WEBVTT - Luka Doncic trade breakdown 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:12.760 On this episode of the Heat Check, We've got the 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:18.720 most shocking, surprising NBA trade in history, maybe all of sports. 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:21.680 I'm sure you heard this, but I am here to 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:25.880 break it all down. Dallas Mavericks have traded Luca to 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:30.319 the Los Angeles Lakers. Fuck. I hate the Lakers for 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:35.280 Anthony Davis for day to day Davis, one injury prone 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:39.360 guy for an older, injury prone guy one can play 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:42.440 defense though. Oh yeah, by the way, the Kings. The 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:46.560 Kings traded dearon Fox in a three teen to seven 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:50.760 player deal. We'll get into that as well. My god, 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:54.080 don't Dottle Anthony, I know you've been up late drinking wine, 0:00:54.320 --> 0:01:10.680 recording podcasts. Drop that beat that should be Rihanna. I 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:14.720 don't know what to say. I don't know. Oh my god, 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:22.120 oh holy shit, Holy fuck. Early Sunday morning or late 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:25.640 Saturday night, depending on what coach you're on. Something happened. 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:30.160 The Trains changed the entire landscape of the NBA. Not 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:34.440 a goddamn soul saw it coming, not even the souls involved. 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:41.520 The Dallas Mavericks moved one of what was regarded as 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:45.399 maybe the number one untouchable player in all of the 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:49.320 NBA and Luka Doncic, a player that, just in October 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:53.440 was the leader in the clubhouse for MVP to the 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:58.760 Los Angeles Lakers, for Anthony Davis in the middle of 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:04.639 the night. No rumors, no whispers, nothing. I'm not sure 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:08.280 as a Blazer fan if I will ever get used 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:14.280 to Luka Doncic a Laker. My phone went nuclear. I 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:17.080 was fast asleep, trying to get a little rest. I 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.880 hauled myself out of bed to get to all this, 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:24.240 and I am still in shock. Rewind this and let 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:26.600 me just say it again for the people in the back. 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:31.840 People thought that Twitter was hacked, that Scham's somehow had 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:37.040 broken his account, that China had taken over the NBA 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:45.160 Twitter sphere. Luka Doncic is an a Los Angeles Laker. 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:51.960 How sway? Why sway? Lord have mercy? How did the 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:55.360 trade go down in this way? How is it so cheap? 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:58.400 That's the point of this episode to try to make 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.440 sense of what happened, because if you're like everyone else, 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:04.320 and I mean everyone else, you probably didn't believe it 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:06.320 when you first saw it. When you first heard it, 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:11.160 and when Shams broke the news, the universal reaction was Nope, 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:15.440 that's not correct, that's not real. There's just it's just 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:20.200 a twelve year old in his basement in Beijing hacking 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.359 into Shalms's account and being like, I know what it'll 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:27.639 be fun today, Luca for Anthony Davis, just a random 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:31.359 I don't even think the ESPN trade generator would let 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:35.280 that trade through in fake news, in like the alternate 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:40.960 reality of the Internet. That's how little sense it all made. 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:45.040 Shams tweeted multiple times, Hey, this is one thousand percent real, 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:49.160 he said, one thousand percent reel. I am not kidding. 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.440 He had to put that. When was the last time 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.760 you saw a newsbreaker being like, hey, guys, it's me still, 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:59.400 I'm not joking. This is real. And while you're still 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:03.920 processing this, let's get into the details before we try 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:07.920 to figure out what actually happened. The details are almost 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:13.360 inconsequential when compared to the ramifications. The Dallas Mavericks traded 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:17.960 Luka Doncic, Maxi Kleba, Marky Morris to the Lakers for 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:21.640 Anthony Davis, Max Christy, and an unprotected twenty twenty nine 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:26.799 first round pick. Of course, Danny Ainge got involved because 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:31.320 that's what he does. He trades. Okay, he trades, taking 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:35.200 on a bad contract hood Schaffito and getting a parent 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:38.400 Jalen Hoods Fido. Remember that was probably a tough one 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:41.520 for Rob Polinka at Asualla, but we'll give him some 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:45.480 credit right now because he pulled off a fleecing. So 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:50.480 the Jalen Hoods Shaffido picks somehow meaningless. Now, uh, they 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.640 got a pair of second round picks in twenty twenty 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:58.039 five for what just I don't get it. Anyway, with that, 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:02.200 everything changed, not just in Dallas and in LA but 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.120 everywhere in the league. We've got Kevin Durant being like, well, 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:07.920 I guess I can be traded at any moment. Now, 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.320 if Luka Doncic can be traded, anyone can be traded. 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:16.200 As Devin Booker just said, no one is safe. Well 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:22.000 maybe Wemby is safe, but really Booker was so shocked 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:26.360 when he was told Luca got traded he immediately asked Garza, 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:33.839 Luca Garza, I mean not certainly, not the dawn. Anyway, 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:37.080 we'll start here. The one thing that everyone agrees on, 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.400 because you look at the reporting and it's let's just 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:42.560 say not consistent. The one thing that everyone agrees on 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:46.560 is that it all begins with one man, Dallas Mavericks 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:51.320 GM Nico Harrison, former VP of Basketball Operations for Nike. 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:56.480 The story is emerging by the moment, but here's what 0:05:56.520 --> 0:06:01.560 we believe right now. The idea of trading Luca formed 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:06.680 in Nico's head as early as Thanksgiving, but around a 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:11.599 month ago, Nico reached out directly to Laker's GM Rob Polinka, 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:15.120 and they had coffee, That's what Nico said. They had 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:18.080 coffee and it was just it was just a chill 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:22.000 GM GM coffee And it was like, according to Nico, 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.840 would you ever maybe think about I don't know, haven't 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:28.479 ever thought about it? Would you ever think about it? 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.200 It was like two friends being like, have you ever 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:37.120 thought about fucking? You know? It's like I don't know, maybe, 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:39.800 And then it's like I think we should fuck. You know, 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.479 we fucked. Now it's done. No one else knows, but 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:49.120 we are now in a post Coito relationship. Anyway. The 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.240 only one that he said that too, though, by the way, 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:57.400 is Rob Polinka former And I don't think actually it's 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:05.760 being quite underline how insider trading ish. This is. No 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:09.040 one's saying this, and actually just came to my mind. 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:14.160 Nico Harrison when he was at Nike was a big 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:18.000 Kobe guy. That was his dude. They were thickest thieves, 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:22.920 peas and carrots. That was his marquee player. He was 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:27.120 responsible for shepherding, putting out the signature line and doing 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:32.240 everything under the sun that Kobe could want. Pause. Kobe's 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:37.400 agent was also thickest thieves with Kobe, and that was 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:43.160 Rob Polinka. So it probably would make sense that nic 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:48.000 o'harrison and Rob Polinka have maintained a quite tight relationship, 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:52.760 a buddy buddy brotherhood connected by rest in peace. Kobe 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.160 Bryant on the right around the fifth year anniversary of 0:07:55.160 --> 0:08:01.640 his death, Reports are that Polinka was like, what, you're 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:05.360 interested in trading Luca? His first words were are you kidding? 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:10.040 But after forty eight hours of thought, after they finally 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:14.040 had detailed a real trade, he came back and was like, 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.560 let's do this in secret, baby, don't tell nobody. They 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:24.360 started negotiating without anyone else involved, no players, no agents, nothing, 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:29.040 for three weeks. Despite contrary reports, Nico said himself that 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:32.960 there were no other teams contacted about Luca. It was 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:37.640 all under the darkness of night and by secret. Luca 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.880 had no idea that this was coming. He is, by 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:47.199 all accounts, stunned, baffled, now going to lose probably fifty 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.679 million dollars as a result. We will get into one 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:53.560 hundred and sixteen million reasons why. And early reports were 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.880 none of the players knew what was coming, not Anthony Davis, 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:00.959 not even the man who we say has the strings 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:07.119 of the puppet, Lebron, James Chris Haynes is reporting there 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.000 was one other person who knew about the impending trade. 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:14.600 Nico apparently called Rich Paul of Clutch, Lebron's agent, Anthony 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:16.920 Davis's agent, and told him what could be coming. But 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.440 I don't know about that. And even though Lebron says 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:22.880 that he didn't catch wind of the trade, if Rich 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:28.160 Paul had news of the trade, do you think he 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.840 wouldn't have said anything to Lebron. I don't know more 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.000 on this later. So the facts are as we know 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:39.360 him there as that. Let's get into why. Well, part 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:42.520 of it has to do with what Tim McMahon, longtime 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:48.160 Dallas Mavericks beat reporter, tweeted out that around the beginning 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:52.000 of the year before they shut Luca down, Luca was 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:56.640 playing at close to two hundred and seventy pounds, paging 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:02.160 Zion Williamson, paiging Zion Willimson like epic levels of out 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:08.400 of shape eating croissauts and bagels and ben Yet's and 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:10.679 anything else that Luca wants to put in his mouth, 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.280 and not doing a ton of running in order to 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:16.760 get those calories off, which would make Luca, by the way, 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.760 the seventh heaviest player in the NBA, which would also 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:25.240 make Luca a defensive lineman for the Washington Commanders. Reports 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:29.440 are trickling in that the team was frustrated with Luca, 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.800 and not just as conditioning, but with the team that 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:37.559 came along with Luca and his conditioning. They were getting 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:39.760 a little antsy about paying Luca three hundred and sixty 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.679 four million dollars who just does not come to seasons 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.680 prepared physically, does not seem to care about his body 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:52.200 consistently has we'll call it nicks and bruises with the 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:58.240 same ailments calf strains, squad strains, ankle sprains, and that 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:00.400 they thought he would be more prone to in the 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:03.960 future because of it. They were basically out. They were 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:08.240 wanted out of the Luka Doncic business. And he's not 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.840 even close to his contract expiring. It he was just 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.880 eligible for an extension. He has multiple years left on 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:19.200 his deal. This team firmly did not believe that they 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.240 could win a championship with Luka Doncic at the center, 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.880 and they believe they could win a championship with Anthony 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:30.319 Davis at the center. Mind you, Anthony Davis isn't exactly 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:35.319 some picture of health either, not because they didn't think 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:37.360 he was good enough, but because they didn't think he 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:42.679 was healthy or fit enough. They thought he was loving 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:48.160 donuts and beer. Remember when Michael Finley, after they made 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:50.920 the finals, the Dallas Mavericks made the finals, took away 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:54.120 Luca's beer. That's how you knew they were all kinds 0:11:54.160 --> 0:12:00.720 of fucking upset with him. Anyway, short of it is 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:04.440 that Luke Nico didn't believe Luca playing himself into shape 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:08.160 was even a possibility. And we all thought that the 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:10.680 Pelicans were the one and only team with concerns about 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:14.720 player condition, so much to process. How do you trade 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:18.880 a guy with no other suitors involved. Let's make it. 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:20.959 Let's move it down by breaking a team by team. 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.120 Let's start with the Mavericks. This team, by the way, 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:28.559 went to the finals last year and two series. Luca 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:33.840 was carrying these boys Kyrieata's moments. PJ Washington hit a 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.839 couple of corner threes, Derek Lively blocked a couple of 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:39.840 very clutched shots, had some putbacks, Daniel Gafford out a 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:43.880 game or two, They had a Klay Thompson, and they said, 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.720 we don't think we can win with you. They just 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:52.280 went to the finals. The MAVs had won fifteen of 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.080 seventeen games before Luca went down with his injury on 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:59.000 Christmas Day, and he hasn't played since. I don't even 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:03.000 I don't even know. I don't know that this is 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:07.480 real life. The MAVs then add Anthony day to Day Davis, 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:10.720 who's been very healthy the past one and a half years, 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.920 but like I said, has had a history of injuries. 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:17.160 Besides that is now thirty two years old, which is 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:22.480 seven years older than Luka. Doncic Nico's main statement since 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:26.480 the trade, I believe defense wins championships. I believe getting 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:28.600 an all defensive center and an All NBA player with 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:32.080 a defensive mindset gives us a better chance. We're built 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:37.280 to win now and in the future. Man I don't 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:40.080 know how he can say that with a real straight 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:43.480 face and for us to believe him, Jason Kidds said, 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.160 toning the company line, would you look at the vision 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.240 of the team and what Nico wants to do? I 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.600 truly support and truly believe that the players we are 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:52.199 getting are the ones who can help us achieve that. 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.400 Oh yeah, by the way, Max Christy, they wanted him 0:13:54.400 --> 0:14:00.439 a lot. I guess the players we are getting fair. 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:05.559 Before I go into the lineup, Nico has made a 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:12.640 series of suspect moves as GM ones that we have panned, derided, 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:17.920 and truthfully they've all looked pretty fucking good. We all 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:22.920 will say that the moves he makes are peculiar, unorthodox, 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.360 and so far they have worked. Here's the MAVs lineup 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.360 and what it looks like right now. Kyrie at the one, 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.600 Klay Thompson at the two, PJ. Washington at the three, 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.520 Anthony Day to Day Davis at the four, and Derek 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:38.680 Lively at the five, with the bench in Spencer Dinwiddie, 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:42.760 Daniel Gafford and Max Christi. And they're probably not done. 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:47.600 They're gonna need another shot creator. That's a big ass team. 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.640 By the way a lot of guys six six and above. 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.840 Kyrie is kind of the only small guy in the 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.800 starting five. Spencer Dinwittie, I think is six to five, 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:01.880 Daniel Gafford, seven footer Max CHRISTI I believe six to 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:07.160 six big team, big boys. Feels like that jumbo lineup 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.320 that they had going for them which took them to 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.080 the finals last year. They wanted to lean into more, 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.240 but they also saw that Luka Doncic in the finals 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:19.520 was a sieve and they didn't want that no more. 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.440 I guess is it better than the MAVs with the 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:29.720 healthy Luca, I don't know. I remember how Luca was 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:33.160 doubled and triple teams against OKC, and how they got 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:37.640 guys like I don't know, PJ. Washington and Derek Jones 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:43.520 Junior hitting clutch threes. PJ. Washington just left wide open 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:47.280 the whole series. Is that a possibility when Anthony Davis 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:51.080 is there and not Luca, I don't know. I don't 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:54.120 think so. Anthony Davis better start hitting those threes again. 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:57.280 If you look at any playoff game over the past 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.760 three years, you will see what I'm talking about, and 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:02.160 that with the healthy Lebron taking a lot of heat 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:06.600 off Kyrie Irving better be a picture of health. Part 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.600 of this scoring load will be passed on Kyrie, who 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.640 is He's pretty good this year. He's thirty two, and 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:14.960 he has a bulging disk in his back. He hasn't 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.920 been particularly healthy. Klay Thompson's role will probably increase as well. 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:21.520 But Klay Thompson is not a shot creator. He is 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:26.360 a shot maker, and he's a worst defender, probably right 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:29.560 now than Luca and Ad is thirty two, with the 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.240 history of injuries. I hope this goes the way they 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:36.120 want it because Nico Harrison, if he makes this trade 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:41.960 under the darkness of night, without ownership approval, without player approval, 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:47.240 and this goes bad, they might kill him. They might 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:50.480 kill him. I swear. If you trade a player like 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:54.600 that with no else, no other people signing off, and 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.760 it does not work out like it goes really bad. 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.480 If they're still I don't know, like a play in team, 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:08.200 we got real problems anyway, here's the lynchpin. Nope, Nico 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:12.080 is preaching defense, but this team last year was third 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.159 in the league in defense in the second half. But 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:16.520 now they have a roster where they're gonna have three 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.680 guys at center. They have eighty four, which is really 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:23.040 where he plays his best. PJ defends the three, Clay 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.520 defends the two, and Kyrie trying to strap a bunch 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:29.240 of six to six guards. I don't know how that's 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:32.560 gonna go. I think at the end of the day, 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:35.640 if you believe in what Nico has done so far, 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.200 you say, the man knows a lot more about Luca 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:41.760 than we do, and he did not like what he sees. 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:45.760 What would success be for the MAVs right now? Well, 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.120 you're gonna have to go to the Western Conference finals again. 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:50.920 You're gonna have to beat Okac probably again. You're gonna 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:54.919 have to beat the Minnesota Temperwolves again. You better figure 0:17:55.000 --> 0:18:00.399 it out. I'm concerned, but I've been wrong before when 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.840 it comes to Nico Harrison. By the way it caused 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.879 people to this trade caused people to dig up the 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:10.919 fact that they think that Nico Harrison was responsible for 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:13.320 fumbling the bag on Steph Curry when Steph Curry was 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:17.120 thinking about being a Nike athlete, where a botch presentation 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:22.880 happened so badly where someone called him seth and recycle 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.600 the presentation made for Kevin Durant that Curry then ditched 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:30.719 Nike and signed with under Armour. By the way, Steph 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:33.760 Curry's under Armour deal is now worth over a billion dollars. 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:37.239 Moving on to the Lakers, how do you do this? 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:42.359 I don't know. On both sides, it's pretty confusing. You 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:45.840 basically have to say in terms of the long term 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:48.119 post Lebron, because we don't know when he's going to retire. 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:51.280 You now have one of the most marketable players in 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:53.760 all of the NBA. You have a guy who, if 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:56.200 you believe he can get in shape, is top three 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:59.080 in the league, top five in the league. Just when 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.959 you count the Lakers. They find a way to find 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:05.520 one of the best bucket getters whose idol is Lebron James. 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:10.919 Luca in La a fit. Luca in La is a lifesaver. 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:14.000 How exactly this team is gonna shake out is unknown. 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:16.720 The Lakers need a center. They needed a center when 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:20.440 Ad was playing center, and now they don't have one anymore. 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:26.200 They've got Jackson Hayes and they've got Christian Wood. Not great. 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:29.840 They're gonna need to make a move again. The truth 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:33.520 is you're looking at a team with Luca Austin Reeves 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:38.240 Lebron James, Ruy Hachi Mura or Dorian Finney Smith and 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:44.280 Jackson Hayes. I think they've punted on the year a 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:50.000 little bit. Luca went to the finals with less last year. 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:52.520 He went to the Western Conference finals with less a 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:55.080 few years ago, and with a functioning center like a 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:58.280 Clint Capella or a Walker Kesler, who knows, who knows? 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:02.120 Stranger things have happened. And when you have not won, 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:04.280 but two players on your team who can win a 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:08.359 series by themselves, akaa Lebron James and AKAA Luca Doujits, 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:11.960 you'd never know. You cannot count them out. A lot 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:15.000 of this is going to depend how Luca responds to 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:18.119 this trade. Is this a wake up? He did not 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:20.760 request the trade. He did not want out of Dallas. 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:24.880 He loves Dallas. He never has indicated I don't want 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:27.679 to sign my extension. The MAVs could have signed him 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:31.000 to the Supermax and then could have traded him, certainly 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:33.919 for more than they got from the Lakers. One NBA 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:36.240 exec was asking what he would trade for Luca, and 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:40.119 he gave a one word answer. Everything at anything you want, 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:44.760 you can have first indications Luca is pissed. His dad said, 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:49.280 with this trade hypocrisy from the MAVs organization hurts me personally. 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:52.040 I think Luca absolutely did not deserve this. I know 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:57.119 he sacrificed a lot. He respected Dallas, he respected the 0:20:57.119 --> 0:21:00.200 whole city. He helped children, and it was not a 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:02.399 problem for him to go to hospitals and charity events. 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:04.920 He played one hundred games last season for forty minutes 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:07.800 a game, constantly being doubled. I think it's very unfair 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:10.920 from certain people from Dallas. And Sunday he released a 0:21:10.960 --> 0:21:14.000 statement Luca did to the Dallas fans in which he said, 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:17.560 I thought I'd spend my entire career here. I wanted 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:20.920 so badly to bring you a championship. That is sad. 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:25.200 That is Tyrese Halliburton sad. If he decides to say 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:27.160 fuck you to the MAVs and comes out in shape 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:29.360 with a huge chip on his shoulder, this could mean 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:34.800 banners in La Gross. Gross. Also, what's going on in Utah? 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:40.000 What is going on in Utah? They're just stacking up salary, 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:43.320 picking up picks, picking up random players. They just took PJ. 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:47.000 Tucker for Christ's sake. Doesn't make any sense. Utah now 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:49.760 owns a twenty seven Lakers first round pick top for 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:52.439 four protected, so it's in their interest that the Lakers 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:55.600 get bad very quickly. This pretty much ensures that this 0:21:55.680 --> 0:22:00.920 is a middling pick. Very weird, very weird situation. I'm 0:22:00.960 --> 0:22:03.920 trying to process it all. Here's what the Athletic wrote. 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:07.600 By all accounts, Doncich had no idea this was going 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:10.320 to happen. This is like when you're fucking up at 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:14.640 your job but your manager hasn't really told you, hey, 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:20.040 you're on thin ice, and then you do something that 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:23.600 really is very small aka Luca straining his calf and 0:22:23.640 --> 0:22:26.840 not being available in the team tumbling down standings, and 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:29.640 then they just decide, you know what, we're gonna fire yours. 0:22:29.960 --> 0:22:32.680 You're out of here, and you're like, what that feels extreme? 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:34.679 And it's like, no, you've been fucking up for a while. 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:39.639 You're a really high performing team player, but really you 0:22:39.720 --> 0:22:41.520 do a lot of things we do not like. We 0:22:41.600 --> 0:22:44.160 don't like you culturally for us, as a fit for us, 0:22:44.200 --> 0:22:46.119 you come in late, you come in out of shape, 0:22:46.160 --> 0:22:49.720 you're eating and meetings, what are you doing. It doesn't 0:22:49.720 --> 0:22:51.960 really matter whether Luca would have signed with the team 0:22:52.080 --> 0:22:54.840 that acquired him. Now there's no guarantee he's gonna resign 0:22:54.880 --> 0:22:58.359 with the Lakers either. Who knows La pulled the trigger? 0:22:58.640 --> 0:23:00.840 And because you pulled the trigger for Luke, don you 0:23:00.880 --> 0:23:03.840 figure the rest out later? Other teams with younger superstars 0:23:03.840 --> 0:23:06.440 would have pulled the trigger for Luca too. He's that good, 0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:11.680 that's the athletic says. Yeah. The strange thing is that 0:23:11.920 --> 0:23:14.359 there are probably twenty teams that would have mortgaged their 0:23:14.480 --> 0:23:17.480 entire future for Luca. That's why I think this is 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:24.920 a strict Kobe Bryant inside job. Nico Harrison and Rob Polinka. 0:23:25.160 --> 0:23:27.760 That's the only thing that makes any logical sense. This 0:23:27.840 --> 0:23:30.160 is just a buddy, buddy. This is like when you've 0:23:30.160 --> 0:23:34.840 got you've got your membership at Augusta golf course, and 0:23:34.920 --> 0:23:37.080 like you just sell it to your friend for pennies 0:23:37.119 --> 0:23:40.120 on the dollar just because you can. That's what just happened. 0:23:40.600 --> 0:23:42.760 Nico didn't tell anyone, He's like, fucker, this is up 0:23:42.800 --> 0:23:46.040 to me, so I'll hook my boy up. And Rob 0:23:46.080 --> 0:23:48.560 Polink was on a Nike sedge. Things were getting real 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:55.280 dicey for him. Luca is a marketing monster, a superstar. 0:23:55.480 --> 0:23:58.440 He moves the needle and weighs the very few others do. 0:23:58.880 --> 0:24:02.280 He's global. Why wouldn't you pick up the phone and say, hey, 0:24:02.520 --> 0:24:05.960 can we get a donnovd Mitchell? What do you think? 0:24:06.320 --> 0:24:09.800 Can we get Darius Carlin and Donovan Mitchell? What about 0:24:09.840 --> 0:24:13.880 the Hawks? Like? Could we get Dyson Daniels and Jalen 0:24:14.040 --> 0:24:17.800 Johnson and some picks the nets? Can we have everything 0:24:17.880 --> 0:24:20.359 you have? Can we can we have all the picks 0:24:20.359 --> 0:24:24.159 from you? Like Michel Bridges got five first round picks? 0:24:24.520 --> 0:24:29.159 Michel Bridges? What is like? What is Luka Doncic getting? 0:24:29.840 --> 0:24:32.680 What if the Knicks would have traded for Luka Doncic? 0:24:33.400 --> 0:24:36.760 Why didn't the Knicks trade Karl Anthony Towns for Luka Doncic? 0:24:38.320 --> 0:24:41.639 Why did Minnesota trade Karl Anthony Towns for Luka Doncic? 0:24:42.240 --> 0:24:48.719 Nico Harrison's legacy right now. He's turned Jalen Brunson, Christas Porzinkis, 0:24:48.720 --> 0:24:53.280 and Luca into Anthony Davis, Max Christie, Spencer Dinwiddie and 0:24:53.280 --> 0:24:58.480 a twenty twenty nine first round pick. He's turned Jalen Brunson, 0:24:59.080 --> 0:25:04.000 Christas Pors, and Luka Doncic into basically Anthony Davis in 0:25:04.040 --> 0:25:06.879 a first round pick Spencer didn't when he was a 0:25:06.880 --> 0:25:10.679 buyout canidate. By the way, as for the Lakers, fuck him, 0:25:11.200 --> 0:25:16.120 fuck them. They went from Jerry West to Kareem Abdul 0:25:16.160 --> 0:25:20.199 with Jabbar to Magic Johnson to Shaq and Kobe to 0:25:20.359 --> 0:25:25.440 Lebron to Luca with like no hiccups. I think there's 0:25:25.520 --> 0:25:28.800 like two years where they didn't have anybody. It's ridiculous. 0:25:29.440 --> 0:25:33.919 Nico and Polinka must be thicke as thieves somehow. This 0:25:33.960 --> 0:25:37.000 deal doesn't surprise me. But what do I know? If 0:25:37.040 --> 0:25:39.320 I was if David Stern was alive, I think he 0:25:39.400 --> 0:25:42.320 blocks fucking trad He's like Chris Paul's not going to 0:25:42.359 --> 0:25:44.919 the Lakers, and you're not fucking going to Lakers either, bitch. 0:25:46.359 --> 0:25:48.480 I don't think either team's done trading either. We'll see 0:25:48.480 --> 0:25:53.679 what happens. We need like a like a Cam Thomas 0:25:53.920 --> 0:25:59.040 on Navs just chucking. We need a Clint Capella or 0:25:59.080 --> 0:26:02.679 a Mitchell Robin or Rob Williams would be a great Laker. 0:26:03.240 --> 0:26:07.040 Give us that twenty thirty one first round pick. There 0:26:07.040 --> 0:26:09.720 were whispers of Lebron James the Golden State and I 0:26:09.840 --> 0:26:13.840 was like, no way, but right now, can't call it. 0:26:13.880 --> 0:26:17.680