WEBVTT - NBA Trade Talks with Adam Lefkoe 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:07.800 From the King of Sports Books. Who comes the Key 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:17.920 sports podcast Unleashed presented by bet MGM. You're your host, 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:27.200 Speedy Mormon and Olivia armand Decker Yo. Welcome back to 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:31.640 Unleashed from the King of Sports Books bet MGM. We 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:35.080 have from Bleacher Report and TBS Adam Left go on 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:38.800 the show to talk about the NBA trade deadline and 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:42.320 to share an experience that he had with jar Rule 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:45.760 and it was definitely an interesting one. Plus, we have 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:48.840 Olivia taking us around the country to share with us 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:52.800 her favorite bites in her segment Olivia Eats, and this 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:57.640 week it's from the home of the tournament, Indianapolis. Olivia, 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:00.480 You've got some good food spots in India, I sure do. 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:03.680 I had so much fun eating my way through Indianapolis, 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:05.480 and that was kind of the best way to preview 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:07.920 the n C Double A Tournament in my eyes, in 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.440 your eyes, and you'll put it through our stomachs hopefully 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.520 and we'll be able to consume it in a way 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:15.880 that I wish we could in person, but we can't. 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:20.040 And finally, here on this week's Lions Lock, Peter Andrew 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:23.280 from bit MGM will talk about what Vegas got wrong 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:27.600 and right and his locks for the Sweet sixteen. But 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.520 first and foremost, Olivia, I know you and I are 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:33.000 both chomping at the bit to speak about the n 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:37.760 C Double A Tournament. It's truly madness in March. What 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.760 do you make of everything that's been going on? Well, speedy, 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:42.880 I I just gotta say, I'm feeling a little sick. 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.240 But if I wasn't, I wanted to sing you a 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:47.440 song and it was going to be a dream, as 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.800 a wish your heart makes, because this is the Cinderella story. 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:54.040 This is the best March I think I've ever witnessed. 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:55.720 And did I tell you or did I tell you 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:58.880 last week? This is the year to pick the randoms. 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.960 This is the year to go off of your favorite colors, 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:06.919 your favorite mascots. And I was so right. Nine digit 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.760 seeds advance, My man, I mean this is wild. You're lucky. 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:12.840 I'm not singing to you this week. Maybe next week 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.880 if some of these teams keep making a run. But yeah, 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.919 I I've got a little head cold or allergies or something, 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.839 so bear with me on my voice. But okay, this 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:24.480 first weekend was absolutely crazy. I don't know about you, 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:28.600 but I was glued to not one TV, multiple TVs 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:31.600 in my town. I had. Oh yeah, I've printed out 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.320 three brackets. I'm walking around from the kitchen to the 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:36.799 living room to the basement making sure I'm not missing 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.840 a single game, and I don't feel like I did. 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:43.040 I honestly think I had eyeballs on just about every game. 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:46.160 This is as seriously as I've ever taken my bracket, 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.079 and I don't know why, because it looks like it 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:53.480 is it like a Frankenstein uh image there. I imagine 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:56.399 a lot of your picks are already on their way 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.880 home back to their listen to this. This is garb. 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.079 It just my trash days Friday. But I should just 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:04.320 go ahead and speed this one up. I had Ohio 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.440 State going to the final four. Wow, they're out of there. 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:12.639 I had Illinois going into the national championship there and 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:16.359 they're gone. Well, let's let's kind of break this down 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:18.600 a little bit, because, like I said, nine double digit 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:22.080 seeds advanced to the second round. So you look at 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.480 like Drake. They were in eleven seed, they won their 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.440 first tournament game in fifty years. No one picked Drake. 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:30.800 You're Syracuse Orange. They were in eleven seed. They beat 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:34.360 six seed San Diego State, and then our producer, Maddie's 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:36.960 very sad. Three seed West Virginia picked them up to 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:41.080 they face one seed Houston. Yeah, I know, Maddie's upset. 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.360 And then the story I'm loving. There's like four stories 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.280 I'm loving, but eight seed loyal in Chicago. They've got 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.120 that hundred one year old nun sister Jean. Everyone loved 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:53.920 Mr Geane in the house. She's doing Hail Mary, she's 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.720 doing the Rosary. She's she was you don't want to 0:03:56.720 --> 0:04:02.080 bet against Mr Geane a prayer, she's she she's got it. 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:06.040 She's anointed with the prayer. They beat Georgia Tech. Then 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.920 they beat one seed in state rival. In fact, I 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:10.160 don't even know if you can call him an in 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:12.840 state rival. They're not even on the same playing field. 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:16.520 They beat the in state giant Illinois first one seed 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.080 to go down. That was Sunday, and they'll advance to 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:23.440 play twelve seed Oregon State. That's Saturday. Organ State is 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.080 cooking their head. Coach is feisty. I kind of like 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.440 this Oregan State team. I gotta say. They just beat 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:32.279 Oklahoma State and that projected number one seed or projected 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:36.119 number one pick in the NBA draft Kate Undingham. So, man, 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.080 my first question us Speedy with Loyal in Chicago. Their 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:43.359 mascot is the Ramblers. What is a rambler? Do you 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.920 know what a rambler? Is? A rambler? I think it's 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.960 a um. You know, it's a toss up here. It 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:55.760 could be a I'm assuming it's an animal, right, So 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.800 their mascot is like a wolf looking thing, like a 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:05.440 kusky ash wolf. But their name is the Ramblers. Googled it. Yeah, 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:09.200 I didn't know. I googled it. A rambler is a 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:12.680 person who enjoys going on long walks, often as an 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:18.200 organized group, and often in the countryside. Uh makee look. 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:20.480 Maybe it's some sort of metaphor like, look, we walk 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:24.640 together on these long journeys as one, like, as a unit, 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:27.279 and that's why together where the Ramblers? Or is that 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.760 a reach? I don't know. Is that a reach? It's 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.400 a thought? It is a thought. Um, But a lot 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.040 of people think that they are going to go far. 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:36.880 Sister Jean has him in her final four. I don't 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:38.240 know if she's picked him to win it all. I 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.480 would think she would, but they went to the final four, 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.400 so it's not impossible. It can't be done again. It 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:46.120 can be done. It can And I like what she 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:49.159 said after They interviewed sister Jean after and she said, 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.000 if we can be Illinois, we can be anyone on 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.719 this piece of paper. So I love that. And they can. 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.920 They truly can. One seed goes down. I like them. 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:00.880 Did you also see their star player? I cannot think 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:05.720 of the guy's name, but he's got a very memorable mustache. Yes, 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:09.040 he looks like that one actor from Remember the Titans 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.839 who's gotten shape. I don't know his name, but you'd 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:14.520 know him if you see him. The best player on 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:17.640 Loyola looks like the guy from Remember the Titans. Well, 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:19.360 I was I was watching this game. I was out 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.800 with my sisters. We were getting some Mexican food, and 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:23.960 we were really wanting to hunker down and watch the 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:27.200 Wisconsin game my husband played. There were huge Badger fans. 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.840 My dad was calling the game on CBS, so we 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:31.960 were all buckled him for that. On one of the 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:36.440 side TVs, we start seeing this Loyola Illinois beat down 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:38.600 and I'm like, oh my gosh, you guys look look, 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:42.000 and then you know they're not huge basketball fans. I 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:44.680 would say they you know, I have all my brackets 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.120 printed out on the table, moving over my Margarita's to 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:52.440 make room and Margarita's plural, and my sisters are sitting 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:55.440 there saying, Oh my god, is that kid in college? 0:06:56.240 --> 0:07:00.960 He looks like a grown man, like a corown adult. Oh, 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:05.880 it's too funny. So yeah, Cameron Kripwig, we are learning 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:09.120 is his name for the Ramblers? Okay, so that was gold. 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:11.680 So I think the coolest thing about what you had 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.240 to know from the first couple of days of games 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:18.800 was that four teams, four speedy seeded thirteen or worst 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:20.880 advanced to the round of thirty two. That's the most 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:23.600 ever in the tournament. That is absolutely incredible. So my 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:27.960 next question for you thirteen seed North Texas, four seed Perdue. 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.880 It's their first ever tournament win. Do you know where 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:35.320 North Texas is in The answer is not North Texas. 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:37.400 You can't say that that's off limits. I was gonna 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.840 say Northern Texas, but I'm assuming that you won't accept 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:45.160 that either. Nope, do I know where North Texas is? 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.160 The short answer is no. But I'm going to give 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:50.240 you a guess, because what am I here for if 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:54.320 not to guess? I'm going to say that North Texas 0:07:54.960 --> 0:08:03.360 is somewhere like above Dallas, like maybe somewhere north of 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:05.920 Fort Worth. I don't I'm really reaching here though, I 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.120 really don't know. No, you're not, You're not wrong. It's 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:13.240 it's a little bit north east of Dallas. Sorry, northwest 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:15.440 of Dallas. I had to do my never eat Saggy 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:19.720 Waffles analogy. But yeah, there it's in Denton, Texas. Okay, 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:23.520 do you know their team name, like their nickname? I 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.360 don't know. I was, I was reaching, but no, I 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:30.480 don't mean green. Well I knew that their jerseys are green, 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:36.640 but yeah, you're still at zero. Okay. I like the 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:39.360 mean Green better than the Ramblers, though I might say 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:43.000 I'd prefer to be the mean Green. Okay, well, okay, 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:46.320 moving forward. So then fourteen seed Abilene Christian they beat 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:51.080 in State Giant. Also three seed Texas Chaka smash in 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.679 three in the n C Double A tournament. They cannot 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.720 win in March. It's just absolutely crazy. But let me 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.160 tell you this about Abilene Christian. I've got a bunch 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.640 of Texas relatives. A lot of them went to Abilene Christian. 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:05.319 One of them played football at Abilene Christian. I never 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.400 thought I'd be talking about them in March again, and 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:10.920 I wanted to ask you this as well. So there's 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:14.480 five thousand students who go to Abilene Christian It's out, 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:19.640 like I said, in rural West Texas. They have daily chapel. 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:24.720 And this little team from out in Abilene, Texas has 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:29.960 made this an impressive statement. In just two years ago, 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:34.400 Speedy was their first ever tournament appearance. So I mean 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:36.760 just getting there is impressive enough. And here they are 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:42.560 beating Texas. Yes, and did you see one of the 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.600 players on the team. I don't know his name, but 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:50.240 threw up the longhorn on both hands in a photo 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:52.679 and that photo was trending on Twitter this past weekend. 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:56.880 It was quite the ballsy move. But he earned the 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.720 right to do so. He threw up the longhorn because 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.920 he's sent them pecking. I love it. Okay, Well, here's 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:06.640 another one, and this is probably I think the story 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:10.400 of the tournament so far. It's fifteen seed Oral Roberts. 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:14.040 They win their first tournament game in forty seven years. 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:17.439 They beat two seed Ohio State. They won by three 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.240 in overtime. That was one of many overtime games they 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:24.559 were a sixteen point underdog. I mean, it's it's absolutely incredible. 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.360 But to think it's been what five years since a 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.959 fifteen seed as advanced past the first round? That was 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.480 Middle Tennessee. That was that was a huge story. But 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:37.320 here's my next question for you. Speed pronounced the following 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:45.240 word A B M A S SMIs Okay, you watched 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:49.640 and you probably ready for that. Yes, listen is the 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:54.000 last name Max. That's the last name of the nation's 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:58.280 leading score whom I was unfamiliar with. I mean, I 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:00.000 was familiar with him, but I was not familiar with 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:03.920 the pronunciation of his last name until I think was 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:07.120 Ja Billis who brought it to my attention that you 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:09.679 don't pronounce the be there and I would have been 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:12.079 butchering this young man's name, but shout out to him 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:15.400 because he had a very impressive first two rounds. He 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.120 absolutely did. Yeah, it's a German last name. I was 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.800 curious as well. The B is silent. Okay. Pronounced the 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:24.520 following word oh, B A and O R O B 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:28.320 A N O R m hm. Oh that's a banner, 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:33.800 close o banner I kept every time I read it. 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:35.679 You know how you kind of pronounce things in your 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.040 head as you're reading. Every time I would read that 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.920 name because he's he had thirty points in one of 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.760 their games and he was killing, killing, killing it. I 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:50.199 kept saying, Oben or m Anyways, do you know where 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:55.760 Oral Roberts is? Not a clue? I couldn't tell you. Tulsa, Oklahoma? 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.480 Is it okay? Have you been to Oklahoma before? My 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:03.160 mom is Tulsa and went to Oh you a lot 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:06.040 of I'm telling you what. I don't know who out 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.600 there believes in a higher power. But if you don't, 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:11.840 you should check out your bracket because we got Oral Roberts, 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:17.440 Small Christian School, Loyal Chicago, and Sister jean An Avelen Christian. 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.800 I mean, there's there's a higher power at play in 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.960 the March Madness bracket. But Oral Robert is just an 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:27.960 absolutely incredible story. Just the second fifteen seed ever to 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:31.200 advance to the Sweet sixteen. They are truly making history. 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:34.280 One of my favorite sportswriters, Pete Damil, he described them 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:39.080 like this, They're well coached, under recruited, overachievers. I just 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.439 absolutely love that their head coach was under Scott Drew 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.880 at Baylor and and just to kind of wrap up 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:47.720 of this March Madness run. And when you were a 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:49.840 team that wasn't expected to go far and you do, 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.480 their head coach said, you know, I'm just glad we 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:55.040 have a chance to do laundry. I'm glad that tomorrow 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.640 I run out of clothes that I packed. I thought 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.320 that was amazing. That's the goal, the goal to have 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.520 to do laundry, you know, and earn another forty minutes 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:05.480 out there on the hardwood. That is the goal. But 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:10.400 what an exciting first couple rounds from the tournament. I 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.200 know that on our next episode in a week from now, 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:18.120 there will be very likely another upset and more brackets 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:20.600 busted and more stuff for us to talk about, So 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:24.000 I can't wait now. In the meantime, coming up next, 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:27.840 we've got Adam left Go from the Bleacher Report you're 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:42.360 listening to Unleased Well Olivia joining us now is a 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:45.959 guy that you've definitely seen on the NBA on T 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.559 n T. You've seen him on Bleacher Report, and as 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.520 you pointed out to me, he is an Emmy Award 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:55.200 winning sportscaster. His name is Adam left Go, and I'm 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:58.079 excited for him to talk about some NBA trade deadline 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.920 stuff with us. Adam Left go, welcome to the show. 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.120 We're so glad to have you with us. And this 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:07.200 week it's a big week, ma Man NBA trade deadline. Thursday, 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.800 three Eastern. This air's Thursday morning. If you can give 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.120 us a little run through, and let's start with the East, 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:14.959 because I feel like that's where you were wanting to go. 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.000 Let's start with the East. What are the names, what 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:20.960 are the teams? Where does everyone need to focus today? Okay, 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.280 so my Thursday is gonna be crazy because for the 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:26.480 first time, our Tuesday crew is hosting the Thursday show. 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.200 So if anything breaks, we're gonna have to cover it 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:33.120 live as we record this. It sure does seem like 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.040 Aaron Gordon is going to be on the move. He 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.440 came out and requested a trade. Formally, I think a 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:40.720 lot of people know Aaron Gordon for his dunks, but 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:44.720 analytically his defense has been really impressive this season. It's 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.360 hard because you're in Orlando and people aren't really watching 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:51.160 the Magic, whether it's the Celtics, whether it's the Sixers. 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.680 The moves could be very interesting if we're sticking in 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:58.880 the East. Could Kyle Lowry some call the greatest raptor 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.880 of all time? Is he on the move as someone 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:05.000 that is from Philadelphia, as someone that got his can 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:08.800 I curse on this podcast. Yeah, as someone who got 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:12.280 their ass kicked by Kyle Lowry and a au growing up. 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.280 I would love to see him on the Sixers, just 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:18.120 to be the point guard that balances out Ben Simmons 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:22.400 would be amazing. But Philadelphia and the Clippers seem to 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:25.520 be the favorites for Kyle Lowry, And the question is 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.320 do the Sixers want to give up young pieces, whether 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:31.800 it's thy Bal and Maxie in addition to draft picks. 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.600 And then for the Clippers, what do they give up. 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.520 They don't really have any assets because they gave so 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.840 much for Paul George and Kauai before, so that'll be 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:44.040 the question there. Do the Celtics make a move, do 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.520 they try and add a piece? It's it's a lot 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:50.480 more questions than answers right now. Utah Jazz fans are 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:52.280 going do we want to add a piece? Are we 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:56.120 comfortable the Lakers, whether it's the buy out of Andre 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:59.920 Drummond with the Calves, do the Nets go after Andre 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.320 drum And to add to what looks like a great 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:06.040 addition in Blake Griffin. So I don't think it's going 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:10.160 to be a superstar being moved. I don't think we're 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.440 gonna see a Bradley Beal. I don't know if we're 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:16.720 gonna see a Vucevic. But right now, it's those little pieces, 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.600 And I think for me, the one that's most intriguing 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:23.480 is Kyle Lowry, just because of his experience in the playoffs, 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.720 and if he goes to a Clippers, and if he 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:29.120 goes to a Sixers, they're the odds of them making 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:32.440 the championship run definitely get improved. Do you think the 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:36.320 Lebron James injury with the Lakers is significant enough that 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:38.200 they're going to have to make a move and get 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.520 some peace to fill in, get a scorer. I know 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:43.840 it's a high ankle sprain. There's no timetable on how 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:46.120 long he's out. But with no a D, no Lebron, 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:49.560 are they in need of size or what are the 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:51.800 Lakers in need of and do they do they make 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.080 a move here? I think that they were in the 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:57.320 need before Lebron got hurt. I just think we all 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:59.720 watched them in the bubble last year and saw how 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:03.520 dominant to have beyond a D A JaVale McGee and 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:06.040 a Dwight Howard and it seems like a big loss. 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:08.919 Apparently was reported the morning of our recording that they 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.720 are listening to deals for Montrez Harrold, which I think 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.840 would be unlikely. But I don't think they need to 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.160 make a move to stay where they are. The question 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:21.720 is does Lebron the facto GM, look at his team 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:27.040 and go I need more pieces with Lowry potentially on 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:29.760 the move, Adam, who do you think is a better 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:33.800 suitor for him between the possible options there? I mean 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:35.760 with Philly you got and beat out for a little bit, 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.359 and many people thought he could win m VP. Maybe 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.080 they could use some more offensive power there. What what? 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:44.960 What do you think is the best fit for him? 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.560 It sounds like the two biggest suitors are the Clippers 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:51.440 and the Sixers. The Clippers mainly because they've been very 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:55.640 reliant on the three point shot. Patrick Beverley is more 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:58.680 of an idea than a reality right now. When people 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:00.879 talk about Patrick Beverley, I think they're thinking about like 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:03.800 the Houston Beverly like four or five years ago, and 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:07.520 they would really love that experienced point guard to set 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:11.199 up Paul George and Kauai, and that experience with Kauai 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:15.240 in Toronto is very intriguing. But as I said earlier, 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:17.880 they don't have a lot of pieces, and so it's 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.280 what Toronto doesn't want to give away arguably the best 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:25.000 player in their franchise just because they can. And so 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:28.000 for the Sixers, they have a number of first round picks, 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:31.360 some that aren't even theirs, and they have those young pieces, 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:35.000 and they have a number of expiring contracts, whether they're 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:38.199 restricted free agents. They have guys like Danny Green. They 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:41.160 have guys like Maxie, which is at least a young 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:43.440 piece you can get back the other piece for the 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:47.760 Raptors that they may trade, don't forget. I feel bad 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:50.320 for the Raptors. They've been down in Tampa Bay. They've 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:53.159 been living in a hotel, so they've been quarantining more 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:56.399 than anybody. And I think they've lost I don't have 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:58.520 it right. They've lost like ten or something in a row. 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:01.879 Like it's been rough for this Raptors team. So it 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:05.560 would make sense for Massai to to maybe move on 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.760 from some of these older players. But Norman pal is 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:12.560 someone that has been killing it lately, and I think 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:14.480 he had like a forty point game the other day. 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:17.359 He's someone though that if you're the Raptors, you're going 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:20.280 do we extend him and make him a piece of 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:22.800 our core? Do we want the future of our team 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:26.720 to be him Pascal Siakam, Is that our future? Or 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:28.840 do we move him and get a lot of pieces 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:31.959 and kind of start rebuilding. But I know the market 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:36.119 is really exciting if he became available. I'm selfishly a 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:38.800 little bummed because there was talk a couple of months 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:40.960 ago in the off season that Toronto was going to 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:43.359 play in Kansas City. I live here in Kansas City, 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:46.160 and Patrick Mahomes was making a big case for that, 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:50.040 and I gotta say, Kansas City with an NBA team 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:53.520 would be fire. We have such a good basketball blueprint 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:56.520 here because we just love you know, okay, you basketball 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:59.520 is so huge here and I think if Patrick Mahomes 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.399 touches that thing, it turns to gold. But that's a whole, 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:05.440 whole other story. As we were continuing to talk about 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:08.440 the East, what about it? I covered the Atlanta Hawks 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:11.280 for years, and you know, we always played second fiddle, 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:14.240 even when we played in the Eastern Conference finals. You know, 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:16.320 he's like, well, he's just gonna get gobbled at by 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:20.159 Golden State. It's it's, you know, a prize to win second. 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:22.680 But what do you think is so different this year 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:26.760 about the Eastern Conference? Well, we haven't talked about the 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:29.439 team that. Look, I grew up a Sixers fan, but 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:32.280 I cannot stop watching the Brooklyn Nets when they come 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:36.200 on television. Thank you. That's because you know, Speedy mentioned 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:39.440 earlier the injury with Lebron. We have injuries right now 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:42.440 to Lebron Joel Mba. So two of the top m 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:46.600 v P vote gun. We we have Yokich that has 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:50.840 been unbelievable. But the success of the Nuggets hasn't been 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:54.359 as consistent as other teams. Dame Lillard has made a case. 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:59.199 But how we are not talking about James Harden is 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:03.199 more of a act that people don't like him and 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:06.480 they can't look past it. Don't forget that the media 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:10.560 votes for m v P, and the media really didn't 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:13.359 like that James Harden was seen at a birthday party 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:15.880 at a strip club, and that he seemed to be 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:20.400 not be following quarantine rituals and and and all that, 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:24.080 and he forced a trade. But if we're talking about 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:27.120 m v P. This is a man that, with Kevin 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:31.960 Durant and Kyrie Irving missing weeks on end, carry this 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:34.840 team to within a half a game of first place 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:38.320 in the East, still within striking distance. And the team 0:21:38.400 --> 0:21:42.560 that he left has now lost twenty games in a row. 0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:46.679 So if we're talking about valuable, I think he's really 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:49.400 shown it. So I look at the East right now, 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:51.800 and I think there's four teams and then there's a 0:21:51.880 --> 0:21:54.000 drop off, but I think there's a gap between the 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:57.280 top two. I think it's and maybe three. I just 0:21:57.320 --> 0:22:00.919 have a lot of Bucks fatigue because they remind me 0:22:00.960 --> 0:22:03.280 of like the Cincinnati Bengals back when it was Andy 0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:07.520 Dalton and Chad Johnson and all those guys, because it's 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:09.080 like I need to see in the playoffs. But it's 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:13.080 Nets sixers. Then you have the Bucks and the the 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:15.359 whole yanna should be the m v P race is 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:18.720 starting up again, and then it's like the Heat have 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:22.399 made a run. You know, the Hawks can be good, 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:24.679