Speaker 1: Welcome to the Best of the Week for What's Right
Speaker 1: with Nick Right the best takes and moments from this
Speaker 1: week on the show. Enjoy. So you would like to
Speaker 1: have this story be a team that has been intelligently built,
Speaker 1: that has a superstar scoring champ about to be League MVP,
Speaker 1: a you know, kind of up and coming second and
Speaker 1: third options in JDub and Chet and this team just
Speaker 1: absolutely annihilating Minnesota in the Thunder's first conference finals game
Speaker 1: since KD was there. You'd love for that to be
Speaker 1: the story, but it's not the story. The story is
Speaker 1: and there's no way around it. And I think you
Speaker 1: guys know from as I r up myself my hesitation
Speaker 1: across sports to blame officials, and I'm not blaming the
Speaker 1: officials for this one, but the officiating is the story.
Speaker 1: Because the dichotomy between how the thunder Guard, which is
Speaker 1: awesome playoff physical defense, and the way Shay is allowed
Speaker 1: to be guarded and the way Shae courts contact or
Speaker 1: initiates contact and then reacts as if there were a
Speaker 1: sniper in the crowd and just flails to the ground
Speaker 1: and time after time after time gets rewarded for it
Speaker 1: is utterly maddening, and we have seen listen, James Harden
Speaker 1: was different stylistically than Shay, but did a lot of
Speaker 1: this same stuff. Obviously, maybe this feels more jarring because
Speaker 1: Harden's teams were not the best defensive team we've seen
Speaker 1: in a quarter century or at least twenty years. That
Speaker 1: was on the other end of the court, roughing everyone up.
Speaker 1: But it is impossible to watch, and I like it
Speaker 1: by the way, the way Caruso and Dort and Wiggins
Speaker 1: and Wallace and j Dubb are allowed to guard and
Speaker 1: then see on the other end of the court, how
Speaker 1: Shay gilges Alexander is treated by the refs as if
Speaker 1: he's playing by a different set of rules. Miles Brown,
Speaker 1: who is someone I quote a lot on this show
Speaker 1: because I think he's a smart guy, and I also
Speaker 1: think he has a very funny twitter. He's at Mt Brown.
Speaker 1: He tweeted the way OKC gets to play football on
Speaker 1: one end of the court and behind museum glass on
Speaker 1: the other is infuriating, and that is exactly how I feel.
Speaker 1: And I do think there is a knock on effect
Speaker 1: from when Shae gets When Shade draws four fouls in
Speaker 1: the first five minutes, of the game. Not only does
Speaker 1: Jaden McDaniels and Rudy Gobert and others get in foul trouble,
Speaker 1: but and go Beert. Listen, go Bert got two fouls early.
Speaker 1: One was offensive, so maybe he's the wrong example. He
Speaker 1: actually didn't fall again after that, but he was kind
Speaker 1: of seemingly knocked out of the game impact wise after
Speaker 1: those opening two fouls. But the knock on effect is this,
Speaker 1: when the refs make it clear immediately we are going
Speaker 1: to reward Shay's flopping because that's what it is. It
Speaker 1: is shameless flopping. Then later in the game and you
Speaker 1: saw it in the second half, guys feel like, well,
Speaker 1: I have to give him space or else he's going
Speaker 1: to draw the foul even if the foul didn't exist,
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, shaken totally comfortably step into
Speaker 1: that seventeen footer that he's the best in the league
Speaker 1: at And we have the the bad, acting, dopey, agenda
Speaker 1: laden folks who have been trying to tell you for
Speaker 1: the last five years the league is dying. Because the
Speaker 1: league had the audacity to be able to try to
Speaker 1: have some type of social conscience. Those folks who've been
Speaker 1: in hiding this postseason because the ratings have been off
Speaker 1: the charts because the games have been great. Those folks
Speaker 1: obviously have not acknowledged that the first two rounds of
Speaker 1: these playoffs, the ratings were some of the best we've
Speaker 1: seen in more than ten years in this league through
Speaker 1: the first two rounds. Now, part of that is the
Speaker 1: games have just been awesome, But it have that type
Speaker 1: of rating when Stepp really only played around, when Lebron
Speaker 1: only played around, when Durant didn't make the playoffs at all,
Speaker 1: when Giannis only played one round is a testament to
Speaker 1: the fact that the audience has enjoyed the way these
Speaker 1: games have been played and officiated that this postseason we
Speaker 1: are allowing a level of physics and a level of
Speaker 1: contact that is so unlike what is allowed in the
Speaker 1: regular season. The audience likes it, and the teams have adjusted.
Speaker 1: And it's not even accurate to say that that is
Speaker 1: applied to every team except the Thunder, because it absolutely
Speaker 1: has applied to the Thunder's defense. Alex Cruso's awesome and
Speaker 1: I give him massive credit. Alex Crusoe was basically allowed
Speaker 1: to take out a police baton on Nikola Jokich the
Speaker 1: refs are like, whatever, man, you're six inches taller than him,
Speaker 1: deal with it. Fine. I am not complaining about that.
Speaker 1: I thought that was great. But when you compare that
Speaker 1: to the way the refs are saying, you have to
Speaker 1: guard Shay and these are laughable plays. And credit to
Speaker 1: Doris and to Richard Jefferson for acknowledging it during the broadcast,
Speaker 1: but these are Shay. It's not even like the old
Speaker 1: hard and hook the guy's arm and then go up.
Speaker 1: It is just take a take a step and act
Speaker 1: like you got hit and collapse to the floor while
Speaker 1: tossing up a shot. Some of the most egregious ones
Speaker 1: yesterday he actually made the shot while falling. There was
Speaker 1: one truly egregious one that the Timberwolves challenged in won.
Speaker 1: But you don't have endless challenges and you don't want
Speaker 1: to use them early, and it's just unbecoming. And I
Speaker 1: was one of the I had a level, not huge,
Speaker 1: but a level of thunder skepticism. Was I wondered, was
Speaker 1: Shay going to get the whistle in the playoffs that
Speaker 1: he got in the regular season, And up to this
Speaker 1: point the answer is absolutely yes, if not a better one,
Speaker 1: because he's averaging this well, probably about the same whistle
Speaker 1: his free throws in each game of these playoffs. Seven
Speaker 1: in the first game of the playoffs, he only played
Speaker 1: twenty three minutes because they won by fifty four. In
Speaker 1: Game two of the playoffs, when they won by twenty
Speaker 1: nine in game three, thirteen in the deciding game against Memphis,
Speaker 1: and then nine in Game one against Denver, eleven in
Speaker 1: Game two against Denver, just five in the overtime loss
Speaker 1: to Denver, than twelve, then six, then eleven, then nine,
Speaker 1: and last night fourteen. And this is going to sound
Speaker 1: unsportsman of me, but it is sports, and this is
Speaker 1: part of it. If I am Minnesota and this is
Speaker 1: how they are going to I'll give it game two
Speaker 1: and see what type of whistle he's getting. But if
Speaker 1: it's clear any type of contact he is going even
Speaker 1: if he generates it, even if it's borderline fraudulent, he's
Speaker 1: just going to get that whistle, then you guys need
Speaker 1: to decide as a team if we're going to get
Speaker 1: our money's worth on these fouls, because right now he
Speaker 1: is getting the best of all worlds. He's living at
Speaker 1: the free throw line, and he's leaving the game physically
Speaker 1: feeling better than he came into the game because there's
Speaker 1: no hard contact. Last night, there wasn't a single foul
Speaker 1: that was like, oh, that's a hard playoff foul. And
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about dirty plays. I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: undercutting him anything like that. The audience knows what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about here, and I hate that that's the story,
Speaker 1: but that's the story of Game one, and it is
Speaker 1: why people got And sometimes I say things on the
Speaker 1: TV show are on here and I say ahead of
Speaker 1: time that I know I'm gonna get killed for this.
Speaker 1: Don't care. It's just how I feel. I owe the
Speaker 1: audience honesty. So I'm going to give him honesty. And
Speaker 1: when I set on the show yesterday, I think the
Speaker 1: thunder of the best team, I think they're going to win.
Speaker 1: I hope the Timberwolves win. Part of it was because
Speaker 1: I do not like this style of play being rewarded.
Speaker 1: I just don't the foubating, flopping nonsense. And I'm glad
Speaker 1: I got that takeout prior to Game one because I
Speaker 1: feel like a lot of America watching that game joined me.
Speaker 1: And here's the other part of it. He doesn't have
Speaker 1: to do this, so take later stage Jimmy Butler, who
Speaker 1: is not a volume or a good three point shooter,
Speaker 1: who was not a crazy explosive athlete, and in order
Speaker 1: for him to be peak effective, he had to be
Speaker 1: drawing fouls. But he drew fouls kind of the old
Speaker 1: fashioned way. He would pump, fake, get you in the air,
Speaker 1: and go up, and that can be annoying, but that's
Speaker 1: not grifting. That is it's a frustrating guy to go
Speaker 1: against because you're like, just stay on the ground. He's
Speaker 1: not going up with his first shot, and guys would
Speaker 1: have a hard time with it. Shay is just kind
Speaker 1: of wildly throwing himself into the lane, falling sideways, looking
Speaker 1: for minimal contact, selling it like Daniel day Lewis, and
Speaker 1: being rewarded by it in a playoffs when for other guys,
Speaker 1: guys it has been if you're not bleeding from the nose,
Speaker 1: it probably wasn't a foul and it's just wildly frustrating. Now,
Speaker 1: was that again, was that the reason the thunder one
Speaker 1: by twenty six They outscored him seventy to forty in
Speaker 1: the second half, So was that that was the story
Speaker 1: of the game. But was that the reason the thunder one. No,
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Speaker 1: I am just beside myself. That's too strong, the latest
Speaker 1: WNBA controversy. It's just evidence demons that we are not
Speaker 1: yet ready societally to have this rivalry exist, and I
Speaker 1: don't know that we ever will be. So here's the
Speaker 1: thing that I shouldn't have to say, but I think
Speaker 1: because it goes without saying ball say it anyway. Obviously,
Speaker 1: if fans are chanting anything racist or making racist animal
Speaker 1: sounds anything like that, that is abhorrent, deplorable, and those
Speaker 1: people should be banned for life. If you didn't catch up,
Speaker 1: let me, let me, people might be like, the hell
Speaker 1: are we talking about? So here's the deal. Caitlin Clark's
Speaker 1: Indiana Fever played Angel Reese's Chicago Sky. Caitlyn had a
Speaker 1: triple double, Angel had a bunch of rebounds and a
Speaker 1: bunch of mislayups, and the Fever one by thirty. During
Speaker 1: the game, Angel committed a hard foul. I'm sorry, Caitlyn
Speaker 1: committed a hard foul on Angel that was called a flagrant.
Speaker 1: To me that was borderline, but whatever her it was
Speaker 1: a smart hard foul. And then Angel got pissed. Some
Speaker 1: professional or semi professional lip readers you know, think she's
Speaker 1: you know, said she was effing crazy or something. There
Speaker 1: were due, there were you know, dueling technicals. Right. Do
Speaker 1: we think we have this all correct?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Just some random person on Twitter who we have no
Speaker 1: idea if they were even at the game, was like
Speaker 1: the crowd making monkey noises at Angel Reese is you know,
Speaker 1: way out of line. Obviously that'd be way out of line.
Speaker 1: The thing is, the game was on tv I there
Speaker 1: seems to be no evidence of this whatsoever that this happened.
Speaker 1: There is a clip when Angel misses a free throw
Speaker 1: of what sounds like a dolphin noise. Now, I because
Speaker 1: it's twenty twenty five and everything sucks, have learned. There
Speaker 1: is some streamer who laughs sounds like a dolphin, and
Speaker 1: now idiot fen zers like laugh like him, do what demons?
Speaker 1: Can you kill this? His name's Fly.
Speaker 4: I think they're talking about flight like a popular that's right,
Speaker 4: t K two k YouTuber.
Speaker 1: I could see a.
Speaker 4: Dolphin noise sounding pretty close to monkey noise though.
Speaker 1: So I agree with that. I agree with that. I
Speaker 1: agree with that entirely. That may but again, I need
Speaker 1: more than one person's tweet before I'm going to and
Speaker 1: let me say this as well, before we get to
Speaker 1: what I actually want to talk about here. Some of
Speaker 1: the alleged Caitlin Clark fans and I said this last year,
Speaker 1: we had really you can just check our archives. We
Speaker 1: had real smart I think conversations on this. Some of
Speaker 1: the alleged Caitlin Clark fans are not Caitlin Clark fans.
Speaker 1: They are just racists, some of them. They they just
Speaker 1: like that they think this white girl is humbling these
Speaker 1: black girls that definitely, unequivocally clearly exists. The thing is,
Speaker 1: it mostly exists online. It to my experience, does not
Speaker 1: seem to exist that much in person at the games.
Speaker 1: And now again the WNBA needs to be proactive about
Speaker 1: making sure that doesn't, you know, invade the actual arenas.
Speaker 1: There's nothing you do about the online stuff as sadly
Speaker 1: it's the world in which we live. Those people are
Speaker 1: pieces of shit. Now, I think everybody knows it. But
Speaker 1: then the race stuff then gets even more complicated because
Speaker 1: then there are fans of Angel who I don't even
Speaker 1: know if they're fans of Angel, but there feels like
Speaker 1: there is a like a solidarity of like no, like
Speaker 1: there are shitty people on a acting these black WNBA players.
Speaker 1: So we then need to act like Caitlin Clark isn't
Speaker 1: this super nova of the talent. And the whole thing
Speaker 1: just sucks because idiots get involved, and the WNBA commissioner,
Speaker 1: who I don't know that Kathy Ingelbert's a wartime consoliari,
Speaker 1: releasing a statement today like we're investigating this, like I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. I maybe would have investigated it. And then
Speaker 1: if there was any evidence whatsoever that this happened, then
Speaker 1: I release a statement like, to me, your statement validates
Speaker 1: the allegation when I have seen no evidence that this happened. Okay,
Speaker 1: now there's all that. Here's the thing I want to
Speaker 1: talk about. People are gonna be mad, don't care, demons.
Speaker 1: Angel Reason needs to be better. Yeah at basketball. I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about as a person. I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: as a podcaster. I'm not talking about it as at
Speaker 1: the met Gala. She needs to be better player if
Speaker 1: we want this rivalry to be able to have some
Speaker 1: staying power. Like she had a very very busy offseason. Again,
Speaker 1: we are we are one game in, but at this moment,
Speaker 1: it does not seem like the offseason involved a lot
Speaker 1: of Mike and drills of left handed layups. And she
Speaker 1: is right now, Angel Reese. I'm I'm sorry. Right now,
Speaker 1: she is a wildly famous rebounder. It's like a I mean,
Speaker 1: somebody had the funniest tweet on this. I think it
Speaker 1: was Miles Brown who tweeted it. The The Caitlin Clark
Speaker 1: Angel Reese rivalry is like if Kobe had a rivalry
Speaker 1: with Marcin Gortat, and I just can't get that out
Speaker 1: of my head, Like, I mean, this is the there, Listen.
Speaker 1: I don't think Caitlyn is the best player in the league,
Speaker 1: to be clear, that's still Asia Wilson until proven otherwise.
Speaker 1: I think she will one day be the best player
Speaker 1: in the league. But ain't Angel Rees right now? Okay,
Speaker 1: Kent Taggert evidently gets credit for that tweet, Thanks guys.
Speaker 1: I mean that was really funny. Caitlyn's team is I
Speaker 1: think gonna be awesome, and she's awesome. An Angel is
Speaker 1: a nice player that has real value and is maybe
Speaker 1: already the best rebounder in the league, certainly one of them.
Speaker 1: But if that is going to be a real right
Speaker 1: on court rivalry, then Angel Rees needs to get better
Speaker 1: at some of the fundamentals. That's just a fact. And
Speaker 1: this is where I'm gonna sound like the old man.
Speaker 1: But you had a very very very busy public offseason,
Speaker 1: and if you didn't all like, if you come back
Speaker 1: this year the same exact player that you left last year,
Speaker 1: that's a miss by you. And so that's that, to me,
Speaker 1: is the more the thing to watch is that is
Speaker 1: Angel Reyes going to continue to be a thirty five
Speaker 1: percent layup shooter, because that's gonna that that is going
Speaker 1: to put a real ceiling on who she can be
Speaker 1: as a player. And this is where I am just
Speaker 1: going to trust my entire career bona fides that people
Speaker 1: aren't going to be able to try to draw me
Speaker 1: into the I mean, you know what, everyone's gonna get
Speaker 1: drawn into it. Damn. Look the people is I guess
Speaker 1: a Q was Lebron of being anti black because he
Speaker 1: gave props to Caitlin Clark. And so this is so
Speaker 1: toxic on certain levels that anybody could be you know,
Speaker 1: people could make allegations about anyone's motivations. My real motivations
Speaker 1: on this are, I do I love the idea of
Speaker 1: this being because they clearly don't like each other. I
Speaker 1: love the idea of this being a real rivalry, but
Speaker 1: one both parties got to hold up there into the
Speaker 1: bargain as far as making them both being awesome.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to the Eastern Conference and your Celtics getting
Speaker 1: what's the term dog walked in a game six? Go ahead?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Not fair?
Speaker 4: I mean, we didn't have our best player, but it
Speaker 4: is what it is. Yeah, and I was obviously a
Speaker 4: little confident that we're gonna win that game.
Speaker 1: And that's so that how it went.
Speaker 4: It's time to go home. Tatum was out. We got
Speaker 4: dogged in the game six. Like you said, do you
Speaker 4: think that we should blow this team up for the
Speaker 4: money or do you think that we showed enough to
Speaker 4: keep the band together try to run it back next year?
Speaker 1: Listen, I always I certainly don't think they I don't
Speaker 1: think they should blow it up. They could have won
Speaker 1: the championship if things break a little differently like I.
Speaker 1: So I can hold both of these thoughts in my head.
Speaker 1: I do think if you had a healthy Jason Tatum
Speaker 1: and the Knick series was a best of twenty one
Speaker 1: first to eleven, you beat them in that series every
Speaker 1: time it's played like you don't, no, no, no. My point
Speaker 1: is is, I do think Boston, over a large enough
Speaker 1: sample would have beaten the Knicks. I thought where I
Speaker 1: thought people blew the analysis of it was because games
Speaker 1: one and two were, you know, one point in overtime games,
Speaker 1: despite the Celtics shooting twenty five from three. What I
Speaker 1: where I thought people screwed up their analysis was is
Speaker 1: that it they acted as if it mattered that ah
Speaker 1: more often than not, the Celtics would at least split
Speaker 1: those two, if not win them both. It didn't matter.
Speaker 1: It's a race to four and it's two nothing, and
Speaker 1: so to me, I thought the series ended then when
Speaker 1: the Knicks were up two zho in Boston, and I
Speaker 1: think the series, even if Jason Tatum is healthy, and
Speaker 1: I think you might agree, the Knicks still win because
Speaker 1: the Knick. If you agree with this opinion, the Knicks
Speaker 1: were winning Game four, even if Tatum doesn't suffer that
Speaker 1: horrific injury. Then I just think it was unrealistic to
Speaker 1: say the Celtics were gonna win three straight. And I
Speaker 1: think you saw that in what happened in Game six,
Speaker 1: not the blowout. Here's the part I think people are missing,
Speaker 1: and it gets lost because it was a blowout. The
Speaker 1: Celtics were relying too much on old guys who showed
Speaker 1: you all postseason that they were not able to be
Speaker 1: good in consecutive games unless they had multiple days off.
Speaker 1: And that's Horford and that's Drew Holiday, and that you
Speaker 1: weren't gonna get those days off, and so they you
Speaker 1: had a bunch of time between Game four and five.
Speaker 1: Those guys were awesome in Game five, and then Drew
Speaker 1: was one for eight in Game six and Horford was
Speaker 1: four for seven, which is fine, like they so, so
Speaker 1: I think the Knicks were better in this series, and
Speaker 1: that's what mattered. Now, would I blow it up?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Do I recognize the Celtics' financial realities are such that
Speaker 1: they are going to have to make some significant changes.
Speaker 1: And the answer to that question is yes. To me,
Speaker 1: it's pretty obvious. Here are the changes I would make
Speaker 1: if I were Boston, because they are in such a
Speaker 1: devastating salary position, I would And I now opening the
Speaker 1: Celtics cap table. Al Horford is a free agent. You
Speaker 1: just have to I think he retires, Yeah, you just
Speaker 1: have to let him walk. So that's gone. You then
Speaker 1: have these big salaries Jalen Brown fifty three, Tatum fifty four,
Speaker 1: Drew thirty two, Chris STAPs thirty, Derek White twenty eight,
Speaker 1: and then a sneaky one, which is Sam Houser ten million. Okay,
Speaker 1: I would if I were them, you let Horford walk,
Speaker 1: and you trade Drew Holliday, and you keep together Tatum
Speaker 1: Brown White, and you hope that Chris STAPs next year
Speaker 1: is healthy. And now here's the other piece of the
Speaker 1: Chris STAPs thing, because I wouldn't trade him before the year.
Speaker 1: If there is real hope that Tatum could be back
Speaker 1: for next year's playoffs, I think that is unrealistic. However,
Speaker 1: it does seem like that because they did the surgery
Speaker 1: like within hours of the injury, that that could really,
Speaker 1: you know, curb shave some time off the recovery. At
Speaker 1: next year's trade deadline, because Chris STAPs is an expiring contract,
Speaker 1: I would I would look and see does it make
Speaker 1: sense to offload him or to keep him if we
Speaker 1: think he's gonna walk in the offseason either way depending
Speaker 1: on is Tatum gonna be back for this playoff run?
Speaker 1: But the next time Tatum's healthy, I would definitively want
Speaker 1: Tatum Brown and Derek White together. The reason I brought
Speaker 1: up Sam Hauser is I read something that because of
Speaker 1: like the repeater tax and the aprons and all this shit.
Speaker 1: Sam Hauser's ten million dollars demonse costs the Celtics sixty
Speaker 1: two million dollars because it's of the different like three
Speaker 1: xing the penalties for if you're over this certain lines.
Speaker 1: So it doesn't that money doesn't go to Sam, it
Speaker 1: goes to the league. So he's a fine player on
Speaker 1: a nce on his salary basically, right, Well, not so
Speaker 1: it's on it. It's on eighty one salary. The point
Speaker 1: I'm making is if you if you stack the salaries
Speaker 1: up and like and you're like, hey, here's our total salary.
Speaker 1: What would happen to our luxury tax bill if we
Speaker 1: traded the ten million dollars sam Hauser contract that one move,
Speaker 1: if they had everyone else still there, would save them
Speaker 1: the ten million in salary and fifty two million in penalties.
Speaker 1: Now obviously that means trading Drew Holiday saves you even more.
Speaker 1: But that's that was just an example of what the
Speaker 1: financial realities are for a team that I think next
Speaker 1: year is not really competing. But I do think Tatum Brown,
Speaker 1: Derek White, there's proof of concept when I say competing,
Speaker 1: Like I think they'll still be good.
Speaker 4: I don't think they're not championship level next year, right.
Speaker 1: And so, and this was the point I made going
Speaker 1: into game six. If you treated Chris Stapsid as if
Speaker 1: he were out, which I was. If you had a
Speaker 1: team going into a year and you said, our best
Speaker 1: players Jalen Brown, our second best players Derek White, our
Speaker 1: third fourth fifth guys are Drew Holiday, al Horford, Peyton Pritche,
Speaker 1: you would put that team in the same tier you
Speaker 1: put the regular Detroit Pistons, like, oh, that's a good team,
Speaker 1: Like you know what I mean, they should make the playoffs,
Speaker 1: like Jalen his cad in that situation, you know, go
Speaker 1: on down like, but you wouldn't look at them as
Speaker 1: a championship contender. And that's what the Celtics were by
Speaker 1: the end of that series. Does that make sense, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that makes sense.
Speaker 4: I like it all. I love getting rid of Drew.
Speaker 4: I love both those guys, Drew an al Horford. But
Speaker 4: it is it's and honestly not Drew Drew. I honestly,
Speaker 4: if you will, the testings out a little further, but
Speaker 4: that makes sense to me.
Speaker 1: It just if you if you feel like, here's the
Speaker 1: point I would make on Drew if you if you're
Speaker 1: if the feeling is of your guys making thirty ish
Speaker 1: or way more Chris STAPs, Derek White, Drew Holliday, Tatum Brown,
Speaker 1: that Derek White is too important and younger and all
Speaker 1: of that, Tatum Brown untouchable, And it's a decision between
Speaker 1: Chris STAPs and Drew. The the easy answer is will
Speaker 1: move Christaps. He's But if you want to try to
Speaker 1: get real draft compensation back, because you are trying to,
Speaker 1: you know, get you more young, cheap players, Drew has
Speaker 1: way more trade value, right does that? Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: Like that? So I those, But I don't think you're
Speaker 1: trading Jalen Brown. You're obviously not trading Jason Tatum, and
Speaker 1: I would be shocked if you're trading Derek White,