WEBVTT - Trade Deadline Special 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:05.000 Come on, come. 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:18.079 On this episode of a heat check. 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:22.079 We react to all of the trades, well most of 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:24.800 the trades. At the deadline, I wrote all the trades down. 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:28.080 We'll see if we get to a ball Harden. Harden 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:31.480 was actually moved, despite Steve Nash telling the world Harden 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:35.160 was not being traded. He met at that very moment 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:39.400 that he was having that conversation, Maury got his wish. 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.240 Congratulations to Tarryl Mourray for pulling out a rabbit from 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:45.640 his hat. Ben Simmons, Congratulations to Ben Simmons, he is 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:50.080 no longer rotting in some random high school Philadelphia gym 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:54.440 taking videos for Instagram of his basketball shoes off, just 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:57.640 the socks. He actually gets to play. He actually gets 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:00.000 his look at his email and see money getting direct 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:03.080 deposited into his bank account for the first time in 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:17.839 twenty twenty two. So many moves rocks get that perfect, right, my. 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:23.000 So we thought there was a potential for one of 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:27.840 those trade deadlines that starts with the roar and goes 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:31.679 out with a like a lamb. What is it like 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:33.959 a starts like a lion and ends like a lamb? 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:38.320 And we were like it was maybe eleven am day 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.880 of the deadline, and we're like, what's happening? Where are 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:47.160 these trades? There's nothing happening. Hopped on the peloton just 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:49.600 to get my mind right, and literally as I got 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:54.080 on the peloton, boom boom boom boom boom, blackout, blackout, blackout. 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.560 Trade trade this, this trade, that trade, this trade, that trade, 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:00.320 and then it happened, and then it happen. Been in 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:10.639 the battle between Brian Windhorst Adrian Warzanowski, Sham Sharanya. Boom Ooo, 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:13.880 this is the bomb. This is the sound of the 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:21.920 Sham's bomb. Shams just scoops everyone scoops, Woje scoops, Windy scoops, Hanes. 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:25.600 There were some bubblings, own negotiations getting clearer. Things are 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:29.079 starting to come into fruition. Both sides starting to talk. 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:32.240 We've been saying that blah blah blah, both sides. We've 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:37.720 been hearing that for weeks. But no trade comes down. Yes, Sir, 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:44.799 Harden Ghosts of Philadelphia. Ben Simmons goes to Brooklyn. Are 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:49.720 you kidding me? This is the best possible situation for 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.760 all NBA fans. If you love the tea and you 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:57.040 love drama. I am telling you, now, though, where will 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:00.480 Ben Simmons drama that's been feeding our news site for 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:05.280 the last five, seven, eight nine months, whatever it's been, 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:10.680 will pale in comparison to how the fuck did something 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:15.880 three headed monster between Harden, Kyrie and Kadi dissolved so fast? 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.880 Who was responsible for this? How did it happen? The 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:23.600 investigative reporting and the tea that has already come out. 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:27.800 I tell you what delicious compared to like some where 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:31.240 will Ben go? What's happening with Daryl Morriy? That is 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.240 nothing compared to this. So Brooklyn Nets, here's the trade. 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:41.520 Brooklyn Nets receive Ben Simmons, Seth Curry, Andre Drummonds, a 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:45.920 twenty twenty two first round pick completely unprotected with the 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.920 right to defer to twenty twenty three, a twenty twenty 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.680 seven first round pick top eight protected through twenty twenty 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.760 eight and becomes it becomes two seconds if it's not conveyed. 0:03:56.360 --> 0:04:01.960 The Philadelphia seventy six ers receive James Harden and Paul 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:08.400 millsp I tell you what, I love everything about this, 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.720 not just from a basketball perspective, because we'll get to that, 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:17.039 but from a comedy perspective. This is just so much material, 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.720 I don't even know what to get to. First, First, 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:25.000 and foremost, the fact that Woj was so blatantly wrong 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:29.960 for so long about this trade not happening, and us 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:34.920 as a collective finally understanding that the hero has stuck 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:38.840 around long enough to be the villain is tremendous. We 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:45.320 all now collectively understand that Woj is for the man, 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:47.760 He's not for the culture or for the people. And 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.600 I hear it on Twitter time after time after time. 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:54.320 Take this, Woj, Sham's got you, Woj. So that was hilarious, 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:59.960 hilarious to see Windhorse and Woj literally sparring on national 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.000 television basically being like I told you so, Woj, You're 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:07.159 obviously your sources are lying to you, or you have 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:11.160 bad sources, whatever that is. I love Also how this 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:16.160 all ended up happening. Harden wouldn't ask out for a 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:22.239 trade because he was apparently worried about the public backlash 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:26.560 of publicly asking for one, even though we're pretty certain 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:31.719 and confident. He asked out if he's being traded, like 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:35.320 it wasn't a public announcement or a skewering like he 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.919 gave us on national TV. But that was shocking for 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.479 him to say this team's not close to competing under 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.359 any circumstances. Of course, I didn't see that happening for 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.480 the Nets, right, This team is close. They played sixteen 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:50.719 games together, all three They've won thirteen out of those sixteen, right, 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:54.680 So okay. Secondarily, now the news is coming out that 0:05:54.839 --> 0:06:00.880 Kyrie and Harden didn't like each other. Casp, Are you shocked? 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:06.120 I am absolutely baffled that a man like James Harden, 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:12.839 a simple man with simple desires fried food, strip clubs, 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:17.239 and basketball, would not get along with a man who 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:22.280 believed that the earth was flat that sticking up for 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:26.080 the world, his duty was to not be vaccinated, to 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:31.159 show the world that people should not be persecuted or 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:35.960 admonished or reaped the consequences at work for not getting vaccinated. 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:40.479 He believed that that was social justice. He burns sage 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:45.279 whenever he goes to an arena. He's on Instagram live 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:49.480 posting weird things about how he knew Kevin Durant in 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:52.919 a past life, like James Harden's looking at Kyrie riving like, 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.599 what are you talking about? Guy? Like I just want 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.320 to hoop and you are fucking up my plans to hoop. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.279 James Harden of course got there to be on a 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:05.080 three headed monster, and all of a sudden he looks 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:07.800 around and he's like, this is a colder version of 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:12.320 Houston with more taxes, Like I am now paying somehow 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:16.800 fifteen percent more in taxes. Kevin Duran is injured. Kyrie's 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.720 never here. He's talking about how he's saving the world 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:21.720 by not getting vaccinated, and all I can think about 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:25.440 is listen, I did not come here for this. Also, 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.800 apparently Kyrie Irving was quote unquote eager to see James 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:35.000 Harden also be traded. Per Joe Varden, he said Irving 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:39.160 was ready for Harden to move on too. When Irving 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:42.000 heard Harden was in fact hoping to be traded, a 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.800 well placed source says he was eager to see it 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.320 come to fruition as well. 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:48.520 Hmm. 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.160 Yeah. There is a new report by a not so 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:56.240 credible source, but a Brooklyn Nets executive says the growing 0:07:56.320 --> 0:08:00.920 riff between Kyrie and Harden this is ballsack sports, so 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.000 take it with a grain of salt. That's the one 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:05.880 that was also quoting things that actually came true about 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:09.120 Daryl Morey, So whatever you want to say, Kyrie. This 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:12.040 is the quote. Kyrie beat James Harden one on one 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.520 almost every day in practice, and Kyrie was barely even 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:20.600 in basketball shape. It demoralized Harden. Things reached a breaking 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:25.040 point when Kyrie called Harden washed after completely locking him 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.480 up in one scrimmage, and assistant had to break the 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:31.840 two up as tempers flared and the relationship spiraled down 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:37.400 from there. Sheesh, there's just so much I don't even 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:41.800 understand it. Another thing that was hilarious to me was 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:47.880 that Kevin Durant had to go on national TV and 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:57.280 basically draft his All Star team minutes after this happened. 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:02.800 And there's two spots left, and Kevin Durant has the 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:09.960 choice between James Harden and the pariah of the NBA 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:13.600 in terms of popularity, Rudy Gobert. Rudy Gobert for the last. 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.440 I don't know how many years has been picked last 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:20.120 at the All Star Game. It's become a thing. It's 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:25.040 become kind of like a a ritual, like a part 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.760 of the All Star Game. Utah players always get chosen last, 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:34.840 and Rudy Gobert is always the last pick, chosen, always, always, always, 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:40.920 always not this time, Apparently Kevin Durant needed needed Rudy 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:45.840 Gobert to help face this Lebron led roster. Uh and 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.640 this is what he had to say, timer, first timer, 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:53.320 Katie just needs signs right now. 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:54.520 To me, I think. 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:58.120 Lebron said he needed. 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:04.000 Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna need some size, you know. Yeah, 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:10.520 I need some size and a terrier. Yeah, especially with 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:16.120 Jonas and Lebron James such great basketball this year. I 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:20.840 need somebody all set that Rudy Gobert. I agree, I agree, 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:21.640 I agree that worked out. 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:28.839 That worked out nicely. Pause First, and foremost, you must 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.760 google this video. This is not something that is done 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:35.760 justice by audio because it's a screen. It's a half 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:38.720 screen of Broun on the left and Katie on the right, 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:42.240 and Lebron somehow procured a clipboard that he could put 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:45.959 over his face to hide him laughing at a dead 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:49.520 pined Kevin Durant say, yeah, I need some size for show. 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:53.280 Uh yeah, I'm gonna take I need to have somebody 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.679 just straight face. I need somebody to to guard Lebron 0:10:56.760 --> 0:11:01.360 James and Joannis Atto Coompo and all those other big boys. 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:03.880 So yeah, I need I need Rudy Gobert and and 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.880 Braun is losing it. So now Braun has to choose 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.199 Harden because he's the last guy left. Here's what they 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:10.240 have to say after. 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.520 Ask my defending back. Hey, let's let's not check us. Hey, 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:17.680 I say, hey, when somebody went out, you let him go, 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:18.559 don't let him come back. 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:20.560 I'm with you, KD. That's why I cut my hair off. 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:22.080 I was like, I'm going So. 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:29.320 James Harden goes to uh Lebron James, that's the final selection, 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:31.160 uh of the All Star. 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:35.920 Shack? Is he can he? Is he? 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:37.840 Is he? He hasn't played? Is he healthy? 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:38.360 Who's that? 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:41.199 James? He hasn't played? 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:43.200 He's what happens if you don't? 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:44.520 He got traded. He's healthy. 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:49.040 Now he's missed the last three with a with a hammy. 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.640 And now we know why Lebron carries a clipboard with 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:52.679 him to the to the. 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:55.800 Lebron my Right now he rubbings some ice hot on 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:56.120 that thing. 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:57.240 He's playing the next. 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:00.120 Game, questions. 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:14.040 Clipboard that comes in, Oh my god? Is he healthy? 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:14.920 Is he? 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:16.920 What happens if he doesn't play? And they just say 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:20.120 right to his face, Yeah, he hasn't been playing because 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.400 he's been trying to get the fuck out of Brooklyn, 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:27.599 and Katie's just laughing, laughing. He's been scorned, a dynasty 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:29.800 has been split up, and he's like, I did not care. 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:31.520 I do not care about that man. I played with 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:35.400 him at Oklahoma City and uh, bye bye, bitch. If 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:39.400 you want to go, then go. So that's hilarious. From 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:41.160 a basketball perspective, I think this is the best thing 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.360 for both sides. Like you needed to get rid of Ben. 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:47.280 Ben was rotting. James obviously didn't want to stay, and 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.520 this was one of those circumstances where it was mutually 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:54.400 assured destruction if the deal didn't go down. You needed 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:58.040 this deal to happen. What happens for Brooklyn if James 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:01.079 just decides to opt out of his play player option 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.360 and then decide to be a free agent or force 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:07.680 his way to be traded, and maybe by that point 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.880 Ben Simmons has already gone, and so you end up 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.920 with Tobias Harris, like you don't want that, You've got 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:17.800 no leverage, right. And then for Philly, what happens if 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:21.120 Joel embiid next year, isn't this version of Joel Embiid 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.200 Joel embi right, now is playing the best basketball of 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:26.040 his life and for the next twenty five games. I 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:30.439 think we can we can, like realistically assume that will continue. 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:34.240 Can I assume that that will continue next October? No, 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:36.720 what happens if you all of a sudden gets back 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.959 on the on the Hirley Temple train. What if he 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.920 starts housing fifteen Shirley Temple's a night like he used to? 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:45.840 Who knows he might break down? So okay, so you 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.880 get James Harden then offseason and then who knows how 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:51.080 that goes, and maybe you can't move him. Maybe you 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.480 don't have cap space for him, Maybe nobody wants to 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:56.760 take Tobias Harris, maybe they don't want Ben Simmons like. 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.840 It was one of those situations where how rare is 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:06.680 it for an Atlantic Division rival to help each other out, 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.760 to logistically get better for both sides, for your rivals 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:14.679 to be harder to beat come playoff time. That's how 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:18.679 bad the situation was. They had no other moves, zero moves. 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:23.320 And for Philly, joellenb playing his best basketball has never 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:25.880 had a playmaker and a scorer like James in his 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:29.880 life period. If James Harden is even a semblance of 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:33.120 who he was when he first got to Brooklyn, or 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.400 better yet, a version of what he was in Houston. 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:38.800 And Joel and b just continues to play at the 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.160 level that he's playing at now. And then you've got 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:44.400 spreading the floor with Matisse Stibele. You've got Danny Green, 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:48.160 You've got fur Con Cork Moss, You've got George Nang, 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:52.440 all capable guys who can shoot, and a guy in 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:56.240 Mattis Stibel who can help out James Harden defensively. This 0:14:56.280 --> 0:15:00.520 team is one of the most unstoppable duos two man 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:03.520 pick and roll, pick and pop teams that you will see. 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:07.000 Joel Embiid's most dominant in the interior, and if James 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:10.160 is even a fraction of himself, all he has to 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.360 do is be a threat to score when they go 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:16.320 into the two man game. I love this for Philly 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.680 and then for Brooklyn. I mean, this is tremendous. You 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:23.120 get depths, you get defense, which is sorely needed. You 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.760 were giving up one hundred and fifty points per game 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:29.840 in some points, like I was seeing regularly live totals 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:35.520 on Vegas two hundred and forty combined points. That's absolutely bonkers. 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.440 And now You also get another shooter with Seth Curry, 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.080 since Joe Harris is out with an ankle injury. You 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:46.800 need that. You get also a capable backup big man 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.480 and Andre Drummond, who is playing really well this year. 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.600 He's been playing great as Joel Embid's backup. When Joel 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:56.800 Embiid went down with COVID, he was averaging double figures 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.960 and rebounds and double figures and points. This is a win. 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.640 Plus you get two of those first round draft picks 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:07.360 back that. If James Harden walks, you've literally given up 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:10.560 four first rounds and four pick swabs, and you got 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:12.840 rid of Jared Allen, and you got rid of Carrisilvert, 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.320 and you got rid Oftorian prince Like. Let it be known. 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.640 That would have been so bad for Sean Marks, so 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:24.120 bad for that organization and Joe Si, a billionaire who 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:28.040 all he wants to do is win. Would have been disastrous. 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.720 So I love it. From the basketball perspective, who do 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:32.880 I think has the best chance of winning a title? 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:35.920 I think it just remains to be seen. I need 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.440 to see the level that Ben and James are playing 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:41.160 at and how that works with KD, and how that 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:44.120 works with Joel before I make a prediction, but I 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:48.720 tell you what, both sides got better. Another trade that 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:54.160 went down that was puzzling, Christaps poor zingis for Spencer 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:58.280 Dinwiddie and Berton's I'll just say this. All you can 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.560 really take from this trade is that Luca wanted Kris 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.520 Stabs the fuck out. That's that's all you need to know. 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.600 Like he's like, I'll take another guy that'll shoot corner threes. 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:10.000 That's fine. I don't care that he's a shell of himself. 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:12.080 I'll get him the ball in his spots. I'll make 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:16.000 sure he's comfortable. And in terms of Spencer Dinwiddie, let 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:19.560 him and Mark Cuban talk NFTs and like they can chill. 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:21.000 He can sit in the in the middle of the 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:23.639 bench for all I care. He can be my backup. 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.000 He can be a backup point guard. He's quite capable 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:27.760 of scoring off the bench. We can make him a 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:29.639 six man. I don't care. Let him be an overpaid 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.760 six man because we got overpaid big and Kristaps porzingis, 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:34.880 I do not care. A lot of people are calling 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:36.840 this a bad trade for Dallas, but you know what, 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:41.720 there's an old saying, if mom ain't happy. Ain't nobody happy? 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:45.719 And in Dallas, if Luca ain't happy, nobody is happy. 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:49.600 So that's an interesting interesting trade. Also, Ish Smith comes 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:55.240 to Washington for Montrez Harrel Charlotte Charlotte Warrens received Montrez Harrell. 0:17:55.720 --> 0:18:00.480 Washington Wizards receive Ish Smith and Vernon Carey Jr. Interesting move, 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:05.600 Interesting move because quite clearly owner of the Washington Wizards, 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:09.919 ted Leonsis, has a particular type. I got no type. 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:11.199 Hi. 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:15.240 Character guys are only thing that I like. He wants 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:18.399 to build culture in a very specific way. And I 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.840 don't know what this means. How you want to read 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:24.719 into it is up to you. But Montrez Harrow and 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:28.359 his grill and his swag and his moves and his 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:31.320 attitude on and off the court do not fit to 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.840 what ted Leonsis wants in a player that is foreshore. 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:38.159 Same thing with Aaron Holliday. Aaron Holliday walked out the 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:40.800 door for cash. We'll get to that trade in a bit, 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:44.399 But Phoenix ended up just giving him some scrill, and 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:46.359 all of a sudden they let him go. A very 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.159 capable guard who was a part of a massive trade 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:52.239 this offseason and was seen as a lockdown defender, one 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:54.240 of the better defenders on that team from the point 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:56.720 guard spot. All of a sudden, Phoenix gets him for 0:18:56.920 --> 0:19:00.159 absolutely nothing for Charlotte. I love this. Montres Harrol was 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:02.040 one of my favorite players, like one of the best 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:04.280 backup bigs. He can play. He was a six man 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:05.800 in the ear and you just get got rid of 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.320 him because you needed a point guard for Bradley Beal, 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:12.880 who was like, okay, ishmus Okay. He can distribute. He's 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:15.600 a fine young player. He's having a good year in Charlotte. 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:19.960 Good for Washington. Very strange, very very strange. Trade Derek 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:24.960 White for Josh Richardson and Romeo Langford. Boston Celtics receive 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:29.920 Dereck White from the San Antonio Spurs. San Antonio Spurs 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:34.240 receive Josh Richardson, Romeo Langford a twenty twenty two first 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:39.439 round pick, top four protection. I don't know, man, I 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:41.560 don't know. I've thought about this a lot. This could 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:45.080 go one of two ways. Dereck White could be the panacea, 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:48.320 a two way player, a big bodied guard who can 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:51.080 fit with Marcus Smart, but both of them don't shoot. 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:53.520 Derek White makes a lot of money. 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:55.480 I don't know. 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:58.480 This is a very interesting trade because you just gave 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:02.280 up Boston. Boston just gave up more first round picks, 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:07.320 and they gave up Romeo Langford, who they took very 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:12.000 early in the draft quite recently. I'm not quite sold 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:15.000 on that. This is what Brad Stevens said. He's been 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:18.080 thinking about Derek White being a fit for a while now, 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:20.840 he said, We've thought for years Derek was a really 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:24.639 good fit with our best players. He's an excellent defender. 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:27.359 He makes the right play on offense over and over. 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:30.200 He's a guy that only cares about winning. He will 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:35.280 do all of the little things. Can't quite properly evaluate 0:20:35.320 --> 0:20:37.280 this yet. I need to see it play out. This 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:39.919 is one of those trades where you got rid of 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:42.960 Josh Richardson, who was a very capable shooter, for a 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:46.960 less capable shooter who could play slightly better defense, who 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:50.600 is slightly more expensive. So how do you evaluate that. 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:54.439 I don't fucking know. I don't know. Tatum and Brown 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:59.560 do they become spot up shooters because my man Derek 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:02.280 White's not shoot her, and you're one of the worst 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:05.280 three point shooting teams. Your point guard and Marcus Smart 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:08.120 couldn't shoot threes, can't shoot threes, then a shreoter who 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:10.919 you got rid of didn't shoot threes. Really, so the 0:21:10.960 --> 0:21:14.320 hidden bonus, I guess is that Pritchard, who rarely played 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:17.679 the long shrouder Peyton Pritchard point guard out of Oregon. 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:21.680 Nice kid uh gets more minutes, so he gets to 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:26.400 expand his role. But believe me, there are potential downsides. 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:30.080 Here's what a recent Celtics blogger who's probably much more 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:31.720 in the weeds on this than me, this is what 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:34.520 he wrote about this trade. I know I'm right about 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:37.600 it this trade. I will be right two games from now, 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:40.000 two months from now, and two years from that now. 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:42.480 I do not care that we ducked the luxury tax. 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:45.080 I do not care that we've collected some trade exceptions. 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:47.720 I do care that our current roster is worse and 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:54.120 our future outlook is bleak. This was a disaster. Polarizing trade. 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:58.560 We'll say polarizing trade, will say one that will make 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:01.320 or break Brad stee Evans as a GM. And I 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:04.480 think we'll know quite quickly how this ends up working out. 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:10.439 Four way trade. Boom boom, boom booooo. Detroit Pistons receive 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:15.480 Marvin Bagley the third former second pick in the draft. 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:21.880 Current bust La Clippers receive Rodney hood Sami Ojeley. Milwaukee 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:25.840 Bucks received Sergea Baka twenty twenty two second round pick 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:30.119 from Detroit a twenty twenty four second round pick from Detroit. 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:36.479 Sacramento Kings receive Dante Devincenzo, Josh Jackson, and Trey Lewles. 0:22:37.840 --> 0:22:40.480 The King somehow won this trade. Don't know how, but 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:43.520 they did, getting Dante Devincenzo, who's probably one of my 0:22:43.560 --> 0:22:46.920 favorite players in the league. Young player twenty five years old, 0:22:46.920 --> 0:22:50.640 played at Villanova alongside McHale Bridges. The only reason he's 0:22:50.640 --> 0:22:52.560 not performing is because he's coming off of a high 0:22:52.600 --> 0:22:55.320 ankle sprain from the playoffs last year in the Miami 0:22:55.359 --> 0:22:58.440 Heat Series. And that shit, ask me, because I'm going 0:22:58.440 --> 0:23:02.200 through it as well. Nicholes Sprain's take forever to get healed, 0:23:02.320 --> 0:23:06.760 like you're still not right years later. So Dante Evincenzo 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:10.480 is a slasher, He's a shooter. He can dunk, he 0:23:10.520 --> 0:23:13.720 can block, he can defend, He is versatile, and he 0:23:13.800 --> 0:23:17.399 works with almost any roster if he's used properly, and 0:23:17.440 --> 0:23:19.720 I think with Milwaukee they haven't been using him well. 0:23:19.840 --> 0:23:21.960 They're gonna have to pay him soon. And they're using 0:23:21.960 --> 0:23:25.119 Grayson Allen and Pat Connaton as more of a spot 0:23:25.200 --> 0:23:27.800 up shooter three point kind of role instead of a 0:23:27.800 --> 0:23:30.840 guy who's as versatile as Dante, especially since they have 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:33.040 Drew Holliday. So I think that this fits for the Kings, 0:23:33.200 --> 0:23:35.280 makes them a lot better. Marvin Bagley gets a fresh 0:23:35.280 --> 0:23:37.600 start and he's no longer a King, which I'm sure 0:23:37.880 --> 0:23:41.160 makes Kings fans super happy. Also, the Milwaukee Bucks get 0:23:41.160 --> 0:23:44.560 a backup center. They get a backup center for Brook 0:23:44.600 --> 0:23:47.720 Lopez and brook low Lopez has been out all season 0:23:47.800 --> 0:23:49.520 with a back injury, and so what does that mean 0:23:49.560 --> 0:23:52.200 for Brook? I think it means that possibly he's had 0:23:52.359 --> 0:23:54.480 a setback or two, and if he hasn't had a 0:23:54.480 --> 0:23:57.080 setbacker two, maybe they're worried he will have a setback 0:23:57.200 --> 0:23:59.399 or two and they've got some insurance for that. And 0:23:59.440 --> 0:24:01.680 a Baka is on an expiring so if it doesn't 0:24:01.720 --> 0:24:04.639 work out and Abaka's health his strugs because he's had 0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:07.439 his own back issues as well, then they can just 0:24:07.520 --> 0:24:10.119 let him go for nothing. And Dante was gonna be 0:24:10.119 --> 0:24:12.040 going for nothing anyway, so it's kind of a win 0:24:12.119 --> 0:24:16.080 win and Also they get the Kings get Josh Jackson, 0:24:16.240 --> 0:24:18.840 who's a nice little piece. Trey Lyles, nice little piece. 0:24:18.880 --> 0:24:21.280 He's a Kentucky big man who's kind of been a disappointment, 0:24:21.280 --> 0:24:25.600