Speaker 1: Let's move on more details, folks. Let's talk about the
Speaker 1: news around the league. More details have come out about
Speaker 1: James Harden's situation in Philly. Of course they would eventually,
Speaker 1: James Harden's gonna speak out. He doesn't want to have
Speaker 1: his name drug through the streets. It's exactly what everyone.
Speaker 2: Said that it was.
Speaker 1: Harden said, Daryl Moray promised him a max deal and
Speaker 1: then he ghosted him after the season ended.
Speaker 2: Oh home right, why why does this matter?
Speaker 1: Well? Sam and macasked Harden directly, were you actually told
Speaker 1: by the Sixers that you had a max deal coming?
Speaker 2: And Harden said, yes, I was, and then.
Speaker 1: Noted that the promise of a max contract came straight
Speaker 1: from Darryl.
Speaker 2: Moray's lips himself.
Speaker 1: And he also highlighted the fact that many many times
Speaker 1: every year when he was with Daryl Moray, Dearl Moury
Speaker 1: will call him about making changes to the team, getting
Speaker 1: better as a team.
Speaker 2: And then this year when he.
Speaker 1: Was supposed to have a max deal coming, no conversation,
Speaker 1: no calls, no texts, no nothing.
Speaker 2: James is like, Yo, I'm I'm not a dumb guy.
Speaker 2: I know you're not about to pay me. Excuse me.
Speaker 2: This is what he said.
Speaker 1: Uh. He looked at their relationship like a marriage where
Speaker 1: they talked about everything. And then he noted, instead of
Speaker 1: worry having a conversation with me about free agency or saying,
Speaker 1: all right, James, we don't want to offer you this,
Speaker 1: we have this. Then we go back and forth. That's
Speaker 1: a dialogue. But you just ice me out. Then it's
Speaker 1: like you don't respect me as much as I thought
Speaker 1: you did. You don't need people like that, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's just bad karma. People were throwing
Speaker 1: dirt on my name. But the good guys always win.
Speaker 2: We don't always throw around good guy in Harden in
Speaker 2: the same sentence. But I think Harden is right.
Speaker 1: He took less money for the man who fucked his
Speaker 1: COVID tester, Daniel House Junior. That doesn't get talked about
Speaker 1: enough in the bubble. He got less money, took less
Speaker 1: money to put PJ. Tucker on the roster, took less
Speaker 1: money to put the Anthony Melton on the roster.
Speaker 2: And they said, we're gonna help you out, James.
Speaker 1: Once your contract gets settled, We're gonna find the money
Speaker 1: for you. Max deal is coming your way. Before the playoffs,
Speaker 1: according to James, Max deal come in your way. Last
Speaker 1: playoffs then playoffs, and James is a roller coaster and
Speaker 1: it's like chirp, chup, chirp, dup.
Speaker 2: Crickets, people, crickets.
Speaker 1: Now that James is playing in well out in clipper Land,
Speaker 1: there are six and two in their last eight. All
Speaker 1: of these details are gonna look very bad for Darryl
Speaker 1: Mooy because if he screws over Harden, who is like
Speaker 1: his son has paintings of him all over his house,
Speaker 1: nobody is fucking safe. That means you, Tobias Harris. Let's
Speaker 1: move forward a few quick kiters. Edmund Sumner, the xaviergrad
Speaker 1: former Brooklyn Net had a broken leg derailed his career.
Speaker 1: He has now landed in Europe and he had something
Speaker 1: very interesting to say the other day. He said he
Speaker 1: loved playing with Kevin Durant, who told him hopefully he
Speaker 1: gets to Europe. He says he when he's done with
Speaker 1: the NBA, he wants to come over.
Speaker 2: Here and play. So let's see if that actually happens.
Speaker 2: But I believe it though, because he loves ball. That's
Speaker 2: all he cares about.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, I feel like that piece of news didn't
Speaker 1: really get highlighted Kevin Durant in the EuroLeague? Are we
Speaker 1: get what serious? That would be incredible. The ratings would
Speaker 1: go blonkers. Knowing Kevin Durant, I think there's a possibility
Speaker 1: he would do that. He loves basketball that much. Moving forward,
Speaker 1: what is fucking happening with Ben Simmons?
Speaker 2: We need to know, We need to know.
Speaker 1: Alert Alert, There is trouble with Ben Simmons again. Michael
Speaker 1: Scoto reported this week he will miss another two weeks minimum.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons has now missed twelve games in a row.
Speaker 1: He has only appeared in six games all year. It
Speaker 1: is very depressing. Not just depressing for fans, not just
Speaker 1: depressing for the Brooklyn Nets, but it's very depressing for
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons.
Speaker 2: I'm sure he cannot shake this back issue. It seems
Speaker 2: like the Nets.
Speaker 1: Don't have a clue about what it's going to take
Speaker 1: to get it sorted out, how long he will be out,
Speaker 1: how serious it is.
Speaker 2: Remember last year he missed the last twenty three games
Speaker 2: of the year.
Speaker 1: He was listed day to day, and I think then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden he just never just never came back.
Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, you look up and it's.
Speaker 1: August and he's one hundred percent healthy again, and then
Speaker 1: six games later, we don't know what's happening.
Speaker 2: Again. This is kind of a fun Nets team.
Speaker 1: We know they're dysfunctional, We've talked about it before, But
Speaker 1: what could they be if everyone was fully healthy?
Speaker 2: What could they be if they.
Speaker 1: Were all playing at the peak of their powers. My
Speaker 1: spidery sense says, something is a miss year with.
Speaker 2: Ben, but I'm going to be patient. I will wait
Speaker 2: that two weeks and then we will update y'all on
Speaker 2: what is really going on moving forward.
Speaker 1: What is the latest on the Zach Lavine front. Well,
Speaker 1: two things actually, Bowls have made it clear their top
Speaker 1: priority is trading Zach Clavine and the boat anchor that
Speaker 1: his contract is in fact.
Speaker 2: CJ.
Speaker 1: Casey Johnson of the NBC Sports Chicago reported that our
Speaker 1: tourist Karnisovus the Bulls GM is telling other teams he's
Speaker 1: not even gonna think about moving guys like Alex Crusoe
Speaker 1: or Kobe White or Demaro Roseen until the Zach Levine
Speaker 1: deal is done, so that he can survey the landscape
Speaker 1: in a post Zach world. Is their number one priority,
Speaker 1: which is why this is concerning. A day later, Adrian Warzanowski,
Speaker 1: this is the bomb. This is the sound of the
Speaker 1: woj bomb. Dropped this bomb, and it made me feel
Speaker 1: bad for the bulls, made me feel bad for Aka.
Speaker 1: There is not a market for zach Lavine right now
Speaker 1: in the NBA, and that is not because Chicago hasn't tried.
Speaker 2: Yikes. So if zach Levine's the first.
Speaker 1: Domino, no other dominoes could go until he's gone post
Speaker 1: zach Lavine world and there's no market to trade him.
Speaker 2: What are they gonna have to do?
Speaker 1: Are they gonna have to give up assets to get
Speaker 1: someone to take zach Levite? Are they gonna have to
Speaker 1: give away Alex Caruso for fucking free?
Speaker 2: Double ouch. More on this very very soon.
Speaker 1: Quick update to a story that we had from last
Speaker 1: week about the Pistons being just trash in every way.
Speaker 1: Fucking can't trust them, can't trust their front office, can't
Speaker 1: trust their roster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not shocking.
Speaker 1: Everyone is talking about it now and now we're getting
Speaker 1: some finger pointing happening in MotorCity. Lots of messages from
Speaker 1: the front office about We're not gonna panic just yet.
Speaker 2: Ye know, you know how you know, someone's like kind
Speaker 2: of panicking.
Speaker 1: They tell you that they need more time for things
Speaker 1: to gel. I'm sorry, this is not this is not
Speaker 1: fucking pudding, okay, Like, this is a roster that is
Speaker 1: three in seventeen, two in seventeen seventeen losses in a
Speaker 1: row in counting. That is an all time losing streak
Speaker 1: type behavior the all time records T eight. That is
Speaker 1: firmly in Detroit's sights right now, even Monny Williams is
Speaker 1: starting to get side.
Speaker 2: On latest report from.
Speaker 1: Front of show, Je Fisher says this, the Pistons front
Speaker 1: office is unhappy with Mony Williams's usage off Jade and Ivy.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it feels so good.
Speaker 1: I haven't felt this feeling in a while where I
Speaker 1: just know, like a month or so before everyone else knows.
Speaker 2: I'm like, this chicken's going bad. This milk kind of
Speaker 2: smells stinky.
Speaker 1: People like, no, this milk is fine, This milk is
Speaker 1: like tasty, and I'm like, no, this milk has soured.
Speaker 1: Folks like you should be playing Jade. In the fact
Speaker 1: that Monnie Williams is not playing Je and Ivy is
Speaker 1: really bad. It's like meaningfully bad, and people are like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: Je and Ivy socks trusted, Oh, Je and Ivy.
Speaker 2: He's a chunker all John Navid hasn't play any demons.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know that, but you took him fits. You
Speaker 1: gotta develop them, you gotta figure out what you got.
Speaker 2: You're using Mark A. Sasser more than him.
Speaker 1: And now it looks like the rest of the team
Speaker 1: doesn't like the Monty Williams hates Je Nivy either.
Speaker 2: Everybody's like, yo, why you playing Killy and Hayes all
Speaker 2: these fucking minutes?
Speaker 1: What's up with Bogdan? Why are we not trading him?
Speaker 1: Finally we'll move forward. Just some numbers worth reporting. Eighteen thousand,
Speaker 1: two hundred and eight. That is the average attendance of
Speaker 1: the NBA game in November, which is an all time record.
Speaker 1: By the way, I s t yes, I bet you.
Speaker 1: Ticket sales and prices for the ist we're much higher
Speaker 1: than other regular season games.
Speaker 2: Is creating buzz.
Speaker 1: The courts are lit, the jerseys are lit, the competitive
Speaker 1: landscape is even better. Adam Silver has got to be
Speaker 1: just creaming in his shorts right now. He has got
Speaker 1: to just.
Speaker 2: Be loving this pause. No, I mean it just like that. Actually, no,
Speaker 2: I don't. You don't need to pause.
Speaker 1: For the actual thing that you are trying to say
Speaker 1: that it is. The holiday season is here and the
Speaker 1: way that they are, things are looking up with the monies.
Speaker 1: The media rights is going to be renegotiated soon. Go
Speaker 1: get that bag, Adam and give me some. That's all
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