WEBVTT - Pre-Las Vegas Summer League catch-up 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:13.440 On this episode of the Heat Check. Oh, it's ketchup 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:15.560 time get you up to date on everything popping in 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.480 the NBA. Summer League is about to start today. We 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:22.680 got a new NBA Meteorites deal, which we kind of 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:24.560 already knew what was going on, but now we have it. 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:29.080 We've got some Team USA drama, Clay introducing himself in Dallas, 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:32.159 and a lot of new signings. So much to get into. 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:37.280 Let's get into it. Come on, Anthony drop that generic 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:38.800 ass beat should. 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:53.479 Be recorded, all right, some of the lets. 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:59.080 A lot of news popping. League free agency has come 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:02.360 to a close. There's players that really are still free 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:04.759 agents that are going to sign somewhere, but doesn't feel 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:06.840 like any deals are being made right now. I am 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:09.840 boots on the ground in Las Vegas. I'm gonna be 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.319 giving you my thoughts all week. But for now, we've 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:16.120 got big news. The NBA has announced a new media 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:19.280 rights deal, which has been the end game, the end 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:23.280 goal over three years of speculation and now was finally signed. 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.040 What does it mean. It means that the NBA is 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:30.600 about to go fucking bananas. Seventy six billion billion with 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:35.320 a B dollars over eleven years six point nine billion 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:39.720 dollars per year, which is triple the amount of the 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:42.759 previous deal. Who is in and who is out? Here 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:46.600 are the winners ESPN and ABC. Disney two point six 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:51.240 billion dollars to the NBA, Amazon Prime. They're getting media 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:56.240 rights on digital one point eight billion dollars. NBC and 0:01:56.280 --> 0:02:00.280 Peacock paid two point five billion dollars to be on 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:06.600 regular network TV and streaming on Peacock. Who is out? 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:10.040 Apple TV is out? They were supposedly gonna bid, but 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.240 apparently the bidding was just way too rich for their blood, 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:18.080 and sadly, Turner TNT, which technically has a few more 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:22.679 days to match either Amazon Amazon's deal, doesn't feel like 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:24.919 they're likely to do so. This seems like it's going 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:28.760 to court because no matter whether Amazon or no matter 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:32.360 whether TNT tries to match the deal or not, it 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:35.000 feels like the NBA is just gonna say no anyway. 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.320 Next year is gonna be now the last rodeo of 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:39.960 the inside of the NBA as we know. It looks 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.960 like Chuck is going to retire, Ernie's gonna stay on. 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:48.840 Turner Kenny Shack, who knows Amazon now gets the NBA 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.600 Cup AKA the n season tournament, which will be a 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:55.800 thirty team blind draw this year. They also get some 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:58.720 playoff games as well, which they'll split with NBC. The 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:04.360 Finals stays shockingly with ESPN and ABC exclusively, and boy 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.160 did they pay for it double what they paid on 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:09.959 the previous deal. But I guess that's the price of 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.200 the NBA Finals for you, which is kind of a 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.760 sad thing because I would have loved even just TNT 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.959 to do the finals or NBC the new kid on 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.000 the block, to do the finals. Don't love the way 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:23.760 that ESPN has been covering the NBA Finals, but that's 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:26.960 just me. Bottom line is the NBA is now going 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.680 to be nationally televised seven days a week, which is 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:32.320 kind of insane when do you think about it. That 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:34.040 is a sign of how big the league is going 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:37.400 to get internationally nationally in the last in the next 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:42.080 five years. NBC and Amazon will have to build a 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:45.000 dawn to dusk NBA coverage in the next twelve months, 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.440 so there's gonna be a lot of movement in NBA 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.480 media markets. But there is something that nobody is talking 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:55.040 about yet. As John Hollinger tweeted out, now that the 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:58.720 media rights deal is done. It is expansion time, baby, 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:02.040 looking at you see Sattle, looking at you Vegas. So 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.480 not only do we have a massively expanding NBA media 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:08.640 landscape with two new broadcast partners, and NBC is indeed new. 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.080 It has been two decades since they did NBA, which 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:15.400 means I was like, man, I'm old. I was gonna say. 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.839 I thought it's been less time than that, but I 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.640 guess I'm almost forty. I was like, I don't remember 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.640 it leaving my kids. No, it's I think I was 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:28.200 eighteen the last time the NBC had the NBA. New 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.320 front offices, new scouting departments, new media divisions, new social 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:35.279 media teams, new producers, knew everything, and for the people 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:39.360 in the business of hoops, business is booming. More on 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:43.520 this very very soon. All right, moving on, Man, I'm 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:46.400 losing my voice already, Guys, I am losing my voice already. 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:48.359 I always say that my voice is kind of like 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:52.120 a Maserati, you know, like a high performance vehicle, but 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:56.880 always in the fucking shop. That's that's me. That's one day, 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.840 two days out in the middle of a bunch of 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:02.839 and I am dead. So anyway, I'm in Vegas for 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:06.240 Summer League. But before the league kicked off, we had 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:10.600 Team USA versus Team Canada tune up game before more 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:14.960 exhibition games where the US goes to Abu Dhabi and Wow, 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:20.599 before the game even tipped, we got some e news, 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:26.640 you know, reality show Real Housewives of the NBA type trauma. 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:30.200 The team begins and ends with Kawhi Leonard. Now, we 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.200 kind of knew Kawhi Leonard was probably not going to 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.080 be ready to go for the Olympics, considering that he 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:37.400 was held out of the most of the first round 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.120 of the playoffs and hasn't played a damn game since, 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:45.279 and even during the finals, WOJ was tweeting about maybe 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:49.840 Derek White taking a slot. But now it's happened. Now 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:54.000 Kawhi Leonard has been kicked off of Team USA. Basically, hey, 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.120 your knee's not right. We already got a guy in 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.320 Kevin Durant who has a CAF that's strained, and we're 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:01.720 not really sure when he's coming back, so we can't 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:06.800 have you there. You gotta go. And depending on who 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.839 you believe though, either Kawhi left tam Usa on his 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:15.280 own with the Clippers or Team USA said you gotta go. 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.520 You gotta leave. But I do think that from what 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:23.760 I hear, Kawhi was the last to know. Kawhi in general, 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:26.400 had no idea until the decision had already been made. 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.160 This Steph Curry said this about Kawhi. I know he 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:33.520 wanted to play, hopefully for the long term. He's in 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.080 a good place before because the game needs him. When 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.240 he's not out there, you miss an all time great player. 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.200 And we hope he's ready for the season. It's pretty 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:44.000 sad for Kui. Not gonna lie what that means going forward. 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.599 We'll get into the next month because Clipper fans should 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:52.159 be absolutely terrified. But you know what, Fortunately for Team USA, 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.760 there's a natural replacement for six eight, two hundred and 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.920 thirty pounder board out there, ready and willing to play, 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:02.480 known for his lockdown defense, can stretch the floor. This 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:05.000 is someone who also won an NBA Championship, win Finals 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:10.440 MVP Eastern Conference Finals MVP Jalen Brown, the closest player 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.440 probably to Kawhi Leonard in the league right now, and 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.320 Grant Hill said no, he went out and picked Kawhi's 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:20.920 replacement as Dereck White, And I guess you can say 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:23.880 we already have a lot of wings on Team USA. 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.240 We have a lot of big players. Maybe we need 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:28.800 some more guards in order to defend on the perimeter, 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:34.760 much like Drew Holliday is doing. But Jalen Brown was 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:39.400 very unhappy. He immediately got online and started tweeting shit 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:43.640 and pointed a finger as he's wont to do, as 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.080 if there was a conspiracy theory of foot in who 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.800 he thinks is blackballing him. When the news broke, he 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:52.200 tweeted out three thinking emojis had to say as is 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.960 to say, hmm, that's strange, and then stood for a 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:58.680 couple more hours before saying at Nike, this what were doing. 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.640 He then adds some more tweets which said I'm not 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:08.520 afraid of you or your resources. I did not have 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:12.120 Jalen Brown versus Nike on my beef card this calendar 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.560 or this summer. And you know the thing that makes 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:18.080 it super weird is like it's Jalen Brown's teammate who 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:20.680 got picked instead of him, And He's like, hey, you 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:24.800 chose this fucking guy over me, So yeah, JB's pissed. 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.440 How did Grant Hill react? He said that he picked 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:30.200 Derek White because he wanted a player who knows his role. 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.440 He said, White is someone who's accustomed to playing alongside 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.440 great players. He plays with two stars and Chasing Tatum 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.280 and Jaylen Brown. He knows how to be a complimentary piece, 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:41.680 but also stands out in his role. He's a guy 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:43.559 that whether he sits for two games or plays the 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.560 fourth quarter, he's gonna have a great attitude. He's going 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:51.199 to be Derek White aka Jalen Brown's not gonna take 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.880 it in stride if we bench him and he's the 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:57.079 twelfth guy on our team, and he's probably not gonna 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:01.680 take it great. Derrick White, he knows. He's just kind 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:05.000 of there and we'll see how many minutes you get. 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.000 Don't you worry about Jaylen Brown? Though he didn't sit 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.720 home and pou He took out his smoke show girlfriend, 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.120 a WNBA player that I don't even know how to 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:18.439 pronounce her name. I'm not gonna try. Kissra Gondrazick google it, 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:20.679 who's also looking for a new team. By the way, 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:23.360 after being waived by this guy to the sp Awards, 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.040 or she broke the internet because I think she had 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:29.400 like on a catsuit dress where I could see every curve. 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:31.600 I think I saw a nipple or a belly button. 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:35.480 I'm not sure. Sometimes you can't win for losing. But 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:39.400 don't think Jaylen Brown's gonna forget this. No, there's gonna 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:41.800 be ramifications going for He's gonna continue to speak on it. 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:44.720 I'm sure. How does this impact the relationship between JB 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.320 and Derek White. Does it's spill over the locker room? 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.760 I don't think so, but the tea is definitely hot. 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:55.160 Moving on, Speaking of Team USA, I got to see 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.920 them up and close against Canada in Las Vegas. Fascinating 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:02.719 tune up. They played Not Like Us multiple times to 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:06.520 troll Drake to troll Canada, which was awesome, But in reality, 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.440 the first tune up was actually the untelevised and mostly 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:15.520 unseen by media scrimmage of the Olympic team versus the 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:19.160 Team USA Select team, which had Haimi Hawkes on it, who, 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:22.120 by the way, as I saw him and his girlfriend 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:26.600 last night, his girlfriend was a smoke show. Jabari Smith, 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:32.680 Aman Thompson, Jalen Suggs, and Cooper Flag, who is in 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:35.320 high school. By the way, Flag was the first high 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.640 school or college player to play on Team USA Select 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:43.920 in a decade, and Cooper Flag largely balled the fuck out. 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:48.079 He was incredible. The Internet and the media around the 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:52.000 NBA is a buzz about Cooper Flag right now. He 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:54.760 led the select team that narrowly missed out on a 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:58.080 huge upset, losing by one point. He was ballin'. One 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:01.360 player who was super impressed by Cooper Flag was KD. 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:03.800 He said, he looks like hell of a player. He's 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.000 somebody who's gonna get better with experience, and he's only 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.320 seventeen years old coming in here and playing like you. 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:13.439 He's almost a vet. No emotion, good offensive skills, tight defense, 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:18.160 great quart awareness, athleticism up the anti. If he wasn't 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:21.920 going to Duke, I probably would be more excited about him. 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:24.800 That aside, Cooper Flag is the consensus number one pick 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.560 in next year's draft. There's gonna be a real effort 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:29.880 by teams to tank for the top pick. This year, 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.520 Cooper Flag opened a lot of eyes back to Team 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:36.000 USA versus Team Canada. Here's a couple of points that 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:37.760 I would like to redline because I was there in person. 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:43.839 This team is going to probably demolish everyone else. They 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:49.680 are huge. The second unit could be the best Team 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:53.280 USA team we've ever seen. Since the Dream Team. Kiel 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.280 embiid he's needed. He did not have a good, good 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.959 game in his debut. Fouled out in eleven minutes. He 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:02.640 had six points, five bounds. He was hunting fouls. Fever rules, 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:04.839 of course are different than the NBA. The game's much 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:07.520 more physical without people march into the foul line. It 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.600 was a rough showing and in fact, the whole team 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.280 U I say, even though they slaughtered Team Canada, none 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:15.960 of them looked particularly good. It was not a good 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:19.800 showing and they still won by fifteen. Edwards feels like 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:22.720 he wants to be the leader of this team. He 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:26.760 said it out loud leading the games, leading days leading 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:30.240 up to the game, but during the game you could 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.160 kind of feel it. He was pushing the pace. He 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:35.439 led the team in points thirteen, three and one. Afterwards 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:39.480 he said he was nervous, but I gather he's gonna 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:41.920 get over that. Also, I think Steph Curry and Lebron 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:46.320 James are here because if anything goes wrong, they can 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:48.880 get you buckets and crunch time whenever the fuck they want. 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:53.160 This team is three loaded, but the bottom line, whenever 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.160 it gets in trouble, Like I said, Steph Curry and 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.480 Lebron James, who are gonna come out and do whatever 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:59.640 they want to bail them out. Both of them were 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:03.200 pretty good. Steph Curry had a viral moment where he 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:07.040 had an am one and slid into this little like 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.800 pose where he had one hand on his head and 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.920 one hand on his hip. It was very spicy, very cute, 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:15.640 kind of blew up. The internet went viral. This is 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.400 the last rodeo for both of them. Steph Curry's actually 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:22.800 never took part in Team USA ever in the Olympics, 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:24.760 so that's gonna be really fun. So let's just sit 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:26.839 back and enjoy them. We will have a lot more 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.040 on Team USA next week as they head to Abu 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:32.760 Dhabi to pick up their bag of cash and to 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:34.520 play a couple of other teams. I forget which ones. 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:39.480 I think it might be Germany and Serbia. I don't think. 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:39.920 I don't know. 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:43.000 Anyway, they are looking sharp, even if there are questions 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.000 right now about how they're gonna handle Victor and Rudy 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:48.920 and Team Francis. Hey, I think honestly, with Joe lmbiid 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.400 bam Adebayo and Anthony Davis, we're gonna be just fine, 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:59.079 moving on. There are some things that I'm gonna it's 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:04.720 gonna take a long time. But Clay Thompson to the 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:09.839 Dallas Mavericks and not on the Warriors and not number 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:13.240 eleven is something that I'm gonna have a really hard 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:16.280 time getting used to. He had his introductory press conference 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:19.400 in Dallas. He talked about the details that led him 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:23.280 to jump ship. And it's not pretty. It's not good, 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.520 Like a girl at the prom whose date got caught 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.400 kissing a girl and is now crying in the bathroom, 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:33.760 mascara running all ugly. Let's dip into it. Sources are 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.320 telling Warriors reporters. Then, in his own way, Clay was 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:39.440 as much of a locker room distraction last year as 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:44.920 Draymond was the year before in the aftermath of his 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:49.600 infamous punch of Jordan Poole. It all really began last offseason, 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.560 of course, when Golden State wouldn't give Clay Thompson the max. 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:56.040 Then add that to the fact that the team sucked 0:14:56.520 --> 0:15:00.680 for long stretches and he ended up getting benched halfway 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.800 through the year, and then an emergency of young players 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.240 who played well, and then you get exactly kind of 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:10.200 what you expect, and that is exactly what happened. Clay 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:12.960 was upset. Clay was pissed he didn't get an extension 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:16.520 after Draymond blew up the team and Draymond then got 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.240 four years, one hundred million dollars. Clay was like, Hey, 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:23.520 why can't I get what Draymond gets? I don't understand. 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:25.640 I've done so much for this team. I am Game 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:29.160 six Clay. The Warriors weren't really interested in bringing back Clay, 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:31.640 at least for the thirty five million dollars a year 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:34.600 that he wanted. The best that they could muster up 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:40.320 was two years forty million, which that was a line 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.800 too far for Clay. He felt disrespected. The butt herdedness 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:47.680 apparently carried through the year and explains in part he's 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.840 erratic behavior on and off the court. He was distracted. 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.680 He was a distraction. He wasn't himself. He carried that energy, 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:56.880 of course, into the offseason as well, all the way 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:59.600 to Dallas, who's coming off of a historic run in 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.200 the final, and that is where he has landed as 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:05.600 the cornerstone of the largest trade in NBA history, the 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:10.480 first sixteen deal in NBA history. He signed for three 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:13.760 years fifty million, which is a big discount on what 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.280 the Warriors were offering per year, and just like that, 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:22.360 now the Splash Brothers are done. Clay seems happy, light, 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.600 bubbly in Dallas, where he had his intro press conference 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.440 and said, sometimes breakups are necessary to do It's right. 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.240 I'm not the first NBA athlete to do this. I 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:34.880 grew up in Portland, so I remember when Scotty Pippen 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:36.680 came to the Blazers. That was one of the best 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.520 days of my life. I look forward to being rejuvenated here. 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:43.480 A lot of good basketball left in the tank. Of course, 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:46.160 the repercussions moving forward are going to be huge. The 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:51.800 Warriors replaced Clay with Buddy Healed, Kyle SloMo Anderson, and 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.040 de Anthony Melton, who I don't know if he has 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.960 a working back, but we'll see. At least one player is. 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.120 Of course, morning Clay's lost, and that was Steph Curry. 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:04.080 Steph said, Clay turned the extension down, and you know 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:06.240 we ended up here. I wish it would have gone 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:08.240 differently in the sense of whatever Clay needed from the 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:11.119 Warriors to not feel disrespected, I wish that's how it 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.520 would have gone down. But I also know that's because 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:16.440 he needed a fresh start. Things were kind of looking 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.240 a little differently, and that was the through line of 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:21.320 this whole last season. So it's a two way street 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:23.080 on that front. I think that's why Clay was so 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.600 adamant that I not get involved, because whatever outcome he wanted, 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:28.199 he wanted to make sure it was kind of a 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:30.679 pure process. And at the end of the day, we 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:32.680 all have to make decisions that are in the best 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:36.240 interest of ourselves. I'll do that at times when it's 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:40.840 right for me. Hold on, what when it's right for me? 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:45.000 When it's right for me is Steph Curry? Is there 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.720 gonna be an opportunity in a situation where Steph Curry 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:53.879 is in another uniform? Excuse me? Right for me? He said? 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.400 He also said I want to be a warrior for life. 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:01.320 But so did Clay. Oh my god, Clay. Now on Maverick, 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:03.280 He's going to get a lot of open looks thanks 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:05.560 to Luca and Kyrie. And one thing's for sure, it 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:08.080 is going to be a weird day when Dallas plays 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:12.159 Golden State and when the Clippers played Philadelphia, and you know, 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.080 you get the picture. The landscape is traveling and moving 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:18.840 fast in the NBA. All right, moving on, we had 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:22.399 some movement in free agency. Let's get over it, go 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:27.000 over it. Excuse me briefly. Joshikoji back to the Suns 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:30.760 on a two year, sixteen million dollar deal. Sidik Bay 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:35.920 Sidwell Friends alum three years twenty million deal to the Wizards, 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:38.320 of course, despite the fact that he will not see 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:43.439 the court until March. Vat Creatchie gets a prove it 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:46.200 deal four years ten million to return to the Hawks. 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:50.040 Daniel Tice goes to the Pelicans on a one year deal. 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:53.720 They needed a center big time. Kyle Lowry, who is 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:56.879 the reason that Caleb Martin ended up going to the Sixers. 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:58.920 He returns to the Sixers on a one year deal. 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:04.760 Luke Garza, Hell yeah, Lulugarza, get your money, baby, two years, 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:08.240 four and a half million dollars to stay in Minnesota. 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:13.240 Simone Fentichio. Man. They just love Simone Fontechio in Detroit, 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:18.720 don't they? Two years sixteen million. Dariosarich replaces KCP in 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.640 Denver on a two year ten point six million dollar deal, 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:26.320 which I actually really like, as does Vlado Kansar on 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:28.480 a one year two point four to three million dollar deal, 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:33.600 which is eighty thousand dollars over the middleum. The Hornets 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:38.640 keep Miles Bridges. Why what the fuck? Three years seventy 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:41.800 five million dollars. We'll talk about that another time. Malik 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:45.800 Beasley actually left the box for the Pistons. Why one year, 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:48.960 six million dollar deal. That's kind of just a very strange. 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:50.920 They do need shooting there, they do need shooting. I 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:54.119 don't know. Jonathan Isaac got five years eighty four, but 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:56.640 only the first two years are guaranteed because he averages 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:58.560 twelve games a year in the last three years, So 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:00.760 he got his money. If you he can stay healthy, 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:03.600 that'll be nice. But of course, the most interesting deal 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:06.960 recently in terms of role players was Caleb Martin to 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:10.040 the Sixers four years, thirty two million dollars. He had 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:14.040 five years sixty five million from the Heat before free agency, 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:17.320 and he turned it down because he wanted fifteen a year. 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:19.800 He thought he would get a bunch of suitors. And 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:22.879 apparently the second Apron has everyone running scared because the 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:25.240 best he could get was a huge pay cut eight 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:28.080 a year. That's gonna help the Sixers a lot. We 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:29.800 will get into how the Heat have allowed some of 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:33.159 their most valuable players, Caleb Martin, Max Strews gave Vincent 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:36.040 to walk out the dough in the past twelve months 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:39.600 without nothing to show for it. Too bad, too sad, 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:42.080 But we'll do that another time. Here are a few 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:45.679 pieces that may move. I doubt Marktin is one of 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:47.240 them at this point, and it looks like no one 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:49.159 wants to bite the two hundred million dollar extension that 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:52.280 brandon Ingram is looking for. Either brandon Ingram not only 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:55.720 wants the Max Folks, he wants the Super Max. Other 0:20:55.760 --> 0:21:01.240 than those two, it's mostly TPEs, minimum contract Guysjevsky, Gary 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:06.760 Trent Junior, Tyas Jones, Spencer, Dinwitty, Gordon Hayward. Nothing really 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:10.679 left on the map that's really interesting, But of course 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:15.840 stay tuned we will update you on the even smallest signings. Finally, though, 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:18.119 we get a nice bonus interview that I did with 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:20.719 Chicago radio legends Dan Bernstein and Laurence Holmes on six 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:22.840 seventy The Score in Chicago. We talked a lot about 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:26.760 Team USA as well as the Chicago Bulls, and also 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:30.439 how to dress really well and sharp if you're an 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:34.160 older gentleman. Fun discussion because oh by the way these coaches, 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:37.480 these older coaches, they always have great little old man fits. 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:38.760 So let's get right into it. 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:45.399 Let's talk some basketball with our friend Trista Crick, who 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:49.359 is covering a team USA. A little bit of summer 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:53.479 league action to come as well, and Trista joins us 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:56.400 on the Circa Sports Illinois Hotline. Download the Circa Sports 0:21:56.520 --> 0:21:59.560 app today. You can find her also on Twitter at 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:03.159 Tristan Underscore Crick, the host of bet MGM Tonight in 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:06.119 the NBA podcast Heat Check with Trista Creek is on 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:08.560 twitch dot tv slash Chicago six seventy of the score. 0:22:08.640 --> 0:22:11.040 All Right, what are you seeing out there? What's interesting? 0:22:11.840 --> 0:22:14.359 Oh? I think the thing that was really, really really 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:21.879 interesting to me is the JJ Reddick Rob Polinka duo. 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:24.639 It was I was. I was sitting in my seat 0:22:25.320 --> 0:22:27.440 and I was just just trying to like get a 0:22:27.440 --> 0:22:30.000 little content. I'm texting some people in the media to 0:22:30.000 --> 0:22:33.000 see where they're at, and I look over and there's 0:22:33.080 --> 0:22:36.480 and there's Rob, And I text Anthony Irwin, who also 0:22:36.520 --> 0:22:39.600 produces my podcast, heat Check, but also is a Lakers insider. 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:42.800 He has a podcast, It's Awesome Lakers Lounge, an Odyssey 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:46.479 podcast do, and so I text Anthony because we were 0:22:46.520 --> 0:22:48.840 just talking about how Rob and he are going to 0:22:49.080 --> 0:22:52.240 have some sort of weird, awkward interaction, most likely at Summerleague, 0:22:52.240 --> 0:22:54.480 and I go, there's your guy, And then all of 0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:58.000 a sudden, I see JJ pull up. They're dressed completely 0:22:58.040 --> 0:23:03.679