Speaker 1: On this episode of The Heat Check, We've got a
Speaker 1: huge trade out of fucking nowhere Curly Anthony Towns for
Speaker 1: Julius Randall and friends Dante DiVincenzo. One of the most
Speaker 1: complicated trades in NBA history. A lot of people who
Speaker 1: are tippy top of the salary cap game, they can't
Speaker 1: even figure it out. We're gonna try to make some
Speaker 1: sense out of it, as well as cover all the
Speaker 1: latest news from around the league. Fun episode ahead. Anthony
Speaker 1: my man drop that motherfucking beat that should be Rihanna.
Speaker 1: When I say it's rare that a trade just comes
Speaker 1: out of nowhere and it takes me by surprise, I
Speaker 1: mean it almost always. We hear smoke almost always, there's rumors,
Speaker 1: there's developing stories, there's at least some inkling that a
Speaker 1: trade is going to happen. Only rarely do we get
Speaker 1: that Kevin Durant getting sent to the Suns at one
Speaker 1: point thirty in the morning type trade that drags me
Speaker 1: out of a cookout to make a late night TikTok.
Speaker 1: So when I say I was absolutely shooketh by Karl
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns going to the New York Knicks for Julius
Speaker 1: Randall and Dante DiVincenzo and a bunch of other friends.
Speaker 1: I never saw it coming. I mean we've been talking
Speaker 1: about it. We've been talking about it for years though
Speaker 1: it's like folklore, like never gonna happen. And from the
Speaker 1: looks of things, Carl Anthony Towns didn't see it coming either.
Speaker 1: He was in a facility. How sucky is that you're
Speaker 1: in the team facility at three am with your pops
Speaker 1: the night before the trade. You show up to a
Speaker 1: we already function the morning after decked in Wolves gear
Speaker 1: and nope, you are gone. Sir Randall also blindsided two
Speaker 1: days before the trade for him, he was at a
Speaker 1: groundbreaking ceremony for a school where he was honored for
Speaker 1: donating one point three million dollars. Leon Rose was there,
Speaker 1: Timms was there to support him to a New York school.
Speaker 1: Kind of shady actually, honestly, like both teams were totally
Speaker 1: down for their marquee players to take part in community
Speaker 1: service events, tying them to the city. Non like, come on,
Speaker 1: come on, It's like you know you're about to break
Speaker 1: up with your girlfriend and then you allow you allow
Speaker 1: her to go to Eastern dinner with your family, like
Speaker 1: you can't do that. You'd be like, oh, yeah, you
Speaker 1: know about that charity event, like they the kids are good.
Speaker 1: The kids are good. Now, don't go, please, don't go.
Speaker 1: Let's bring this thing down into detail. Let's get it first.
Speaker 1: We should probably acknowledge at least this as the very
Speaker 1: first major NBA event in the post WOJ era, which
Speaker 1: we'll get to in a second. We're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: what happens next after WOJ a new era has begun.
Speaker 1: The trade itself is complex. Friend of the show Keith
Speaker 1: Smith of Spowtrack tweeted, this is one of the most
Speaker 1: complicated trades in NBA history, and that's not being hyperbolic.
Speaker 1: He says, here's what we know. The Wolves receive Julius Randall,
Speaker 1: Dante DiVincenzo, Kaita Bates dop a twenty twenty five top
Speaker 1: lottery protected first round pick via Detroit, which means probably
Speaker 1: not going to be a first round pick. Charlotte Hornet's
Speaker 1: will facilitate the trade because they've got a bunch of
Speaker 1: caprom players like Da Kwan, Jeffries, Dwayne Washington Junior, who
Speaker 1: by the way, is playing overseas, so he needs to
Speaker 1: be cut or released, and then brought back and then released.
Speaker 1: I don't know he's playing for Belgrade Partisan right now,
Speaker 1: but he's part of the trade. What are we talking about.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have to be bought out, sign traded, bought
Speaker 1: out and resigned back in Serbia again. What is he
Speaker 1: getting out of that? By the way, like, what does
Speaker 1: he get cookie? A lot of this is because the
Speaker 1: Knicks are working really hard to balance out the ledger
Speaker 1: it took. They just took on four years, two hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty million dollars of Karl Anthony Towns's contract. The
Speaker 1: Wolves get major cap relief. Randall's on a contract year
Speaker 1: with a player option. He's woefully underpaid as a top
Speaker 1: forty player in the league. By the way, a lot
Speaker 1: of people say that that contract was terrible when he
Speaker 1: was signed to the Knicks. Sounds sounds like it's not
Speaker 1: really that terrible right now. According to Keith, here's what
Speaker 1: we do not know yet. How's New York matching the
Speaker 1: salary for Towns? How is he avoiding the hard caps?
Speaker 1: Smith says that the Knicks are already hard cap at
Speaker 1: the second apron and when need destructure this trade to
Speaker 1: avoid a hard cap at the first Apron does Randall
Speaker 1: take on his full trade bonus? Karl Anthony Downs had
Speaker 1: to give it his trade bonus because he's already maxed out.
Speaker 1: What picks? Who are the Hornets getting to help along
Speaker 1: this deal? Why would they even be a part of it? Like?
Speaker 1: What are they getting out of it? Finally, how do
Speaker 1: the Knicks go about filling out the roster this close
Speaker 1: to camp with limited resources? All of this has to
Speaker 1: do with the second Apron hard cap. If the Knicks
Speaker 1: fill out their roster with two players on veteran minimum deals,
Speaker 1: they'll still need to make at least one more deal
Speaker 1: to make the math work, and more likely two more deals. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot going on here. I cannot
Speaker 1: remember a trade, even the Russell Westbrook trade, which was
Speaker 1: like really really really complex involving the most teams in
Speaker 1: league history, being disconfusing, How complex is it? Well, the
Speaker 1: Knicks immediately waved both Marcus Morris Senior and Chuma Akiki,
Speaker 1: and the Wolves waved Chase on Nd immediately after the
Speaker 1: trade was announced. When it is finalized, we will give
Speaker 1: you all the details. We will have Keith Smith on
Speaker 1: to cover all the details. But for now, let's get
Speaker 1: into the emotional personality, human side of the trade, because
Speaker 1: I honestly think it's kind of It's always a dirty game,
Speaker 1: but this was like for me, like wow, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? I was like, I don't know. This
Speaker 1: is it for all of Karl Anthony Towns was false.
Speaker 1: He sat through mischief, He got berated by Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 1: He had a weed smoking co host who could not
Speaker 1: fulfill what he thought everyone thought he was going to
Speaker 1: be in Andrew Wiggins. The entire team was chaos at times,
Speaker 1: drama at times. Remember we were following Jimmy Butler around
Speaker 1: at practice because he was motherfucking the whole team telling
Speaker 1: him all what that ass and then he ends up
Speaker 1: getting traded like he was one of the only guys
Speaker 1: ten toes down in Minnesota. Never asked for a trade
Speaker 1: in nine years Towns. Apparently, according to the Athletics John Krasinski,
Speaker 1: never saw it coming, like just completely blindsided, out of
Speaker 1: the blue. The word that John used was stunned. He
Speaker 1: did not request this trade. Quote, he has never requested
Speaker 1: a move in nine years here. He had a lot
Speaker 1: of reasons. Boy, that franchise, those players have not always
Speaker 1: treated him well. Remember he just got completely cooked by
Speaker 1: the media other teammates, and he's done a lot to
Speaker 1: bring that on. But he did take a back seat
Speaker 1: for Aunt Edwards. He took the back seat for Rudy
Speaker 1: Gobert in the past two years and still managed to
Speaker 1: be an All star. Come on, the only issue that
Speaker 1: we have with Karl Anthony Towns is making sixty million
Speaker 1: dollars a year. Really, his massive contract was so bad
Speaker 1: that new owners were like, he's gotta go. Like literally
Speaker 1: before they even bought the team, they're telling the old owner, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's gone, we are getting rid of him. We've already
Speaker 1: paid four first round picks for Rudy Gobert. A voir
Speaker 1: Karl Anthony is what they said. That's pretty much it.
Speaker 1: But god damn, this has got a sting. Gott a sting.
Speaker 1: Spent nine seasons in Minnesota. Listen, Minnesota in the winter,
Speaker 1: cold as fuck, lots of white folks. What are we doing?
Speaker 1: I don't listen. He had the tragedy of the COVID
Speaker 1: year where he lost his mom and a bunch of
Speaker 1: other family members. And for all the shit that Karl
Speaker 1: Anthony Town's gets nationally, he's a beloved figure in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: so it's kind of it's not exactly all hearts and
Speaker 1: roses from Towns' perspective. In terms of the good side
Speaker 1: of things. He gets to work with Tom Thibodeau again,
Speaker 1: his former head coach that was the head coach of
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Timberwolves back in the day. He spent three
Speaker 1: years under Tibbs, and like I didn't think they were
Speaker 1: that close, so very curious. They did have a huge
Speaker 1: amount of respect for each other. Tibbs must have seen
Speaker 1: his growth and thought to himself, I know what I
Speaker 1: can do with him. That's good enough to facilitate and
Speaker 1: sign off on the Randall trade. As for Randall, come on,
Speaker 1: nobody wanted to come to New York before Randall. We
Speaker 1: gotta give him all the love. If the Knicks win
Speaker 1: a championship because of this trade, Julius Randall should win
Speaker 1: a ring as well. He should also get a ring.
Speaker 1: Knicks fans, of course, love hate relationship with Julius Randall,
Speaker 1: first big free agent to come to New York. No
Speaker 1: one will forget this season where he single handedly carried
Speaker 1: the Knicks to the playoffs. They're not gonna also forget
Speaker 1: his injuries the off the court drama that he brought
Speaker 1: to subsequent teams. Bill Simmons said this in his latest podcast,
Speaker 1: Yes quote, I feel like there were some real chemistry
Speaker 1: concerns with Randall, bringing him in under you know, as
Speaker 1: the kind of ugly step child of this Villanova four team.
Speaker 1: He's over there, he's underpaid by the fact that he's
Speaker 1: a top fifty guy. He's gonna have to play out
Speaker 1: a position because he's gonna have to play center. Brunston's
Speaker 1: gonna have the ball all the time, and they must
Speaker 1: not have liked something all fair comments. I also think
Speaker 1: Julius Randel needs the ball in his handle lot. So
Speaker 1: whether he stays in Minnesota or he gets flipped is
Speaker 1: the next question for me. Are there places that could
Speaker 1: use him? Absolutely? New Orleans could use him again. He's
Speaker 1: eligible to sign a four year, one hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: one million dollar extension six months after the trade is completed.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's happening. As I mentioned, he can
Speaker 1: opt out after this year test free agency, although I
Speaker 1: believe he won't be able to sign for as much
Speaker 1: as he can with the Wolves. But for me, the
Speaker 1: key is whether Julius Randld's gonna be able to stay
Speaker 1: healthy because we've had issues with Julius Randall and that
Speaker 1: for a while now. He's had arthroscopic surgery on his
Speaker 1: left ankle that happened last April. He had season ending
Speaker 1: surgery last spring for the dislocated shoulder that he got
Speaker 1: in January. So Joyce Randall has had some issues. He's
Speaker 1: had some wear and tear. To be fair, Karl Anthony
Speaker 1: Towns has head wear in tear as well. But if
Speaker 1: he stays healthy, I think he's an incredibly valuable player
Speaker 1: to someone. Is it Minnesota, I don't know. Also hidden
Speaker 1: under the headlines is like Nick's just discarded Dante DiVincenzo
Speaker 1: part of the Villanova four. All of the Villanova boys
Speaker 1: thought that the band was back together. It was Dante,
Speaker 1: it was Josh Hart, it was Jalen Brunson. They were
Speaker 1: coercing Michale to come over. Hey, we're having so much fun.
Speaker 1: And as soon as they get together, they don't even
Speaker 1: get one fucking game together. They don't even get training
Speaker 1: camp together for all that good stuff that they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: Rumors though, are that Dante DiVincenzo maybe was not as
Speaker 1: happy with the Nova reunion as first let on because
Speaker 1: he got moved to the bench pretty damn quick. Even
Speaker 1: though we know he could be a very valuable contributor
Speaker 1: to a playoff team. How do we know that, because
Speaker 1: he was a very valuable contributor to the Knicks last postseason.
Speaker 1: I think he's exactly what the Wolves need, by the way,
Speaker 1: a really good three point shooter, third best in the
Speaker 1: league three point shooter. Now that Karl Anthony Towns is gone,
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to step up. He's gonna get a
Speaker 1: lot of touches. He's a really good defender on the wing.
Speaker 1: Some people feel that with Randall almost certain to opt
Speaker 1: out of his contract after next year, Dante was actually
Speaker 1: a key part of the trade. I think this trade
Speaker 1: does not I'm certain this trade does not get done
Speaker 1: without Dante being in it. So now we have to
Speaker 1: get to the big question. Who won the trade who?
Speaker 1: Let's start with New York. I think he's a net win, honestly,
Speaker 1: taking a consideration that Mitchell Robinson was out till January
Speaker 1: at least, and by the way, we know Mitchell Robinson
Speaker 1: not only does he have one injury one boo boo,
Speaker 1: one booboo leads the two two boo boo, three boo
Speaker 1: boo four boo boo, Like he played two games in
Speaker 1: the postseason last year and out for the rest of postseason,
Speaker 1: and what do they have? That's why they had Isaiah Hartenstein,
Speaker 1: and Isaiah Hartenstein ended up having to play starting center
Speaker 1: minutes and then ended up getting the bag from ok
Speaker 1: See because all of a sudden, now we know what
Speaker 1: Isaiah Hartenstein can do, Like if Mitchell Robinson doesn't get hurt,
Speaker 1: we probably don't see what Isaiah Hartenstein is capable of.
Speaker 1: And now the Knicks get Isaiah back on a cheap deal,
Speaker 1: and then they don't have to even get Carl at
Speaker 1: the day. Towns all of this because Mitchell Robinson cannot
Speaker 1: stay healthy. So January twenty twenty five, best case for
Speaker 1: Mitchell Robinson, you had no backup center. You've got Julius
Speaker 1: Random playing center, you got oj and Obi playing center,
Speaker 1: Precious playing precious, a chew Youia playing center. I don't
Speaker 1: think so. No. I think Towns is an elite three
Speaker 1: point shooter, especially as a big in this league. For
Speaker 1: available centers, available shooters, He's the number one pick, number
Speaker 1: one guy you could get number one guy that was available,
Speaker 1: pick and rolls. Pick and pops with Brunson are gonna
Speaker 1: be danger like just really really good. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be really hard to defend the Knicks. You're talking
Speaker 1: about pick and pop one two man game with Jalen
Speaker 1: Brunson and Karl Anthony Towns, and then you got og
Speaker 1: Nanobi in one corner and Michael Bridges in another corner.
Speaker 1: How are you defending that? I don't know. You got
Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns who doesn't need the ball in his hands.
Speaker 1: Julius Randall did. We would watch Julius Randall have the
Speaker 1: ball dble dobble, dribble, jobber jebble, step back contested like
Speaker 1: thirty seconds. It's like twenty seconds out of twenty four
Speaker 1: seconds in the shot clock. Karl Anthony Towns can play
Speaker 1: in the half court, he can lurk over the line,
Speaker 1: he can run on the fast break, he can slash,
Speaker 1: he can rebound, he can defend. And this is excellent
Speaker 1: news for Knicks fans, who I think probably are now
Speaker 1: the second best team in the East. Pretty clearly, Philly
Speaker 1: has gotta be punching air right now. A lot of
Speaker 1: Knicks fans are elated with this news. A lot of
Speaker 1: Knicks fans are pissed now in terms of the Wolves,
Speaker 1: they now escape cap Hell. They figure out a way
Speaker 1: to get the ownership group to feel happy and content
Speaker 1: with the way that this roster is structured. You've got
Speaker 1: nas Reid Nazrid, in my opinion, on a very cheap
Speaker 1: contract and not that much worse than Karl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 1: So you've basically got a little baby Karl Anthony Towns
Speaker 1: and he's just been clogged up by Karl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 1: And he's making like thirteen million a year instead of
Speaker 1: sixty million a year. And the Wolves couldn't play Gobert
Speaker 1: Noried and Karl Anthony Towns at the same time it
Speaker 1: was clogging up the lanes. Anthony Edwards looked worse. In fact,
Speaker 1: the offense worked best when Karl Anthony Towns got hurt
Speaker 1: last year and the year before. The only reason it
Speaker 1: ended up working in general ever, where they went to
Speaker 1: the Western Conference finals is because Chris Finch, the head coach,
Speaker 1: is a genius. But let's be honest, wasn't the best fit.
Speaker 1: But I am a little concerned at the timing. You
Speaker 1: go to the Western Conference Finals and you break the
Speaker 1: band up. You break the band up. They beat the
Speaker 1: fucking Denver Nuggets, the defending champs, and you break the
Speaker 1: band up. Man. I know that the Cap situation was tenuous,
Speaker 1: but from a hoop standpoint, I think Dante DiVincenzo is
Speaker 1: the key piece to make this deal work. From a
Speaker 1: basketball standpoint as well. Like I said, fourth best three
Speaker 1: point shooter in the league, shot forty four from three
Speaker 1: last year, set an all time Knicks record for made threes.
Speaker 1: He brings spacing defense to a team that needs it,
Speaker 1: and I think he unlocks ant And then for Julius,
Speaker 1: I think he he now has an opportunity to be
Speaker 1: like a third or fourth fiddle. He can play the
Speaker 1: role that Cap played in terms of where he falls
Speaker 1: on the court, but he's tougher, he's stronger. He's not
Speaker 1: as good of a shooter, but he can shoot a
Speaker 1: little bit. He can down to three people. Forget he
Speaker 1: shot forty one percent from deep to twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: The Wolves get spacing, depth, toughness, cap relief, and now
Speaker 1: you've got a spot for Nazri to really flourish, which
Speaker 1: made Karl Anthony Towns expendable. So it's very exciting The
Speaker 1: move was made in part, I think to maximize Anthony
Speaker 1: Edwards in his window. According to the Athletic, Randall's modest
Speaker 1: thirty one million dollar contract and his ability to opt
Speaker 1: out next year helps, And as Krasinski said, the Wolves
Speaker 1: wanted to make sure Edwards could be on a competitive
Speaker 1: playoff team for more, for much longer than just the
Speaker 1: next two years, and believe the flexibility this move provides
Speaker 1: will aid this pursuit, especially considering that the Wolves are
Speaker 1: going to need to pay Naz Reid more money. Cam
Speaker 1: and Karl Anthony Towns making one hundred million dollars together
Speaker 1: no chance. And you've got Nikail Alexander Walker there, so
Speaker 1: you can't lose both of those guys because they were
Speaker 1: very crucial to helping you be the Denver Nuggets. So
Speaker 1: I think it's tough to pick out a loser or
Speaker 1: a winner from a cap standpoint. The Wolves win. From
Speaker 1: the knick standpoint, they feel a need that they really had.
Speaker 1: I think it's a win win if Kat doesn't work
Speaker 1: out in New York. In the top comment under the
Speaker 1: trade news from Scham's was don't come to New York
Speaker 1: and be a bitch. That was what it was like, literally,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people saying Karl Anthony Towns is
Speaker 1: soft and he cannot cut it. And there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people saying that Julius Randall is soft and he
Speaker 1: can't cut it in a big market either. So it's
Speaker 1: good that he's going to Minnesota. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: We're gonna see how he's received. It's a very tough
Speaker 1: fan base. Whether he'll be happy is a real question.
Speaker 1: He was a Knicks fan growing up. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: fascinating to see how this thing goes. The salary could
Speaker 1: become a boat anchor for the Knicks. They better fucking
Speaker 1: win fast. From a play standpoint, most pundits believe that
Speaker 1: the Knicks won the trade, some arguing that the Wolves
Speaker 1: got significantly worse because integrating Randall into the offense and
Speaker 1: defense will require him to buy in, and Randall doesn't
Speaker 1: normally buy in. But remember Randall played for Chris Finch
Speaker 1: for New Orleans. Chris Finch knew how to maximize him
Speaker 1: and he had an awesome year. So this is fascinating,
Speaker 1: one of the most interesting trades in recent memory. Both
Speaker 1: teams could get better, both teams could be regretting it
Speaker 1: by January. Trades like this make the NBA so fucking
Speaker 1: fun because we're gonna be dissecting this for many, many ages.
Speaker 1: All Right, Moving on, lots of news from around the league.
Speaker 1: Out in Indiana, there was a different kind of shock
Speaker 1: news the Pacers. The Indiana Pacers signed jalil okafor the
Speaker 1: former number three pick in the draft. Back in thought
Speaker 1: how long ago was that twenty fifteen for a training
Speaker 1: camp deal. I haven't thought about julil okafor since, probably
Speaker 1: the pandemic, because he last played in the NBA in
Speaker 1: the pandemic season twenty twenty. Where has he been, I
Speaker 1: don't know. He's been playing in China, Mexico. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be trying to make a comeback in the league. But
Speaker 1: here's the shocking thing. When you think about Jeel, you're like, dude,
Speaker 1: it's like a million He's been out the league for
Speaker 1: longer than I can even remember. But he's only twenty eight.
Speaker 1: He came into the league at twenty, despite the fact
Speaker 1: that he was overweight six' eleven two hundred and seventy five,
Speaker 1: pounds never really quite caught on tough one for The
Speaker 1: sixers at a, time when the league was transitioning fully
Speaker 1: to three point shooting. Bigs he might actually be valuable right,
Speaker 1: now we're getting back to the bruisers down, Low, like
Speaker 1: we don't need all of our bigs to shoot threes right.
Speaker 1: Now he was a. Throwback we kind of like throwbacks right.
Speaker 1: Now last year saw this renaissance that the traditional big
Speaker 1: teams are scrambling to add rim. Protectors Now jalale gets
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Speaker 1: This Chad, buchanon good for, you, Brother way to give
Speaker 1: a guy another, chance a guy that a lot of
Speaker 1: people were very high on when he got. Drafted if
Speaker 1: he catched on a lot of big men who were
Speaker 1: run out of the league before their, time might just
Speaker 1: be looking for their own. Comebacks all. Right moving On Jose,
Speaker 1: Alvarado grand Theft, Alvarado, baby he just signed an extension
Speaker 1: with The pelicans and a lot of rival fan bases
Speaker 1: are fucking. Pissed. Why you might, ask, well what did
Speaker 1: grand Theft alvarado? Do according to multiple fan, bases he
Speaker 1: signed for too little. Money according To, Shams alverado signed
Speaker 1: a two, year nine million dollar extension with the player
Speaker 1: option for twenty twenty, six twenty twenty. SEVEN i don't.
Speaker 1: Know that does feel like too, small. Paus it does
Speaker 1: feel like not not enough money to be. Fair it
Speaker 1: feels like he could be he could have signed for not,
Speaker 1: double but maybe like thirty percent. More it's the same
Speaker 1: contract That Nikil Alexander walker signed In. Minnesota and Remember
Speaker 1: Nikkeil Alexander walker was ran out Of New, orleans did
Speaker 1: not play really a single. Minute how little is four
Speaker 1: and a half. Million Kevin garnett right now still makes
Speaker 1: five million dollars a year on a deferred salary from The.
Speaker 1: Celtics The celtics players who make more Than alvarado Include Drew,
Speaker 1: eubanks the Ten Day, God Nick, Richards Johnny, davis the
Speaker 1: buss that went to The Washington, Wizards Uzman, jang whole
Speaker 1: lot of. TEAMS i think Pay alvarado ten million a.
Speaker 1: YEAR i think this is him betting on. Himself when
Speaker 1: he opts out in twenty twenty, SIX i think there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of bidders for his, services which
Speaker 1: is pretty damn, good pretty pretty damn good for the
Speaker 1: undrafted free. Agent all, Right speaking of extensions out IN,
Speaker 1: la The clippers just Extended Terrence man three years forty seven.
Speaker 1: Million that keeps him there till twenty seven to twenty,
Speaker 1: eight which is the natural byproduct Of Paul george moving
Speaker 1: on To. Philly not only did that free up the
Speaker 1: money to Extend, man but now it is clear he's
Speaker 1: going to be a major part of their offense. Forward,
Speaker 1: Listen i've been fucking talking Up Terrence man for. Years,
Speaker 1: now give this man his opportunities nearly sixteen million dollars a.
Speaker 1: Year it might seem to people that he is on
Speaker 1: the cusp of being, overpaid BUT i don't think. SO
Speaker 1: i don't think. SO i think he's a bargain at sixteen.
Speaker 1: Million clipper fans know. This nearly all The clipper websites
Speaker 1: are hailing the signing the extension Of Eva kazubac as.
Speaker 1: Well they are key cornerstones for rebuilding this franchise When
Speaker 1: kawi leonard inevitably gets traded this year because they just
Speaker 1: cannot handle that contract and his injury woes. Anymore Jerry,
Speaker 1: west my dearly departed, friend Loved Terrence. Man he's gonna
Speaker 1: step into a lot of minutes That Paul george. ABANDONED
Speaker 1: i think this could be a breakout year for him
Speaker 1: and a guy that's just a really good kid and
Speaker 1: athletic and strong and put up some huge performances in
Speaker 1: the playoffs a few years ago for The. CLIPPERS i
Speaker 1: think this gives a little bit of hope to a
Speaker 1: team searching for reasons to pay those big prices at
Speaker 1: their new, stadium The Into It. Dome all, right let's
Speaker 1: move forward a little bit of sad news to report
Speaker 1: for anyone who's been a hoops fan for the past fifteen.
Speaker 1: Years one of the truly great players of his. Generation
Speaker 1: guy who REALLY i WISH i would have known what
Speaker 1: he would have become if you wouldn't have gotten. Injured
Speaker 1: Is Derrick rose has announced his retirement from THE. Nba
Speaker 1: anyone who saw him play before the, INJURY i don't
Speaker 1: think anybody forgets. It it was. Electric he was the
Speaker 1: youngest player ever to WIN mvp at twenty, two and
Speaker 1: as we, know career derailed by injuries to the point
Speaker 1: where he was though able to add valued all six
Speaker 1: teams he played, for though nowhere in his career was
Speaker 1: anyone unhappy with having him on the, team and that Includes,
Speaker 1: memphis where he had a horrible. Season but they were
Speaker 1: still happy to have him. There he was the get back.
Speaker 1: Man rose requested a waiver from The, grizzlies knowing that
Speaker 1: he'd have to give back the money rather than phone
Speaker 1: it in for a year and probably get. Waived that's
Speaker 1: a good, guy good move For Dereck. Rose Love Dereck.
Speaker 1: Rose one of the great what ifs IN nba. History
Speaker 1: what if he never tore HIS acl in twenty. Twelve
Speaker 1: first four years were as good as almost anyone IN nba,
Speaker 1: History and although of course he played more another ten,
Speaker 1: years in fact never the. Same he would be the
Speaker 1: first to tell you that it's gonna Be it's. Strange
Speaker 1: it's gonna be strange to be watching THE nba and
Speaker 1: Know Derrick. Rose he put a full page ad in
Speaker 1: the newspaper in all six cities that he, played and
Speaker 1: now he'll have more time to dedicate to his. PASSION
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't know about a lot of
Speaker 1: people are forgetting. About he held a huge chess tournament
Speaker 1: in the offseason that was apparently a big. Hit more
Speaker 1: power to. Him he is now fully leaning in to.
Speaker 1: Chess he will be missed and you will always be
Speaker 1: brought up when you bring UP, nba who was the
Speaker 1: most exciting young player that you ever saw and wish
Speaker 1: you could have seen. More and, finally lots of shenanigans
Speaker 1: behind the scenes AT espn right now in the skulduggery
Speaker 1: to replace wog the leader in the clubhouse was friend
Speaker 1: of Show Sean, serna who's been guest hosting On pat McAfee.
Speaker 1: Show and a lot of people thought was the reason
Speaker 1: that woj LEFT. Espn he's out of contract, now might
Speaker 1: be at least obvious or logical that he would be
Speaker 1: the heir apparent to go TO espn and break. News
Speaker 1: but then this, happened and Then i'm, like, Okay woch
Speaker 1: still pulling strings behind the scenes even when you're out
Speaker 1: of the. League by, god That's Adrian wojanowski's. Music out of,
Speaker 1: nowhere a dark horse candidate has emerged as the head
Speaker 1: OF nba newsbreaker at The Worldwide. Leader so who is
Speaker 1: it is it is a guy Like Brian, windhorst a
Speaker 1: veteran of THE nba, beat someone deeply connected to players
Speaker 1: in front offices with a ton of, experience or is
Speaker 1: it a guy Like Jeff? Passon what the? Fuck Jeff
Speaker 1: passon covers Major League, baseball who, never as far AS
Speaker 1: i can, tell has broken any news about THE. Nba
Speaker 1: he is now the guy rumored to Be woj's hand pick.
Speaker 1: Successor remember last, EPISODE i, said Is wojes trying to
Speaker 1: hand over the business like He's tony soprano as not
Speaker 1: h like is woj getting a piece of the passing?
Speaker 1: PIE i would not be. Surprised this is LIKE i,
Speaker 1: said when the financial advisor hands their entire book over
Speaker 1: to somebody like their little, nephew and now all of
Speaker 1: a sudden they're managing a billion dollars in assets center.
Speaker 1: Management the level of petty Against schams is off the.
Speaker 1: Charts If Jeff passon becomes the LEADING nba, newsbreaker everyone
Speaker 1: should be. Pissed and Remember schams was Like woj's mentee At.
Speaker 1: Yalloo he was seventeen eighteen working Underneath woj and now
Speaker 1: they fucking hate each. Other it is. Crazy if this
Speaker 1: happens And I'm Tim legler Or Brian windhorst Or Zach,
Speaker 1: LOW i. AM i am absolutely. Heated by the, way
Speaker 1: just terrible news that THE espn let go Of Zach
Speaker 1: low this. Week they are very unserious right, now the
Speaker 1: worldwide leader is not that right, now they're the worldwide
Speaker 1: smoking that. Weader as for, SHAMS i think you should
Speaker 1: just go TO. Nbc fuck OVER. Espn it's dirty, business,
Speaker 1: folks dirty business in THE nba when you want to break.
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