Speaker 1: We've talked about this last episode, but the Kristaps Porzingis
Speaker 1: to Boston trade is now completed.
Speaker 2: It is a three team trade. Here is how it
Speaker 2: shook out.
Speaker 1: Boston receives Kristaps Porzingis via Wizards, the number twenty five
Speaker 1: pick in the twenty twenty three draft via Grizzlies, the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four first round pick top four protected. Grizzlies
Speaker 1: receive Macus Smartt via Celtics. Wizards receive Tyas Jones via Grizzlies,
Speaker 1: Danilo Gallinarian and expiring with the PopEd acl via Celtics,
Speaker 1: Mike Mouscala via Celtics, number thirty five pick in the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three draft via Celtics, which is the second rounder.
Speaker 1: The big news, of course, is that Porzingis joins Tatum
Speaker 1: and Brown to make some sort of janky ass Big three,
Speaker 1: and Boston turns out.
Speaker 2: That Boston really really, really really really wants KP long term.
Speaker 1: They are now rumored to be extending him as soon
Speaker 1: as he becomes eligible on July sixth, to another two year,
Speaker 1: seventy seven million dollar contract, which is which is a
Speaker 1: lot of money. I don't mean to jink KP but boy,
Speaker 1: this is either going to be a great trade and
Speaker 1: he plays sixty five games again, which is about his max,
Speaker 1: or it is a disaster if he can't stay healthy.
Speaker 1: The Grizzlies get their replacement for Dylan Brooks, former Defensive
Speaker 1: Player of the Year. Probably shouldn't have gotten it, probably
Speaker 1: should have given it to somebody else, but hey, it's
Speaker 1: not my decision, and a very tough nose locker room presidence,
Speaker 1: who is a leader on a team that clearly needs
Speaker 1: some leadership. However, they do get smaller in the back court.
Speaker 1: That's probably going to be an issue going up against
Speaker 1: a team like the Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 2: But hey, I am no GM.
Speaker 1: So we'll just leave it to them. The Wizards are
Speaker 1: obviously cleaning house. I love that this has been needing
Speaker 1: to have for many years now. It's like a house
Speaker 1: that has black mold and you just keep trying to
Speaker 1: pour bleach on the walls, and you keep trying to
Speaker 1: rub the bleach and rub the bleach in. For a
Speaker 1: little while, it works, but the black mold is in
Speaker 1: the foundation, it is in the asbestos, it is in
Speaker 1: the insulation. So what you need to do is tear
Speaker 1: the thing down to the studs and build the house again.
Speaker 1: They are making big time moves. They have gotten out
Speaker 1: from under the boat anchor of Bradley Beal's contract. They
Speaker 1: have facilitated a move to get kp Out, who would
Speaker 1: have walked away for probably nothing, would have gotten some
Speaker 1: value back in Tias Jones, now in Danilo Gallinari, who
Speaker 1: they probably will move again. The other major trade involves boom,
Speaker 1: drum roll, please, holy shit. John Collins. John Collins finally
Speaker 1: gets traded. After three consecutive years of being on the
Speaker 1: trade blok, of being rumored to be moved and never moved,
Speaker 1: Finally John Collins is a Utah jazz. The trade machine
Speaker 1: just retired Collins Jersey. That is a historic moment. If
Speaker 1: you recall, Collins was the first, but certainly not the last,
Speaker 1: to say I don't really like playing with this tray
Speaker 1: Young guy.
Speaker 2: Ever since, he made it clear.
Speaker 1: That he didn't love an offense where Trey Young dribbles
Speaker 1: for twenty out of the twenty four seconds and then
Speaker 1: hands you a grenade and then does that or take
Speaker 1: some forty foot jumper, Collins has been pretty much on
Speaker 1: the outs.
Speaker 2: He survived two coaches.
Speaker 1: Could not outlast Quinn Snyder, who has now made the
Speaker 1: move mostly because of the salary cap issues. Collins got
Speaker 1: traded to the Utah Jazz for Well. At one point,
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Hawks were only going to take two first
Speaker 1: rounders for John Collins and know how things change. Now
Speaker 1: they get back Gay, who is thirty seven years old
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: And a future second round pick. Yikes.
Speaker 1: Do these boat anchor contracts come home to Ruth fast?
Speaker 1: Do they not stop paying guys too much money? As
Speaker 1: for Atlanta, Rudy Gay is not a piece that will
Speaker 1: do a damn thing for the Hawks. It's a salary dump.
Speaker 1: Rudy's making six and a half million dollars. Good for
Speaker 1: him for being an unproductive player on an expiring He
Speaker 1: could offer some we'll call it emotional support on the bench,
Speaker 1: but look for the Hawks to make some other moves
Speaker 1: after getting cap flexibility. The third move was the Timberwolves
Speaker 1: signing nas Read. Oh yeah, baby, the Wolves just signed
Speaker 1: a three year, forty two million dollars deal for nas
Speaker 1: Reed and I'll.
Speaker 2: Forgive you if you haven't heard of him.
Speaker 1: Considering the fact that Minnesota already has two other that
Speaker 1: you probably do know their name, Karl Anthony Towns and
Speaker 1: Rudy Goldbert. Let me do a little math for you. Currently,
Speaker 1: the Wolves have a ninety one million dollars tied up
Speaker 1: in just the center position alone. You know, the same
Speaker 1: position that teams are just completely going away from. They
Speaker 1: don't even start. Some teams don't even start a center. Instead,
Speaker 1: they run out guys like Nick Batoom. Sometimes they run
Speaker 1: out guys like I don't know, Draymond Green or Cavon
Speaker 1: Looney as stretch fives. But now the Wolves and all
Speaker 1: of their wisdom, have multiple traditional centers on the books
Speaker 1: for almost one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2: Kat could probably play the four, but he's really a five.
Speaker 1: There is no scenario that Rudy Gobert is anything but
Speaker 1: a large ball center. I love nas Reed. He is
Speaker 1: a great story. He's an undrafted kid out of LSU.
Speaker 1: He has worked himself into a role that many teams
Speaker 1: wanted to use him in. The question is, as Brian
Speaker 1: Windhorse would say, why would the Timberwolves do that?
Speaker 2: Why would they do that? The reason is quite simple.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, I believe that free agent signing means
Speaker 1: that Karl Anthony Towns aka.
Speaker 2: Kitty Cat is gonna be on the move. We am
Speaker 2: Minnesota now, not anymore, bitch.
Speaker 1: The Timberwolves have appeared in exactly three playoff series in
Speaker 1: his eight year career. He has been largely neutralized in
Speaker 1: both of those series. He was better than people remember
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, but listen, he has been a problem.
Speaker 1: He agreed to a supermax extension last summer that carries
Speaker 1: through twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty eight. God damn, we'll be over forty by then.
Speaker 1: That's a long ass time. He has two all NBA
Speaker 1: thirteen nods in eight years. He is on the books
Speaker 1: for two hundred and five fifty six million dollars over
Speaker 1: the next five years. So why would Minnesota sign nas Reed?
Speaker 1: Because you, sir, are getting shipped the fuck out. I
Speaker 1: think that nas Reed is like the Silver Surfer, the
Speaker 1: Herald of the Galactus in the MCU. Change is a
Speaker 1: coming in Minnesota, and I think it ends up with
Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns in a place like Golden State.
Speaker 2: Where New York or Brooklyn. A lot of trades and
Speaker 2: signings about to happen.
Speaker 1: So stay tuned on the heat Check, as we'll keep
Speaker 1: you updated on all the big moves during this trade deadline,