Speaker 1: On this episode of The Eat check Man. The Finals
Speaker 1: are actually here. Game one is in the books. I
Speaker 1: got some things to say the Lakers. The Lakers make,
Speaker 1: or at least they're attempting to make, the most shocking
Speaker 1: move chess move for a head coach probably in modern
Speaker 1: NBA history. And we got some drama bruin in Minnesota, Anthony.
Speaker 1: The finals are here. No time to waste my voice.
Speaker 1: I don't know where it's going, but it's not all
Speaker 1: the way around yet. Let's jump right into it. Drop
Speaker 1: that motherfucking beat should be rehonnered. Ooh, I fire up
Speaker 1: Game one. Folenst in the book probably should have been better.
Speaker 1: I was hoping that this would be a more competitive
Speaker 1: Game one. Celtics, of course run away with it. They
Speaker 1: led by twenty nine at one point twenty nine, and
Speaker 1: then the Luca experiment, the Luca magic came back, and
Speaker 1: I thought maybe they were gonna stay you come back,
Speaker 1: and they did not one seven eighty nine. Luca had
Speaker 1: thirty and no one else did shit. Like nobody else
Speaker 1: did a goddamn thing. Everyone on Boston eight like it
Speaker 1: was Thanksgiving. Six players had ten or more points, including
Speaker 1: all the starters. Holy fuck. Also Christaps porzingis Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: Here are the three big takeaways. Where the fuck was
Speaker 1: the Mavericks bench? I mean except for PJ. Washington. I
Speaker 1: mean he's not even a bench. He's like starter. Where
Speaker 1: where were y'all at Dereck Glivey, Daniel Gafford, Magxie Clay,
Speaker 1: But where where are are y'all? At one point sam Hauser?
Speaker 1: Sam Hauser was outscoring the entire Dallas bench by himself,
Speaker 1: and he only had six points at that point. Secondly,
Speaker 1: share the rock or at least make fucking shots when
Speaker 1: the rockets passed to you. Mavericks nine assists for the
Speaker 1: entire game, nine. Luca averaged nine in the playoffs himself.
Speaker 1: Not one Maverick was trying to make any shots, not
Speaker 1: even Kyrie, Not even Kyrie. The assist number, you look
Speaker 1: at that comparatively to the Celtics, and the Celtics I
Speaker 1: think they have twenty three assists to nine disgusting. Also,
Speaker 1: what probably stopped the Lobs was all of the block
Speaker 1: party that was going on at TV Garden. They had
Speaker 1: nine blocks tonight, they had they had just as many
Speaker 1: blocks as the Mavericks had. Assists. No. Number three Celtics,
Speaker 1: Like I said, their defense was fucking nasty. They shut
Speaker 1: the easy lob dunks off. The Dallas normally gets in
Speaker 1: huge numbers. Earlier on in the series, they had six
Speaker 1: deals as well, and it just wasn't that Kyrie got strapped.
Speaker 1: I think Kyrie missed a ton of open shots. My
Speaker 1: man was six for nineteen on the game. I know
Speaker 1: we were rooting for Kyrie to get under twenty three
Speaker 1: and a half points, but god damn like we weren't
Speaker 1: rooting for that. We weren't rooting for Kyrie to just
Speaker 1: get absolutely shut down. Twelve points he had. Christas porzingis incredible.
Speaker 1: That was when the knockout blow came. Christaps porzingis what
Speaker 1: did he even look like out there? Dirk Novitzky, He
Speaker 1: looked like he came down from the sky and turned
Speaker 1: in to Dirk Lively. Looked like a rookie. Christavs was everywhere.
Speaker 1: He hit threes, he hit fadeaway's, he had leys. What
Speaker 1: the fuck twenty points twenty one minutes, eight for thirteen shooting.
Speaker 1: He was feeling it also plus thirteen when he was
Speaker 1: on the floor and then fifth lee. There were a
Speaker 1: lot of questions before the series started about Tatum Tatum.
Speaker 1: We need to step up. Tatum's gonna need to be Tatum.
Speaker 1: Tatum's gonna need to be the superstar player that we
Speaker 1: know he can be in order to beat this Mavericks team. No,
Speaker 1: he does not. He played forty two minutes, sixteen points
Speaker 1: and somehow at a plus nineteen net rating. Uh so data,
Speaker 1: Datum's just still doesn't have to do shit. I guess
Speaker 1: Boston can win without their best player doing anything. Game
Speaker 1: two his Sunday night at eight. Come on, Dallas, fight back,
Speaker 1: fight fucking back. All right, moving on, let's get to
Speaker 1: the news. So I woke up yesterday morning to an alert.
Speaker 1: It simply did not make sense. It really did seem
Speaker 1: like one of those WOJ bombs. It's like the longe bomb.
Speaker 1: You know, they like check on Twitter and their name's
Speaker 1: not exactly right. That was what it was. I simply
Speaker 1: cannot believe that this tweet from wojan Adrian Warjanowski is correct,
Speaker 1: is real. The Lakers are prepared to offer Yukon headcat
Speaker 1: coach Dan Hurley Dan Hurley a massive extension or a
Speaker 1: massive contract. Excuse me, a massive contract for Dan Hurley?
Speaker 1: Where is JJ everything? We want is just JJ for
Speaker 1: the drama, for the Lebron James JJ podcast. This whole
Speaker 1: thing was, as Anthony would say, about as quiet as
Speaker 1: the g in Lasagna. Nowhere to be found. To say,
Speaker 1: I would be blindsided, would be disrespectful to the word.
Speaker 1: Not a hint before Thursday morning. You want to know
Speaker 1: how there was no hints of it. I would not
Speaker 1: be able to do this if I was Dan Hurley.
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm so bad Yukon women's coach Juna Oriama,
Speaker 1: Oriama Oriama. People get out of my fucking mentions. Okay,
Speaker 1: you learn how to pronounce names that are vaguely like
Speaker 1: hard to pronounce, and you get back to me anyway.
Speaker 1: He said he was with Dan Hurley the other night,
Speaker 1: literally three nights ago, two nights ago, No, two nights ago,
Speaker 1: Wednesday night, and he said to Dan Hurley, listen, I
Speaker 1: think you could win a lot of championships for the Lakers.
Speaker 1: I think you'd be really good there. And Dan Hurley
Speaker 1: laughed and he agreed. He shook his head, didn't say
Speaker 1: anything about you know, I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: might think that, you know, I think that too ridiculous, ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I don't like it. I don't like this move. I
Speaker 1: don't like anything about it. I don't like it for
Speaker 1: Dan Hurley the most, mostly besides the fact that you
Speaker 1: go get your money, playboy. He'll probably get like sixty
Speaker 1: to seventy five million dollars over the course of the contract.
Speaker 1: If somebody offered me job I knew I would fail
Speaker 1: at for seventy five million dollars, would I do it? Probably? Yeah,
Speaker 1: probably I would. There's not never been a yelling ass
Speaker 1: coach in college that's made it to the NBA. There's
Speaker 1: never been a yelling ass coach in college football that's
Speaker 1: made it in the NFL, not that I can recall.
Speaker 1: Correct me if I'm wrong. We can go down the list.
Speaker 1: There's there's In thirty years, there's been two successful college
Speaker 1: coaches and one like they're both actually not even that
Speaker 1: successful if you're honest about it. Like Brad Stevens got
Speaker 1: fired and then elevated in GM. Awesome, good for you,
Speaker 1: but not a coach anymore. And Billy Donovan is there
Speaker 1: for the Chicago Bulls. He's there, he exists. They're not like,
Speaker 1: he's not horrible, but I don't know if he's like
Speaker 1: a on away success and he was a back to
Speaker 1: back champion. They neither of them won a title as coaches.
Speaker 1: We're about to get a title, probably from Brad Stevens GM.
Speaker 1: Instead we have a parade of Tim Floyd, Leonard Hamilton,
Speaker 1: Reggie Theis Good good Lord, Reggie Theis, Fred Hoiberg. Not
Speaker 1: to mention Rich Patino, John Calipari, PJ. I'll choke you out, Carlossimo.
Speaker 1: The only coach in history to win an NBA and
Speaker 1: an NCAA title as a coach was Larry Brown. So
Speaker 1: if Hurley makes the jump, boy, the odds are not
Speaker 1: stacked in his favor to do anything but take his
Speaker 1: money and go back to college. Guys worth a hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars, don't want to tell you, don't want you
Speaker 1: to tell them, or don't want you to don't want
Speaker 1: to hear goes that fucking huddle. Okay, Like, what did
Speaker 1: you say to me? Close the fucking huddle, bitch. I'll
Speaker 1: close you, you and your huddle. I don't even know
Speaker 1: what that means, but you know what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 1: They're not running wind sprints. I love Dan Hurley so
Speaker 1: fucking much, and I love them even more at Yukon
Speaker 1: and I hate the Lakers. Everything about the Lakers and
Speaker 1: the franchise stinks. Let's be honest. Like Genie Buss, she
Speaker 1: doesn't make great decisions, and her dad made great decisions,
Speaker 1: but she makes horrible decisions. Her best friend is her
Speaker 1: confidant and sounding board for Lakers ops, and her best
Speaker 1: friend used to be a Laker girl dancer in the seventies.
Speaker 1: I mean, what more can I say? She won't fire
Speaker 1: the GM because she's tight with him and he used
Speaker 1: to be the agent for Kobe Bryant, and she just
Speaker 1: can't let go Kobe Bryant. If Kobe Bryant was alive today,
Speaker 1: he would tell Gus you need to fire Rob Polinka.
Speaker 1: That is on God. Kobe Bryant was a killer. He
Speaker 1: wouldn't allow this. According to WOJ, who has been dominating
Speaker 1: Champs to the point where they're now putting out tweets
Speaker 1: called meet the Shams, just fucked up. Uh. The Lakers
Speaker 1: want to close this deal by the weekend. They're afraid
Speaker 1: Dan Hurley is gonna get cold feet. By the way,
Speaker 1: remember Billy Donovan did this with the Orlando Magic right
Speaker 1: like we thought he was gonna be the Orlando Magic
Speaker 1: head coach, and then he went back to Florida. Also,
Speaker 1: Tommy Lee, remember this, Tommy Lee. You may kids may
Speaker 1: not know Tommy Lee and Pam Anderson, but we're gonna
Speaker 1: go there anyway. Tommy Lee rock star flew to Mexico
Speaker 1: after meeting Pamela Anderson, and he was like, yo, let's
Speaker 1: get married right fucking now, because he did not want
Speaker 1: to give Pam Anderson a chance to like investigate further,
Speaker 1: you know, like he's Tommy Lee. Didn't he try to
Speaker 1: take out a rib get suck his own dick, Tommy Lee?
Speaker 1: Or was that Marilyn Manson or was that both? It
Speaker 1: might be both. Come on, Dan, think of the kids.
Speaker 1: Alex Caravan went back to school and could have gone
Speaker 1: to the NBA. Maybe he can draft him to be
Speaker 1: a fucking LA Lakers to help make sense of this,
Speaker 1: I am my guy, and he checked producer Anthony Irwin
Speaker 1: on the Lakers Lounge on My show Man MGM tonight
Speaker 1: to ask him more questions about what the fuck is
Speaker 1: going on? Find it also on video on switching YouTube.
Speaker 1: Anthony makes some jam sen for this.
Speaker 2: All right, Anthony Erwin's probably had a very busy day
Speaker 2: to day Lakers insider for Lakers Daily, host of Lakers
Speaker 2: Lounge as well. We woke up today and we saw
Speaker 2: news that all of a sudden, we thought JJ Reddick
Speaker 2: was gonna be the guy, gonna be the head coach
Speaker 2: for the Lakers. And wait, now it's Dan Hurley is
Speaker 2: their main target? What changed and why everything?
Speaker 3: And nobody has any idea why.
Speaker 2: That's the best answer.
Speaker 3: It's Look, we've been so they fired Darvin ham back
Speaker 3: in early May, and back in early May, we thought that,
Speaker 3: you know, they said that they were going to go
Speaker 3: about this long and arduous and detail oriented process which
Speaker 3: hadn't really come to fruition to the best of our knowledge.
Speaker 3: Right now, we thought that we you know, he was
Speaker 3: We thought JJ was the guy. And and by we,
Speaker 3: I mean every single person who had any idea about
Speaker 3: this whatsoever. Everybody that I spoke to was clear that
Speaker 3: JJ was going to be the guy. People I spoke
Speaker 3: to today who work for the Lakers were shocked at
Speaker 3: how this all came out. So Dan Hurley is apparently their.
Speaker 1: Guy right now.
Speaker 3: How long he's been there?
Speaker 2: Guy?
Speaker 3: Is I think up for.
Speaker 1: Debate When you look at the Lakers history of making
Speaker 1: coaching decisions after Phil Jackson. Are you encouraged by hearing
Speaker 1: Dan Earley's name, or do you look at the history
Speaker 1: of former college coaches and their flameouts and say, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know how this is gonna go.
Speaker 3: It's a certain type of college coach who seems to
Speaker 3: have success in the NBA. Right, Brad Stevens comes to mind,
Speaker 3: and he's always a very stoic, calm guy on the sidelines,
Speaker 3: and he's this guy who is very good at communicating
Speaker 3: with all kinds of people, and he didn't scream at people.
Speaker 3: He spoke to people. Hurley's not that there was a
Speaker 3: video making the rounds today where he was sitting there
Speaker 3: getting ready to do a huddle and he screams at
Speaker 3: everybody behind him close off by huddle, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: I could just imagine how that goes over the first
Speaker 3: time he tries to say that to a whole bunch
Speaker 3: of millionaire basketball players, you know. And so I think
Speaker 3: that's something that he would really have to dial down.
Speaker 1: In terms of the.
Speaker 3: Lakers history with with coaches, I really, I really feel
Speaker 3: like they were spoiled by Phil because he made it
Speaker 3: look so.
Speaker 1: Easy.
Speaker 3: He made he made coaching look really easy, and they
Speaker 3: were spoiled by that success and never really took into account,
Speaker 3: never really learned what made him successful. So every time
Speaker 3: they've hired a coach since, it's like, what if he
Speaker 3: did it so easily, why can't you? And and it's
Speaker 3: it's really kind of laid the foundation for all of
Speaker 3: their failures with that position ever since.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Anthony growing up in the nineties as a
Speaker 4: huge Bulls fan, and so like, I know how Phil
Speaker 4: Jackson works, and that's obviously, like you said, not what
Speaker 4: Dan Hurley really is. So I guess that would be
Speaker 4: my question. Do you think you know, because this Lakers
Speaker 4: team is a veteran team, maybe somebody like Danny Hurley
Speaker 4: could work because Lebron wants to win one more championship
Speaker 4: ring AD wants another ring most likely, and they are
Speaker 4: a veteran team. Or do you think maybe this says
Speaker 4: if they are going to make that higher, that the
Speaker 4: Lakers are maybe looking to rebuild and Danny Hurley comes
Speaker 4: in to coach a rebuilt team and maybe not Lebron
Speaker 4: James and AD.
Speaker 3: I think no matter what, whoever they hire is going
Speaker 3: to be there to coach Lebron and coach Ad like
Speaker 3: they aren't trading those guys. Those guys aren't going anywhere.
Speaker 3: What I will say, though, is it's really clear that
Speaker 3: whether it was JJ or Hurley, whoever they hire here
Speaker 3: isn't gonna get fired in the next couple of years
Speaker 3: for not succeeding with Lebron or with AD. The focus
Speaker 3: here is, I think now pretty clearly beyond Lebron, beyond Ad.
Speaker 3: They're gonna give it, you know, the good old College
Speaker 3: try to see what they can do to compete this year.
Speaker 3: But I'm pretty sure that you know, whoever they hire,
Speaker 3: if it is Hurley, And by the way, this isn't
Speaker 3: a done deal. Like the reporting right now is that
Speaker 3: he's flying out to LA and he's gonna meet with
Speaker 3: Rob and he's gonna meet with Genie and they're going
Speaker 3: to talk about their vision and all that stuff, and
Speaker 3: then they're going to discuss terms of a deal. Remember
Speaker 3: this is the same front office that lowball Tylo tried
Speaker 3: to force Jason Kidd on him. He told them to
Speaker 3: kick Rocks and they wound up having to hire Frank Vogel.
Speaker 3: And so like, how they handle this is still very
Speaker 3: much in question. Maybe they learn from that, it doesn't
Speaker 3: seem like a front office who learns all that much
Speaker 3: from failures or whatever. But I would tend to think
Speaker 3: that whoever they hire, and again maybe it's early, maybe
Speaker 3: it's reddick, the point of hiring them is to have
Speaker 3: that person set a culture that extends beyond Lebron James
Speaker 3: and beyond Anthony.
Speaker 1: When you say beyond, in my mind, when I think
Speaker 1: about how Dan Hurley could could integrate into this Lakers team,
Speaker 1: I think rebuild. Is that a possibility? Like a blow up?
Speaker 1: The front office blow up this team and allowed Dan
Speaker 1: Hurley to start from the beginning.
Speaker 3: I don't think Rob Polink is ever getting fired by
Speaker 3: Genie bus. I mean, if it's just it's just not
Speaker 3: on the table the people that I spoke to at
Speaker 3: the beginning of the off season here, I was asking around,
Speaker 3: has his seat warmed up at all? This is his
Speaker 3: third head coach he's gonna hire in the last five
Speaker 3: or six years. This is a guy who has been
Speaker 3: the steward of a mostly mediocre Lakers team over the
Speaker 3: larger sample size. Yeah, he has a couple postseason runs,
Speaker 3: but that's when Lebron James and Anthony Davis really take
Speaker 3: over his seat isn't warming up even a little bit,
Speaker 3: and no, so if his seat hasn't warmed up even
Speaker 3: to this point, and he's allowed to hire this guy
Speaker 3: and all those things, and the conversation is very much
Speaker 3: going to be how can Dan Hurley and Rob Polinka
Speaker 3: chart out the future of the Lakers. He's not going anywhere.
Speaker 3: Maybe they do a rebuild with roster and with you know,
Speaker 3: hopefully Dan brings in some of his player development people
Speaker 3: and the Lakers finally hire a shooting coach, for example.
Speaker 3: But but you know, whatever, whatever the the the front
Speaker 3: office might look like, uh, you know, or or any
Speaker 3: speculation on the on the front office is all kind
Speaker 3: of moot because you know, Rob is very very much
Speaker 3: Genie s guy.
Speaker 2: Talking to Anthony Irwin bet MGM tonight. We know the
Speaker 2: coaching search is a huge deal for the Lakers, but
Speaker 2: we also know that they're always always in trade rumors
Speaker 2: and there's about a thousand different names linked to this
Speaker 2: Lakers team. What does the off season look like for them?
Speaker 3: At the beginning of the off season, I would have
Speaker 3: said that they were definitely going to go out and
Speaker 3: trade for a third star. Right at the end of
Speaker 3: the season. That was the sense that everybody had. But
Speaker 3: over the course of that time, whether it's because of
Speaker 3: the market and their and their introduction to the market,
Speaker 3: or you know, Trey Young left clutch sports that impacted that,
Speaker 3: you know, the the possibilities there. Whatever it is, the Lakers,
Speaker 3: I would say, at this point seem far more likely
Speaker 3: to do some upgrades around the peripheries of the roster
Speaker 3: and try to get like, you know, Ruy Hachimura is
Speaker 3: much more of an offensive minded player than he is
Speaker 3: a defensive minded player. They would like to turn him
Speaker 3: into somebody who can do things on both ends of
Speaker 3: the court. Same goes for D'Angelo Russell, right, who the
Speaker 3: Lakers are hoping is going to opt in so that
Speaker 3: they can trade him for somebody who does stuff on
Speaker 3: the defensive end too. So they need to turn some
Speaker 3: of their role players who are more impact forward on
Speaker 3: one side of the ball into guys who can do
Speaker 3: stuff on both sides of the ball. And I think
Speaker 3: that'll be their focus this season off season.
Speaker 1: What about Bronnie James. We're now getting reports Anthony that's
Speaker 1: the Lakers will take Bronnie James with one of their picks.
Speaker 1: Maybe they'll move up in the second round if they
Speaker 1: can't get them him in the fifty. What is your
Speaker 1: sense on the Brownie James to La Saga.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's there was a there was a hot minute
Speaker 3: where maybe just maybe they'll take him with the seventeenth pick,
Speaker 3: and I was losing my mind. I was that was
Speaker 3: not a that was not a situation that I was
Speaker 3: all that thrilled about. Now what they have done, and
Speaker 3: they do have about eight million dollars to spend on
Speaker 3: a second round draft pick, what I could see them
Speaker 3: doing is actually buying into the second round a little
Speaker 3: earlier and maybe taking Brownie with what with that pick,
Speaker 3: whatever it might be. That would be my guest.
Speaker 4: So you don't so like you don't think that there's
Speaker 4: a chance that like they have to run it back
Speaker 4: just with the current roster, you do think there's definitely
Speaker 4: the Lakers are going to get a superstar, even if
Speaker 4: it's you know, like a I don't know what you'd
Speaker 4: call it, like a level B type superstar.
Speaker 2: Like a tree. Do they have anything left to trade?
Speaker 2: That's because they got nothing left?
Speaker 4: Yeah, because that's it. I just I want to know
Speaker 4: how they get created with the roster now they did
Speaker 4: like two years ago obviously at the trade deadline. I
Speaker 4: just I don't I don't know what that would look like.
Speaker 4: You know, how do you think they do get creative
Speaker 4: and make a move for somebody.
Speaker 3: They have three first rounders that they can move on
Speaker 3: Draft night especially, so that'll be Draft night specifically, is
Speaker 3: going to be the night where things really You're gonna
Speaker 3: learn a lot about what the Lakers are going to
Speaker 3: be trying to do on Draft night because they essentially
Speaker 3: have to draft for a team and send that player
Speaker 3: to that team in order to abide by Stepian rules
Speaker 3: and all that stuff. So I think on Draft Knight,
Speaker 3: you're looking at, you know, a pick or two, you know,
Speaker 3: to say Washington, maybe with like Jared Vanderbilt, and they're
Speaker 3: gonna try and get Kyle Kuzma. They'll they'll try to
Speaker 3: send a you know, maybe D'angela Russell Opson and they
Speaker 3: try to send him with a pick for Dorian Finney Smith,
Speaker 3: and it'll be you know, small boring moves like that.
Speaker 3: The Tray Young thing, even dating back to last deadline,
Speaker 3: when I would ask around the guy that the Lakers
Speaker 3: had circled far more frequently based off of the conversations
Speaker 3: I was having was actually Donovan Mitchell. They had a
Speaker 3: lot more confidence that they might be able to trade
Speaker 3: for Donovan Mitchell than they had in their ability to
Speaker 3: trade for Trey Young, then Trey Young, Leeves Clutch and
Speaker 3: I've been told that it's not that that ended it,
Speaker 3: you know, with with Trey Young, but it certainly was like, Okay,
Speaker 3: you know, he wasn't really our focus anyway, Let's see
Speaker 3: what we can do with Donovan Mitchell. And then you know,
Speaker 3: Donovan Mitchell will see it looks like Cleveland is going
Speaker 3: to have to choose between Darius Garland and Donovan Mitchell.
Speaker 3: And you know, depending on what choice they make there
Speaker 3: or what choice is forced upon them, maybe Donovan Mitchell
Speaker 3: is the guy that they go all in for. Reeves,
Speaker 3: three picks, Galen hoodscha Fino's you know potential. I guess
Speaker 3: all of those things basically for Donovan Mitchell.
Speaker 2: And round and round the circle goes with the Laker
Speaker 2: sits always something. Anthony Irwin Lakers insider for Lakers Daily.
Speaker 2: He's also the host of Lakers Lounge. Really appreciate you
Speaker 2: coming on with us. Thanks man.
Speaker 3: Anytime, guys say Tad me.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on. There's some fascinating offseason news
Speaker 1: coming out of Minnesota, who's had a great Western Conference run.
Speaker 1: They had a great season. First of all, the ownership
Speaker 1: debacle keeps getting stranger. Remember Glenn Taylor claimed that this
Speaker 1: deal that they made with Mark Luri and A Rod
Speaker 1: who had contracted to Bible Wolves, that they had breached
Speaker 1: their contract. And now he's like, big deals off, not
Speaker 1: selling anymore. Go on, just enjoy your court side seats
Speaker 1: until I kick you out of the arena. And that's
Speaker 1: a nightmare scenario because as Tim Connolly, the architect of
Speaker 1: Denver's championship team as well as the architect of the
Speaker 1: current Wolves roster, had n opped out in his contract,
Speaker 1: that would have made him a free agent this summer,
Speaker 1: and we all know he would have been unemployed for
Speaker 1: like two seconds. There's probably every team would have been
Speaker 1: trying to get Tim Connelly. Wolves fans, of course, breathed
Speaker 1: much easier when Tim Connelly was announced that he was
Speaker 1: going to restructure his contract, locking him in for another
Speaker 1: season with a scary proviso, Hey, you guys need to
Speaker 1: get your ownership shit together, because my opt out it
Speaker 1: has been moved forward for another year. I think it
Speaker 1: means that Tim Connelly simply will not work long term.
Speaker 1: For Glenn Taylor. We know A Rod was instrumental in
Speaker 1: getting Tim Connolly to Minnesota in the first place, and
Speaker 1: if this ownership deadlock continues, Tim now has the same
Speaker 1: option to become a free agent next summer. Presumably by
Speaker 1: then we will have clarity about what's actually gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Probably a Rod was like, hey, let me get give
Speaker 1: me one more year to get this sorted out, and
Speaker 1: they are sorting it. I mean, they're downsides to both
Speaker 1: ownership court groups. On one hand, of course, the Lourie
Speaker 1: a Rod group did indeed put together a plan to
Speaker 1: stash salary for next season, which would have necessitated necessitated
Speaker 1: some big trades and letting players go, probably Karl Anthony Towns,
Speaker 1: probably Kyle Henderson. On the other end, you've got Glenn Taylor,
Speaker 1: who's the worst, like the worst. I don't even need
Speaker 1: really to say any more about that. Fortunately, for the
Speaker 1: Lorie A Rod group, it was announced that billionaire New
Speaker 1: Yorker Michael Bloomberg had joined their ownership group, and considering
Speaker 1: they had to scrape to put together their installment papers.
Speaker 1: They literally put the Minnesota Timberwolves on layaway. That's fucking grace.
Speaker 1: They put the Timberwolves on layaway like a winter coat
Speaker 1: in Minnesota. That's like what a mom in Minnesota would do.
Speaker 1: Having a man worth over a hundred billion dollars is
Speaker 1: probably gonna fix the layaway scenario. So Glenn Taylor is
Speaker 1: simply outgunned, I think in this battle because Bloomberg, being
Speaker 1: the twelfth richest man on earth, can buy the Wolves
Speaker 1: with the money that he finds underneath his couch that's
Speaker 1: made of gold bars. The best news of the offseason
Speaker 1: for Minnesota fans, I think, unless he tries to run
Speaker 1: for president again, because they need to make some moves
Speaker 1: to get over the top, and those moves are gonna
Speaker 1: cost second April cut of money. And that's now you.
Speaker 1: Now you got somebody that's like Steve Barmer out there
Speaker 1: being able to pay the contract sizes that you need
Speaker 1: in order to keep this roster together. All right. That's
Speaker 1: all the time that we have for this episode of
Speaker 1: The Heat Checked. If I sounded alarmed, I think I
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