Speaker 1: We're back in the studio, Baby, No more episodes at
Speaker 1: midnight where I'm barely awake. Those are fun episodes, by
Speaker 1: the way. They are just I just extend everything out
Speaker 1: like this, bab, Like this, bab. We got the draft
Speaker 1: next week. Uh, then we got free agency, and then
Speaker 1: we got Summer League. So much as happening, folks, my
Speaker 1: head is spinning, we have to say, because I don't
Speaker 1: think we've had an episode since this happened. The Denver
Speaker 1: Nuggets won the Chip and Nikoli Jki doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: he cares really at all. He's already lost his NBA
Speaker 1: Finals trophy. He's probably lost his Western Conference Finals trophy.
Speaker 1: He's like, I just want to go home and see
Speaker 1: my horses win some sort of I don't even know
Speaker 1: what type of race is happening in Serbia, but I
Speaker 1: guess it's important. He's ready to be done with basketball.
Speaker 1: He even broke the code. You're not supposed to say
Speaker 1: when you make that much money and you do all
Speaker 1: the things that people of his stature do, like you're
Speaker 1: supposed to like your job. And Nicole Okic spilled the tea. Hey, everyone,
Speaker 1: every single person, no matter what they do, hates their job,
Speaker 1: and if they say they love it, I'm sure that
Speaker 1: there are people out there who say that they're lying.
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm sure, he said, Oh, maybe other people
Speaker 1: feel differently. They're lying. He just said it right there
Speaker 1: on the podium. Everyone is looking to the future already,
Speaker 1: even the Nuggets. Reports are that Denver Nuggets GM Calvin
Speaker 1: Booth missed Game four of the NBA Finals because he
Speaker 1: was scouting the draft. And that was after Calvin Booth
Speaker 1: already pulled off a trade with Oklahoma City during the Finals.
Speaker 1: I've never seen that before. For the records, the Nuggets
Speaker 1: swapped a protected twenty twenty nine first round pick to
Speaker 1: ok See for the least favorable of Okac's twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four first round pick, the number thirty seven pick in
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three draft, and a twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: second round pick. Do you know what that means? Maybe
Speaker 1: there's another Yokic right around the corner. Maybe at the
Speaker 1: thirty seventh overall pick. You're gonna get some random dude
Speaker 1: that they play a Taco Bell commercial over when they
Speaker 1: draft them. Remember, Yoki went forty first in the draft.
Speaker 1: Why would Why would Calvin booth do that. Why would
Speaker 1: he look for the thirty seventh pick in the finals?
Speaker 1: Just saying grind never sleeps for an NBA executive. Speaking
Speaker 1: of executives, David Griffin, our favorite pianist, has a shit
Speaker 1: storm on his hands dealing with the Zion fallout, which
Speaker 1: has been tremendous. It is NonStop. I don't think Mariah
Speaker 1: Mills Hall stopped tweeting. Since she started to tweet, it
Speaker 1: has been shock. It appears that Zion would quote like
Speaker 1: a change of scenery. Apparently the change of scenery shocking
Speaker 1: is New York City just the only place that everybody's
Speaker 1: been saying. Zion has been wanting to go. He said,
Speaker 1: remember when he played at MSG and he was like,
Speaker 1: I love Madison Square Garden. It's my favorite place on
Speaker 1: earth to play. Well, I mean except for the Smoothie
Speaker 1: King Center. All right, Zion, we get it, you want
Speaker 1: to be in New York. The problem, well, for one,
Speaker 1: Mariah Mills has made Zion's personal reputation in stock about
Speaker 1: as low as it could possibly be. I think she's
Speaker 1: tweeted twelve thousand times since Friday. I won't get into it,
Speaker 1: but like I said, she's still going second Zion. The
Speaker 1: more importantly, Zion has played really not at all in
Speaker 1: four years. If you were to guess how many games
Speaker 1: Zion has played in the combined four seasons that he's
Speaker 1: been in the NBA, and there's, mind you, eighty two
Speaker 1: games per year, except for the COVID year, which was
Speaker 1: seventy two and then the shortened bubble year which was
Speaker 1: I forget like sixty eight or something. How I mean
Speaker 1: four times that. That's the lot, right, There's over three
Speaker 1: hundred games Zion has played in, one hundred and fourteen
Speaker 1: of them. During that same stretch, Nikola Jokic has played
Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty games. Think about that. So, anybody
Speaker 1: Portland Portland thinking about trading for Zion, which they would
Speaker 1: never do because they're way too smart for that. At least,
Speaker 1: think about the injury concerns. Think about that. Think about
Speaker 1: the fact that Zion's ass doesn't even like to come
Speaker 1: back and play defense. He just saunters back like he's uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, like walking. Mark Stein reports that the
Speaker 1: Pelicans really want Scoot Henderson. Good fucking luck. Okay, good
Speaker 1: luck with that unless you're gonna get a trade going
Speaker 1: with the Charlotte Hornet's good luck. I heard this week.
Speaker 1: This is what Mark Stein said. I heard this week
Speaker 1: from one placed, well placed observer who is convinced that
Speaker 1: the Pelicans would indeed consider dealing Williamson a way if
Speaker 1: it meant that they could draft Scoot point into a
Speaker 1: rising level of exasperation within the organization regarding Williamson's ongoing
Speaker 1: availability issues and overall approach. Overall approach is really doing
Speaker 1: a lot of work. My read at this juncture is
Speaker 1: that the Pelicans are less inclined to consider trading brandon
Speaker 1: Ingram in this same scenario. Exasperation, we'll just say, is
Speaker 1: not a great adjective when describing how you feel about
Speaker 1: your star player that you took number one overall in
Speaker 1: the draft four years ago. Exasperation leads me to believe
Speaker 1: that if you want the definition intensely irritated and frustrated,
Speaker 1: it's like your wits end is exasperation. The end of
Speaker 1: the rope is exasperation. Folks, Do I like theoretically Scoot
Speaker 1: in New Orleans? Maybe? Do I love Zion in New York? No?
Speaker 1: Do I love Zion in Portland? Absolutely fucking not. It's
Speaker 1: being floated out that Zion's trade value has never been lower, which,
Speaker 1: to be fair, is true. But what is the value
Speaker 1: of Zion? There are some idiots out there, there really are.
Speaker 1: There are people who think, well, if he could be
Speaker 1: fully healthy, he is dominant when he's on the floor.
Speaker 1: He is an all star. He is box office. Just
Speaker 1: the mere thought of him playing basketball for our team
Speaker 1: means that we'll probably sell an immense amount of season tickets.
Speaker 1: But let's face it, he's never available. His upside is high,
Speaker 1: but his downside is in street close, spittin in Mariah
Speaker 1: Mills's mouth? Will he be on the move? Stranger things
Speaker 1: have happened, So this will be a wild run up
Speaker 1: to the traft