Speaker 1: You're tuned into Heat Check with Trista Crick.
Speaker 2: On this episode of The Heat Check, I joined Damien
Speaker 2: Barling on The Dlo and Casey Show on ESPN thirteen
Speaker 2: twenty in Sacktown, always one of my favorite times of
Speaker 2: the week talking to the boys, and let's face it,
Speaker 2: the vibes were immaculate, and I thought I would share
Speaker 2: it with my folks on the Heat Check podcast. Let's
Speaker 2: not waste any time, Nick, go ahead and drop that beat.
Speaker 1: What is happening? What is this?
Speaker 3: The Blair trist the Blair Crick Project, Like, whoa, what
Speaker 3: is going on?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm in New York right now, and so I'm
Speaker 2: in this hotel that I'm in the little library area
Speaker 2: where there was food, and my hotel that I'm actually
Speaker 2: staying at is a couple of blocks down the street.
Speaker 2: But I had just finished eating, and so there's like
Speaker 2: this little back area that I can charge my phone
Speaker 2: and it's not going to interrupt anyone. But I realize
Speaker 2: I'm like right up against the lamp, and I was like,
Speaker 2: and I was like, this looks really. I mean, you
Speaker 2: guys make fun of me from my living room and
Speaker 2: how dark the background is?
Speaker 4: I mean it's a whole new level. It's a whole
Speaker 4: new level.
Speaker 5: It's slinky.
Speaker 3: It's literally just your face. That's now we can see
Speaker 3: your hands with the like no, it's.
Speaker 4: It's also I've got a black sweater on, so.
Speaker 3: It's just it's all it's just all darkness. That's that's
Speaker 3: we know, it's perfect. I mean, this just adds to
Speaker 3: the it's it's just adds to the fun of talking
Speaker 3: to you.
Speaker 6: I feel like we're at one of Trista's speed dating
Speaker 6: tables that she's had to stop at as on sort
Speaker 6: of you know, going around the room like we've got
Speaker 6: like two minutes and then she's got to move to
Speaker 6: the next table.
Speaker 4: If only, if only I was not lucky to be
Speaker 4: on speed days. My day is Bizara. I'm looking for
Speaker 4: some wall trousers after.
Speaker 3: It's excellent that so I assume, uh w f A N.
Speaker 1: That's that's why you're no.
Speaker 4: Dnist appointments today, the old New York YEP. So I
Speaker 4: had to get some new visilne put in.
Speaker 2: And then I don't know if you guys can tell,
Speaker 2: but I got some new little new littelashes, uh all right,
Speaker 2: and so then yeah, they my dnnist appointments only on
Speaker 2: Friday morning, so I had to come up Thursday and
Speaker 2: then leave Saturday. So I'm gonna go and see some friends.
Speaker 2: I actually I'm getting dinner with Jake Fisher tonight.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm gonna try to get some get some tea
Speaker 4: on this Kyrie Irving news.
Speaker 3: No, well we'll we'll We'll get to Kyrie here, uh
Speaker 3: in just a heartbeat, and I'm sure you'll share the
Speaker 3: tea with us, uh when you get the opportunity. But
Speaker 3: you fired up as all of us were last night,
Speaker 3: Uh to see Daron Fox miss out on on the
Speaker 3: All Star Game. And you're connected around the league, so
Speaker 3: it's up to you.
Speaker 1: T K Like I was a little.
Speaker 2: Worried that I might be complicit or an accessory to
Speaker 2: crime if a ride actually took place, because I said
Speaker 2: we riot at dawn, and then I think King's player
Speaker 2: also said let's.
Speaker 4: Riot, yeah, and I was like, let's not really.
Speaker 2: Riot because if my tweets the first one, then it's
Speaker 2: a January sixth situation I'm not trying.
Speaker 4: To get into all.
Speaker 6: Clearly, you're in New York, so you can ride at
Speaker 6: the at the NBA offices. We understand what's happening here.
Speaker 2: I'm going myself like that girl at the Minnesota Timberwolves
Speaker 2: playing game.
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna stick it to the window.
Speaker 3: Has glued herself to Adam Silver's door in a deer
Speaker 3: in Fox Jersey.
Speaker 5: In Fox Jersey, there it is.
Speaker 3: I speculated that that coaches were trying to make some
Speaker 3: grand point by selecting a bunch of defais guys like
Speaker 3: Paul George and Jaren Jackson and Drew Holliday at the
Speaker 3: expense of a guy like Taron Fox.
Speaker 2: Are you guys the type of people who think about
Speaker 2: the All Star Game as an accolade and an accomplishment,
Speaker 2: or are you guys of the mind that the All
Speaker 2: Star Game is primarily an event for fans and to
Speaker 2: entertain fans.
Speaker 1: Both.
Speaker 6: I think it's the first because I think players, I mean,
Speaker 6: their contracts are based off of All Stars, like whether
Speaker 6: they make the Hall of Fame, you have to accumulate
Speaker 6: some of these accolades. And to me, like the players,
Speaker 6: they do think a lot of it. Like I've talked
Speaker 6: to Sabonis about the potential for Fox to be there
Speaker 6: and what it would mean, and he was just like
Speaker 6: he wanted him to be there to get the experience
Speaker 6: of it, like how amazing it is. And Fox had
Speaker 6: been there for like rookie rookie sophomore game stuff, But
Speaker 6: to be part of the big game is just different
Speaker 6: and it has a different feel and vibe and you're
Speaker 6: thought of differently as a player when you have that
Speaker 6: All Star It's not like Major League Baseball All Star
Speaker 6: where every team gets an All Star and then you know,
Speaker 6: or the NFL, where didn't the Ravens quarterback. It's through
Speaker 6: four touchdowns make the Pro Bowl?
Speaker 4: Snowpuntley? Yep, it Snoopuntley.
Speaker 6: Yeah he made the Pro Bowl, and so did Derek Carr,
Speaker 6: you know who had that great line yesterday. But yeah,
Speaker 6: I kind of look at it that way, like in
Speaker 6: the NBA, it's a huge accomplishment that if you don't
Speaker 6: stack those accomplishments, you don't have an opportunity to be
Speaker 6: a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think I'm of that mindset too.
Speaker 2: But when I think about it like a fan event
Speaker 2: as well, I say to myself and I tweeted this,
Speaker 2: does anyone really want to watch whatever Jaron Jackson's jump
Speaker 2: shot is out there? Like? Do we want to see
Speaker 2: his defense do we want when you talk about like
Speaker 2: getting defensive guys, why do we want defensive guys in
Speaker 2: the All Star Game?
Speaker 4: Like we really don't.
Speaker 2: I want to see the box use his impressive dribbling
Speaker 2: skills to successfully fake out his opponent.
Speaker 4: Like that's what I want to see, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean? I want to see him in the mid range.
Speaker 2: I want to see his floater. I want to see
Speaker 2: his speed and athleticism. I could really care less about
Speaker 2: Jerry Jackson Junior and I am a fan of the
Speaker 2: Memphis Grizzlies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, we're going to revisit that.
Speaker 3: But I think it goes to the first thing you
Speaker 3: said though, like is it is it is an at?
Speaker 3: Is it an accolade or is it a a showcase
Speaker 3: for the fans? I think coaches may have looked at
Speaker 3: it as an accolade, And of course there's components of both,
Speaker 3: as James mentioned, because there's incentives and contracts, so that's important.
Speaker 3: But the accolade part of it that that's that's It's like,
Speaker 3: all right, we've got shooters and Kyrie doesn't play a
Speaker 3: lick at defense and he's starting, so we're gonna put
Speaker 3: Drew Holliday in and we're damn it, we're gonna take
Speaker 3: control of our league again, and we're gonna bank all
Speaker 3: stars at a defensive players. So we'll put this guy
Speaker 3: who's played thirty something games into it and averages fifteen
Speaker 3: points per game rather than Daron Fox or I mean, hell,
Speaker 3: even games.
Speaker 4: Do you think that the solution is also to put
Speaker 4: you have to play a.
Speaker 2: Minimum a certain minimum amount of games in order to
Speaker 2: be eligible.
Speaker 3: Well, that's that's the case with postseason awards or not,
Speaker 3: maybe not postseason awards like MVP points, like you have
Speaker 3: to play a certain amount of games. And I think
Speaker 3: James has said earlier Jaron Jackson leads the league in blocks,
Speaker 3: but he's not actually eligible to lead the league in blocks.
Speaker 6: No, yeah, he's not. He hasn't played enough games. I
Speaker 6: was even telling Damian too Trisa that I was talking
Speaker 6: about this with my son and my son said, well,
Speaker 6: do you know about the whole block thing with Jaron Jackson?
Speaker 6: And I'm like, no, what do you mean he is? Oh,
Speaker 6: look at his block numbers at home versus on the road,
Speaker 6: seventy seven blocks in eighteen games at home and thirty
Speaker 6: seven blocks and seventeen games at home, I mean on
Speaker 6: the road. So they're like around the league, it's known
Speaker 6: that their their scorekeepers are giving him blocks for things
Speaker 6: that aren't blocks, and they're patting his stats, and it
Speaker 6: comes down to, like, what exactly are we doing here?
Speaker 6: Like it should be the best of the best, And
Speaker 6: if you're gonna reward Jaron Jackson for being on the
Speaker 6: Western Conference number two overall team, then forget that Aaron
Speaker 6: Gordon's a better player. He should have made it on
Speaker 6: a better team as the Denver Nuggets. So I get
Speaker 6: you don't want two representatives from the same team rewarding,
Speaker 6: you know, getting rewarded, But if you're gonna do it
Speaker 6: with one, then like again, Jaren Jackson just didn't make
Speaker 6: any not on anyone's board as far as what was
Speaker 6: he number twelve in Ford's in the Western Conference when
Speaker 6: it came to aggregate score.
Speaker 5: That just didn't make any sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think the thing that also is frustrating
Speaker 2: is just how they formulate the teams, because you you know,
Speaker 2: somebody said this in my mentions, and I think this
Speaker 2: is true in terms of like Jaron Jackson obviously playing
Speaker 2: a different position than Fox, and so you've already got
Speaker 2: your guard slots already set, and so there's an additional
Speaker 2: slot that Jaron Jackson for a forward, you know, position
Speaker 2: that he could get in. So they said, oh, well,
Speaker 2: would you if you had to choose, then would you
Speaker 2: take out Jaw or Sga or Dame if you were
Speaker 2: going to put in Fox? And I'm like, wellhy challenge
Speaker 2: this premise completely because maybe there's just more. Maybe there's
Speaker 2: just more guards that are All Stars this year that
Speaker 2: are playing in an all star calibern.
Speaker 6: Well, I would add this too, like, it's very possible
Speaker 6: that they loaded up on forwards because they know that
Speaker 6: Zion isn't going to play, and so when they replace
Speaker 6: Zion with somebody else, it doesn't have to be a forward,
Speaker 6: right because they've already loaded up on so many forwards,
Speaker 6: and it would leave the possibility to add a player
Speaker 6: like Fox in the next round.
Speaker 4: They better use him as the replacement.
Speaker 2: Otherwise, like we we are writing, we will, you're gonna
Speaker 2: take it.
Speaker 3: Twisted someone, which is just a massive curve ball from Tristan.
Speaker 3: You look like the death Row magazine Vibe cover and
Speaker 3: I can't unsee it.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: That's a tremendous compliment.
Speaker 1: I just can't unsee it.
Speaker 4: I have that on my wall in my my house
Speaker 4: that I grew up in.
Speaker 1: Oh that that's iconic. It is just as it?
Speaker 4: Uh, someone can someone make this on Photoshop?
Speaker 2: Can they add me it? And like, can you put
Speaker 2: it on Twitter? We just see what it would look like.
Speaker 6: Say they put Lebron's head on Willem Dafoe the other
Speaker 6: day for me from the platoon poster. So yes, they
Speaker 6: can trist to.
Speaker 3: I guarantee they're already working on it. It'll it'll, it'll
Speaker 3: be in your mentions by the time the calls over.
Speaker 3: So you're in New York. How about the if that
Speaker 3: keeps on giving? You mentioned it earlier? Kyrie wants out
Speaker 3: of Brooklyn, And from what we read from Adrian Wajhanowski
Speaker 3: a few minutes ago, is that teams are calling asking
Speaker 3: about Kevin Durant, like, Hey, how far are you going
Speaker 3: to take this thing over the course of the next week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And if I'm Brooklyn, what is your what is
Speaker 2: your real incentive to do what he wants?
Speaker 4: What is it? Like?
Speaker 2: I don't think you have any you know, you know
Speaker 2: he wants to stay there, you know he wants to
Speaker 2: be there.
Speaker 4: The entire reason for the.
Speaker 2: Trade request is salary and him getting a contract extension
Speaker 2: that he is not being offered, and them wanting to
Speaker 2: see what they have in the postseason with him before
Speaker 2: they do any of that, right, because he's a gigantic
Speaker 2: headache when he's not one of the best players on
Speaker 2: the court, which he's been awesome this year. He's been
Speaker 2: really really good when he's not suspended.
Speaker 4: And so that's one component. And so if you say, well.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, we're just not going to trade you by
Speaker 2: the deadline, like you're just I have to figure it out.
Speaker 2: And if if you need to get paid whatever is
Speaker 2: your max through the bird rights, then you're going to
Speaker 2: have to work with us with the sign trade. And
Speaker 2: that's just what it is. You need us, we need you,
Speaker 2: et cetera. So why why feel rushed to do that
Speaker 2: when teams are only going to take advantage of you
Speaker 2: given the desperation in him being on an expiring.
Speaker 6: Yeah, is this I mean, this is one of the
Speaker 6: few players that I can remember where he's going to
Speaker 6: be worth a certain amount as a player and he's
Speaker 6: worth a totally different amount as a human being. I mean,
Speaker 6: does that make sense? Like I don't think that he's
Speaker 6: like he's making thirty six million this year, which again
Speaker 6: he should be a forty something million dollar player, but
Speaker 6: he's not. And I have this feeling that, like he's
Speaker 6: not going to get that big contract that you would
Speaker 6: expect unless it's from brook Brooklyn, who you know has
Speaker 6: a ton of money and a huge market. But I mean,
Speaker 6: even like if you go to the Lakers, you're not
Speaker 6: getting the money. Well, I guess you could if they're
Speaker 6: able to complete a trade, because then they would have
Speaker 6: as Larry Bird rights, but just as like an asset
Speaker 6: going around, you're not going to be able to get
Speaker 6: like dollar per dollar for what he should be like
Speaker 6: worth as as as a player.
Speaker 2: And on top of that, you've got Ruby Haschi Mura
Speaker 2: there who's also going to want a deal in the
Speaker 2: off season, which is going to take up quite a
Speaker 2: bit of your cap space.
Speaker 4: And so at this point the math mathon.
Speaker 2: Unless you're sending Russell Westbrook to the Brooklyn Nets, which
Speaker 2: which you're doing, yeah, or you're doing a three team
Speaker 2: trade and sending Russ to like Chicago or something and
Speaker 2: trying to figure I don't know that Kevin Durant, if
Speaker 2: Kevin Duran ends up playing with Russell Westbrook again, which
Speaker 2: I don't think he wants. I mean, what do you
Speaker 2: what do you? What are we doing here?
Speaker 4: Really?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I never know what we're Kyrie irving, to be honest
Speaker 3: with you, I just I Lebron's out here tweeting I
Speaker 3: emojis and crowns like, don't I don't know what's happening
Speaker 3: with with with your king. We looked at Phoenix having
Speaker 3: a really intriguing potential offer. I feel like we mentioned
Speaker 3: another team, James Oh, Miami Miami potentially having something, but
Speaker 3: it felt like Phoenix worked the best. But there's that,
Speaker 3: and you noted this a minute ago. There's that weird.
Speaker 3: Why would Phoenix do this unless they knew that Kyrie
Speaker 3: was staying long term, because you'd you'd probably have to
Speaker 3: move with Calbridge, you'd have to move someone you value
Speaker 3: to get Kyrie back. And that's what the weird thing
Speaker 3: hanging over all of this is is you talk about
Speaker 3: the incentive to do what he wants. No team is
Speaker 3: going to make a deal, no team like Phoenix, I
Speaker 3: should say, I feel like the Lakers will do whatever
Speaker 3: just because they're the Lakers. I don't think Phoenix or
Speaker 3: Miami makes any sort of deal unless they have assurances
Speaker 3: that they can have him on their team for at
Speaker 3: least another couple.
Speaker 2: Of years, which means, then, okay, Kyrie, we're going to
Speaker 2: offer you a two year deal, and if we do
Speaker 2: this trade, you're going to accept the two year deal.
Speaker 2: Means you're gonna have to sign this now, like secretly,
Speaker 2: and then we're gonna submit it when it's the time
Speaker 2: for us to submit it, Like it's gonna have to
Speaker 2: all be locked up where there's no funny business. Because
Speaker 2: if I was worried about funny business with any player
Speaker 2: in the NBA, them changing their minds, them going back
Speaker 2: on their words, them deciding they need to step away
Speaker 2: for whatever reason, that would be Kyrie Irving. Right.
Speaker 4: So, if you're a.
Speaker 2: Team and you're in the risk management business, unlessen Phoenix
Speaker 2: has had their own fair share of controversies as well, right,
Speaker 2: you don't want to be having another issue or a
Speaker 2: potential blowback controversy that you really did not need to have,
Speaker 2: Like it would be an unmitigated disaster.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's so avoidable. Wait you just yeah, I mean,
Speaker 6: could it work out and he makes your team great, sure,
Speaker 6: but it could also not work out and you could
Speaker 6: be like stuck in a gigantic nightmare of a situation
Speaker 6: with him both financially and the pr stuff which you
Speaker 6: talked about. There are certain teams that can do it,
Speaker 6: and then there I think Phoenix is one team that
Speaker 6: you might look at and go like, you can't because
Speaker 6: they're the team that's actually going to have to give
Speaker 6: up true value. Like if you look at the Lakers,
Speaker 6: like regardless of what my friend Damien here thanks of
Speaker 6: Russell Westbrook, Like in NBA standards, it's not value, like
Speaker 6: you're not getting value for him. And where you know
Speaker 6: mckail Bridges. If you're gonna get Bridges or you're gonna
Speaker 6: get Cam Johnson, you're gonna get a stack of players.
Speaker 6: Those are valuable pieces, long term contracts, young players that
Speaker 6: can help you today and you know, kind of further
Speaker 6: what you're trying to do, maybe both teams get get
Speaker 6: help in this situation where again like Dallas doesn't have
Speaker 6: something to offer like that, and and even the Lakers
Speaker 6: they don't have something to offer like that.
Speaker 2: If you're Dallas and you're Brooklyn, do you accept like
Speaker 2: Dorian Finney Smith and Tim Hardaway and like Jaden Hardy
Speaker 2: or something for Kyrie, and like, do you do that?
Speaker 4: Deal? Does those.
Speaker 3: I don't know how the math checks out, but that's
Speaker 3: probably not like, it's probably not a horrible option for
Speaker 3: Brooklyn in the sense of the like, Kyrie's obviously very good,
Speaker 3: but the reason you're a championship contender or potential championship
Speaker 3: is because of Kevin Durant.
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant is one of the best basketball players on Earth.
Speaker 3: And if you can surround him like that, it simply
Speaker 3: boils down to what compliments KD and if they can
Speaker 3: determine that those guys do, I'm all for it. I
Speaker 3: personally would love to see Kyrie and Luka Dancic let
Speaker 3: me see that. I want to watch that implode. I
Speaker 3: will watch every Dallas Mavericks game on League Pass to
Speaker 3: make sure I am tuned in live when that inevitably
Speaker 3: goes bad.
Speaker 2: Someone tried to get King the Kings in the mix,
Speaker 2: said would the Kings be interested in Kyrie Irving?
Speaker 1: And I was like, what, I don't believe that that happened.
Speaker 4: No, what are you serious? Is there a team that
Speaker 4: makes less sense than them?
Speaker 1: I believe our friends at the Kings.
Speaker 3: Harold wrote an article and the article said, well no,
Speaker 3: and that was the end of the article.
Speaker 4: What are we doing? Like, what are we doing? Guys?
Speaker 4: What is this?
Speaker 3: We will step in as a fan base and just
Speaker 3: say hard pass fan, we're good.
Speaker 2: Also, what has not been mentioned in all of this,
Speaker 2: and I think, and I hadn't thought about it until
Speaker 2: just today, is we're in the period of time right now.
Speaker 4: Where normally in normal years.
Speaker 2: Past, like two three years ago, pre pandemic, at this point,
Speaker 2: all attention and focus is on the Super Bowl, right
Speaker 2: and then what you've had is a change obviously with
Speaker 2: the eighteen weeks season, but also the trade deadline moving backwards.
Speaker 2: Usually the trade deadline happens around All Star Game. I
Speaker 2: remember when Boogie Cousins was traded in New Orleans right
Speaker 2: after the All Star Game.
Speaker 1: So I love the.
Speaker 5: City he was traded during.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah it was during. Yeah, it was difcent.
Speaker 5: I had to confirmed during the actual Star.
Speaker 4: Game like he's going, okay, that's insane.
Speaker 2: So now the war between the NFL and the NBA
Speaker 2: is just fully on, right, NBA and croaching on the
Speaker 2: All Star Game, and or NFL and coroaching on the
Speaker 2: NBA All Star Game, NFL and croaching on the NBA
Speaker 2: playoffs with the draft, and then the NBA clapping back
Speaker 2: and saying, that's fine, We'll just have Kyrie Irving requested
Speaker 2: trade and Pro Bowl.
Speaker 4: How about that.
Speaker 6: We're going to ruin your Pro Bowl, your crappy Pro
Speaker 6: Bowl all next week, all.
Speaker 4: Next week, the week where all of the excitement is
Speaker 4: supposed to.
Speaker 2: Be on Jalen Herds and this big Patrick Mahomes matchup,
Speaker 2: and everybody's just talking about NFL, NFL, NFL, and it's like, no,
Speaker 2: it's trade deadline weeks. Trade deadline week. Is Cape Kevin
Speaker 2: Durant going to be traded? Because that's what I care about.
Speaker 3: Next week, there's gonna be a big storyline, depending on
Speaker 3: who you are. It's gonna be a big storyline in
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl that two brothers are playing against each other,
Speaker 3: and two brothers are playing against each other, and this
Speaker 3: kind of depends on what side of that fence you
Speaker 3: fall on.
Speaker 1: But this week off like I hate.
Speaker 3: Like I haven't, I honestly haven't thought about Kansas City
Speaker 3: and Philadelphia one time this week.
Speaker 4: That's exactly how the NBA wants it.
Speaker 3: It's like yeah, whatever, Like all I'm thinking about at
Speaker 3: this point. Well, one, we were trying to get through
Speaker 3: last night and we thought we had a bottle of
Speaker 3: champagne ready to go for our two All Stars, and
Speaker 3: now it's it's it's next Thursday. Though, I think the
Speaker 3: the the feeling headed into this trade deadline, at least
Speaker 3: for Sacramento Kings fans, is a little bit different for
Speaker 3: NBA fans.
Speaker 1: It's always fun.
Speaker 3: Speaking of can we get back to your Memphis Grizzlies
Speaker 3: fandom for a minute?
Speaker 4: Fandom? I just said, I like them.
Speaker 3: I feel like you gave us a pretty like strong
Speaker 3: like like it was more than just no, I like
Speaker 3: the Memphis Grizzlies. It felt like like the Grizzlies are
Speaker 3: really hate Herble, Like they like, not from a basketball
Speaker 3: playing perspective, just from like a regular perspective. They kind
Speaker 3: of suck. And that whole debacle last night, which your
Speaker 3: boy Dylan Brooks was ridiculous.
Speaker 4: So what's so hilarious about it is? I want to say.
Speaker 2: Wednesday, maybe Wednesday, So that's what Two days ago. Two
Speaker 2: days ago, I posted something that showed Trey Young's a
Speaker 2: three point percentage Jordan Poole's three point percentage and Dylan
Speaker 2: Brooks three point percentage.
Speaker 4: They're identical.
Speaker 2: And you want to say, oh, Trey Young takes harder
Speaker 2: shots than Dylan Brooks or Jordan Poole does whatever, the
Speaker 2: three point percentage is exactly the same. Like I think, actually,
Speaker 2: Dylan Brooks has a better three point percentage right now
Speaker 2: than Trey Young, which is just a crazy bananas. And
Speaker 2: I was just like, you know, narratives are funny this way,
Speaker 2: and people went and sane, do not put this video out.
Speaker 2: Nothing pro Dylan Brooks here. It was just boo, just
Speaker 2: anti Dylan Brooks, anti Dyllis. The hate was powerful, crazy hate,
Speaker 2: and so I put out another video.
Speaker 4: Listen.
Speaker 2: I get you don't like Dylan Brooks because he did Chucker.
Speaker 2: I get that you don't like his Grayson Allen style
Speaker 2: of play, But this level of energy for Dylan Brooks
Speaker 2: is strange. This is weird behavior. Tell me, why take
Speaker 2: me to your leader? Why do you guys hate Dylan
Speaker 2: Brooks this much?
Speaker 4: One day later, one day.
Speaker 2: Later, we get what we got and I was like, oh, well,
Speaker 2: now I see now got it?
Speaker 4: Got it? Guys.
Speaker 3: I feel like I feel like the perfect guy to
Speaker 3: ask might be here is Kyle Matson joins the party,
Speaker 3: and the death row circle is complete.
Speaker 1: Why do you hate Dylan Brooks? Kyle Mats?
Speaker 7: If Dylan Brooks never played another basketball game, the NBA
Speaker 7: would be.
Speaker 1: Better for it.
Speaker 7: He's the worst bro, No, the honestly, Like, okay, so it,
Speaker 7: I mean, it's obvious. I don't care that you're gonna
Speaker 7: talk mess and not be that good. But the for me,
Speaker 7: it really started with him hurting Gary Payton the second
Speaker 7: last year.
Speaker 8: And that like, yeah, there's the Warriors.
Speaker 7: Fandom there right, and him hurting GP two and and whatnot.
Speaker 7: But just as from a basketball perspective, like that's just
Speaker 7: that was crap. You don't whack somebody across the back
Speaker 7: of the head while they're in mid air and just
Speaker 7: full blown wind up and swing and then this is
Speaker 7: just like a pattern now and last night wasn't even
Speaker 7: a basketball thing. That was just him taking a swing
Speaker 7: at Donovan Mitchell's Donovan's and that's that. I just know,
Speaker 7: I don't I get how other people feel about Draymond.
Speaker 6: Now, I understand That's where I was gonna go, Like,
Speaker 6: when Draymond is on your team, you love him. When
Speaker 6: you're a team playing against him, You're just like, man,
Speaker 6: I just I don't get it.
Speaker 5: I can't handle it.
Speaker 8: Like it was.
Speaker 5: He's tough.
Speaker 7: In a series against the Grizzlies, which the Kings might
Speaker 7: get this year, in a series against the Grizzlies, anytime
Speaker 7: the possession ends with Dylan Brooks shooting it, it's like, yes,
Speaker 7: a plus good possession. So I'm just not I that's
Speaker 7: the that's the other problem. At least Draymond not excusing it.
Speaker 7: At least Draymond's like a defensive Player of the Year
Speaker 7: and uh, you know a guy who can push a
Speaker 7: triple double every night. Dylan Brooks is just like, there's
Speaker 7: a fifty dudes in the league that are like Dylan Brooks.
Speaker 8: He stinks.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I would say there's fifty dudes
Speaker 2: Dylan Brooks is a very good defender.
Speaker 8: There's twenty's. I don't know.
Speaker 7: I just I feel like, if you took Dylan Brooks
Speaker 7: off the Grizzlies, Grizzly, can I.
Speaker 3: Give you another reason why the whole Grizzlies thing is
Speaker 3: out of control? I think I lost Dylan Brooks after
Speaker 3: the Shannon Sharp thing when he stood at the podium
Speaker 3: in like jeans and like a tank top, and it.
Speaker 1: Was like, oh, it looked he looked absurd. That is one,
Speaker 1: but two that whole like John needs to get his
Speaker 1: crew under control.
Speaker 4: He's the one though, he's literally the leader of this.
Speaker 3: The stuff with his dad, the stuff with his boys
Speaker 3: getting escorted off of like court side, Like, dude, like,
Speaker 3: calm down, Like it's cool. Your dad got like his
Speaker 3: fifteen minutes of fame for looking like us. You're like,
Speaker 3: that's great, bro. The next time he goes head to
Speaker 3: head with an NFL Hall of Famer, that hall of
Speaker 3: famer is gonna pop them in the mouth.
Speaker 1: And then what are you gonna do? Like that whole,
Speaker 1: that whole circle needs to chill.
Speaker 3: Like they're taking their they're they're taking their little hard
Speaker 3: nosed identity a little too far, Like relax, you're a
Speaker 3: professional basket Calm down.
Speaker 2: Did you see what Josh said the other day? He
Speaker 2: got into it with whoever they played two games ago.
Speaker 2: I forget who it was. I mean, it's hard to
Speaker 2: keep track how many alter cases.
Speaker 1: We're at war with everyone.
Speaker 2: Minnesota, I believe it might have been Minnesota.
Speaker 4: I think it was.
Speaker 2: I think it was maybe Like I think it was
Speaker 2: like somebody random that he got into it with anyway.
Speaker 4: So he runs up on.
Speaker 2: Him and he's apparently they were yelling. Somebody told John
Speaker 2: RAN's dad to shut up, and so I think it
Speaker 2: was maybe a timberwolf. And Jaw runs up on the
Speaker 2: guy and he's like, what did you say?
Speaker 4: What'd you say? So they asked him.
Speaker 2: What he basically was getting into it with, and he's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I checked this temperature.
Speaker 4: He didn't have a fever.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, wait what, and so then he's like yeah.
Speaker 2: And then so and So comes up. I forget who
Speaker 2: the other player was. So and So comes up and
Speaker 2: I told him he needed to back up or it
Speaker 2: was gonna be something, and he said he was cooling.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, what is going on here?
Speaker 6: Like you know what, we got some fake tough guys
Speaker 6: going on here. See that's a job needs uh Dylan Brooks,
Speaker 6: because he's gonna he's gonna say something.
Speaker 5: He needs Steven Adams there too.
Speaker 2: Adams for sure like the reason and and I don't
Speaker 2: remember and listen, I love Jaw. I think Jah is
Speaker 2: the most electric player in the NBA. Night for night
Speaker 2: on a random Tuesday, I just think he is. He's
Speaker 2: just like he's the best show on the court right now.
Speaker 2: But when you're tweeting stuff like that and you're talking
Speaker 2: about your hollow tips, and it's just like, what are
Speaker 2: we why are we doing this right now?
Speaker 4: Like okay, maybe we shouldn't.
Speaker 3: You know, if Steven Adams was five ft away from
Speaker 3: me at all times, I'd probably pick a fight with
Speaker 3: everyone insight to the gas.
Speaker 6: Station, the grocery store. You'd run people over in the
Speaker 6: produce section. I got Steven Adams here. You want to
Speaker 6: say something?
Speaker 4: What you say to me? Nothing?
Speaker 7: Nothing? Have I have to be so bothered to acknowledge
Speaker 7: another person in public that bothers me.
Speaker 8: I would have to, like, you could breathe on me.
Speaker 2: Wrong.
Speaker 7: And if Steven Adams with me, I'd be right with
Speaker 7: Ryan's And I'm not a fighter at all. Yeah, I'd
Speaker 7: get my ass kicked by everybody.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I was seeing that Adam's there. You wouldn't know.
Speaker 8: No, you just think that the.
Speaker 4: Grizzlies are the most hated team in the NBA right now.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I don't think there's a close second.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, probably, yeah. Probably.
Speaker 7: My friend lies in gen z Lob City, and I
Speaker 7: think it's really good. I think it's a really good
Speaker 7: nickname for him. It's the reason I hesitate is because
Speaker 7: like they're super unlikable, but they've also not done anything,
Speaker 7: which to me is just like, Okay, you're just over there.
Speaker 7: You're just this small dog that's really loud, like cool man.
Speaker 7: There's let the big boys play now, like the Chris.
Speaker 4: Paul, the Chris Paul Lake Griffin Clippers.
Speaker 1: But Chris Paul's really good though.
Speaker 8: So it's yoahs good. They have good players, like I'm
Speaker 8: not you don't like Johweit was that an eye roll.
Speaker 1: No, I didn't not. I didn't eye roll. I just
Speaker 1: turned to my right.
Speaker 8: Christa.
Speaker 7: He's mad because joh is the player that Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 1: Wanted to be.
Speaker 8: I don't even know that I'm joking. I'm joking.
Speaker 4: He looked at the side, like, yeah, Jo's not that good.
Speaker 1: No, John's good.
Speaker 3: But I thought you were equating like the Memphis Grizzlies
Speaker 3: to Chris Paul. Like Chris Paul significantly, No, like.
Speaker 4: That know that they're the Memphis Grizzlies are the Chris
Speaker 4: Paul led Clippers.
Speaker 1: Oh gotcha?
Speaker 2: Yeah, with with Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan and they
Speaker 2: never want a thing, but they were ever.
Speaker 4: Everybody hated him. They were always talking trash and.
Speaker 5: Thought they would win a bunch of titles.
Speaker 2: They never won anything exactly. It ended up ending disastrously.
Speaker 8: I had a rivalry with the Warriors.
Speaker 4: Yeah, rivalry with the Warriors.
Speaker 2: I actually root for the Grizzlies, though, I like, I
Speaker 2: want them to succeed, Like they remind me of the
Speaker 2: Cincinnati Bengals kind of you know.
Speaker 1: Where you're like, because I didn't root for Burrow Joe Burrow.
Speaker 2: Yeah where it's like Jaw Burrow, bro Jaw Burrow, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Job Burrow, Joe Morant.
Speaker 3: I don't get it, Like, why why root for the
Speaker 3: Bengals you were just in Buffalo?
Speaker 4: No, I mean, like, I get why people like them,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: I get why people have this draw for unapologetically arrogance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did it wore off real quick though. I
Speaker 3: was like, no, I get it, now, that's cool.
Speaker 1: I like this.
Speaker 3: I think we even did this last year, Like, no,
Speaker 3: this is cool. I get it. It wore off quick though,
Speaker 3: Like I'm I'm over it.
Speaker 7: There reaches a point when you're gonna talk trash at
Speaker 7: the level that they talk trash, where like, okay, they're
Speaker 7: down here that the Grizzlies.
Speaker 8: They're plucky. Oh and they talk some smack.
Speaker 7: I like this, this is good, but at some point
Speaker 7: you got to win something. And there are two playoff
Speaker 7: trips now and they're still like they're talking as though
Speaker 7: there's still this plucky underdog, and it's like, no, no, no, man,
Speaker 7: You're you're gonna be the one or two seed and
Speaker 7: you're going to be a favorite to come out of
Speaker 7: the West.
Speaker 8: You got to do something at some point. That's that's
Speaker 8: what That's what bothers me about them.
Speaker 2: It's well, I love the I love the DLO and
Speaker 2: Casey Slash ninety ninety three.
Speaker 4: I forget there.
Speaker 2: I'm not good with like call letters of radio station,
Speaker 2: but the Memphis station I'm on.
Speaker 4: All the time.
Speaker 8: I go on.
Speaker 2: Tuesday ninety three nine, I believe. And they just get
Speaker 2: so mad how much I ride for the Kings. They
Speaker 2: just get so mad how much I root for like
Speaker 2: the broadcast team and lighting the beam, and they're just
Speaker 2: like you, this is very clearly a bridge too far.
Speaker 4: This is a rift. And I'm like, I, like everybody,
Speaker 4: I don't know you want me to say our.
Speaker 1: Doves, well, I'll tell you what us. Uh, you could
Speaker 1: tell them to kiss our ass.
Speaker 4: I'll do that. I'll do that on next to Steven Adams.
Speaker 1: Steven Adams is our friend, but you can tell everybody.
Speaker 4: Would you guys like Bane? He guys like Desmond Baine?
Speaker 3: Yes, I actually think I I can't wait for Desmond
Speaker 3: Bane to debut at WrestleMania next year. Like I cannot
Speaker 3: wait for Like we always talk about who's gonna end
Speaker 3: Roman Reigns run as the champion. I think it might
Speaker 3: be Desmond Vane. I'm gonna come out and spear Roman
Speaker 3: Reigns and be.
Speaker 5: The that dude is yoked.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Like there aren't players like that. You're like what
Speaker 6: in the world. Like Aaron Aflalo used to be like
Speaker 6: that in Sacramento. He showed up and it's like, okay, man,
Speaker 6: Like can you shoot anymore? I don't know what's going
Speaker 6: on here?
Speaker 8: Ericson another guy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Desmond Ban goes to the rim and like I swear,
Speaker 6: he flexes as he's dunking on everyone. It's just like,
Speaker 6: what is happening?
Speaker 3: I would I'd be I'd be up there with the
Speaker 3: with the bicep.
Speaker 4: Dune kiss kissing the bicep dude.
Speaker 5: Yeah he is.
Speaker 7: Desmond Band is easily my favorite Grizzly. He's an unbelievable player.
Speaker 7: He's so good.
Speaker 5: I love Steven.
Speaker 4: Adams, I I love him both.
Speaker 6: Yeah, being around Steven Adams, Yeah, he's just like his
Speaker 6: whole personality is just spectacular, Like it's so authentic and
Speaker 6: he just doesn't care, and you know, he's He's very
Speaker 6: nice for a guy that's that big, just a like
Speaker 6: a gigantic human being.
Speaker 1: I think I like Jaw's new persona. I think that's Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you don't like Ponytail Jaw.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Ponytail appears to have an attitude.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Ponytail Jaw.
Speaker 2: I mean I get it sometimes when my hair, when
Speaker 2: I have my hair up for too long, I get
Speaker 2: a headache.
Speaker 4: I get very irritable.
Speaker 2: It's like sometimes you just gotta let your hair down,
Speaker 2: you know, and you're just in a better mood.
Speaker 1: Literally never seen your hair out before.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Instagram, you did like a or you did like
Speaker 3: one post work out TikTok once and that was the
Speaker 3: only time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I don't I don't really like it up.
Speaker 4: I don't head hurts my head.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't really, And the only time I'll do
Speaker 2: it is either post workout, like in a workout, or
Speaker 2: if my hair is so dirty it possibly it cannot be.
Speaker 4: Possibly down and that has happened before too. Just the
Speaker 4: grease level is just so it's just bad. Pause.
Speaker 7: Hey, I'm sure this has been addressed, but forgive me.
Speaker 7: Are you like in the corner of a restaurant, I'm
Speaker 7: glam shots.
Speaker 4: I'm in a hotel.
Speaker 2: Uh, it's like a cafe in this hotel called eleven
Speaker 2: Howard Awesome.
Speaker 4: There's a place called the Library.
Speaker 2: They serve food, but then there's this little b that's
Speaker 2: not intrusive to anyone because it's.
Speaker 4: Like a library.
Speaker 2: So people are doing work, so I don't think they
Speaker 2: really want this energy for them. So I've gone to
Speaker 2: the back, which is a little bit more dimly lit
Speaker 2: as you can see, and so I'm right underneath a lamp.
Speaker 8: Vibe are strong, No, the vibes are strong, for sure.
Speaker 3: There's lots of photo shops on Twitter waiting for you.
Speaker 3: You are more than welcome to stay, but if you've
Speaker 3: got other things to do, you can go to.
Speaker 1: It's really whatever you like. This is it's just correct time.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just having a good time with you guys.
Speaker 2: Is there anything else you guys feel like it is
Speaker 2: worth addressing? Oh wait, really quick, Cloud, because I haven't
Speaker 2: talked to you about this. I'm really sad for brock Porty.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry that it went down like that.
Speaker 4: That stinks. Really, Yes, that stinks.
Speaker 7: Had the same vibe to me just as a just
Speaker 7: as a as a fan of Game six of the
Speaker 7: twenty nineteen finals, yep, where the Raptors want it, it's
Speaker 7: just kind of like, well, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 7: You know, and when guys get hurt, it's hard to win.
Speaker 4: Yep, Like Clays down, Kd's down.
Speaker 7: And the Raptors are really good too, Like I don't
Speaker 7: want It's not taking away from them. They could have
Speaker 7: won the series anyways.
Speaker 8: But that's just how I felt about about Sunday. So
Speaker 8: it sucks. But figures crossed he's back by camp.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Otherwise, you guys are screwed.
Speaker 8: We're hitting that used check over next year.
Speaker 2: I did not play that, but I was watching for
Speaker 2: that and I was like, Kyle cannot give me out
Speaker 2: anymore bets He's got, He's got no credibility left in
Speaker 2: the bank.
Speaker 4: His good will negative. His goodwill for bets is at
Speaker 4: is literally negative for.
Speaker 8: What it's worth. That was tongue in cheek the you
Speaker 8: check over, Well you did.
Speaker 4: I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: I could have played that and you didn't say hey
Speaker 2: JK JK crying.
Speaker 4: There was no hint of jokes.
Speaker 8: All caps.
Speaker 4: Where where's Kenny in the middle of trade deadline week?
Speaker 4: Where where's Kenny?
Speaker 1: He's actually out by you. He's in Baltimore. Okay, He's
Speaker 1: in Baltimore.
Speaker 8: For Orioles fan fest.
Speaker 4: Orioles media. Did I get it?
Speaker 5: You got to get the hat.
Speaker 3: He's going to get those limited edition he had to
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 4: T Man Seni jersey on sale.
Speaker 1: It'll fly back tomorrow. Yeah, he'll be back with us
Speaker 1: next week.
Speaker 4: Well, I miss you guys. I love you guys. I
Speaker 4: can't wait one thing him.
Speaker 2: What's your one prediction in terms of who surprisingly gets
Speaker 2: moved and it cannot be Kyrie.
Speaker 4: Or Katie m.
Speaker 5: I think o G gets moved.
Speaker 4: Do you have a thought about where he goes?
Speaker 6: No, I think it's going to be a bidding war, though,
Speaker 6: I mean, I think you know we're seeing that like
Speaker 6: possible Pelicans, possible grizzlies. I think you'll see Portland try
Speaker 6: to jump into that fray if they can come up
Speaker 6: with the assets. Yeah, he would be the one guy,
Speaker 6: just like the vibe there is weird in Toronto and
Speaker 6: it feels like things are coming to an end and
Speaker 6: his value is really high right now with two years
Speaker 6: left on his contract, And yeah, that would be the
Speaker 6: guy that I would think.
Speaker 5: It's moved.
Speaker 2: You think that it's shade and sharp and Jeremy Grant,
Speaker 2: is that what that would have to be?
Speaker 6: And like a pick, I think no, they they really
Speaker 6: like Jeremy Grant. I think they believe he's gonna stick around.
Speaker 6: So I would think you might be right about shade
Speaker 6: and sharp, but like maybe can you do that with Simons?
Speaker 6: I don't know, Like I think that they would have
Speaker 6: to get creative. But that's just like where Newland's not high,
Speaker 6: Nurk is out for like until after the All Star break,
Speaker 6: So a lot of people just think that it's time
Speaker 6: for them to call it in, just like, hey, what
Speaker 6: are you guys doing?
Speaker 2: That's what I think it's called. It's called packing it up.
Speaker 2: It's you made it up.
Speaker 1: You're ready to do that now you made.
Speaker 4: A valiant effort.
Speaker 2: Guys, like, I'm fine with Dame just going off for
Speaker 2: fifty on any given night.
Speaker 4: I do not care about winning games right now. I don't.
Speaker 4: I just don't.
Speaker 2: I'm fine with just getting Why not scow him, get
Speaker 2: rid of Anthony Simons.
Speaker 6: You could probably get a little oh go on, wow,
Speaker 6: oh she's back.
Speaker 5: Stop talking about.
Speaker 3: Her mildly terrifying the way it just went black and
Speaker 3: how your face was really close to the screen when
Speaker 3: it came back.
Speaker 8: That was the start of a horror movie, for sure.
Speaker 4: It's like dead It's like dead me.
Speaker 3: I see dead people at eight here with Trista at
Speaker 3: this place in New York.
Speaker 1: Goodness, gracious, Yeah, you know I'm dropping.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go ahead and drop pins. So you guys
Speaker 4: know where I'm at.
Speaker 7: You know, Streamyard, stream Yard is like this is too
Speaker 7: much Blazers, far too much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm interested to see if Phoenix goes to get
Speaker 2: og getting like maybe moved DeAndre or something.
Speaker 8: Well, here's the trade him.
Speaker 3: Now, yeah, here, here's a question. You can both respond,
Speaker 3: what what what are the warriors? The warriors like every
Speaker 3: like week or so and still fear in the rest
Speaker 3: of the Western Conference, and then the next week it's like.
Speaker 1: Ah, not so much.
Speaker 8: That's what they are, Like, that's what they are last year.
Speaker 7: This time they were forty and thirteen, and everyone's like, hey,
Speaker 7: and why are you giving up on them?
Speaker 8: They won the title last year and because they weren't
Speaker 8: twenty six and twenty six?
Speaker 2: Remember the Boston was five hundred at the deadline.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but Boston had good players. But Boston has had
Speaker 8: last year had was way deeper than this Warriors team.
Speaker 7: Like the Warriors are going like eight deep right now
Speaker 7: because they just don't have guys.
Speaker 8: It gets it's just getting.
Speaker 4: Ready for the playoffs. Shortened rotation, just getting ready for
Speaker 4: the playoffs.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 7: I loved doing that in early February because they like
Speaker 7: the fact they chased the win last night in Denver
Speaker 7: and didn't rest everybody except for Clay and then Draymond
Speaker 7: got hurt, but Steph played and Wiggins played on the
Speaker 7: back end of the back to back After blowing a
Speaker 7: fourteen point fourth quarter lead in Minnesota, it was just like, dude,
Speaker 7: what are we This is not like Okay, so they
Speaker 7: make the playoffs, fine, but are they gonna beat four teams?
Speaker 8: Four times out of seven. I just don't. I just don't.
Speaker 7: And I don't know what assets they have that are
Speaker 7: tradeable that anybody's gonna want.
Speaker 8: Like nobody wants James.
Speaker 1: They burn all those young guys.
Speaker 7: Yeah, like j James Wiseman has no trade value right now.
Speaker 7: Moses Moody has no trade value right now. Jonathan Aminga does,
Speaker 7: but I don't think they want to let him go, So.
Speaker 2: They only want to get rid of guys who have
Speaker 2: no trade value, right.
Speaker 7: It's like, what we're gonna do is we're gonna trade
Speaker 7: our bad players to other teams for the other teams
Speaker 7: good players, and that's how we're gonna build a one.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they just don't. I don't, like, do they need
Speaker 8: to make a move. Yeah, I just don't know what
Speaker 8: it is. I don't.
Speaker 6: I don't.
Speaker 8: I don't see it.
Speaker 4: What about are you guys trying to go out and
Speaker 4: get Kyrie Irving the Warriors? Yep?
Speaker 7: So so actually so my boss Matt and Higgen and
Speaker 7: God love him. He comes in and he goes, hey,
Speaker 7: so let's think about this from the Warriors perspective, Like
Speaker 7: it's a no, right. I was like yes, and he's like,
Speaker 7: it's just basketball wise, And I'm like, yeah, man, like
Speaker 7: they don't need another guy who can score the ball
Speaker 7: and then not play defense. They just like Jordan Pool
Speaker 7: for Kyrie irving straight across.
Speaker 8: Are the Warriors that much better?
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 6: I think the way you talk about Kyrie in relationship
Speaker 6: to uh to the Warriors is would if the Lakers
Speaker 6: got him, they're a game and a half behind the Warriors.
Speaker 5: What does it mean for the Warriors?
Speaker 8: Exactly?
Speaker 6: Like that's where you're you're if you're covering it from
Speaker 6: that angle, that's that's a scary proposition.
Speaker 7: But then it's like, are they trade russ is their
Speaker 7: only tradable asset there unless they're going to stack like
Speaker 7: nine guys which are not So is gonna go play
Speaker 7: with Katie again?
Speaker 8: Is that it's just.
Speaker 6: And really bad picks, like really really future like twenty seven,
Speaker 6: twenty nine, right, that's all they can offer?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, not great?
Speaker 3: Noikes, good stuff Kyrie on Phoenix is concerning. I read
Speaker 3: og in New Orleans was a thing too. Those are
Speaker 3: two teams that are both behind Sacramento.
Speaker 7: Og in New Orleans would be sick. The Pelicans would
Speaker 7: be really hard to beat.
Speaker 5: They just what do they give. Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: They just have to.
Speaker 3: Like I mean, they've played without one or the other before,
Speaker 3: Like I don't feel that this skid.
Speaker 1: Is like massive for them. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they've struggled without one guy, They've they've never struggled
Speaker 3: like this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Ingram's been back for a handful of games now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, they need to figure something out. Zion's nowhere
Speaker 2: to be found. So I don't know what that is about.
Speaker 1: Did James said he was reading something today he just
Speaker 1: started to run.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, this is like very vintage Zions.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: They said they're not putting any time for a return
Speaker 6: on him at all. So I mean, I don't think
Speaker 6: he'll be back by the All Star break, or maybe
Speaker 6: he'll be back after the All Star break, but like
Speaker 6: it seems like very zion Ish to come back the
Speaker 6: day before the All Star Break and then play in
Speaker 6: the All Star Game and then and then missed a
Speaker 6: bunch of time after he.
Speaker 4: Probably heard himself yeah in there.
Speaker 1: Yes, unfortunate part. Trist is gonna go glue herself to.
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