WEBVTT - Draymond had some interesting thoughts about Klay Thompson 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:11.680 On this episode of the Heat Check. 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:17.320 It's the real component of the NBA vacation time. It's 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:20.759 not off season, it's not free agency, it's not summer league. 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:24.240 It's now the dead period end of July till the 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:26.600 end of August when training camp opens. 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:28.920 But guess what, we still need to give you some 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.400 updates on everything that's popping around the league. The Olympics 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:32.920 are starting. 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:37.400 I'm not particularly excited about the direction that things are going. 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:40.320 Why the fuck are we still talking about Klay Thompson? 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:43.680 Why? I don't know, but we are me included. 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:48.839 TNT also gets booted and absolutely left out in the 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:52.040 cold by the NBA, and Russ finally finds a new home. 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:55.440 So much to get into. Let's get into it, Anthony. 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:57.160 There's actually not that much to get into. 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:58.880 So I don't know why we are saying so much 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:01.880 to get into some stuff to get into, Anthony, So 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:04.120 let's get right into it and drop that beat. 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:05.319 That motherfucker beat. 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:06.360 It should be re honed. 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:21.839 So I'm I'm on vacation. 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:28.039 But NBA podcasters, it's kind of kind of a quiet 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:30.280 period right now. It's kind of a we'll just put 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.959 stuff out when thing's surface and then I got food poisoning. 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:36.160 But you only really if you have an NBA podcast 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.559 of like four weeks off a year post Summer League 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:42.080 to about the end of August. It's why podcasts right 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:44.720 now are on vacation or on hiatus. 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:45.760 Stephen A. 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:49.200 By the way, it's been gone for two months, zach Low, 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:50.920 I don't know when he's dropping. 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:53.680 Another podcast, but it may be. It may be September first. 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:57.000 So right now I'm out in Portland with Moms dropping 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:58.080 in the guest. 0:01:57.800 --> 0:01:59.400 Host It is what it is. 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.160 By the way, Hey, if you didn't see those episodes, 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.160 I was on three of them. H check it out 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.200 if you can. I'm also trying to recuperate from the 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:10.720 food poisoning that I got. So it's been kind of 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:13.360 a rough stretch for your girl outside of hosting It 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:15.280 is what it is, which was not a rough stretch 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:19.040 that was awesome. But that doesn't mean that Hoops is 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.120 all the way did Hoops is still kind of like 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:23.600 Hoops is kind of where I am right now in 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:27.400 my stage of getting over Sigutara probably about forty five 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.920 percent of what maybe we want it to be. It's 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.680 not dead, but it's not like quite popping either. Not 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:35.840 a lot going on, but it is enough for me 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.320 to come out of vacation and drop at least an 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.120 episode to catch you up on what's going on. First 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:48.160 of all, Team USA basketball is currently underway. Opening ceremony 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:49.240 was last night. 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:51.200 We'll give you an update on that. 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:54.200 I'm sure there'll be some scares, right Like Team USA 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:55.600 almost lost to South Sudan. 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:56.920 That became a huge deal. 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:01.480 Gilbert Reinez was really in sense to what's popping out 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:03.920 in that country, talking shit about the fact that they 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.360 don't have any indoor chords, talking shit about the fact 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:10.000 that the Luel Dang has these boys playing better than 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:13.359 Team USA, and how poor of a country is, and 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:16.760 like just negating to tell folks that they are a 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:18.560 country field of refugees. 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:20.400 So like maybe you want to chill fuck out a 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:23.760 little bit. No chill gill, Like maybe just chill the 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:24.720 fuck out a little bit. 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:26.760 Anyway, they're forty three and a half point favorites and 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:28.480 Team USA almost lost that game. 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.560 They only won one O one one hundred. 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:35.480 They then needed more late game heroics from Braun to escape. 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:36.840 Germany as well in the final tune. 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:40.200 Up game, so things could be a little more smooth 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:43.200 for what seems like the Dream Team. 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:45.680 Here's a fascinating stat for you. 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:56.800 The Dream Team faced nine NBA players nine Team USA. 0:03:57.520 --> 0:03:59.800 The Dream Team with Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson and 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:05.720 all Team USA in twenty twenty four will face eighty 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:11.080 one NBA players in Paris. That goes to show you 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:16.919 how things have changed in international basketball, in the talent 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:21.080 pool that the NBA is drawing from in order to 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:26.599 gather the elite talent that they have, and it shows 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:28.839 how the rest of the world has caught up to 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:35.360 the USA. Do I think the Team USA is going 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:36.599 to lose the gold? 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:45.080 No? Do I think they're in trouble kind of? Do 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:48.920 I think that the road will be easy? Definitely No. 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.320 The only thing, though, that's current that I have to 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:55.680 say is. 0:04:55.600 --> 0:05:01.080 That the Team USA are all of them every sport, 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:08.599 not just basketball. They may have had the worst uniforms. 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.960 In Olympic history. 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:16.040 It was so much like watching something from two thousand 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:21.039 and six, like it just gave you a prep school 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:27.080 casual Friday vibes. The Blazers weren't working for me. The 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.480 acid washed jeans weren't working for me. I know, I said, 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:31.000 they look. 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:32.560 Stained Apparently that was rain. 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:37.760 The Paris opening ceremony had some weather that they had 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.679 issues with, hence the reason that Derek White was rocking 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:44.760 a puncho. But it did look like they came from 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.800 the Polo outlet mall and they were just there, like 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:51.360 like if Polo had a wedding, what would the bridesmaids 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:55.800 and groomsman be in? That just an awful look, especially 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:59.600 considering the fact that Paris is the mecca of fashion 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.640 avant garde pushed the envelope? All that shit were they put? 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.560 Where was Team USA pushing the envelope? Or was it? 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:10.440 Was it like, how do we look as stereotypical American 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:11.840 as humanly possible? 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:17.480 More on Team USA next week onto the rest of 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:17.919 the league. 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:23.480 So, the biggest news in the NBA that I am 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:27.760 so sick of talking about is this media rights deal, Like, 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:32.719 are we done fucking dissecting where we're gonna watch the games? 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:37.920 Does anyone actually care that much? Does an average NBA 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:44.200 fan Are they losing sleep about Amazon getting some games? 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:45.720 I don't think so. 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:53.320 I know that we love Shaq, Kenny Ernie, all them 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:59.080 boys chuck, but outside of inside the NBA, outside of that, 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:02.760 does anyone give a fuck that's not on TNT anymore, 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:06.880 and that you don't have to suffer through CSI Miami 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.000 for the two hours before the pregame comes on. 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.320 No, I don't think so at all. 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.320 Outside of the fact that I really find this to 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:23.760 be in irrelevant detail for the average consumer. Could anybody 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:27.120 who's been paying attention to what TNT does with their 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:31.160 NBA coverage even be surprised that they would want. 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:37.600 To say, uh, dipset like real? Does anybody? Does anybody care? 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:42.000 I love inside the NBA, but outside of inside the NBA, 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:43.960 nothing that TNT does. 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:45.160 With the NBA is relevant at all. 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:49.360 John Skipper was on Pablo Torres's show earlier this week 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:51.960 and he said that pre and post game NBA shows 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:56.200 bring exactly zero dollars to the company that has the rights. 0:07:56.240 --> 0:08:02.520 It's only the rights, and that's it. He was TNT. 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.560 He wouldn't have even bid for the NBA. 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:12.160 So not even a particularly profitable situation, just something you 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:14.880 kind of have to do in order to maintain your 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:21.760 status as an actual television channel. So let's face it, 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:26.400 why would the league decide to stay with an aging. 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:30.520 Cable company with no wall to wall coverage. 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:35.120 They wouldn't they have one show that they can shit 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:38.760 on players anytime they want. The hosts don't follow the 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.760 league very closely, especially Chuck. They have a whole segment 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:48.280 called who He playfote And then you got another international 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:52.800 media giant that wants to take this shit seriously? Who 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:56.559 can get them eyeballs in places that they like Nepal 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:02.040 that they've never gotten eyeballs before, more homes than TNT 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:03.840 could ever dream of being into. 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.360 So why would they stay? 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.720 Especially if Amazon says, well, all right, NBA, you like 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:14.280 inside the NBA so much, let's just buy them. 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:16.880 Let's just buy that show. What do we need TNT for. 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:19.360 We like the show, we like the producers, we like 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.480 the host, But fuck TNT. Fuck this Zaslov guy that 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.839 said essentially we don't need the NBA. 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:25.720 Fuck him. 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:32.000 I like Shaq, I like Kenny, I like Charles, I 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:33.880 think I said, Chuck and Charles. 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:35.240 They're part of the fabric of the NBA. 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:40.040 But who you should actually be pissed off at is 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:43.000 the guy who said we don't need the NBA. And 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:46.960 Adam Silverer was like, Okay, then you don't need the NBA. 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:50.000 You're not gonna get the NBA short of a modern 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:54.160 miracle of you giving us seven billion dollars per year, 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:55.080 you're not. 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:55.920 Getting the NBA. 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:02.520 So and then you take into a count that TNTTBS 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:06.400 is one of the most significant chunks of the cable bill. 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:09.240 That you have three dollars of your cable bill, and 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:11.400 probably these cable. 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:13.040 Providers are like, well, what do we need TNT for. 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.800 We'll just take the three dollars off, or we'll take 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:19.680 a dollar fifty off and we'll pocket another dollar fifty 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.440 and fuck TNT, We're not gonna cable We're not gonna 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.880 carry him anymore. The only thing the TBS says well 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:29.520 right now is the March menace, and who knows about 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:30.640 that in the long term. 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:35.640 Obviously, Chuck is not happy. He's He's out there spitting 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.480 all kinds of rhymes. He's out here dissing everybody. 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:43.600 He's got fucking serious beef that he's willing to spew 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:44.920 out to whoeveryone will listen. 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.720 He's pissed at Warner Brothers, He's mad at the league. 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:53.559 He's released a statement he said clearly the NBA has 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:55.720 wanted to break up with us from the beginning, oh, 0:10:56.080 --> 0:11:00.000 conspiracy theory. I'm not sure TNT ever had a chance 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.360 TNT match the money, but the league knows Amazon and 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.360 these tech companies are the only ones willing to pay 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:05.560 for the. 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:07.920 Rights when they double it in the future. The NBA 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:11.800 didn't want to piss him off. And then he goes 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:16.640 and then he says he's gonna retire. Okay, fine, that's 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:18.160 his right, We'll miss you. 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:20.800 Then he goes on Dan Patrick and is like, oh, well, 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:23.040 I'm not really sure if they pay me thirty million dollars, 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.240 I'm open to wherever I've talked and by the way, 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.280 I've already talked to everybody. I've talked to Amazon, I've 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:32.760 talked to NBC, I've talked to ESPN. So retirement not 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:40.360 really solid. I am officially done discussing this. Like we're 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:43.200 talking about the channel the game is played on. That's 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.560 what we're talking about right now. That's how you know 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:49.920 we should all be on vacation. In addition, Warner Brothers 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:51.040 is now suing the NBA. 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:57.920 So are we gonna get like a full C Span situation? 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:02.080 Are we getting the inside text messages between Zaslob I 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:04.959 want the inside t I want the shit that happened 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:08.240 behind closed doors and nobody knows about. But when this 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:13.480 meteorites done, this deal is done and the lawsuit has settled. 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:15.839 Now we can just. 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:22.479 Buckle up, download a million apps and then like google. 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:26.000 What games are on what channel, just like we kind 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:28.839 of always do unless you stream, you know. And this 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:30.440 is what Camon makes when I went on the show 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.000 shit and said, who cares. 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:35.520 Where it is? I stream this shit illegally. You know 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:37.000 what this means for all of us fans. 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.640 Get out your checkbook because watching the NBA is now 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:50.480 gonna get even more expensive. All right, Moving on, Clay 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:55.600 Thompson is still in the news. Klay Thompson signed with 0:12:55.640 --> 0:13:01.240 the Dallas Mavericks four days in a free agency and. 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:06.240 He's still in the news. He's still being talked about. 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:15.000 There have been so many stories that have dropped, think pieces, analyzations, opinions, 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:20.440 all kinds of different angles since he signed in Dallas. 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:24.160 You would think that everyone had already exhausted what they 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:27.760 had to say. But then a couple of things came 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:31.520 out this week that I found fascinating. First and foremost, 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:38.080 Joe Lacub, owner of the Golden State Warriors, kind of 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:47.440 a certified blowhard, spouted off on Clay's departure and said 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.320 this and what an all I can only think of 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:53.720 as an incredibly arrogant, bitchy voice. 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:57.080 He said, we made an offer to him. 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:01.600 It's well chronicled in the fall, substantially higher than what 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:03.839 he ultimately did sign up for. 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:06.000 So I thought it was. 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:10.920 Very fair, very fair, if not more fair, more than fair. 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.840 At the time, we're trying to anticipate what the market 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:14.760 is for him. 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.880 We're trying to be really fair to him and recognize 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:18.840 him for who he is. 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.960 And so we did that and that was not acceptable 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:24.600 to him and to them, and that's their choice. 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:26.640 But you know, to be frank and honest. 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:31.400 Oh my god, right here, right here, haven't even read 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:34.400 the statement yet fully, but right here is where the 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:35.200 shade is coming. 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:39.680 I promise you to be frank and honest. 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:43.720 Something Shadey's coming. Clay made the decision prior to the 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.560 beginning of free agency, and he informed us that his 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:48.320 intention was not to come back. 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.320 He called me and said the same things you heard 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:55.200 at Clay's Dallas news conference. Clay is an open book. 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:59.480 He felt he needed for a variety of reasons to 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:03.480 have a fresh start, less shady than I thought. 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:07.360 Actually, I don't know. 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:13.840 For Steph's sake, because this is all really revolving around Steph. 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:18.080 Everything that all the Warriors do now is all designed 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:25.280 to keep Steph engaged, happy add E's and not thinking 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:27.920 about asking how to get the fuck out of there. 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:32.080 But I don't think anything really good comes out of like, Hey, 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.560 we tried to do right by Clay and Clay was 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:35.760 being a bitch, you know. 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:37.920 Like, I don't think we should do that. I don't 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:39.440 think we should be like, oh, Clay is just a 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:41.040 sensitive pussy, you know. 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.720 I don't think he wanted to get up out of 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:45.080 here because he couldn't handle. 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:46.080 Being in Golden statey boars. 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:51.120 I don't know if that was a good idea, Dallas, 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.800 Golden State's gotta be the first game of the year. 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.280 It's gotta be or like Christmas Day. 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:59.560 It may not rise to the level of Christmas Day, 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:03.200 but we are now witnessing the beginning of a Clay Thompson. 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:04.960 Arc that may be like. 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:12.720 Not villain, but like villain adjacent. And oh, by the way, 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:16.160 Draymond Green broke his silence on Clay leaving. He said, 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.800 I'm happy as hell he's gone. The reason I'm happy 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:22.760 he's gone is because he wasn't happy anymore as a brother. 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.360 I only want what's best for you, what's best for me, 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:26.800 and not what's best for this team. 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:30.880 Draymond Green. Good teammate. 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:35.360 Actually that was a good teammate thing to say. If 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:39.360 this team doesn't get Lori Markinen and like keep everyone, 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:42.160 like you still need to have all the guys that 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:44.880 you're gonna have to give up for Lori, which obviously 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:47.680 is not possible. Like, this is a team that is 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.800 looking at a high lottery pick next year, and if 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:57.200 they're like where Dame was two seasons ago, Steph might 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:00.320 just fuck around and be like an LA Laker before 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:00.840 you know it. 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:05.639 So good luck for that, houred Ups. Moving on to 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:06.360 some news. 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:09.879 From around the league. So, Russell Westbrook has now a 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:12.920 new home. He has signed what we thought was gonna 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:14.199 be a one year deal, but it is not. It 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:19.280 is a two year deal in Denver, which means Calvin Booth, 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:26.720 Calvin Booth, Calvin Booth loves himself Russell Westbrook and Michael 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.439 Malone must like him too. Two year, six point eight 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:33.000 million dollars player option for twenty twenty five, twenty six. 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:36.359 Now you have Russ with a more or less permanent home. 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:41.040 The Nuggets get a defensive stopper off the bench. A 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:44.440 lot of people are big time haters of Russ. I 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:49.120 personally think he's washed. But if he's not washed, there's 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:55.840 some things that maybe Denver can do to at least 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:58.680 soak up as much of the powers that he still 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:02.400 has left in him. Because you look at him when 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:04.920 he's doing well, and you can't help but. 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:08.200 To be pretty excited. 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.840 It's like the ups and downs of Russ kind of 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.240 make you feel a little queasy. But when Russ is 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.960 on ten, when Russ is like really good, Russ can 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:26.760 still play. Let's talk about statistics. The defensive rating statistic 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:31.560 is always tricky. He's statistic for defensive rating last year 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:35.480 was one thirteen point one, which in the grand scheme 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:39.000 of the NBA is not great. His career defensive rating 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:41.639 is one oh six point six. But remember last year, 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:47.840 offenses were going crazy. Refs were like calling fouls like 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:50.640 insane amounts. Things were just. 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.560 We're getting guys scored seventy eight points. 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:58.000 So when you look at it being a historic year 0:18:58.000 --> 0:18:59.919 in the beginning of the year before the All Star Break, 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.520 and that it was a historic Here for offenses, you 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:07.680 realize that Kentavious Callwell Pope, the guy that he's replacing, 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:11.840 actually had a worse defensive rating than Russ, and KCP 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:15.480 is known as a three and D guy. Russ's defensive 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:18.600 rating for the year was better than Jalen Williams, is 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:20.119 better than Lou Dort's. 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:21.040 And better than Dylan Brooks. 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:24.600 Now, for the eye test, Jalen Williams, Lolue Dort much 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:26.040 better defenders than Russ. 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:29.040 Maybe not Dylan Brooks, maybe not. 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:33.800 Now you kind of have to have take this with 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:36.280 a grain assault in terms of these defensive and offensive ratings, 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:39.720 but in terms of like something I can get behind 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:44.000 Steel's per minute sixteenth in the NBA last year, that's 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:46.159 nothing to sneeze at, and that's something that gets you 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:49.240 quick easy buckets and Russ out in transition, which is 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:53.560 exactly what you want Russ in transition office Steel for 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:57.040 a dunk. Is he gonna be able to sell wat 0:19:57.119 --> 0:19:58.320 right in and be KCP? 0:19:58.560 --> 0:19:59.199 Absolutely not. 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:02.240 This is like a guy that's not shooting corner threes 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:07.600 well in any capacity, can he be a valuable player 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:11.960 off the bench, absolutely, especially at the three. 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:13.320 Million dollars a year that they're gonna pay him. 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:17.240 The Nuggets are in trouble though, dog like the Nuggets. 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:23.359 The Nuggets are. I think the Nuggets are like really 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:28.200 close to fucked. Truthfully, Jamal Murray has to have an 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:31.640 incredibly healthy year and you need one of those young 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:35.000 guys to step up and be something like. You need 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:37.880 a huge year from Christian Brown, you need a huge 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:43.600 year from Peyton Watson. Somebody, somebody needs to be good. 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:47.920 There's another player on Denver, I forget his name. 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:49.280 That also, they're high on. 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:15.120 Julian Strawther. That's who I thought it was. Julian Strather 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:19.320 was ballin in summer league. So he's got a step up. 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:20.719 Somebody's got a step up. 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:21.719 I really like Russ. 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:24.080 I'm happy he's in Denver. I'm happy if that all 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:27.120 my hope. I'm happy he's wanted. And maybe he just 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:31.960 maybe he's not even replacing KCP. Maybe he's replacing Reggie Jackson, 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:37.480 and for that I actually like that. Next up, we'll 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:41.960 talk about Killian Hayes. Oh, one of my favorite players in. 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:44.439 The NBA to talk about. Oh my god, he's just 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:49.720 it's just so easy. Number seventh pick in the twenty 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:50.960 twenty twenty draft. 0:21:51.600 --> 0:21:53.639 Isn't that hard to say twenty twenty and not like 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:55.760 say another number after because it kind of is for me. 0:21:56.320 --> 0:21:59.080 Halliburton was in that draft. Tyrese Maxey was in that 0:21:59.160 --> 0:22:03.080 draft below him. A lot of people feel like this 0:22:03.240 --> 0:22:08.000 was the nail in the coffin for Detroit Pistons GM 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:14.040 Troy Weaver. The time that he had in Detroit was puzzling. 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:18.600 He had a lot of trouble adapting. 0:22:18.200 --> 0:22:23.320 To the NBA game. Actually, his college stuff, you thought 0:22:23.359 --> 0:22:24.760 he was going to be a really nice player. 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:29.840 Actually, rookie year was okay, got much worse the second year. 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:33.160 Third year he was a dead man walking. And then 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:35.520 last year he was just getting thrown. 0:22:35.240 --> 0:22:37.400 Out there out of spite. 0:22:37.680 --> 0:22:40.840 Manti Williams was putting Killian Hayes out there to say 0:22:40.920 --> 0:22:42.840 fuck you to. 0:22:45.320 --> 0:22:47.960 Our guy, and. 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:55.280 Jaden Ivy was coming off the bench for Killian Hayes, 0:22:55.560 --> 0:23:00.240 and it was so egregious that Calvin that the way 0:23:00.280 --> 0:23:04.760 Weaver had to cut Killian Hayes to keep him off 0:23:05.160 --> 0:23:09.080 the floor. The numbers for Killian Hayes are brutal eight 0:23:09.119 --> 0:23:13.080 points per game career thirty eight percent from the field, 0:23:13.840 --> 0:23:18.040 twenty eight percent from three, a career defensive rating of 0:23:18.119 --> 0:23:24.080 one eighteen points out. Ah, he's a cone as well. 0:23:24.520 --> 0:23:27.240 He got cut because he's not just an awful score. 0:23:27.720 --> 0:23:30.920 His numbers in the pain are terrible. Forty seven and 0:23:31.000 --> 0:23:36.280 a half percent conversion rate is so much worse than 0:23:36.320 --> 0:23:38.719 the late league average of like close to sixty percent. 0:23:39.040 --> 0:23:40.640 He what, This man can't. 0:23:40.400 --> 0:23:44.080 Make bunnies, and he's not making up for it by 0:23:44.119 --> 0:23:46.960 being like some sort of sniper from deep either. His 0:23:47.119 --> 0:23:49.359 three point percentage was one of the worst in the 0:23:49.359 --> 0:23:54.520 fucking NBA. No one picked him up after getting cut, 0:23:54.920 --> 0:23:59.560 which is why to me, it's curious, it's peculiar. It's 0:23:59.840 --> 0:24:07.120 fascinating that the Brooklyn Nets picked up Killian Hayes. That 0:24:07.280 --> 0:24:10.240 is a telltale sign that the Nets are tanking for 0:24:10.320 --> 0:24:11.040 Cooper Flag. 0:24:11.440 --> 0:24:14.320