Speaker 1: So the lottery is over, the draft order is set.
Speaker 1: Here's what it looks like.
Speaker 2: Spurs number one, they get Victor, two, Charlotte Hornets, three
Speaker 2: Portland Trailblazers, four Houston Rockets, five Detroit Pistons, six Orlando Magic,
Speaker 2: seven Indiana Pacers, eight Washington Wizards, nine Utah Jazz, ten
Speaker 2: Dallas Mavericks, eleven Orlando Magic, twelve OKC thunder thirteen Toronto Raptors,
Speaker 2: and fourteen New Orleans Pelicans. So, after all those shenanigans
Speaker 2: of Dallas losing games on purpose like I recommended, they
Speaker 2: do get their tenth pick?
Speaker 1: Do you get to keep their own pick?
Speaker 2: And now they have the only trade asset that they
Speaker 2: could possibly think of. Otherwise the Knicks would have gotten
Speaker 2: their pick. And we saw how much chalk it was.
Speaker 2: The lottery basically lined up almost exactly with the odds,
Speaker 2: So if they would have gotten eleven, the Knicks would
Speaker 2: have gotten their pick.
Speaker 1: Now the Knicks have no first round pick.
Speaker 2: Other than Victor woman y'am at number one, which, by
Speaker 2: the way, the books have him at minus twenty thousand
Speaker 2: to go number one, which is like the craziest odds
Speaker 2: I've ever seen that means a hundred dollars bet would
Speaker 2: get you fifty cents, which like still is free money,
Speaker 2: I mean still free whatever you can put up on that,
Speaker 2: Like I could probably still I could be talked into it.
Speaker 2: For nearly two years, everyone was talking about how vic
Speaker 2: if it wasn't around, it's Scoot scoot this, scoot that,
Speaker 2: Scoot here, Scoot there. And now very smart people are
Speaker 2: saying that it is not Scoots number two overall pick
Speaker 2: for sure, that Charlotte could take Brandon Miller. They could
Speaker 2: take am and Thompson. They could take him at three,
Speaker 2: They could take him at two, which means Scoot could
Speaker 2: fall all the way.
Speaker 1: Down to four.
Speaker 2: And if Scoot's at four, maybe there's chaos because you
Speaker 2: know who's got four is those chuckers over there in Houston.
Speaker 2: They don't need another guard, So what happens do they
Speaker 2: move it? So much chaos? There are rumblings that Charlotte
Speaker 2: might even take Aman Thompson, who is mocked between three
Speaker 2: and six. They might be willing to trade down their pick.
Speaker 2: Mitch Kupchek seems to love Brandon Miller, but like I said,
Speaker 2: Brandon Miller apparently has has a dad bod now. So
Speaker 2: there are rumors that Houston may want to trade up,
Speaker 2: Rumors that the MAVs and the Blazers want to trade
Speaker 2: their picks altogether.
Speaker 1: So what are we gonna get? Who knows? We look
Speaker 1: at the bottom half of the draft.
Speaker 2: Atlanta, Utah, La, Miami, Golden State, Houston again, Brooklyn, Brooklyn,
Speaker 2: Portland from New York, Sacramento, Memphis, Indiana, Charlotte, Utah, Indiana,
Speaker 2: and the Clippers. There's just a lot of intriguing options here.
Speaker 2: Brooklyn has a pair of first rounders here, they could
Speaker 2: bundle those, they could move up. Houston could package four
Speaker 2: and twenty to get to three, which then means Portland
Speaker 2: probably package four and twenty for somebody like Ognnobi, or
Speaker 2: maybe even two if they fall in love with one
Speaker 2: of the top candidates. So yeah, I think what's interesting
Speaker 2: is that how many trades are being floated out there
Speaker 2: and what that means about this draft.
Speaker 1: What did we see last year? Not many trades at all? Why?
Speaker 2: Because the traft was seen as very good. Don't want
Speaker 2: to trade your pick if you have one. Everyone interested
Speaker 2: in their pick. Apparently this is supposedly a very deep draft, So.
Speaker 1: Why has everybody wanted to trade back.
Speaker 2: Maybe this draft class isn't as good as we thought
Speaker 2: it was, Like maybe it is just like two three
Speaker 2: maybe top tier talents.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's just one. Maybe it's just vic Maybe like.
Speaker 2: Osar Thompson is a top tier talent, but we don't
Speaker 2: know because he's not being ranked there. So a lot
Speaker 2: of people think that there's not much left outside of
Speaker 2: Victor Wambaiama. Brandon Miller has character issues. In addition to
Speaker 2: the holes in his game that.
Speaker 1: I see, Scoot can't shoot threes.
Speaker 2: The closest comp that I can see to Aman Thompson
Speaker 2: could be John morant AT's six to seven, But he
Speaker 2: also could be Cam Reddish, who's been bounced around like
Speaker 2: a ping pong ball. So Cam Whitmore has a horrible
Speaker 2: assist rate, which means he's used to being a number
Speaker 2: one option, and a lot of these teams that could
Speaker 2: draft him have already other elite scorers on the team,
Speaker 2: So what does that mean for him? Taylor Hendrix, Ousar Thompson,
Speaker 2: Jarris Walker, Anthony Black, Derek Lively. Are any of those
Speaker 2: guys all pro players?
Speaker 1: I'm asking? Are they? I don't think so?
Speaker 2: So I think you're gonna see a ton of movement
Speaker 2: on draft nights, and that means what we're likely to
Speaker 2: see is lots and lots of chaos. This draft is
Speaker 2: going to be incredible, incredible for betters. We'll definitely have
Speaker 2: some friends of the shows to break this down because
Speaker 2: this year the draft is make or break for a
Speaker 2: number of teams like Portland, and I am excited to
Speaker 2: see how it all shakes out. All right, So, oh,
Speaker 2: we've got a Ja Morant update. Will multiple updates, but
Speaker 2: we'll keep it to the pertinent updates. First, Adam Silver
Speaker 2: responded to Jaw getting caught once again waving a gun
Speaker 2: around on IG Live, a quote unquote brandishing a weapon.
Speaker 2: What a word brandishing? I kind of love it, right,
Speaker 2: brandishing Like what do I brandish a diet coke? As
Speaker 2: sometimes a coke?
Speaker 1: Zero?
Speaker 2: Our man Adam and Amsterdam had this to say, I
Speaker 2: at least was left with the sense that he was
Speaker 2: taking this incredibly seriously. Honestly, I was shocked what I
Speaker 2: saw this weekend. Yeah, I was shocked as well. How
Speaker 2: long Jaw will get for the suspension is not known,
Speaker 2: but it is gotta be I think a minimum of
Speaker 2: twenty games.
Speaker 1: Jaw fought the law and the law. One. Jaw fought
Speaker 1: the law and the law one. That's the song, right,
Speaker 1: that's uh.
Speaker 2: He's put in the in the sights of the League
Speaker 2: Disciplinary office, and that's what the song says. The penalties
Speaker 2: are coming fast and furio. The latest penalty is from
Speaker 2: Nike Row Row. Numerous reports are saying that the Nike
Speaker 2: and Finish line have removed Jaws Hunger Jaw one sneakers.
Speaker 1: What a name.
Speaker 2: This is especially concerning if you are in Jaws camp
Speaker 2: or group because they were supposed to drop on May
Speaker 2: twenty fifth, which is in seven days. The new colorways
Speaker 2: were listed as recently as Tuesday. But now if you
Speaker 2: look for the Jaw Hunger one sneakers four h four err,
Speaker 2: this page does not exist.
Speaker 1: That is not good. Why does this matter?
Speaker 2: Well, because the last time that Nike deleted the shoe
Speaker 2: line on their app was Kyrie Irving and he was
Speaker 2: never to return again. He has been taping up his
Speaker 2: shoes with masking tape, writing little messages on them ever since.
Speaker 2: It is a cool world out there. Nike does not
Speaker 2: play when it comes to the brand of their athletes
Speaker 2: and the brain and of their shoes. That is not
Speaker 2: what they are playing around with a tiny, tiny percentage
Speaker 2: of NBA players get a signature shoe from Nike, and
Speaker 2: now Jaw might have just fucked it all up for
Speaker 2: the rest of his career.
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