WEBVTT - Early Free Agency Recap 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.000 On this episode of this League, we are going to 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:06.920 respond to the first wild forty eight hours of NBA 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:10.719 free agency. Cannot wait until Friday. Things are moving all 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:14.040 over the place and it has been a fun ride. 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:15.360 So let's get into it. 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:22.000 Lots to go over, winners and losers, drop the beat 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:25.200 to take care and I said, you'll be waiting for. 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:28.280 Clean never stop. 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:29.400 We got the grand. 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:34.720 NiFe go, let me go, there we go, cap going. 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:36.280 Everybody knows. 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.640 Twenty twenty one free agency has been wild. I covered 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:45.200 first hour of it on TikTok Live. 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:47.720 It was just a slew of information coming at me 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:51.880 from Shams and woj and fucking Chris Haynes and random 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:53.000 guys like Henry Abbotts. 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:55.200 Every single minute felt like. 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:58.640 Something new was going on and deal terms and boom 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.760 boom boom, boom boom. At this point, before we get 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.560 into winners and losers, few free agent issues and still 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:07.199 need to be solved. We still don't have any word 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:11.480 about what Kawhi is doing, despite the fact that everyone 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.000 has said he expects to come back to the Clippers. 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:16.480 I'm not sure why it is. 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:22.040 Wednesday, at twelve thirty pm, Chris Paul signed his huge deal, 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.880 which we will get into. Of course, Marty should be happy. 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:29.880 Four years, one hundred and twenty million dollars. The rumor 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.759 was that the Hornets were trying to pry him away 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:35.080 for one hundred million, which is just fucking or not 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:39.000 Hornets Pelicans, excuse me, which is you see the Hornets 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.600 his former team. 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:42.680 As if a fucked up sort of, it's sort of 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:43.360 his former team. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.240 It's kind of like the Browns and the and the 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.080 Ravens and like the franchises. 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:50.680 Right, yeah, no, I think technically he's still part of 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:53.600 the Charlotte Hornets, like franchise history. But still yeah, now 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:57.920 former team, and it's always great news when GM's leak 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.400 moves they tried to make. That means the state of 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:01.720 the Pelicans is very. 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.920 Good, very very We almost had Chris Paul if the 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:08.240 Suns didn't end up going and paying them. So they 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:11.720 paid Chris Paul, which was inevitable we thought. But I 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:16.240 still know Khy still no Kuhi, very weird, Dinwittie. I 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:19.000 think he's going to the Wizards, but that's very complicated 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:21.320 because it's a sign and trade situation. They don't have 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:23.640 enough money to just pay him out right and he's 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:29.519 probably going to the Wizards via the scrap Heap aka 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:34.919 the Oklahoma City Thunder, probably taking Kuzma's contract on and 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:37.840 probably having to give them a twenty twenty five pick 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:41.119 because they owe the twenty twenty three first round pick, 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.440 and the only way that it can't be unprotected is 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:45.920 if Sam Presty says is actually doing the deal to 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.200 because they'll get twenty twenty five and twenty twenty three, 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:51.200 so it'll be like they're like trickle down, hard to explain, 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:52.240 very complicated. 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:54.560 Kruzma and Okac would be so beautiful. 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:55.440 I kind of love that. 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:57.400 I mean, it's exactly what I've said forever, Like if 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.080 he played on any other team, no one would know 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.840 his name, and he's just going to fade so beautifully 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:03.880 into obscurity and I never have to hear his name again. 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:05.040 It's going to be so lovely. 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.320 Reggie Jackson, we still don't know. 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.680 The Bulls need to move Lori Markanen or they need 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:12.760 to let him go for free. That's like a big 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:16.760 free agent that no one's really talking about. And Kelly Ubre, 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:19.760 who knows what's gonna happen with him, And then obviously 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:24.640 Dennis Shuter just eroding into dust, just eroding into dust. 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:27.280 Somebody on Twitter was like, took my old take and 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.320 they quote tweeted it and like white woman telling black 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:32.000 man what his worth is and it's like, I'm not 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:36.120 doing anything. Yeah, all I'm doing is really illuminating what 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:37.760 the market looks like for Dennis Shooter. 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.680 And it's not good. I think he gets like ten million. 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:44.200 Yeah, I mean no, it's looking very bad. I mean 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:49.240 we talked about it in the preview episode where it 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.040 was just this point guard like Russian Roulette, and the 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:53.960 two guys like left at the end of it are 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.720 Dennis Shreuter and Reggie Jackson. Yeah. 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:58.760 Yeah, and I think Reggie Jackson might just come back 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:00.000 first scraps to the Clippers. 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:04.600 And that's fine, but like what is Yeah anyway, anyway. 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:08.240 Here's the winners and losers CP three Biggest Winner just 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:12.560 just thirty seven, right, thirty seven, thirty six about to 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:16.279 be thirty seven started the next season, and by the 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.960 time this deal is up, he'll be fucking Tom Brady. 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.080 He'll be forty one at the at the expiration day 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.159 to this deal. He's getting one hundred and twenty million 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.800 dollars just like we thought in the middle of I 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:28.480 think it came out. 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:30.839 Right before the playoffs, maybe. 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:32.800 When he said he was going to turn down The 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:34.520 rumors were he was going to turn down that forty 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:36.839 million dollars maybe the first round. 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:39.240 Or something like that. But the fourth year is a 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.640 team option, which people haven't been broadcasting as much as 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:43.120 they should. 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:45.080 Yeah. Three, so it's really a three year deal. 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:50.800 Jared Allen five years, one hundred million, shitload of money. Also, 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:53.400 what are the Cavs doing Evan Mobley and him? 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:55.720 I don't know. I don't know. 0:04:56.000 --> 0:05:00.840 Lonzo Ball paid four years eighty five million to the Bulls. Uh, 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:06.000 then DeRozan three years eighty five What did I say 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:09.560 he should not take less because if he takes less 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:11.279 now he's never getting money again. 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:13.920 And he did exactly what he should have done, is. 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.920 Find the highest bidder with the best situation for him 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.440 to put up lots of minutes, lots of bucket buckets. 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:21.480 They also then. 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:28.480 Signed Alex Caruso the Chicago Bulls to four years thirty seven. 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:30.520 Yeah, so that sounds about right. 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:32.839 Yeah, four years thirty seven. Wow, I can't believe I 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.919 remember that. So four years thirty seven. So now it's 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:37.080 Alice Caruso. 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.440 They're doing my philosophy of like just a score million points. 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:45.440 Score million points, but also have a contingency plan in 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.159 place to still have guys that can get you a bucket. 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:51.560 When your number one bucket has to go, which is 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:52.480 Zach Colvine. 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:53.599 Zack Levine has to go. 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.839 They're not going to pay him the supermax, which is 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.359 what Zach Clovine wants, so he's probably gonna get end 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:01.920 up getting traded for more pieces. So Lourie Mark and 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:05.159 I think we'll obviously get moved for something of value. 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:08.600 So I like what the Chicago Bulls are doing. Karnisovas 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:12.960 is making moves, So that's a winner. Duncan Robinson five years, 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:14.120 ninety million to stay. 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:14.720 With the Heat. 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:17.400 Wow, what a success story. 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.400 What is success story? Where did he go to Wesleyan? 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:21.160 What was his first college? 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:24.760 He went to seventy three tiny ass liberal arts school 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.840 in the middle of bumfuck New England and then transferred 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:31.080 to Michigan and fucking made a run in the tournament 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:34.560 and then ended up in a great situation and plays 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.280 his role very well. And now he's just worth one 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.000 hundred million dollars. Put that in the bank invest that 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:41.640 in some Doache cooin and off you go. 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:42.960 Yeah, fella. 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.279 Podcaster fellow podcaster broke it on the podcast, which I 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:51.480 thought was tremendous. Norm Powell staying with the Blazers for 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:56.200 five years ninety million dollars. A lot of guys signing 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.919 five year, ninety million dollar deals. Everybody says, oh, well, 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.200 when you see six guys get paid all five years 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:06.360 for ninety what you know what that is is GM's 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.640 all getting on a group chat and saying that's what 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:09.840 the market for these guys is. 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:13.400 Eighteen million. Derreck Rose stays with the Knicks three years, 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:15.320 forty three million. Love that for him. 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:20.040 Gary Trent three years fifty four million, same deal, eighteen 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.560 extensions for Curry extensions. 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:27.320 Man, the Curry extension. That Curry extension fifty two million 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:27.680 a year. 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:31.720 Wow, five years, four and one cause he's got one 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.880 year left, four years, two hundred and fifteen million dollars. Wow, 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:38.440 Shay gets his bag five years, one hundred and seventy 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:41.040 two million. That was shocking to me. Not shocking from 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:44.640 like a make sense standpoint, but a shocking from did 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:48.480 Oklahoma City actually like I didn't know Oklahoma City would 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:48.680 do that. 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:52.320 Yeah, yeah, no, it was I guess. I mean, I mean, 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.520 you gotta like having Shay on your team, and right 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.040 like maybe all that shit was just like smoke. 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.920 Yeah, Trey Young five years, two hundred and eight million. 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:05.240 These guys all getting their their bags. Also, John Collins, 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.480 I just was reading it. John Collins gets twenty five 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:09.560 million dollars a year? 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:10.520 Did he sign it? 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.440 He just it just happened, like maybe an hour ago. 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.400 It happens, So we're good. So then the winners, in 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:18.720 terms of I think for teams, I think the Heat 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:19.640 are huge winners. 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.040 Kyle Lowry getting Kyle Lowry makes sense. 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:28.960 Then they give Butler the Brinks truck for what is it, 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:32.400 four years, one eighty five. 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.120 Wow, that's a lot of money. 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:39.280 Kyle Lowry so joins him Duncan Robinson then and then 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.160 they get him on an extension, which they had to 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:45.240 do because of the they have his Berg rights and 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:46.840 they weren't gonna be able to sign anyone else. 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:50.760 And then you've got PJ. Tucker, which the world. 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.600 If anyone watched, listen to this pod religiously, I am 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.480 the biggest PJ. Tucker fan, like to get him for 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.120 two years and fifteen million dollars. He's gonna be the 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:01.680 guy that will straight up punch Jimmy Butler in the 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:02.439 mouth like he. 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:05.960 Will in practice just tell him to shut the fuck up. 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:08.000 Did you see his ig post man? 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:11.200 Yeah? That I have that uh in here too, let's 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:16.120 find that. So he said this because PJ. Tucker thought 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.000 he was going to come back to the Bucks. And 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:19.720 I think I thought he was going to come back 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:20.320 to the Bucks, did you? 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:22.520 Yeah? Pretty much everyone everyone thought he was going to 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:23.400 come back. And Bobby. 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.480 Opposite, Well, Bobby Ports took less money. He took two 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:31.240 years for nine h PJ. Tucker quote, Wow, he puts 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.600 this on ig. I'm still a little loss for words, 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.560 to be honest, still shook, but it is what it 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:38.880 is today. Took a hard turn on the road of 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:40.880 my career. But like my grandma used to tell me, 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.440 all you can control is what you can control without 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.280 being said Milwaukee, and then he makes sure to say 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:49.320 the city of Milwaukee, not the Milwaukee Buck, because fucked 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:51.560 the Bucks right now is what he's on. You will 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:53.959 never fully understand what the city means to me. Our 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.280 time together, however, short will hold some of the best 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.640 memories of my life forever. You took me in, had 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:02.400 my back throughout our journey, and I will for always 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:04.720 be grateful and hold you near to my heart. Can't 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:09.360 thank y'all enough. We will always be dogs. Yeah that 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.960 was sad, but I love that For the Heat, love yeah, 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.560 love it. They get a guy who's gonna be rough 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:17.520 and tough, get you with the defense, get you with 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:19.880 the three pointer. The question that I have. They also 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:24.200 got Mark if Morris. They signed Dwayne Deadman. Uh yeah, trash. 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:28.959 They subtract Goran Dragig Kendrick Nunn Oladipo, which trash, trash, trash. 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.120 Okay, So to me, who is gonna guard? 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:34.959 Do they have a player right now that can actually 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:36.840 check Joe lmbeat. 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.440 Or check yohness. 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:42.560 No, I mean the answer is no. 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:44.120 What do you do at that point? 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:44.920 Yeah? 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.520 I don't know, So I think that they still have 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:47.920 some work to do. 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:53.439 Maybe they're maybe it's team defense, like maybe it's BAM 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:54.319 with PJ. 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:56.560 Tucker kind of like going back and forth. 0:10:56.600 --> 0:11:00.000 But I mean there's gonna be a lot put on BAM. 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:04.080 Law unnecessary pressure on BAM like the Heat success. 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:06.040 Are the Heat a top three team in the East, 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:07.680 right now this is the. 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:11.559 Top of my head. I mean, okay, Brooklyn Bucks. 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:17.480 But yeah, then for sure three But like they're flirting, 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:19.319 are they they're top five? 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:20.439 Yeah, for sure. 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:23.240 It's gonna be interesting the Knicks. 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.120 For a while, I thought to myself, what the fuck 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.600 are the Knicks up to? This is not making sense. 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.600 You get rid of Reggie Bullock, which is fine. You 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:36.920 picked up the Frenchman for four years, seventy eight million dollars, 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:41.160 which is absurd, contract absurd. He was not good for 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:43.480 the Boston Celtics. He was so not good for the 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:45.920 Boston Celtics that they wouldn't resign him and they would 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:49.120 rather have Josh Richardson. Okay, and then you signed he 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:51.760 rose love the signing sign Alec Brooks didn't know what 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:52.440 that was about. 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:54.960 Did not know because I think he got ten million. 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:56.160 Yeah, I mean he played well. 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.440 Okay, that's a lot of money though for just a guy, 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:00.959 just a guy. Neurlans know what I like. 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:06.240 But nothing really moved me until today, until the Oklahoma 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:09.040 City Thunder pulled what I would consider to be a 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:13.480 mench move in buying out Kemba Walker and letting. 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:16.320 Him go back home to New York City. I love that. 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.040 I think, no matter what, because we know that Kemba 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:23.079 Walker's washed, right, like we know that he's not healthy. 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:24.280 We know that he's not healthy. 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.120 I think he and d Rose kind of spelling each 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:27.800 other could work. Yeah, I like that. 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.000 I think when he has those spurts. I think he 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.480 averaged like nineteen and a half points a game last year. 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:34.480 Yeah, I mean he didn't forget how to score. Yeah, 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:36.280 he knows how to score. It's just like he doesn't 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:38.800 know how to stay on the court. And as long 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:41.840 as he and d Rose kind of play ham and egg, 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:44.360 like you sit these three games, I sit that those 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:45.880 three games, I think they're going to be fine. 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.000 I love that move me too, I love that move. 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:52.760 Lakers, ah Man, I don't know. It's hard for me 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.719 to figure out what this. Are they winners or are 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:57.360 they losers? TV continued. 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:00.679 I mean so many people are talking about now that 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.720 they're like instant like favorites to come out of the West, 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:05.959 and they may be like in Vegas at the start 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:07.360 of the year, but I don't really look at it 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.480 that way. I think they're probably favorites to get the 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:13.120 one seed. But again, like we've seen the problems Westbrook 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.920 poses in the playoffs, and yeah, no, I I think 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:18.640 if I had to like make a prediction right now, 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.000 this Lakers team is the one seed and they lose 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.079 in either the second round or conference. 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:26.760 Finals, they're like a they're like the Jazz. They're basically 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.520 like the New Jazz in the fact that like they'll 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.200 be the one seed and they'll flame out. I saw 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:36.000 this that the Lakers went full sickle mode. I might 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:38.400 take all my exes and all put them in a group. 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:42.079 That was like basically basically. 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:42.240 What they did. 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:47.160 They brought Wayne Ellington back, they brought Trevor Ariza Beck, 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:52.800 they brought Dwight Howard Beck, they brought marcasol Beck, Baysmore 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:53.920 Baysmore Beck. 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:57.760 It's just it's a wild wild turn event. 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.560 So they have now Russell Westbrook for forty, Trevor for 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:03.080 two point six. Everybody's taking minimums two point six, two 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:04.760 point six, two point six, two point six, one point 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:08.559 eight for Malik Monk. Wow, Malik Monk got UNDERPAIDA did 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:08.800 he not? 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:09.480 Yeah? 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.679 Wow, Portland couldn't have gotten Elik Monk for fucking more 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:13.280 money than that. 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:16.040 I mean, we'll never know what he was thinking. Maybe 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.920 he just like really wanted to go there, but that's 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.720 wild at that point in your career. Yeah, Like, I 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:23.560 mean maybe the market was just nothing for him, which 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:25.640 is weird. Yeah, I don't know that surprised me. 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:27.680 Warnants were like he was way too inconsistent. We're not 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:28.280 keeping that guy. 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.480 So remember I said, I think they're gonna let him go, 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:32.600 and you're like, I think maybe Michael Jordan wants to 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:33.560 keep the guy that he picked. 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:36.560 But yeah, but he basically got a minimum contract like that. 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.440 Why, I guess they just want book Knight to have 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:41.960 more touches and more ability to not feel pressure from 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:44.640 this guy that he drafted and and him kind of 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:46.240 putting pressure on them to get mints. 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:46.600 Yeah. 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:48.720 So the thing that's interesting about the Lakers is this, 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:52.600 they did everything that they needed to do with Westbrook, 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.680 and I'm still not satisfied. Like they they went out 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:59.560 and got all those shooters they did, Like Mellow shot 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:02.200 forty thirty and forty percent the last two. 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:03.200 Seasons in Portland from three. 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:07.720 Uh, then you've got Baysmore shot forty one percent on threes, 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:10.840 Monk shot forty percent on threes, Ellington forty two percent 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.680 on threes. Kendrick Nunn thirty eight percent on a high 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:17.760 volume of threes, Gossaw forty one percent on threes. 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:19.920 And yet when you've. 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:22.640 Got a d Braun Westbrook and Taylor Horton Tucker who 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:25.200 came back for a lot of money, you're only gonna 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:28.560 have one shooter, one real shooter on the floor at 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:28.920 a time. 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.520 I think we could see some interesting lineups, but at 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:34.280 the same time it's Vogel, so maybe not. 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:36.680 Exactly. 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.560 That is exactly where my mind went, was, like, they 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:40.600 have a lot of shooters. 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.800 The second unit could be really fun. The second unit 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:46.400 could actually be in some ways. 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:52.040 More potent offensively, probably a SIEV defensively. But okay, you 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:55.360 put Russell Westbrook out there, Mark Gasol and a bunch 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:56.720 of shooters and like. 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.520 He's just kicking out. He's driving and kicking out to 0:15:59.560 --> 0:15:59.800 like three. 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:03.720 I don't hate that. But it all falls on Vogel. 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.600 Jason Kidd is gone. He's gone either the real coach 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:12.160 Daddy's gone, and now the substitute teacher's in there, and 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:13.840 I don't know, I don't know how much I trust 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:16.680 Vogel because this is a very complicated set. This is 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:20.360 a roster that's very complex to me, the rotations are 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:22.960 going to be key. Who are you putting together? How 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.080 does that all fit defensively and offensively? 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:27.440 This could be a fucking mess. 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:31.200 Yeah. And one of my thoughts was like, I mean, 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.760 you know how Ad like never wants to be like 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.480 a pure five. He wants to like have another besides it. 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:38.960 But like Peleika was kind of like, well, you're gonna 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:41.760 have to look at some points like because who else? 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:42.800 Who else? 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.520 Otherwise the spacing is going to be totally fucked Well, 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:46.640 there's just no one else to play with that. 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.200 I mean, Marcus all can't play the entire time and Dwight, Yeah, 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:50.040 we can't start. 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:51.680 We know that Dwight's not starting. 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:55.000 No, they have no ability to start anyone else but 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:58.760 Ad at the five. It's like starting at the five, Ad, 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:02.560 and he's like fuck. So I'm really interested to see 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.840 this because I think they've got so many shooters and 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:07.120 yet are still going to be a below average three 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:10.920 point shooting team by mid season. That's what's crazy, because 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:12.959 there's only gonna be one good shooter on the team 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:13.960 at a time. 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:16.800 I think the games it's gonna be fun. 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:20.040 Yeah, it's gonna be They're finally gonna be fun. But 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:23.000 it's also gonna be like high highs lo los, Like 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:26.720 there's gonna be some some nights where Russell Westbrook shoots 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.840 four for twenty four. Lebron is like putting a team 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.399 on his back. He's maybe ice in his ankle, like 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:34.400 you got Waynellington getting a huge minutes. 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:35.840 It's gonna be really interesting. 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.520 It's gonna be the year of the Lebron subtweet correct. 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:41.360 Correct where he's like talking about Championship DNA. Yeah, they're 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:44.720 all old, they're all old as fuck. It's gonna be 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:48.360 really really fun again. Chicago Bulls, I think they're they're fun, 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:53.600 they're interesting. Uh, Zach Lavine, I think he leaves just because, 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.840 like I love the fact Caruso and Damar and Lonzo 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:58.440 on the floor, Like you could play Lonzo at two, 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:01.120 or you could play Lonzo one and Alex Kruce off 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:01.400 the bench. 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:04.800 So they've got no depth, zero depth. 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:10.960 At this point, it's Lonzo, Levine, Damar, Patrick Williams, Vooch 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:14.120 and then Caruso, Kobe White, Lori Markin and who's gone 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:17.879 and some newbies and Denzel Valentine. So this is this 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:22.040 is a fun ass starting five, and once the starting 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:25.840 five is gassed, you've got a bunch of like schmos 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:30.680 shmos to me, losers, let's go into it. God damn, 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:31.880 what is going on with Golden State. 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:34.640 I knew it was bad. I knew. 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:40.400