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Speaker 1: also our first ever live coverage of the NBA Draft episode,

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Speaker 1: couple rules about podcasting, and one of them is if

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Speaker 1: Chill just right that I will be sipping on as

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Speaker 1: we go through at least the first ten picks, probably

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Speaker 1: the entirety of the lottery. And again, appreciate our friends

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Speaker 1: is a really cool fun thing that we're able to do.

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Speaker 1: And this is an odd draft in this not odd,

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Speaker 1: but what is unique is there is no intrigue whatsoever

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Speaker 1: about who the Dallas Mavericks are taking. They are on

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Speaker 1: really ten minutes of today's show talking about what the

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Speaker 1: Cooper flag Number to the Dallas Mavericks, not even Nico

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Speaker 1: Will Philadelphia take VJ Edge That's where my money would

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Speaker 1: of late, the MAVs are losing a lot of assistant coaches,

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Speaker 1: And the pick is in. It has not yet been announced.

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Speaker 1: We know it's gonna be Cooper Flag and Bron came

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Speaker 1: But where are we What is meeting expectations for Cooper Flag?

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Speaker 1: there is a very interesting is the NBA about to

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Speaker 1: become in ten years? Are thirty five percent of players

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Speaker 1: me real quick. I am going to retweet the link

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Speaker 1: to this so people can if they want to check

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Speaker 1: us out on YouTube, they can do that. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: see if I can. Sometimes they'll like try to there

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Speaker 1: we go and let me also quote tweet it live

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Speaker 1: now on YouTube. Come join? Uh? So this is and

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Speaker 1: again I am not and I have never pretended to be.

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Speaker 1: I do try to be a uh a NFL draft expert.

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Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't try to be an NBA

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Speaker 1: draft expert. So this is maybe just you know, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to say dumb luck or just following the

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Speaker 1: people who are experts. The first four picks have gone

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Speaker 1: the way if I were running those Let me put

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Speaker 1: it like this, if I were running those four teams

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Speaker 1: the way I would have done it. Now, the first

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Speaker 1: two everyone would have done, and the third I think

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Speaker 1: most people would have done. But this is where this

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Speaker 1: is where I might differ in that I do not

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Speaker 1: think that at five, Utah is going to take Derrick Queen.

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Speaker 1: I do think if I were Utah at five, I

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Speaker 1: would take Derrick Queen and listen, Utah at some point,

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Speaker 1: I have to decide whether or not they want to

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Speaker 1: win basketball games, and it is in my interest is

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Speaker 1: someone that will root for the Lakers as long as

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Speaker 1: Lebron's there to have them sell off Walker Kessler and

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Speaker 1: you know, continue to be unseerious. But the Jazz, the

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Speaker 1: Jazz striving to be bad every year post Donovan and Rudy,

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Speaker 1: I think is disheartening and them intentionally getting rid of

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Speaker 1: or wanting to get rid of any of their quality

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Speaker 1: players and the guys who end up turning into quality

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Speaker 1: players kind of putting them on ice as they go

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Speaker 1: from thirty seven wins to thirty one wins to seventeen wins.

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Speaker 1: Is I think Jazz fans deserve better and I just

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Speaker 1: don't see it coming to an end any time soon.

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Speaker 1: And when you look at the team, there are there

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Speaker 1: are two guys in Marketing and Walker Kessler that you're like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I unequivocally definitely want to be, you know, in in

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Speaker 1: that in their business as far as the moving forward,

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Speaker 1: and one of those guys might be gone this offseason

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Speaker 1: they last year. You know, I'm not talking about the

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Speaker 1: guys they've just now drafted the last year, in the

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Speaker 1: year before, but as far as guys that are either

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Speaker 1: veterans like market In or assumed to be veteran like

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Speaker 1: Walker Kessler, and I don't think they're good enough obviously

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Speaker 1: yet to win or compete at a high level. But

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Speaker 1: if you this year again trade away one of your

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Speaker 1: better players and it seems like both of them in

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Speaker 1: Marketing and Walker Kessler, are available, what are you doing?

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Speaker 1: Especially when I think the draft gods have you know,

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Speaker 1: they slapped your wrist this year by having you fall

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Speaker 1: to five, and so I'm very interested in who they

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Speaker 1: end up picking. I think that they won't have I

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Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna have the guts is the wrong word.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna roll the dice on Bailey

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Speaker 1: because he made for reasons that I'm not entirely sure on,

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Speaker 1: except for maybe he just doesn't want to live there,

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Speaker 1: because they every other thing. If you want to be featured,

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Speaker 1: if you want to have a place where they'll run

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Speaker 1: the offense through you, all that. I think Will Hardy's

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Speaker 1: a fine coach, that makes a lot of sense. And

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Speaker 1: so oh, they do take him. They do take Ace Valley,

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Speaker 1: and now I'm watching for his reaction. So that is

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Speaker 1: a that's a gutsy move by Danny Ainge that I

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Speaker 1: will give credit for. I didn't think. I thought that

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Speaker 1: maybe he was gonna be able to force his way

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Speaker 1: to Washington or Brooklyn, his preferred destinations. And now, by

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Speaker 1: the way, we haven't had we haven't had any trades,

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Speaker 1: and we need to remember trades absolutely do happen in

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Speaker 1: the NBA draft. And by the way, one of the

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Speaker 1: reasons we're doing this live is so we can answer

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Speaker 1: your guys questions. And so you guys, can you know,

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Speaker 1: put those in the chat right now if you'd like,

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Speaker 1: and we'll get to him where you can. I think

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Speaker 1: that's the right play. I think if you're Utah, you

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Speaker 1: simply it's the gutsiest play for sure. Of the guys

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Speaker 1: on the board, he has the highest upside, the only

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Speaker 1: guy who I think, and again I'm higher on this

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Speaker 1: guy than most I guess has similar upside as Derek Queen.

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Speaker 1: And he made it very clear he wants to be featured.

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Speaker 1: He wants to be the centerpiece of an offense. It's

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Speaker 1: why he had no interest in Philadelphia. Well, lucky you

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Speaker 1: man in Utah, you will be now I do. I

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Speaker 1: am hesitant on at this point in the draft talking

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Speaker 1: about fits for almost any of these guys, because I

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Speaker 1: would imagine some of at least one of these guys

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Speaker 1: is going to be traded to another team in the

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Speaker 1: next thirty minutes. That's what draft's history has told us.

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Speaker 1: Thus how far it hasn't happened. And so now all right,

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Speaker 1: So now let's reset, because listen, I'll be interested to

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Speaker 1: see who Ace Bailey ends up being. He was supposed

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Speaker 1: to be going into this year the second pick of

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Speaker 1: this year's draft. His teammate Dylan Harper snagged that spot

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Speaker 1: for him. He then kind of orchestrated his own ineligibility

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Speaker 1: almost from being the third pick. He ends up falling

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Speaker 1: only to number five. But now so we are now

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Speaker 1: at flag one obvious Dylan Harper too obvious VJ. Edgecombe

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Speaker 1: three less obvious but likely uh Conkininpple four, and then

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Speaker 1: Ace Bailey goes five to Utah. And so now the

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Speaker 1: question that I think is most somebody asks, is there

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Speaker 1: a chance they trade Bailey tonight? That's what I'm talking about. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you guys have watched the NBA draft

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Speaker 1: throughout your lives, Guys do whole interviews wearing the hat

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Speaker 1: talking about how excited they are. There was the kid

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Speaker 1: who was it his mom worked for the Sixers? Was

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Speaker 1: it Mikhale Bridges whose mom worked for the Sixers? He

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Speaker 1: got drafted by the Sixers. He was all excited and happy,

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Speaker 1: and then he got traded to the Suns. And and

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Speaker 1: so yeah, certainly Bailey getting traded tonight's on the board.

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Speaker 1: Any of anybody really other than Flagg and Harper getting

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Speaker 1: traded tonight or on the board. But in the meantime,

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Speaker 1: as the broadcast goes to commercial, let's just reset for

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Speaker 1: a second on who might attempt to move up? So

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Speaker 1: the top guys on the board if we just go

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Speaker 1: by consensus big board standards really or Trey Johnson in

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Speaker 1: the Guard out of Texas, Jeremiah Fears the Guard out

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Speaker 1: of Oklahoma, who I know from just listening to guys

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Speaker 1: who have been covering the draft really year round, is

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Speaker 1: a guy that some teams are absolutely in love with.

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Speaker 1: And that a guy that I think some teams might

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Speaker 1: if he slips a bit, try to move up and

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Speaker 1: snag Malawak, who I floated out there would is there

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Speaker 1: a team would the Lakers consider trading Austin Reeves straight

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Speaker 1: up for Malawak? For the pick for Malawak? Derek Queen,

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Speaker 1: who I like a lot, and that's kind of the

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Speaker 1: and the other guy that I guess people really know

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Speaker 1: is Carter Bryant. But there are most people have said

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Speaker 1: there's a very, you know, firm top eight. I feel

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Speaker 1: there's a firm top nine because I like Queen. And

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Speaker 1: then it gets a little trickier. Then we get to

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Speaker 1: a bunch of European guys and guys that we're gonna

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Speaker 1: spend less time on at least here, Is there a player?

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Speaker 1: Or more accurately, yeah, is there a Do the Brooklyn

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Speaker 1: Nets now look at it and say we have eight, nineteen,

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Speaker 1: twenty two, twenty six, twenty seven, and thirty six. That's

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Speaker 1: obviously an absurdity. We obviously cannot draft six players tonight.

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Speaker 1: We can't certainly can't draft five first rounders with guaranteed contracts.

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Speaker 1: Does Brooklyn have a guy they really want? And do

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Speaker 1: they package eight and twenty to move up two spots

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Speaker 1: with Washington? Does Oklahoma City look at Malawak and just

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Speaker 1: with their kind of you know, ten thousand year vision

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Speaker 1: and say, all right, we are likely in two years

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Speaker 1: not gonna have Hartenstein on this team anymore. Would we

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Speaker 1: like to have a guy who can catch Lob's defensive

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Speaker 1: minded big man to back up Chet? And is it

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Speaker 1: worth using some of our far you know, almost superfluous

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Speaker 1: draft capital to move up from fifteen to try to

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Speaker 1: snag him if he drops? Like? Those are those are

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Speaker 1: now the questions I think teams are going to be asking.

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Speaker 1: And I have been shocked, And I'll get to listener

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Speaker 1: questions in a second, I shocked is maybe too strong. Uh?

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Speaker 1: I have been. I'm surprised we've had no trades. It

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Speaker 1: felt to me like this was going and not only

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Speaker 1: trades of picks for picks, but potentially trades of veteran players,

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Speaker 1: you know, being involved in draft day trades, which we

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Speaker 1: have seen in the past. But five picks in there

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Speaker 1: have been none. Uh. Andrew asked, do you really think

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Speaker 1: the Jazz aren't trying to win or is the West

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Speaker 1: just that tough? No, man, if you the Jazz, I'm

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Speaker 1: pretty sure got fined for not trying to win last year.

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Speaker 1: The sixth pick is in Adam Silver's at the podium,

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Speaker 1: and in his trade, Johnson goes to the Washington Wizards.

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Speaker 1: So the consensus mock mocks, by the way, are they

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Speaker 1: had one through four exactly right. NBA dot Com actually

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Speaker 1: published the consensus mock and they had Tray five A six.

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Speaker 1: It ends up Ace five Tray six and so what

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Speaker 1: does oh and Jonathan Givoni, that's a useful note, says

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Speaker 1: the Utah Jazz are keeping Ace Bailey. Okay, So whenever

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Speaker 1: you've got to send that tweet out, By the way,

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Speaker 1: that kind of verifies, at least to me, validates for

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Speaker 1: me at least my instincts that it was. Some people

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Speaker 1: were curious, are they drafting him to keep him or

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Speaker 1: drafting him to trade him? So the Wizards have another

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Speaker 1: first rounder they have picked eighteen. They also, of course

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Speaker 1: traded away Oran Poole. Uh yesterday or the day before yesterday.

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Speaker 1: The day's all run together. Trey Johnson out of Texas,

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Speaker 1: the SEC Freshman of the Year, and he goes to

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Speaker 1: Washington and instantly, I mean becomes I mean, are they

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Speaker 1: gonna ask now that Jordan Pool's gone, They're gonna ask

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Speaker 1: him to be their number one score? Maybe the producers

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Speaker 1: say thoughts on the shorts for Trey Johnson. I guess

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Speaker 1: I didn't see if he wore a suit with shorts.

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Speaker 1: That's not really my style, but I've got to see

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Speaker 1: it in order to actually respond to it. Let's k

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Speaker 1: twenty two m ask who trades for Deer and Fox.

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Speaker 1: Ain't room for all them guards in San Antonio? Uh No,

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Speaker 1: there's certainly there is room net right now. There certainly

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Speaker 1: is Like you can have remember Oklahoma City the one

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Speaker 1: year had shrewder Sga and Chris Paul Like you can

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Speaker 1: have three quality guards that you for the time being,

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Speaker 1: at least I don't, and so I think San Antonio

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Speaker 1: is just trying to keep all of their options open.

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Speaker 1: Nathan asking any team truly draft into being championship caliber tonight, Well, sure,

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Speaker 1: if we're if we're not talking about next year's championship.

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Speaker 1: Fact of the matter is, in the NBA, rookies don't

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Speaker 1: help you win titles like Daniel's Nuggets did it with

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Speaker 1: Christian Brown having a small, small, small role. But rookies

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Speaker 1: don't help you win titles in this league. They just

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Speaker 1: never have. I shouldn't say never. Obviously magic did, but

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Speaker 1: historically that that's not where it goes. But yeah, teams

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Speaker 1: can certainly. Oh I'm looking at the picture now. Oh

643
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,399
Speaker 1: that's a fine look. Listen. I I'm just gonna sound

644
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:57,560
Speaker 1: like an old man. I'm not gonna you know, the

645
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,799
Speaker 1: fashions change over the years. It's a fine look. I'm

646
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:07,280
Speaker 1: not even gonna venture into it. Uh So one flag,

647
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 1: two Harper to San Antonio, three, Edge Comb to Philadelphia,

648
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 1: four Canipple to the Hornets, five Ace Bailey to the

649
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 1: Jazz and six Uh just happened, my goodness? Uh, Trey Johnson,

650
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 1: sorry to the Wizards, And now the Pelican's on the clock,

651
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:33,439
Speaker 1: and I am unstunned at this point. Now we've had

652
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 1: no trades, and I also wonder if Brooklyn like Brooklyn.

653
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:41,239
Speaker 1: At some point, Brooklyn's gotta figure out what the hell

654
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:44,359
Speaker 1: they're gonna do with these picks. You can't draft five

655
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:47,839
Speaker 1: first rounders. You literally don't have the roster spots for him,

656
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 1: like I don't. I'm sure their plan is to package

657
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 1: some together, but you're not gonna It's pretty clear you're

658
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 1: not packaging anything together to move up from eight. So

659
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:04,720
Speaker 1: maybe you're thinking you'd put nineteen and twenty two together

660
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 1: and that moves you up to I don't know what's

661
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:12,880
Speaker 1: that worth fifteen. I'm really not certain. All right, So

662
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:17,839
Speaker 1: now we're on New Orleans, which just New Orleans just

663
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:23,399
Speaker 1: acquired Jordan Poole in a move. I don't totally understand

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00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 1: the Pelicans right now. They're kind of cap sheet, so

665
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 1: to speak, which also can be a de facto depth chart.

666
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:38,160
Speaker 1: They just got Pool and Sadiq Bay, They obviously have Zion,

667
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:43,319
Speaker 1: They have Dejonte Murray coming off in Achilles, and then

668
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:46,399
Speaker 1: they have two guys that I like, and I think

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00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 1: everybody likes and Trey Murphy and he and Herb Jones,

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00:48:52,400 --> 00:49:00,799
Speaker 1: Alvarado's fine, and then young player Jordan Hawkins. Uh I

671
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:07,600
Speaker 1: I would imagine, well, I don't know. Maybe the answer

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00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 1: here is they go Malawac. I think Derek Queen and

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00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:20,279
Speaker 1: Zion together is a bit of a curious fit. I

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00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:25,200
Speaker 1: would have said Jeremiah Fears if they hadn't just traded,

675
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:35,880
Speaker 1: if they hadn't just traded for Jordan Poole. So I

676
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 1: think the smart pick would be Malwac. I think the

677
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:47,759
Speaker 1: consensus pick here is Fears, And maybe they don't care

678
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:50,960
Speaker 1: they traded for Jordan Poole. Maybe it's like, no, you know,

679
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: Jordan Poole should not dictate our draft plans, which I

680
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:58,320
Speaker 1: agree with. But you still just traded for a guy

681
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:02,680
Speaker 1: who's third million this year and thirty four million next year.

682
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:08,279
Speaker 1: And if they do well, we should be able to

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00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:11,759
Speaker 1: Let's just find out here in a second exactly who

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00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 1: they are picking, because it will obviously greatly inform for Brooklyn.

685
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:24,279
Speaker 1: If if they go Fears, then I think Brooklyn is

686
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:30,560
Speaker 1: in a really interesting spot, and I'll explain why in

687
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:35,759
Speaker 1: a second. But is the is Adam Silver gonna walk

688
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:40,200
Speaker 1: to the podium and the producers ask our Pool and

689
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:43,520
Speaker 1: Zion one of the most fun league pass teams. Maybe,

690
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:47,600
Speaker 1: I mean is certainly if Shackton a fool's gonna exist,

691
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:50,080
Speaker 1: You're you're gonna get some fun out of it. And

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00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 1: for the handful of games Zion's fully healthy and awesome,

693
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:55,440
Speaker 1: you'll get something out of it. I just don't look

694
00:50:55,480 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 1: at them as neither one has taken their career super seriously.

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00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:05,399
Speaker 1: Jeremiah Fears is the pick. So New Orleans does take

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00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 1: Jeremiah Fears, and so that is that is a hell

697
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 1: of a chain. I like that. So New Orleans next

698
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:22,280
Speaker 1: year is gonna trot out. It'll be Fears, Jordan Poole

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00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:31,359
Speaker 1: as you're starting back court, Zion, Trey Murphy as you're

700
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:35,600
Speaker 1: starting front court. I don't know who you're starting. Sinner

701
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:39,479
Speaker 1: is going to be, and then Herb Jones. I guess

702
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 1: Herb or Trey Murphy alongside Zion, and then Dejonta Murray

703
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:48,399
Speaker 1: when he comes back from his achilles. I don't understand

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00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:52,880
Speaker 1: the Pelicans. And again that's nothing against Fears. Fears fine player.

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00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 1: I the at one point last year it looked like

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00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:59,920
Speaker 1: he might you know, finish top three in the Wooden Award.

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00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:03,160
Speaker 1: It's nothing against fears. I guess there's not a lot

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00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 1: of players that I thought would have made a ton

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00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 1: of sense thereof than Malawac. But all right, so here

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00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:11,719
Speaker 1: is what I was saying about the Nets that I

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00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 1: think is interesting. So if you are the Brooklyn Nets

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00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:27,799
Speaker 1: now and you know that a team like the Lakers

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00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:32,480
Speaker 1: would probably pay a little more than they should for

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00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:40,920
Speaker 1: Nick Claxton, does that inform at all your opinion on

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00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:45,160
Speaker 1: whether or not you want to just seamlessly draft Claxton's

716
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:54,319
Speaker 1: replacement in Malawak and with the plans of having a

717
00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:58,719
Speaker 1: higher upside in my opinion, defensive minded center. You can

718
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:01,920
Speaker 1: catch lobs and not that Clason's got a bad contract.

719
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:05,319
Speaker 1: It makes twenty five to twenty three twenty and and

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00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:08,080
Speaker 1: whether it's the Lakers or someone else, Claxon has some

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00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:14,200
Speaker 1: value or do you is your plan if you're Brooklyn

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00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:20,000
Speaker 1: that you are going to you know, you obviously are

723
00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:23,040
Speaker 1: going to package some of those other picks. You have to.

724
00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:24,920
Speaker 1: I know, I keep saying there's going to be trades.

725
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 1: There has to be trades. At some point, package some

726
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:31,680
Speaker 1: of those other picks to move up to where you

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00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: have the eighth pick and then also have like the

728
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:36,279
Speaker 1: tenth or the eleventh pick, and you want to take

729
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 1: Derreck Queen. Now, I I think Derek Queen has if

730
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:49,959
Speaker 1: I were how about this? This is a fun game.

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00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 1: Guys most likely in this draft to at one point

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00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 1: in their career show up on someone's MVP ballot. Number

733
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 1: one with a bullet is obviously flag. Number two I

734
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:16,319
Speaker 1: think is pretty obviously Harper. I think number three is

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00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:21,240
Speaker 1: Derek Queen. Now that also might be top ten picks,

736
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:26,840
Speaker 1: you know, most likely to be traded before the end

737
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:31,200
Speaker 1: of their rookie contract. Maybe Queen's also that. But if

738
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:37,720
Speaker 1: I'm Brooklyn, for me, the talent and upside of Queen

739
00:54:38,040 --> 00:54:46,719
Speaker 1: is impossible to pass up unless I already know I'm

740
00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:49,959
Speaker 1: trading Claxton. And I feel like, you know what, even

741
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 1: if even if I am trading Claxton, I probably shouldn't

742
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:56,719
Speaker 1: be drafting for this year anyway. I still think you

743
00:54:56,800 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 1: probably take Queen. But I could totally see them going

744
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 1: mall lock here and then signaling to the entire league.

745
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:11,400
Speaker 1: Nick Claxton is available, and for Brooklyn, their best the

746
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:17,440
Speaker 1: what Brooklyn has going for it is their future draft picks. Really,

747
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:25,839
Speaker 1: so Brooklyn after this year they have they have all

748
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:29,960
Speaker 1: these picks this year, and then in twenty seven they

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00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 1: have a Knicks first. In twenty seven they have a

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Speaker 1: Philly first. They have their own obviously that year in

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00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:41,759
Speaker 1: twenty six they have their own, and then whore what's

752
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 1: the other? I thought they had one really juicy first

753
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:46,399
Speaker 1: round pick. Oh, maybe it's just they got all their

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00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:50,839
Speaker 1: own picks back. And then there's they they are one

755
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:52,920
Speaker 1: of the teams that is involved in like a seven

756
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:56,000
Speaker 1: way pick swap in twenty twenty nine that I just

757
00:55:56,080 --> 00:56:00,839
Speaker 1: can't quite figure out. But so that's what now. I

758
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:04,000
Speaker 1: remember Brooklyn got their own draft picks back, which was

759
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:07,319
Speaker 1: very important for them after they didn't have those, which

760
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:10,800
Speaker 1: kind of allowed them to reset everything they were doing.

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00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:14,920
Speaker 1: All Right, the nets are celebrating. I wonder what they're celebrating.

762
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:18,120
Speaker 1: Maybe they're just celebrating that they made their pick. Are

763
00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:21,520
Speaker 1: we gonna get any trades tonight? I'll be honest, And

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00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:24,920
Speaker 1: I appreciate my friends at boost Mobile for setting this

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Speaker 1: up and for us doing this today, and I enjoy

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00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:30,920
Speaker 1: doing it. But I thought one of the reasons I

767
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:32,360
Speaker 1: was excited to do it was because I thought it

768
00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:35,160
Speaker 1: would be live reacting to a bunch of trades. There

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00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:41,520
Speaker 1: have been none, and the Nets draft room, I don't.

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00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:48,160
Speaker 1: It seems to me like they are reacting to uh

771
00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:51,799
Speaker 1: making a pick. So maybe there's still no trades. Kin

772
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:55,440
Speaker 1: asks no concern about Queen's motor. No, there are concerns.

773
00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:58,840
Speaker 1: That's why I said, I think he is a you know,

774
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:02,839
Speaker 1: low floor, high ceiling guy, maybe the low floor high

775
00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:09,360
Speaker 1: ceiling guy of this draft. But it's still it's still

776
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:13,799
Speaker 1: to me if you're the Nets worth a dice roll

777
00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:17,240
Speaker 1: because you need you need a high ceiling player. And

778
00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:20,640
Speaker 1: as much as I like Malawak Malawac, you know exactly

779
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:23,280
Speaker 1: what he's going to be. He is not going to

780
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:28,280
Speaker 1: be a high ceiling player. He is going to be

781
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:31,720
Speaker 1: a very useful player. And the hope is that he

782
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:38,240
Speaker 1: can be like a better version of Clint Capella, which

783
00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:40,760
Speaker 1: is again a very useful player, and we'll have a

784
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:44,000
Speaker 1: long career in this league, but no chance of being

785
00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:49,760
Speaker 1: a star. Wow, I'm just looking at the screen. It

786
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:54,200
Speaker 1: says Jay Billis is five best available and Queen's not

787
00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:58,920
Speaker 1: even one of them. So maybe I'm just way out

788
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:02,760
Speaker 1: to lunch on Queen. But I love him. All right,

789
00:58:03,160 --> 00:58:10,280
Speaker 1: I'm very fascinated by him. To me this, this is

790
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:15,320
Speaker 1: either if I'm running Brooklyn, it's either Queen or Malawoc

791
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:25,080
Speaker 1: and Adam Silver is going to it's Egor Dimon. I

792
00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:29,920
Speaker 1: gotta tell you that one I didn't see coming. That

793
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 1: is the guard out of BYU. Where So so let

794
00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:43,360
Speaker 1: me or I'm pronouncing his name wrong, Yegor Denham. My apologies.

795
00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:50,200
Speaker 1: Adam Lefgo just texts me demean my guy. So that

796
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:54,280
Speaker 1: was and I'm trying. I'm this is the first pick

797
00:58:55,000 --> 00:59:02,960
Speaker 1: that is I think far outside the consensus. Now again

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00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:07,240
Speaker 1: I don't think that that is a negative necessarily, but

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00:59:07,640 --> 00:59:16,040
Speaker 1: ESPN's final mock had Yegor going thirteenth. The Ringers final

800
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:23,400
Speaker 1: mock didn't have him in the lottery. The Athletics final

801
00:59:23,480 --> 00:59:29,320
Speaker 1: mock didn't have him in the lottery. Yeah who sports

802
00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:35,240
Speaker 1: is didn't? Bleacher Reports didn't? Is that right? Let me

803
00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:42,080
Speaker 1: just I mean that's what it seemed the I'm looking

804
00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:49,280
Speaker 1: So who did, NET Scouts did, and CBS sports is

805
00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:52,560
Speaker 1: Gary Parrish, my old buddy, and they all had him

806
00:59:52,720 --> 00:59:57,120
Speaker 1: at thirteen. So let me this. I'm doing this on

807
00:59:57,160 --> 01:00:02,000
Speaker 1: the fly. I apologize. See what his consensus spot was

808
01:00:02,040 --> 01:00:06,200
Speaker 1: and again that's not everything, but it is. This is

809
01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:12,479
Speaker 1: the first reach is too strong. But this is the

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01:00:12,520 --> 01:00:17,600
Speaker 1: first one that is kind of off the board from

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Speaker 1: where we had seen it before. So the ESPN, which

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01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:26,200
Speaker 1: who is it for? ESPN? I want to be fair here.

813
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:33,640
Speaker 1: Who wrote this? Oh? This is Gavoni? So Gavoni? Who

814
01:00:33,720 --> 01:00:37,560
Speaker 1: is the best at this? I think Gavoni had him

815
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Speaker 1: going thirteenth, so not a huge reach. And it's so funny,

816
01:00:43,680 --> 01:00:49,800
Speaker 1: he writes, Let me pull this up real quick. I

817
01:00:49,840 --> 01:00:53,440
Speaker 1: apologize there it is. Deman Is another player has been

818
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:55,560
Speaker 1: tough to pin down in terms of his landing spot.

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01:00:55,600 --> 01:00:57,680
Speaker 1: He got that exactly right. Having worked out for the

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01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:01,480
Speaker 1: vast majority of franchises inside the top teams believe he's

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01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:07,919
Speaker 1: a possibility for Toronto, Portland and Chicago as well. Good

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Speaker 1: for you, Gavoni, as well as a sleeper target for Brooklyn.

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01:01:11,600 --> 01:01:13,840
Speaker 1: But it's possible to slip past that, at which point

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Speaker 1: there's a best available case for a club such as

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01:01:16,360 --> 01:01:19,760
Speaker 1: the Hawks. Simply take a swing, okay, And then he

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Speaker 1: writes at his size, Demon's potential versatility as a perimeter

827
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Speaker 1: playmaker stands out in the context of this class. The

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Speaker 1: development of his jump or something he has worked on

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Speaker 1: to showcase in private is one of the more pivotal

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Speaker 1: swings for any prospect. Oh and that wasn't Cavoni, that

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Speaker 1: was Wu. But this is Wu. In Cavoni's article, my

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Speaker 1: apologies want to give credit words due, Jeremy Wu wrote

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Speaker 1: that section of it. So that is that is a

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Speaker 1: a surprising one to me. Caavoni, who lives and breathes this,

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Speaker 1: you know, probably not as surprised as he says. A

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Speaker 1: potential sleeper, but still he was considered, you know, a

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Speaker 1: guy that might fall out of the lottery and obviously didn't.

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Speaker 1: Before we get to the Toronto Raptors pick, which is

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Speaker 1: All right, so Raptors are on the clock. The Raptors

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01:03:56,520 --> 01:04:01,760
Speaker 1: are another team that and I said this on the

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01:04:01,760 --> 01:04:06,160
Speaker 1: TV show today, and I know I'm not the only one.

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01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:09,240
Speaker 1: I'm a little confused at what the Raptors playing is

872
01:04:09,920 --> 01:04:15,880
Speaker 1: Like the Raptors were mentioned as a team. It's like,

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01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:21,480
Speaker 1: oh man, could the Raptors be interested in Kevin Durant.

874
01:04:21,640 --> 01:04:29,200
Speaker 1: It's like, what why the Raptors during the year go

875
01:04:29,240 --> 01:04:35,120
Speaker 1: get brandon Ingram a move that I didn't totally understand.

876
01:04:35,520 --> 01:04:43,520
Speaker 1: I feel like there is at this point, Messi has

877
01:04:43,600 --> 01:04:47,040
Speaker 1: to feel a real pressure, even though he won the

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01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:52,000
Speaker 1: championship in twenty nineteen, to put a real product back

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01:04:52,040 --> 01:04:54,920
Speaker 1: on the floor. I also feel like, and again I'm

880
01:04:54,960 --> 01:04:57,880
Speaker 1: gonna sound like a broken record about my guys, and

881
01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:02,000
Speaker 1: not the my guys, but about these two players. But

882
01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:06,080
Speaker 1: Toronto's got a long history of being good with NBA

883
01:05:06,200 --> 01:05:10,360
Speaker 1: international players. They also, when you already have Scottie Barnes

884
01:05:10,880 --> 01:05:15,880
Speaker 1: are obviously trying to establish something of a physical defensive identity.

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01:05:16,600 --> 01:05:19,640
Speaker 1: But when you already have Barnes and you already have

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01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:25,720
Speaker 1: Ingram and you already have Barrett. Does uh what you

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01:05:25,800 --> 01:05:30,200
Speaker 1: McCall it? Does, Derek Queen make a lot of sense?

888
01:05:31,480 --> 01:05:37,080
Speaker 1: So is this where Malawat goes like it? You feel

889
01:05:37,120 --> 01:05:44,680
Speaker 1: like he's probably becomes their day one starting center. And

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01:05:46,480 --> 01:05:50,240
Speaker 1: I also am just really curious. What. Oh man, it

891
01:05:50,320 --> 01:05:52,920
Speaker 1: looked like some one of these guys girlfriends whoever they

892
01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:56,840
Speaker 1: just showed on the broadcast, looked like his girlfriend was crying,

893
01:05:57,440 --> 01:06:01,440
Speaker 1: like nobody has fallen too far yet. And maybe I

894
01:06:01,640 --> 01:06:05,080
Speaker 1: maybe I don't want to use Uh they're showing Colin

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01:06:05,200 --> 01:06:08,240
Speaker 1: Murray boils from South Carolina. Maybe she wasn't crying. Maybe

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01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:10,560
Speaker 1: I just glanced at it wrong, but she looks when

897
01:06:10,560 --> 01:06:13,800
Speaker 1: I saw, she looked very upset. Like nobody's having an

898
01:06:13,840 --> 01:06:17,720
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers style drop right now. Nobody should be upset.

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01:06:17,720 --> 01:06:21,640
Speaker 1: Everybody'd be very happy, uh with it, with how this

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01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:24,320
Speaker 1: is gone. No, there's nobody that was expected to go

901
01:06:24,520 --> 01:06:26,760
Speaker 1: top five that's still on the board, and still we're

902
01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:28,560
Speaker 1: only on the ninth pick. We're on the ninth pick

903
01:06:28,600 --> 01:06:31,160
Speaker 1: and we have, by the way, salmon got in the trade,

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01:06:31,200 --> 01:06:33,760
Speaker 1: which if it sounds like I'm annoyed by it. I

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01:06:34,040 --> 01:06:36,600
Speaker 1: guess I am a little annoyed by it because I

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01:06:36,720 --> 01:06:41,520
Speaker 1: expected there to be like some insane action which just

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01:06:41,560 --> 01:06:45,000
Speaker 1: hasn't happened. Now. It's great for these kids, but I

908
01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:48,240
Speaker 1: don't know, I expected there to be wild trades up

909
01:06:48,280 --> 01:06:54,920
Speaker 1: to this point. Colin Murray, oh maybe is that oh man? So?

910
01:06:55,800 --> 01:07:03,880
Speaker 1: Colin Murray Boyles so was just so? Is that? Aw man?

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01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:09,880
Speaker 1: Is that why the girlfriend? I feel bad speculating about this,

912
01:07:10,440 --> 01:07:13,040
Speaker 1: but is that why she was so? Was she crying

913
01:07:13,160 --> 01:07:16,680
Speaker 1: tears of happiness because he just got the text? Who's

914
01:07:16,720 --> 01:07:21,440
Speaker 1: being drafted? Or was she crying? Is she sad because

915
01:07:24,840 --> 01:07:28,120
Speaker 1: he's good? I mean, he's going to Canada. I don't know.

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01:07:28,960 --> 01:07:31,560
Speaker 1: That's a really weird one. I don't know why that.

917
01:07:31,960 --> 01:07:35,120
Speaker 1: The person sitting next one would have been upset. I

918
01:07:35,160 --> 01:07:39,880
Speaker 1: am and if anybody, by the way, the if any

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01:07:39,920 --> 01:07:42,600
Speaker 1: of our producers, if they have we have audio, they

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01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:45,960
Speaker 1: have audio on the actual broadcast, and like it's not

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01:07:46,000 --> 01:07:48,240
Speaker 1: like the broadcast is gonna tell me anything about that,

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01:07:48,680 --> 01:07:52,080
Speaker 1: So I I don't I don't know. That was a

923
01:07:52,080 --> 01:07:54,920
Speaker 1: weird one because I couldn't figure out why she was sad.

924
01:07:55,240 --> 01:07:58,640
Speaker 1: But then the guy just got drafted and so obviously

925
01:07:58,720 --> 01:08:01,760
Speaker 1: he knew, you know, a minute before or so, that

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01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:05,440
Speaker 1: he was gonna be drafted. I also fact check me

927
01:08:05,520 --> 01:08:12,360
Speaker 1: on this. Is he is Colin Murray Boyles. Is he

928
01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:21,519
Speaker 1: the first two year player to be drafted? Is he

929
01:08:21,600 --> 01:08:26,840
Speaker 1: the first non freshman to be drafted? Am I forgetting somebody?

930
01:08:27,680 --> 01:08:32,439
Speaker 1: I think he is? Check this for producers if you

931
01:08:32,479 --> 01:08:35,680
Speaker 1: guys don't mind check that for me. I think he.

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01:08:36,560 --> 01:08:40,759
Speaker 1: I think he's the first non freshman to be drafted,

933
01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:45,280
Speaker 1: which is kind of a sign of where we're at

934
01:08:45,439 --> 01:08:48,000
Speaker 1: in the NBA and the college basketball. And again it's

935
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:53,679
Speaker 1: not even a value judgment, but the first eight picks

936
01:08:53,720 --> 01:09:00,559
Speaker 1: of the draft, we're all one and done player so far.

937
01:09:00,960 --> 01:09:04,320
Speaker 1: It also makes him that's so funny. Let me see

938
01:09:04,439 --> 01:09:07,080
Speaker 1: exactly how old he is. It also makes him the

939
01:09:07,240 --> 01:09:14,240
Speaker 1: oldest player drafted, and he is. That's unbelievable. He turned

940
01:09:14,240 --> 01:09:19,280
Speaker 1: twenty two weeks ago. He's the So he's the oldest.

941
01:09:19,400 --> 01:09:22,400
Speaker 1: He's the first twenty year old that's been drafted. He

942
01:09:22,520 --> 01:09:27,680
Speaker 1: is also the only two year college player who was drafted.

943
01:09:28,240 --> 01:09:32,599
Speaker 1: He is. If you're interested in his numbers. Last year

944
01:09:32,600 --> 01:09:39,040
Speaker 1: at South Carolina, he was sixteen and eighth and super

945
01:09:39,040 --> 01:09:43,360
Speaker 1: efficient and his freshman year. You know, was a good

946
01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:47,080
Speaker 1: player ten and six last year even better sixteen and eight.

947
01:09:47,479 --> 01:09:51,759
Speaker 1: Why is this girl so sad they're showing her more?

948
01:09:52,680 --> 01:09:57,639
Speaker 1: I am flummixed by that. That is the biggest surprise

949
01:09:57,720 --> 01:10:04,800
Speaker 1: of the night. Oh, I have a trade? Finally, what

950
01:10:04,960 --> 01:10:13,519
Speaker 1: is hull? Wait a second, here, do we have a trade? Okay?

951
01:10:13,560 --> 01:10:18,360
Speaker 1: So this is okay. The broadcast is being that's you

952
01:10:18,400 --> 01:10:20,600
Speaker 1: know what, I'm gonna go ahead and say that's a

953
01:10:20,840 --> 01:10:25,800
Speaker 1: bad editorial decision. I apologize to the audience because it

954
01:10:25,960 --> 01:10:32,480
Speaker 1: says I'm looking down at the at the ESPN broadcast

955
01:10:33,240 --> 01:10:37,360
Speaker 1: and it says number picking number ten Houston with the

956
01:10:37,439 --> 01:10:42,519
Speaker 1: Rockets logo, and then it says proposed trade with the Suns.

957
01:10:43,040 --> 01:10:47,519
Speaker 1: And I guess this is because that trade technically can't

958
01:10:47,560 --> 01:10:50,240
Speaker 1: take place yet. And so maybe it's this isn't an

959
01:10:50,479 --> 01:10:54,760
Speaker 1: ESPN thing, Maybe it's an NBA thing where technically this

960
01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:59,280
Speaker 1: is the Rockets pick. Technically the Rockets will be making

961
01:10:59,320 --> 01:11:03,799
Speaker 1: this pick, but in reality, this is the Sun's making

962
01:11:03,880 --> 01:11:08,960
Speaker 1: this pick. All right, So this if there is an again,

963
01:11:09,080 --> 01:11:11,960
Speaker 1: if he doesn't get picked here, I'll stop bringing him up.

964
01:11:12,640 --> 01:11:18,320
Speaker 1: But if if this isn't Maluwak. Then I don't know

965
01:11:18,320 --> 01:11:21,360
Speaker 1: what the hell's going on. If there's ever been a

966
01:11:21,400 --> 01:11:27,639
Speaker 1: team that needs some semblance of reliable rim protection more

967
01:11:28,040 --> 01:11:32,920
Speaker 1: than a team that's gonna trot out there Booker Bradley Beal,

968
01:11:33,520 --> 01:11:40,120
Speaker 1: Jalen Green, and it has no bigs to speak of

969
01:11:40,360 --> 01:11:44,080
Speaker 1: at all, and does not need a guy like Queen

970
01:11:44,479 --> 01:11:47,320
Speaker 1: who's going to want you know, I would think a

971
01:11:47,360 --> 01:11:49,920
Speaker 1: fair amount of shots and to run the show this,

972
01:11:50,120 --> 01:11:54,360
Speaker 1: I would think. Now again, never doubt the power of

973
01:11:54,400 --> 01:12:01,760
Speaker 1: Mattishbia to Mattishbia situation. But this has to be Malawac

974
01:12:02,280 --> 01:12:05,519
Speaker 1: and they have to be thrilled that he fell to

975
01:12:05,600 --> 01:12:11,080
Speaker 1: here like this is a guy that they will ask

976
01:12:11,240 --> 01:12:15,280
Speaker 1: to be as a rookie, a suit their starting center

977
01:12:15,280 --> 01:12:19,360
Speaker 1: from day one. And if they end up, I mean,

978
01:12:19,400 --> 01:12:22,080
Speaker 1: who else could They're not gonna take Queen that I'm

979
01:12:22,200 --> 01:12:29,680
Speaker 1: very very comfortable in. You can't take another guard, So

980
01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:34,960
Speaker 1: you can't take the Illinois kid, You're I don't think

981
01:12:35,080 --> 01:12:39,400
Speaker 1: Ishbia is gonna let him take an international player that

982
01:12:39,479 --> 01:12:44,840
Speaker 1: he didn't see and so and I mean, you could

983
01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:50,639
Speaker 1: take Carter Bryant. I suppose who's another guy that would

984
01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:58,439
Speaker 1: greatly improve your defense. But I would imagine that this

985
01:12:58,960 --> 01:13:04,120
Speaker 1: is madawock and it's so weird that they're putting all

986
01:13:04,240 --> 01:13:08,400
Speaker 1: rockets that the NBA makes at the draft then put

987
01:13:08,600 --> 01:13:14,639
Speaker 1: rockets logos and all this rocket stuff up there when

988
01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:18,320
Speaker 1: we all know this is not the Rockets pick. But

989
01:13:19,240 --> 01:13:22,000
Speaker 1: I suppose it is what it is. And I'm also

990
01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:25,800
Speaker 1: you know, you guys know this. I am not a

991
01:13:27,280 --> 01:13:29,839
Speaker 1: I don't feel a lot of obligations to the audience

992
01:13:29,880 --> 01:13:33,200
Speaker 1: except for honesty. I am not gonna pretend if this

993
01:13:33,320 --> 01:13:38,040
Speaker 1: ends up being that Noah Singway, any of the international guys,

994
01:13:38,600 --> 01:13:41,479
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna pretend I know anything about them. I

995
01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:49,400
Speaker 1: have not been uh, I have not been on the

996
01:13:49,439 --> 01:13:53,519
Speaker 1: international beat sort of speak. All right, hold on, so

997
01:13:53,680 --> 01:13:57,479
Speaker 1: let's see so we I see this right now, we

998
01:13:57,560 --> 01:14:02,719
Speaker 1: do have a trade. The whole Hornets are trading center

999
01:14:02,880 --> 01:14:08,800
Speaker 1: Mark Williams to the Phoenix Suns for the twenty ninth pick,

1000
01:14:09,280 --> 01:14:14,519
Speaker 1: that and a twenty twenty nine first round pick. So

1001
01:14:14,600 --> 01:14:18,080
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on a second, What the hell pick

1002
01:14:18,160 --> 01:14:20,160
Speaker 1: did the Suns just trade? All right, first of all,

1003
01:14:20,240 --> 01:14:23,840
Speaker 1: let's do this. Now we have some action boys. All right,

1004
01:14:23,960 --> 01:14:26,760
Speaker 1: this is the Rockets pick, but it's actually the Sun's pick.

1005
01:14:27,240 --> 01:14:30,640
Speaker 1: The Rockets pick, which is actually the Sun's pick. It

1006
01:14:30,640 --> 01:14:34,600
Speaker 1: it is Malawak and he is sobbing and that is

1007
01:14:34,640 --> 01:14:39,760
Speaker 1: a great scene. This kid from South Sudan, what a story.

1008
01:14:40,040 --> 01:14:42,759
Speaker 1: So happy for him. I was just saying, how Phoenix

1009
01:14:42,840 --> 01:14:46,280
Speaker 1: has to get some type of defensive big Did they

1010
01:14:46,400 --> 01:14:50,200
Speaker 1: just draft one and trade for one? I don't actually

1011
01:14:50,240 --> 01:14:54,400
Speaker 1: hate that, but I don't know how they're allowed to

1012
01:14:54,400 --> 01:14:57,760
Speaker 1: trade their twenty twenty ninth pick. So I've got to

1013
01:14:57,800 --> 01:15:04,599
Speaker 1: look this up. So the Sun's what in twenty twenty seven,

1014
01:15:06,120 --> 01:15:10,000
Speaker 1: I guess they have a swamp, so that's fine. In

1015
01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:17,360
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight they have their own. In twenty twenty nine,

1016
01:15:17,560 --> 01:15:21,360
Speaker 1: oh they have a swamp. Okay, So one of the

1017
01:15:21,360 --> 01:15:24,920
Speaker 1: only draft picks that they are allowed to trade they

1018
01:15:25,160 --> 01:15:32,720
Speaker 1: just traded for Mark Williams. So gosh, this is put

1019
01:15:32,800 --> 01:15:37,599
Speaker 1: in the doc. What the original Mark Williams trade was,

1020
01:15:37,680 --> 01:15:41,599
Speaker 1: if you would guys, it was Dalton connect and a first.

1021
01:15:41,640 --> 01:15:47,719
Speaker 1: I believe they end up getting the twenty ninth pick

1022
01:15:48,400 --> 01:15:53,360
Speaker 1: of the draft, which Phoenix had from some other trade,

1023
01:15:53,920 --> 01:15:57,360
Speaker 1: and a twenty twenty nine first. All right, where I

1024
01:15:57,400 --> 01:16:02,479
Speaker 1: will give the Sun's even though I do not think

1025
01:16:02,520 --> 01:16:05,519
Speaker 1: they are going to be good at all? All right,

1026
01:16:05,600 --> 01:16:12,040
Speaker 1: So the initial trade was Dalton Connect, Cam Reddish, a

1027
01:16:12,160 --> 01:16:17,519
Speaker 1: twenty thirty swap, and an unprotected twenty thirty one first

1028
01:16:18,800 --> 01:16:23,000
Speaker 1: The new trade is the twenty ninth pick of this

1029
01:16:23,120 --> 01:16:29,599
Speaker 1: year's draft and a first rounder in twenty twenty nine, uh,

1030
01:16:31,040 --> 01:16:36,719
Speaker 1: which is here. It is the least favorable of Cleveland, Utah,

1031
01:16:36,880 --> 01:16:42,680
Speaker 1: and Minnesota's first round picks. So yeah, if you're the

1032
01:16:42,760 --> 01:16:45,639
Speaker 1: if you're Charlotte, you're a little more than a little annoyed.

1033
01:16:46,160 --> 01:16:49,360
Speaker 1: This is not nearly the same package the Lakers were

1034
01:16:49,400 --> 01:16:53,080
Speaker 1: gonna give you. The Lakers were giving you Dalton Connect,

1035
01:16:53,360 --> 01:16:55,519
Speaker 1: who was a top what was he the nineteenth pick

1036
01:16:55,600 --> 01:16:59,040
Speaker 1: last year, the eighteenth pick something like that, an unprotected

1037
01:16:59,080 --> 01:17:04,160
Speaker 1: twenty thirty one, and a swap in twenty thirty. Instead

1038
01:17:05,720 --> 01:17:10,599
Speaker 1: you are getting the twenty ninth pick and the worst

1039
01:17:10,840 --> 01:17:16,880
Speaker 1: of Cleveland, Utah, and Minnesota's twenty twenty nine picks. So

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Speaker 1: that's not great. Now, what I will say is the

1041
01:17:23,120 --> 01:17:27,000
Speaker 1: Suns all of a sudden have two like and Dalton

1042
01:17:27,040 --> 01:17:29,679
Speaker 1: Knack was seventeen thick. The Suns all of a sudden

1043
01:17:29,760 --> 01:17:34,599
Speaker 1: do have now real depth at center, and they you know,

1044
01:17:34,680 --> 01:17:39,519
Speaker 1: Mark Williams is an injury risk, and so I don't

1045
01:17:40,360 --> 01:17:43,479
Speaker 1: I don't hate that trade for Phoenix. Fair is fair

1046
01:17:44,760 --> 01:17:48,320
Speaker 1: the twenty ninth pick and a crummy first rounder in

1047
01:17:48,400 --> 01:17:52,000
Speaker 1: twenty twenty nine, like a guaranteed to be crummy first rounder,

1048
01:17:52,160 --> 01:17:56,040
Speaker 1: because again you take Cleveland, Utah and Minnesota's first and

1049
01:17:57,080 --> 01:17:59,479
Speaker 1: it's the worst of those three is what they're getting.

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01:17:59,600 --> 01:18:03,000
Speaker 1: I think it's a good trade by Phoenix, and now

1051
01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:05,080
Speaker 1: they do have their center position taking care of it.

1052
01:18:05,120 --> 01:18:07,120
Speaker 1: I still don't know who there are point guards going

1053
01:18:07,160 --> 01:18:13,880
Speaker 1: to be, but that's not bad. By the way. Something

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Speaker 1: far through the first ten picks got the biggest boost

1058
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Speaker 1: of the draft. I'm you know what, after spending so

1059
01:18:31,680 --> 01:18:36,040
Speaker 1: much time kind of making fun of the Phoenix Suns

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Speaker 1: for how they were run, I think that was a

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Speaker 1: good little ninety seconds for them. I think getting Malawak,

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Speaker 1: who is a player I like a lot, obviously, I've

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Speaker 1: been talking about him for a half hour, and getting

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Speaker 1: Mark Williams and the tenth pick on Malawauc makes a

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Speaker 1: ton of sense. The twenty ninth pick this year. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I know it's a first rounder, but not really, it's

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Speaker 1: kind of a second rounder. And then what is guaranteed

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Speaker 1: to be a pick somewhere in the twenties in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty nine. I think that's a really good I think that.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, you now have forty eight minutes

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Speaker 1: of defensive and lob catching center play next year when

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Speaker 1: you had zero minutes of it last year. That will

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Speaker 1: make a tangible difference for them. So I do like that. Now,

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Speaker 1: is it enough for them to make the playoffs in

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Speaker 1: the West? I do not think so, but it is.

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Speaker 1: I still think that is a really useful I think

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Speaker 1: that's a really useful maneuver for them. Say that again, Daniel,

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Speaker 1: we have a trade coming in. I didn't hear you.

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Speaker 1: I apologize. Oh, Memphis is trading up with the Blazers.

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Speaker 1: I'll get to that in a second once we get

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Speaker 1: those details, but first let me finish up Instant Boost

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Speaker 1: other two obvious ones, the Phoenix one's less obvious, the

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Speaker 1: obviously the Spurs. Adding Dylan Harper is a super impactful addition,

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Speaker 1: and you either because he gets to pair with wimby

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01:20:26,760 --> 01:20:29,360
Speaker 1: long term, or because sorry, there's a fly in here

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to catch, or because they will use him

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Speaker 1: in a huge future trade and Flag listen, Flag's gonna

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Speaker 1: get to run the offense in Dallas while Kyrie's out

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Speaker 1: and see if you can keep him in the playoff hunt.

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Speaker 1: So Dallas and San Antonio, we knew we're gonna get

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Speaker 1: an instant boost boost. I do like what Phoenix did

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Speaker 1: standing Pad at ten getting Malawac and I think getting

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Speaker 1: a good deal on Mark Williams. So that was the

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Speaker 1: instant boost presented by boost Mobile. So here is the

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Speaker 1: Portland Trailblazers are drafting and trading Cedric Coward. So the

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Speaker 1: Portland Trailblazers at eleven are going to go ahead and

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Speaker 1: draft Cedric Coward, who was a guy who was kind

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Speaker 1: of on the fringes of the consensus mock drafts in

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Speaker 1: the lottery. Well he wasn't, I shouldn't say on the

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Speaker 1: fringes of the consensus. He was outside of the lottery

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Speaker 1: in the consensus mocks, but just barely. He was projected

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Speaker 1: to go fifteen sixteen. Memphis trades and goes up and

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Speaker 1: gets him. I am very curious and once we have it,

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Speaker 1: what the details of that trade are? Guy? What is

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Speaker 1: I mean? He'll probably be the oldest player taken in

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Speaker 1: this draft. He's a senior and that is almost unheard

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Speaker 1: of in the lottery these days. And he was at

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Speaker 1: Washington State after I think starting he went to three

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01:22:25,520 --> 01:22:30,400
Speaker 1: schools only one. That's an interesting profile on him. So

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01:22:30,439 --> 01:22:35,480
Speaker 1: he went to Wilmington I think went to Eastern Washington.

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Speaker 1: One year at Washington State and only played six games,

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Speaker 1: I believe due to injury, and he ends up going

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Speaker 1: not only in the lottery, but Memphis wanted him enough

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Speaker 1: and was worried enough he wasn't gonna be there they

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01:22:49,520 --> 01:22:53,040
Speaker 1: traded up for him. And it does not appear there's

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Speaker 1: any details yet. Memphis was sitting at sixteen, so I

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Speaker 1: would imagine you know that that was the key part

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Speaker 1: of that trade. I know that he that excuse me,

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Speaker 1: coward was considered its strong biggest strength, pardon me, was

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Speaker 1: athleticism and a potential three and D guy. I don't

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Speaker 1: think many people thought he was going to be a

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Speaker 1: lottery pick. I will say it is kind of nice

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Speaker 1: to see a four year college player and a guy

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Speaker 1: who was. I'm gonna look it up. I don't think

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Speaker 1: he uh was he even rated. I'm gonna look, I'm

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Speaker 1: looking up his rivals ranking. Uh So that's that's so

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Speaker 1: a guy who had to go to a small school

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Speaker 1: and didn't have like that, to me, is a pretty

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Speaker 1: cool story for him to end up being drafted where

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Speaker 1: he was. The Grizzlies are sending the sixteenth pick, a

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight first round pick via Orlando, and I

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01:24:14,920 --> 01:24:19,559
Speaker 1: mean that's a lot and two seconds. So I mean

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01:24:19,600 --> 01:24:27,280
Speaker 1: they loved him pretty clearly, and that is, I you know,

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01:24:27,400 --> 01:24:35,080
Speaker 1: a pretty aggressive move for a guy that I think

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01:24:36,200 --> 01:24:41,320
Speaker 1: a lot of people thought was would have been there

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01:24:41,960 --> 01:24:50,120
Speaker 1: when they were drafting. And so he he had a

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Speaker 1: really good combine going into the comp because he had

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Speaker 1: you have producers can check me on this. I think

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Speaker 1: he was. What I remember is that he was gonna

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Speaker 1: go play at Duke because he was gonna be his

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01:25:05,760 --> 01:25:10,000
Speaker 1: fourth school and he was gonna what I don't even

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01:25:10,000 --> 01:25:12,080
Speaker 1: remember what I read about it, but it was that

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01:25:12,120 --> 01:25:16,040
Speaker 1: he had gone from like D three to small D

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01:25:16,240 --> 01:25:18,920
Speaker 1: one to big D one and then he was gonna

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Speaker 1: end up at Duke over the course, and then he

1147
01:25:21,880 --> 01:25:25,200
Speaker 1: crushed at the combine so much, he's just like, you

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01:25:25,200 --> 01:25:28,040
Speaker 1: know what, screw it, I'm staying in the draft. And

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01:25:28,080 --> 01:25:31,160
Speaker 1: now he ends up being a lottery pick, and so

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01:25:33,840 --> 01:25:39,680
Speaker 1: that is quite the price the Grizzlies paid. That's an

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01:25:39,680 --> 01:25:43,520
Speaker 1: interesting one. Like I don't again, I don't mind being aggressive,

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01:25:44,720 --> 01:25:51,080
Speaker 1: and I don't mind uh moving up to get a

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01:25:51,080 --> 01:25:55,719
Speaker 1: guy you've got to have. I just I don't think

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01:25:55,760 --> 01:26:00,360
Speaker 1: a lot of people thought you needed to move that

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01:26:00,560 --> 01:26:04,800
Speaker 1: far up to get that player. And I also think

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01:26:04,840 --> 01:26:10,840
Speaker 1: that that Orlando first round pick, like maybe it's all

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01:26:10,880 --> 01:26:15,000
Speaker 1: good in Orlando and that it all works out well

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01:26:15,080 --> 01:26:19,599
Speaker 1: with Bain and they are, you know, one of the

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01:26:19,640 --> 01:26:24,920
Speaker 1: next really good Eastern Conference teams. But I don't know

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01:26:24,960 --> 01:26:32,000
Speaker 1: that that one that feels like a rash move by Memphis.

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Speaker 1: So I find that I find that interesting. The Bulls

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01:26:36,479 --> 01:26:39,160
Speaker 1: are on the clock. We've got two more picks we're

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01:26:39,160 --> 01:26:41,320
Speaker 1: gonna be doing. We'll do the Hawks in the Spurs,

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01:26:41,439 --> 01:26:45,080
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you right now, I'm gonna be bummed

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Speaker 1: out if my guy Derek Queen doesn't get drafted during

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01:26:51,400 --> 01:26:57,080
Speaker 1: the lottery and the the Bulls are on the clock.

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Speaker 1: There are reports that they're taking you know what, I

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01:27:02,439 --> 01:27:04,320
Speaker 1: don't even want to say who the reports are that

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01:27:04,320 --> 01:27:06,479
Speaker 1: they're taking. We'll find out when everyone finds out. I

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01:27:06,479 --> 01:27:09,000
Speaker 1: haven't spoiled any picks yet. I just saw in the

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Speaker 1: doc who they're you know what the reports are. I'll

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01:27:12,479 --> 01:27:17,200
Speaker 1: wait and see on it. The Bulls are another team that,

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01:27:18,720 --> 01:27:23,160
Speaker 1: aside from Kobe White being fun and being good, you

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01:27:23,320 --> 01:27:27,000
Speaker 1: wonder what exactly the plan ever is with them, other

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01:27:27,040 --> 01:27:29,880
Speaker 1: than they are hoping every year to win more than

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01:27:29,920 --> 01:27:33,360
Speaker 1: thirty six games in less than forty six games, and

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Speaker 1: they seem to be very very adept at accomplishing exactly that.

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Speaker 1: And they are I'm trying to see if there's more

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Speaker 1: details on any or if there's any more trades. I'm

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01:27:46,960 --> 01:27:49,240
Speaker 1: not seeing any more trades at the moment. Oh, there

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01:27:49,280 --> 01:27:52,320
Speaker 1: is a trade hold on, all right. Well then since

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Speaker 1: there's a trade for thirteen, all right, I'm gonna spoil

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01:27:55,080 --> 01:27:59,439
Speaker 1: the Bulls pick real quick. It would appear the Bulls

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Speaker 1: are taking the French kid Noah a singue, A singue,

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Speaker 1: I apologize if I'm saying your name wrong, young man,

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01:28:07,640 --> 01:28:11,640
Speaker 1: that's who they're taking, and the Atlanta Hawk a singe.

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Speaker 1: The Atlanta Hawks are trading the number thirteen pick to

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01:28:16,520 --> 01:28:25,400
Speaker 1: New Orleans Pelicans. Wow? Wait this is this right? Hold

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Speaker 1: on this tweet? This post has been deleted. I'm taking

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Speaker 1: a screenshot of the shams because i want to see

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01:28:30,560 --> 01:28:35,040
Speaker 1: what they're actually trading it for. All right, let me okay,

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01:28:35,080 --> 01:28:39,040
Speaker 1: so is this post still up? The Hawks are trading

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Speaker 1: the thirteenth pick in the draft to the Pelicans for

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01:28:43,560 --> 01:28:50,639
Speaker 1: the twenty third pick and an unprotected twenty twenty six

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01:28:50,760 --> 01:28:57,800
Speaker 1: first which will be the most favorable of New Orleans

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01:28:58,240 --> 01:29:08,720
Speaker 1: and Milwaukee. Hold did New Orleans just earmuffs kids? New

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01:29:08,800 --> 01:29:13,240
Speaker 1: Orleans just fucking traded away their next year's first round

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01:29:13,240 --> 01:29:19,600
Speaker 1: pick unprotected to move up from twenty three to thirteen.

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Speaker 1: That might be the most reckless draft day trade I've

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Speaker 1: seen in five years, with absolutely no due respect. Who

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Speaker 1: the hell does New Orleans think they are? What is

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01:29:36,080 --> 01:29:43,880
Speaker 1: New Orleans doing trading away? If Shams is? If that again?

1203
01:29:44,040 --> 01:29:48,879
Speaker 1: I am base? I am trusting Shams implicitly. Noah Singue,

1204
01:29:48,960 --> 01:29:53,040
Speaker 1: whose name I'm mispronouncing, is the twelfth pick and now

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01:29:55,760 --> 01:30:01,400
Speaker 1: at thirteen again, I'm gonna read this exactly. The Atlanta

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01:30:01,439 --> 01:30:04,840
Speaker 1: Hawks are trading the number thirteen pick of the draft

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01:30:04,840 --> 01:30:07,920
Speaker 1: to New Orleans for the number twenty three, pick okay,

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01:30:08,120 --> 01:30:14,639
Speaker 1: thirteen for twenty three got it, and an unprotected twenty

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01:30:14,800 --> 01:30:20,200
Speaker 1: twenty six first, which will be the most favorable of

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01:30:20,360 --> 01:30:26,160
Speaker 1: New Orleans and Milwaukee. Sources tell ESPN, All right, now, listen,

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01:30:27,360 --> 01:30:32,559
Speaker 1: Even if this is to take my guy that I

1212
01:30:32,600 --> 01:30:35,599
Speaker 1: have been begging someone to take for thirty minutes, Derek Queen,

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01:30:36,920 --> 01:30:39,080
Speaker 1: this is one of the most reckless trades I can

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01:30:39,120 --> 01:30:44,280
Speaker 1: possibly imagine. Also, of all the places I would be

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01:30:44,479 --> 01:30:48,080
Speaker 1: nervous about derreck Queen, going New Orleans is high on

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01:30:48,120 --> 01:30:50,880
Speaker 1: the list. Now I have no idea who they're taking here.

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01:30:51,000 --> 01:30:55,920
Speaker 1: We're gonna find out in a minute. But you cannot

1218
01:30:56,040 --> 01:31:01,360
Speaker 1: if you're New Orleans trade away next year's forund pick unprotected.

1219
01:31:01,720 --> 01:31:06,519
Speaker 1: You could be terrible, Like I know you don't want

1220
01:31:06,560 --> 01:31:10,200
Speaker 1: to think you can be terrible, but you absolutely could

1221
01:31:10,280 --> 01:31:17,360
Speaker 1: be terrible. You Zion is a risk every year. Dejonte

1222
01:31:17,560 --> 01:31:23,240
Speaker 1: Murray will be coming off an Achilles? And when do when?

1223
01:31:24,040 --> 01:31:27,960
Speaker 1: When do we expect de Jonta Murray? Do we even

1224
01:31:28,080 --> 01:31:30,360
Speaker 1: and when I say coming off an Achilles, like, are

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01:31:30,360 --> 01:31:36,640
Speaker 1: we even sure de Jonta Murray will be coming off anything? Uh? Like?

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01:31:36,760 --> 01:31:38,760
Speaker 1: When do we think we're going to be seeing de

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01:31:38,840 --> 01:31:43,479
Speaker 1: Jonte Murray. Maybe not next year? He could he I

1228
01:31:43,479 --> 01:31:48,479
Speaker 1: mean he could miss the season. You have, Jordan Poole.

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01:31:49,600 --> 01:31:57,400
Speaker 1: I how can you possibly trade away your unprotected first

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01:31:57,479 --> 01:32:05,480
Speaker 1: round pick next year? Atlanta? Great job? This is the

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01:32:05,479 --> 01:32:09,760
Speaker 1: credit words do man. That is a hell of a

1232
01:32:09,880 --> 01:32:13,920
Speaker 1: job by Atlanta. You move back ten spots and you

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01:32:14,000 --> 01:32:20,880
Speaker 1: get a lottery ticket for next year. Like, who's here's

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01:32:20,920 --> 01:32:27,360
Speaker 1: a fun exercise? Whose unprotected first round picks for next

1235
01:32:27,400 --> 01:32:31,720
Speaker 1: season are more valuable than New Orleans? Like? Who are

1236
01:32:31,760 --> 01:32:36,400
Speaker 1: the teams that we feel like are have a better

1237
01:32:36,560 --> 01:32:46,680
Speaker 1: chance to just bottom out than New Orleans? Utah for sure, Washington, Charlotte,

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01:32:46,880 --> 01:32:52,280
Speaker 1: that's the list. New Orleans won twenty one games last year?

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01:32:54,560 --> 01:33:02,000
Speaker 1: What are they thinking? I'm maybe I shouldn't be as

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01:33:02,000 --> 01:33:11,439
Speaker 1: stunned by this, h but I am. This is one

1241
01:33:11,479 --> 01:33:19,800
Speaker 1: of what a baffling baffling? Who? Who is hold on

1242
01:33:21,080 --> 01:33:28,080
Speaker 1: Pelicans GM? Hold on the Atlanta Hawks? Oh? My goodness?

1243
01:33:29,360 --> 01:33:34,680
Speaker 1: Is it Dumars? Hold on a second? Here is the

1244
01:33:36,439 --> 01:33:39,839
Speaker 1: so the Atlanta Hawks? How about this? The Atlanta Hawks

1245
01:33:39,880 --> 01:33:44,200
Speaker 1: and new general manager on Cisala are finalizing deals to

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01:33:44,280 --> 01:33:48,240
Speaker 1: hire New Orleans Pelicans GM Brian Graham as the team's

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01:33:48,280 --> 01:33:52,320
Speaker 1: senior vice president of basketball operations. So hold on, the

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01:33:52,400 --> 01:33:55,000
Speaker 1: Hawks hired away a Pelicans guy. I was gonna say,

1249
01:33:55,120 --> 01:33:57,360
Speaker 1: if the Pelicans had just hired away a Hawks guy

1250
01:33:57,720 --> 01:34:00,160
Speaker 1: and then they just gave the Hawks this deal, this

1251
01:34:00,280 --> 01:34:05,400
Speaker 1: guy was gonna call for an investigation. But this is

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01:34:05,479 --> 01:34:17,080
Speaker 1: Joe Dumars. Oh my god, Joe Dumars. Oh no, this

1253
01:34:17,120 --> 01:34:21,400
Speaker 1: is Joe Dumars's first big move. This is gonna be

1254
01:34:21,439 --> 01:34:29,280
Speaker 1: the new two Phones meme. I maybe I don't want

1255
01:34:29,320 --> 01:34:33,720
Speaker 1: to be overreacting. And by the way, the it was

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01:34:34,080 --> 01:34:38,200
Speaker 1: I it is Derek Queen, and I like Queen. I

1257
01:34:38,240 --> 01:34:40,880
Speaker 1: don't I his fit next to Zion. I'm not sure

1258
01:34:40,920 --> 01:34:43,880
Speaker 1: about it, but I was advocating that the Pelicans could

1259
01:34:43,920 --> 01:34:49,280
Speaker 1: have taken Derek Queen with the seventh pick, so there's

1260
01:34:49,360 --> 01:34:52,639
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with that. But they might have just traded

1261
01:34:52,640 --> 01:34:57,760
Speaker 1: the number one pick of next year's draft to move

1262
01:34:57,840 --> 01:35:01,760
Speaker 1: up from twenty three to thirteen. How do you not

1263
01:35:01,880 --> 01:35:05,559
Speaker 1: get a protection on it? And by the way, here's

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01:35:05,600 --> 01:35:10,599
Speaker 1: the other thing on that, Just to be totally clear

1265
01:35:10,840 --> 01:35:22,560
Speaker 1: and fair about what they traded. It's Milwaukee or New Orleans,

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01:35:23,240 --> 01:35:28,800
Speaker 1: the best of those, So it's even if New Orleans like, no,

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01:35:29,200 --> 01:35:32,360
Speaker 1: it's not gonna problem because we're gonna be good. We

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01:35:32,400 --> 01:35:37,640
Speaker 1: know we're gonna be good. What if Milwaukee trades Giannis

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Speaker 1: or he gets injured and they're terrible, then that pick goes.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad we stayed on through the lottery. This is

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Speaker 1: I could do an hour on this move. Zach Lowe

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Speaker 1: just tweeted out a picture of the Pelican in the hospital.

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, hold on, I have to We're gonna

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Speaker 1: stay on a little bit longer. Currently having a conniption

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Speaker 1: about what the Pelicans just did. Come join me. Uh okay,

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Speaker 1: so I we're gonna spend a few minutes. Congratulations to

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Speaker 1: Derek Queen. I actually think he's gonna be good. I

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Speaker 1: think that's a fun pick. I and the Spurs and

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Speaker 1: this will be this will be perfect. We can while

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Speaker 1: while we really just react to what the Pelicans did.

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Speaker 1: We'll find out who the Spurs and the thundertake at

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Speaker 1: fourteen and fifteen and then we'll be out of here.

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01:36:55,240 --> 01:37:02,160
Speaker 1: And by the way, the the Nets still have all

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Speaker 1: their picks, and the nets haven't moved up, and the

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Speaker 1: nets right now we're on track to draft five guys

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Speaker 1: in the first round, which seems like that's probably not

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01:37:12,320 --> 01:37:24,200
Speaker 1: a sustainable thing, but whatever. So I want this to

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Speaker 1: be very clear. New Orleans, which won twenty one games

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Speaker 1: this year, which has not had a resoundingly excellent season

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Speaker 1: since Anthony Davis was there. Their closest thing to a

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Speaker 1: successful season in the last seven years was two years

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Speaker 1: ago when they won four forty nine games snuck in

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Speaker 1: as the eight seed. Forty nine games is not sneaking in,

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Speaker 1: that's good, and got absolutely lambassed in Round one four

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Speaker 1: h last year. They took those forty nine wins clearly

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Speaker 1: they thought we could be good, and despite that, they

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Speaker 1: won twenty one games. Okay, Zion is obviously a huge

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Speaker 1: question mark. They also just traded for Jordan Poole, who

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Speaker 1: calling him a question mark I think is fair at

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Speaker 1: the very least, though, what they had was their own

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Speaker 1: first round pick next year, which could be important because

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Speaker 1: to Jonta Murray, someone they in theory were relying on,

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01:39:01,280 --> 01:39:03,559
Speaker 1: could miss most of the year, if not all of

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Speaker 1: the year, with a torn achilles They they also had

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Speaker 1: the option to swap that pick with Milwaukee, which, and

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Speaker 1: this is why swaps are interesting, that was I think

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Speaker 1: that's the last piece of the Drew Holiday to Milwaukee trade,

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01:39:27,280 --> 01:39:33,320
Speaker 1: and that you know, if Milwaukee trades Yannis, or if

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Speaker 1: something were to happen to Yannis, maybe that ends up

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Speaker 1: being a super valuable swap. Not likely, but possible to

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Speaker 1: give that up to move up, Tint, And you can't

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Speaker 1: be like we thought this was a once in a

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Speaker 1: generation player. You could have taken this guy an hour ago.

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Speaker 1: You draft the Fears, which again I'm fine with that,

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01:40:03,640 --> 01:40:09,679
Speaker 1: and I like Derek Queen, but to trade away your

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01:40:09,760 --> 01:40:17,960
Speaker 1: own unprotected pick next year, slash Milwaukee's unprotected pick next

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01:40:18,040 --> 01:40:26,200
Speaker 1: year to move from twenty three to thirteen is insanity.

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Speaker 1: I would say that has a thirty percent chance, thirty

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Speaker 1: five percent chance of being a top five pick, and

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Speaker 1: a seventy percent chance of being a top ten pick

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Speaker 1: that you just traded away. I am flabbergasted by that.

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Speaker 1: The Spurs just took a fellow who didn't wear a

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Speaker 1: shirt the draft, did wear a sweet jacket. Though Carter Bryant,

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Speaker 1: who I mean, is very spursy. He is he is

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Speaker 1: the guy who fell the furthest if you will, compared

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Speaker 1: to the consensus mock draft, so like by some people's metric,

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01:41:23,439 --> 01:41:26,479
Speaker 1: he you know, they just got the best value there.

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01:41:27,320 --> 01:41:32,120
Speaker 1: But Carter Bran out of Arizona is the final pick

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Speaker 1: of the lottery. So the Spurs add Dylan Harper and

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01:41:35,520 --> 01:41:40,280
Speaker 1: they add Carter Bryant, who is I think the question

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01:41:40,360 --> 01:41:43,320
Speaker 1: mark on him is is he going to be a

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01:41:43,360 --> 01:41:46,360
Speaker 1: big time offensive player? Can he be a big time

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01:41:46,400 --> 01:41:51,800
Speaker 1: offensive player? But people like the measurables athleticism and they

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01:41:51,920 --> 01:41:57,360
Speaker 1: like the defense. And so now we sit on Oklahoma

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01:41:57,439 --> 01:42:01,559
Speaker 1: City and then we'll ra this up. But I can't

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Speaker 1: I apologize. I can't get over what the Pelicans did.

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Speaker 1: The producers are asking me who could Oklahoma City draft

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01:42:15,720 --> 01:42:19,080
Speaker 1: to help them repeat? I don't want I'm not trying

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Speaker 1: to be dismissive. Whomever Oklahoma City drafts this year will

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01:42:23,000 --> 01:42:26,760
Speaker 1: not help them repeat next year. Like that, Oklahoma City

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01:42:26,840 --> 01:42:30,320
Speaker 1: is too good and too deep for anybody who's there

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Speaker 1: at fifteen to be in their rotation next year. The

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01:42:33,200 --> 01:42:35,679
Speaker 1: rookie who will help them next year is their draft

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01:42:35,720 --> 01:42:39,160
Speaker 1: pick from last year. In topicch and so this is

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Speaker 1: where I will admit my own ignorance. I don't know

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01:42:42,960 --> 01:42:48,839
Speaker 1: the international guys, but where Oklahoma City has a huge

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01:42:48,840 --> 01:42:53,479
Speaker 1: benefit is if there's a guy who you know there's

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01:42:53,600 --> 01:42:56,840
Speaker 1: questions when will he come over? Will he come over?

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01:42:57,000 --> 01:42:59,960
Speaker 1: But he's super talented. That's a guy Oklahoma City can

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01:43:00,080 --> 01:43:02,680
Speaker 1: pick and just stash like they they're not gonna have

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01:43:02,760 --> 01:43:06,559
Speaker 1: enough roster spots, especially because they didn't package anything to

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01:43:06,640 --> 01:43:09,280
Speaker 1: trade up. So Oklahoma City can do whatever they want.

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01:43:11,000 --> 01:43:13,880
Speaker 1: They can take project guys, they can do anything. And

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01:43:15,080 --> 01:43:17,679
Speaker 1: Presty's gonna be drafting guys who he thinks can help

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01:43:17,720 --> 01:43:20,920
Speaker 1: them in twenty twenty eight, not necessarily guys who's gonna

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01:43:20,920 --> 01:43:23,639
Speaker 1: be helping them in twenty twenty six, and will find

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01:43:23,680 --> 01:43:27,200
Speaker 1: out who that is in just a moment. I just

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01:43:30,000 --> 01:43:33,960
Speaker 1: and also, man, Atlanta's had a decent few days now,

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01:43:38,439 --> 01:43:42,360
Speaker 1: So hold on, what did you guys just put in

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01:43:42,400 --> 01:43:47,519
Speaker 1: the let me see this real quick. The oh, these

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01:43:47,560 --> 01:43:52,760
Speaker 1: are extra details on the Hornets trade. Okay, so the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty nine first rounder, we knew this is the

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01:43:55,520 --> 01:43:58,960
Speaker 1: least favorable of Cleveland, Utah and Minnesota. We knew that.

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Speaker 1: And then Bobby Mark says, as part of the trade,

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Speaker 1: Charlotte is acquiring Vasila Je Michic. Okay, I don't care

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Speaker 1: about that. That's I mean, I appreciate you guys giving

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Speaker 1: it to me. But I don't I don't have anything

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Speaker 1: to add to that. The the the point that I

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Speaker 1: was trying to make there, I'm trying to remember. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: I apologize. Was on Oklahoma City. Oh no is Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: I was talking about Atlanta. I think Atlanta is an

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Speaker 1: interesting team next year now in this East. I've never

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01:44:38,040 --> 01:44:41,080
Speaker 1: been a huge Tray young guy, but he does have

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Speaker 1: to his credit playoff experience. I do really like Jalen Johnson,

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01:44:48,400 --> 01:44:52,920
Speaker 1: who I think is going. I think Jalen Johnson's a

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01:44:52,960 --> 01:44:56,679
Speaker 1: good player. I think Jalen Johnson, you know, it hurt

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01:44:56,720 --> 01:45:01,960
Speaker 1: them last year that Jalen Johnson uh got injured. I

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01:45:01,960 --> 01:45:10,479
Speaker 1: think that he is somebody like that surprised me at

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01:45:10,520 --> 01:45:14,160
Speaker 1: how good he was two years ago and last year

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01:45:14,200 --> 01:45:17,439
Speaker 1: before he got hurt proved it wasn't a fluke. And

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01:45:19,439 --> 01:45:24,800
Speaker 1: so Trey's Tray is. It's not like Trey is not

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01:45:24,960 --> 01:45:28,240
Speaker 1: a useful player. He obviously is. He has some limitations,

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01:45:28,400 --> 01:45:33,040
Speaker 1: but Jalen Johnson's good. Resa Scha was the number one

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01:45:33,040 --> 01:45:36,000
Speaker 1: pick of the draft a year ago, so they obviously

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01:45:37,160 --> 01:45:44,960
Speaker 1: that's an important piece for them. Dyson Daniels is just

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01:45:45,040 --> 01:45:50,240
Speaker 1: definitively a really good player now like an awesome defensive

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01:45:50,240 --> 01:45:54,480
Speaker 1: player and a good player Chris STAPs in a contract

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01:45:54,560 --> 01:45:58,800
Speaker 1: year if he's healthy, I think could be good for them.

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Speaker 1: And now you also have waiting for you in a year.

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Speaker 1: And if you're a Hawks fan, you have this kind

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01:46:10,920 --> 01:46:13,599
Speaker 1: of fuck. You get to root for your team while

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01:46:13,640 --> 01:46:18,680
Speaker 1: also just rooting for either the Bucks or the Pelicans

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Speaker 1: to stink, and you have this kind of double interest

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Speaker 1: next season. And so I like these moves the Hawks

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01:46:29,920 --> 01:46:33,800
Speaker 1: have made. I gotta give you know, credit where it's due.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I mean, I've got to think that

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Speaker 1: who's picking sorry, I had it up, who was picking twelve?

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Speaker 1: I can't. I mean, maybe the Bulls turn. The Bulls

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01:46:51,400 --> 01:46:57,640
Speaker 1: are maybe I know the Spurs. I am certain the

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Speaker 1: Spurs are like, oh my god, we were a pick

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Speaker 1: away from being offered an unprotected Pelicans pick. Oh like

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01:47:10,320 --> 01:47:15,840
Speaker 1: the everyone sitting around Atlanta's draft position has to be like,

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01:47:16,200 --> 01:47:20,160
Speaker 1: how did we not get that phone call? I am

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01:47:21,560 --> 01:47:24,880
Speaker 1: I'm stunned the Pelicans would do that. And I mean

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01:47:24,920 --> 01:47:37,160
Speaker 1: that is that is a potentially instantly uh disqualifying move

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01:47:37,280 --> 01:47:43,639
Speaker 1: by Joe Dumars. It's just truly baffling. So I would

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Speaker 1: like to adjust or not adjust, Paul, I'm doing an

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Speaker 1: how much more fun next year will now be because

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Speaker 1: no matter how good, mediocre or bad you are, you

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01:48:18,200 --> 01:48:22,719
Speaker 1: have two teams you get to just root against next

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Speaker 1: season in the Bucks and the Pelicans, and just for

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Speaker 1: one of them to be bad, and all of a

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01:48:29,280 --> 01:48:32,040
Speaker 1: sudden that be how you get the kid out of

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Speaker 1: BYU or somehow get the number one pick of the draft,

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01:48:35,680 --> 01:48:41,080
Speaker 1: like what an I thought we were gonna have like

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01:48:42,040 --> 01:48:44,720
Speaker 1: the Lakers, you know, trade Austin Reeves moving to the

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Speaker 1: top ten. I thought the Pelican I'm sorry, the thunder

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Speaker 1: who are picking right now, might package them stuff to

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01:48:51,600 --> 01:48:56,160
Speaker 1: move up. I thought there was a chance maybe that

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01:48:56,520 --> 01:49:00,800
Speaker 1: Paul George in the third pick went somewhere. We got

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Speaker 1: none of that. Instead, we end up with the New

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01:49:05,720 --> 01:49:11,680
Speaker 1: Orleans Pelicans making a twenty three to thirteen trade that

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Speaker 1: I'll simply never forget, and Oklahoma City, with the first

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Speaker 1: pick outside of the lottery, takes Thomas Sorber Freshman Center

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01:49:22,840 --> 01:49:29,599
Speaker 1: out of Georgetown. I'll be honest that if you an

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01:49:29,600 --> 01:49:33,559
Speaker 1: hour ago, I said, could I see Oklahoma City if

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01:49:33,640 --> 01:49:38,000
Speaker 1: Malawoc starts dropping, moving up to get him, because in

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01:49:38,040 --> 01:49:42,880
Speaker 1: a couple of years Hartenstein's probably not there and they

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01:49:42,920 --> 01:49:47,320
Speaker 1: need a guy who can be chats back up, who's

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01:49:47,360 --> 01:49:50,639
Speaker 1: ready to play by then they end up getting Malawac.

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01:49:51,160 --> 01:49:53,840
Speaker 1: Thomas Sorber fills that role. So it does seem like

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Speaker 1: we were kind of of like mind there all right.

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Speaker 1: up late and working late. Thank you to all of

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