mean, look, I think there's some chance, 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:41.040 I don't know what the exact percentage would be, that 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:46.480 all three could get moved. But in Donovan's case, it's 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:49.919 going to depend on whether he's willing to do an 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:57.399 extension or not. I think Atlanta, after seriously considering de 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:02.440 Jonte Murray trades at the trade deadline, I think they're 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:07.800 more apt to explore the Trey Young trade market this 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:13.640 offseason rather than Dejonte again. But because Trey already has 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:17.720 that two hundred plus million max, it might be more 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:21.920 complicated to find the landing spot to find the team 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:26.560 willing to take in all that salary. But these are 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:29.480 early projections. Like I said, I think there are scenarios 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:33.960 you can envision in which all three get moved. I 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:38.080 know in Cleveland there are still people connected to the 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:42.719 Cavs organization who hold out hope that Donovan Mitchell can 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:47.119 be convinced to sign the extension this summer. Let's face it, 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:51.480 signing an extension to stay, it's a lot of money, 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:56.600 and more often than not in the modern era, we 0:20:56.760 --> 0:21:00.840 see players take the extensions rather than go to free agency. 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:03.800 So the Cavs are going to hope that they can 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:08.960 convince Donovan to re sign. But there's enough doubt about 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:12.520 it that you might be proven right and there might 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:16.480 be a more robust Trey Young market then, I imagine 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:20.720 as we're trying to analyze this on May sixteenth, but 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:25.040 just again at this early juncture, and it's still early. 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:27.440 I know, the whole league is in Chicago this week 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:32.000 for the pre draft combine, and that does kind of 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:37.880 in some ways get the offseason player personnel machine cranking. 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:42.160 But it is still pretty early in the trade process, 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:45.040 and so I think we're gonna need a little bit 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:49.960 more time to fully assess it. I think Cleveland's mindset 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:52.960 is they're gonna do everything they can. They're going to 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:58.760 explore every possible option to try to keep Donovan Mitchell. 0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:01.919 They're only going to to trade him if it reaches 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:04.720 a point where they feel like there is just no 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:10.000 hope and they can't get him on an extension, and 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:14.920 that they know if they let next season start and 0:22:15.040 --> 0:22:19.600 it plays out that they risk eventually losing Donovan Mitchell 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:21.760 for nothing. So I feel like the Calves are gonna 0:22:21.800 --> 0:22:25.840 do everything they can to try to salvage that relationship 0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:31.280 and keep Donovan Mitchell, whereas New Orleans, the Pelicans have 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:35.919 to really look at changes because their main three guys. 0:22:36.000 --> 0:22:38.879 There's just a lot of data and a lot of 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:43.919 numbers to support the idea that the Zion Williamson, Brandon 0:22:44.080 --> 0:22:47.800 Ingram CJ McCollum trio. The Pelicans just did not flourish 0:22:47.920 --> 0:22:51.120 with that trio on the floor. And when I check 0:22:51.200 --> 0:22:53.960 with other teams on it, there's just no mistaking that 0:22:54.920 --> 0:22:58.159 there's a rising expectation out there around the league that 0:22:58.400 --> 0:23:03.359 New Orleans is going to explore the Brandon Ingram trade 0:23:03.400 --> 0:23:08.560 possibilities this offseason, and the Tray Young call is still 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:11.520 a little harder to me to assess that because now 0:23:11.560 --> 0:23:14.080 that the Hawks have the number one pick. You know, 0:23:14.160 --> 0:23:16.200 they're trying to figure out exactly what they should do. 0:23:16.280 --> 0:23:19.560 Should they try to move Trey, Should they try to 0:23:19.960 --> 0:23:22.720 move to Jonte again, Should they try to use the 0:23:22.840 --> 0:23:26.800 number one pick in some sort of other deal for retooling. 0:23:26.880 --> 0:23:30.120 The Hawks are still kind of evaluating all their options. 0:23:30.240 --> 0:23:33.280 But again, I think I don't want to rule out 0:23:33.320 --> 0:23:36.439 the idea. I mean, we there is a world, there 0:23:36.520 --> 0:23:40.359 is a scenario where all three get moved. I think, man, 0:23:40.440 --> 0:23:42.879 it would be hard to imagine none of the three moving. 0:23:42.960 --> 0:23:45.240 I have to think at least one of them gets 0:23:45.320 --> 0:23:46.280 moved this offseason. 0:23:46.680 --> 0:23:48.560 Let's talk about New Orleans and Cleveland, just for a 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:52.359 little bit. On New Orleans end, Brendan Ingram was your 0:23:52.440 --> 0:23:56.359 pick out of the three players selected. And if they 0:23:56.520 --> 0:24:00.280 do MOVEBI, that means they feel really good about somebody 0:24:00.359 --> 0:24:03.720 being able to come in there and fill that rule. 0:24:04.200 --> 0:24:09.119 Trey Murphy that he's ready. Trey is ready. Trey is 0:24:09.160 --> 0:24:11.080 actually going to be one of our guests on an 0:24:11.440 --> 0:24:14.200 all cast show that we do do in the Western 0:24:14.240 --> 0:24:18.320 Conference Finals. He's ready, He's ready to take that next step. 0:24:18.440 --> 0:24:21.119 He is a starter in this league, and he just 0:24:21.280 --> 0:24:24.480 he just happens to play behind brandam Ingram. But you know, 0:24:24.600 --> 0:24:29.159